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lowering the Knox Liquor Law Bars Would Only Raise a Lot of Noisome Booze Bars. Instead of 'Common Sense,1 Oregon Would Have the 'Come-On' Stencfu WHArSJHE PRICE? That's the question raised as the V. 8. dickers with, England tot naval and air bases In tbe western hemisphere. 'And will the deal lead to a military alllaaue, n pre . dieted T You'll keep abreast of de velopments through tho JSBWg iieview. : - . ,. . , ; v THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. ycsterdny 28 1 iinheKt temperature yesterday 87 Liiwiut temperature last night M Pi-HcipHnHon last 24 hours 0 Preclp. since Hist of month 0 Preclp. eince Sept. 1, iM'i 33.18 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 1939 .73 Clear; Little Change In Temp. VOL. XLV ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1940. VOL. XXIX NO. 15 OF THE EVENING NEW fQ)fO) Ml To) r arasjaeaeaMB "naaanManBBsntaBagan NO. 117 OF ROSEBURG "53 IBS - 1 - ' : a ''' s " 1 1 jl Kj 'in i no , i ! Ily FRANK JENKINS ! A MID the roar of Hitler's air at- ?lack on Britain, Churchill nd- dresses the house of commons. "His most startling statement is that Britain' "new production" of 'airplanes now exceeds that of nazl sGermany. "new production" ho jnoans evidently to he understood nB CURRENT production. That Is to , j ay Britain Is producing TODAY f more new airplanes tlian Gormnny is producing today. (Accumulated stocks, presum ably less efficient than currently produced planes, are another mat- tei ) 3 lie adds that every day the war sis prolonged ndds to Britain's RE ,: LATIV1C strength. CHURCHILL tells the commons: Britain's dead, wounded and 'missing Including civilians so fin In this war total 02,000; a 'large proportion of whom, he ; adds, nre alive as prisoners of , war. British casualties in the first year of the world war were 3(15,- .Jooo. Tito present war, ho says, In stead of a conflict of millions or men against masses of steel, Is a of technical apparatus. science, mechanics and morale. MfUKN lenders quote rigttres, " they do It for a purpose. Chur- chill's purpose Is obviously lo RE fASSIJRR the British people to . inspire them with confidence that the present situation, had as It Is. ' isn't disastrously bad. British losses of men, for ex ; ample, In this war's first year (ho ; points out) have been only ONE : FOURTH tho losses of the first year of the world war. LITTLE sidelight, hero, on Britain's casualties: In a year of TOTAL WARFARE, (Continued nn pace 4 MAYNARD BELL'S desk as It appeared when he came to work at tho News-Review office Wed nesday morning. Almost every thing is there that ought to be there, except Maynard. 1 guess he Blept lato that morning. Gene Powell. News-Review pho tographer who snapped this pic ture, awaited long nnd hopefully for Maynard's appearance; but in vain. As doubtless you recall. May nard. member of the News-Revlew staff, was married last Saturdny afternoon, to Kvelyn Willis, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Willis, of Canyonvllle. This causes me to hearken back a year or a year and a half aeo. "This Maynard Bell of yours." said Bill Willis to me. "he seems to a pretty nice fellow, doesn't he?" Well doggone It, I sure cave Maynard a good Bend-off. Wouldn't i Izz I SAW: I By Paul Jenkins 4 1 Guard Revised Bill Now Awaits Senate O.K. Efforts to Effect Compromise In Conscription Proposal -Continue; Drafting of Industries Is Advocated. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (AP) Legislation for mobiliza tion of 400,000 national guards men and army reiervea was ap ' proved finally by the house to day and sent to the senate for expected prompt acceptance. ' The house accepted a report of a Joint committee named lo resolve 'differences between sennte and house versions of the legislation which President Roosevelt had re quested. The legislation would Involve about 242.000 guardsmen, 116,000 reserve officers nnd KO.OOO enlisted men. It would permit them to he sent any place in tho western hemisphere and possessions nnd territories of the United Slates, In cluding the Philippine Islnmls. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (AP) As the senate today resumed de bate on the Burke-Wndsworth mili tary conscription hill, Democratic I.e:uler nark ley of Kentucky pro posed that a limitation of 1.200.000 be placed on the number of men who could he conscripted 1n any 'one year. ThlB figure, Bnrkley said, should ' prove to be an acceptable compro mise between those who want un limited draft nnd those who sup port an amendment by Senator Lndgo (R., Mass.) to restrict to 800,0(10 the number of draftees un der training at any one time. llarkley's limit generally would (Continued on page (!) Liquor Board Refuses To Dismiss J. J. Hague PORTLAND, Aug. 22. ( AP) The state liquor control commis sion flatly refused yesterday the demand of Common Sense, Inc., to dismiss J. J. Hague, administra tor. The organization clnhned Ha gue violated state liquor laws by spenklng against Its proposed re peal of the statute to permit sale of hard liquor by the drink. News-Kovlew Photo anil Kngrav;ns you have done the same? As I believe I told you the other day. the members or the News- Review starr, rrnm Mr. Ellsworth, the editor, on down through the ranks, have watched In their day the courtship and (iisunlly) sub sequent marriage of many of their friends In the ofure. I might add that this process of watching has not been without Its little inter ests nnd diversions. Perhaps you may think there's altogether too much News-Review In all this. I doubt it. The News- Review Is quite a family, and like most large families- (large, com pare tlvely speaking) e v 0 r yone iiK.es everyone else anu eacn is pleased when another fortunately Is made happy. Doos that sound too good to be true? Well, you'd be surprised. Good luck. Maynard. Good luck, Evelyn. We're all rooting for you. Mobilization Army Enlistment Call Brings All 24 Abie-Bodied Men of Dixie Town MORLEY, Tenn., Aug. 22. (AP) By the eternal, old Andy Jackson would bavo been proud of the men of Morley! They are the same brcetl or lean. tough mountaineers who followed him at New rtrlcana against the British, into Florida against the Spaniards, and against the Indians more than a century ago. Conscription! Not for them. They iust up and Joined the army when the word got around that sol diers were needed to pack a rifle. And maybe someday the war de partment will put a bronze tablet In this moiintnln hamlet with rais ed letters reading: "This Is tho town of Morley. Tenn., whc every able-bodied, eligible man volunteered his ser vices to his cunntry in the year 1940." There aro about two-score fami lies in this village In the shadow of the Cumberland mountains nnd all their sons who are eligible are Excess Profits Rulings Appealed U. S. Solicitor Raises Issue of How Far Government-Must Yield to Contractors. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (AP) The government asked)' the su preme court -tndajr to -review two decisions involving alleged excess profits on world war shipbuilding as a matter of "Immediate national concern." The cases. Involving the Bethle hem Shipbuilding corporation, were filed In 1925 and 1930. In one, the company sued the government for $7,500,000 profits not paid to It, while In the other the government sued the corporation for recovery of allegedly excessive profits al ready paid. About $13.3(15,000 Ib involved in the suits. 1 ho govern ment lost both In district court and Is appealing from a decision of the third circuit court of appeals which upheld the lower court. Solicitor General Francis Biddie, In a petition filed with the supreme court, contended that the govern ment had had no choice but to deal with Bethlehem at Its terms, and added : 'In times of natlonnl emergency the men charged with preparing tlie nntlon s derenses have no lime for haggling with a contractor who refuses to perrorm his indispens able function unless he be assured an exorbitant profit. ' The government Is now engag ed in a program of military and naval armament comparable to or greater than that undertaken In 1017 and 1018. It Is. therefore, of immediately national concern that there should be an authoritative de termination of the extent to which the country's need should place the government at the mercy of itB contractors. Fugitive Nazi Internee Captured in Montreal OTTAWA. Out., Aug. 22.(AP) The national defense depart ment said today a German war prisoner who tunneled his wav out of a north Ontario Internment camp Monday was raptured last nigni crossing the Victoria bridge In Montreal. The department said his name was Guenther Lorentz nnd not Werner Koche. Germnn naval lieu tenant, as previously announced. It explained the error was made because another prisoner answer ed for Lorentz In the roll call. Another prisoner, a Germnn civilian who was held at a camp In northwestern Ontario, escnned about the same time and Is still at large, the authorities snld. Max D. Steuer, Noted Trial Attorney, Passes NEW YORK. Aug. 22. (AP) Death has ended the career of Max D. Steuer, (19. whose brll llance as a trial lawver earned him reputation as a IROn-a-mlnute at torney. He died of a hart attack yesterday. From a lower east side tailor shop, where he worked as a "bast ing puller, the little Immigrant boy rrom Austria put hlmseir through two years at the City Col lege of New York and In 1893 graduated from Columbia law school with honors and prize money. in the army. Letters come back to the little postofrice with strange postmarks of far away places such as Panama and the Philippines. Out of Morley have gone 24 youths to don soldier's garb. Most or them found their way Into the army through the one room postorflce where Mrs. Carrie Witt, a middle-aged, motherly wo man, gave them counsel and advice. ' "1 love every one of them," she said. "I urged them to join the army bocatiso I thought they would do bettor off there than working In the coal mines part time or do ing nothing. And, too, the country needs them." Sergeant John B. LaPlnnte, re cruiting officer from Knoxville, Tenn., Is convinced Mrs. Witt "has done the outstanding recruiting job" In tho country. "She's undoubtedly the Btar re cruiter in the United States," tho sergeant says proudly. And so It Ib that Morley typifies the spirit of the "volunteer state." Plans to Register Aliens Announced Service Starting Aug. 27 Will Continue 4 Months; Blanks On Hand e Roseburg P. O. The veglsl ration of rcsldtmt aliens, as required by a recent act of congress, will bo.- made, by the post office department, beginning on August 27 and continuing for four months. Postmaster L. L. Wimberly of Roseburg announced today. Onlf rirst and second clnas nnd county sent orrices will be used lor registration, except In certain in stances when smaller oirices will be designated because of expected large alien registration, In Douglas county only IloHehurg and Reeds port will ho used. However, all other post orrices will be supplied with application blanks, together with Instructions for the guidance or those who will register. For per sons who nre physically unablo to come to registration orrices, ar rangements will be made to regis ter them where they reside ir they will file applications with registra tion orrices nnd state tnetr maun Ity to reach the points of registra tion. All unnaturalized aliens are com pelled to register under the law Docislon as to whether or not a torelgn born person Is required to register does not rest with the post orrice department but with the department of justice, which will enforce the law. Application and Information blanks are now on hand at the Roseburg ofHce and probably the other otflces of the county aB well aB can be had on re quest at the general delivery win dows. Out-of-town persons who wish to register should write Tor In formation as to when thoy may register In order to bo sure that time will be available to take care of tbem when they arrive. Former Prime Minister Of Malta Passes Away VALLETTA. Malta. Aug. 22. (AP) Lord Strickland. 79, former prime minister of Malta, died to day. The picturesque nobleinnn once was Involved In a personal quarrel with the pope over whether the Catholic church had authority to order a priest who waB a British subject to leave the Island as a disciplinary meaBiire. After nn Investigation by a Brit ish royal rommlsalon, Lord Strick land finally apologized to the pope Tor "words that should bo with drawn." Injured Glengary Farmer In Critical Condition Floyd Betts. Glengary farmer, was reported todav to he In a critic al condition nt the Myrtle Point hospital. Betts was taken- to the hospltnl Sunday aftor he had been round In an unconscious condition In the roadway at Remote beside his badly recked farm truck. Ti t- ferlng from a skull fracture, brain concussion and other Bovere in juries, he was first reported to be Improving and had partially re gained consciousness yesterday, but was said to have suffered a re lapsed today. V Wins Bid For Demo Votes In Dixie Plans Discussed With Former Roosevelt Aides, Now In Bolters' Ranks: Salem Prepares for McNary Day. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. (AP) Coordination of antl-Rooaevelt campaign activities among south ern democrats was ,a major ob ject today or a swirt. series of con ferences called by Wendell L. Wlllkle. A plana brought the republican presidential nominee hero from Kushville, Ind., Inst midnight. He will return next week to set up personal headquarterB In that mid western farm community. Wlllkle arranged a talk tonight with John W. Hanes, rormor un-der-soeretary of tho treasury In tho Roosevelt cabinet, anil Lewis W. Douglaa, the president's first budget director. Those one-time administration ofriclnls are head ing nn organization of Independent democrats supporting the republi can candidate. Them has been lalk nmonK the Wlllkle forces of creating a "na tional unity" party In the south designed to nttract democrats wishing to vote against tne presi dent, but not wanting to place an x" lp tbe republican column. Ttrfl mechanics of slieh an -ar rangement nomination of n sep arate But of electors and cumula tive voting on different tickets was described by Wlllkle as one of the topics for the conrerenee. Ho has said that lie would apeaK In the south, but has not announc ed detailed plans. His formal speaking campaign will be opened In Uoireyviun, ivnns, annul nepi. 14. nnd l ie on v other engagement ho hns accepted publicly Is an nd dress to n republican women's (Continued on page 6 Trotsky Succumbs To Pick-Ax Attack MEXICO CITY. Aug. 22. (AP) Leon Trotsky, world-famed lead er of the Russian revolution, illea last night, tho victim of a plck-nx assassin whom the revolutionary accused of being a tool of the Ogpu or , a fascist moat likely the Ogpu." The leader or the rourtn inter national, who long reared "death t the handB or Stnlln," mane niB accusation against the dread Rus sian Becret police on his death bed. He succumbed to head wounds inflicted Tuesday. An exile from Russia since 3 929 and a refugee in Mexico since Jan. I. 1937. the former soviet wnr com inlssar lay today In a casket to which was pinned his Inst words: "I am sure of the final victory or tho rourth international. Go iorward." I Coupled with the 60-year-old re-1 volutlonnry's accusation against the Ogpu was the statement or Police Commander (iallndo Unit his assassination "lias tho aspects nr an International plot." The police chief declined to elaborate on his statement con cerning the fatal attack on Trot sky, the second within recent months. Trotsky's brnln was plercetl hy a pick ax wielded by Frank Jack son, who for monlhs posed as a great admirer or tho chieiiain or the rourth International. Jackson, beaten hy guards, was taken to the same hospital where Trotsky died. In a statement to the pol'ec Jackson said he decided to kill Trotsky after being "disillusioned" by tho Russian's recently expressed political views. Police said that Jackson was not a Belgian, ns he claimed, hut an American citizen formerly of New York City. Two of 9 Measures On Oregon Ballot Opposed SALEM, Aug. 22. (AP) Only two of the nine measures to ap pear on the November ballot will be opposed In the Voter's pamph let. Secretary of State Snell said today. Tho state grange and the state Federation of Labor filed an ar gument against the proposal to change the primary election from May to . September, while the grange also opposed the Initiative to repeal tho milk control law. House Approval Base Leasing Plansof U.S. Rouse Italy Scheme to Obtain Territory in "Break-Up" of Great Britain Charged; Nations Opposed To Deal Given Applause. HOME, Aug. 22. (AP) Italian newspapers showed discontent with the plan for the United Slates to lease naval bases In Bri tain's western homlsphoro posses sions by charging today that the United States Ib seeking to gain territory in the "breakup" of the British empire, II Hesto del Carllno. Important Bologna paper, said the United Slates not only Is trying to get control of Canada by offering lo send an army to defend her but added that unless- something hap pens In tho Pacific America will try later to get Australia. "Japan rightly Is rather alarm ed at this new development or American Imperial Isin," 11 Itosto Bald. To "gain possession" of the British West Indies, II Reslo said, Washington Is ready to "cedo mo tors, guiiB nnd oven Bomo obsolete destroyers in payment for a 89 year lease on England's American Islands." ODDosltlon Praised II Ponolo dl Roma, expressing the sjimei. view.,, applauded Mexico nnd Guatemala for reported oppo sition to the United SlntoB occupa tion or naval and air bases In Brit ish Honduras. Stefnnl, official Italian news agency, said various soutli Ameri can republics consider tho United Stales, on the excuse there Is n threat from Europe, Is "Booking rather cleverly" lo estaldlsh hege mony over Central America and to (Continued from page 8.) Former Oregon Senator Bourne Seriously III WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (AP) Physicians oxprossed anxiety to day for the recovery of Jonathan Bourne, former Oregon repunncnn senator, who has been critically 111 since rracttiring Ills hip III 11 mil nine days ago. - II I advanced age mauo tno out come of his Injury uncertain. Bourne, who has lived In Wash ington tor many years, represent ed Oregon in the sennto rrom 1907 to 1913, Burning of Motor Truck For Insurance Alleged Freeman Hlgglnbotham, 27, of Roseburg, was taken Into custody late yesterday and was charged, State Police Sergeant Paul Mor gan reported, with burning a motor truck for the purpose or collecting insurance. Arraigned before Cir cuit Judge Carl Wimberly, Hlggln botham was ordered hem to tne grand jury with ball fixed at $750 which was not furnished. Conscription Prospects Aids Dan Cupid's Business It may be Juat coincidence, but prospective exemption of married men from proposed conscription hat been paralleled by a record rush for marriage licenses In many a U. 8. community. Typ'eal of the way many erstwhile confirmed bachelors suddenly took the plunge Is this scene In the Brooklyn, N. Y., mar riage license bureau. Diplomats Of Japan Hit By Huge Shakeup Ambassador to U. S. Among 35 Envoys Recalled; Likely Successor Aikawa, Noted Industrial Leader. TOKYO, Aug. 22. (AP) For- .eign Minister Mntsuoka has recall ed Keiisiiko Horinnuchl, ambassa dor In the United States, and four other amhassodorB In a sweeping shnkeup of tho dpllmntlc service, Domol, the nuthnrltatlve Jnpanese news agency, reported today. YoshlBhuke Aikawa, one of Jap an's outstanding Industrialists and head of the great Manchuria Indus trial Development corporation, whb said 111 Informed quarters to be a likely choice as Horlnnuchl's suc cessor, Domol snld 10 ministers and 10 holders of Important consular posts, Including those at New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Hon olulu and Manlln, bIbo were being recalled In the shakeup, which af fects the foreign service In tho Americas more than any otlior part of the world. nomel snld tho sweeping changes which had been expected ever since the energetic Mntsuoka be came foreign minister, was con sidered preparatory o a "diplo matic offonslvo." Afntsuoka has snld ho will mnko Japan diplomacy free from "tondylam. : Besides Horinouchl tho ambas sadors named by Domel ns recalled aro thoae in Bmssll, Turkey, France and China. ' The ministers affected were said to bo those to Canada, Spain, Ar gentina, Pent, Chile. Colombia, Venezuela.- Panama, Mexico, Afgh anistan, Hungary, South Afrlcn, Finland, Rumnnln, Latvia, Egypt, (Continued on page 6) President Ortii of Argentina Resigns BUENOS AIRES, 'Aug. (AP) President Roberto M 22. Ortiz of Argentina resigned today. Tho ailing president's resigna tion climaxed critical develop ments In nn army land purcnaae scandal. Ortiz, bed ridden for a long time, only Tuesday returned to active leadership or tne na tion's afralrs In order lo attempt lo control the crisis. Heppner Man Facing Drunk Driving Charge Harrv Selbv Stewart. 32, a resi dent or Heppner, was taken Into custody here last night by the state police and was charged today with drunken driving. He was tak en to the Justice court In Drnip for arraignment, duo to the absence from Roseburg of Justice of the Pence R W. MnrslerB. ' ' GunsRoarOn Channel But Hitjo Ships Aerial Torpedo Deals Death fat Britifh Town; U. S. Mode Plane Fights Off 7 Nate, Brings One of Them Down. LONDON, Aug. 22 (AP) Heavy German artillery opened up from concealed positions on the French, coast from Boulogne to Calais and German dive bombers went Into action today against a long British convoy threading the English chan nel off Dover. . The convoy ' escaped wltnons damage from the ortillery lira thrnueh a smoke screen, despite churning of tho waters by about . 100 shellB from the distant French! shore. It was Inter attacked by the dive homberB, one of whloh wnH shot down, The Iobb brought to an evert 1,000 the number of nasi plane which Britain counts as certainly destroyed Blnce Adolf Hitler's In tensive air war about the British, Isles wub launched June 18. The roar of the German artil lery from 20 miles distant, which could be heard In London over tele phone connections from the south' east coast, followed a 3-day pause In the mass air attacks, but the government wnrned that eveS greater air attacks might be ex pected at any time. The firing started when the mile- long convoy entered the straits; with protecting warships. Earlier three German air ma chines had attacked a convoy oft the. northeast const, dropping ser crab bombs- but -without apparenf damage as Spitfires gave chase. . These were the first attacks on. convoys off the east coast in sev eral days. - (Apparently the British were re suming (he use of the channel for shipping during the 3-day breathing; spell this week In the Intensive air war Instituted August 8.) (While some Britons exulted that tho lull was a sign the royal air force had shot the "blitz out of blitzkrieg,"-others expressed doubt, and Air Secretary Sinclair1 was on record with a warning that the Ger mans have used up "only a small fraction" of their heavy bombers; (Continued on page 6) Timber Fires Battled In Three Oregon Areas TORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 22. (AP) Wood smoke feathered In to Oregon skleB again today and 500 men fought three stubborn timber blazes In widely separate locations. . More than 2000 aoros were ablaze In the Black bills 20 miles southwost of Summer lake In Kla math county. The fire threatened virgin stands of ponderosa pine of the Weyerhaeuser company. Near Elgin in the northeast corner of the state 1200 acres of logged land burned. About 200 men fought the flames. A third fire covered about 2000 acres southeast of Crescent In. Klnmnth county. About 150 fight ers equipped with bulldozers bad It partially checked. Fire destroyed 160,000 feet ot stacked lumber In the O'Brien Gram mill yard at Astoria.