Physical Defects Dropped 77 Officers From the 41 st Division, but Defective Eyesight Didn't Bar "Indispensable" Elliott Roosevelt from an Air Corps Captained ii YOUR EYE "V- THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau Should be kept on news from tho flalkans for a probable turrlng point In the war. Joint action by KusbIu, Turkey and Greece to ''top Hitler Is being planned, rumor pays. Follow NEWS-REV1EV ser vice. SGV. Generally cloudy tonight nnd Thursday; moderate temperature. See page 2 tor stutlitlc-s. m 1 VOL. XLV NO. 163 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 6. 1 940. VOL. XXIXNO. 61 OF THE EVENI1NG NEWS L-aX THfDOUGLRiS COUNTY DALY CBflflflDS if m 1 Total War j.l treat Nation to Prepare America Told by t New World Peoce Drafts Sole Purpose - J Democracy's Preservation Up to 4 Youth, President Says to Registrants From Whom Ample Army Will be Built. WASHINGTON, Oct. Hi. (AP) President Roosevelt, in n measure in tho nation na Its young men marled lo register under tho so leetive program, dot-hired today that "wo prepare to keep llin peuee in this now world which free men have built for free innn to Uvo in." Helertivo serviee to strengthen tho army, ho said, "is a program obviously if defensive preparation and nf defi-nsive preparation only. "Tho duty of this day," ho as sorted, "has hoen imposed on its iron, without. Tltosn v ho have dared to tliroaton tho whole world with war those who have created tho name and deed of Total War have imposed on ns and upon all free people tho neeessitv of pro pa rat Ion for toial defense," Mr. Roosevelt road his message .over a nation-wide 'radio hook-up mm tho-white house. The inch- wiffo in part follows: Absolute Army Planned. "Tho United Stales, n nation of one hundred nnd thirty million peo ple, has today only about five hun dred thousand half a million of ficers and men iu army and na tional guard. Other nations, small- or iu population, have four and five ami nit million trained men in their armies. Our present program will (rain eight hundred thousand additional men this coming year and somewhat less than one million men each year thereafter. It Is a r program obviously of defensive pre paratlou and of defensive prepara tion only. "Calmly, without fear and with- ' out hysteria, hut with clear deter - 7nination, we are Imilding guns and pin ties and tanks and ships and all the other lolls which modi'in do- ;: fense requires. We, are mobilizing our citizenship, for wo aro calling men and women and property (Continued on pago C Hy KIUNK .1KNKINS -TPHK war, likw the season, is changing. The battle of iiritain hasn't pone so w ell for Hitler. Since Ccrmany can't b-t the war 1ms din. some other scene of action has to ho chosen. The Mediterranean LOOKS like the choice. (r(; "IIR season has someihin? to do with that. Winter. In the Ilrltlsh Isles, isn't too good for fighting. In the Mediterranean, it I just right.) EH MANY, since the last war (ALWAYS, for that matter). , has In The Day's News s had a shuddering fear of attack -J on two fronts. That was the com "k pelling reason for her deal with Russia. Since Germany fear? attack on . ; two fronts herself, she naturally wants lo attack her enemy on two fronts. The Suez canal, one . of the keys to the Mediterranean, 1 now b-Mng approached by the Italians from the west. If C.er ,1 many ran drive down through the ; nalkans and around the eastern . end of the Mediterranean Uhe route of invading armies since (Continued on page 4) Roseburg Educator Xowfl-iv.fVti-w i'lioto and KiiKiuvInu; Speaking of good examples: Clyde Beard, principal of Roseburg senior high school, was the first man to register fn Roseburg today for selective service. He is pictured above as he filled out his regis tration blank before Mrs. Ethel Catching, while Story lies, In the background, prepared additional blanks. Fifty election boards In as many precincts in Douglas county were convened at 7 a. m. today to continue until 9 p. m. registering an estimated 3,800 Douglas county residents eligible to the draft. C. A. Edwards, Bert Wells and R. L. Preston returned last night from Salem where, as members of the county draft board, they attended a school of instruction conducted by Governor Sprague and army officers regarding selective service pro cedure. - Hl J Nation's Manhood Registers in Plan to Establish Army of 5 Million; Many Higii Political Officials T.y tho Associated Press For the second Hmo in the life j of most Americans, the young manhood of the nation registered I in mass tod:ty for military service. Millions of men who answered I ho same ( all TA years ago last .lime 5 saw their sons step into line for registration at election precincts and schools. Kven some veterans of t he A. K. I' those who lied about their ayes I lien and enlisted at 12 or lo retraced their steps after nearly a quarter of a century to enroll again. 5 Million to Be Drawn From the pool of 1 (1,-104,000 reg istering today, selective service of ficials expected to draw 5,00O,0WI men roady iind able to undergo military training in the next four and a half years nearly Tfirt.oon more than were mobilized to fight the war of 1!H7 and 1!HX. Where some 12.nuo.uii0 men from 21 through !b registered for the first draft in 1917. those from 21 through 35 are registering to day. With a few specified exceptions, all men between 21 and 30 wen obligated to report to the 1 25.000 resist ration places bet:een 7 a. m. and !1 p. m.. with special pro visions for those 111 or unavoid ably detained and stern penalties for willful evaders. President Roosevelt had two sons who registered, .lohn signed up at Niiliant. .Mass., and Franklin, Jr., at. Indiiinapolis. where he was guest of honor nt a democratic luncheon. The president's two other sons, .lames and Klliott, are officers in tho marine reserves and air cinps. respectively. High Officials Included Though automatically exempted by law from service, at h-ast one istati governor, two I nited Stales senators, and several members of Mrs. Roosevelt Tells Why Elliott Took Captaincy PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 16. (AP) The continuance of Ameri can democracy can be guaranteed by active citizenship. Mrs. Frank lin D. lionsevelt said an address last niaht. She wurned a closed meeting of the Oregon f.eague of Women Vot ers that "tho trouble that may come to a democracy Is due tf) In difference and apathy." In an interview earlier in the day. she defended the enlistment of her son. Elliott. In the army as a captain, explaining that. h at tempted to enroll ns a private but was refused because of poor eyepfeht. "It is natural that young people would voice criticism but I haven't much patience with older people who don't find out the facts." she "Elliott can't see 10 feet with out his eliispes. He had to ask to bo laken in or he wovuldn't have been called at all." . Forces Defense, Roosevelt Registrant No. I Inside Age Bracket tho house of representatives also must register. Not only (!o ernor Harold K. Slassen. hut Senator-designate Joseph II. Hall. I! I. and l.ieiit.- lov, ('. Elmer Anderson. 2. must gister in Minnesota. Though u tenant governors are not spe cifically exempted from service. Anderson Is married, as are Stas sou and Hall, and probably will be excused from actual servioo by his local draft board. Among the mayors of major cities, Carl Zeiiller, 32, chief mag istrate of Milwaukee, is within tho draft-age limits. A. E. F. "Baby" Listed Known as the youngest veteran of the A. K. V., Frank Saullere, a reporter for the Miami (Flu.) Daily News, who will not bo 'Aft until January 21. will sign up again, but probably will be de ferred because of his wife. He enlisted (n the world war at 12. telling authorities he was 1(1, and served l!t months with' the IXth engineers. Thousands of other veterans, older than Saiiliere. are among the million-odd registrars writing down names and address of the younger men today. In n u m prong communities, hands and flags and banners made registration day a patriotic holi day. Numerous business firms either shut down entirely or gave their young men lime off to regis ter. A message from Wendell L. WHlkie, republican presidential nominee, to tho registrars was this: "You are registering one more chance for freedom your chance for freedom." He pledged his ef fort to "release" the power of American Industry to arm the young men who may be called to duty. Rancher Admits Slaying, Faces Charge of Murder REDMOND, Oct. 16. (AP) Guy Compton, 52, of Antelope, was charged with first degree murder yesterday following an inquiry into tho fatal Hhooting Monday of Nick IIitpert. near Redmond. District Attorney Dert Roylan said. Iloylan stated that Compton had signed a written confession. Hippert, former The Dalles resi dent, was shot to death on a small farm near Terrebonne which he re cently rented. T'.ritNS. Oct. 10. f AP) A Jury to hear the first decree murder charge against Charles Itogers. Harnev county cowpuncher, was se lected late vestcrday In Circuit .ludtre Knbert M. Duncan's court. District Attorney J. S. Cook said Roirers was acc"se, of tbe fatal shooting of Tom Pollock. Follyfarm area ranrher. April 21. Cook as serted the cowboy took Pollock's car and fired the fatal shot as Pol lock overtook him after a 40 mile chase. 41 - ):i -' McNary Raps New Deal On Farm Issue Agricultural Problem Dodged by Check Writing, Nominee Declares; 2-Price System For Crops Advocated. HUTCHINSON. Kus.. Oct. Hi. (AP) Sen. Charles I,. McNiuy, charging the new deal dodged the farm problem by writing "a check." promised today that a re publican administration would not use farmers ns "guinea pigs for experiments toward the perfect, regimented state. The republican vlce-presidentlnl nominee chidod Henry A. Wallace, his democratic rival, on Wallace's agricultural program in an ad dress prepared for delivery in the heart of the nation a bread busk et. "IiiRlead of grappling with the problem, getting tit Ha roots, the new deal evaded, theorized and finally wrote n check," he said. "Since 3933, fifteen farm bills have become law; billions of dol lars of public money expended. The now deal has tried to buy Its way out of trouble. "What was the result? Take the case of wheat. In spite of recov ery in world markets, our share of wheat export has dwindled." Urges 2-Price System McNary said he advocated. ho had for 20 years, a two-price system for crops with exportable surpluses and recommended nn American price for "that over whelming portion of wheat con sumed at Home." "The exportable surplus must not .continue to fix the price for -tho rfiVble fcrdp. Today tHe'whnt farmer's dolhir Is worth only 70 cents , of the city producer's dol lar." McNary recalled that Wallaoo, former secretary of agriculture in a recent Wichita speech liad asserted the government poured $215, 000.000 In the pockets of Kan sas farmers in the last seven years. "'Personally I would not boast of that." ho said. ". . . the sum is not impressive, whether you view it as .a just compensation for injustices suffered hy tho Kansas (Continued on page 6) Stamp Plan Not Up to Local Board Tho counly wolfaro commission has no authority to net in conunc tlon with the plai:inK of tho com modity stamp proKnun In operation in UouBlas county, County .indue Morris llowkpr declared today in commenting upon demands made hv the Worklnsmen's local, a union of WPA workers, which appeared before the county court through n committee Monday. "Keirardlesfl of whether the wel fare commission favors the plan, it will not he obtainable until the state headquarters is ready to es tablish it in IouBlas county," Judge llowker said. "When that time comes the plan probably will ho put in erred without regard to any opinion the commission may have." He expressed doubt that the plan could be put Into efrect immediate ly even if requested by the welfare board. "Tbe stale hcadquarterR," he said, "started tho plan In eastern Oregon counties. It has been ex tending tbe system Into tbe north ern part of tbe state and now Is working south through the Willa mette valley. Douglas counly prob ably v ill be reached In turn and not before." He Indicated that the majority or tbe commission probably would ra- vor asking the Hlate headquarters to establish the program as soon as possible. New Deal Kas Sold Out America, Townsend Says KfC.ENK, Oct. 10. (API Wenr- ing a "no third term" button on bis lapel. Dr. panels K. Townsend to day left for Grnnls Pass after pre dicting a pension congress at the next session. The Too. ooo Townsend club mem hers In the V. S. could triple Ihelr strength, he told 2r,00 listeners last night, bv Influencing the votes of their friends. He criticized the new deal for tbe "sell out" of America and addressed to the students In his audience a fear "we are going to be overloaded with talent that has no opportunity." "The present economic condition Into which people or your age en ter from universities," he declared "constitutes the base of the most atrocious crime In tho history of the world's civilization." Educator Dies 4 iKgv? I I I yS William P. Few DUItHAM, N. C, Oct. 16. (AP) Hr. William Preston Few, presi dent, of Duke. University, died today after a heart utluck a week ago, Ho was 72. Dr. Few succeeded tho late John C. Kilgo as president of Trinity college in UtlO, before tho wealthy Duko faintly endowed tho Metho dist institution, making It the southeast's largest privately-endowed university. Draft Registrants Receive Warning Keep in Touch With Boards to Learn if Numbers Drawn In Lottery, Wooten Advises. A.-1. - - - RAI.KM, Oct. 10. (AP) The 103,000 Oregon men who registered today for possible military service were warned they must keep In touch with their local selective service hoards to learn whether their numbers lmvo been drawn In the national lottery. "The responsibility rests with the men." Lieutenant Colonel Kl- nier V. Wooton, stale director for selective service, said. "Kach man should learn where his local board's office is. Tho number assigned to him will he posted outside the office, as will Hie list of numbers drawn in tiie lottery. If a registrant knows his number, he will find out from the newspapers whether his number Is drawn. The lottery will ho held In Wash ington, 1). C, probably on October There will he as many numbers In the lottery as there are regis trants in the largest board district In tho country. Tho first communication that Oregon's 67 local hoards will have with tbe registrants will ho the mailing of the seven-page fiuos tlonnuire to all registrants whose numbers have been drawn. If a man's number is drawn and lie falls to get bis questionnaire either because of x postol'fice mis take or because of a board error, tbe responsibility will be on the registrants shoulders. Any man whose number has been drawn but who falls to get his questionnaire is required to advise his local board. Answers on the questionnaire will determine whether a man will go into service. The hoards will classify tbe men who answer tho questionnaires, but. any man and Hie government buve the rights of appeal to an appeal hoard. I- irst uetlon of tbe boards will he lo elect chairmen nnd to employ lerlcal help. Clerks will be paid with rederal funds, and they need not comply Willi civil service re quirements. fne first real work of the honrds will begin tomorrow morning, when they will shuffle Hie cards and give them numbers. Cordon Seeks Extension Of Land Policy Limits Attorney C,uy Cordon of Rose burg, who has been retained as le gal advisor for tho grant land counties or Oregon, lert today for Washington, D. C, where ho will endeavor to clarify tbe status of several thousand acres of revested lands held outside the original O. and C. grant. At tho time tbe grant wns made to tho Oregon and California rail road some of the alternate sections allotted to the company were oc cupied by homsteaders, Mr. Cordon explained. This caused the govern ment to grant substitute lands. While auch lands were revested, they have not been Included In tho acts recently passed establishing the O. and C. administration. The Oregon counties, he reports, pro pose that the substitute lands shall be brought under the newly organized administration and plac ed under the sustained yield policy. Stop Axis Pact Impends; Balkans Hear Turkey, Soviet, Greece Planning Joint Action, Report, as . Russian, Naxi Armies Face Each Other Across Danube. By tho Associated Press The critical situation In the Bal kans today grew rapidly darkor. lleports that Turkoy nnd soviet Russia are near agreement on a "stop-the-nxls" military Bpreud through JJalkan cnpitalB, nnd the Turkish press declared bluntly that neither Turkey nor her "close friend" Greece could be "Intimidat ed" hy Ciormnny or hy anyone else. Mass thousands of German and soviet Red army troops faced each other across the Danube river nenr tho Rumanian port of Gnlatl poised lor action In what may de velop Into a tltantlo struggle on continental Europe. I' ho ( erman troops were support ed by squadrons of warplanes nnd 1100 tanks which rumbled Into the port yesterday. On the Russian side of the frontier were an esti mated luO.nuu to 180,000 soviot soldiers. Tension Aggravated Tension between Germany and Russia brought into the open yes terday when the soviet government snld tiermnny hart not given satis factory ndvanco notice of Bending nnzl troops Into Rumania under went a new aggravation. Russian authorities flatly refused a German request for more time bo- vond a Nov. IS deadline to evacu ate 90.000 German minority resi dents In ReBsarabla, which Russia regained from Rumania last Bum mer. . - ' Authorized nnstls In Berlin Insist ed flatlv today that Russia was In formed nf (lermauy's intention to send tronns Into Rumania. These sources declared the soviet denial referred to u spocirio story in a Copenhagen newspaper and not to the eoncreto fact of whether Moscow had been tnrormcu. ltenorts from Soflu. Bulgnrln said President Inonu of Turkoy was cxnected to anuounco a Rus sian-Turkish military pact on Nov. 1 nimed nt h ock ng further Homo. Berlin axis thrusts into southeast Knione. Counted with this report. :wn n nress disnatch from the Tur kish caplial announcing niai "'' dent Inonu received inn new soviet ambassador today In tbe presence (Continued on page 6) British Sub-Boat Sunk by Italian Ship in Battle ROMK. Oct. 10. (AP) Sinking of the big Brlllsh submnrlno Perse us after n violent artillery duel with the Italian submarine Tot! In the central Mediterranean wns re. ported today by the Italian high command. At the same lime, tho British and the Italian air forces were re ported to havo exchanged ljew blows on the Egyptian front. Tbe Italians said they bad bomb ed British flying fields at Blr Ko nays. El Daba, Assabn, Maaten (Ingush. Sulta and Blr Abu Smell in Egypt. The British were report ed to have struck back with bomb ing attacks on Bnrdia, Solium, Der ail, Benghasl and Hlr Kolon, souin west of the Italian outpost of Sldl BntTunl. Gun Battles fci A 10-hour chase replete with gun battles from Spokane, Wash., to Pendleton, Ore., resulted last week In capturing, left to right, Bernlee Trelchel, 17, and brother, Allen Trleehel, 15, and Richard Lettau, 17, of Kaukauna, Wit. Three holdups and one car theft figured In the chase, and Bernlee and Lettau were wounded when their stolen car was trapped at a dead-end street In Pendleton. Scrap Ban, Road Reopening Draw Sneer, Warnings By the Associated Press Tension between Japan nnd the United StateB has Increased swirt ly since Japan, Germany and Italy negotiated their triple alliance, but Tokyo's only comment on the scrnp Iron embargo wiib voiced by the newspaper Mlynko, which said: "A sneorln laugh to the U. S. government, which is not only stim ulating strong -world powers and thereby Increasing Its own dangers, but driving the Amerlcnn people to participate In wnr without causa. The British government Is to re open the Burma road to China to morrow and motor caravans of supplies are ready to start toward Chiang Kai-shek's forces Bt Chung king. Japan tins imimiiieu n "t bomb the route from new bases In ir,..twn Imlo-Cllinn. Slajor General Sumlta, chief of the .liinanese mission in Indo-China, declared today tnnt -japan m runu- intelv determined to prevent war millennia Bunnllcd by the United states or nnv third power lruitt reaching Chlnng Knl-shek'a arm ies." nnviw net in fAP) The pos sibility that Britain's rooponlng ot the Burma war supply rond to China tomorrow would provldo the spark to touch oft nn American i. i, hi-lnL' the United states tlto tuo wnr wits vimuuu lodav hv Mario AppcllUS, military coinmentalor or Premier Musso lini's newspaper, II Popolo TVItnlla, Aimelliin cliaracierizen tn i- n.mnlnir of IllO TOail tomorTOW 88 u' iiHtnn t itirctii i a ciiuhvufc .Tnnan. which was almost suro to bring tbe troops or me two i into the conmci. what w III the Americnns it n,itui. nrnvnention nnd stubborn- ....no lirlnir fllinllt a lirillSll-JUlfllllcaa ennfliot ulong the Burmn road or around It?" Appcllus asked. Cops, Sailors Stand Guard Against CIO Picket Line CAM vnANClSCO. Oct. 10. in Rnvnntv no com en nnd uu snllnrfl stood gunrit Willie noariy urn API. seamen hurried to worn peacefully today past a CIO picket lino through which they fought their trav yesterday with flying rlam Tnt cn tw co onenea a pninway in the mass of 201) booing pickets while two batches ot sailors irom tho crow of the liner President Tuft went through tho line flanked bv other members of their union, p'niw.n lmrrleillv nncned the gap in Hie line when the seamen approach ed In n flying wedgo lormniion, similar to that used in yesterday's riot. Willie police prevented renewed riming, federal labor agencies tried to restore penco. Mexico Grants Japanese Oil Exploratory Rights MEXICO CITY. Oct. 10. (AP) The, Jananeso-eontrollod vera- ft'tmuin Oil comnaiiy bns govorn inent approval to exploit 147,000 acres in Veracruz Blale. The ministry in" economy ap proved a contract under which the Japanese firm will havo five year exploratory rlghls. subject to extension and royalties, It was lenrneil lust tliirllt. Julian has been a persistent seeker after Mexican oil. The IJl- gumi Petroleum company, a Jni niieso firm, signed a J3.000.0O0 contract in April or this year to purchase Mexican all, gasoline and kerosene. Jail Young Trio Bombs Leave City s Areas In Shambles CounrUss Dead, Injured Taken From Ruins: Only "Ztphyr" Compared With Storm to Follow, German Warning. LONDON, Oct. 10. (AP) T.on don, fghltlng on the mounting bar ricades of her own ruins, reckoned . today the destruction and death in ono of the worst overnight bom bardments of 40 days of constant air siege while nazi raiders blasted at her and Kngland in new day light assuults. The ministry of information ae knowledged that tho night attack! was "of a heavy nature," but con tended that the damage "was nob as creat ai that done In raids which took place In early Septem ber.' Implying it was the worst since those enrly raids in which tho death toll ran to 300 and 400. Almost without pause the Ger mans followed up with rroBU thrusts hero, nnd nenr Liverpool, the great port on the west coast, as well ns along the south and east, consts and over coastal rogiona of. Scotland and Wales. Shambles Left by Raid. Tho cold October dawn lighted many a scene of devastation anil death in London. A schoolhouso used last night an nn air raid shelter had been level ed. The blggost delayed action bomb yet dropped on the city lay a slumbering menace to a widely known building. A famous London , square was piled with the debris of shattered buildings. A whole block of apartment buildings was blown to pieces. Countless dead and in jured lay In the ruins. At one place whore the dead and dying could be brought out they were placed on the littered pave. mont to await the attontlon i pt over-taxed ambulnnco crews. 't Theflo wore but parts of the cen sor-shaded picture of London un dor the German bomb racks. No Discrimination. The ministry of information! chnrged that tbe overnight rnklora strewed tholr bomb cargoes Indis criminately, hitting homes as;iwell as Industries and utilities. . Unofficially it was estimated, that 2.10 tones of bombs were dropped by rrom 200 to 250 planes during (lie night. (The Berlin report wb Hint 1,0110 planes dropped 1,0011 tons of bombs on the city.) Two large bombs scored direct! bits on the two-story schoolhouse. iu which an undetermined number of TmdonerB bod taken refuge. Rescuers reported they had dug out most of those buried alive and all sllll In the ruins were believed to he dead. Most were women, children and old men. It wns said. iA rubber tube pushed through piles of brick, cement and wood work was used to feed somo of tho living still entombed. A physician said that many ot I ho refugees who escaped from the building at the time of tho blasts literally were blown out. "Hitler delivered them intoUho amhulnnce," ho commented. ' Tons of tumbled masonry )md woodwork had to be moved to reach (Continued on page 0) Husband Slays Estranged Wife at Bar of Tavern MARYSVILLH. Calif., Oct. 10.. (AP) Merrymakers In n tnvem here, were terrorized Into last night when n man walked In with a pistol Iu each hand nnd. with out saying a word, shot his es tranged wife to death nt tho bar. Tho young woman wns Identi fied as Mrs. Elizabeth Howard' of Yuba City. Four bullets tore Into her body ns she reeled to the floor under the impact of tho deadly pistol fire. The operator of a shooting gal lery next door, whero the slayer had obtained the pistols, rushed In nnd overpowered Lester Ell Howard. The slayer Is now In jail awaiting a probable charge of murder. Rancher Shingling Roof : Peppered by Bird Hunter MEDFORD, Ore., Oct. 16 (APV Charles H. Fnlkenburg. Liberty school district rnncher, while shing ling the roof of a chicken house Monday was shot by an unldentl fled bird hunter. Falkenburg reported he picked IS shots out of his arm. and ono out of his nose. Ho further re-, ported the blast knocked him of( tho roof. i w I