Churchill Says Britain Is Not Ready to Declare Her War Aim, but if London is to Survive, Its Air Defense Forces Must Display Improvement in Their Gun Aim THE WEATHER GIVE AND TAKE By U. 8. Weather Bureau See pugo 4 (or statistics. Cloudy tonight nnd Friday. Oc casional ruin. Temperature slight ly above uorniul. That continues to be the war situation as Great Britain battles to prevent threatened collapse of lier empire, and the nails attempt to lift a strangling blockade. Daily reports In the NEWS-REVIEW are prompt aud reliable. ,, . )fOU XLV NO. 164 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1940. VOL. XXIXNO. 62 OF THE EVENING NEWS era IB) 3 y ui fHE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAiLY TFDSUl m BIASES. OTIS m i In The Day's i News - By FRANK JKKKINS rilE spotlight of world Interest (on Tuesday) is still on Kus Bln. What Is bIio planning to do? Is Slulln getting suspicious of Ills gangster partners'.' Is lie prepar ing to stop (ierniany's threatened drive down through the Haitians to take Suez In the rear? ""will whatever he does 1IKI.P BlilTAlX? IF you are wise, you won't expert Stalin to do anything idealistic. M'hatever Itussla does will he done for Itl'SKlA'i) IIKXEFIT. and ltus Hia's alone. Nations (except the U. S.) do not net on Idealistic motives least of lill present-day liussia. If whatever Htalln does should hem-fit Britain. ' k hecause he fears Britain i Germany more. -.iu(;GIIT at this point: Russia has always had class conscious government, with the iluinh masses at the bottom and the Rill ii rt few at the top. After 25 yeai'B of revolution, her sltuntion is fundamentally unchanged. The only change froji(JJj!e i,pa&uJKovernini'nt Jmpeajfc. agents,, and Is a NEW S'Kt OKSMAIiT ONUS AT TIIK TOP, AM. over the world, since his tory began, tliere has been rlass-conscious governments, with the smart few at the top running the lives of the. masses at the bot tom. Moral: If you are among the masses, nnd discontented, don't expect class-conscious government to im prove your lot. Portland man lopes by theft a string of prehistoric Indian beads he says is worth $3.nno. It is Interesting to speculate on what it was worth to its prehistoric Indian owner and In what terms, lie certainly wouldn't have parted with it lor H.nno r. s. dollar bills, which would have heen I'TTKItLY VSKI.KSS TO HIM. Interesting thought for an idle hioment : The standards of value that rule our lives today may he utterly f Continued on page 4) How Congress Defense Contract Authorizations ss.8"n,ooo.ooo 'Supplemental Defense bills 35,300.000,000 3 X 1" --rSLS I --r-S3 i sob ooo ooo VV ar'aepl L 1.12ft.M0.000Ul fmsii ",fiii It rSJ m v,mi n6B,, 1-qetfSBqBWrS E"- -4 Miscellaneous fcs'M Appropriations fiUabor, 5 Security II S1033 000 000 .': '?ri -., saw S4.500.000.000 Congress covered the national cake with a 25-billlon-dollar Icing this session, voting cash appropriations or authorizations to that amount, to be spent over a period of years. National defense bills ac counted for two-thirds of the money, as shown by dark sections of cake. DRAFT REGISTRATION SMOOTH, ENTHUSIASTIC Total Goes Over Advance Predictions Ability of Democracy to Meet Emergency Proven, Dykstra States; Few Disturbances Mark Response to Call. Tly the Assoelnted Press Chuvnco A. Dykstra declared In his first public; statements (is draft director today that "those who had thought we were soft anil supine and. as a demoi-mry, could not move with effectiveness, may in; disappointed." The f,7-year-old University of Wisconsin president added that "the news is that the registration went off more than hapnily with enthusiasm." "It shows the ability of a great democracy to rise to an occasion of this kind," he told n press con ference. As chief of the- nation's first peacetime selective service sya tenj pykstra'a main task will be to supervise the tl rafting for, mili tary service of approximately r.ueo,Ueo young men from the more than lfi.000, 011O who signed up yesterday. Shortly after Dykstra took Of fice President Hoosevelt Issued nn executive order authorizing him to appoint necessary members of local draft boards, appeals boards, loral board physicians. All ' siu-h work now on will be under the new chief's direction. Dykstra called the effective ness with which t lie registration was carried out. only a month art er enactment of the conscription law. mi evidence that government ml citizens can work together to do "a most effective job." In response to filiations, Dyk stra said the Immediate admini strative detail to be handled was to clear with state, governors the appointment of appeal boards. Fliere are sure to be appeals. he said, "as soon as the lottery is held ami actual selection of men begins." The approximately n.OiMi.iino civ ilian soldiers to be drawn from yesterday's registrants will, ac cording to present plans. be spread over a five-year period. with the first call to go out In mid-November. Estimates Exceeded As the counting and sorting of yesterday's registration cards be gan, preliminary reports irom icrnss the country said wltn fre quency: "Registration exceeded advance estimates. Good-humored and even gay for the most part, the young men of (Continued nn pace G Spent 25 Billion Navy Contract! Authorizations n SI.5Hfi.000.000 Relief SI. 157.000. 000 Federal Independent Offices SI. 120.000.000 J ! -J i w7 r j , Registration in Oregon Fails to Meet Estimate A total of 732 selective service regist rut ions from 11 of Douglas county's f0 precincts, was report ed today at the office of County Clerk Hoy Agee. Mr. Agee today is muking a personal collection of cards from each of the draft regis tration hourds und only those from KoHclnu'g and Immediate vicinity so far have been tabulated. SALEM, Oct. 17. (AP) About 12O.U0O Oregon men registered for possible milltury service yesterday, the totaU being about 43,000 less than was anticipated, state selec tive service headquarters said to day. The exact number will be known in it few days, but the estimated figure was based on reports from four counties. Selective service headquarters had estimated that lli;U"nj would register yesterday, tills figure be ing 15 per cent of the state's popu lation. Hut officers explained to day that apparently less than 15 per cent of the population are men between lil und 'Mi years of age. Truck-Auto Crash Kills Geo. Long, 73 Store Owner of Camas Valley Suffers Broken Skull When Hurled to Pavement. George Long, 73, proprietor of'n small store and service station at Camas Valley, died at Mercy hos pital last night as the result of in juries suffered Wednesday after noon In a truck-automobilo collision at Stephens and Douglas streets in Koseburg. Chief of Police John S. Duer said Long apparently was tossed out of his light coupe when the car struck the curbing after being thrown out of control by collision with a farm truck driven by J. 1 llensley of tmpiua. A skull fracture resulted as Long fell to the pavement. Officer Duer said ho was In formed bv witnesses that Long was driving his car in an easterly di rection on Douglas street and was crossing Stephens street, the Pa cific highway route, when the col lision occurred with the northhounu truck driven by llensley. Hoth ve hicles swung into Douglas street, with Long's coupe leaping the curb and coming to rest on the side walk. State police and city officers are conducting nn investigation Into the accident. No inquest has yet been called. Mr. Long was born August 13, ISti". at Mechanicsville. Iowa, and came to Oregon about 60 years ago engaging in farming near Haker. He was married to Viola M. Purcell at Haker. September 9, 1906. In 1917 he moved to Lebanon and in 1II2S he enfiged in farming at near by Crabtreu. For the past six years he had made his home in Camas Valley. Surviving are bis widow, Mrs. Viola M. Long, of Camas Valley, and the following daughters and sons: Mrs. Nellie Sumpter, Tan gent, Ore.; Mrs. Zella Stuart and Mrs. Irene Apple, both of Albany, Ore., and Charles W. and Frank O. Long, both of Camas Valley. He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Cella Condit and Mrs. Estella Scott, both of Idaho, und by seven grand children. The body has been removed to the Douglas Funeral home and fu neral services will be held in Ie banon Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. Kev. Mr. Crosley of the Christian church at. Lebanon offi ciating. Interment will follow in the Musontc cemetery there. Dairy Truck Upset Near Corvallis Kills Driver COHVALL1S, Oct. 17. f AP) A Hill Donahue, truck driver for a local dairy, was killed Instantly at this morning when his truck overturned near the city limits. Don a h u e rece n 1 1 y cam e h ere from Portland, where he is report ed survived by a divorced wife and three-year-old child. Brothers, Sisters Will Be Joined in Double Wedding A double wedding In which broth ers will marry sisters was indicated In licenses granted today at the office of County Clerk Roy Agee. One license was issued to David Perron and Bernardeane Cook, and the otber to Arthur Alfred Perron and Ktnma Belle Cook. All are residents of Brockway. Turkey Assn. Headquarters To Be Moved Operations Transferred From Roseburg to Canby to Meet Wish for Closer Contact With Portland Market. Ilraiclqimrtprs of the Orenon Tur key (irowcrs will lie moved from ItosebiiiB to Cnnliy, Clnoknmas county, nnd aetlvlilPH. henceforth, will renter In the Portland urea, it was nnnoiinced today by (ieoiKe t'lienoweth, Oakland, a director, and Christina iMIcelll, lioseburg, Hecrelary-treaHurer. Mrs. Mleelll lian resigned her po sition nnd J. C. I.eedy of Brooks, fornior ImukIiir county agricultural acent, has been npiiolnted to that oHlce. C. II. Coylo of St. Paul, Oregon, has been made president of the cooperative association, re placing Mclvlnley Huntington, who resigned because of residence re moval to eastern Oregon. The action In changing headquar ters to Canby, It Is reported, fol lows several meetings held by the directors, nnd Is in accordance with recommeixlutions from the North western Turkey (1 rowers associa tion, the central liinrketlnK agency, which held Ui.it the organization's office should bo closer to the Port land juiarket. v TliO'assoclntlon, it Is announced, has purchased a largo Cnnhy ware house from the Pacific Nurseries of Portland, and Is Installing re frigeration equipment, elevators, turkey dressing equipment, etc., and also Is Installing office fix tures, and will make this unit the central headquarters. Originated In Roseburg The Oregon Turkey Growers as sociation had its inception at Koseburg about Jfi years ago. It first was organized as a coopera tive unit for local growers nnd was mimed the Houglas County Turkey Crowers' ussocialion. Growers from lane county asked to be included and the organization was enlarged and the name changed. It still later was broadened to include growers In ull parts of western Oregon. In late years the Willamette valley counties have steadily Increased turkey production until they have become leaders in the field and have heen urging ti change in (Continued on page 6) I SAW By Paul , .A' ; ) v''.j ji W. F. WRIGHT beside one of (he tremendous squashes growing in a field at his farm In the Curry es tate community. This particular specimen weighs about 175 lbs. "The largest squash I ever have grown weighed 270 lbs.," Mr. Wright told me. "I think the aver age vou see about me now will go from 90 to 100 lbs." An acre and a half of ground 1s devoted to the squash crop this season. The soil is good bottom land, not irrigated. The Equashes are used for stock feed. If you look closely at the squash beside Mr. Wright in the picture above, you may be able to dis tingulsh his name carved thereon. i- f v , '--vi.. I' -win. 1 W- , . '.'''IV i ".;.',v .' ' ktfi Noted Business Executive Dies Fred M. Kirby W1LK I ES-B A R HK, Pa., Oct. 17. (AP) Death has ended the bril liant business career of Fred Mor gan Kirby, wealthy merchant who played an important role in the founding of tile F. W. WoolwortU fiveand-ten sloro chain. He died of pneumonia last night at the ago of 79. Starting as a $2-a-woek clerk in a Watertown, N. Y., store, Kirby had acquired 9ii stores w hen he merged them into the Woolworth syHlcm In 19,12. 3.utor ho extended bis business interests and became one of the nation's richest men. Philippine Scout Captain Nabbed on Spy Charge MANILA. Oct. 17. (AP)-Tha arrest of Caplain Hufn Tiomero of the Philippine scouts on suspicion that he was preparing to give sev eral confidential documents to un authorized persons was announced lodav by the LI. S. army Intelligence service. Komero, a graduate of West Point, was held for court martial. He. has been attached to tho four teenth engineers, U. S. A.. Fort William McKtntey. Two Filipino civilians also were arrested in con nection with the case. Intelligence officers said Romero was arrested alter photographing several confidential documents from Fort McKinley, where ho had access to them due to his respon sible position in the engineers. Jenkins NfW-ltCVH!W 1 I) It s there. This makes tho squash absolutely all Wright. During the draft registration yesterday I looked and listened, but neither saw nor heard any appli cant being snatched out of tho waft ing lines and willy-nilly being made a Captain of. Did you? I hope when these men are called to the colors the government has something better than tents and i cow barns to house them in that seems to be about all there Is now. ! Did you ever live in a floor-lesB tent in the winter time of a rainy country If you're lucky you lived through the experience, although at times you wished you wouldn't. 4, " ;i$Ctt Job Promises Of New Deal Prove Fizzle WPA Program Needs Shake-Up, Willkle Asserts; Wallace Argues for Extension of Social Security Benefits. (Dy the Assoclnted Tress) The problem of America's Jobless held thn rnnipnlKti spotlight today as Wendell I.. Willkle callstl for n revision of tho WPA program nnrt Henry A. Wallace termed present unemployment Insurance too con servative mid said that It would have to be made more generous. Willkle charged that the new deal had made a "frank and shameless promise" of more unemployment aud added that "our promiso Is more Jobs." In n speech prepnred for Evans vlllc, Ind., ho culled for changes In the WPA Including grantor em phasis on pulflic works projocts un der private contractors and alloca turn of relief funds to tho states ac cording In tho nmount of unemploy ment, winkles talk was one of a number on the dny's crowded schedule of campaigning In Indi ana, Illinois nnd Missouri. Industrial Link Urged, Discussing labor-employer rela tions in a speecli ut Springfield, Wlllklo snid: "iiy ptecept, by example of gov ernment, by tiudersliuiUiug achiev ed in free discussion, co-operation can ho substituted for coercion. Kvery sound labor leader nnd ev ery sound employer knows that this method Is worth a trial. "On tho one hand, the labor racketeers aud their communist brethren who fish In troubled wa ters should he eliminated, prefer ably by labor itself. On the other hand the unwise leadership among employers must be brought to full realization and recognition of all the rights of labor." The government, Willkle said, should contribute to n better under standing between labor nnd em- (Continued nn page 6) Analyst Predicts Willkie Will Win CHICAGO, o c t. 17. (AP) F.mil Hurja, who as a democratic analyst forecast tho 1032 and 1930 elections accurately, predicted yesterday tho election of Wendell L. Willkie by a plurality of from Lfiim.uoo to 3,0(10,000 votes. "So great Is the defection among l!C!ti Hoosevelt voters in urban areas," Hurja said, "that if 1L continues, the present, campaign may take on tho proportions of a landslide." llurja, executive director of tho democratic national committee from 1!:!2 to 11)30, now Is publish er of Pathfinder magazine. Ills prediction , before a republican meeting, he said, was based on an "Idealized cross section poll" tak en over tho nation within the last ten days. He said President Tioosevelt be gan to slip as early as 1930 and a close study of I hat election showed that despite his 11,000,000 plurality, he lost strength in fK per cent of the counties of the I'nited Slates aud 70 per cent of the middle western counties. From II to H per cent of the voters, llurja found, now are In the "don't know" class. He said Hie majority of these did not vote in 1930 and have not decided what to do in 1940. Hurju said ho found 07 per cent of the voters were opposed to tko third term and "this may well de cide the election." Ills poll of persons on relief nhnwed a drop or 1 2.2 per cent In Hoosevelt strength. Demo Committeeman Of Clackamas Drops Dead ORFION CITY, Oct. 17. (AP) Philip T. Soreghan, chairman of the Clackamas county democratic committee, dropped dead while conversing with W. L. Oosslin, one-time private secretary to for mer Governor Charles H. Martin, at a party rally in the city hall last night. Soreghan, a democratic candi date for the state legislature, had been a grocer hero for 25 years. His widow ami several children survive. Youngest U.S. Senator Named Joseph H. Ball, St. Paul, Minn., newspaperman, became the youngest member of the United States senate when he was ap pointed this week by Governor Stassen to succeed the late Ernest Lundeen, killed recently In an air crash. Ball, 34 years old, is a republican.. He was amono political notables who registered yesterday for selective service In the army. West Coast Safe, Congressman Says Defense Set-Up Found in Good Shape; Air Base Work Runs Far Ahead of Schedule. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (AP) Chairman Jlnrdon (11., Va.) of a house naval subcommittee returned from a tour of Pacific, ocean de fenses today with the statement that ho had "no concern over the safety of tho west coast." "I have no concern over tho snfoly of the wost coast, but I don't mean to say that a stray raider, roaming tho ocean, might not break through and sink a few merchant ships or maybe shell a city, but the diunngo would bo slight." "I don't think any enemy would even get to Hum all but even If they did, It wouldn't do much good," ho asserted. "With these Islnnds out thero, wo ought to have notice 2.3(10 miles nwny of nny movement against either Hawaii or tho Unit ed States they nro wonderful shields." PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 17. (AP) The United Stales "now stands ready" to muet the chnllengo of any aggression, Bays Lewis Comuton assistant secretary of tho navy. Ho told (ho Franklin Institute hist night that construntlon of bases In tho Aleutian islnnds, the miit-t'ncltlc and Puerto Hlco is run ning six to eight months ahead of schedule whllo other liases are rap. Idly Hearing completion. "When this program Is complet ed," he snid, "tills country und the wiinio western heinlsphero should be able to aland lmpgnablo against an attack from nny possible comninutinn or enemies." New- turbine equipment Installed on U, S. naval vessels gives them mi ndvanlnge over foreign ships In cruising i'ii I i k nnd economy, ho said, and 've shall no lunger have to concede a speed superiority to wireign navies. Draff "Tragic Mistake." Doctor Townsend Says GRANTS PASS. Oct. 17. (AP) Speaking on (ho day thnt 115.000,(100 young Americans registered for possible military service. Dr. Fran cis Townsend declared here that "tho drafting of millions of men Is a tragic mistake. If wo are at war, let us acknowledge it and make war. if not, let us call upou volunteers. Tho penslon-rpcovory lender op posed reelection of President Hoosevelt, pointed out that the na tional convention of his organiza tion almost unanimously . opposed election of any presldont for a third term. Advocating "a change from the present administration," ho turned to Wendell ; Willkle, republican standard-bearer, to warn: "I can't promise you the new mnn coming In will do nny belter, but u lie doesn't, we enn give him a kick In the pants In four years." Major Ports ? Of Wrest Raid Victims Fires Set at Hamburg. BrenM-i, Cuxhaven by Flan Fleet; Germans Continue Costly Bombing of London. LONDON, Oct 17. (AP) Tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs were dropped on the Gor man naval base at Kiel last night, ' some of them "straddling" a war ship, the air ministry news service, announced In a bulletin. Drifting clouds made observation of results difficult although the raiders car ried on the attack for two hours for the second night In succession. Their tnrgetB were the Deutsch Worke and Germanla ship yards at! the naval base. The Incessant bombardment oil German war bases and war Indus tries, now tied in with a growing naval offensive, was reported hi have caused new and "extensive" fires also at Hamburg, Bremen and Cuxhaven. Great dnmage -was caused, the air ministry announced, by bombs dropped by planes of the coastal command In a daylight attack to day on tho power station ot tba German-occupied naval base at 13 rest, The Bynthetlc oil production plant at Leuna was the objective of another bomber group, the minis try Buhl, while munitions factories nnd a power station In Saxony were hit. Five British planes wera reported lost. Tho fierceness of attack and de fense In last night's RAF opera tions was hinted In a concise air ministry communique acknowl edging loss of five planes. v Nail Convoy Destroyed Prowling for action in the Eng lish channel and' the North sea, British warships were reported last night to have destroyed an entire convoy of five Gorman vessels ipil to have attacked a sixth ship "suc cessfully." Apparently this was a subma rine action a follow-up to the re cent reported naval bombardment of Dunkorque and Cherbourg, on the German-occupied French coast. In the Mediterranean phase:)' the admiralty admitted the 9,lQD-ton cruiser Liverpool had been damag ed In nn llnllan torpedo plane at tack. The Liverpool reached - her base with an undisclosed number of casualties. , The admiralty announced today that casualties suffered by the Brit ish cruiser AJnx In her victorious battle with Italian warships last Saturday wore two officers, nine (Continued on page 6) Lindbergh Draws "Ignorance" Reply NEW YOltlC, Oct. 17. (AP) Tho United Slates can do In two years tho Job of arming what Ger many did In seven, says L$uls Johnson, former assistant secretary of war, und this can be done 'be cause It was planned for and Wo veloped." In a natlon-wldo broadcast fast, night In reply to nn earlier railld address by Col. Charles A. Lind bergh, Johnson chnrged the famous aviator with "ignorance of the United States, or lis slate of pre paredness, and most of all, of ittt lron will." Johnson called Lindbergh's ad dress a plea to "sacrifice the prin ciples on which tho United States was built," lo "appease Germany and Japan" and to "stop helping Britain." The American navy Is tho most powerful in tho world, he continued. anil working in conjunction with the British fleet "can keep air anil land forces beyond striking dis tance of American coasts.' - i "If, nnd only if, Britain and her navy fall Into hostile hands, would we faco a dangerous situation." Battle in Robbery Effort' Wrecks Car, Jails Youth TI1R DALLES, Oct. 17. (AP) A fight in tho front seat ot a speed ing automobile neur BlggB last night sent nn automobile Into tho ditch nnd landed Warren Williams, IS, of Yamhill county In tho Was co county Jail, Sheriff Sextan said.. - Williams, Sexton explained, ad mitted picking up Arne Molhus, 19, hitch-hiker, striking him over the head with a revolver In an attempt to rob him. The blow ' failed to knock Melhus out and thi fight en sued. Meford Peters, former Mon tana deputy siierlff, who drove by nt tho time, pulled tho two men from tho wrecked car and brought N them here. Neither was seriously Injured.