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f Mr. Roosevelt Says His Future Program is "Equality'of Economic Opportunity." hls Requires A-Quality of Government Under the Opportunity of Nov. 5. POLITICS ..'""V Up-to-the minute news on the national situation will appear in tha NEWB-REV1EW Monday, also latest developments, as usual, in the war. Keep abreast wltb news' that's best In your home-city daily, . ... .' I." I THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau Vnsottled tonight anil Sunday. J.ittlo change in temperature. See page 4 for statistics. ROSEBURS, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1940. VOL. XXIANO. 76 OF THE EVENINd NEW9 Ol XLV NO. 178 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW IS 1 9 IT Ml ASF m Preside ft 'o ft ft ft America Not Going Tactics Those Of Dictators, Nominee Says 'Neglect and Abuse1 of Aviation Industry by New Deal Will Retard Output of Airplanes, G. O. P. Candidate Asserts. A HOARD WIIjfA'irc TRAIN IN MOW JKIiSKV. Nov. 2. CAP) ! Wendell 1,. Willliio (k'Huml today that I'nsinnt Itoopi'velt'K Brook lyn speech was designed to ".stir up class liatroil and divide our iH'oplf." an aim ho doelaifd as "the lactic of Lenin, the Rtratfgy nf Hitler and the preachinR of Trotsky." Tim republican prpsidontial nom inee, riffthiK ln't'ore his final cam paign appearance loniuht at Madi son Scpiarii Kaiden. New York is sued n statement catling Mr. Roosevelt's address his "fourth defense speech defense of his own administration." Saying his opponent "complains that the republican ticket has the support of many different ele ments of our populations," Willkie continued: "The answer to that is obvious. H Is because our parly is today ihe only one which offers unity to the country . , . "In a desperate effort to block this movement of unity, the third term candidate stooped to lh" use of an alleged quotation which, if made, was discreditable. This quotation is supposed to have come from some one in Philadel phia having no connection with the national republican ticket." (Mr. Hoosevell. in liis Brooklyn speech, said "a prominent leader of Ihe Philadelphia bar" had been quoied in the New York Times as saying Ihe president's only slip porters "are paupers, those who earn loss ibau $l,2ni a year and aren't worth that, and the Roose velt family." ("This all ton prevailing repub lican sentiment" was described by the president as "a direct, vi cious appeal to class haleld, to class contempt.") "I could as well condemn the (Continued on page til I SAW By Paul MR. AND MRS FRED RENNER. residents of Happy Valley, as they stood beside their house with jogs of their favorite beverage in their hands. This liquid Is rider and they make It themselves have for years. They've made so much and sold It so consistently In the local markets that they have become fa mous for its manufacture. You may take my word for it it's good ci der and no fooling. Mr. Renner shucks. I mean Fred is a printer by trade has been nil his life until retiring to Oregon. Come to think of it. though, that was thirty years ago. He came to Sutherlln. In the van of the fruit- tract migration. In 1910; but for some reason or other didn't buy land there. Instead he discovered this 3'i-ncre farm where he now lives. on the banks of the South t'mpqtia river beside the Happy Vallev bridge. Most of this farm is in fruit now chiefly pears and apples. It Is from these apples that the Renner cider is made. "We use ihe best apples we have Stirs Class Hatred- Willkie Re-Election of Roosevelt Would Be Severe Blow to Labor, Step Toward War, Harry Bridges of CIO Says SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. (A!) Declaring him soil' "100 pur cent in support of John L. Lewis on everything he said." Hurry Bridges asserted last night that the re-eloetion of President Itoose velt would mean a severe blow at the labor movement and a sure step toward war. "Support of President Rooso veil." he told 700 members of the CIO Industrial union council, "is one of the most looilsli tilings a working man or woman can con template." The California CIO director and president of the district council of the International Longshore- men's and Warehouses' union, slat ed flatly he was "not endorsing any candidate." but declared that the most important job before la bor was to see that Lewis remains as president of the CIO. (Lewis, in a radio address a week ago, indorsed Willkie and said that if Koosevelt were re elected he would consider it a mandate from the CIO to re sign.) "I've stayed in this country be cause of the trade union labor movement and John L. Lewis. The new deal doesn't liko me and wanls to Ret rid of me and soon will ir I haven't (tot the support of organized labor and lis lead er's." essoined Uridines. Tie-election of the president would be a sure way to bring the United Stales into war. the Aus tralia-born Longshore chief said j, mil "you can't have trade unions and be In a war "Wages, hours and working con ditions we didn't get them through the new deal we got them against the altempteil he trayuls and sell-outs of the new leal." Uridines continued. "I can't think of one concrete thing Unit President Koosevelt has done lor us. except to sabotage and betray us." The address was met with ming led booes and cheers. ' 1 REAL DEMOCRATS WILL AID WILLKIE. COBB SAYS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. (AP) If Wendell Willkie Is elect ed president, lrvln S. Cobb says, "he will hav euiore democrats in Ills cabinet than Ihe new deal out fit ever dill." I "I mean sure-enough, straight Jenkins 5kt: J'l New-Ilevlew Photo qnd Kngraving to make our eider with." the Ren tiers told me. "All the spray Is washed off first and you may rest assured tie finished product is pure and tasty." Their former home was In Hast ings. Nebraska, home town of John Ituer. Rosehurg police chief. The families were neighbors there. Fred has been like friendly shade in a desert here in the News lte view office, whore on rush occa sions he has dropped everything at the farm to come In and lend a hand. He's Just as good a printer as lie is a cider maker, too. "Funny thing happened last night," Hoc Martin, miner and for mer merchant's watchman here told me yesterday. "I wss standing on the street last night when a man came up to me and spoke. I thought he looked kind of familiar, and shook hands with him. He turned out to be Hill, my son. whom I hadn't seen for four years." I've always heard It's a wise son that knows his own father; but how about the father, Doc? """17 i - '; . '' i '.- --1 , ' A ' ft ft ft to War out democrats, not political half wits and freaks," the writer and actor declared last night in a na tion-wide radio address endorsing Willkie. He added: "And the republicans In that coalition cabinet of his will be real republicans, not visionaries, not meddlesome mattles, not pro fessional grudge-totei's and war mongers and sword-rntllers of the srhool headed by Grandpa Knox and O real-Grand pa Stlmson . . . "Doth of them arc so anxious to rush us. unprepared as we are, into actual hostilities with Japan and Germany and a few other na tions; both are so reudy and pant ingly eager to send our boys forth to fight on foreign waters. and per haps in foreign lands." Cobb declared thut "we may be very sure as sure as the sun shines that President Roosevelt, U re-elected, will carry us into war as swiftly as he can take us there." lie described Willkie as "the one candidate for president who has pledged himself to support the oldest democratic doctrine, the truest and most sacred unwritten law of America, . . . the rule that in this free country . . . there shall be no third term for any mortal man amongst us or even for a member of the Koosevelt' family!" i)y the Associated Press President Roosevelt's foreign policies were defended last night by Cordell Hull, secretary of state, who said In a radio address that Mr. Roosevelt's re-election would "in the fullest possible measure assure the security and safeguard the peace of this country." Hull urged a "continuity of na tional leadership" and asserted that it would "be a tragedy" for the election to "turn on spurious and counterfoil issues of foreign policy artificially created to mis lead the voters." Hoover Voices Warning At Salt lJike City. Herbert Hoover said thai the fundamental Issue in the campaign is "the pre servation of democracy." "If we are to save democracy we must save the roots of demo cracy," the former president said. "We must save the philosophy. This is Ihe bailie of America." The "end result" of new deal economic policies. Hoover said, "was to fix depression as a chronic way of American life. This munitions boom may obscure it momentarily. Hut the c o n s e quences are Inevitable." Wallace, M'Nary Heard ITenr- A. Wallace, democratic vice-president Inl candidate, con cluded a swing through eastern Ohio counties by tellbig a Steu benvllle audience that Willkie was "trying to catch votes" by declar ing that he would never lead Ihe country into war. Discussing the economic situa tion. Wallace said "the republi can leaders and their candidate have nothing belter to offer than another shot of speculative intoxi cation." Wallace's opponent. Senator Charles L. McNary. meanwhile ad dressed a Uigan. Utah, audience on farm problems. "We do not begrudge the bene fit payments to I lie farmer." Mc Nary said. "Wo favor them. Hut they fall far short of justice. The new deal's unwillingness to re store agriculture to an indepen dent, self-reliant rooting makes them necessary. No administra tion could reduce them until II furnished a substitute." Hitler Bogey Stressed At Wilkes-Harre. Pa.. Secretary Ickes said that the German gov ernment was directing a cam paign from Merlin against the re election of President Koosevelt. "The fact that Adolf Hitler does not want Franklin D. Roosevelt in the white house during the next four years," he asserted, "is the best reason I know of for keep ing him there." Elsewhere there were these campaign speeches and statements last night: New York Alexander Wooll cott. told radio listeners that he would vote for Mr. Roosevelt be cause "Roosevelt Is hated by a class something like the 'Clive den set' In England." Salem. Ore. Senator Claude Pepper (P.. Fla.) told a democra tic rally last night that the elec tion of Wendell Willkie. republi can presidential nominee, would return the United States to an era (Continued on page 6) Roosevelt I Peace Record In Two Major Offices Cited President Claims Reactionary, Radical Elements Forming "Unholy Alliance" Under Republican Party Label. ATlOARn ROOSEVELT TRAIN EN ROUTE TO CLEVELAND. Nov. 2. (AP) "Your president ,iys this country Is not going to war." 'I hose words were addressed by runklin 11. Koosevelt today to a rnln-drenched crowd that gather- around his train at the lio- cheater, N. Y., station. In an Informul speech, Mr. Roosevelt reviewed what he term ed a "fortunate record establish ed while ho was chief executive o.' New York state and tho nil- lice. T!o was the only governor to serve four years without calling out tile national guard "to put down riots." he said, and In his 7J years ns president the army and navy "had never been called out except in a cause of humanity." "And so it seems to me." he said, "that a fellow Willi that kind of record over a good many enifi must have Ills feet on the ground and I don't believe he 1ms his linger on the trigger." Press Story Criticized President Roosevelt told what he mid was a story about tlia re publican national chairman In Washington who, he related, li.nl sairi In a press conference ofl tho record but witlt word to re porters to spread It around--lhr,t tho president had ordered a por tion of the fleet westward and that the day arter election he would order all of It to the Phil ippinesan action that would be regarded by Japun ns hostile. That type of thing, lie said, was "mote dangerous to our Mitoiivi tloi.ul relations" than anything evei done by his admlnlstraliou. lie repealed that "your pre'.l deiit says Ibis country 1" not go ing to war." Tho president began snylng the rain wus a good omen, lie re called that It wus raining when he was in Rochester four years ago adding that "if you can take it 1 can take it." Gets Noisy Welcome Senator James Mead, running lor reelection, was waiting to ci ort the chief executive, while a bawl and the crowd whooped it up as the train pulled in from New Yoi I.. Facing the president was t aim saving "labor wants Roosevelt be cause he represents all the peo pie" and another declaring the "A. F. rf L. wants Roosevelt." The president pitched !nr his last full day of campalgnli.g lo- dav, contending tnat "someuiuu: evil" Is happening In America when "organizations which made no secret of their admiration for lie dlotulorsnip lorm 01 "-'- (Continued on page 6) Auto Crash Victim Dies In Roseburg Injuries suffered in nn automo bile accident last Thursday neai Dillurd resulted in the dentil Here last night of William Wirt McKee. 79. of Covins. Calif. McKee was hurt when a car occupied also by W. D. Ilendrix. or Covins, strucs the railing at the approach to the rilllard bridge and plunged over the South Umpqita river embank ment. Ilendrix was InsH seriously hurt but is still in tho hospital here. The two men wero on their way home after visiting with Mr. MrKee's son. Charles II. McKee. Amity. Ore., and a daughter, Mrs. Irma M. Green. Lyons, Ore. He also leaves a son, William Everett McKee, Covina. He was born at Red Bluff. Calif., July 13. and was married at San Jose. Calif., In 1884 to Lydia Worthlngton. who died about sev en vears-ago. He was a member of Covina lodge. No. 3fi2. I. O. O. F.: Covina Encampment. No. 102. and Rehekah lodge No. 205. Covina. The body has been removed to the Douglas Funeral home nnd ar rangements are being made for shipment to Covina for services nnd interment- Hew Number I Airman of U. S. Maj. Gen. Georfle H. Brett, above, Is pictured in Washington after his recent appointment as chief of army air corps to suc ceed Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold. Gen. Arnold was named to newly. eVeated post of deputy chief of war department general staff. County Gets 5-Man Credit on Draftees Voluntary Enlistments Prune Conscription Quota; More Enrollments Expected. Douglas rounly has been given credit lor five men, eligible lor conscription, who linve voluntarily enlisted In the armed forces of tho United Slates, in addllion to five applications for enlistment pre viously annouiii ed. making n total of ten in all. according to llert Weils, chairman of the local selec tive service , board. The board was notified loday that the enlistment of Carl Slarbllrk. and Robert Drown, of Myrtle Creek, in the navy, nnil james Mo ran and Stanley Hoyle, of Rose- burg, und Jesse Iloagland. Reeds- port, in the army, nave neon creiiu- d to Douglas county. , As long as the credit, for volun tary enlistments Is greater man ine enli for conscripts, It will not be necessary to draw from tho roll of men recently registered for selec- live service, Chairman ells slated. There are Indlrallons, be stales. that voluntary enlistments from the county for ono year of training will be considerably Increased. Many young men now registered for conscription have reported to the board that Ihey are at present unemployed and are considering takinir their training vnluntnrlly In order that when they do find em ployment following their return will be no danger of interruption of their work, Mr. Wells slates. lie adds thnt tbe board Is con stantly receiving requests for Ihe order number for applicants. This formation, he states, cannot bo giv en until the master list is received, and that registrants will In duo time receive questionnaires which will show the order in which they are to be drawn, lie urges thai I'glstrunts await the coming of Ihe questionnaires to secure the Infor mation. Jap Air Force Better Than America's, Observer Says NEW YORK. Nov. 2 (AP) Charles Ilealy Day. aircraft plant malinger who has lived through 3 .lunanese 1m, nililng raids in Chiun. lias brought back to the Ulllled States a belief that the Japanese air force Is better than America's "In qunntlty and quality." "We have consistently under rated tho Japanese In the air," he said today in an Interview. "They have splendid airplanes nnd lots of them. In China alone they are operating between S00 nnd 000 flrst-iine planes. He added he had no doubt the United Stales has better designs on drawing boards than the Japan ese actually have In service. "Americans are too supine in the belief that the Japanese copy oc cidental airplanes," Day said. "I examined one Japanese pur suit plane shot down In the Chi nese war. It resemhled nothing mnde abroad. It had been design ed by the Jopnnese themselves nnd was good for S15 miles an hour. It did have a Japanese adaptation of an American engine." Day described the morale of na tionalist China ns "strong, and gel ting stronger nil the time." y i Italians Raid Greek Cities; Deal Losses Success of Invading Air Force Not Matched, However, by Land Units; Greeks Capture Vital Albanian District. ATI1FNS Greece Nov 2 (AP) !' States established a consular of . ' ,,?: ".T,00 .Lr, ..,. I,i flee there. The 736.51 S mile-square attacks against Greece today, bombing Canea on tho Island of Crete, the island of Corfu and the port of Potras, where about 10 cas ualties were caused. About 50 bombs were dropped in the latest attack on Patras. In another raid directed ngalnst Perama, on the Island of Mytilene near the Turkish coast, all bombs wore reported to have missed their targets. Theso nllacks followed wide spread raids In which tho govern ment Haiti nearly iM were Killed and wounded yesterday. Salonika, heavily attacked yester day, had another air raid alarm to day, but no bombs were dropped nnd the Italian planes apparently were driven off. Salonika Worst Hit The strategic clly of Salonika wiih reported hardest hit In the sud den burst of aerial warfare, with 59 killed and K1 Injured In four raids yesterday. The government said "generally, no military target was hit" and charged that "all the raids were directed against civil ians." Fourteen persons wero killed nnd 10 wounded at Ijirlsa, whllo eight were killed and 87 Injured in flvo raids on Corfu, whore a communi que suld.tlie Jewish quarter, an Iirillan chool nnd cMntcs were bombed, A Catholic, church was said to have been lilt at Salonika. Over the EpIriiH district In the northwest tho Italiuns dropped pamphlets declaring tho Invaders had "good dispositions" toward the Greeks and would respor.t their women, traditions and customs. Planes Strafe Troops The tiny Greek air force pitched In to aid the nation's hard fighting ground forces, bombing and straf ing fascist troops wherever they could find them in the wild, moun tainous urea along the Greek-Albanian border. Exchange Telegraph, Britain news agency, said Greek planes blasted ut two Italian airdromes at Knrltm, Albania, destroying one ami damaging tho other. Tho re port lidded that Greek troops, fight ing at close quarters with cold steel, had occupied a strategic lie In lit dominating Korltzn. (Another British news agency, Reuters, reported a similar suc cess, asserting that tho defenders hail stormed and captured an Im portant mountain and seized an Albanian area embracing several villages.) In all sectors of the front where they have not nctually succeeded in pushing the Italians back, the Greeks said, tho defenders wero holding firm. ITALIAN PLANES DEAL DESTRUCTION, ROME SAYS ROME, Nov. 2. (AP) The bombing of Salonika, Greek naval base, upon which Italy yesterday centered her nerful offensive, was carried out by the famed Desperula squadron, the offlclul news agency, Continued on page hi Vital Greek J,.--,. -- ; : . ,..TT-..-... -J -.-;- t, - -,- "f J A general view of Salonika, Greek port on the Aegean and considered ona of the finest naval bases In the Near East. Key to control of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, tha olty la the goal of lUIt drive across Greece. It wa. reported hardest hit hy Italian air raids yesterday, with 59 killed and 84 Injured. , , Nazis Captured In Attempt To Grab Greenland NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (AP) A German language broadcast by the British Broadcasting corporation today said a German expedition of 50 men had been captured In an un successful attempt to seize the meteoeologlcal observation station at Greenland. A Norwegian patrol bout mude them prisoners. It said. Tho broadcast was heard In New York. (After Germany occupied Den murk, the mother country, tho Unit- island Is In the western beml sphere.) be broadenst. quoting a repon from Stockholm, Sweden, said "for long time the German olrrorce has boon experiencing the lack of exact weather forecasts. Hindering successful air operations because Berlin did not get much Bupport Irom the Danish Bnd Norwegian personel of tho weather bureau at Greenland. "Therefore It decided upon the capture of the wireless station In Greenlund, or tho erection of a new Million under German control. "All armed German expedition left Norway for Greenland, but was Intercepted by the patrol boat when it readied the Ice r.ono. Tho Ger mans mo said to liavo offered no resistance." Trainee Illness Report Gets Swat OAMP MURRAY. Wash.. Nov. 2. (API Maj. (len. George A. White branded as "vicious propaganda" last night rumors that there is "ex c.osslvo Illness" among national guardsmen from northwest status encamped here. Tho forty-first division command' or declared such ffiimorn had been widely circulated and had been traced to "a political worker who evidently wants to Influence the relatives of men In enmp."- Ho add ed a recommendation that "the pro paganda he investigated and Its source established as promptly as possible." "Tlin sick rale is very low, con fined to coldB and minor ailments," the general's statement sold, "and this in spite or a long period of cold, wet rains. ... All men nro in tents equipped Willi stoves. They have warm clothing nnd their mo rale Is tho very highest." "It Is unfortunate that vicious propaganda is being deliberately spread about tho soldiers when the soldiers themselves are In high splrilH and have no complaints to make." "Exhorbirant" Sums Spent In Campaigns, Assertion WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Declar ing Hint there had been evidence that "cxhorhltant sums of money" had been expended in the nntlonnl political campaigns, Senator Gil lette (D-Inwa) proposed today tnai a special Joint congressional com mittee be created to study ine en tire matter and rocotnnicnd "re meillnl legislation." Ollletlo is chairman of the special senate campaign expenditures com- niilleo nppolnted to police tho elec tions of president, vice president and senators. Ho explained that authority of this group was limned. Although the Hatch act Imposed a limit of $3,000,000 this year on contributions and expenditures ,of national political committees, sona tor Gillette said campaign costs probably would be "four or flvo limes Ihe limit of the Hatch net." City Target of Italian Raiders Krupp Works; Airports; Oil ' Supplies Hit- Rail Communications SuffeU Also, Huge Fires Started; Germans, With Italian Aid, Retaliate on Britain. ITNDON. Nov. 2. (AP) Ber lin suffered two of "tbe heaviest and most concentrated aerial at tacks of the war at the hands of the ItAF" overnight, the air minis try news Borvice said today. Veteran pilots said on their re turn that ono of the fires their bombs started was the largest they -had ever seen in Germany. The Klingenburg power station was the center of a blase nearly a miln In length, the pilots said, and flames could be seen 150 miles awsy. Oil targets and 1G airdromes else whoro in German-hold torrltory alsi) were attacked, tha air ministry nnld. In tho attack on Berlin, the news service said, repeated hits also wore made by heavy bombs oil ho capital's railway communica tions which included the Schlo sischcr and Tiergnrten stations and' Polsdaninr yards, three of the most; importnnt in Berlin. Raids Last Two Hours Tho raids began shortly after S p. ni., the earliest British bomber have yet reached Berlin, tne news service said, and lasted nearly two hours. (Swiss sources reported that for eign bombers crossed the Alps, southward early this morning and wore seen returning later. It was presumed the British nlso were directing another raid at Italy after their nttac)c fo( tho li-st time against Naples early Friday). Tho raldB on uerman-neia air dromes caught several nasi pluneH on the ground, the air ministry said. nnd "soma were seen toue asm aged." Tho Krupp armament work at Essen and a Factory mear uei senklrchen wero Hated as other targets. Attacks on Berlin s railway com munications wero described here b sustained and successful. Several stations nnd freight yards wero bombed, it was claimed. Two Bri tish planes failed to return. i he air ministry news service . snid today that Gorman plane Iossob since Intense nlr attacks on Britain started Aug. 8 had reached, 2,439 planes. The Germans lost three planes and 14 airmen for every British piano nnd airman lost, the report said. Germans Retaliate Tlin Germans retaliating threw half a dozen or more strong forma tions of flglitor-honibers against England today, Including some ot tho pianos of their Italian allies, and were reported by the air min istry to hnve lost at leaBt nine ma chines In violent battles along tho south coasL With tho sun at their backs, It snld, British fighters dived from cloud ambushes and scattered the formntloiiB. Both Italian bombers and fight ing planes wore reported to have participated In the raids. At the same time a British con voy of black tramp steamers tow ing barrage balloons ran through German coastal fire in the channel without damage, the British said. It was disclosed that a crowded him was hit In Inst night's attack; and several persons probably killed. (Continued on nagefi) m