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If You've Begu n Framing New Year's Resolutions, We Suggest Inclusion of This One: To Smile Happily When P aying Your Increased Tax for National Defense! THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight mill Saline ilny. Morning valley fogs. Little) change In temperature. See page 4 for sditlatlcs. THE GREEKS They're Mill proving too strong for the Italian invadors, who nro ap, parently facing utter defeat if Qer mnny doesn't come to their aid. Make your own predlotlonn, then; reud dally reports of the war in tua NEWS-REVIEW.., : y Ol XLV NO. 183 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURS, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1 940. VOUXXIXNO. 81 OF THE EVENING NEWS i IMI REP IMI Q JS fHt DOUGGCOUNTY DALY mm m a New, Stronger Structure to Replace Shattered Tacoma Narrows Span 'Planner Sets Probable Cost At 3 Million Crash of World's 3rd Biggest Suspension Bridge Laid To Substitution of Plate Girders for Truss Design. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. R. (AP) State authorities sinrled plan ning anew today for rebuilding on a founder basis the shallereil and lorn $6,100,1)00 narrows bridge, .which collapsed In a hiirh wind yes terday, .only four months alter it had been opened as a monument to engineering science. Fortunttcly, the only loss of life was a rto-r, left behind in an uiiln inobile byllie master who crawled most of Eel) yards In safely along Hie spall vhicb twisted ami Jerked ;is crazily as a kilo in a gusty wind. The terrified pet nipped a wniild-hn rescuer who risked his life nnkneivliiBly to try to save it before I ho car dropped 1911 I'eet In to I'uget found will Ibo bridge's broken concrete flooring. A. R Aialrew, chief engineer of (he Washington toll bridge uilthor lly. who announced rebuilding plans, attributed the engineering Iragody to "8111)31111111011 of plnle girders eight feet In depth lor n truss design which bad previously been, planned. "The so'i'ld nielal expanses ncled' like 11 sail, catching (he wind and swinging ihe bridge." he explained. "We had planned to bore holes lo allow Jhewlnd (o pass through, but had not had time." IVlay Raise Towers He said u was the first lime solid plate girders bad been used In a bridge so long and narrow. The span, reaching from the mainland outside Tacoma to the Olympic peninsula, is over a mile long. The collapse came in the 2, son-foot long center suspension span, third long .e;t In the world. The lowers which held huge 17 inch in diameter cables. Hie princi pal support of Ihe whole structure. (Continued on page fi) t Hy FRANK J1CNKINS pPvANKI.lX D. ROOSEVELT, ) preceilenl, or no precedent, is Ihe next president of the I'niled States. Following a tra dition that STILL STANDS, those who opposed biiu will now proceed lo forget the recent unpleasant ness and start running interfer ence for the man Willi the ball. "TMIKY MI'ST. This Is our conn- try. and our country means more to ns than anything else can. la a world such us Ihe present world. It Is true as never before that "united we stand; divided we fall." This Is a time when nursing grievances is a luxury we can't af ford. AS for those of us who got our noses rubbed in the mud. it is now time for us to remember that in spite of what happened on Tues day and rain will still fall, the sun will still shine: the crops will he planted nnd harvested. People will still buy and sell. Babies will be born nnd people will die. Life will go along in lis ordin ary routine as It has been doing for a?es. A N'YW.'.Y, we got it out of our systems. Having done that, we feel better. Kleetion campaigns are a great In 1 he I Day's I . News r . (Continued on pae. -I) World's 3rd Largest Suspension Bridge Collapses 1. ft- I "' 'ri'''-'j,ii'. -''"' ' mew If , 1 . The two 425-foot high steel towers and the connecting cables pictured above are all that remain of the new $6,400,000 suspension bridge over Tacoma narrows, following a high wind that yesterday lashed the Puget sound area. The center span, 2,800 feet In length and the world' third largest structure of Its kind, cracked and toppled into the sound. Plans to rebuild at an estimated oot of $3,000,000 are already under .wag lJf ' Oregon Lead For Roosevelt 36,654 PORTLAND, Nov. 8. (AD Prosldont UoospvpU hold a .'i(i.6.r4 vole mai'Rln over WoihIpII Willkie for On?KonV five plprtornl votoa to (l;tv. on the IuihIh of retuniH from 1IW2 of thp stulp's 1(59:! prechu:ts. With only ont; romote prncinct in thfl nioundiins of eaHtnrn Orpjjon unt'oiintod, ItoosevoH had a total vote of 2r.?.2fiS. Willkio and his I Oregon rnnnlnK- mate. Senator Cliarles h. McNurv. tilled 221.609. A total of 4X1 .90 1 voters cast ballots. (11.000 more than had over Kent to the polls vintta pactions. Koosnvpll's vietory and turn of Walter M. Pierce, eastern Oregon democrat. Oregon in pre- tho re veteran to con gross were the only flaws in a re mihlcian sweep of Ihe slate's ma jor offices. Homer P. An poll polled RI.17R votes to 81,245 for Nan Wood Honeyman, former democratic rep resentative, to hold his seat in con gress, .lames W. Mott also won his congressional contest by a decisive margin. Ieslie M. Scott. Portland news paperman and republican, clinched the state treasurer's post and I, H. Van Winkle, republican, won a sixth term as nttorney-general. Six Get Prison Terms for Misuse of FHA Loans POTm,Nn, Ore.. Nov. 8. f AP) Federal Judge Fee sentenced six inen yesterday on convictions of violating Ihe national housing; net through misuse of FHA loans. Judge Fee sentenced Luther W. Wells, P. K. Weldon and Sidney (.1. MeCunp. incorporators of a company which hail obtained FHA loans for customers, to two years each in n federal orison. In Addi tion. Wells was fined $.10'0 and Weldon and McCune $1,000 each. ."ark Washburn. II. F. Spoor and K. T. D. Jones, salesmen for the now dissolved company, were sen tenced to 11 months each In prison. Spoor admitted his guilt and the others wore convicted by a jury Mondav of obtaining FHA loans for customers in excess of construction costs. The excess funds were used for such purposes ns paying off mortgages and private loans, the prosecution charged. Motions for nw trials were filed by all defendants except Spoor. Local Worker Suffers Beck Fracture in Fall Nick Neiifpld. son-in-law of Mr. nnd Mr.i. Warren Cloake of this city, suffered a fractured vertebra ypMterday. when he fell from n scaffold while working on a new shed at the Grange Supnly on Pnmce sfrppt. He was taken to Mercy hospital, where he will be lonfinerl for several weeks, V. Bomb Planted In Auto Kills Two Son, Daughter of Scranton's Health Director Victims Of Murderous Plot. SCHANTON. Pa.. Nov. 8. fAP) Authorities began an investiga tion today of the bomb deaths of the son and daughter of Scranton's public health director as detectives front other stales joined in a widen ing Inquiry. The explosion last, night brought immediate death to William Reb horn, 1!)-year-old University of Sc.ranUm student, and his sister Lois. 17. Hoth were mangled ns one of them touched the door handle of the family car in front of the Ileb horn home In the "Hill" residen tial section of this anthracite city. County Detective Joseph .1. Kaf ter said the bomb apparently had been wired to explode as the. auto mobile door was opened. Fifteen minutes earlier. Dr. E. IT. Rebhorn, the victims' father, left home to attend a hospital staff meeting. Contrary to his usual custom, he left the automobile at home and wnlked to the hospital. Motive Not Learned. Rafter and other authorities said there stili was no clear motive, but indicated there was a possibility of a disgruntled patient of Dr. Reb horn might have planted the ex plosive. In addition to serving as director of public health. Mr. Rebhorn Is a surgeon for a, large coal company and often has given testimony on compensation claims. He said he had "no known enemies." "If anybody had anything against me." I)r. Rebhorn said, "why didn't they take it out. on m and not on my children?" Young Rebhorn nnd his sister had started to a store to buy a birthday card for a relative. The explosion broke windows In many surrounding homes. Reward Posted. Mrs, Rebhorn, rushing out, stum bled over the girl's body on the. sidewalk. In the middle of the (Continued on pape 6) Nov. 21 Thanksgiving to Be Observed in 32 States NEW YORK. Nov. 8. (API Two thirds of the nation will ob serve Thanksgiving day on Novem ber 21. the day to be designated by President Roosevelt. Governors of these 1 6 sta tea, however, havp announced adher ence to the traditional date Nn vpmber 2S, the last Thursday of the month: Arkansas. Florida. Con necticut. Kansas. Tows. Nevada. Massachusetts. Oklahoma, North Carolina, New HamnBblre. South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is land. Tennessee, Vermont and Maine. 1 0 Unscn Votes Strike At Plane Factory LOS ANCiKI,HS, Nov. 8. (AI') Wyndlinin Mortimer, Interim llonnl oiKnnlor for (hp CIO linll ih Auloinohtlo Workers' union, n nouncpil today 1 lie nioinberahln of over 3,500 had voted "overwhelm ingly' in ravor of a strike Ht Vul tee Aircraft, Inc. II wan the first move of Kb kind In an airplane plant here slnre the repent Industry speed up for defense. At Issue Is a union demand for an Increase of the minimum wage from fil) cents to 7f cents an hour. Negotiations on vnrlouH points have been under way for months nnd last week a union committee reported agreement had been reached with the management on all but the wage issue. Mortimer snlil a union meeting Sunday would decide the dale of the walkout. The plant employes approximately 6,300 men nnd hns V. S. and foreign military as well as commercial contracts. Vultee received a war depart ment contract for $29.4!M!).r33 in September, bringing Its backlog to nearly $00,000,000. It Is scheduled to complete this month a govern ment order of a year ago for 300 basic training ships. It ulso manu factures the Vanguard pursuit ship. Portland Grocery Firms Picketed by Strikers POrtTt.ANI), Ore.. Nov. 8. The API warehousemen's local. No. 200. struck against seven Port land wholesale grocery companies today. The walkout affected 450 workers. The seven firms, all members of the Wholesale Fond Indus! ry asso ciation, were Immediately pick eted. I'nlon Agent Jack Kslabrook said the strike followed refusal of Ihe companies to negotiate a new contract replacing one that expir ed Nov. 1. The -workers asked wage increases averaging $15 a month. Employers said they had offered the men the same wages for a 40 hour week IJiey previously receiv ed for (2 hours. The offer, they said, was rejected. Democratic Sheriff of Marion Wins by 210 Votes SAI.KM, Nov. 8. fAP) Sheriff A. C. Hurk, democratic candidate for congressman two years ago, was officially declared reelected Inday. defeating Karl ptelwer, Jefferson republican, by 210 votes. Slate representative Hannah Martin, who did not sepk reelec tion, defeated A. Warren Jones. Incumbent, for city recorder by 38 votes. All other county officers el ected are republicans, Policies Of Roosevelt To Face Tussles Republicans, Haarr.ned by Big Popular Vort, to Stand by Principles Advocated In "Crusade," Leader Declares. WASHINGTON. Nov. 8. (AP) Resurgent republican strength reflected In the steadily growing totuls of Tuesday's presidential vote presaged today some stiff po litical tussles over domestic is sues In the months ahead. As new labuhillons swelled President Roosevelt's third term vote to greater nrnnorllnns and simultaneously raised Wendell U wiiiKle s record republican ballot total, It became Increasingly clear that on muny policies the demo cratic ndmlulstrallnn in the next four years would face a more de tenulned and enlhuslasllc opposi tion thun It has In tho last eight. Whether that legislative 'con flict would center enilroly on con troversies already familiar, , or whether new elements might ap pear was sllll a mailer or con jecture, pending declnrallons or In tentions by the lenders or both parties. President Roosevelt gavo no in dication in his campaign ut con templating a major program of new legislation for submission to the. next congress In January. On the contrary, all his utter anOes tended to discount such ex pectations. In effect, ho told Ihe voters that IiIh first term had been given to launching what be considered necessary reforms, his second term had been devoted to consolidating "advances." and bis tll4d term wpud 1) devoted, to forwarding those accomplishments while helping tho nation wcathcr t lie great world "storm" now rag ing. Wlllkle Plans Broadcast Tho first broad new statement of republican plans to he made since the election will be given by Wlllkle Monday night in an ad dress broadcast from New York. (Continued on page (1 Crater Lake Road Crash Kills One, Injures Five MKDFOnn, Ore., Nov. 8. (AP) W. T. Ilryant. 30, Medl'ord, one of six persons Injured in un aulo niobllo collision on Crnr bike highway Wednesday night, died yeslerday. Ills buck was broken nnd his skull fractured. Others injured were Hon Law rence, 38, Medford, fractured skull and broken shoulder blade, report ed In serious condition; Robert. Hi'HKK, 37, Medford, broken leg; IJenver Kvans, 51, hale Evans, 22, and Wesley Stout, 27, all or Trail, severe shock and bruises. An automobile containing the Medford men was in collision Willi another operated by the Trail residents. I SAW By Paul GEORGE NEUNER, McMlnnvllle attorney, ns he appeared on the oc casion of a recent visit to Douglas county. About the only thing I havo lo add to a story I wrote not long ago about George, is the pho tograph which accompanies this one. Last time he was here I took a pot at him with my camera but either he wasn't there or my aim was fcnd or the gun wasn't loaded. Incidentally George bad some boxes of those exceedfngty sweet and famous date prunes be grows on his Canyonvllle ranch and somehow or other one of them lound its way to my desk. 1 reckon ! '. f ' Blow of Auto Takes Life Of Child; Aged 4 Twila Thompson Runs In Front Of Car In West Roseburg; No Negligence on Part of Driver, C. W. Harris, Found. Twlln Thompson, four and ono- ball'-yenr-old daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. K. (J. Thompson, 223 Drown a avenue. West HOHcburg, died In Mercy hospital this morning from injuries suffered Inst night when she was struck by an uutomohlle driven by C. W. Harris. Mr. Har ris, employed nt the Farm Dureiiu exchange, wiih returning to Ills home on the Melrose road nnd wn accompanied by Warren Cloako and Hubert Larson, ulso employed at the exchange. Occupants of the car told officers they did not see tho child crossing tho road. They heard a sound which they believed to be a shift ing of n. load carried In the enr's trunk nnd slopped to Investigate, and it was not until then thnt they discovered the child had been struck. Dashes In Front of Car. Deputy Sheriff Clirf Thornton re ported that Investigation revealed that tho girl, accompanied by her two brothers, dnrnld, 7, nnd lieroy, (I, had been sent to the Anderson grocery. They were returning home and walling to cross the road nn (he car approached. Tho car driven by Harris slowed down slightly, the boys told the deputy shorlff, and apparently the girl thought sho had been seen nnd that tho auto mobile, was stopping to allow her to cross. She dashed Into the road way In front of the oncoming ve 'blrle. - She waa dressed In dark clothing and was wearing a helmet on her bend. At the time ot the accident, it was nearly dalle nnd a light rain was fulling, Thornton re ported. Harris and other occupants of tho car told the officers they did not, see tho child lit any tlmo prior to Ihe Impact. They were carrying u wheelbarrow and other articles in Ihe open trunk of tho car, nnd when they heard tho sound of the impact, thought thnt a purt ot the load had shifted or fallen out, They fCnnflnued on page fi) Oregon-UCLA Game To Be Broadcast Here The Oregon-IKILA (toast con ference football game, to lie played in Eugene tomorrow, will be beard on a three-station book-up of Roseburg, (1 rants Pass and Marshlleld. The game will be nriglnuled by an all KUNIl staff for Associated Oil. Marshall I'engrd, KItNIt mana ger, will sporlcast. the contest; Max Eryo will do the comment ing and llml Chandler, KRNJt chief engineer, will he in charge of technical work. (lame time will he 1:15 p. m. Jenkins 'M&tmlum. News-Itevlow l'lioto and Kngravlng that's what heartened me to try for anomer piciure. Of course George may become U. S. district attorney again and prosecute me for using tho photo I finally did get. I was Just wondering yesterday what bad happened to the flock of china pheasants which frequented my back yard and those of my neighbors last spring when lo! this morning 1 looked out and there were nine of them five big roost ers and four hens. The roosters were strutting about looking as if they owned the place. Planes Crash Off Brazil; At Least 21 Persons Killed RIO DE JANEIRO. Nov. 8. (API At least 2 1 persons were killed today in the collision of a transport plane of ihe Brazilian V. A. S. P. line and a small ad vertising plane. Both fell into Botafogo bay. - The crash occurred as the big transport was taking off from Santos Dumont airdrome, g While it plunged Into the wa ter in full view of thousands along Rio De Janeiro's water front, the small plane plummet ed Into a house and was so bat tered that the bodies of its three occupants could not be removed immediately. Of the 1 8 killed on the trans port, three were crew members and 15 were passengers, includ Inq Hernandez Cata, the Cuban minister to Brazil, and Evendro Chsaas, a Brazilian scientist well known In the United States. Plans Fixed Here For Armistice Day Parade, Memorial, Feed, Dance Listed on Program to be Sponsored by Veterans. Armistice dny, Monday. Nov. 11, will be observed In Roseburg ns a full holiday, ns world war vet erans Bponsor cerqmonles mark ing the sacrifices fit that armed struggle.. ...Carrying (out the usual onlor of oelehrntlon, (ho program Is designed to give the public an opportunity to Join In a memorial service, while veterans nnd their families will meet for fellowship in n big potluck lunch. A dnnco will conclude tho festivities. Tho program will open with a parade at 11:30 a. m, The parade will Includo: drum corps, bands nnd groups of veterans and the auxiliaries to the ex-service men's organizations. Tho parado will lead to Hunt's Indian theatre, whore the annual patriotic program will bo present ed u t It n. m., and will Include special music nnd nn Armistice day address. Feed Open to Families The feed nt Ihe armory during the noon hour will be a departure from past procedure, according to Lloyd It. Crouch, general chair man of die Armistice day commit tee of the American Legion. Heretofore the feed has been for veterans alone and hns been pre pared by the Legion post and aux iliary. This year Ihe veterans will be permitted to bring members of their families nnd tho lunch will bo pollock Instead of being pre pared by tho post. All veterans and their wives and children are Invited nnd nro requested, Mr. Crouch states, to bring tholr pic nic lunches to Ihe armory for a general get-together und an Im promptu program. The annual Armistice day foot ball game between Roseburg and Grants Pass high school will go lo Grants Pass this year on the alternating arrangement under which the tenuis have plnyed ror several years, so that there will be no nflornoon sports program. Dance Scheduled AI night, however, the annual Arinlsllcn day dance will ho held at the armory, where the veterans expect lo entoiialn a large crowd with dancing nnd special features. Music will be furnished hy Hilly lilnck's orchestra. Acting In accordance Willi the recommendations or tho directors of the Roseburg chamber of com merce, all business houses and of rices throughout the city nro ex pected to be closed all day. Pacific Highway Receives Aid Pledge From Portland PORTLAND, Nov. 8. (AP) The Portland chamber of com merce promised Its aid yesterday In a fight to remove "military bot tlenecks" In Pacific highway No. 9!). William M. Tiigmnn. managing editor of the Eugene Register Guard, told the chamber of por tions of the road between Grants Pass nnd Cottage Grove, and Port land nnd Toledo which create Jams whenever traffic becomes heavy. Other spokesmen were C. H. Demnray. Grants Pnss. president of the Redwood Empire associa tion; Ralph ' E. Koozer, Ashland chain bor of commerce; Fred M. Hrenne. secretary of the Eugene cahmber of commerce. 30,000 Of Foe Said Trapped At One Point Italians Use Bombing Pianos lit Effort to Dislodge Greeks In Mountain Forts; Guns Roar in Mediterranean Sea. I)y the Assoclnted Prosit Greek victories all along the 100-mlle Balkan war front were reported byl Athena today, with Italy'e "big push" In the north. , west repulsed and other Ital- Ian columns thrown back In the center and northeast. Reports from the ancient Hellenlo capital said Import ant gains were scored In the center seotor, around KorlUa, where 30,000 Italian troop were reported "trapped" under the shell-fire of Greek moun tain guns. Remnants of the Italian In. vulon columns In that area are now being encircled, the Athene reports said. Dispatches from the nearby Yugo. slnv border said fighting in the) northeast wan intense, with heavy heavy nrtlllery action on both aides. Rig formations of fascist bomb ing planes wero reported attacking1 Greek troops east ot the Korluu Plilorlna highway and pounding" Creole mountain fortifications In tho Plsoderl pass.. . Three Italian divisions, armed with fur superior oqulpment, were reported pitted ugnlnst seven Greek divisions, Advices from the battle zone Bald the Greeks' "Indian style" guarllla tactics were making sharp Inroadx agulnst the massed Italian median IsmmI onslaught " The Greek high command" said flatly that Italy's mechanized forces, attempting to Itnlfo through tile Metnxos defense line, In a drlva toward loannlnn, had been -repulsed by Greek art1lery and snntl-tanW guns, s r "Tho situation In thoroughly sat isfactory," a Greek government; spokesman declared. (I (Previously, the Grepjjs had ae knowledged a "slight Tetreat," while' tho Italians Bald they bad crossed the Kalamas i'Jvor and'lefl) it behind In' the1 thrust toward lonnnlna.) ' . !' ' I . :, ' , In , Istanbul, I' the r semi-official Turkish radio saiil the "Italian fail ure" In Greece might open tle way, to axis action in Yugoslavia)- pro suinnhly to strike at Salonika Tin, Yugoslavia. Guns Roar In Mediterranean Reports from LnLlnea, Spain, said heavy gunfire was Jioard in the Mediterranean shortly after 1 British men o' war Including a batlleshlp, two cruisers, eight de stroyers, two submarines and an (Continued on page 6) Britain Will Get a J is e mxt More u. 5. nanes WASHINGTON,- Nov. S. (AP) Tho priorities board announced today that the British purchasing; commission would be permitted to negotiate orders with the Ameri can aviation industry for an addi tional 12,0110 planes. The action was announced short ly after President Roosevelt told his press conference he had es tablished n rule of thumb policy whereby Britain und Cull ad :i would br supplied r,0 per cent of Amerlcun defense items now coin ing off factory lines, including1 large bombers und other things needed oth here nnd abroad. The 12.000 planes, the board snlil, will be built in existing plants ami In other facilities now devel oping. Great Britain already has or ders In effect In this country for 14,000 planes, President Roosevelt suld In his Boston cmnpulgn ad dress last week. At the same time he had announced that Britain had asked permission to order 12,000 additional. He snid then that ba had asked the defense commis sion's priorities . board to give "most sympathetic consideration" to the request, The board said today it was In tended, under plans now being de vised, to gear construction of the British pianos to American pro duction. In such a way as to pre vent Interference with American aeienso requirements. There was no announcement as to wben the ships might be ready for delivery. Mr. Roosevelt also reported that American and Mexican army offic ers have carried on conversations regarding Joint defense similar to those with other Lntln American countries, ,