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Timber Conservation Seems f o be Unnecessary. With Mills and Logging Camps Idle Most of the Time From Strikes, Timber is Getting Lots of Time to Increase. THE WEATHER By U. 6. Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight. Saturday cloudy villi showers. I.llllc change In tem poral nro. Bee page 1 for statistics, LOAN ir Britain gets one from the U.S., it will be only ufter a bitter sen utn buttle, based on the claim that such financial aid would plunge tha V. S. Into the wnr. Watch for de velopments through NEWS-R& VIEW service. COUNTY DALY IO XLV NO. 207 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1 940. VOL XXIXNO. 105 OF THE EVENING NEWS urn f PR) fcDfp) mm WE In The, liy FRANK JENKINS 1 AN CAM PBEI .U II AN N A N, a miMnlM'r uf parliament, today Ap peals to tlif I'niied Slates to "liulp patrol the trade routes uf tin At lantic with the IT. S. navy." I In uriil.s: "I do not see how the nation (Britain) can bear the tremen (Imift hurdeiiH of carrying on a great war which after all is just as mneh for the b' M'fit of Amer ica an for our own empire.'. The dispatch is passed by the Uritish censor. rTIIIS appeal in what is known among statesmen as a "trial balloon." llannan is only a member of parliament the roiifcli equivalent of a V. S. coiiKre.ssman. If the re net ion in America Is HAM, it can be passed off as an expression of personal opinion not sanctioned by Ihe heads of the Ilritish govern ment. If the response In America is favorable. It nan lead up to what the British want from us. IJKRR Is what Is wanted. 1. More American merchant ships to carry American war ma terials and food supplies to Kim bind. 2. American WARSHIPS to con voy the merchant ships across the submarine, surface raider and war plane-Infested Atlantic. :. American financial aid for Britain's war effort. JUIKANWIIU-R from Washington comes this dispatch: "Observers in Washington at tached high significance to a meeting yesterday (Tuesday) of some of (ho most. Important lead ers in the V. S. government a meeting at which there were strong indications a new decision on aid for Britain might be near." rTHK reason for the recent, sharp change in the tone of censored news from Britain Is becoming clearly apparent. AT ALCATRAZ, great federal prison In San Francisco bay, one convict fatally stabs another convict with a makeshift dagger fashioned from a rough piece of metal. This question worries the au thorities: "Where did be get it?" Such questions ..cause a lot. of sleeplessness among prison offi cials. ETTINfl the dagper Involved ingenuity on the part of the f 'ont hnied on page A I Alcatraz on Guard As Convicts Rebel PAN FRANCISCO, Pec. fi (AP) Warden James A- Johnson and bis corps nf guards waited hope fully on fog-bound Alcatraz island today for n break In the weather to end their strained watchfulness over three hundred of the nation's worst criminals. For two nights and a day even since one of the year's heaviest fogs rolled in Wednesday afternoon nil of the convicts have been kept locked in their cells. Authorities feared escape at tempts or some possible violence among the inmates, keyed up by a convict killing and a prisoners' strike. APhouch the general lock-up ob ivated any escapes such ns the still unsolved 1037 disappearance of convicts Ralph Roe and Ted Cole tVon, Alcatraz during a heavy fog the tension persisted. Fog and the consequent confine ment of prisoners to their cells delayed a showdown in the strike which started Wednesday, when 12 of the hundred prisoners In the laundry balked on the job, com plaining the work was too heavy. The Alcatrai laundry cleans linen from arriving army and navy transports. Ike s Grip jhJenedOn umber Units 53 ! - Ties Up Seven Seattle o Entirely Paralyzes ?w,na Plants: Portland Unions Mull Compromise. SEATTLE, Dec. fi.(AP) Pick ets or i he AFI.Puget Hound dis trict council of Lumber & Sawmill Workers todny closed seven Seat tle lumber mills, employing ap proximately 2.0(10 men. UK the Pa get sound wage dlspute-tleup spread in a total of 112 lumber mills and logging ramps. The pickets came from Tueomn and Everett, scene already of 21 closed mills, and council officials said that two more Seattle mills and two nt Kenton would be clos ed before the day's end. The mills closed were the Pts sell Lumber company. Seattle Ex port Lumber company. Elliott Day Plywood company, two mills of the Pankratz Lumber company, Ihe Seattle Cedar Lumber Mnnu fncturing company and Stim-son Mill company. Bridges Booed, Jeered Seattle members of the Long shoremen's anil Warehousemen's union (CIO) broke up a stormy uiecttlng shortly after midnight wilhout reaching n vote on n pro posed new agreement with tho wa terfront employers. An authoritative source paid Hurry Bridges. Ihe union's Pacific coast president was greeted by boos and Jeers when he appeared hefore the meeting. Speakers who spoke in favor of Ihe agreement hail difficulty mak ing themselves heard, this source said. TACOMA LUMBER INDUSTRY BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL TACOMA. Dec. 15. (AP) Ta coma's lumber Industry was com pletely shut down today as three more door and veneer plants clos ed because of a wage d:spute be tween employers and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union (AFL). Closing of the. throe mills brought the number of strikebound plants to lit and put the estimat ed number of Idle men nt -I. unit. The final throe mills to go down were small plants whose employes refused to pass picket lines set up by striking workers from Everett and Tacotna. The affected plants are the Monarch Door company, (Continued on page 6) Rumanian Civil War Draws Nazi Army (By the Associated Press) Ominous new rumblings from Rumania, combined with develop ments in Albania to center world attention on the Balkans todny. Refugees, fleeing out of the coun try to Hungary, predicted that an open clash between the Rumanlnn army under Premier Antonescu and the pro-nazi iron guard was immi nent. Antnnescu, these sources said, ap parency unable to reconcile war ring Iron guard factions, had deter mined to use the army to control the situation, by Bbeer force. Heavy troop concentrations were reported in strategic Rumanian cities and Hungarian dispatches said that four divisions of Cerman troops, totaling about B0.O00 men, were moving In to support Anton escn. Undetermined numbers of rmzi troops have been in the coun try for some time. Bulgaria closed her Rumnnian frontier lat night In a move in terpreted in some quarters as an effort to stem the tide of Ruman ians fleeing over the border and to avoid possible disorders. U. S. Embassy Protests Nazi Arrest of Women VICHY, France. Dec. 6. fAP) The United States embassy was re ported tonight to have protested against Oermnn detention of a for mer embassy receptionist, Mrs. Kllzabeth IJeegan, on what were unofficially described as charges that she aided British officers to escape from occupied France. The embassy which is at Paris lodged Its protest with the Cer man embassy as soon as it learned that she had been arrested several days rko. informed quarters said tonight, but she still is being held for questioning by German military authorities. The Hermans are believed to have replied to United StateB offi cials that they would take the mat ter up with occupation authorities. Mrs. Dee Ran, 40, comes from Aahevllle. N. C. Six Men Perish As Sea Claims Tug On Tillamook Bar TILLAMOOK, Ore., Dec. 6 (AP) Destruction of the tug Tyee, of Hoquiam, Waah., pos sibly with the loss of its six man crew, by heavy seas on Tillamook bar, was reported today by the Bar View U. S. coast guard station. The constguurdsmcn sab! the Tyee lost her wheel house a few minutes after crossing the bar. Presumably her rudder became dis abled for she wuh carried swiftly into the surf. She sank rapidly at the edge of the Riirf line until only about 5 feet of her mast showed above water. It was learned that the crew In cluded ('apt. Hillary Hubble, Mate Evan Campbell, Chief Knglneer Neil Tigue. Assistant Engineer Coorgo Thorbnrg, Deckhand John Henderson and Cook Julius Long, all of lloqulnm. The tug. 78 feet long, of S!) gross tons, built In 1925 nt Knquinm, was owned by the Hubble Tug company nf Hoquiam. It had been towing logs between Oregon ports and C.rnys harbor chiefly but bad just completed a tow of logs from As toria to Tillamook bay and was en route back to Astoria without tow. Suicide Seen in Death Of Physician at Salem SALEM. Ore., Dee. G.-(AP) Dr. .1. O. Mat tills. 55, apparently commlttted suicide In a nasture on the south side of tho city yester day. Coroner L. E. Darrlrk said n gun shot wound in Ihe head wan self Inflicted. A school boy found Dr, Mutthls' body. A pistol wns nearby, as well as a note, the contents of which were not divulged. Dr. MntthlH was n member of the medical corps In tho world war, and was recently on the medical staff nt tho Fnlrvlew home. His widow, two daughters nud a son survive. Conductor Killed by Switchyard Locomotive KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. (!. (AP) A switchyard locomotive killed Oscar Klitlh, freight conduc tor, anil injured It. II. Cray and Harry Kelt, brakemnn, here! last night. Tho engine backel Into a ca boose, apllntctlng It and derailing a freight car. (Hay and F.ck required hospitalization. I SAW iy Paul ARCH ARCHAMBEAU standing on Ihe bridge across the South I'mpipia river ut Tiller the one named In honor or Mary Furlong. Tiller pioneer, whose son-in-law Arch Is. The first tlmo I ever saw Archie to know him was some thirty years ago, near Corvallis, while I was driving along what later came to be known as the Pacific high way (west side) and found Arch as a foreman for the Warren Con struction company, highway build ers of that day. Ten years ago I drove to Tiller, the first time I bad been there. Not knowing she lived there but wishing to find out who did, I stopped at Mary Furlong's. She had just ridden down the mountain on some kind of enter prise. Jumping her horse ncross the ditch at the side of the road und stopping him at the roadside corral. I'nsaddilng him she slap ped him across the rump with the bridle reins and. striding to where I sat In my car, Inquired: "What in the bell do you want?" r Greeks Take Agirocastro, Foe's Base; German Bombers Strafe Portsmouth Vital City Falls After Bloody Fight Greeks Take More Than 1,000 Prisoners, Capture Much War Material; British Aid Victors With Air Fleet. BITOLJ, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6. (AP) Dispatches reaching the Yugoslav border said Greek troops occupied Agiro castro, Albania, about noon today after bloody fighting and took more than 1,000 pri soners. A number of heavy cannon, machine-guns and other war material were reported captured by the Creeks as they swept Into that for mer base of the Italians in south western Albania. (The report. Unit Argtrncaatrn was occupied has not been con firmed officially or unofficially in Athens or Home,) LONDON, Dec. 6. fAP) Urit ish fighters in an air battle with "largo numbers" of Italian fight ers over southwestern Albania destroyed eight planes and severe ly damaged seven others on Wed nesday, tho aid ministry reported today. it sitid the Ibitlsh escaped, witU out a Joss. ATIIKNS. Dec. K. (AP) An offi cial announcement said today Creek troops had occupied Porto lOdda, one of the Italian army's main bases in southern Albania. The fall of Argirocastro. anoth- (Continued on page 6 Postal Clerk Gets Year For Theft of Funds PO R TLA N I), I )ec. C. (AP) Federal Judge .Tames A. Feo Hen tented Henry D. Cralgen, 115, to a year and a day in a federal peni tentiary yesterday. Craigen, postal clerk nt Weston, pleaded guilty to embezzlement of ?:t l'J.51 in postal funds. Joakias Newa-Hevlew Photo and Engraving I told her. "Well, I've got n crow to pick with your damned paper." she promptly Informed mi?. Hut believe it or not. we really proceeded to get along famously after that. She ultimately invit ed me to attend the barbecue which at that time was held each fall at Tiller, which I did. We have gotten along famously ever since. I think I have done Harry nice wrong. I Intimated recently (al though a trifle vaguely) that he really hadn't connected with too many steelhead In his fishing en deavors at Myrtle Creek. Yester day as T swung Into the approach of the bridge I saw Harry and at that identical Instant saw him get a powerful strike. Hurrying back with my camera. I was Just too late to see him land his fish n mighty nice one which. however "MMitn'l n,il mi much i fight," but what was certainly to the point I was given the fish just to make me feel badly about what I'd said about Harry. Well, I like for folks to heap coals of fire on mv head that I way. 9 .ft L' fete. - 1 :7 S H V " 1 J Greek Successes Bring Resignation Of Badoglio, Italy's Chief of Staff; British Apply Label of "Scapegoat" HOME. Dec. (i. CAP) The resig nation of Mursbul 1'Ietro Iladoglio as chief of the Italian general Htall was announced officially todny. He was replaced by (Jeneral Cgn Cavallcro, veteran of three Itnllan w ars and until recently commander of Itaiiun forces In east Africa. (lludnglio'R resignation coincided with reports from Athena of new Cre.ek successes against Italian forces on tho Albauiuu battlelront. (The Crocks claimed additional advances in all sectors und report ed that retreating Italian troops had put the torch to their southern Al banian bases of Porto Eddu und Arglrornstro to prevent capture of waHsuppllcs they could nut take with them.) During the Creek campaign lla dogllo's name rarely has been men tioned, nlthough he was Recond only to iMussoliui In the high com mand. lioberto Fnrlnaccl, fascist loader, criticized him, however, lu (lie newspaper Regime Fnsclsln on No vember 211, declaring victory In (Ireece was certain despite "some Improvidence nud nntlmellness on the part of Ihe head of tho general stafr." Iladoglio, Italy's most famed sol dier, sometimes called the "Ituliau Iliudenburg," had been chief of the general staff for Jf, years. As such, ho had supremo com ninndrfjf nil threo branches of the nntiotiB fighting foijcos. A commu nique nnnouncing tho resignation gave no reason, saying only that it was "on his own request." (British military circles were quick to express the opinion that Iladoglio was "sacked" us a scape goat for fascist military reverses or "because ho Is opposed to the altitude of tho party organization anil tho strictures of Ihe army.") illmloglio, 1)1', remained aloof from the fascist movement which look over Italy after Hie world war hut nevertheless was called upon Morgan Ouster as TYA Head Upheld President's Removal Power is Within Constitution, Appellate Court Rules. CINCINNATI, !)(!. fi. fAP) The sixth U. S. circuit court of ap peals today upheld dismissal of Ar thur K. Morgan as chairman of Ihe Tennessee Valley authority. Affirming lower court dismissal of Morgan's suit in which be sought recovery of $ l.rs:t.:s:t al leged due In salary. Judge C. C Simons of Detroit cited a supreme court case which said:1 "Tho power to remove executive officers appointed by the president is conferred upon him by the con stitution and so may noL be abro gates! by statute." Morgan, president nf Antioch college. Yellow Springs, ()., was re moved by President Itoosevelt on March 2;(. HCiH, for "contumacy." Previously the educator had been at odds with fellow-members of the TVA hoard. Morgan filel suit against the TVA and board members Ifarcourt A. Morgan and David K l.llientbal, charging that, bis mister was Ille gal and void and "could be accom plished onlv by concurrent action of the senate and house of repre sentatives." District .Tudtre Onnrn C. Taylor of Knoxville, Tenn.. dismissed the action on Aug. 25. because of its "failure to state a claim upon which relief ran be granted." Reached at Yellow Springs, Dr. Morgan said be was "not. prepared nt this, time" to say whether be would nppenl to the Tniled States supreme court. Motorist Injured When Auto Skids Off Highway Kenneth McCurdy, n young Port lander. Is a patient at Mercy hos pital hero with fractured ribs and a severe bin tnjurv, received when his automobile skidded and over turned In a ditch yesterday fore noon on the Pacific hlphwav, nine mUeq north of Drain. H was ex tricated from the wreck bv nearby residents nn'd hrouirht to floseburg hv a pnsning motorist. At th time of the accident, he was en route to Itoseburg to spend a brief vacation at the home of his aunt, Mrs. I F. Iteizenstein. : . . i ijft m j Marshal Badoglio by Mussolini to bo his ohlof of stnff lor 15 years nud 11 Duco nlso gave him tilt) Job of senling the fate of Hlhlopla when the Italian campaign there was lagging.) (Above all a royalist, Iladoglio Is supposed to have told King Vlt torio Kmauuele when the black shirts marched on Home that. If or dered, he would dispurso tho fas cists Willi u single regiment.) Fog Slows Search For Lost Fliers Little Hope Remains Walbert And Wife Still Alive, Says State Aeronautical Chief. POlt'l'LANP. Ore., Dec, B. (AP) Kog anil stormy weather again re st rlcied tin! search today for Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Walbert, Medford fliers missing for a week. Fog apparently trapped the pair on a flight Irom Median! to Port land last Friday. A week's Intermit tent air and ground search has dis closed not a trace of them. I.eo (i. Devaney, state aeronau tical director, yesterday said little hope remained the missing filers were all vu, but that the search would go on. Army planes and private fliers were rc-ailv again this morning to comb southern Onjgon and tho Cascade foothills east of Kugeno, where numerous porsnnR reported last Friday they heard a plane in tho clouds. CHANTS PASS, Ore., Dec. (!. (AP) Thomas Culherlsou, Med ford airport manager directing the southern leg nt Ihe hunt lor Mr anil sirs. C. K. Wnlhert, missing for a week, last, night recommend ed to l.co lieviiney, stale aeronau tical director, n smaller localo In which to concentrate tho search from the sky. liaseil on reports lo Karlo Voor- hles. drums Pass amateur pilot, that many heard n plane along the llogue river west of hero anout o'clock, and that a red craft was actually seen over fllendale, to the north, at ! o'clock, Culbcrtson said tho radius of the search could bo narrowed measurably. It. was esti mated that, the Walbert gasoline supply would by then have taken them no more thnn lib miles, ap proximately tn Marcola, cast of Kit gene. Ciilhertsnn recommended search be bounded hy Marcola, Cow creek, Clendalu and Tiller. Second Death Follows Crash of Automobile DALLAS. no"c7(AP Injuries from nn nutnmobilo accident nenr Itlckreall Nov. 2.1 caused the death of Paul P. I.egler, 43, Portland, here yesterday. The crash nlso killed Chet Ne. wold, Iiallas. British Naval Base Suffers 3-Hour Blow Many Civilians Killed or Left Homeless; Claims Conflict On South Atlantic Battle Of Merchant Cruisers. VI.ONDON. Dec. B. (AP) Waves of Cernian planes sneaking In from tho sea showered heavy demolition and fire bombs on a south roust town last night In' a slashing, three-hour raid which killed a number nf people and left n large number homeless. (Holli the Cermun high com- command nnd Informed fterman sources identified tho town ns Portsmouth. Hillnln's grent nnvnl base and freipient object of nnzl millers.) The full extent of casualties was not deleriulned Immediately, as workers still were dinning into the debris of wrecked homes for possible victims when dawn came. Officials said the number, how ever, was "fewer than might be expected considering tho severity of the attack." The raid was declared to hnve been concentrated nn the civilian population. Many of those whoso hnmca wore Bpllntored ver given .tem porary shelter In schools and nth. er public buildings. A tremendous nntl-alrcraft bar rage kept the bombers at great height, but the first wnves drop ped flares which gnldiMl tho sub sequent formations In (heir tar get. Merchant Cruisers Clash A fierce, Inug-rnngo encounter between u (lerman "Qbont" dis guised raider and the British nrmed merchant cruiser Carnar von Castle, In which the Hrltlsb ship suffered "slight damage" und the (lerman wns said to have fled, was reported Uwlay by the admir alty. It was learned nutnorltniiveiy lhi battle occurred in tho South Atlantic approximately 7on miles northeast of Montevideo, Uruguay, where three llrltlsh cruisers drove tho (lermnn pocket battleship Ad miral (Iraf Speo tn self-destruction last December. (This would bo well -within the American neutrality zone.) Tho admiralty said only that the battle took place '"somewhere (Continued on page 6) F.B.I. Executive to Speak At Patriotic Meet Here J. D. Swenson, bead of the Portland office of tho federal bu reau or Investigation, will bo the speaker nt a public patriotic meet ing to be held at Ihe Doseburg armory, Friday, Dec. 13, nt 7:45 p.m. It was announced today. Tho meet ing Is sponsored by (he Americani zation commission of the I. O.O. P. grand lodge, In cooperutlnn with Phllntnrlnn lodgo of Rosehurg. The program, featuring the ad dress by Mr. Swenson. will Include special music, flag drill nnd other entertainment. The local nrrnngemenln are In charge nf a committee composed of Itnlph I.. fiussell. district Ameri canization chairman. Ceo. Doomls, O. O, Plumor nnd I. D. Stephens. The meeting will ho open to the general public nnd all pntroltlc and fraternal orders, particularly are Invited. Mr. Russell announces. Mr. Swenson will speak on the subject "Natlonul Defense and the R1I.I." Barneburg Named Aide to New County School Supt. Appointment of Kenneth Barne burg to serve as deputy wnn nn nnuneed todny by Dula C. C.orrell, counly school superintendent-elect, who will take over her duties the first of the year. Mr. Barneburg. who hns been teaching school nt Wilbur, tendered his resignation nnd was released from his contract. He wns a candidate for tho office of county superintendent at the spring primary election, and receiv ed substantial support. "Mnny people seemed anxious to secure the work and most of them were excellently qualified, and It Is a matter of regret that It was Impossible to employ all of them," Mrs. Correll stated In announcing her appointment of Barneburg. Senate Bloc Set to Oppose Aid in Money British Treasury Agent PtacH Resources Exhibit Before Morgenthau but Say Lean Request Not Yet Voiced. WASHINOTON, Dec. 0. (AP) Sir Freferlck Phillips, underscore tary of tho British treasury, nattl today after a conference with Bee rotary Morgenthau that he wa glv lng the United States "a balance sheet on the state of our resources) and the cost of supplies tn the Unit ed States." Sir Frederick snld. however, that he talked only facts with Morgn, than and "we dldn t discuss any questions of policy." tie indicated there were many questions yet to be discussed and thnt he was preparing several studies over the week-end befora returning to talk to Morgenthau again on Monday. Battle Looms. Before the discussions at the treasury began, Senator Nye (R., N. it.) announced that he nnd a group of colleagues were ready to battle to the bitter end against any attempt to extend financial aid to the British. Nye told newsmen that this op. position bloo would base Its fight on tho contention that loans to Britain "mean actual entry Into war." Ho predicted that a pro posal for loans would be - accom panied by one for "American naval convoy of British supplies." Morgenthau said the British fin ancial expert was seeing him, not to make a loan request, but to pre sent factual Information on the con dition nt British finances'and the extent of resources which are avail able for purdliasilig American sun piles'. .( Nevertheless, sprao congressmen viewed the talks i with; a dubious eye, the more so nfter Morgenthau said yesterduyHhat he agreed with Secretary of Commerce Jones in rating Britain a "good risk." Jones (Continued on page 6) Influenza Strikes Clatsop Trainees CAMP CLATSOP. Ore., Dec. fi. (AP) Nearly one-fourth of the trainees nt Camp Clatsop hnve In fluenza. Col. Clifton Irwin, Salem, commanding officer of the 2 101 U const urtillery, said last night. Ho snld there were 224 cases or "mild Influenza." 60 In tho hos pital, tho other 1(14 confined to quarters. Two now cases were reported yesterdny, but no pneu monia has appeared. Between 80 u nnd 900 men are) at tho ramp. SAN FRANCISCO, Doc. (AP) Reports Indicating that California's epidemic of mild in fluenza wns subsiding were view ed hopefully today by stnte health, authorities as word of small out breaks came from adjacent states. Mnny schools throughout tho state remained closed, some plan ned public gntherlngs were post poned and hundreds of citlzena stayed home from work to nurse cases of the ailment, Identified na '"type A" Influenza by health de partment research experts. An nccurate count of the num ber of California cases was not available, but records of Stain Health Director Dr. IbJrtram I". .Hrovvn. listed 1,7(15 cases, not in cluding l.Slli In Ixis Angeles city and county alone. Dr. Brown said reports of local and county authorities Indicated, however, that tho ailment was subsiding. There was no specific! count of deaths which might have been attributed to pneumonia complications following Influenza, but health authorities said deaths from this cause throughout tha stale were not above normal. Mnny schools were closed by au thorities ns a precaution or be cause of lagging attendance. MORE DAYS to SHOP Throwing away (vm, our cMldrani orourt, H vimfMl. Wt con htlp f'ama out fubwtvlotlt wnh Crwliim Scali. mm