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Oust Why Mussolini Should Act to "Speed Up His Arms Progra m" Isn't Quite Clear Considering That There's N othing Slow About the Footwork of His Soldiers. THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau Fair tonight anil Thursday. Mom liiK log. Bee page 4 for statistics. WAR It xtlll dominates the day's news, and you Rot day-to-day develop ments hot off the wire through tha NEWS-REVIEW. Along with It are up-to-the-minute reports on all other current events ol top Interest, fHEDOUG OI XLV NO. 211 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW -.3 ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER II, 1940. VOL. XXIXNO. 109 OF THE EVENING NEW3 ill Ill LAS COUNTY DAILY ' SINNERS mmwmw In The Day's News By FRANK JICXKIXS Albania the Creeks are still booming on, ami the Italians are fleeins. Mussolini, you may lie nuilo sure, isn't fit company for man or beast these days. Tim Greeks are said to have cap tured ten million dollars worth ol' Italian war material, which means a lot to little Greece. Hero ten million dollars is only Vest pocket change. aN Washington a committee of department of agriculture econ omists huB just reported t hat in the next five years an expend! tare of 33 BILLION dollars will be required to tarry out the na tional preparedness program as at present formulated.) 'T'HK Germans are hitting I-on- don hard again. At NIGHT. The only answer is hitting Ger many just as hard (also at night, for no defense against night bomb ing has yet been devised.) That can't be done yet. Url talti hasn't enough planes, and heavy bombing must be cutting j um u prouuciuin. That's where we come In. TPHB Creeks have done a mar- velous job. Rut don't get the Idea little Greece will be allowed to get away permanently with running Italy ragged. Don't Jump to t lit conclusion that Turkey will be permitted to sit tight. Don't let yourself think the Italkans can remain as quiet as they are now. The axis is aiming at Africa, because Africa, once taken, can he made a source of supplies that (Continued on pace 4.) Arson Attempted at Fairgrounds' Stables GflKSHAM. Pec. H. (AP) An apparent attempt to destroy the vi'.st stables at the Mullnomah .-.unty fairgrounds was thwarted last night by the timely arrival of the (iresham fire department. Deputy Sheriff Louis Kestner re ported. Kires broke out simultaneously In at least eight stalls of the No. , t stable, he said, hut firemen i brought them under control be- fore they had a chance to spread ! over the rambling structures. Dam-i age was slight. HUBERT COSBY, head of the poultry department at Oregon State college, as he listened (skep tically, apparently) to a story Ed Young, manager of the turkey show at Oakland was tolling him. In the picture appearing here with Cosby may he identified by the look I have mentioned; Ed Is at the left and between the two i: fiwrc Hall of Oakland while at the extreme right is Charley Brewster, of the HoTliren-Breu xter mills in Portland, who incident ally is a foimer head of the pool tr . department at the state col li p p. Before his promotion to the head of the department Coehy was - I SAW iy Pui JeoJuBS niiufi lriWwti ii nrfiV'rni1iiiiwMi liiMfl'ffpiiia fc i11 Decision On British Loan Must Wait Roosevelt's Approval, Action of Congress Necessary to Give Aid, Jesse Jones Says After Meet With Briton. WASHINGTON. Dee. 11 (AP) Secretary .Jones indicated today that a decision on the question of financial aid to Great Britain now awaited the return to Washington of President Roosevelt. Asked at a press conference about whether a loan to Great Bri tain was imminent, the commerce secretary said the mntter would have to go to congress, nnd the question of asking congressional approval could not be- decided at the. moment because "the administra tion is away." the reference being to the current cruise- of President Itoosevelt In the Caribbean. "Do you think something will happen when the administration tets back?" the secretary was asked. "Something usually does happen, when ho comes here." Jones replied wiili a smile. .lones was one of the high admin istration officials who met at the treasury vesterdav for a secret re port on British financial informa tion brought to this country by Kir Frederick Phillips, undersecretary of the British ternsury. lie declined, however, to discuss the meeting or any part of the Phillips Information. Disposing of recurrent reports that thn reconstruction finance cor poration had authority to lend money to Great Britain without new legislation, Jones, for the first time, said flitly that no loan could he made without comrressional ap proval. The neutrality act, ho ex plained, would prevent ft. More Aid For Latins .Tones today announced loans of ffiii.ooo.000 to Argentina and $7,rnn, 000 to Uruguay. Both loans, Jones said, supersed ed smaller commitments made earlier this year but unused to date. Argentina previously hail received a $2M,ftn.nu0 credit and Vruguay a 51000,000 credit, but those two credits were "wined out" by the new transaction, Jones said. The new loans, he explained, will he used for general purchases of merchandise In the Fulled States. Tiio Argentine loan also would (Continued on page C) Actress Fined for Ride Racket in Relief Guise BEVERLY HILLS. Calif.. Dec. 11. (AP) British Actress Joan Man ners, who is under SHOO bond pond ing deportation proceedings, has been fined SI 5 for transporting passengers without a permit. She pleaded guilty. She first had been accused of falsely collecting money from persons whom she picked Tin for rides in her automo bile, telling th.em it was for British war relief. Newn-Rpview Photo anil Kntrrnving field man for the college and he was one or those fellows who got along. He could tell a poultryman some of the most brutal truths in the world as to how- he was mis managing his business and make him like it. Ho kept right on lik ing Cosby, too. The show at Oakland this year i really is belter than it ban been at any time before and that is saying ouit1 a bit. The quality of tbc birds, both In the live and j dressed division, is exceptionally k y. and who In this county isn't you'd better plan on driving over and having yourself a good look at them. Britain Bans U. S. Food For War Victims Blockade of Countries Held by Germans Not to be Lifted, Announcement; Spain to Get Wheat Through Red Cross. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. (AP) Hjalmar Procope, Fin nish, minister, made a public plea today for American relief for Finland, which he said was not directly affected by Great Britain's announcement that food would not be allowed to pass through Its blockade of German dominated countries. Procop said that Finland ur gently needed fats, cerealH. dried fruit, medical Rupplles, clothing, shoes nnd soap nnd that shipping facilities were available to take the supplies to Finland. Although he said Finland had en countered difficult les with the British in regard to shipment of supplies, the minister indicated the principal need at present was money with which to purchase the supplies. WASHINGTON. Dee. 11. (AP) Britain ruled out American aid for Europe's hungry this winter, re iterating that the responsibility for feeding conquered countries rested with Germany. A plainly worded statement issu ed by Lord Lothian, British ambas sador, late yesterday apparently dashed the tentative plans of form er President Herbert Hoover and others for shipping food stuffs to the Inhabitants of nazi-vanquished nations. - v.' ( Groat Britain, he said, will not permit such shipments to pass the hlocka de. "T'nder present conditions." said Lothian, who recently returned from consultations with his govern ment in London, "any such scheme must be of material assistance to Germany's war effort and would thereby postpone the day of libera- (Continued on page 6) Sewage Disposal Job Nearing End Roseburg's Plant to be Placed In Operation Early Next Month, is Expectation. Roseburg's sewage disposal plant, constructed under a WPA project, is practically complete and ready for operation, according to Jack Dawson, WPA superintendent. Sev eral large valves remain to be in stalled as soon as they arrive after which plans have been made for a test run. It Is expected, Mr. Dawson states, that the plant will be put into operation early in Janu ary. At the present time a small crew is engaged in landscaping the grounds around the plant and clean ing up the debris left from the construction work. Tunnel Job Pushed. A large crew is engaged In driv ing the long tunnel in the ex treme south part of town, where it was found necessary to bore through a rock point for n distance of 420 feet to connect the South Roseburg sewer with the intercept ing sewer line. Work on the tunnel was discontinued for several months because of lack of funds, but two shifts are now being op erated. About 120 feet of the tun nel remain to be opened and it is hoped to finish by the middle of January. The intercepting sewer line, fol lowing the west hank of the South Umpu.ua river, will connect with all of the main city sewers and will lead to the disposal plant. A line in Laurel wood addition will serve that territory, carrying sew ac under the river by means of a siphon. The disposal plant, Mr. Dawson states, will be put In opera tion prior to the completion of the connection to the South Umpqua sewer line. Other Projects Eyed. In preparation for the completion of the sewer construction project, the WPA, Mr. Dawson states, is onl'ning projects to be undertaken at a later date. C. II. Wagner., district office en gineer from Eugene, was in Rose burg Tuesday checking over pro posed road construction and Im provement projects, nnd also In vestigated the proposed park Im provement and swimming pool pro Jef t proponed by the Hiy. He took engineering data with him back to Eugene and w ill prepare the formal application for submission to WPA headquarters. Turkey Show Magnet For Large Throng Attendance, Interest Boosted As Event Swings Into Full Stride; Joyce Thornton is Selected as Show's Queen. The Northwestern Turkey Show at Oakland reached full stride to tlay with a large Increase In nt lenilanee anil interest. Today's program Included n turkey dress ing cimtest In which expert pick ers compete before the puhlic In killing and dressing birds, on in formal reception for exhibitors, visitors anil association members and the annual turkey show ball, which will be held tonight. Announcement of the selection of Joyce Thornton, senior In Oakland high school, as queen of the turkey show was made today. Miss Thorn ton, selected by votes from the ex hibitors, is an honor student in the Oakland high school. Coronation ceremonies will be held in connec tion with the ball tonight. The members of the queen's court are Hetty I.011 Carlson, Peggy Trultt, Pat Stearns and Ilea Trnitt. Flower girls are Rue Steams, Cora lee Copeland and Robenn Bailey. Train hearers nre Arnold Ouerney, Itnhert Sparks and Ilarton Cope land. E. fl. Young, manager of the turkey show, will crown the nueen and invest her with regal authority at the ceremony to bo held at 10 p. m. Thursday's program will include a lecture program for growers and exhibitors at. 3:30 p. in. and tho an nual meetings of Northwestern Turkey, Iireeders association at 7:. '10 p.' m. Friday will be the principal day at the show when rinal judging re sults will he nnnounced and tho championship trophies will ho awarded at the nnnual banquet. The banquet program will be broadcast from the state college radio station KOAC. First Awards Announced. The judges today completed the (Continued on page fi) Chrysler Employes Get Bonus and Pay Increase DKTKOIT. Dec. 11. LAP) -Approximately OO.nno employes of Chrysler Corp. w ill share in a pro Christmas bonus of more than $2. riiiii.onti and receive a flat pay raise of two cents per hour, officials of the- corporation and the I'ulted Automobile Workers (CIO) an nounced today. The general raise in pay for hourly-wage employes plus the bonus will total approximately 744.000 for a year, according to union estimates. CAW officials said that with this increase Chrysler will he re ceiving the highest average wage of any industrial workers in the world. An agreement signed today guar antees seniority. payment of group life insurance premiums and other benefits to those em ployes conscripted into military servieeo. Greeks Keep Italians on the Run in Southern Albania 1 J YUGOSLAVIA Ely .n,oA,bon,o JJ - --v i Direction ol J - - JZlLS VTi jW M""asl" 1 "olion Rctrcot :-V, V""" 'lo l f ; C3 t7rti,..i. ?J5 ALBANIA yi'-LHr Ad.onct in Greece KJ .ff tag!rittjfJJ? J ""B I to I f forced) ule longer ESV r"' l'-'LJ Br.nd.,.!: .oter route in ,.ndin9 (( VtW L I - uppliei, reinlorc.ment, -L-, Kv Mo'2'"' T.-nzFX ST K force, bottling Greeks ! Volono otrontKl' 'dol GREECE ihcllitownond I - .PORTO iW X : . 'Cheating troop! Ll S DD A j v -iSs- '-. ! :j :::::TrCORfU?rf Konijpolit Hard hitting Greek mountain troopt, .upoorted by artillery, are hammering at Italian linet on four fronts In southern Albania, forcing retreat of Muisolini'e troopt on all highway,. Orcein have now taken Argirocastro and Porto Edda, on the (horea of tha Ionian tea leia than 75 mile, by water to the heel of Italy's boot. (N'RA Photo.) British Drive In Egypt Nets Heavy Gains More Than 6,000 Italians, War Supplies Captured; Major Battle Impending; Greeks Continue Victory Thrusts. LONDON, Dec. 11. (AP) The government announced to night the capture of Sidi Bar. rani, Egypt, by the British forces in the western desert. Three Italian generals were taken prisoner when the town, main advance base of the fascist drive into Egypt, fell, said a communique from Cairo. By the Associated Press Britain's desert "'blitzkrieg' forces described as striking like Gen. J. K. It. Stuart'-s confederate cavalry In the I'nited States civil war w e r e reported attacking "'pockets of Italiun resistance" around Stilt Parian I in the offen sive in western Kgypt today. More than ti.tmo Italian prison ers have heen captured in the ',1-day-oid battle, the llrilish an nounced, as well as ""quantities of war material." (The Itritish comparison of the Kid! Hurra ni ilinisL with General j Stuart's technique apparently re ferred to his celebrated feat of riding clearing around the Cnion anny just before the Seven Days battle in Virginia.) London military circles declared the Uritish forays were "highly successful." but said there was nothing immediately to confirm re ports that two fascist divisions (24.000 to 30,000 men) have been cut off. Ileuters (Uritish news agency) in a dispatch from Aden today said the Addis Abiiha-Jubutl rail way was believed damaged badly in a royal air force raid on a sta tion near the French Somaliland Ktbiopiau frontier. It said the raid was announced in a communi que. Premier Mussolini's high com mand acknowledged Italian re verses amid "fighting of excep tional violence." The llrillrih attack. It said, start ed at Dawn Dec. !) and the battle was still raging in the Sidi Jtar ranl sector main base of fascist Martsh.il Crala ni's 7o-mile inva sion thrust into western Kgypt. Italy Claims Successes More cheerful news for defeat darkened Italy was provided, how- (Continued on page f) Triplets Born to Drain Residents; All Thrive DltALV, Ore., Dec. 11. Trip lets were born here Monday to M r. and M rs. ( ', eorge ( 'rites, well known residents of Drain. The multiple births occurred at the borne of Mrs. Criles' par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ilulus Ilicke thier. Thn mother and babies, two boys and a girl, wero re ported In very satisfactory con dition today. Hitler's Plan for Future Europe Branded As "Slave Plantation" by British Home Secretary, Replying to Fuehrer's Talk LONDON. D e c. 11. (AP) Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, in a speech which amounted to a reply to Adolf Hitler's oral attnek yesterday on the "have" nations, envisioned today a cooperative postwar world "'guaranteed by an International police air force" in which "never again shall It ho possible for a thug with a bomber force to terrorize a continent." l!y Implication, however, he re jected any hope of peace in a world dominated by naI (iermany, Morrison said "many people would be ready to listen" If (let many '"could hold out a convinc ing promise of a Europe enriched by economic unity und pacified by the removal of national rival ries." He added, however, that ' 'the civilized world gasps at each rev elation of the cold ferocity with which the iiazis are prepared to t rea t people w horn Jbey domin ate." Military Power Needed Morrison spoke to a national de fense meeting at Dorchester. "The new Kuronean military or der is a vast military monopoly." Morrison declared. "The organi zation which the nazis offer Eu rope is that of a slavo planta tion." "Tnless this war ends with a preponderance of military striking power In the hands of the demo cracies." Morrison said, "Europe can look forward to no construc tive period from war to a better nnd permanent pence. . . . "Nations must be readv to sac rifice many of their independent rights and they must feel genuine ly moved to work together to create a hetter lire for their ciM zens. "It Is not enough to nbolish tar iff walls and competitive nrmti menis. These thlnirs nre merely negations of evil. We need to go beyond them nnd find positive means to good." Monopolies Must Go "I see no reasonable hope of freedom from horrors of war mi I il we can achieve the conscious and deliberate mobilization of our economic resources under a co ope, alive international plan," Mor rison said. "If this spirit of sacrifice is not Woman Wins Recorder Job on Flip of Coin TliOl'TDALE. Dec. 11. (API Mrs. Jessie Oveistead became city recorder yesterday by tho flip of a coin. She and Leslie Pass, Incumbent, each received 1 votes in the No vember election nnd decided to flip for the office. Undertaker Drops Dead While Directing Funeral HASItllorCK IIKIfJIITS. N. J., Dec. II. (AP) Cndertaker Rob ert S. Hennessey, 70, dropped dead today while directing u funeral. tierald E. Hennessey, son of the victim, tnok over his fa) Iter's duties. Scot's Peace Proposal Spurned by Commons John McGovern, above, fiery independent labortte M. P. from Glasgow. Scotland, thinks Britons should end the war by a negotiated peace with Ger many. Parliament thinks oth erwise. Tho house of commons thumbed down his peace propos al by a vote of 341' to 4. carried forward from war into peace I am thoroughly convinced thuL the whole of our civilized social order will he endangered and lhat tho whole world will stag ger blindly Into now wars or civil commotion at. home and abroad. "There must bo no private mon opoly If monopolies there He. They must serve the slate. Wo must look forward to a society that Is rid of the twin pests of extreme riches and extreme pov erty." Japan Feels U.S. Blow in Ore Ban NEW YORK, Pec. 11. f AP) Dome), Japanese news agency with government connections, declared today In a broadcast from Tokyo that the United Stales govern ment's, extension of the export li censing aystetn to Iron ore, pig Iron and certain steel produclH "la ro garded here as a new economic measure expressly aimed at Ja pan." Domel said that "newspapers unanimously pointed out that the appointment of Admiral Nomura as ambassador to Washington, which at rirst had appeared to bring nbout a decrease In thn tension, has not resulted in any modification of tho attitude of thn United Slates gov ernment." WASHINGTON, Dee. 11. (AP) President Roosevelt, yesterday ordered Iron ore. pig iron, ferro al loya nnd "certain Iron and steel manufactures n n d Hemf-manu- far hires" put tinder export llcenso control. The action was nnnounced by the white house. The order was made effective as of December SO. Since Japan has been the largest purchaser of Iron ore, pig Iron, and other Iron and steel manufactures and Hemiuianiif'tcluies from the lime nn embargo on steel scrap nnd Iron scrap shipments was placed in effect, the president's announce ment today is expected further to decrease shipments of vital Iron steel to Japan. Indications were, however, that. It would not stop any exports of such metals to the Uritish empire or to tho Amerlcnn republics. Students Make Blunder In Editor Pete's Ouster PORTLAND. Dep. 11. (AP) Campus Editor Isllo Pete, filen' dale, Oregon, student, of Albany colleen. Portland, endorsed a youth conference which was sponsored by conscfentioun objectors to the draft, although announcing that peronnlly ho was no eonnclentfoiis oblecior. Students ousted him in favor nf Vernon K. Ross, Jr. To day they learned helatodty that Rons hnd notified a draft board that he In ft conscientious objector. Everett Units O.K. Boost Of 5Cts.anHour Tacoma and Portland Worktrt Expected to Follow up tn Votes Today; U. S. Agent Acts as Conciliator. RKATTI.E. Tiec. 11. IAP1 Im minent pence In tlifi strlke-crlpplerl northwest lumber Industry wan vit timlly assured toilny as APt. nnloa members on one of tlio two princi pal strike fronts voteil to accept A compromise agreement on wage and vacation demunils. Tlie rainbow in tho liooloiiilerl situation, with its throat to na tional defense projects, appeared In rapid, succession laBt nlnht. A few hours after Federal Con ciliator Ernest P. Marsh announced a ncftotlutors' agreement, the Lum ber and Sawmill Workers' union at Everott, where seven mills have been closed, voted "by a large ma jority" to accept the proposal. Marsh said union membera at the Tacoma mills which led the strike mnvoiiiriit two months ago would vole today. Dud Pearson. Everett union busi ness agent, said the agreement pro vided for S cents an hour pay In crease, with a woek's vacation on pay nnd an economic export to make a survey of the Douglas fir Industry as a basis for a sliding; pny scale in the future. Ho snld the study was to be completed by March 1. Pearson said some of tho Everett mills would open today. Others to morrow and Monday. The fact that the union members definitely plan ned on reopening at Evorott, when lliey have shown a United front with tho Tacomans, Indicated to observ ers that they, were confident of approval nt Tacom The AVI, union galled thn strike over Its demands fi)r V cents more an hour and a weejt'a vacation. Others Expected to Agree.' Although the agreement covered only 18 of the approximately Alt lumber operations closod down tn tho widespread controversy, virtu ally all the others were expected by observers to full In line with the Tacoma ami Everott decisions. Most of them wero closod In support of the Tncoimi nnd Evorott strikers or by pickets from the closed plants In tho two cities. About 12,004 workmen nre involved In Iho closed plants. Tho conciliator's announcement enmo only a day nfter Acting Sec rotary of the Navy .lamce Forrestnl hnd appealed for "an uninterrupted flow ot lumber for nntlonnl de fense needs." Lumber operators have had huge orders for building; of military camps in the northwest and In Alaska and for shipyard building. Tho announcement came at thn end of n day which saw the con troversy cIobo a fourth mill In Ore gon after a Jump across tho state lino and close two more in the Ta coma district to bring the total in that urea to 22. Union members of 11 Tnconia re-. gion mills and camps will begin a (I 'on tinned on page 0) Rickenbacher Warns of Curtailed Liberties NEW YOniC. Ilee. 1lfAPl Captain V. Ulekenbncker, America' leaning nee in the lust war, believes that "you of this generation are enjoying liberties at this moment that you will never enjoy again as long ns you live." "Von nre enjoying a standnrd nf living that you never ngalii will en joy, regardless of Ihu outcome of world war No. 2," ho told the Eco nomic club of New York Inst night. If tho HritlHh caplliilate, Klcken backer mild, Iho Unlled Slates will have to become the greatest mili taristic power In tho world, nhle to protect everything within li.OiiO miles of Its shores. IT Iho llrltlsh hold out. until sum mer, he opined, this tuition will Join tho war, perhaps sending eventual ly to Europe an expeditionary force nf millions. MORE DAYS to SHOP 6v T ft Our child.! n)tJ fffiffify ' h. 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