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That Christmas Truce of Warring Nations May Have Been Intended as a Right-of-Way Gesture to the U.S., Where Violence Registered a Toll' of 400 Lives,' THE WEATHER By U. 8. Wetther Bureau Occasional ruin tonight and Sat urday; lltllo change in tempera ture. Bee pass 4 (or statistic!, HIGHWAY What will lie the state commbfc slun's action on tbe urge of west em Oregon to have tbe Paclflo highway given a military status? We may know tomorrow. Watch) for the Information In tbe NEWS HKVIKW. 'OU XLW NO. 224 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940. VOL. XXIXNO. 122 OF THE EVENING NEWS 5ia IUI mi fiiiwEfWeMiripiliri L-gX fHfcTDOUGlCOUNTY DALY " ii o3J ' Ml iipras o Xews-Ileview Rngrfivlng Pictured above is the outdoor Christmas lighting display at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Mor gan in Laurelwood. This display was awarded first place by the secret judging committee In the contest sponsored annually by the Lions club. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan will be awarded a silver cup now on display at Harth's Toggery. In The Day's News Ily FTIANK JKNKINS 0f this 1 UKHh anniversary of (lie birth of tlio Prince of Peace, the thinking of the entire world is centered on WAR. It is wrong, nut it is TRI'K. IT Isn't ns if the world lacked the recipe for peace. For 19 cen turies, men' have had a I'F.Iil'Kl'T recipe for get ling along with each other. Jlere it is: "Do ye unto others as yo would that others shall do unto you." That rule, faithfully followed, would have brought peace on earth. 1171 1 Y has It not been followed? " The fault, as tills writer sees It. lies not with the common, or dinary men who do the fighting and dying In war and advance 111 comfort and well-being in times of peace, hut with AMWTIOHS 'J-.KADF.ns. Yet. oddly enough, we common people, who suffer in war and prosper in peace, have gloriried these ambitious leaders and have FORC.OTTKN the counties mil lions of commoners whose 'lv?$ have been darkene.I. A I.KXANDKR led bis .Macedon lans down around the easr.'r'i end' of the Mediterranean to con quer the world. (It was a very small world then.) lie did n lot of conquering and died In hi.-, earl; thirties of drunkenness. The greatness of Greece ilie.i .it about tbe same time. JULIUS CAESAR conquered a large part of the then known world for Rome. Willi Augustus, his successor, he put an end to the Roman republic. The empire followed, with Its centuries of blood and vice and treason. Beginning Its decline shortly nfter Julius and Augustus. Rome ultimately fell and the Dark Ages followed. KTAPOLEON, little and pompous and boundlessly ambitious, came on the French scene shortly after the Revolution. He throttled the Ideals that were back of the blood and the terror of the Revolu tion and led France back to the mummery of absolutism. After upsetting the world, he died in exile of cancer. 10WN" tbrniwh the cntnrle these leaders have been shin- (Continued on page 4.) 1 33 Wins First Place in Lightr u 1 H-r Coast Guardsmen Rescued From Sea RAN FrtANCfRCO, Pec. 27. (AP) "Hats" and shelter from driving rain the two tiling all hands craved were supplied in quantity today to ID const guards men whose rescue mission through gtile-liished seas nearly cost their own lives, The- guArdsinen, who put out in two small motor boats from Point Arena Christmas eve to aid a storm-disabled freighter, were res cued yesterday afternoon off Fort Uragg alter nearly 30 hours nt sea in their crippled, battered craft. Sighteil first from shore, (lie guardsmen were taken in tow by tbe cutter Shawnee and later were transferred to the cutter Ariadne lo he taken home. Two wort in jured and nil were in need of rest and warmth. Boatswain's mate, first class, Ralph A. Warren and Ronald Mic hel were bruised in tbe buffeting their boots took, hut neither need ed hospitalization. Bruises were pretty generally distributed among all tbe guardsmen. Giant swells opened leaks on tbe lifeboats, one a 3'-foot motorhoat, the other a 26-foot motorized surf hoat, and ruptured the gasoline tanks, bo they inn out of fuel and bad to depend upon small sails. Hoop Star 2nd Accuser In Hit-Run Driving Case PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 27. (AP) A former basketball star for the University of Oregon Inst, night accused Robert Patrick Sin nott. 31. petty officer of tbe 1". S. S. Oriole, of a second hit-run viola tion in one evening. The ntbletP, Urgel (Slim) Win termute, center on Oregon's na tional championship team of 19;R 39. charged Sinnott ran into and damaged his car and then lied. Inter that nitrht Sinnott was nr rested nfter Rodney Modrfc. 5ft. bad been slnuk bv a car and fatally in jured. Priest Waives Hearing In Fatal Auto Mishap MIIAVAVKIE, Ore.. Dec. 27. f AP) Rev. Rertrand Leo Mc Laughlin. 33, Mount Angel, wnived nreliinlrmry hearing ami was bound over to the grand jury yes terday ' on a charge of failing to stop at the scene of a fatul acci dent. Earlier the priest told police his car micht have struck Elinor Mar ian Falk. 11. killed on the Pacific highway near here Saturday. He said he was unaware at the time that the gill was hit. He is at li berty on $5ftf0 hall. Jail Term Started for Defrauding Innkeeper Elmer Lamplnen, recently arrest ed nt Eugene and returned to Ro?e burg on a ( barge of defrauding nn innkeeper, was convicted In jus tin court here today and commit ted to th county jail In lieu of a fine of $10. The complaint was signed bv Wm. Vinson. Lamplnen conducted his own trial today be fore Judge IL W. Marstcrs. Contest High Seas Batter California Coast LOS ANGELKS, Dec. 27. (AP) Giant waves, horn on extremely high tides, continued to pound southern California coastal sections for miles today after collapsing numerous beach houses find com mercial shops and causing many families to flee. Redondo beach suffered much of the damage although further south nt San Pedro giant crevasses widen ed over a largo section of rain soaked Point Fermin. n high "am bling bluff" that for years has been slowly slipping into the sea, carry ing stretches of pavement and some abandoned houses with it. At Redondo beach, where n ma jor disaster committee Assembled and American legion guards and all available police were called out to patrol the area, some homes nud apartments completely collapsed while others fell in n jumbled masa part way through their undermined foundations. A six-feet, six-inch tide hurled the pounding combers along tbe shoreline yesterday nud an even higher tide was predicted for today. Barricades of sandbags, concrete fragments and timbers were piled along the bench-line to protect re maining -buildings while n special appeal was dispatched to Governor Olson nud Ilia county board of su pervisors for more rock to be dumped along the sand. City Councilman C. W. Chldley estimated at $250,000 the damage already done to Redondo Reach. Draft Dodgers Get Year in Road Camp PORTL A N D, Ore.. Dec. 27. (AP) Rev. Paul Ackerman, Port land minister who recently pleaded guilty to refusing to register for (the draft, was sentenced to one j year In n federal road prison camp by Federal Judge Fee today. Judge Fee said I he case had been looked upon ns a "sounding board in ninny parts of tbe conn try nnd he bad considered tills fact in deciding upon sentence. He hod received, he said, many pleas for leniency because of Rev. Acker ninnn's four children but added that the defendant was fully aware of the consequences when he vio lated the selective service law. Rev. Mr. Ackermann, who regis tered after he had been Indicted, reiterated tnat his refusal was bas ed upon religious scruples. At the same time Judge Fee sen tenced Edwin A. Sanders. Instruc tor at Pacific college. Newberg. Ore., a Quaker Institution, to a year In a road camp. Sanders also pleaded guilty to not regis-ft-ring. said be acted because of consclen tious objections and told the court he would "rather accept the penal ties of the selective service act than comply with it." Panders him self is of tbe Quaker faith. After passing sentence, Judee Fee Issued a warning to "persons who sent letters to the court try In? to Influence the . . . decisions. Such acts constitute contempt. , . He continued that the court "In these instances presumes the let ters have been written in igno rance. South Pacific British Island By Raider Believed Nazi in Attacker Of Nauru Flew Japans Hag Nitrates Bearing Atoll Dealt Heavy Damage by Raider But No Casualties; Ruse Regarded Reprehensible. MELBOURNE, Australia, Dee. 27. (AP) A sea raldor nulling under a Japanese name nnd flying Japanese colors heavily shelled the British-mandated Island ot Nauru shortly after daybreak today, It was announced by Prime Minister Menzies. Why a raldor should single, out this 5,400-ncre ntoll near the equa tor for a bombardment van unex plained. However, as a (luano is land, Nauru Is valuable for its phosphates. (As for the attack itself, British sources in London could go no fur ther than Menzies' announcement but they said a Cprman raider is known to have been operating in that part of the Pacific, in recent months. Even so, the reported dis play of the Japanese flag was un explained.) Buildings nnd a plnnt nn the is land were said to have been dam aged heavily. (The typo of plant was not specified but Nauru is known to havo a radio station.) No casualties were .reported, how ever, . ' Island Undefended "Nauru is entirely undefended ngainst such an nttack," Menzies declared In a statement, "nnd must be so under the league of nations mandate. "Tho enemy knows this fact which removes any justification for his action which is a greater crime because it was made under neutral colors. The rnlder attacked under a Japanese name nnd Japa nese colors those of a country with whom we are at peace." Nauru, is an ntoll surrounded by a reef which is exposed nt low tide. II lies in the Pacific about 2,200 miles southwest of llaw-aii nnd only 2ti miles south of the equa tor. To the north of It are the Japanese-mandated Marshall is lands, Nauru is chiefly valuable for its phosphate deposits of which It ex ports nearly 1,0110,000 tons n year. Its population In April, 1030, wns 1 S7 Europeans, 1,6!i1 Nuurnnns, 20 other Pacific islanders and l,!ilR Ghlnoso. Nauru is a former German is land which was surrendered to Australian forces in 10M anil which has been administered by MritRin under a mnndato approved by the league of nations in 1920. Mark Jones Dies Here At Age of 90 Mark Asbnry Jones, fin, a life long resident of Poughin county, died In Ttoseburg early this morn ing following n long period of ill ness. Horn September X ISSft. In Zanes vilte. Ind., be came to Iiouglas county with his parents, Jacob nud Martha Jones, In nnd spent his entire lire as a resident of Hose burp and vicinity. His father con si rueted the first flour mill In Itose burg. Mr. .Tones was the faiher of six children, of whom three survive. They are Mrs. It. R. Wallace, As toria, and Mrs. I). Y. Allison and Mis. Mollie Cotton, both of liose burg. flmveslde services will bo held nt tbe I. f). (). F. cemetery at 2 p. m. Sunday. Arrangements are In charge or the Fioseburg Undertak ing company. Tangent Preacher Killed In Train-Auto Crash AI.RANY, Ore., Dee. 27. f AP) The Rev. C. W. frank, fil, mininler at tbe Tangent Methodist church, met death in a railroad crosBing ac cldent today, lifs automobile collided with the southbound Southern Pacific pas senger train No. 19 at the Tangent crossing. The victim was burled about 200 feet. The Hev. Cronk Is survived hy his widow and several chlldreu, Greeks, Reinforced Italians Locked in Fierce Battle in Snowstorm; Captured i Italians Admit Heavy Losses in Drive ATHENS, Dec. 27. (AP) One I of i tho fiercest battles of tho Greek-Italian war was reported rag ing today in the Klkmra sector of Albania, where tho Italians were said to have concentrnted huge re inforcements In an effort to defend a vital mountain pns gateway to tho north and west. A heavy snowstorm and bitter cold weather severely handicapped military operations hut reports from the front said fighting was de veloping on an increasingly brond scale both before the pass itself and to tho north of Kllsurn, where tho Creeks were declared threaten ing to cut a highway to Herat, far ther north. In the coastal area, where the Creeks are fighting toward the vital Albanlnu port of Valona, the Creeks reported a continuing advance but acknowledged that there too the British, Germans Again Trade Blows IiONnON", I) e c. 27. (AP) Small forces of Tlrltlsh bombers hnminered nt targets In the "inva sion port" of liordeaux, (lerman oecupied France, last night nnd attacked several airdromes in day light yesterday, it was- announced officially today. The revival of the nlr war after a Christmas truce which was mar red for llrifain yesterday only by a one-plane bombing of tbe island of Sheppey was followed by n burst of activity by German long range guns. Nazi big guns fired for two nnd one-half hours at the Dover area but the press association said there was "no damage or casualties." (A He rlin dispatch asserted ship ping in the KngH-sh channel and the port of I lover were shelled "ef fectively.") The press association reported a German warplane reached an area near London In midmornhig Unlay but was driven back hy anti aircraft fire. DKRM.V. Dec. 27. (AP) Au thorized German sources charged today that the royal air force bombed Mordeaux. in nnxl-ocuipicd France, last night in a wav "that had no military or practical mean ing." "While the German nlr force undertook no war operations against the Mrltish isles on tho second Christinas holiday (Dec. 'Jf). lirllish planes on that day and in the following niirht bombarded airports, port facilities and towns in occupied France," the high com mand said. Several French civilians were re ported killed and some wounded. German ant (aircraft fire, these sources said, drove tbe raiders away Immediately and some bomb ers were reported so badlv bit they undoubtedly failed to return. One bomber was shot down, kill ing one of the crew, of four, these sources added, while the other three bailed out. NKW YORK. Pec. 27 fAP VarKnv radio nh lted up n distress call from the RrlMsh freighter Ar danbhnn which reported she had been torpedoed at l.n'2 p. m, to dav. The slenmer pave her position as aiiproxiinately fiuti miles west of Scotland. Netherlands Warships Will Soon Aid Britain LONDON. Dec. 27. f AP) A Netherlands nnval officer announc ed today that several unfinished Netherlands warships brouirht aeross the channel when the Ger mans Invaded the low countries last Mav are being completed In Rrftish harbors and would "soon" go Into action. He added that the Royal Dutch navy, which Is cooperating with the Ttrltlsh navy, nlso would be swelled hy one of the destrovers Rrltaln received In the naval base deal with the Tnlted States. The Hpokesman said also that The Netherlands fleet nlr arm now has been equipped with "modern machines. " He said the Inrper part of the navy escaped to England nt the time of the Invasion of Holland and that only three, gunboats nnd two minelayers were lost In action at that time. Italians were putting up stiffer re sistance. They saiil there were indications tlui fascist forces were preparing an cdaborato defense of Valonn. Captured Italian officers, talking with correspondents at the front, said strong Italian defenses still lay in the path of Greek forces but tling up the coast toward Valona. They estimated that the Clroek conipaign which began October 2S had cost Italy 45.0U0 wounded sol diers hut made no estimate of the number of dead, saying only that the toll was high. The royal uir force reported It had carried out nn attnek on tho coustul town of Krionero, about five miles south of Valona, bomb ing warehouses, buildings and rail way lines. All liritish planes re turned safely, despite a 10-minule encounter with nine "enemy" fight ers, a communique said. Cyclones in Cuba Deal Death and Destruction HRCUJAU Culm, Dec. 27. (AP) Uecujnl and neighboring towns counted 11 dead nnd 150 injured to day In tbe wake of a series of cy clonic disturbances which swept across western Cuba last ninht, and officials, feared later reports from outlying districts might swell the toll, i ilecujul, ft town of 10,000 Inhabi tants 2riniltcs south of Havana, and tho surrounding urea wore placed under martial law as army officers directed relief workers. More thou 200 doctors and nurses were sent from Havana, Approximately 200 homes were demolished in llecujal alone. CCC Canteen Manager Faces Larceny Charge Accused of larceny of funds from Ihe canteen nt the South IJmpqun Falls CCC camp, Klljnh Mllsnp, 21, was In custody In tho county jail today. Deputy Sheriff Cliff Thorn ton reported. Milsap served brief ly ns manager of Ihe camp canteen and was accused of withholding some of tbe funds for his own use, Thornton said. SHAM TACK ERA Y doggone It all. I mean Sam Thackeray, In Myrtle Creek yesterday afternoon, as he awalled Hie afternoon "mull at the postoffice: doing his wait ing, however, in the warm murines nf Reynolds A: Adams store, next door. "Iiarn you anyhow." said Ram as I took his picture, wringing my neck In what I hoped was an af' fectlonate gesture but feared was a hidden attempt at mayhem, "don't you dare print that, it may get me In jail!" That's all right. Sam; I've look ed our mailing list over from stem lo stern and the only sheriff on II known you already. You may not believe It from llio , !SAW By Paul Jenkins Shelled Disguise Port Bardia Still Under Heavy Fire Commander of Besieging Army Defers Final Smash to Avoid Sacrifice of Men; Italian Planes Battled. CAIIKV'KRypt, Den. 27. (AP) I'iiII of Ihp bulenguoi'dil Libyan imrt. of Iliinlla uwulls only Hie k nhwiil rIktiuI of Cion. Sir Archi bald l. Wiivell. military clrclna ilo- cliircil today ns Hrltlsli plimeH nml nil? Buna contlmipil tnnlr sternly liomlmnlinont of tho eotimuteri 20, iinii llnllan troops encircled there. Those sources expressed belief that the. town could have, been tak en at any I line within tho past few days by direct nssanlt but said tlio llritlsli commander was unwilling to sacrifice moi-o troops than necessary. Sir Archibald has been conduct InK his entire campaign In north Africa, during which the ItallaiiB wero clenred out ot Knypt lit a lighting thrust that yielded more than 35.000 prisoners, on the pol icy ot achieving tho greatest galim (Continued on pai;o G) Mickey Rooney Heads Movie Money Makers TrOT.T.YWOOn; Dec. 27.' (AP) That little barrel of cliienmtle dynamile tousled haired Mickey Uooney heads tho 10 biggest mon ey making movlo stars for 1040 as selected by Iho Motion Plcturo Herald, n trndo publication, whilo his nearest feminine competitor 1h lletlo Davis, in ninth position. Judy (Inrland, In loth place, In the only other actress on tho list. Spencer Tracy placed second to Itooney. while following ill order camo ("lark linble, (Sena Autry, Ty- rono Power, .Tnmes CagnoyK Illng Crosby and Wallace Beery. Selection of Autry, the singing cowboy, for fourth plnco was one of the highlights ot the poll which declared that not since the Into Will Hogers headed tlio licit list has a cowboy lieen voted into tho lO hcst list. Ni-ws-Kcvl. w I'lioto and Kngnivliitf manner in which I speak of him. but Sum is one of the best friends I have. He'll be mighty quirk lo resent this statement when he sees it, but It's true, neverthe less. Sam's really a fine fellow. Ills only drawback Is something he can't help lie's Just naturally sua ceptlble lo feminine pulchritude. In other words, he anil the gals natiiially fall for each other and bellevo it or not, the gals fall hard er than lie does. There's Just that about him! In (he picture accomiianyl'.ig Ibis nrllcle, taken In the It. & M. store, Sam may bo ldon'.i'lcd from the other nuts appearing over his right shoulder, hy the hut which no so becomingly wears, Foes Start Organizing For Battle Restoring of "Real Neutrality" To Be Demanded Along With Urge That Administration Try to Establish Peace. WASHINGTON. Ilee. 27. (APV Increasing senatorial demamlH that the administration seek to bring pence In Kuropo coincided today with efforts to organize congressional opposition to Presi de n t Roosevelt's ald-to-Brltiiiti policy. . Senator McCarran (D.. Nev.l lie. clared that "there will bo a de cided move In tho senate for ros torntlon of real neutrality." "Real neutrality does not result from furnishing tho Imnlemcnts of war," he told reporters. "It will oe possible to organize a sufficient group, which, worklnfc Indepen dently, will support a positive policy against war." Hoth McCarran and Sonntor Johnson (D., Colo.) commented that If the warring nations cnulil cense hostilities on Christmas. they ought to bo able to slon foe all time." Talk ot peace proposals cams at n tlmo when 109 men nnd wo men, many of them prominent In various fields, telegraphed Presl. dent Roosevelt "to do everything; that may be necessnry to Insure defeat of tho axis powers." senator Vandenberg (K Mich.) declared In a statement that If the tlmo tins come for "unlimited American underwriting of llrltlsli war objectives, then certainly Ihe time has come for these objectives, to lie authentically declared." Roosevelt Evasive Demands from senators that tho United States Inquire "into the prospects for a negotiated peace in Kuropo brought no comment to. day from President Roosevelt. Asked ahout theso' suggestion nt n press conference, the chief execullvo said tho easle.st way to answer was to say he had no news. lie repented Ihls when queried whether Hint. Implied he would have something later on It. Asked whether the subject might be touched on In his Sunday night radio address, he replied he could not say because he had only reached draft number 2 ot the speech. Stephen Early, white house press secretary, said yesterday the speech would be very clear and specific, on aid to Britain, but would not contuln any figures or information that any other govern ment might like to have. Tho president said today that there might be several more drafts or the talk and it was n question of boiling down Into one-half hour (the speech will be broadcast from MO to 7 p. in., PST) what ho would like to suy In two hours. Plane Output Boost Eyed ' President Roosevelt told the conference that the CIO proposal designed eventually to produce fiOO pursuit planes n day by pool ing the entire facilities of tho au tomolille industry wns being ser iously considered by the admini stration. Tho plan wan submitted to the while house by CIO President Philip Murray several dnys ago. (Continued on page 6) Legal Adviser Is Named bySprague SAt.KM. Dec. 27. (AP) Ralph S. Hamilton, (lend attorney and former legislalor, will be (lovernor Charles A. Sprngiie's legal udvls er during the legislative session which begins January 13, tlio gov qrnor announced today. Allan A. Hyuon, Portland nllov ney and n former member of each house In the legislature, was the governor's legal adviser during the 1HII9 session. Ills salary was 2, OnO for Ihe session. Hamilton was a member of the Portland law firm of ilronaugli, Hamilton, Hynon nnd nronnugli, the snme firm Willi which Allan A. Rynon Is associated. Ho mov ed to I'ortlnnd after his legislative service, returning to Rend two years ago. He represented Crook. De schutes. Jefferson. Klamath and Lake counties In the house of rep resentatives from 1925 to 1P31. be ing speaker of tho house In 1929. He wns president of the Portland chamber of commerce In 193S and lfl:ifi, nnd nlso In a former presi dent of the Bend chamber ot com nierco. The governor's legal adviser ex amines nil legislation submitted by the executive department to the legislature, as well an nil bills submitted hy the legislature to the governor fur bin signature.