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toolcs as if Mussolini's Ad-Lib'-yan Braggadocio Is Ab'out Finished. If You Are Maintaining a War Development Map, Be Prepared to Change 'Italy' to 'Exit-afy,
AID TO BRITAIN ; e
How will congress deal with' i
President Roosevelt's recommen
dation, which inferentlally also
embraces Greece and China? The
answer will furnish big news for
several days. Follow it through
NEWS-REVIEW service.
THE WEATHER
By U. S. Weather Bureau
Rain tonight. Occasional show,
crs Tuesday Little change in tem
perature. .
See page 4 for statistics.
VOL. XLV NO. 232 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1941.
VOL. XXIX NO.130 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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" By FRANK JENKINS
MODERN sequence:
With Incendiary bombs, the
Germans burn the heart of Lon
don. In retaliation for London,
the British burn Bremen.' In re
taliation for Bremen, the Ger
mans burn Cardiff (in Wales.)
IT isn't a mere display of brut
1 ish instinct.
War today is a war of machin
ery. So, In order to win, it is
necessary to destroy the organi
zation that builds the machines,
thus STRIKING AT THE
SOURCE.
With substantially the same
motive, stockmen dig out wolf
dens and destroy the young.
CHIRLEY TEMPLE, retired by
old age at 11, is to go back to
the movies for a new try, with
a guarantee of $2500 a week for
not less than 40- weeks. She is
reported to have earned around
63,000,000 before age cut her
down.
Why?
Because she was GOOD. That's
usually the reason for large
earnings.
I THE trouble Isn't with people
who have EARNED IT
THEMSELVES.
1 It. is inherited great wealth,
running down through genera
tion after generation and de
stroying the will to work; that
upsets social systems.
DONAPARTISTS are reported
u today to be negotiating with
the Vichy government for return
of 20-year-old Prince Louis Na
poleon, Count of Mont fort, Bona
parte's greatgrandnephew, as
the ruler of modern France.
Royalty dies, but never gives
up. Throw a brick anywhere in
Europe and it will bo likely to
hit one pretender to a throne
and bounce off onto another.
JUAPOLEON, Corsican upstart
with a genius for war, who
made himself, Europe's overlord,
spent much of his time and en
ergy finding thrones for good-for-nothing
members of his fam
ily. His ill-starred attempt to
put (and keep) a brother on the
throne of Spain was the straw
that broke the camel's back and
started him on his way to his
downfall.
If he had given the same time
and energy to advancing the
welfare of the REAL PEOPLE of
Europe history would have had
a different (and better) story to
tell.
THE bombing of Ireland con
tinues, indicating that it' Isn't
an accident. It's a safe guess
(Continued on pase 4.)
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and all subsequent issues far
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Eye strain is greatly reduced
Britisl I follow up Bardia9 s
Seizure With Drive Against
Italian Defenses at Tobruk
Fresh Goal
Already Given
2-Day Bombing
30,000 Italians Surrender
As Bardia Capitulates;
Greeks Report Gains.
By the Associated Press
British mechanized patrols,
sweeping on from the spectacu
lar conquest of Bardia, were re
ported today to have established
a '"close blockade of Italian
forces at Tobruk 70 miles west
Marshal Graziani's next de
fense line In the Libyan desert.
The armored spearhead of the
British counter-offensive was
said to be operating 20 miles
south of Tobruk.
A dispatch from newly-captur
ed Bardia itself quoted British
military sources as saying Italy s
position in all eastern Libya
was in peril, with indications of
growing demoralization among
Premier Mussolini s north Afri
can armies.
Coincidentally, the RAF re
ported a fierce two-day bombing
attack on Tobruk in which
"many sticks of bombs were
dropped on military buildings.
airdromes, naval barracks and
the town's defenses."
Eleven Italian planes were re
ported destroyed in a series of
clashes over the desert.
30,000 Prisoners Taken
An Australian communique
listed Australian casualties in
breaking the 20-day-old siege of
Bardia as not more than 500,
while 30,000 Italian prisoners and
50 tanks were reported captured.
Total Italian casualties in the
desert campaign up to the fall of
Bardia yesterday were estimated
at 15,000.
An Associated Press correspon
dent who witnessed the surren
der of Bardia said Australian
shock troops leading the assault
charged Into Italian fire shout
ing the chorus of "We re Off to
(Continued on page 6)
Federal Aid for Oregon
Highway Work Announced
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 6.
(AP) A $2,175,004 federal allot
ment for highway construction
and grade crossing eliminations
will be received by Oregon in the
fiscal year beginning July 1,
1941, officials said today.
The state also will receive an
additional $36,839 from the pub
lic lands fund, W. H. Lynch, dis
trict engineer of the public roads
administration, said.
The road money allocated for
Oregon will include $1,647,906 for
regular federal aid work, $288,-
3S3 for secondary or feeder roads
and S228.713 for grade crossing
elimination.
and News-Review readers will
find far more comfort in reading
the news columns.
It is the consistent policy of
the News-Review to provide for
Its family of readers every fea
ture that will produce better ser
vice in printing and news dis
semination. In recent years the News-Review
has brought a local radio
Wservice to Roseburg, has install
ed an engraving department,
which has served to make time-
I iy pictures oi local interest avail-
aoie; provided aaamonai and
new type faces for news head
lines and for use by advertisers
and installed much mechanical
equipment to permit better Jobs
both in commercial printing and
in the news department.
Anzacs Want U. S. to
Remain Out of War
EUGENE, Jan. 6. (API
Dean James H. Gilbert of the
University of Oregon school
of social science said today
Australians and New Zealand
ers want the United States to
remain out of the war so it
can continue as the "arsenal"
of the democracies.
Dr. Gilbert, returned from a
visit "down under," told in
terviewers that the dominion
citizens are confident of a
British victory over Germany
and are solidly behind the Bri
tish. Pointing out that the nazis
are mining Australian harbors
and that submarines are con
stantly raiding empire ship
ping lanes, he said it is pos
sible that only one of every
two ships leaving Australia
and New Zealand reach Eng
land. London Minimizes
Fire Raid Losses
LONDON, Jan. 6. (AP) In
vading warplanes unleashed an
other fire bomb attack on London
last night but the government
said that although "many build
ings were damaged and some per
sons killed "the raid was not on a
heavy scale and ended before mid
night. It was the first concentrated in
cendiary attack on the capital
since the devastating fire raid on
the city of London financial and
commercial center a week ear
liar but this time Londoner's were
ready for the test.
An army of volunteers men,
women and boys smothered the
incendiary bombs as fast as they
were dropped In one sector and
defiantly shouted: "We want
some more." The raiders obliged
promptly and the watchers dealt
with those bombs just as quickly.
In this area, observers said,
there seemed to be as many
watchers as bombs, even though
the raiders were said to be drop
ping them "in basketfuls."
"Fires were started at several
points," a British communique
said, "but were so promptly dealt
with that none of them assumed
serious proportions."
The British said bad weather
restricted the royal air force to
raids against the German-occupied
coast across the English
channel from England.
Strangulation Kills Two
Following Oyster Dinner
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 6.
(AP) Their tongues swollen so
badly they were unable to speak.
Laura Gordon, 43, and Fred
Thompson, 53, strangled to death
in a hospital here today.
Physicians were unable to ex
plain the cause of death, but po
lice ordered autopsies and a test
of all food in the home of Miss
Gordon, where the pair ate an
oyster dinner Friday night.
Abbott said Thompson was an
eastern Oregon sheepman. Ho
was In Portland to visit Miss
Gordon over the New Year's holi
day. Convention Dates Set
For Legion of Oregon
PORTLAND, Jan. 6. (AP)
The executive committee of the
Oregon department, American
Legion, yesterday set July 21-23,
inclusive, as the dates for the
1941 convention at Eugene.
Department Commander Al
fred P. Kelley said the conven
tion would Immediately precede
Eugene's Trall-to-Trall pagenat,
opening July 24.
The parade, highlight of the
convention, will be held July 22,
Kelley said.
Nazis Balkan
Surge Arouses
Soviet Action
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Four Ministers Summoned
To Moscow as Rival
Armies Line Frontier '
BUDAPEST, Jan. 6. (API
Soviet Russia's ministers to Bul
garia, Yugoslavia, Rumania and
Hungary sped to Moscow today
reportedly for consultations on
Germany's ever-increasing mili
tary might in the Balkans.
The summoning of the envoys
was taken here as the first de
finite evidence the Russians have
given of their interest in the
large scale German troop move
ments of the last week.
In some soviet circles In the
Balkans It was reported that
Moscow already has warned Ber
lin against a "step which might
seriously endanger good rela
tions between Russia and Ger
many, and soviet quarters in
Belgrade said the summoning of
tne ministers definitely was
linked with the "new mllltarv de
velopments In Rumania and Hun
gary." (There was no direct comment
immediately from Moscow. Rus
sian troops have been reported
massed on the Bessarablan bor
der, next to Rumania.)
Behind the wall of secrecy in
Rumania, meanwhile, Germany's
Balkan force (estimated by some
observers at as high as 600,000
men) was said to be consolidat
ing its position along the frontier
with Russia, along the Danube
facing Bulgaria and In cities only
a few miles from Yugoslavia.
Bulgaria, where the Bulgarian
communist party distributed leaf
lets saying that "soviet Russia
will not allow a single German
soldier to set foot on Bulgaria,"
often has been mentioned as a
possible path for a German drive
on the Dardanelles or Greece.
Bulgaria's neighbor, Yugoslavia,
was pictured as uncomfortable
over this possibility but German
quarters in Belgrade asserted
Yugoslavia would be treated as
"another Sweden if she be
haved." In Berlin, foreign correspond-
(Continued on page 6)
Noted British Aviatrix
Feared Drowning Victim
LONDON, Jan. 6. (AP) Brit
ish autuhoritlcs expressed fear to
night that Amy Johnson Mollison,
one of Britain's outstanding wom
en fliers and divorced wife of
James A. Mollison, trans-Atlantic
flier, drowned yesterday in The
Thames estuary after bailing out
of a plane she was ferrying for
the air transport auxiliary.
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Democrats are In power for the fifth conteoutive session as the 77th congress begins work In
Washington. Plctochart shows political lineup of members In both houses. Democrats have three
more seats In the house than In the 76th session, three less In the senate.
Navy Bomber
Crash Erases
Eleven Lives
s
Victims Include Four Who
Escaped Death in Air
. Tragedy 4 Days Before.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 6.
(AP) Civil and naval officials,
poking through the scattered
wreckage of a $120,000 navy
transport plane, asserted today
mat nad the big ship been fly
ing 20 feet higher it would have
cleared the rugged Mother
Grundy range and reached its
destination only 20 miles away
with all 11 occupants safe.
The navy arranged for an of
ficial Investigation of the crash
that killed everybody aboard, in
cluding four who had escaped
ddath only last Thursday In a
llexas bomber mishap.
;A low ceiling and dense fog
made flying conditions hazar
dous in the area, some 35 miles
southeast of here, and reports
of neighboring ranchers led a
belief the pilot might have got
ten off his radio beam.
The craft struck 20 feet below
the ridge, exploded and burned.
Wreckage was hurled over the
top of the 3000-foot granite sum
mit and scattered over a half
mile area.
The big plane, en route to the
naval air station here, carried
three members of a board of In
quiry appointed to investigate
the Texas accident, and the four
suryivors pf that previous mis-
The four had parachuted to
safety when their bomber, being
ferried from here to Pensncola,
Fla., by way of Corpus Chrlsti,
Tex., encountered a severe storm.
A fifth crew member "balled out"
but was killed when his 'chute
failed to open. The pilot and co
pilot, who risked their lives to
ride out the storm and land the
ship on a small pond, proved ul
timately to be the only survivors
of the seven aboard the bomber.
The dead were Lt.-Comdr. Jo
seph Henry Gowan, 54, Head
Hill, Ark., pilot; David Everett
Ferguson, 33, Neponsct, W..Va.,
copilot; Lt. Comdr. Stephen
Bland Cooke, 42, Harrison, Ark.,
(Continued on page 6)
Negroes Become Priests
After 14 Years' Study v
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss., Jan. 6.
(AP) Four young negro men,
ending 14 years of study today
with vows of chastity, poverty
and obedience as part of their
ordination Into the priesthood,
became part of the slowly grow
ing band of pioneer Catholic mis
sionaries to their own race.
Anointed, after lying prostrate
before the chapel altar to 'show
their humility in the sight of
God, they will go forth to In
struct other negroes on the Gold
Coast of Africa or in some dilapi
dated hamlet of the deep south.
They came to St. Augustines
seminary here, the only Catholic
seminary for negroes in the
United States, while almost chil
dren.
Shows Democrats
Youngest Lad In
U.S. Army is 15
p c
The army's no place for sof
ties, but evidently age has noth
ing to do with It. Private Harry
Wohlfeil, Jr., pictured above at
Fort Custer, Mich., where he's
attached to the 50th field artil
lery, has attained the ripe old
age of 15. He's believed to be
the youngest soldier In the
U. S.
All's Ready For
C. of C. Meeting
JP.lan.have. been completed for
the annual banquet meeting of
the Roseburg chamber of com
merce membership at the Ump
qua hotel at 6:30 p. m. Thursday,
Jan. 8, according to W. C. Hard
ing, secretary. The banquet will
be served in the hotel lobby, and
alt persons desiring to attend are
requested to make advance reser
vations, as there is a limit to the
number of accommodations avail
able. The program will feature an
address by Dr. Victor P. Morris,
dean of the school of business
administration, University of
Oregon, Dr. Morris, a well
known speaker, will have a mess
age of much Interest, It is re
ported. Other entertainment will In
clude music by the Roseburg
high school Swlngsters, directed
by J. D. (Snap) Glllmore, and
vocal selections by the Roseburg
Men's Glee club, ' directed by
Ralph M. Church.
The meeting will be conducted
by Tom Parkinson, president of
the chamber of commerce.
Police Dog Bars Help
To His Dying Master
CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 6.
(AP) For two hours, while
his master lay dying on a side
walk, a big police dog refused to
permit police or bystanders to
touch William B. Harkness, Gl.
A humane officer's understand
ing finally won him away, but
Harkness was dead of a heart
attack when he reached a hospit
al. Still in Power
Message, Predicting Attack
On U, S: if Axis Wins, Pleads
For All Aid for Democracies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. I AP) Present Roosevelt today
foretold a "physical attack" on the United States "if the dictator
nations win this war" in a message to Congrats urging a "swift
and driving increase" in armament production.
. The United States, the chief executive told the legislators,
faces an unprecedented "foreign peril." He asked that the war
supplies turned out in the swift-paced program he envisioned be
made available for the fighting "democracies" abroad as well as;
for this country's own defense forces.
Grid Star's Kin
Burned to Death
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan.- 6.
(AP) Two members of the Da
vid Allerdice, Sr., family the
mother and young son were
dead today and the father and
22-year-old son, a Princeton uni
versity ' football star, were in a
hospital with serious burns suf
fered in rescue efforts as fire
swept their northslde duplex
apartment yesterday.
Overcome by smoke from the
fire of undetermined origin, the
mother, Mrs. Cornelia Kaesbey
Allerdice, 43, and' eight-year-old
Anthony died of suffocation.
The senior Allerdfco, who Is
vice-president of an Indianapolis
meat packing firm, was burned
on the head, face, hands, feet
and back, while David, Jr., suf
fered burns on his face and neck.
David, Jr., who arrived In In
dianapolis Saturday from San
Francisco where he played In
the east-west - charity football
game on New Year's day, discov
ered the fire when he came home
shortly before 5 a. m. His cries
of warning aroused members of
another family in the first floor
apartment, where the blaze was
reported to have started.
Two Insular Governors
Nominated by Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. (AP)
President Roosevelt nominated
Guy J. Swopo, former Pennsyl
vania congressman, today to be
governor of Puerto Rico, and
Charles Harwood of Now York
to be governor of the Virgin Is
lands. Swope, an auditor for the
Pennsylvania railroad, will suc
ceed Admiral William D. Leahy,
who has been sent to France as
United States ambassador.
Harwood, on attorney and for
mer judge In the canal zone, will
succeed Lawrence W, Cramer,
who resigned.
The president also nominated
Dr. Leonard George Towntree of
Pennsylvania to be chief of the
medical division of the national
selective service organization.
Newly-Elected Douglas
Officials Start Duties
The recently elected Douglas
county officers today took over
their respective duties, Cliff
Thornton succeeding Percy Webb
as sherltr, Oliver Johnson suc
ceeding I). H. Lenox as county
treasurer and Mrs. Lula Gorrell
replacing Stella Qulne as county
school superintendent. The Rose
burg city council also will begin
a new term tonight at Its first
meeting of the year, when Fred
Hurgls and O. J. Feldkamp will
be seated as new members. May
or A. J. Young is expected to an
nounce committee appointments,
and appointments of heads of
various city departments.
Many Selectees Fail to
Meet Army Physical Test
I SALEM, Are., Jan. 6. (AP)
Of the first 1,000 Oregon men
given physical examinations un
der the draft law, 13.5 per cent
were found physically unfit for
any military service and 15.3 per
cent were found qualified for lim
ited military service, Lieutenant
Colonel Klmer V. Wooten, state
director of selective service, Bald
today.
The principal causes of physi
cal disability were bad or Insuffi
cient teeth, defective, vision, her
nia, flat- feet and heart defects.
rne need or tne moment," rar.
Roosevelt said In his annual mes
sage on the state of the union, "la
that our actions and our policy
should be devoted primarily al
most exclusively to meeting this)
foreign peril. For all our domes
tic problems are now a part ot
the great emergency."
More Funds Wanted
Appearing before a joint ses
slon of house and senate, the chief
executive said he would ask con
gress for "greatly Increased new
appropriations" to carry on tha
defense program and recommend
ed that "a greater portion of this
great defense program be paid
for fram taxation than we are)
paying today."
"1 also ask this congress," ho
said, "for authority and for funds
sufficient to manufacture addi
tional munitions and war sup
plies of many kinds, to be turned
over to those nations which are
now in actual war with aggressor
nations.
"Our most useful and Immedi
ate role is to act as an arsenal
for them as well as for ourselves.
They do not need man power but
they do need billions of dollars;
worth-of-' the weapons K de.
fenso. ',
"The time Is near when they
will not be able to pay for1 them
In ready cash. We cannot, and
will not, tell them they must sur
render, merely because of pres
ent Inability to pay for the weap
ons which we know they must ,
have.
"I do not recommend that wa
mnke them a loan of dollars with
which to pay for these weapons
a loan to be repaid In dollars.
"I recommend that we make It
possible for those nations to con
tinue to obtain war materials in
the United States, fitting their or
ders Into our own program. Near
ly all of their material, would, If
the time ever came, be useful for '
our own defense.
"For what we send abroad, wa '
shall be repaid, within a reason
able time following the close ot
hostilities, In similar materials,
or, at our option. In other goods
of many kinds which they can
produce and which we need."
Mr. Roosevelt did not list tha
nations to receive help through
his lease-lend plan, but in his re
cent fireside tnlk on defense ha
referred specifically to Britain,
China and Greece.
"Such aid Is not an act of war,"
Mr. Roosevelt asserted, "even If
a dictator should unilaterally pro
claim lt so to be."
Threats Ignored
Tn fulfillment of the purpose;
of extending aid, the president al
so declared, the nation "will not '
be Intimidated by the threats ot
dictators that they will regard as
a breach of International law and
(Continued on page 6)
Snow Closes 3 Mountain
Highways of Oregon
. PORTLAND, Jan. 6. (AP)-.
Threo mountnln highways wera
closed by snow today, at least
two for the winter, as Oregon
settled down to some typical Jan
uary weather.
The Oregon Automobile asso
ciation reported that the Me
Kenzlo pass route from Eugene
to cpntrnl Oregon was blocked
nt the summit vpsterdav. Th
Mount Hood loop highway also
was closed from the Junction
with Oregon 50. near Govern
ment Camp, to Cooper Spur road,
north toward Hood River. Both
will remain closed for the win
ter. The Diamond lake, Union
creek road to state highway 230,
also was closed but may be re- '
opened later, the association
said.
All other highways were open.
although snow blanketed central
and eastern Oregon routes and
covered the Columbia river high
way from Multnomah falls to
Hood River,