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European Nations, Eager to Get American Food for Their Stomachs, Would Benefit Also in Other Ways if They Absorbed Some American Food for Thought. CONGRESS It's disposal of 'the Roosevelt . budget recommendations - will highlight national news for some time. Outstanding will be Its de cision on further aid to Britain, The NEWS-REVIEW will keep you posted. THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Slightly colder tonight. See page 4 for statistics. VOL. XLV NO. 234 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO. 132 OF THE EVENING NEWS me mi IB) mmn re mm LfU 3.3 Rescue Chanel 7or Tobruk Cut Ott by British Besiegers New Italian Stand Facing Bardias Fate Italian Losses in Albania Mount Heavily; Germans ' Destroy British Ships. f 'By the Associated Press) Italy's last major defense base In eastern Libya, the port of To bruk, was reported cut off from fescue today "another Bardia" with its garrison of 30,000 fas cist troops caught in the tighten ing trap of the British army of the Nile. Sea blockade and tank encircle ment of Tobruk, 80 miles west of the Egyptian border, were said lo effectively bar any large rein forcements. "Concenctration of our forces in the Tobruk area is continu ing," a British general headquar ters statement said laconically. The statement said total Brit ish and Australian casualties in the capture of Bardia were less than 600. Combined British and Greek es ' I tlmatcs placed Italy's losses at some 150,000 men captured, kill ed, wounded or missing in Af rica and Greece. '' Garrison Head Escapes. British general headquarters in Cairo reported that General Annl bale ("Electric Whiskers") Ber gonboii, commander of the Ital ian garrison at fallen Bardia, es caped in the capture of the fascist base. He had previously been re ported taken prisoner. "On the night before Bardia fell," a British announcement said, "the blackshirt corps com mander and his two blackshirt commanders deserted their troops (f'ontinupd on pase II) VInThc,V-? DayV News V By FRANK JENKINS AS to the state of the nation, President Roosevelt tells the new congress: "At NO PREVIOUS TIME has American security been as ser iously threatened from without as it is today." We are threatened, he adds, because dictators are aiming at domination of the world. AS to our commitments, he says: "By Impressive ex pression, of public will and with out regard to partisanship, we are committed': 1. To all-inclusive national de fense. 2. To full support of ALL those resolute peoples EVERY WHERE who are resisting ag gression and are thereby keeping war away from our hemisphere. AS to our present job, he tells "us: "Our most useful and Imme diate role is to act as an arsenal for them (the resolute peoples who are resisting aggression) as well as for ourselves. . . . The time is near when they will not be able to pay for what they need In ready cash. We can not and WILL NOT tell them they must surrender merely because of present inability to pay for the (Continued on page 4) Sea Raider Said Again on Prowl One of the most dramatic rumors to come out of the war's strict censorship revolved about the famed Count Felix von Luckner, jabove, , world war skipper oflthe German raider "Sea Devil." Reports state that Von Luckner Is In command of the German raider (possibly a former British ship) which has played havoo with British ship ping In the Pacific. Utility Line Work Soon Will Start The I. and E. Construction company of Minneapolis, which holds the contract for building approximately 185 miles of trans mission lines for the North Doug las Electric Cooperative, is mak ing ready to start actual opera tions within the next few days, it was reported today by R. L. Adams, county R.E.A. manager. The company has established of fices in the Fruit Growers ware house at Sutherlin, where H. R. Robowski is serving as manager. Mr. Robowski, who arrived here New Year's day, has been ill at Mercy hospital since his arrival, hut has now recovered sufficient ly to take up his duties. The company now is engaged in stringing out poles along the route of the transmission line in preparation for construction work expected to proceed at the rate of about six miles per day. The company has until about April 1 to complete the work but expects to have the system in op eration considerably ahead of that date, Mr. Adams reports. A large crew is to be employed in the construction work and preference is to be given in all unskilled labor to the members of the cooperative. Traffic Crash Kills One, Sends Another to Hospital THE DALLES, Ore., Jan. 8. (AP) One man was killed and another seriously Injured in an early morning automobile-truck collision on the Columbia river highway near here. State Police Sergeant Frank Grimm said F. C. Mclllroy, Dee, Ore., the driver, was killed as his car skidded on slick pavement, struck a truck and 'trailer and piled into a bank. Bud Chambers, Hood River, a passenger In the Mclllroy car, was in a Hood River hospital with five broken ribs and a lung puncture. His condition was re ported serious. Another passen ger, John Rockwell, Hood River, and the track driver, Harry Culp, Portland, escaped Injury. Grimm said all occupants of the car were en route to Celllo canal where they were employed. U. S. Food To Be Shipped To France.. Spain Britain Lifts Blockade on Assurance That Red Cross Will Head Distribution. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (AP) The American Red Cross an nounced today that it was plan ned to dispatch an American ship late this month loaded with condensed milk and other relief supplies for unoccupied France and a consignment of flour and milk for Spain. In addition, Chairman Norman H. Davis said that the Red Cross had offered to the Spanish gov ernment on certain conditions a cargo of wheat or flour, appar ently a separate ship load, to meet the immediate needs of the civilian population. The plans were made for the relief shipments after an agree ment with the British govern ment for their passage through the blockade. The French and Spanish gov ernments are being notified, Da vis said, that the Red Cross is ready to proceed with the emer gency relief shipment under cer tain conditions. These conditions were not spe cified but they were believed to involve assurances of complete freedom for Red Cross authori ties in distributing and handling the supplies. Program For France In the case of France, Davis outlined the following relief pro- (Continued on page 6) Youth in Army Uniform Is Held in Double Car Theft A youth, who gave officers the name of Wetherboe but bore pa pers giving the name of Frank Marlon Elliott of the 99th field artillery, Phoenix, Ariz., was in custody at Grants Pass today, charged with the theft of an au tomobile. He admitted to state police, ac cording to a report from Grants Pass, that he abandoned a Nebraska-licensed car, reported stol en from Eugene, near Myrtle Creek Monday night. He also Is accused of stealing a car at Grants Pass. Dressed In army uniform, the young man denied being an army man and claimed loss of memory, according to' the report made at Grants Pass by State Police Cor poral Lyle Harrell. MRS. J. E. HIGGINBOTHAM, of Myrtle Creek, and David Ross, her son, holding an automobile seat cover which they had made from buckskin. "We made one like It many years ago for a Myrtle Creek man," Mrs. Hlgginbotham told me, "and he has Just ordered another one." The buckskin, dyed many dif ferent colors, forms a rather magnificent seat cover. It seems to me I'd rather have It for a coat, or a pair of pants; although I In the latter case I suppose I'd. i still not get away from the ori ginal idea. Mrs. Hlgginbotham. as I relat ed yesterday, manufactures j gloves and other pliable leather goods, assisted by her son. I zzzl;SAW By Paul Jenkins To Join List Of Roosevelt Aides Sherman Minton WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (AP) President Roosevelt announced yesterday that he would appoint former Senator Sherman Minton to be one of his administrative assistants. Minton, an Indianan and democratic whip of the sen ate through the last session, was defeated for reelection in No vember. As an administrative aide, Mr. Roosevelt told reporters, Minton will serve, with a passion for anonymity, as the president's legs, eyes and ears. Alleged Communist Again Faces Deportation Try . NEW ORLEANS, Jhn. S. (AP) The government today reopen ed the widely publicized Joseph George Strecker "communist" case, once linked with efforts to deport Harry Bridges, California labor leader. Strecker, saved from deporta tion as a communist by thct su preme court in 1939, was arrest ed yesterday In Hot Springs, Ark., and sent to New Orleans where Immigration officials said he might still be returned to his native Austria under the 1940 alien act. C. A. Stanfleld,' Slrecker's at torney, said In Little Rock he be lieved the revived action was bas ed on a section of the 1940 alien act providing that any alien, who at any time had been a member of the communist party, was sub ject to deportation. The previous law, under which Strecker was prosecuted, did not apply if an alien had ceased to be a member, as Strecker claimed. NVws-ltevlrw I'hoto and KnKrriving Watching them as they worked, and listening to the stories they had to tell of their travels, I couldn't make up my mind which 1 thought would be the most fun manufacturing or selling. They have traveled all over the west In their quest for skins and the manufacture and sale of their product. I recall, when they were In Myrtle Creek be fore, they made annual pilgrim mages to the Navajo Indian res ervation to buy a particular type of goatskin which the Navajos produced. Someday, If I ever get enough money saved up, I'm going to buy a buckskin Jarket I saw at the Ross factory; but it takes more than pin money . , . and I don't mean maybe. NavyShakeup Establishes 3 Main Units Rear Admiral Kimmel to Head Fleets; Manpower Boost of 42,000 Ordered. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (AP) Reorganization of the United States navy into three main fleets the Atlantic, Pacific and Asiatic fleets was ordered today by Secretary Knox, who an nounced at the same time that President Roosevelt had author ized an Increase of 42,000 in naval manpower. The reorganization, which Knox said "reallv fits the facts," will become effective February 1 and a new set of commanders, headed bv Rear Admiral Hus band E. Kimmel as commanded in-chief of all fleets, will assume authority on that day. Kimmel, present commander of battleforce cruisers, also bo comes chief of the Pacific fleet, succeeding Admiral James Rich ardson, who will go on undis closed duty. War Power Basis Aim The changes will raise the sta tus of the present Atlantic pa trol force and the Asiatic squa dron to that of fleets. Knox de scribed the future Atlantic fleet as consisting of the approximate ly 125 ships now in the patrol force, the Asiatic fleet as the squadron now based in Asiatic waters, and the Pacific fleet as the fleet now based at Hawaii. -The ; president's authorization of an Increase in the navy's en listed personnel, Knox said, was designed "to take care of the ex panding fleet" so that new ships may be given crews at 100 per cent of war strength as fast as the ships are commissioned. Keep All Destroyers Knox disclosed the presidential action and his own orders at a press conference at which he al so was asked about the possibil ity of making additional United States destroyers available to the British. "I don't think any more de stroyers can be detached from our fleet without seriously inv (Continued on pane ID British Founder of Boy Scouts Passes NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, Jan. 8. ( AP) Lord Baden-Powell, 83, a veteran soldier who spent the last 30 years of his life work ing for peace as the founder of the boy scout movement, died to day at his home In Nyerl, Kenya colony. He had been In precarious health since last November, when he suffered a series of se vere heart attacks. A lineal descendant of the early American settler, John Smith, Lord Baden-Powell had visited the United States on nu merous occasions the last time In Anril, 1937, when he delivered a radio address to the hoy scouts of the worjd from San Francis co. Lord Baden-P.well founded the bov scouts in 1910, following his retirement from the British army, to "promote goon citizen ship In the rising generation" and to further peace through the advancement of international un derstanding. ' A veteran soldier and a re tired lieutenant-general, he had served with the British armed forces In Africa during the Boer war and participated In the fa mous defense of Mafeklng. One of his last public utter ances was a message Issued last June from his Kenya colony home to British boy scouts call ing for "still further effort" to heln win the war. "You have done grand work be hind the scenes already," he said, "but as the fighting has grown more desperate It calls for still further effort from you. "So with tails up and sleeves up, go to It In every way you can lo help win the war." Although known best for his work with the boy scouts, Baden Powell also founded the girl scouts, of which his widow Is the I British head. C. of C. Banquet Will Hear Him i i 1 Or. Victor P. Morris, above, will be the speaker' Thursday night at the annual banquet meeting of the Roseburg cham ber of commerce. Dr. Morris, dean of the school of business administration at University of Oregon, and widely known as a public speaker, is In partloular demand each year for ad dresses at commencement. He is expected to bring a timely message to the banquet crowd, which will assemble at the Umpqua hotel lobby at 6:30 o'clock. AFL Men Facing Charges of Theft REDDING, Callf.,Jan, 8 (AP) Three men were under Indict ment here today on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and grand theft in an asserted plot to cover up shortages In accounts of the AFL Construction and Gen eral Laborers' union. E. H. McAfee, union business agent, and his brother, Willis, were sought on bench warrants. The third man Indicted, Lyle Ross, a laborer who testified be fore the Shasta county grand jury, was in custody. Deputy District Attorney John A. Spann said Ross testified he robbed Richard Brennan, union secretary, last October 23 at the Instigation of Willis McAfee, and that E. H. McAfee urged him to rob a Redding automobile dealer of $3,000 on a "50-50 split" basis. Ross related, the prosecutor said, that Willis McAfee told of being "In a jam" over a $4,000 shortage In union expense funds and asked that he rob Brennan and seize the union records. Brennan was robbed of his satchel, carrying the record book, and $81 In cash.' Spann said the proposed rob bery of the automobile dealer, Darl Needham, never materializ ed. . Oregon Sheepman Found Dead on Malheur River ONTARIO, Ore., Jan. 8. (AP) Charles1 Sutherland, 63, promi nent eastern Oregon sheepman, was found dead In shallow water on the banks of the Malheur river near here yesterday. Coroner R. A. Tacke said he ap parently became exhausted and collapsed In the water after searching for help when his au tomobile became stuck. Sutherland was a director of federal grazing district No. 3, rep resenting sheepmen. Hen Hitch-Hikes 10-Mile Ride on Auto's Bumper SUTHERLIN, Jan. 8. Ern est Corty and George Cooper of this city drove ten miles up the Calapooia Saturday morning to their place of employment and upon arrival were startled by an unusual noise at the front end of their car. Investiga tion revealed that a bantam hen, a pet of the Ccrly chil dren, had hitch hiked a ride on the front bumper, and, un perturbed by the long, cold ride, was quite able to hop down and start a hunt for worms in new territory. Defense Takes 60 Per Cent Of Total Asked by Roosevelt; Debt Limit, Tax Boosts Held Needed WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (API President Roosevelt asked congress today for $17,485,528,049 in an unprecedented peace time budget reflecting "a world at war" and the huge cost of preparing "for total defense," Mr. Roosevelt allotted $10,811,314,600 of his 1942 budget exclusively to national defense, estimated the deficit for the year beginning July I at $9,210,093,409 and foretold a public debt pushed by that deficit to a record $58,367,065,056 by June 30, l?4Z. Defense Outlay In U. S. Budget WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (AP) President Roosevelt took 1,071 closely printed pages to give con' gress all the details of his "total defense" budget, but here are its essentials in a nutshell: - Spending $17,485,528,049 In fis cal year beginning Ju'y 1; $13,- 202,370,970 in current fiscal year. Defense $10,811,314,600 next year; $6,463,923,900 this. Aid to Britain and Other De mocracies All extra, amount un determined. Revenues $8,275,435,000 next year; $7,012,930,000 this. D e f I o 1 1 $9,210,093,049 next year; $6,189,440,970 this. Publlo Debt Now $45,000,000,- 000;, on June 30, 1941, $49,156,972, 007; on June 30, 1942, $58,367,065, 056. Defense 8ummary Approprla- tions, authorizations and recom mendations since June, 1940, and Including today's requests $28, 480,000,000, Including $13,704,000, 000 Jor .army; $11,587,000,000 tor navy, $1,902,000,000 for expansion of industrial plants r and $1,287, 000,000 for anti-sabotage and oth er defense activities. Non-Defense Costs $6,674,000,- 000 next fiscal year, reduced from $7,078,000,000 this year. In creases for debt interest, social security, and national youth ad ministration; decreases for relief, agricultural aid, publlo works. Taxes President asked more taxes, but left types and amounts to congress. Said rise in national income to hlRhest levels In his tory, expected next fiscal year, also would produce revenue from existing taxes. Four Indians Die After "Anti-rreeie Cocktails" SEATTLE, Jan. 8. (AP) An "anti-frceze cocktail party" among Indians on the Muckle- shoot reservation, Deputy Coron cr Harlan S. Callahan said, brought two more deaths today, Increasing the number of victims to four. Two men in whose home the party was held, died at the Har borvlew hospital early today. The wife of one of the men, and another woman were found dead at the home yesterday. The party was held Monday night on the reservation near Au burn, south of here, a fifth mem ber of the party who did not par take of the drinks, Callahan said, reported the others mixed auto mobile . antl-freeze with berry juice. San Francisco Teacher Hit-Run Driver's Victim SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. (AP) Oscar James, 50-year-old San Francisco high school teach er, was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Market street today and his body knocked under a street car with such force a fire department crew had to be called to pry him loose. He suffered a broken leg, In ternal injuries and possible skull fracture. Police tried to contact -his wife, Esther, and two chil dren, who were driving home ; from Salem, Ore., where they visited relatives. Elderly Pair Burned as Heater Ignites Bedding TACOMA, Jan. 8. (AP) An elderly couple each 86 years of age suffered severe burns here early today when their clothing on their bed became Ignited by an electric heater. Surgeons said the condition of the couple, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Flnmand, was "complicated" by fhelr advanced age- The budget made no provisions for the cost of aid to Britain, Greece and China an extensive program to be covered In subse quent appropriations request. Congressional leaders said that the overall cost of this alone might eventually total $10,000, 000,000, but were uncertain on how great the actual cash out lay would have to be for the first year. Irrespective of these future aid requests, nothing in treasury history compared with the huge figures- presented to the senate and house since the last year of the world war when spending reached $18,522,895,000 and the deficit $13,370,638,000. "A wry turn of fate places this burden of defense on the backs of a peace-loving people," the president said of the budget which was read by clerks. Only "Forecast" of Future But, Mr. Roosevelt continued, even these big sums, 62 per cent of them earmarked for defense where only "a forecast o things to come. . . , No one can predict the ultimate cost of a program that is still In develop ment.': v"-? :.; .:--."; .-v-r--: .The sole guiding "marker" down the road, ho added, was "a command to defend our democra tic way of life." In line with the assortlon -of his annual message that the nation put "patrio tism ahead of pooketbooks" ' In helping defray defense costs, the - chief executive called for Increased taxation, but made no specific recom mendations. Counting today's recommenda--Hons,' the president estimated that since June, 1940, defense ap propriations, authorizations and requests aggregated $28,480,000, 000. , - . Production Lagging The only reason today's xc quests were not higher, he told reporters, was industry's appar ent inability to produce any more weapons than had been budgeted. .- In this connection, however, (Continued on page 6) Help Won't Save Britain, Nazis Say By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, Jan. 8. (AP) The German press, with a unanimous, apparently ppreconcelved pat tern, declared today that Presi dent Roosevelt's Monday mess age to congress was historically Inaccurate and would have prac tically no bearing on the outcome of the war. Britain's doom is sealed, the) newspapers declared, and Ameri can aid will come too late. The Deutsche Allgemclnc Zel tung, said "Roosevelt imperial Ism seeks not only supremacy over the western hemisphere re publics of South and Central America, by bases and pincers of capitalistic economy, but al so seeks to lay the groundwork; for a heritage from the British empire." Inasmuch as the British nev er even paid their world war debts, this method of payment (post-war repayment of ships and arms loaned) is a pure fic tion," the paper declared. It headlined the comment on President Roosevelt's message "eccentric arguments for a lost cause." Hours before the papers ap peared, the editorial tack they followed had been foretold by au thoritative quarters. They said the papers would call Mr. Roosevelt's message "ar rogant beyond description and, as compared with his fireside talk, even less dignified, more abnormally nervous and more fraught with historical inaccura cies."
