Bulgaria's Official Assertion that no Foreign Troops Have Ente red Her Boundaries Recalls the Person Who "Couldn't See the Forest Because of the Trees."
LEGISLATURE
THE WEATHER
By U. S. Weather Bureau
Rain tonight. Friday showers.
Little change in temperature.
See page 4 for statistics.
Bills are accumulating In the
hopper, some of them ol a highly,
controversial character. Disposal
will be marked by proceedings o
interest to NEWS-REVIEW read
ers. Watch its columns lor tha
law grind at Salem.
VOL. XLV NO. 241 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
RObbBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941.
VOL. XXIX NO.139 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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By FRANK JENKINS
I OU SALICA, so badly beaten
In the 13th round at Phila
delphia that the smart boys were
laying 7 to 1 bets against him,
rallies in the 14th and wins the
decision in the 15-round bout to
retain his world's bantamweight
title.
Some of the wice boys who
are counting Britain out already
take note. The outcome of ANY
battle depends on staying
power.
OTRIKES in Michigan factories
making airplane parts (in
cluding .vitally necessary EN
GINE parts) spread until it is
reported today (Tuesday) that
3500 workers are affected.
That is good news for Hitler.
IT is becoming plainer every day
that the side that gains control
of the air will win the war.
OUR JOB (as at present out
lined) is to help the British gain
control of the air. If we accom
plish that job with time to
spare, we may be able to stay
out of the war. If we FAIL and
the British are beaten, WE
WIIX BE IN.
Whether your boy goes to war
or doesn't now depends upon how
quickly and how effectively we
ran provide the British with the
Weapons t hey need especially
Ivarplanes.
That, In its turn, denenris upon
.iPEED OF PRODUCTION.
AS to these Michigan troubles,
James F. Dewey, the federal
labor concilator, announces in
Detroit that, as a defense meas
ure he will insist that all plants
he reopened and all striking em
ployees put back to work.
He adds: "The disDute can be
setlled AFTER THE PLANTS
ARE RUNNING AGAIN."
THIS is an emergency.
While the emergency lasts,
neither the employer who is dis
satisfied with his profit nor 'the
worker who is dissatisfied with
his wage can safely be permitted
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Preparations Outlined for Launching
Food Stamp Plan in Douglas Call For
Coordinating Committee, Mass Meet
Work on many fronts, prepara
tory to ushering In the U. S. de
partment of agriculture's food
stamp plan into southwest Ore
gon by the latter part of Janu
ary, is progressing rapidly accord
ing to a statement made today by
Parlour Johnson, Douglas county
welfare administrator.
"We have begun to compile rec
ord cards for all families in the
county eligible to purchase food
stamps and, according to official
word received today, organization
of a county coordinating commit
tee of food retailers will be eorr
pleted within the next week or
two," said the administrator.
It was pointed out that after
full Instructions have been sent
public assistance families, and
food stamps have been purchas
ed by them from the welfare de
partment, the next step in the suc
cessful operation of the plan rests
entirely with the grocers.
Mass Meeting First.
The county committee will work
with the state surplus foods com-
mlttee In getting Information to!
the county's retailers through
folders, merchandising material
and a county-wide mass meeting
to be held just prior to the inau
guration of the plan.
"With the extension of the plan
to southwest Oregon more than
15,250 persons receiving public as
sistance will be entitled to obtain
one-third more of healthful.
wholesome foods through their I
Wii elmshaven Naval Base
Again Blasted by Britons
Other Nazi
Harbors Also
Hit by Raiders
London's Defense Downs
2 Bombers; Blows Dealt
In Mediterranean Area
LONDON, Jan. 16. (AP) The
British air force blasted the Ger
man naval base at Wilhelmshav
en "throughout the night" and
also bombed docks at Emden,
Brcmerhaven and Flushing, the
air ministry announced today.
Airdromes in northwest Ger
many and Holland and the harbor
at Brest, in German-occupied
France, were attacked simultan
eously by other British air units,
a communique declared.
One British plane was reported
missing in these operations.
The raid on Wilhelmshaven, the
40th directed at that base since
the outset of the war, was de
scribed by official circles as "the
heaviest and most successful yet,"
and the air ministry said "exten
sive fires" had been started.
Airmen returning from the at
tack were quoted as saying that
fires started by the first raiders
to reach Wilhelmshaven were so
fierce and widespread they had
difficulty iri. picking, out spcciCicI
targets.
Besides striking at the naval
base, the RAF was said to have
smashed at German forces in "in
vasion ports" and around advance
airdromes used for attacks on
Britain.
Twenty persons were killed and
35 injured and several houses set
afire In a British air raid last
night on the major naval port of
Wilhelmshaven, the German high
command at Berlin announced to
day. Nazis Strike Back.
Britain's slowly evolving de
fense against night raiders was
credited today with bringing two
German bombers down in the
London area these in a sharply
curtailed attack.
. Towns on the English east
coast and in the midlands, as well
as London, received the destruc
tive attention of German bomb
ers. The nazl attack on the British
capital the, first after dark since
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regular neighborhood . stores,"
said Mr. Johnson. "In Douglas
eountv it is estimated that more
than 2584 persons will be eligible
to participate."
How Plan Works.
"Studies have been made to de
termine just how much cash pub
lic assistance families spend for
food. Under the stamp plan the
same amount of cash is used to
buv orange colored food stamps
and for every dollar so spent the
purchaser receives 50e in blue sur
plus food stamps free. Foods
bought In local markets with
stamns are the same in quality,
brands and price as when bought
for cash."
Foods which are surplus at the
present time such as eggs, but
ter, apples, potatoes, pork and
fourteen other commodities
have always been stocked by food
stores. Under the stamp plan the
food retailer continues to pur
chase these foods from his whole
saler In the same manner as he
has always been doing. However,
the added demand for these sur-
plus foods through the blue sur
plus food stamps, moves Increas
ed quantities from overladen
farm, to wholesaler, to retailer, to
underconsumlng family.
It Is estimated that food pur
chasing power among public as
sistance families in the six south
western counties will be increas
ed more than $274,000 annually
through blue stamps alone.
Final Attack On
Tobruk Garrison
Still Deferred
(By the Associated Press)
In the Libyan desert campaign,
British troops besieging 30,000
Italians at Tobruk took advant
age today of a respite in a 7-day
sandstorm to prepare for the fi
nal assault on the fascist garri
son. British artillery ringed within
four miles of Tobruk's outer de
fenses were reported shelling the
town sporadically, concentrating
on an attempt to silence a big
Italian naval gun, planted ashore,
whoch British troops dubbed "To
bruk Tom."
An Associated Press correspon
dent with the British army said
the withering fire such as pre
ceded the capture of Bardia has
not yet begun on Tobruk.
The Italian General Argentino,
captured four days Ago by a Bri
tish motorboat crew after he es
caped from Sidi Barrani and Bar
dia, was reported to have ended
a hunger strike with the cry:
"For all I care about this des
ert, you can have it! I myself
am a poet."
Between 30 and 40 aircraft
were either burned or severely
damaged in a British raid on Ca
tania airdrome, Sicily, on Sun
day night, royal, air. force head
quarters at Cairo said today.
Catania is believed to be the
base from which the German
dive bombers operated when
they attacked a Britis naval unit
escorting merchant vessels to
Greece last Friday.
A British admiralty communi-
qu eannounced today that a Bri
tish submarine had sunk two
Italian supply ships in the cen
tral Mediterranean.
British Forced To
Sink Own Cruiser
LONDON, Jan. 10. (AP)
The British announced tonight
that last Friday's attack by Ger
man dive bombers and Italian
planes on a Mediterranean con
voy was so effective that British
naval forces were forced to sink
their own badly damaged 9,100
ton cruiser Southampton.
Fire broke out aboard the
warship while she was being tow
ed to port, said a communique,
the crew abandoned ship and she
was sunk. Most of the crew was
saved. An earlier communique
had admitted the Southampton
was one of three ships damaged
in action off Sicily Jan. 10.
In the attack, the first real
show of German aerial force in
the Mediterranean area, the 23,
OOOton aircraft carrier Illus
trious, was also damaged. That
same day the British destroyer
Gallant of 1,335 tons, likewise
was damaged, either by mine or
toredo. Both these were able to
reach port.
Another admiralty communi
oue said the British submarine
Pandora had sunk two Italian
supply ships of about 5.000 tons In
the central Mediterranean ap
parently en route to Libya but
did not sav whether this hap
pened at the same time fhe naval
units, engaged In convoying mer
terial assistance" were attacked
from the air.
On that dav, however, the Brit
ish sank an Italian destroyer In
or near the Sicilian channel, be
tween Sicily and the north Afri
can mainland, shortly before the
nazi dive bombers, apparently
based in Sicily, opened their at
tack. Twelve planes were shot down
in mat engagement and a num
ber of others were damaged, the :
auinu aiiy Ham i uesuay. damaged.
The Southamnton was damaf- Cause of the fire has not been
ed in October. 1939, a month of-' determined. Officials of the
tor the start of the war when plant, the largest Industrial unit
mzl planes bombed the Firth oflln Eugene, said they did not
Forth nt Edinburgh. Scotland. I know of any employes being In
The British acknowledged slight j
damage to the bow.
Jaoan Scents
it
Trickery" In
U.S. Aid Plan
Withdrawal of Fleet to
Home Waters Advised;
South Drive Spurred
TOKYO, Jan. 16. (AP) The
foreign office-controlled Japan
Times suggested today that "the
best way" of keeping President
Roosevelt's "pledge that no troops
will be sent to foreign soil would
be to withdraw the navy to home
waters." '
Commenting on criticism in the
United States congress of the
lend-lease bill io aid Britain, the
Times said:
"To Japanese it looks very
much like the United States Is go
ing the long way around for send
ing armed forces into the scene
of action abroad" by maintain
ance of a fleet at Hawaii.
The Tokyo press urged the gov
ernment to hasten Japan s "south
ward program" and be ready for
resolute action to offset untisn
and United Gtates influence in
east Asia.
"Huge overseas naval concen
tratiqns are equivalent to exten
sion pf national boundaries," the
Times said. "In America's case,
they suggest dictatorship over the
parallels of a latitude below
Pearl Harbor, an invitation to oth
ers to keep away, therefore a
challenge and threat, prelimin
aries to hostilities, hence a con
tradiction of America's announc
ed policy of keeping its fighting
sons at home."
No Comment on Hull.
The government information
bureau declined to comment on
the statement of U. S. Secretary
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Youth Shoots Cop,
Commits Suicide
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 1G.
(AP) A youthful gunman killed
himself here today shortly after
shooting and seriously wounding
a police officer who followed him
from an cast-side store.
Detective Captain J. J. Keagan
said the youth was tentatively
identified from a social security
card as Harold James Richmond,
24, of Eugene, Ore.
Patrolman George L. Burch
was shot from a distance of less
than 10 feet after following the
gunman Into a side street. The
man raced two blocks to bulli-
van's gulch and threaded his way
along it for 20 blocks before po
lice converged on him and he
turned the gun upon himself, Kee
gan said.
Police knew no reason lor
Burch to be trailing the man, but
Earl Powell, employe of the store,
quoted the officer as saying "I
want that fellow; he's crazy as a
loon."
Keegan said the man's pockets
contained lists of business houses,
jewelry stores and wine shops at
Eugene, Junction City and Port
land in addition to the social se
curity card.
Fire Hits Packing Plant
Of Eugene Fruitgrowers
EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 1G. (AP)
Officials of the Eugene Fruit
growers association today esti
mated the fire which swept one
of the main packing plants yes
terday afternoon caused $25,000
damage, covered by insurance.
The roof, 30,000 cases of empty
tin cans and some produce and
eqnlpment
were destroyed or
tho portion of the building where
'the ire started.
Former Pacific
Bishop Passes
Horace M. Dubose
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 16.
(AP) Bishop Horace Mellard
Dubose, 82, learned scholar and
vigorous administrator of the for
mer Southern Methodist church
until he retired seven years ago,
died here yesterday.
He was at one time bishop of
the Pacific Coast conference and
editor of the Pacific Methodist
Advocate.
local Reservists
Ordered to Duty
Two Roseburg reserve officers
have received orders to report
for active duty with the U. S.
army, according to word reach,
ing here today. Donald Wim
mberly, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.
V. Wlmberly, has been ordered
to report for duty as a second
lieutenant with the 29th army
engineers at Portland, Feb. 1.
Wlmberly, who holds a reserce
commission In the engineers, fol
lowing R.O.T.C. training at Ore
gon StSate college, now is resid
ing at Berkeley, Calif. He is em
ployed in the Standard Oil com
pany engineering department at
Richmond.
Rex Applegate, commissioned
as a second lieutenant In the In
fantry reserve, is ordered to re
port at Fort Lewis and will leave
for that station tomorrow. He
came from Eugene last night to
arrange personal affairs. He has
been taking advanced military
training in the R. O. T. C. at Eu
gene and has completed all book
work preparatory to a captain's
commission. He has been as
signed to a newly created mili
tary police department which
will be assigned to anti-sabotage
duty in the Puget sound area.
Dieutenant Applegate was com
missioned In the Infantry re
serve following graduation from
University of Oregon, but return
ed to the university this year to
do post graduate work and has
particularly devoted his attention
to military training which is ex
pected to place him in line for ra
pid promotion.
Federal Demand Ends CIO
Deadlock Still Grips Efforts To
Avtrt Ryan Factory Tieup:
Arbitration May be Invoked.
DETROIT, Jan. 1G. (API
Strikers began returning to work
in Eaton Manufacurlng company
plants today under a peace plan
speeded into effect In the name
of national defense.
Four plants closed by symp
athy strikes were reopened, and
at a fifth at Saginaw, Mich.,
scene of the original dispute, pre
parations were made for carry
ing out a rehiring plan.
The company and tho striking
ClOUnlted Automobile Workers
reached an agreement Inst night.
.iij hours nrter Federal Concilia
tor James F. Dewey had demand
ed that the strikes cease and that
the company reopen its closed
plants.
The strikes, which had threat
ened to Interrupt production of
airplane engine parts for defense
orders, i began Monday In the
Saginaw plant with the UAW-
CIO charging that the company
refused to keep a rehiring agree
ment reached after a walkout In
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Jobless Pay
Law Changes
Asked in Bill
Proposed Benefits Boost
Faces Legislative Tilt; ,
Hopper Well Patronized ,
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
SALEM, Jan. 16. (AP) Pre
paring to adjourn this afternoon
until next Monday, the legisla
ture received today the first of
the controversial measures to
amend the unemployment com
pensation law.
The bills, introduced In the
house by Rep. Phil Brady (D.,
Multnomah), would Increase the
maximum benefits from $15 to
$24 a week for 20 weeks, instead
of 16 weeks; reduce the waiting
period for benefits from three
weeks to one week; and repeal
the merit rating provision under
which employers who dismiss
few employes would make small
er contributions.
The bills are expected to de
velop a clean-cut fight between
employers and labor. Governor
Sprague urged that the merit rat
ing system be given a trial.
F. D. R. Congratulated
The house passed unanimously
and sent to the senate the resolu
t i o n congratulating President
Roosevelt on his reelection, and
asking that congress, as well
as the president, shall lead
the nation through the foreign
crisis.
Rep. Richard L, Neubergcr (D.,
Multnomah), one of the sponsors
of the Resolution, introduced an
other ' today praying for the
"speedy and complete recovery"
of Senator Charles L, McNary,
now recuperating from pneu
monia in California. Neuberger
failed In his motion to place the
resolution on final passage today,
Speaker Robert S. Farrell, Jr.,
sending it to the resolutions com
mittee. Reapportionment Doomed
The Neuberger proposal to re
apportion the legislature was the
main topic of conversation in the
legislature, with most of the law
makers asserting the bill hasn't a
chance. Neuberger, himself, said
he doubted it would pass because
the upstate members would stand
together to see that the Multno
mah delegation is not Increased
at their expense.
Speaker Farrell announced he
would appoint a special commit
tee to consider the reapportion
ment, asserting the house elec
tions committee did not suffi
ciently represent each section of
the state.
Rep. Allan G. Carson (R., Ma
rlon), former president of the
state bar, introduced a measure
to prohibit attorneys who are
members of the legislature from
lobbying for outside Interests.
The measure provides penalties
of from three months to a year In
jail, or $250 to $2,500 fine, or
both.
Thirteen of the GO house mom-
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ntfisjr-' ..
ft 9Q V
Pictured above is a group of workers leaving the Wilcox-Rich division of the Eston Manufactur
ing company at Ssglnaw, Mich., under police escort, following J riot Monday in which several polloe
men and CIO strikers were injured. The strike, which tied up five units of the company, manufacur
lng parts for airplane engines, was ended today upon a demand of the federal government
Tax Authority
Will Speak Here
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Newa-RftVlew Engraving
F. H. Young, above, manager
of Oregon Business and Tax
Research, Inc., of Portland, an
authority on tax matters, will
address a public meeting, spon
sored by the Roseburg Klwanls
club, Tuesday, Jan. 21. A spe
cial Invitation hat been given
the directors of the Douglrs
County Taxpayers league, who,
following the luncheon, will
hold their annual election of
officers. Mr. Young will speak
on the subject, "Taxes Tho
Problem and Privilege of
Business and Property." All in
terested persons are Invited to
attend.
Spain Frees New Batch ,
Of American Prisoners '
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.
(AP) After many months' cap
tivity four American citizens who
have been prisoners of war In
Spain since the downfall of the
Madrid republic have at last re
turned to the United States as
free men.
Sixteen other Americans still
are held In Spanish prison camps
but their release is expected as a
result of negotiations under way
between the United States and
Spanish governments.
Most of the Americans taken
prisoner In Spain's civil war were
captured in the spring of 1938
while fighting with the Abraham
Lincoln battalion of the republi
can government's International
brigade.
Through state department ef
forts 106 were released previous
ly. Italian Airliner With 10
Aboard Lost in Atlantic
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 16.
(AP) Brazilian ships and air
planes searching off the coast
today found no trace of the Ital
ian airliner Ibayr, forced to
alight with a disabled motor, or
any of the ten persons aboard
the craft.
Strikes at Eaton Plants
British Navy
Seen as Only
Bar to Attack
Secretary, Backing Least
Lend Bill, Cites Sea Basts
Accessible to Plants
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16..
(AP) Secretary Stlmson declar
ed today that "I think we are In
very great danger of an lnva-,
slon by air in the- contingency
that the British navy should be
destroyed or surrendered." . '
The war department chief
made this statement to the house
foreign affairs committee in re.
sponse to an inquiry by Repre
sentatlve Fish (R N. Y.) .
Stlmson previously had endors
ed President Roosevelt's bill for
lend-lease aid to Britain. '
At a subsequent point In his
testimony Stlmson told the com.
mittee he could "foresee condi
4ions under which the navy could
be transferred under conditions
very advantageous." :
He made that statement when
Fish asked whether the war sec
retary had any objection to put
ting Into the bill a prohibition
against giving away any part
of the United States navy. Under1
the lease-lend bill as presently
diawn, warships could be turned
over to the British on whatever
terms Mr. Roosevelt found ac
ceptablc.
Stlmson replied to Fish's in
quiry with the explanation that,
the question was one for the sec
retary of the navy to answetvbut
that he personally would object
to such a prohibition because he
could envision ah "advantageous""
transfer. Ho did not describe
conditions under which that
might occur, i
Fish started the questioning by
asking whether the secretary
thought, that with this country's
naval strength, any foreign na
tion could Invade our shores.
"Not. now, probably not," Stim
son replied slowly.
"Any time this year?" Fish
pressed.
"I wouldn't darn say any timo
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Botulinus Poisoning Hits
Fifth Person in Portland .'.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 16.
(AP) Mrs. John Davenport. 37.
of Portland was under observa
tion In a local hospital today af
ter receiving botulism anti-toxin.;
Physicians feared she was suf
fering from botulinus poisoning
which last week took three lives
here. She suffered partial throat
paralysis, the city health office
reported, a typical symptom of
the poisoning. The health office
learned that she had eaten some
home preserved spinach.
Meanwhile Nurse Zerena Rea
gan, who attended one of last
week's three botulinus victims
and later appeared to have been
poisoned, showed much Improve
ment. ?
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