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IK-' America Lends Respectful Ear to Col. Lindbergh's Gloomy Views, but Her Appliuse Goes to Nearly 8,000 REAL Americans Fighting in the British Forces THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun day with occasional showers. Utile change In temperature. See Page 3 for statistics. BRITISH AID BILL ! Will the senate concur In thd measure as adopted by the house or change It and thereby send it to a Joint conference? This la the big news slated for next week. Watch for It In the NEWS-RE-: VIEW. COUNTY QMS VOL. XLV NO. 261 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBUR&. OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1940. " r t VOL. XXIX NO.159 OF THE EVENING NEW3 m IB) Ml THE DOUGLAS mm i I 3 0 SALVATION MM HOME FIRE KILLS 8 r Many Seared, Hurt Rushing From Flames Victims of Dallas Horror Mostly Wanderers; Some Of Injured Near Death DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 8. (AP) Eight men, mostly homeless wanderers, died and more than a score were seared and injured trying to escape a .roaring wall of flame which trapped them In a second-floor Salvation Army lodging In downtown Dallas early today. Another 25 panic-stricken tran sients fought their way through the inferno to safety, some brav ing flame and smoke, others smashing windows and dropping about 35 feet through a window. Many were forced out Into freezing weather unclothed. Salvation Army officials, head ed by Major Ernest Pickering, pored over half burned records trying to Identify the dead. Five of them, addresses un known, were listed as: Oscar Lindlcv, J. E. White, J. M. Jen kins, Thomas Cook, a man known merely as "Red" and a . man whoso last name was Donovan. Some of the burned and Injured were not expected to survive. Baylor University hosnltal. a pio neer in the use of a blood bank, supplied plasma, (the dried ele ments of blood) for numerous fast transfusions to the dying and injured. The fire started about 11:10 last night in a small cabinet-like room at the front of the second floor lodging. This room was pil ed with clothing around a stove used to delouse the garments. Fire Chief T. M. Funk said the (Continued on nnie fi) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS J7ROM Bucharest, Rumania, this interesting dispatch comes todav (Thursday): "The severest criminal code in modern Rumanian history was announced today by Premier General Ion Antonescu. provid ing such penalties as death for drawing anti-government car toons and five to 15 years for singing political songs in the streets." This significant sentence is added: "Prison terms are double for Jews, COMMUNISTS and those of non-Rumanian ethnic ori gin." OUT two and two together. Strong remedies, such as these, are seldom prescribed un less the condition of the patient is regarded as critical. When the death penalty Is de creed for EVEN DRAWING anti povernment cartoons (whether they are published or not) along with up to 15-year sentences at hard labor for singing political songs in the streets it must indi cate that Rumania is seething with rebellious anger against her German overlords. MOTE also that prison terms for communists are doubled. That suggests that Stalin is thrustine an unwelcome finger Into the Rumanian affairs of his gangster pal. TR. ORLO H. MAUGHAN. of Spokane, speaking In Salem, warns members of the Willam ette Production Credit associa ' tion against going Into debt. He Is quoted as predicting dif ficult times ahead and as advis ing his hearers: "Hold onto State Dept. Aide Taken By Death R. Walton Moore FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 8. (AP) R. Walton Moore, 81-year-old counsellor of the state depart ment, died of pneumonia at his home here today. Moore, a bachelor who entered the state department at 74, re cently suffered a second attack of the disease. He had recovered fuorn a similar illness in Decern- "Judge" Moore, as he was known to his friends, had lived his entire life at his . ancestral home here. He served in congress from 1919 through 1931 and was appointed . assistant secretary of state In Sept. 1933. Diversion of Gas Tax Funds Opposed State Cooperation Needed in Road Program, Says Pacific Highway Assn. Directors. Directors of the Pacific High way association, meeting here Fri day, vigorously opposed any di version of funds now going to the state highway department, parti cularly striking at efforts to di vert a portion of gasoline tax re ceipts to cities, as well as propos als to reduce fees and gasoline taxes. Declaring that reconstruction of Oregon highways to military standards Is being urged upon the federal government, and that state cooperation probably will be required in the event such pro gram is undertaken, the directors in a resolution forwarded to the state legislature expressed oppo sition to "any diversion or reduc tion of state highway funds, or the reduction of any of the fees or licenses of highway users, or the reduction of any fuel or gas taxes now in force. Although election of officers for 1941 was scheduled at Friday s meeting, the directors voted to continue the present officers at least until May 15. The fact that the association is encaged In a strong campaign to obtain federal recognition of the need for high way reconstruction. It was felt that th present officers, having the campaign well In hand, should be continued during the period the effort will be strongest. As a result of this action Howard,Mcr riam of Cottage Grove will con tinue as president and Frank Hull of Medford will remain as secre tary. Briton Sentenced to Die By Nazis on Spy Charge BERLIN. Feb. 8 (AP) Percy William Olaf DeWet. 28-year-old Englishman said to have forced nazi judges to decide whether he was "an adventuring fool or a dangerous spy." has been sentenc ed to death as a paid agent of the French secret police. The trial disclosed that DeWet was a son of a distinguished Brit ish officer who formerly com manded a channel island, the nazls declared. Legislature Still to Act On Top Bills List Embraces Sprague's Program, Jobless Pay Act Changes, State Guard Bv PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. SALEM, Feb. 8. (AP) With four weeks of the session already gone and not a single major bill vet considered by either house, legislators looked forward today to at least three more weeks of hard work. Of the 633 bills introduced, only 35 have been passed by both houses. ' The joint ways and means com mittee is expected to report out many of the large appropriation bills next week, which should start the legislative wheels grind ing. It will be at least another week before the score of amendments to the unemployment compensa tion law are considered by the house. Here's the status of Governor Charles A. Sprague's six major recommendations to the legisla ture, none of which has been act ed upon bv either house: 1. Bill to Increase truck length and weight limits from 50 to 60 feet and from 54,000 to 68.000 pounds. Expected to bo reported out next week by senate roads and highways committee. 2. Bill to amend workmen's compensation law by eliminating jury trials in appeals and to pro vide for administrator. .Senate In dustries committee will nold more hearings next week. ' 3. The 17 'administration fores try conservation bills. Senate for estry committee to hold hearing Monday night. 4. Six-year $1,800,000 building program for state institutions Being considered by joint ways and means committee. 5. Equalize school taxes on statewide basis. Introduced yes terday by house education com mittee. 6. Construct $1,000,000 state of fice building in Salem. In ways and means committee. Hearings Scheduled. Committee hearincj will be un der way at full schedule next week with nine already listed. Mondays hearings will deal with .the amendments to the workmen's compensation laws, the bill to permit Governor Sprague to organize a state guard, the governor s forestry program, and the bill to restrict sale of (Continued on page 6) H. P. RiCE, president of the Douglas County Tax league, as he sat on the davenport at his home In Myrtle Creek, nursing a sick spell. There was some conflict of opinion as to Just what brought on the sickness a number ot his friends there thought probably it was a picture, purporting to be of him, which the News-Review had "run" not long before. "Oh Paul," Harry had written to me at the time, "What, what did I ever do to you that you would do this thing to me!" The only answer I could think of then, and since, is that not even I know what I will do when I zzl. SAW::::::: By Paul Jtnkins I fm V ' ' A , 3-n ' - ' Britain Warns Bulgaria of Attack if German Army is Permitted Passage Bombing Of Bulgar Areas Threatened Turkey Thinks Sofia Will Yield in Nazi Aim to Aid Italy in War on Greece ISTANBUL, Turkev, Feb. 8. (AP) It was reliablv reported todav but without official confir mation that Britain had warned Bulgaria that passage of German troops through that nation would bring British bombing of Bulgar ian military objectives. The report circulated In diplo matic Quarters that a formal note delivered to the Bulgarian foreign office by the British min ister in Sofia warned that naz' military penetration of Bulgarlp in order to attack Britain's ally Greece, would bring British aerial action. Britain was understood to have specified that the RAF would bomb railways and other com munication facilities if Bulgaria allowed nazi troops on her soil. The official Turkish press. which until recently insisted Bul garia would resist German de mands for passage of troops, now is declaring Sofia may submit to axis pressure. The press, which generally reflects ' official1 Views, has warned repeatedly ; that a l.nazl advance toward the Aegean would bring Turkey into the war. This change In the attitude of the Turkish newspapers coincid ed with rumors in Sofia that German action may be imminent in the Balkans. Bulgarian passengers train service toward the Rumanian, Turkish and Greek frontiers has been curtailed by 30 per cent, ef fective today, an action which would be consistent with military preparations. The Bulgarian foreign minis ter, Popoff, was reported yester day to have warned a secret par liamentary meeting that he was uncertain of the future. ITALIANS LOSE HEAVILY IN FUTILE BLOW8 AT GREEKS ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 8. (AP) Striking where Italian tanks and armored car assaults failed three days ago, blackshirt (Continued on page 6) Nnwn-Kcvlpw riinln nml I'.hftravlnfr. take a picture, that is, wnetn er It will make anyone proud and happy, or not, Including my self. The last one I had taken of Harry showed him holding a re gular grandpa of all steelhcad fish by the gills one he had just caught near the Myrtle Creek bridge. I'm holding that one out for proof. In case his friends down there forget, that he real ly landed such a fine one. I don't blame him for not at tending a meeting of the league held here yesterday I reckon he was afraid the next picture would be fatal to him! !Alf Landon Brands as "Dastardly" Roosevelt's Attempt to "Gag" Aai 'i n (vj i AJni.. jYYneeier, rcaps Drmsn-Mia nans WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (AP) f Alf M. Landon described the British aid bill as a "guess and be damned policy," today, and said that President Roosevelt had attempted to "gag" Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) because of Wheeler's opposition to the meas ure. The former governor of Kan sas and 1936 republican presiden tial nominee also declared in a statement prepared for presenta tion to the senate foreign rela tions committee that "freedom of debate and discussion" on the bill "'Is being discouraged in Amer ica by the flood of government propaganda and war hysteria." He used, the word "dastardly In describing what he called Mr. Roosevelt's "sympathetic at- empt" to "silence" Wheeler and 'weaken his influence." i(At a recent press conference 'he president was asked to com ment on a statement by Wheeler hat the nation's armed forces hajd been stripped of modern ooinbat airplanes to aid Britain. Mj Roosevelt replied that the use which some people make of defense statistics give comfort to the chancellor of the German reich. (The conference was one of several at which the chief exe cutive had remarked, In response -rr-r- : - - .... ;,( Farmer Admits Theft of Turkeys A plea of guilty to an indict ment charging theft of turkeys was entered In circuit court to day by M. A. Sehwarzlose, Olalla farmer. Sehwarzlose, arraigned before Circuit Judge Carl E. Wim berly, admitted the theft of tur keys from Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Shinn, operators of a commercial hatchery at Roseburg and own ers of a large flock of turkeys. Sheriff Cliff Thornton reported that Sehwarzlose In November, 1939, was the complaining witness against Charles Palmer and Louis Wright, Tenmlle residents, sentenced to one year each in the state penitentiary after admit ting the theft of turkeys from a fkck belonging to Sehwarzlose. Sentence was deferred by Judge Wimberly until the opening of the February term of court, which today was ordered postponed from Feb. 17 to Feb. 24. , The grand jury, reporting this morning, also returned indict ments against Glen Newell, Can yonville, charging contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and against an unnamed defendant, whose identity was kept secret pending arrest. Three Persons Cleared Not true bills were returned In the cases of Orvllle E. Walling, charged with Issuance of N. S. F. checks: Mcrton F. Ferber, charg ed with non-support of minor children, and Carl Durr, accused of larceny by bailee, complaints against the defendants being dis missed following the grand jury's report. Postponement of the opening of the February term was ordered because of the fact that Judge Wimberly will be engaged In holding court at Toledo next week and does not expect to be able to finish his work there In regularly scheduled date. Cases 8et For Trial The docket for the February term was called today and Indica tions point to a short session. County Clerk Roy Agee reported. Cases announced ready for trial Included: Dorr Ouayle against the Oregon Coast Fisheries, L. A. Woolley versus the State Indus trial Accident commission, F. H. Carlson against the State Inrtus triar Accident commission, John Fredrlekson against the State In dustrial Accident commission. F. W. Garrison versus Elmer Pear unn. the State of Oregon against C. MoC Johnson, and Leon N. LWebvre versus Verlln C. Roberts. to questions, on statements made by Senator Wheeler or in which he had figured.) "Gag" Effort Denounced Landon said that "many of those who are for all out aid to England say, of course we must debate, but hurry, hurry, hurry." "And by innuendo, and the sly turn of the adjective," he con tinued, "'these attempt to throw on the opposition the smothering cry of partisanship or personali ties as he actuating force behind the opposition to this bill. "The chief executive has led the way, in hurling even the charge of pro-German at a lead er of opposition in the United States senate, Senator Wheeler of Montana. If this were to go unnoticed and unchallenged, there would soon be no brakes on the chief executive. That Is not healthy at any time and un der any president in a republic. "I have always believed that one of the blackest marks on the record of the republican party was the attempt to silence Sena tor Wheeler. I now denounce, as equally dastardly, the systematic attempt of another chief execu tive to silence his voice and blacken his reputation." He did not amplify his refer ence to the republican "attempt to silence" Wheeler. W , Torrential Rain Floods N. Y. City and Other Areas NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (AP) A torrential storm that followed the path of the 1938 hurricane subsided today over New Eng land after flooding New York City and other areas with a 2.G3 inch downpour in 13 hours. Connecticut appeared to be hardest hit In New England. Two factory buildings temporar ily shut down at Waterbury after a foot of water from an overflow ing reservoir covered their floors. The wind held steadily for a time at 55 miles an hour at Port land, Me., with milea-mlnute gusts. Indications were that property damage was not great. Torrents that submerged some New York City streets in 12 feet of water cut off La Guardla field tclephonlcally, t e 1 e g r a phically and even to some extent ay radio. Lieut. Maynard Bell Gets Appointment as Adjutant Lieutenant Maynard Bell, a member of the News-Review staff, now In military service at McChord field, Wash., has been appointed to the office of adjtt tant for the 95th bombardment squadron, according to word re ceived here today. In addition to his duties ns adlutant, he is serv ing as public relations officer and mess officer. He anticipates trans fer In the near future to the base being established In Pendleton Ills brother. Lieutenant Raymond Bell, also at McChord field, Is ex, pected to remain In his present post when transfers are made probably In early summer. Three-year-Old Boy Saves Infant Brother From Fire SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 8. (AP) Three-year-old Russell Wll son, Jr., saved his one-year-old brother, Richard, from burning to death yesterday. Their mother left him to watch the baby while she went to a gro cery. Garments on a line near the kitchen stove caught fire and fell Into the crib. Russell snatched the child out, dragged him to the front porch and yelled. Neighbors called firemen, who put out the blaze and gave Russell first aid for severe burns on the arms and legs. The baby wasn't hurt, French Docks Hammered In Raid by RAF Bombs Blast Dunkerque, Boulogne, Calais, Ostend, Libya Mop-Up Continues LONDON, Feb. 8. (AP) The crowded docks of Boulogne In France were showered with "many heavy bombs" and "some thousands" of fire bombs In a 3 hour night raid, the air ministry news service said today. Pilot after pilot returned with reports of making direct hits, it was stated. The raiders, defying bad weath er for the second successive night, hammered at Boulogne for three hours, a communique said, "dur ing which several large fires were started among supply stores and other dockslde buildings." Later at Dunkerque a number of bursts wore clearly observed among shipping in the docks, the communique added. . "Several air craft bombed the docks at Calais and Ostend." Bad weather over northwestern Europe kept the luftwaffe on the ground and Britain had a peace ful night. ( ..The British.' raids apparently caught the German defenders on the nazi-hcld French coast nap ping. , Warns of invasion Try. L. S. Amery, secretary of state for India, told a London audience today that "the next big move" by Adolf Hitler Is "imminent" and that the only German hope for a decisive result Is conquest of Eng land. He said the German fuehrer's position was ."difficult" and " he is bound to make a supreme ef fort. "Let none of us underrate the formidable nature of that effort (Continued on page 6) Strikers Release Defense Material By the Associated Press An agreement between strik ing CIO unionists and the man agement of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing company at Mil waukee authorized workmen to day to remove from the idle fac tory completed equipment said to be "vitally needed" by the army and navy. . The strike, which has kept 9,000 workers from their ma chines since January 22, was call ed by the ClO-Unitcd Automobile Workers who asked a closed shop and other concessions. The equipment removal agree ment was reached last night shortly after Col. Donald Arm strong, the army's district ord nance executive, declared the strike was "endangering the safety of the country" by hold ing up the entire power produc tion program. Sixteen men were detnlled by the union to shin some flywheels needed to fulfill a navy order. Next week, additional men will be designated to ship equipment needed by the Hercules Powder company. Representatives of the union and Allls-Chalmers will meet in Washington Tuesday with John R. Owens, labor adviser to the national defense commission. At Washington yesterday, Sid ney Hlllman. associate director of the office of production man agement, characterized as "very satisfactory" the whole labor situation as it affected the na tion's defense program. He said he saw no need for additional legislation. President William Green of the American Federation of La bor said the cases of some un ion officials accused of "racke teering" would be taken up at a meeting of the AFL executive council In Miami, Fla starting Monday. Ban Proposed By Fish Slain In House Vote Flat Ceiling Established On Value of War Goods That May Be Sold WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (APT With the democratic majority In full control, the house defeat . ed today an amendment to tha British aid bill to prohibit Unit ed States ports to be used for re pair of belligerent warships. Representative Fish (R., N. Y.)' author of the amendment, can? tended that such use of American harbors would "bring the war to) America." He predicted that if his amendment were not adopted by the house, it would be inserted by the senate. A short time previously the chamber rejected a proposal that the bill be amended to prohibit the sending of American troops) outside the territorial waters ot the western hemisphere. The Fish amendment was de feated by a standing vote an nounced as 147 to 70. Acting at the request of a : ministration leaders,,. the housa also decided tentatively today to put a flat '$1,300,000,000 celling ' on the value of military equip ment, existing or appropriated for, that might be disposed of to foreign governments under the) British-aid bill. This amendment was accepted in an effort to clarify a 10 per cent limitation administration leaders induced the house to write Into the bill yesterday, . The original limitation provid ed that the value of the equip ment on hand or' ordered from funds previously appropriated could not exceed 10 per cent at the appropriations made for de fense articles in the fiscal yeaf ending June 30. In explaining their reason for asking such an amendment, tha leaders . said that a subsequent study of appropriations for tha fiscal year ending June 30 had shown that the limit of foreign aid might actually come to less than $500,000,000. In their calculations yesterday, they figured that the total would come to approximately $1,300, 000,000. This figure was arrived at by taking 10 per cent of tha approximately $13,000,000,000 for national defense which they said had been appropriated for tho current fiscal year. Congressional authorities ex plained that under the leader ship's original proposal, largo sums for pay and feeding of tha army and navy and other itema not strictly "defense articles" could not be included in estimat ing the 10 per cent limit. The unexpected limitation pro posal was made yesterday by. Chairman Bloom and quickly accepted by the house In order to ward off a demand of Rep. Taber (R., N. Y.) for a $500,000, 000 maximum on disposition of: defense material either on hand or covered by current appropria tions. Bandit Confesses Threat Notes In DeTristan Case WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (APV J. Edgar Hoover announced today that FBI agents had ob tained a confession from Ray mond Parker, 52, convicted bank robber and forger, that he was (he man who attempted to extort $10,000 from the Countess Mare de Tlrlstan of Hillsborough, Cnllf., Inst year. TODAY'S TOP ODDITY By the Associated Presa IOWA CITY, la. Prof. Georgo Haskell popped this question to University of Iowa coeds in his class: 'How much would you require a prospective husband to be earn ing before marrying him?" Eighty-five per cent aemanaea $2,500 a year. "Well," Haskekll said, "less than 15 per cent of the income re ceivers in the nation earn more than $2,500 a year. So about 85 per cent of you can expect to DO old maids." ' . (Continued on page 4)