Unless U. S. Production Is Speeded Beyond the Present Pace, the Slogan, 'Everything Short of War,' May be Changed to Read "Short of Everything for War." THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau Light rain or snow tonight; Sunday partly cloudy. Little change in temperature. See page 4 for statistics. BRITISH AID BILL The senate will vote on It next week. It's passage Is conceded by Its opponents, but modiiica. tlons are probable. All major de tails will appear In the NEWS REVIEW. VOL. XLV NO. 273 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO.161 OF THE EVENING NEWS) II fo) 0) fHt douglAsxounty DAoy ( Mil ft re I British Aid Bill Receives k Fresh Swats Senators Taft, Capper Oppose Giving President "War-Making Powers" WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (AP) The administration's British aid bill was denounced by two of its opponents in the senate today as a measure which would confer upon President Roosevelt the power to plunge the United States into war. ' Senator Taft (R., Ohio) declar ed in a speech on the sixth day of debate on the legislation that "we are asked to give one man the power to take us into war and by passing the bill in its present form we are, in effect, approving ' a war policy if he sees fit to de clare it." An assertion that "complete war-making powers" would be given to the president was made by Senator Capper (R., Kas.) in his address. Capper also said Mr. Roosevelt would gain "com plete control over our domestic rconomy" it the legislation was rnacted. Taft Advocates Loan. Extension of a $2,000,000,000 loan to Britain for purchase of military supplies in this country was advocated by Taft as an al ternative to the administration's program for lending and leasing the airplanes, guns and other equipment which the British have asked from the United States. That plan, he said, would avoid giving "ano -man" the power to ; take us into war." He "doubted," he said, that (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News 13y FRANK JENKINS LEAVING Santa Maria. The sun, believe It or not, is shining. But the weather man is still gloomy. He says there's another storm lurking out at sea and due to hit the coast some time tonight ,or maybe tomor row. Can't he see ANYTHING else when he looks in that crystal ball of his? THERE was a time when in our minds we placed the weather man's daily contribution back on the funny page. "Heh! Heh! Heh!" we'd chortle as we read It. "Sez you!" Then we'd laugh merrily. That was in those dear, dead days before science came into our lives. Now we listen to him and reach morosely for the umbrella. OUT east of Santa Maria is a great new flying field, where young men are being trained for the army air corps. The air above it is full of planes on this sunny morning. Looking at them up there, something clicks, and suddenly 4 you know the answer to a prob lem that has been troubling you vaguely for days. M the cities, the bars are crowded more so than usual. And in the chatter over the glasses there is a brittle tone. There is laughter. There is gayety. There is lightness. But under it all you feel that people are listening listening for some thing they couldn't describe if asked to. MEN you have known for " years, men of ability, men who understand their business to its last detail, have a curious ly detached attitude toward the whole subject of business. Ask them how last year was and they will tell you it was fine. Speak of the prospects for this year and they will reply without hesitation that they can't be oth er than good. But you have the feeling that (Continued on page 4) Sues Nazi Con I" ' Ftr""""" Suit for $8,000 salary and expenses was filed In San Francisco this week by Mrs. Alice Crockett, above, former wife of a U. S. army colonel, against Capt. Fritz Weidemann, nazi consul there, for international sleuthing. Mrs. Crockett, Swiss native and former movie actress, says she made a trip to Germany to Investigate the consul's status with Adolf Hitler. She claims she interviewed Hit ler, Goerlng and Goebbels on behalf of Weidemann, and her suit declared the consul was the head of the German espionage system in America. Five Die In Fire Near Cave Junction GRANTS PASS, Feb. 22. (AP) Four children and a young mother perished from fire short ly before 6 o'clock this morning when the old Burch ranch house, 21 miles south of Cave Junction, burned to the ground. Coroner Virgil Hull listed the following dead: Mrs. Frank Thompson, 22. Marian Thompson, 4. Francis Thompson, 18 months. Irene Thompson, four months. Edna Thompson, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Thompson. Marian, Francis and Irene were children of Mrs. Frank Thomp son. All five bodies were found in locations Indicating they had been trapped In upstairs bedrooms. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Thompson, sleeping downstairs, escaped the fire, the coroner said. A boy living in the house start ed a fire in the kitchen stove be tween 5:30 and 6 a. m., and the blaze spread from that, Hull said he was told. Four Canyonville Men Admit Game Law Breaking Four Canyonville residents, Malcolm E. McGregor, 30; Clinton F. Crow, 19; George A. Sargeant, 19, and Charles E. Cooper, 24, were arrested by state police Fri day charged with game law vio lations. Sergeant Paul Morgan of the state police reported. McGre gor was accused of hunting for deer on the Cow creek game refuge and the other three mem bers of the party were charged with fishing for trout in closed season. All pleaded guilty in the Canyonville jutlce court, Morgan reported, and sentence will be imposed Monday. TODAY'S TOP sZO ODDITY By the Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. To test the hon esty of Omaha citizens on the ap proach of George Washington's birthday, the Omaha World-Herald sent out a reporter to "lose" eiv MiifniHs Farh contained a dollar bill and the reporter's name and telepnone numoer. Four were returned. Concluded the paper: "Omaha's honesty should be rated at Gfi per cent." an average It believes would please rather than shock the father of our country. The honest citizens were told to keep the dollar. or Sleuthing ! Mrs. Julia Sether Hagen Of Glendale Passes Away ' GLENDALE, Feb. 22". Mrs. Julia Sether Hagen, 88, died at her home in Glendale Thursday. Born in Norway, March 17, 1852, she was married in that country in 1881 to Julius Hagen and shortly afterward moved to the United States and settled in the Glendale district. Mr. Hagen died Jan. 17, 1918. Surviving are five sons and daughters, Christopherson Ha gen, Glendale; Christoph Hagen, Drain; Arthur and Harry Hagen, Globe, Arizona, and Mrs. Glenn Wardrip, Corvallis. She also leaves 16 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Mrs. Hagen was a member of the Lutheran church but for a number of years had been affil iated with the Presbyterian church in Glendale. She was an active member for many years in the Eastern Star lodge. Services were held this after noon in the Glendale Presbyter Ian church, Rev. J. K. Howard of ficiating'. Burial was in the fam ily plot in the Glendale Masonic cemetery. Arrangements were in charge of the Eberle Stearns mor tuary. Summer Camp for Boys Plan of Men's 99 Units Plans for a summer camp for boys to be sponsored by Men s 99 groups In southern Oregon has been proposed as the result of an inter-club meeting held Tuesday at Myrtle Point, according to John A. Barney, pastor of the First Christian church of Rose burg. A delegation of 14 mem bers of the Roseburg group met at a banquet with the men of the Coos Bay district at Myrtle Point and heard a program by Manag er Gene Robinson and Dean How ard Cole of the Turner camp. The two speakers urged a summer camp for the southern Oregon district and the men al ready have made plans for a camp at Fir Point near Glendale on the tentative dates of August 10 to 17. The age group will be from nine to 16 years. All south ern Oregon churches will be In vited to participate. Scout Committeemen Set Meeting, Court of Honor A meeting of all district Boy Scout committeemen has been callpd by Chairman E. S. Mc- Claln to meet at the Umpqua ho tel for a dinner session at 6 p m. Tuesday. They will meet the new district field representative at that time and transact dislrlct business. The dinner meeting will be followed by a public court of honor at the courthouse, starting at 8:15 p. m. Flood Pours Into Area Of Los Angeles Stores Barricaded, Two Suburbs Shut; Lightning Hits Houses, Power Line LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22. (AP) Two suburban towns . were closed to visitors today as flood waters alternately roared and trickled through the cities of southern California, sodden after more than a week of almost con tinuous rain. Precipitation here to date Is 18.09 Inches, almost twice that of the season's normal fall, and dur ing -one of the heavier showers yesterday almost an Inch fell In the metropolitan area. The fore cast is for five more days of rain. Authorities asked motorists to stay out of Reseda and Canoga park, in the San Fernando valley Just over the hills from Holly wood, except on urgent business. Flood water and debris, they safd, have made most streets impass able. The normally-dry Los Angelps river spread half a mile over its banks at Canoga park, forcing the evacuation of 10 families. Twenty storm refugees were being housed temporarily in the Canoga park community church. Several families also were evacu ated from Topanga canyon, north of Santa Monica, after a big crack appeared In the canyon wall, pre saging a possible landslide, i Stores Menaced In the Los ' Angeles' business section, streets ran gutter-to-gutter much of the time, and many stores protected their entrances with sandbags and packing crates. Several families Isolated In Tu junga canyon, north of Glendale, reported by telephone that they had plenty of supplies. Sheriff's officers waded through floodwa ters to carry food to other ma rooned families In the Newhall area. Two persons were believed to have drowned an 18-year-old youth who sought to rescue a woman from a flood-stream and apparently was washed down a storm drain, and an elderly man whose body was seen floating down a flooded streets. Two boys were carried three miles in one flood stream before they escaped, and a woman and a boy were carried more than a mile. Lightning, a rare occurrence here, flashed for the second suc cessive day, striking two houses, several power poles and a radio station, starting several fires but doing little damage. Lawmakers of Oregon Now Working Without Pay; Batch of Bills Probably Doomed to be Tossed Into Junk Pile By PAUL W. HARVEY. Jr. SALEM, Feb. 22. (AP) The Oregon legislature began donat ing its services to the state to day, the 40-day period during which members receive $3 a day having expired yesterday. And the first payless days usu ally starts members to thinking about how much longer they'll have to serve for nothing. Speaker Robert S. Farrell, Jr.. is pointing toward adiournment next Saturday, but most members doubt it can be done, assertlne th" session will go at least two more weeks. Farrell says It can be done be cause all the wavs and means committee bills should be passed bv then, as well as other Impor tant legislation. But a lot of bills probably will be junked In com mittees. Jobless Pay lue Pends. The work on the score of un employment compensation law amendments, one of the toughest lobs ever to face anv committee, should be completed tonight by the house judiciary committee, and the bills probably will reach the house floor early next week In the form of a comnromlsp be tween employers and labor. Labor will get slightly larger benefits, while employers will get lower tax rates. But whether the Major Issues Still Facing Legislators Reapportionment, Speed Limit, Pension Increase Get Action Next Week GALEM, Feb. 22.-(AP) The Tiouse will consider Monday Its re apportionment committees rec ommendation that the proposed fourth congressional district in clude eight counties south of the southern boundary of Marlon county. There Is no doubt that the house will pass the bill and send It to the senate with little dis cussion, since it adopted the eoi mlttee's report last week by a 42 13 vote. Old age pensions will get their, first floor discussion Mondav when the house considers a bill to 'remove the $30 maximum for pensions. I The bill, recommended by Gov ernor Sprague, does not carry any appropriation for larger pensions. Democrats said they would take the republicans to task for this omission. Republicans, however, said they would follow Governor Sprague's recommendation against new taxes'. The senate vote today to con sider the speed bill at 10:30 a. m. Monday. The bill would fix a maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour, and place the burden of proof.'on the driver. The burden untle the present 45-mile law is ori' the arresting officer:,-:' For 1-Man Tax Head. The house yesterday voted 44 to 12 today to abolish the three man state tax commission and have all (ax affairs administered by a single commissioner. The bill now goes to the senate. Members of the present state tax commission each draw a salary of $100 monthly. Representative Harry D. Bolvin (D., Klamath), chairman of the house alcoholic control commit tee, said he would introduce a bill 'to give the state liquor commis sion authority over night clubs .and other places serving mixers i for the drinking of liquor. The bill would require such places to obtain a service license for about $50. The commission has no autho rity over such clubs and can take action only If bartenders actually serve liquor to customers. A simi lar measure, the "club bill," was passed by the last legislature, but was defeated by the people upon being referred. house will vote for the measures is another question. The workmen's compensation law amendments will be submit ted to the senate next week by Its Industries committee, which has been holding dailv meetings for almost six weeks, trying to whip them Into shape. Pension Boost Unlikely. Legislation to restrict the Rale of fortified wine to liquor stores will be considered by the house nevt week. Measures to Increase old ape nensions nrohably will receive lit tle consideration, most members being reluctant to go against Gov ernor Sprague's advice against lewlng new taxes. The problem of reapportioning the legislature, which as yet has received no consideration, will amount to little. The senate will vote Monday on a bill to give Klamath county a senator of Its own and, as far was legislative leaders are concerned, that's all the reapportioning to be consid ered. It Is a virtual certainty that the nftu, fmtrlh .nnnrftcclnnnl rllctl-t I w ill Include nil counties south of Marion county, although there may be a move In the senate on the pnrt of Benton county to be taken out of the new district and placed In the first. I I British Will Counter With Troops From Africa, Report Rival Plane Raids Staged Over Channel German Coastal Bases Bombed by RAF; Nails Again Blast Swansea i LONDON, Feb. 22. (AP) The German naval base at Wilhelms haven, the big shlp-bulldtng cen ter of Emden and the : port of Brest in nazi-occupled France were heavily bombed last night by the RAF, an official announce ment today said. The raid on Wilhelmshaven was the 43rd on that vital port report ed by the British since the war began. British bombers also attacked industrial targets in the Ruhr, the announcement said, "but bad visi bility rendered It Impossible to observe details of results." (The Germans acknowledged "disturbance flights" by the RAF over occupied territory and Helgo land bight, but said the raiders did little damage.) Swansea Again Blasted. British fighters engaged a squadron , pf German planes In a terrifjfl'hattle over the Kent coast todajf the luftwaffe returned to the , attack -. on, , England after blast Inapthe' Welsh port of Swan sea for the third successive night. Observers saw n patrol of spit fires, flying In close formation, close with a squadron of 14 Mes serschmltls at an altitude of five miles, and the sky was criss crossed with long spirals of smoke as the nlanes dodged and twisted in deadly combat. The raiders apparently were turned off before reaching their objective. One group of eight nazi planes was seen streaking toward Boulogne on the French coast, and within a short time the sky was clear of hostile planes. The German night raiders start ed numerous fires In Swansea and added to England's mounting toll of casualties. ANOTHER 80MALILANO PORT CAPTURED BY BRITISH NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, Feb. 22. (AP) The port of Jumbo, near Chrislmaio, at the mouth of the Juba river in Kalian Somali land, has fallen to South African troops, It was announced official ly today. A ."brigade staff and one full colonel, together with a number of European and native prison ers were reported captured, along with "considerable quanti ties of guns and materials." LONDON, Feb. 22. ( AP) The entire 94th battalion of the Ital ian colonial Infantry is believed dying of thirst in a desert near the Kenya border, a Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from the east African front said today. Driven from Afmadu, Italian Somaliland, by the British II days ago, the battalion was said to have fled into trackless sands southward toward Gcllb, 80 miles away. , The troops have not appeared In the vicinity of Gellb yet, but a doctor who accompanied the Ital ians for 40 miles returned and surrendered to the British at Af madu. A battalion priest later was found dying of thirst. Oregon Knights Templars' Ex-Commander Passes On SALEM. Feb. 22. (AP) E. L. Welder, 80, former grand com mander of the grand command ery of Oregon, Knights Templars, died last night after an extended Illness. He had operated a laun dry for 20 years. Survivors Include a son, Van Wleder of Salem: a daughter. Mrs. Sanford Adler of Baker, and a brother, C. H. Wleder of Al bany. '.... Alien Ship With U. S. Flag Sunk, Germans Report BERLIN, Feb. 22. (AP) Ah armed British merchant ship out of Montreal which the German high command said displayed the United States flag and had the American colors painted on the Hull "to conceal its nationality" was reported today to have been sunk In the Indian qcean. The 7,187-ton ship was Identi fied as the Canadian Cruiser, registered in Lloyd's as owned by the Canadian Tramp Shipping company, Ltd., and she was sunk, as today's German communique said, by "German naval forces." The daily war bulletin reported the sinking of two other ships one of 4,300 tons by a submarine and another . of 4,000 tons by bombers. The bombers were said to have attacked a number of British mer chant vessels yesterday off the east and west coasts of England, damaging two large tankers and several others In addition to the one sunk. The report that the Canadian Cruiser flew the United States flag should be of gravest concern to Washington, German circles sutd. It was Indicated that If every shiD with an American flag must be suspected by German sea raid ers as being actually Britisn, "a most unfortunate incldcnt:',,inlght occur. - , - ;. ' '";'l,.-r;. With the best Intent , and through no fault of Its own, they said, a German raider might at tack a United States vessel. Authorized spokesmen said they susnected that "an unfortunate mistake" was precisely what Brit ain hoped for. Augustus G. Cowan Dies At His Home at Drain Aiiatictna Gnrflelrl Cowan. GO. tlfalnno resident of Douelns county, died at his home in Drain Friday following a snort uiness. Born In Yoncalla Oct. 13, 1882, he had spent the greater part of his life as a resident of Drain. He was never married. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. A. E. Gardiner. Drain, and Mrs. E. E. Starr, Portland. Services win be neia at inc Christian church In Drain at 2 n m Rimrl.iv. Rev. C. F. Trimble officiating. Interment will be In the Yoncalla cemetery. Arrange ments are In charge of Stearns mortuary. Veterans' Registration Requires Extra Blanks An additional supply of blanks was required today as world war veterans of Douglas county rcg Istered for service In the nation al defense program. The regis tration, snonsored nationally by the American Legion, Is purely voluntary and lists the exper ience and availability of veterans In national defense duty. Headquarters set up bv Ump qua post were crowded through out the day as veterans kept a half dozen volunteer clerks busy filling out the questionnaires. Free lunch was served during the noon hour. The headquarters at 230 North Jackson street, were to be kept onen until C o'clock this eve ning. Reedsport Child Serves Sister From Torch Death' REEDSPORT, Ore., Feb. 22. (AP)-Elevenyearold Beverly Beardsley paused yesterday while roasting potatoes with her four vear-old sister Marllvn In a bonfire, to watch an airplane. Marllvn got too near the fire and her dress flamed. Swiftly the older girl hurled her screaming sister Into a patch of swamn prnss. nlunccd on ton of her and rolled and smothered out the fire. Marllvn escnned with sunerflclal bodv burns, Bev erly with blistered hands. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Beardsley. Greece's Fate In Balance As Battle Hears Buildings in Sofia Sprout Anti-Aircraft Guns; U. S. Legation Placarded . By the Associated Press ? A flood of rumors, some seem ingly well-founded and some ut terly without confirmation, stir red belief today that Britain and Germany might soon be locked In combat on a new front In tho Balkans. One unconfirmed report transmitted from Belgrade, Yugo slavia, by Reuters, British news agency said German troops al ready were crossing Into Bulgaria from Rumania, and the Turkish official radio at Ankara broadcast that the British were holding; large forces In North Africa in readiness for a dash Into the Balkans through Greece. "If this Is so," the radio added, "it means the British either want to establish a Balkan front against Germany .or prevent Greece from being pushed by German threats Into an untimely armistice." The Reuters dispatch from Bel grade said: "According to one un confirmed report, German troops have been .crossing into BulttOti. across the Danube at the But ganan town oi nuse uvu.iiuiujw, since Friday." 'A I : Bridges Span Danube 'j , The dispatch, which Reulors said was filled "with all reserve' since "no confirmation has been' received from any quarter," fol lowed by a few hours a posltlvo declaration by a leading Balkan diplomat that the movement of a nazi expeditionary force lntoi Bul garia was "a matter of days, it not hours." He said ' German pontoon bridges spanned the Danube in considerable numbers and miles long columns of nazi motorized forces were moving southward through Rumania toward the, river frontier. Neutral estimates of the number of German troops In Rumania have run as high 83 600,000. Ruse, the first Bulgarian city likely to be entered, is directly across the Danube from Giurgui, Rumania, into which a German vanguard marched on Dec. 29, and about 280 miles northeast of Sa lonika, Greece, probable nazi ob jective. . . The Turkish radio remarked the lack of news about Britain's army of the Nile since the fall ot Bengasi and commented: 'The British may be holding these forces in readiness for an instant call to Greece." Sofia Guards Against Raid Anti-aircraft guns appeared on buildings in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, and the United States le gation there posted placards in English, Bulgarian and German reading: "This building Is the property of the United States." The British Institute in Sofia, an educational off-shoot of tho British legation, suddenly closed its doors and the four British di rectors hastened to leave thn country. Nearly 50 radical Agrarian leaders of anti-German sympathy were rounded up by Bulgarian po lice without explanation. Government party leaders in Bulgaria expressed a fear of seri ous internal disorders when the nazis move. One demonstration, attributed to "communists," al ready has been reported in Ruse. Among the endless rumors cir culating In the Balkans was one that soviet Russia was making a belated effort to stall off the Ger man thrust to the south but there was no confirmation and It contrasted sharply with an earlier report that Adolf Hitler had promised Moscow the Rumanian province of Moldavia In return for a "hands off" policy. In Albania, the stalemated con flict between Italy and Greece (Continued on page 61