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We're Going to Assist John Bull, Ships, Supplies, Repairs and Rigging; He'll do all the Scrapping, Take the Blow s, and American Taxpayers Will do the Digging. THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Tuesday. Lit tle change in temperature. See Page 3 for statistics. WAR TEMPO It will be speeded now that Britain Is assured of aid from the U, S. The next few weeks mny see - some decisive blows struck and possibly new combat nnts In the field. Follow events through the NEWS-REVIEW. VOL. XLV NO. 286 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO.174 OF THE EVENING NEWS JLS fHt DOUGLAS COUNTY QMS (KM Ml m TO i z I ' IP mmmm m Two Men Pt tish in Fire Near Canyonville Tragedy Laid By Officials To Cigarette H. I. Cooper, Pat O'Brien, Mill Employes, Victims Of Auto Camp Blaze Hewitt Irving Cooper, 30, and . Pat O'Brien, 36, the latter a re cent arrival - in Douglas county from Lansing, Mich., were burned to death early Sunday morning In a fire which destroyed the cabin thoy occupied at Steep Gables auto camp, located a short distance north of Canyonville. The fire apparently was caused by a cigarette igniting bedeloth ing, according to Sheriff Cliff Thornton, who with Coroner H. C. Stearns and State Policeman Seth Bullis, conducted the offi cial Investigation. Both fire victims were em ployed at the Canyonville saw mill, which was formerly owned by Cooper's father, F. W. Cooper. The son had been employed as foreman of the mill since its re cent sale. The two men had attended the Canyonville dance Saturday night and friends accompanied O'Brien to the cabin about 2 a. m., Thorn ton said the officers were In formed. Cooper was believed to have arrived home earlier. Bodies Reveal Tragedy The fire was discovered about 4 a. m. by W. O. Jones, of Brem erton, Wash., a tourist, who oc cupied the adjoining cabin. Mr. Jones aroused the other occu pants of the camp. Clinton Crow, manager, unable to gain entrance to the cabin, which by that time was a mass of flames, succeeded in pulling a screen from the bed room window, but was unable to see the bodies of the occupants, and as no one had heard Cooper and O'Brien return to the camp it was believed at the time of the (Continued on page 6) By FRANK JENKINS AS these words are written on " Friday morning, Seattle is preparing a "blackout" rehearsal for tonight. What strikes the casual reader of accounts of these preparations is the enor mous interruption of the normal life of the city. Blackouts (including rehears als) are a part of modern war, and war is like that. It Inter rupts unbelievably the normal life of all the people of the world. 'THAT raises a question: WHAT IS the normal life of human beings? There are many who Insist that war is the natural state of man, continuing because he Is in herently COMBATIVE; and it must be admitted that a casual reading of history goes far to suDoort this view. History, however, Is like the newspapers (which are current history.) It emphasizes the spec tacular and takes the ordinary run of human affairs largely for granted. War Is spectacular, and so the historians, from Herodotus down, have given It the headlines. THIS writer has an idea that if an average of what has been In the minds of all men since the world began could be presented It would show beyond all doubt that war has been dreaded and feared above all else by the or dinary run of human beings. AN'D so we are led on to an- whelming majority of all ordin ary human beings since the world began have dreaded and feared war above all things else. In the Day's News I (Continued on page 4) She's Rosebu' Youngest Solo Flier , 1 " - NW8-KnvU)W Photo nnl KngrnviiiK. Florence Fischer, 17, above, a junior In Roseburg senior high school, Saturday became Rose burg's youngset solo flier as well as being the first Roseburg girl to make a solo flight. Miss Fischer, who joined the Umpqua Flyiing club two months ago as the youngest member of that organization, completed eight hours of dual Instruction, and soared alone for the first time Saturday, making a very fine flight on her Initial solitary trip Into the air, according to Ernest Sink, Instructor. Miss Fischer, while not the first girl student of the Roseburg club to make a solo flight, is the first from Roseburg itself, as others have been from out of town. She is the youngest filer of either sex to reach solo stage.. She is a daughter of Mrs. W. A. Galloway. Her step father Is employed at the veterans fa cility,! ...... .;, ., . , .-. ..( N. Y. Bus Drivers Join Strike List Walkouts, Threats Continue to Hit Defense Work In Various Parts of U. S. By the Associated Press New Yorkers accustomed, to riding the buses got around with difficulty today as a strike of 3, 500 bus drivers upset service on 27 routes serving 875,000 per sons. It was the city's first' major transportation tie-up In a quarter of a century and was the most spectacular of the various strikes over the country. Quiet picketing by AFL electri cal workers started at the South Plalnfield, N. J., plant of the Cor nell Dubiller. The company presi dent said 2,400 were on strike, af fecting production of Si.500,000 of defense subcontracts. Wage in creases were demanded by the union. Another new strike w called at the ,T. G. Brill company, Phila delphia. The company has $418, 6G1 of defense contracts. Asked by the union were wage Increases, a union shop and vacation and seniority concessions. Midland Plant Also Hit The CIO United Automobile Workers issued a strike called for today at the Midland Steel Products company, which makes automobile frames used in armv trucks. Conciliator Jnmes F. Dewey went to Detroit for a last minute attempt to bring about a truce. He also was exnected to try to avert a strike which the same union has threatened to call at three Ford Motor' company plants. Another conciliator nt Detroit, L. F. Rye. said the UAW and of ficials of the Federal Motor Truck company would resume ne gotiations tomorrow over differ ences which caused 350 nroduc tion workers to walk out Fridav. The company has a $5,000,000 armv truck order. A not her unsettled Detroit strike held up installation of ma terial at the Chrvsler army tank arsenal.. This Involved a Juris dictional dispute between AFL machinists and carnenters. Pay Increases Demanded Members of CIO's transport workers union struck against the Fifth Avenue Coach romnany and the New York Citv Omnibus corporation after retectlon of de mands for a 25 per cent wage In crease, uniform eight-hour day (Continued on page 6 Basketball Tilt For State Title To Be Broadcast Broadcasts of games of the state basketball tournament in which the Roseburg Indians will participate has been arraigned by radio station KRNR, Marshall Pengra, manager, announced to day. The broadcasts will be sponsored by the Sunset Thrift, Roseburg Dairy and Soda Works, Denn-Gerretsen company, Lock- wood Motors and Associated Oil company, Mrt Pengra reports. The firms underwriting the broadcasts are assuming a heavy financial obligation In the event the Roseburg team goes through to the finals necessitating four programs handled by remote con trol from the floor of the Salem gymnasium, Pengra states. The Roseburg team goes to Sa lem tomorrow to compete In the state championship tournament and will play its first game at 3 p. m. Wednesday with Klamath Falls as an opponent. Hoover's Plan to Feed Belgians Turned Down WASHINGTON, March 10. (AP) The British government, reiterating determination to main tain a relentless blockade against Germany, has rejected Herbert Hoover's plan for establishment of soup kitchens In Belgium as a test of possible similar relief for other nazioccuplcd countries. "No form of relief can be de vised which would not directly or indirectly assist the enemy's war effort," said a statement made public yesterday by the British embassy. Hoover said in reply that "the stark fact is that millions of chil dren, and the weak, are threaten ed with stunted bodies and death In the oecunled lands unless re lief is brought to them." , Howard O. Hunter Named As WPA Commissioner WASHINGTON, March 10 f APIHoward O. Hunter of Illi nois was nominated today by President Roosevelt to bo works projects commissioner. Hunter has been acting com missioner since the death of Colonel Frank C. Harrington. Oregon Airplane Crashes Kill Two Army Craft Overturns in Surf Near Coos Bay; Club's Plane Hits Tree Near Salem. MARSHFIELD, Ore., March 10. (AP) An army pilot was killed" outright In the crash landing of an attack plane, lost and fuel less ,ovcr Coos bay last night. A companion escaped unhurt. Major R. C. MacDonald, 47, of the 43rd air base group, Hamil ton field, Calif., apparently was killed by the impact of his head on the instrument panel as his plane landed in shallow water 30 feet from shore and two miles north of the north Jetty. Lieut. J. J. Trauernicht, of the field artillery reserve, opened his cockpit cover and was thrown clear as the plane nosed over. The men were en route from Sale Lake City to Hamilton field. Trauernicht said they became lost when the radio beam failed. Major MacDonald, the pilot, messaged four minutes before the crash at 7:30 p. m. that he was preparing to bail out, but appar ently the plane's gasoline supply became exhausted before he could reach an altitude great enough for a parachute Jump. SALEM, Ore., March 10. (AP) A passenger was killed and the pilot Iniured yesterday In the crash of a light plane on a farm 14 miles north of here. Garfield Voget, Jr., about 25, Hubbard, was fatally Injured and Willis Berkey, 30, Hubbard, suf fered undetermined Injuries when the plane, Its motor apparently falling, struck a tree and crashed Into a creek. The plane was owned by the Woodburn Flying club. Voget was to have begun work as a cream grader for the state department of agriculture today. Kenneth Cloake Hurt by Falling Rock at Crusher Kenneth Cloake, 40, well known Roseburg resident, was treated Sundav at Portland sanitarium for a fractured collarbone. He was injured Saturday when struck by a falling rock while em ployed on a rock crusher at Mo- lalla, where he Is working for A. S. Wallace, Roseburg contractor, British Aid To Be Speeded By Roosevelt President to Ask Funds 'After House Completes Enactment of Measure WASHINGTON, March 10. (API A nromnt presidential re quest for funds to speed aid to Britain under tne icase-ienu pro gram was forecast at the white house today by legislative lead ers. After conferring with President Roosevelt, Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the democratic leader, aid Vice President Wallace, Speaker Rayburn said: "The presiuent prooaDiy on Wednesday, if the bill is signed tomorrow night, will send up some estimates. They will be for cash and contract authorization." The congressional leaders sam tKnt Ihn Kilt na nnsserl hv the senate Saturday night, would be called up in tne nouse tomorrow for final approval and sent to the white house by nightfall. Informed persons considered It probable that the vast supply of war materials made available to Britain by the bill would start moving across the Atlantic with Lin a few days. . . t. . Sma naval vessels were re ported to be the first defense ar ticles slated for delivery imme diately after the bill becomes law, ti.lth fnnrl clinnlips tn follow. Only house approval of rela tively minor amendments insert on hv the senate before it Dassed the legislation 60 to 31 was need ed to speed the momentous meas ure tn rhfl wmrn nnusn. Rayburn and Chairman Bloom (D., N. Y.) of the house foreign affairs committee predicted the approval would be given Tues day. Once the bill Is signed into law the nresldent is exDected to make swift use of the authority thus gained to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of guns, planes, ships, tanks, and all other armaments and food supplies. Signing of the bill, too, will clear the way for him to ask con gress for the billions necessary to carry out tne program, tie aiso may announce promptly Just how the program will be administered. The president is expected to ask congress to provide between S1,000,000,000 and $2,000,000,000 in money and contract authoriza tions to carry out its provisions. Amnncr other thlncs. the meas ure would permit the president to: Manufacture In government ars nelq or nrneure from nrivate com panies "defense articles" and to transfer them to countries wnosc Hpfense the nresldent "seems vi tal to the defense of the United States." Transfer existing defense equipment up to a value of $1,- 300.000,000. Order the repair of belligerent unrohlnu. nlftnef or other war equipment In American harbors and plants. Communicate "defense Infor mation" to other nations. The legislation would expire on Julv 1, 1943, unless a majority of hnth mnfrrennlnnnl houses fixed an earlier termination date. By the Associated Press One of Premier Mussolini's editorial spokesmen asserted to day that the British aid bill was "open Intervention In the war against the axis" and threatened the possibility of "many disagree able surnrises to England and tne United States In the Pacific." This assertion, made by Fas cist Editor Vlrglno Gayda. appar ently referred to action by Ja nan In the far east. Passage of the hill, he said, mlpht eventually bring the Rome- Berlin-Tokyo axis Into play against the United states. Admitting only the nosslbllltv that nassape of the hill would prolong and complicate the war, (Continued on page 6) 4th District Bill Passed; Benton but Retail Sales Tax Plan Revived; Liberalizing of Pension Law Favored By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. SALEM, March 10. (AP) The expected battle over con gressional redistrictlng fizzled out today when the house, unani mously accepting the senate amendment putting Benton coun ty in the first district, repassed the bill creating the fourth dis trict. The bill, which now goes to the eovcrnor, provides that Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Jose phine, Lane and Linn counties shall be In the new district. Pension Bills Reported Another fight was averted when the joint ways and means committee reported back to the house two bills providing that the first S15 of outside income shall not be considered in deter mining need under the old age pension law. . The bills will be sent either to the revision of laws or judiciary committees. A floor battle had been sche duled in which democratic lead ers were to attempt to take the bills away from the ways and means committee. The committee recommended the senate against passage of a bill providing that need shall be determined bv subtracting out side Income from the maximum legal pension. For instance, If a person cams $15 a month, he would be entitled to a $25 pen sion If funds wore available, since the top limit Is $40. Insurance Plan Opposed The committee, which finished its work today leaving a $449, 403 deficit in the state's general fund, recommended that the sen ate defeat a bill authorizing the state, counties and cities to eon tract for health, life or accident insurance for their employes. It also recommended against a bill to provide an additional circuit Judge for Multnomah county. ine senate industries commit tee amended the house-anoroved unemployment compensa tion (Continued on page 6) LARRY REEVES, at the right In the photograph above, and Jack Wells as they were busily engaged In painting the Gibbs residence on Bowden street Sat urday. Larry has been painting houses for the past twenty years. He must have paint In his blood by this time I know I've seen it on his face! He has lived In Rose burg since 1936, having come here from Tucson, Arizona. I've seen a lot of him this past year. "The reason you have," ho Informed me, "li because 90 of the work I have done In tl.e last twelve or fifteen months, has been done near where you live." He is foreman of the painting zzl SAW::-": By Paul Jenkins hem h-wU tell'. JT, turn m-jtsskittimmu M. ., ; ; kumtttMim Mi r 12 Firemen Die In Collapse Of Theater's Roof BROCKTON, Mass., March 10. (AP) Twelve firemen were killed and 16 Injured today when the snow-laden roof of the 30-year-old Strand theatre collapsed during a fire whioh destroyed the building. The dead were :Captaln John F. Carroll, 52; William Murphy, 25: Daniel O'Brien, 45; Henry Sullivan,- 45; Malcolm MoNeil, 40; Matthew Geary, 48; Lieuten ant Raymond A. Mitchell; Dennis Murphy, Roy H. Keraghan, George Collins, Fred Kelley and Martin Upper. Hundreds of movie goers had left the theatre less than two hours before the fire took hold. Society Beauty Is Victim of Murder KANSAS CITY, March 10. (AP) Clumsily abandoned, blood stained weapons of death guided police today In the search for the killer who beat pretty Miss Leila Adele Welsh, 24, with a stone ma son's hammer, slashed her with a butcher knlfo and fled with a deeply cut section of her hip. The body of the socially promi nent brunette, her pajamas In shreds, wa9 found In her bed room yesterday morning by her mother, Mrs. Marie P. Welsh. Miss Welsh, a 1937 beauty con testant at the University of Kun sas City, had been slain during the night by a person who ap parently entered through a bed room window of the (Welsh home at 6109 Rockhill road, In a well-to-do section. Police laboratory tests showed that Miss Welsh had not been criminally assaulted and a close check of valuables discounted robbery as the motive. Boxing Tycoon Caplin Gets 5 Years for Card Swindle NEW YORK, March 10. (AP) Hymle Caplin, who has man aged five world champion box ers, was sentenced today to from five to ten years In prison on his conviction of grand larceny. He was accused of being the financial backer of a ring of card sharps. King County Judge Peter J. Brancato told Caplin that the sentence was severe and that he was showing no mercy because "we like a good fighter regard less of color, creed and race, but we look down on a cheat who hits below the belt." Nown-nevlnw Pholo nml Enitrnvliiit. crew employed by C. A. Cham bcrlln, Roseburg contractor and builder. When he Isn't busy palntlnt?, Larry loads up his varmint dogs (he has several) and heads for the hills, where he finds su preme delight In hunting cougars, He has killed several during the past winter. "I'd a lot rather be back in the mountains ngni now, hunting cougars," he told me, "than painting this house. I sup pose though that a fellow'd al ways rather play than work, wouldn't he? Well, I reckon; however, I've had the Idea there was a lot of hard work connected with !o3 glng cougars. Cruise Sea Raider Sunk; London Says Nazis Call en Greece to Make Decision: Russia Concentrating Troops 1 LONDON,' March .10. (AP) An Italian cruiser of the Condottlerla class has been torpedoed and "almost certainly sunk" by a British ' submarine, the admiralty an nounced tonight. The admiralty communique said the cruiser was escorted by two destroyers and for two hours after the warship was seen to be hit the escort vessels circled about picking ; up survivors. The British admiralty announc ed earlier today that the cruiser Leander, of the New Zealand squadron, sank a 3,670-ton Italian sea raider, Ramb 1, In the Indian ocean. The Italian ship was fly Ing a British flag until chat, lenged by the cruiser, the admlr alty said. Eleven officers and 89 men were captured by the British after tho Leander's guns set the ship afire. LONDON, March 10. (AP) A broadcast on the wave length of the Belgrade radio, heard hero today, said that the German mln Ister to Athens had handed tha Greek foreign minister "soma proposals." No details were given, but thrt radio .- said -Germany expected Greece to make her decision soon. By the Associated press In the simmering Balkans; dip lomatlc quarters tn Belgrade1 to day reported Russia was concern tratlng troops In the Caucasus near Turkey's Asiatic frontier supposedly as a precaution against the poslblllty of a , Gei man army rolling through. TUr key. Both the Turkish and Greek press continued their anti-German tone, as some sources ex pressed fear a German thrust in to Greece, or perhaps Turkey, might be Imminent. A Turkish paper was suspended temporarily by tho council of ministers after German Ambassador Von Papen complained of tho anti-German tone of Its editorials. In Africa, British forces ap parently were aiming ' to cut Ethiopia In two. One force driv ing from Fer-Fer In Italian Somallland covered 145 miles In three days to reach Gabre-Darra In the Ogadcn desert. The appar ent British aim was to cut the Ad dis Ababa-JIbutl railway. London Badly Strafed Nazi air raiders gave London Its heaviest week-end of attacks since the fire raid of Dec. 29 In two successive nights of pro tracted operations. Chief Inci dents Included the blasting of a west end cabaret by a high ex plosive bomb, many casualties re sulting, and a hit on a highway near a number of pedestrians. Bad weather was reported ta have kept tho RAF from any ma jor operations last night. In the far east, the French am bassador to Tokyo, Henry, said a formnl peace agreement In tha Thailand-French Indo-Chlna bor der dispute would bo signed by tomorrow night. British authorities tn Singapore (Continued on page 6) Native of Riddle, Pilot in RAF, Killed by Bomb LONDON, March' 10. (APV The death of P. R. Anderson, 27-year-old pilot in the Royal Air Force's American Eaqlet squadron, was disclosed tonight, Anderson wet killed by bomb In London Saturday night. Hit death was confirmed by an authoritative source, but no de tail! were given except that heJ was cn the ground et the time. A native of Riddle, Oregon, he once flew as a crop duster et Sacramento, Calif,