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Newspaper Page TextRestrain Your Jests at Resumption of Flood-Producing Rains in Sun-Kissed California. Oregon's Forest Fire S eason has Begun in the North Part of the State THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Friday. Light frost tonight. Little change in temperature. See Page 3 lor statistics. HARDER BLOWS Backed by U. S. aid, John Bull has begun a "blitzkrieg" of his) own, and the war tide may soon turn as a result. Look for decl sive smashes any day. The NEWS-REVIEW will keep you posted. VOL. XLV NO. 289 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 13, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO.177 OF THE EVENING NEWS i IUI A m j j Cigaret Package Tax i To Increase Old Age P Voted, 38-19, By Oregi Retail Sales Levy Slated For Decision; Retirement Age for Judges Set By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. SALEM, March 13. (API The house approved 38 to 19 to day a two-cent per package lax on eiearets, designed to raise $2, 000,000 a year to hold increase the average old age pension in Oregon from $21 to $30 a month. The bill now goes to the sen ate. The two per cent retail sales tax bill, which would raise S4, 000.000 a year for property tax relief, 83.200,000 for pensions, and $800,000 for schools, was to he considered by the house late today. Dr. C. T. Hockelt, chairman of the house taxation and revenue committee, which introduced the hill, said the cigaret tax would "increase pensions to the old peo ple quite materially." He said the bill and the sales tax meas ure would raise the average pen sion from $21 to S30 a month. However, Rep. Giles L. French said that cigarets, taxed six cents a package by the federal Eovernment, arc taxed too much already. Rep. Warren Erwln said "we've trot to do something for the old folks. We boast of our Ameri can way of living, but yet we pay these small pensions." He asked the house also.Ua consid er his bill to Increase whisky prices 10 per cent to raise anoth er $1,000,000 a year fer pen sions. Some opponents ot the meas ure criticized the bill on grounds it did not also tax cigars and pipe tobacco. Judge Retirement Voted The house passed 31 to 27 a senate bill to permit supreme court and circuit judges to retire on $200 a month after serving 17 years and reaching the age of 70. The supreme court justices would contribute three per cent of their salaries, and the circuit (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS 'TODAY'S most interesting (to net Htcnntrh "A high London naval source declared today (Tuesday) that Britain wants all the ships she can get from America and that enough trained British personnel is ready to man the whole U. S. fleet if turned over to Britain for the developing battle of the At lantic." TODAY'S dispatches carry word as to this "developing battle of the Atlantic" which, the high London naval source says, has now begun. For the week ending March 2, the British admit the loss of 29 British, allied and neutral ves sels totaling 148,038 tons, the largest week's loss since Orto Ixt. The British spokesman in Lon don adds: "The spring blitz Hit ler promised has begun." A MF.mrA'S announced Job is to provide supplies for Brit ain, along with other embattled democracies. We must consider this. American supplies, Including food, munitions, etc., will DO THE BRITISH NO GOOD unless they can be DELIVERED TO BRITAIN. So far as saving Britain is con cerned, it won't help if we pile guns, ships, planes, tanks and ammunition mountain high ON THIS SIDE. If they are to be of value to Britain they must be got across the Atlantic. THE "battle of the Atlantic" referred to by the British spokesman is a battle against (Continued on page 4) Pet. ions louse " 73 1 Mediation Board For Labor Planned Roosevelt and Aides Confer on Proposal as Strikes Impede Output of Defense Needs (By the Associated Press) A specific recommendation for a mediation board to handle labor problems related to defense pro duction was laid before President Roosevelt today by Secretary Per kins and the directors of the of fice for production management, William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman. Miss Perkins told reporters af terward that the idea of such a board was taking "definite shape." Hillman said several propositions were under consideration but that the conference had not touched on names of prospective board members. Another major development to day, in New York, was rejection by the nation's soft coal operators of CIO union demands for a blan ket Sl-a-day wage increase. The operators proposed that the pres ent contract, which covers 450,000 miners, be extended another two years. The present contract, expiring March 31, provides $6 a day for miners in the north and $5.60 in the soufh. Aluminum Plant Stilled. The big Aluminum Company of America plant at Edgewater, N. J., which had been operating seven days a week on aluminum airplane parts, was stilled by a strike early yesterday. Three thousand workers were affected. CIO union leaders contended the company had violated Sunday and holiday overtime pay pro visions of a 1939 labor contract. Also idle was the Labelle works ot the Crucible Steel company at Pittsburgh. Officials of the com pany, which employs about 900 men, declared CIO steel workers had called an "unauthorized strike." Union headquarters de clined to comment, but pickets I Continued on page 6) Defense Appropriation Bill Sent to Roosevelt WASHINGTON, March 13. (AP) The senate sent a $1,533, 567,102 defense appropriations bill to President Roosevelt for his signature today after several sen ators had voiced sharp criticism of the bill's lack of a provision setting up a commission to lo cate defense, factories. Besides funds for speeding the army's housing program and re placement of fleet units, the bill Included allotments for construct ing naval facilities at Guam, Sa moa and other outposts. The bill would provide $66,050, 000 for building naval air sta tions at bases acquired from Great Britain in exchange for de stroyers. Ex-Convict Sentenced Here on Bad Check Count Arthur E. Cox, 36, a resident of Florence, Oregon, was sentenced In circuit court today to two years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to a charge of ob taining money by false pretenses. Cox was accused of cashing a worthless check at Gardiner. Dis trict Attorney J. V. Long Inform ed Judge Carl E. Wimberly that Cox had been given a sentence of one year in Lane county in March, 1938, on a similar of fense, and had been paroled from the state penitentiary in August of that year. Winchester Bay Yields Body of Drowned Man REEDSPORT, Ore., March 13. (AP) The hody of John Daugherty. who was. washed from the deck of a Jetty tender Feb. 15 and drowned, was recovered by ietty workers late yesterday at 'the Jetty dock near where he was carried Into Winchester bay. Stormy Petrel Of Labor Passes Tom Mann LONDON, March 13. (API Tom Mann, veteran British labor leader, died today at his home in Yorkshire. In his tempestuous career he was deported from Germany, France, Belgium and Ireland and barred from the United States. He was jailed in Australia and Germany in his younger years and, at the age of 76 when most leaders are content to muse on social and political strife, he went to a London jail. He was barred from the United States in 1919 when America was deporting Emma Goldman, Alex ander Berkman and other I. W. W. leaders who had obstructed the world war draft laws. California Again Lashed by Rains LOS ANGELES, March 13.- (AP) The rains are back again, after a few days of sunshine, set ting new storm records for south ern California. Rain which set in yesterday and continued today established a 51-year record In Los Angeles with a total precipitation for the season starting July 1, 1910, of 26.31 inches. The storm was general over southern California, from Santa Barbara, where a cloudburst de posited 1.25 inches of water in one hour and 15 minutes and 4.5 inches In eight hours to the Imperial valley, where lightning and thunder accompanied the rain. A bus slid from wet pavement against a telephone pole and in to an orange grove at Ontario, injuring seven passengers, one Ralph Portllla, 22, of Greeley, Colo., critically. A body was sighted in the surf at Redondo Beach. . It was be lieved to be that of a boy wash ed from the breakwater a week ago. Streets were blocked off In sev eral towns of the San Fernado valley, and in Reseda several business buildings, their founda tions weakened by earlier storms, were abandoned temporarily. A landslide south of Santa Barbara delayed three trains for two hours. A cloudburst in the Mojave desert washed out two miles of the Bakersficld highway 15 miles north of Majave. The forecast was for more rain through tomorrow. Prison Term Meted to Benefit Assn.'s Ex-Head PORTLAND, March 13. (AP) Circuit Judge Stapleton sen tenced Deane Curtis, former busi ness manager of the Marine En gineers' Beneficial association, to two years In the state prison yesterday. Curtis pleaded guilty to larceny k nmUnilnmnnf nnMiiti matl-lr i a t(r mhWo alrl Curtis mis. appropriated about $-1100 of asso ciation funds. Aged Caretaker Near Brightwood Dies in Fire BRIGHTWOOD, Ore., March 13. (AP) T. W. B. Thompson, 84, a caretaker, burned to death late vesterdav In a fire which de stroyed his home at Sleepy Hol low. State Policeman Glen Mac Donald said the man apparently became ill and probably knocked a kerosene lamp over. 2-0cean Navy Bill Offered In Congress Appropriation of Nearly 3V2 Billion AsVed for Construction Program WASHINGTON, March 13. (AP) A $3,446,585,144 appropria tion bill to carry forward the two-ocean navy construction pro gram was presented to the house today along with a warning trom the navy's high command that the critical world situation "may continue to grow worse for some time to come." Recommending the huge out lay for the year starting July 1, the appropriations committee told the house that the fleet ex pansion program called for "col lateral expenses of staggering proportions" and $5,553,976,000 additional will have to be appro priated during the fiscal years 1943-46, solely to complete the current shipbuilding program. A total of 729 ships of all types and categories are now un der construction or contracted for and, when completed, will give the United States the most powerful navy In world history. Restrictions Imposed For the first time, the commit tee wrote into the navy bill a pro vision to prohibit payment of any of the funds to persons advocat ing overthrow of the government by force or who belong to organi zations advocating such tactics. A somewhat similar provision has been placed in relief and-olfr er appropriation bills. Anyone who accepted funds in violation of the pending provision would be liable to a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment for one year, in addition to penalties under any other applicable law. Another new provisions would prohibit the navy from employ ing any additional civilian per sonnel after today at 'salaries in excess of $5,000, unless specific ally authorized in the bill or here after. It also would limit the number of civilian officers and employes of the navy department in Washington to 7.5IX), unless specific appropriation is made later for an increase. Oregon Bases Included The navy is equipping seven section bases in Oregon, Wash ington and Alaska and intends to (Continued on page 6) I SAW By Paul A CREW OF CARDENERS from Mover's nursery planting some trees In the lawn of Noble Goettel's new home In Laurel wood. Noble, rearmost In the pic ture above, looks on approvingly, having ceased for the moment his own labor of seeding a lawn back of the house. The planting Is of sizable plane trees. I lived half a lifetime be fore I knew what plane trees were. I'd read of them occasional ly In catalogues and such; but al ways had associated them with banyans, or something equally strange and unknown. Imagine my surprise to discover they were my old friends, the syca mores! They "fruit" a round, pendant ball filled, at maturity, with a i dry, fibrous substance. When I autumn was a kid one of my I- Advances to Top In WPA Office : New administrator of the WPA Is Howard O. Hunter, above, former deputy In that department. He was nominated for the chief position by Presi dent Roosevelt to succeed the late Col. F. C. Harrington. Dr. Kleinsorge Named to Higher Education Board SALEM, March 13. (API Governor Sprague today appoint ed Dr. R. E. Kleinsorge, Silver- ton physician, to the state board pf higher education for the term ttuftng March 2, 3950. - He suc ceeds F, E. Callister of Albany. The appointment is subject to confirmation by the senate. Dr. Klelnsrogo was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1883, and was educated at the University ot Iowa. Legation Stenographer, Injured by Bomb, Dies ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 13. (AP) Teresa Armstrong, 23-year-old stenographer of the Brit ish legation In Sofia, died today. Her death brought to four the number of dead in the suitcase bomb attempt on the life of George W. Rendcl, British minis ter to Bulgaria. Miss Armstrong was so serious ly injured In the explosion In the Pera Palace hotel that both her legs had to be amputated. Jenkins I' it N'ewn-Ttpvlpw plinlo nrxl Knirrnvinir. sports was to soak this hall in kerosene and, touching a match to it, twirl It 'round and 'round by its "string." I can't see now what was so much fun about it; but l could then. The planting season for flow ers, shrubs and trees Is at Its height right now everywhere one goes he can see men and women out in their lawns and gardens, spade la hand and an eager look In their eyes. If every thing planted grows as wen hoped lor, the surface of the earth will be covered 40 feet deep and well have to cut our way through it with machetes, as the natives In the equatorial jungles do. However, I reckon the insect pests, cutworms, snails and the weather will save us this trouble. Raiders Start Huge Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen Duce In Field But Urge To Army Futile Fierce Italian Attacks Shattered by Greeks; Hitler Predicts Victory By the Associated Press On the Albanian war front, the Greeks today quoted Italian pri soners as saying that Premier Mussolini was now in the field and had given his generals 'until Saturday to "do something." A Greek spokesman saia 11 Duce had personally ordered the recent fierce Italian attacks on the central front, in the Tepel eni sector, which the spokesman said had been repulsed in four days of bloody fighting. The Italians, dlspatcncs to Athens from the front said, have been unable to gain a single inch of ground and In the last six days their losses unofficially have been placed at more than 10,000, Including 2,000 dead. These fig ures do not cover the 3,500 pri soners listed by the Greeks. The Balkan situation remained tense, with 500,000 German troops awaiting Hitler's go-ahead signal on the Greek and Turkish frontiers, wbile Yugoslavia lean ed with apparent reluctance to ward the Romc-Berlin-Tokyo axis, axis. The Turkish government news paper Ulus declared Turkey's de fenses were "adequate In the face Qf all eventualities" and urged the public to remain calm. Hitler Promises Victory Fuehrer Hitler keynoted a nazi celebration commemorating the third anniversary of the union of his native Austria with the relch by predicting, in a speech at Linz, that the war would end in a tremendous German victory insuring development of "a greater Germany." "The hour of our final victory will come," he told some 40,000 listeners in an unheralded talk, "whereupon we will develop very thoroughly the plans wo have made. . . . We are not obligat ed to any class, or to any group, and we bow to no human being. Before us in the recognition oi the German people, before us is a greater Germany. In the African war theater, Britain's middle cast command (Continued on page 6) Weekly Pay Tax Being Considered WASHINGTON. March 13. ( AP) Congressional fiscal ex nerts. casting about for new rcve nue sources to help pay for the $7,000,000,000 British aid pro gram, were reported considering today the possibility of imposing a 5 per cent tax on the weekly nay of most ot the nation's workers. If such a 5 per cent "earned In come" tax, should be levied, that amount would bo deducted for the government each week from the pay envelopes of a large pro portion of jobholders. Thus a worker now receiving $40 weekly would got, Instead, $38 and a tax receipt for $2. Small wage earn ers possibly those receiving $25 weekly or less would be ex ompled. Although It was emphasized that this proposal was merely In the discussion stage and might never mature, responsible inrtivl duals who have been studying the plan said they had received est! mates that a 5 per cent levy of this nature would raise $3,500,000,' 000 yearly. Acknowledging that the propo sal might arouse a storm of pro test from wage earners, advocates said It would have to be accom panlcd by commensurate . In. creases In taxes upon Incomes from investments, rentals and other sources so that there could be no discrimination. Hungary's Funds In U. S. 'Frozen' By Roosevelt WASHINGTON, March 13. (AP) President Roosevelt today "froze" all funds of Hungary in the United States. Treasury Secretary Morgen thau said that the president and the treasury acted at the request of the state department, but de clined to discuss the reasons. Hungary, the 12th nation whose funds have been frozen signed the axis pact about two months ago. Customarily such freezing orders have been Issued when na tions were occupied by troops ot another country. Morgenthau declined to say whether the action meant that the United States now considered Hungary occupied by German troops. Indians Wallop Parkrose, 26 to 21 The Roseburg high school In dians, eliminated Wednesday from competition for the state basketball championship, stayed in the running for consolation honors today by defeating Park- rose 26 to 21 in a game played at Salem today. Van Atta of Pnrkmsn ntncrnd a one-man battle to keep Ills Team m tne tourna ment, scoring 12 ox the team's 21 points. All of the Roseburg play ers broke into the scoring column. In the first consolation game of the day Columbia Prep of Port land defeated Beaverton 45 to 18. Lineups: Roseburg 26 21 Parkrose Wiard 5 F. Porter Goodlow 6 ...F. Jarvis Denton 6 C..., 4 McLaughlin Hughes 2 G 2 Harper Finlay 5 G 1 Pordcn Substitutions: Roseburg, Cacy 2; Parkrose, Finch 2, Van Atta 12, Longview Gets Reynolds Firm Aluminum Factory PORTLAND, Ore., March 13. (AP) The Reynolds Metals com pany factory, Becond aluminum plant attracted to the Pacific northwest by the Bonneville pro ject, will be at Longview, Wash. R. S. Reynolds, president, dis closed selection of the site last night. It will consist of 400 acres west of the Weyerhaeuser Pulp company, on the Columbia river. The Longview plant will give the Reynolds company a total production of 100,000,000 pounds per year, or about a third of the nation's 1939 production. With the Alcoa plant at Vancouver it will give the Columbia basin an aluminum capacity equal to al most 30 per cent of America's 1941 output. Roseburg Indian Basketeers Lose To Klamath Falls, 31 to 18, After Tying Score, 16-AII, in 3rd Quarter Roseburg's towering Indians, apparently suffering badly from stage fright as they played in their first state basketball cham pionship tournament since 1936, went down to defeat Wednesday afternoon before the Klamath Falls Pelicans by a score of 31 to 18 In the opening round of the state meet at Salem. Intensely nervous at the start of the game, the Indians never fully recover ed their driving power, their tenseness being exhibited by the manner In which tho ball time and again rolled around the hoop and dropped outside. Roseburg failed to score a field goal In the first period, annex ing three free throws for their quarter score, further showing nervousness by missing five gift shots. Klamath Falls also was tense, committing six fouls In the first period, but emerging with five points to hold a two-point lead for tho first period. Scors Tied at 16-AII Both teams Increased the pace In the second frame during Fires at Nazis Reply By Blasting At Liverpool New Defensive Weapon Of British Takes Toll 1 Of Attacking Planes LONDON, March 13. (AP)- The British air forco, throwing new and more powerful bombers into its greatest assault of the war, blasted Germany and German-held territory from Berlin to Boulogne and Norway In the last 24 hours, the air ministry said to day, and was "very successful." Tremendous fires and explo- , slons were declared by the air minister to have been started at Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen and a German destroyer was re ported torpedoed in the Skager rak, arm of the North sea be tween Norway and Denmark. ," Matching the massive offen sive operations, informed sources) said Britain now was prepared al so to fill the skies over England with night fighters to fend off the luftwaffc'8 destructive dusk-to-dawn assaults. Nazis Hit at Liverpool The effectiveness of the rein. forced defense set-up was denv onsiraiea oy a one-nignc record Hnst night when- at '-least - nlntv German bombers were shot down, as they attacked the Mcrseyside, important shipping area concen trated at Liverpool. Further proof was offered in ' the declaration that the ratio ot one raider downed out of 30 here tofore had been reduced now to a one-to-20 ratio. A communique appeared to hint at a new defensive weapon in stating that the German bomb, ers were harassed by fighters, anti-aircraft guns and "other de vices" which were described as "very active." The nature of the "other de vices" Was not indicated but they were considered to be something other than barrage balloons. German raiders over London gltl'llU Uy U UIUIIUC1UUB uuiiuku last night and early today were unlike anything previously heard from the regular anti-aircraft weapons. The RAF's score was further Increased when it was officially announced today that "two en emy aircraft Messerschmitt 109's were shot down near tho southeast coast" in a dawn en counter. Tho government compared the raid on the Liverpool area with the heavy assaults direct ed against England last fall but added: "On this occasion the damage and casualties bore no relation (Continued on page 6) which Klamath Falls scored ton points and Roseburg made five to give the Pelicans a lead of 15 to 8 at half-time. The Indians staged n brilliant third-period drive, holding Klamath Falls to three points, all made on fret throws, exactly as Roseburg had scored in the opening period, while Finlay and Denton combin ed to score 11 points. During tho third period the score was tied at 16-all, but Klamath- Falls promptly went back Into tho lead, when Reglnato connected with two gift shots, thus holding a two-point margin, 18 to 16, as the game went Into the final frame. Rout In 4th Quarter Roseburg continued to pace tho Pelicans in the early part of tho fourth quarter, but a bad break In which Denton, Roseburg's tow ering center, touched the basket In diving for a recovery, thus giv ing Klamath Falls a Rift of two points, seemed to take the heart out of the Indians and from then (Continued on page 6).