Restrain 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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