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"April Showers Bring May Flowers," so Runs an Old-Time Sonnet; They Lure Chinoolcs, Toward Fishermen's Hooks, but They're Tough on Easter Bonnets
YUGOSLAVIA
THE WEATHER
By U. 8. Weather Bureau
Showers tonight. Sunday part
ly cloudy. Cooler tonight.
See page 4 for statistics.
She may be locked In war with
the axis by the time the next
Issue of the NEWS-REVIEW
reaches you. Of equal Interest
are the probable attitudes of Tur-.
key and Russia toward Hitler's
Balkan plans. Watch for the big
1 news next week.
VOL. XLV NO. 309 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1941.
VOL. XXIX N0.197 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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Ford Motor Co. Closes All
' Assembly Plants in U.S. as
Strike Situation Darkens
Steel Industry Facing
Paralysis Spread; Coal
Tie-Up Parley Continues
By the Associated Press
Ford Motor company assem
bly linos over America, sixteen
in all, stood idle today as a re
sult of a strike at the firm's
River Rouge plant near Detroit.
At least 118,000 men were affect
ed by the shutdowns.
Three negroes were beaten in
today's first outbreak of violence
at the Rouge plant. Union pickets
turned two of them over to state
police. The pickets charged the
men had threatened strikers with
knives.
' Despite the flarc-up, Gov. Van
Wagoner expressed the belief
that "things look bright" for a
settlement."
"I don't mean that this thing is
going to be settled today or to
morrow," the governor said, "but
things are promising."
The governor and 15 Detroit
clergymen today asked the people
of the state to pray for peace and
successful mediation of the strike.
Another 250.00O workmen in
the steel industry faced the
threat of workless days begin
ning at midnight Tuesday un
less a deadlock is broken in ne
notiations between the United
States Steel corporation and its
CIO employes over a new wage
contract.
Still another 400,000 soft coal
miners were out of production
while negotiations continued to
ward a new labor contract. How
ever, Dr. .Tohn H. Steelman, fed
eral conciliator, predicted that
some of the mines would re-open
next week. Steelman also an
nounced the appointment of a
new mediation committee.
The move indicated that an
end of the work stoppage, caused
by a disagreement among opera
tors and the United Mine Work
ers (CIO) over the term'- of n
contract to replace the one which
expired March was immin
ent. These hundreds of thousands,
engaged In industries holding
billions in defense contracts,
drew further public attention to
the labor situation.
Communists' Hands Seen
Asked at his press conference
yesterday whether there was
communist activity in connec
tion with the Allis-Chalmers
strike, President Roosevelt re
plied in the affirmative. He do-
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Another Roosevelt
Saluting smartly. Ensign Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., re
ports for a year's duty with Uncle Sam's navy aboard the U. 8. S.
Mavrsnt at Boston navy yard. A member of the naval reserve, F.
D. R-, Jr., volunteered.
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Alternates Named
On Mediation Body
WASHINGTON', April 5.
(API President Roosevelt is
sued an executive order today
naming 10 men to serve as alter
nates on the national defense me
diation board.
They will serve as board mem
bers whenever any of the orgin-
al members are 111 or unavailable
for some other reason.
The white house said the neces
sity for the order was demon
strated when an alternate was
needed to go to Milwaukee today
for the opening of the Allis-Chal-mors
strike hearing.
Ihe alternates follow:
Representing the p u b 1 1 c
George Stocking, University of
Texas economist, alternate for
Clarence A. Dykstra; Charles
Wyzanski, Massachusetts a 1 1 o r-
ney, alternate for William H. Da
vis; Walter P. Stacy, chiel Jus
tice of the North Carolina su
preme court, aternate for Frank
i P. Graham.
Representing employes Ro
bert Watt of Massachusetts, spe
cial representative of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, alter
nate for George M. Harrison;
James Wilson of Ohio, another
AFL special representative, al
ternate for George Meany; Emil
Rieve of Pennsylvania, president
of the .United Hosiery Workers,
CIO, alternate for Philip Mur
ray, and Clinton Golden of Penn
sylvania, CIO steel workers or
ganizing committee, alternate for
Thomas Kennedy.
Representing employers G e r
ard Swope of New York, alter
nate for Walter C. Teaglo; John
E. Connelly of New York, alter
nate for Roger D. Lapham, and
Charles E. Adams of Pennsyl
vania, president of the Air Re
duction corporation, alternate for
Eugene Meyer.
Child Sobs Inquiry After
Crash Kills Parents
VINITA, Okla., April 5. (AP)
"What do they do with little
boys and girls without mothers."
sobbed Rosemary Meyer, 14, to
day a few minutes after her fath
er and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry John. Meyer, of Manches
ter, Mich., were killed in a car
truck crash.
Rosemary and her brother,
Henry John, Jr., 12, were unin
jured. Reports For Duty
(N'EA Telephuto.i
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Crazed Inspector
Deals Ruin In
Aviation Plant
BENDIX, N. J., April 5. (AP)
The Passaic Herald-News said
in a copyrighted article today that
a civilian employee Inspector had
run amok in the Bendix Aviation
corporation plant here, destroying
machinery and models valued In
to the hundreds of thousands of
dollars and setting- back produc
tion of some articles as much as
four months.
Neither Bendix officials nor
the federal bureau of investiga
tion office at Newark would con
firm or deny the story.
The plant is devoted to pre
cision instruments for aviation,
among them parts of the secret
bomb sight.
The Herald-News said the in
spector launched his attack at the
lunch hour last night. Stunned at
first, employees had to knock
him unconscious to subdue him,
the newspaper related. Ho was
taken to a psychopathic ward, it
added.
The Herald-News said unoffi
cial estimates of the damage
ranged as high as $250,000.
He was described as a man of
old American stock.
Snraaue Files Two
Bills, Vetoes Three
SALEM, Ore., April 5. (API
Governor Sprague had cleared his
desk today of 1941 legislation af
ter filing the free textbook and
Multnomah county registration
probe bills to become laws with
out his signature. ' " '
The textbook bill extends to
children enrolled in private and
parochial schools the free text
book privilege now enioyed only
by students in the public schools.
The governor signed a bill re
vising the logging truck formula
to permit increasing the combin
ed weights and loads from 54,000
to 68,000 pounds.
He vetoed bills recreating the
soldiers and sailors commission
and appropriating $5200 for the
arid lands experiment station in
Sherman county.
Exercising the right of Hem
veto, the governor approved the
sundry claims bill with the excep
tion of a $3000 sum for the relief
of Mrs. Rose Swanson, whose
husband was killed while serving
as an attendant at the eastern
Oregon state hospital.
Negro Student Elected
Head of College Class
TACOMA, April 5. (AP) Don
Carlos Stephenson, a colored stu
dent at the College of Puget
Sound, today was elected presi
dent of the sophomore class.
Members of the college faculty
said it was the first time in the
history of the institution a col
ored student had been picked to
head a class.
Stephenson, 27, is pastor of the
Allen African Methodist church
and the only colored student at
the college. Faculty members said
he was elected after a heated
campaign in which his oratorical
ability finally brought him vic
tory. He recently returned from
California where he entered the
semi finals of the Pacific Coast
college speech tournament. His
subject was the place of the Ne
gro In American life. Stephenson
grew up in the south and once
observed a lynching there, he
said.
Tacoma Kidnapers Rob
Two Victims of $6,911
TACOMA, Wash., April 5.
(API Two bandits who kidnap
ed two Pierce county employes,
robbed them of $B,911 In cash
and checks and left them blind
folded In an isolated area, with
their hands bound, were sought
today by authorities.
The loot included S4.8O0 in cash
of the county welfare depart
ment. The victims wore Joe I.ec,
37. a county auditor's officer em
ployee, and Gene Ryan, 30. of the
county welfare office. They
I said they w ere starting for a
bank with the funds when two
-men entered the rear seat of
I their car and pressed what felt
like pistols against their heads.
New Incident
Strains Nazi,
American Tie
Arrest of U. S. Embassy
Clerk in Berlin Brings
Demand for Explanation
WASHINGTON, April 5
(AP) The United Slates today
awaited an explanation from the
German government ol the ar
rest of an American clerk in the
embassy at Beiiin-the latest In
a growing list of trouble-provoking
incidents accompanying a
steady deterioration in German
American relations.
Secretary Hull ordered repre
sentations made to the German
foreign office after disclosure
that Stewart Herman, an em
bassy employee, had been de
tained "apparently without prior
notification or explanation to the
embassy."
Although Herman was releas
ed after several hours question
ing, officials here were under
stood to consider his arrest a
breach of the diplomatic courtesy
existing between officially friend
ly nations.
Reprisals Seen
When Herman and six other
Americans all since released
were arrested the German police
admitted that their action "might
have some connection" with re
prisals for the coast guard's seiz
ure of two German merchant
ships in United States ports aft
er discovery of a widespread
sabotage plot.
There is no doubt III informed
quarters that Germany's antag
onism stems primarily from
American aid to Britain and en
couragement of other threatened
nations to resist nazl, aggres
sion. American seizure of German
ships, detention of nazi crews
on immigration and sabotage
charges, and Secretary Hull's
flat rejection of German pro
teststogether with the cumu
lative effect of numerous preced
ing incidents have further em
bittered nazl feelings.
However, diplomatic circles
here express doubt that Germany
plans any very drastic action in
the immediate future.
Other Acts Recounted
A diplomatic survey shows,
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T TiiMiiH r tiiih T i ii n
THE GROUNDS lying south
of the Rose school, which shows
in the background In the pic
ture above, bounded by South
Jackson, Hamilton and Waite
streets, in process of being lev
eled off for "park" purposes.
These lots are former county,
and city property furnished the
American legion auxiliary for
improvement for public use by
that organization.
The auxiliary plans the plant
ing of borders of trees and the
installation of some playground
equipment for the use of the
manv children who, it hopes.
I will find it a convenient place
for play.
Auxiliary members have been
I working on this project for years
jand it speaks marvelously well
for their courage and tenacity
'that the work now being done
I was even commenced. What a
wall of casual Indifference they
1 CAW
B t W
By Paul JcaklKi
Rains, Winds
Damage Crops
In California
Sacramento, Napa Rivers
' Go On Rampage; 2 Men
Perish in Landslide
By the Associated Press
Flood waters went on a ram
page In northern California today
In the wake of a lashing rain
storm which extensively damaged
crops and caused two deaths in a
spectacular landslide.
Napa's 8,000 residents were ex
pecting any moment to see the
rising Napa river Inundate the
business district and perhaps rc
ueat the havoc of a flood last
year which chased 150 families
from their homes.
The Sacramento river had
reached its highest stage of the
season. Indications were that it
might break over its banks and
flood sections between Red Bluff
and Knights Landing.
Dave S. Murdoek, 69, and Wil
liam P. Shores, 70, lost their
lives when the Shores cabin, built
on the side of Tamalpais canyon
in Marin county near Mill valley,
was carried to the bottom by a
landslide.
First, a mighty Redwood crash
ed across the housetop and trap-
ped them In the kitchen, where
they were sitting with Murdock's
70-year-old wife and their son
The son managed to rescue his
mother hut could do nothing for
the two men.
CroDS Suffer
-.After a hasty survey of reports
from agricultural sections, George
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Grounded Ship Breaks to
Pieces on Columbia Bar
ASTORIA, Ore., April 5. (AP)
Wreckage from (lie Russian
freighter Vazlav Vorovsky litter
ed the north beach of the Colum
bia river entrance today as waves
pounded the broken ship deeper
into sands below Cape Disap
pointment. Torn Into three sections by the
sea's battering, the steamer al
most was covered by high waves.
Lighter cargo was washed free
through two bulkplale seams, but
most of the $1,250,000 cargo or
heavy machinci-y and tools appar
ently was unsalvagable.
Til it n I win ii i rng.ii
Newn-lirviR I-iiuii, Hint Kiik ni v i ,1 f(.
have had to penetrate In their
effort to do something for the
kids!
We can work ourselves Into a
lather of effort to spend hun
dreds of thousands of dollars for
some Institution whose presence
hero we think will make us a
nice return in dollars and cents
on our Investment; we'll dig deep
into our pockets to finance some
undertaking which promises us
a financial reward; but let some
one suggest our doing some
thing for the welfare and safety
of our children, or the good of
our own souls, and we shrivel up
like morning glories in the sun.
It's a shame that In a town of
this size a private organization
has to shoulder the burden of
supplying a public park. We
need a park the reasons are
ohvious. However, at the mo
ment I can't think of just how
we COULD make any money
from one.
Roseburg High School Student Wins
First Prize in State Essay Contest
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MuwH-Knvlnw Photo nnd KnKrnvlnK.
Miss Alyce Carolyn Moon, Roseburg Senior High school stu
dent, Is pictured above receiving formal announcement from Ralph
L. Russell, special deputy grand master, of her vlotory In winning
first place in a state-wide essay contest sponsored by the Oregon
Grand lodge, I. O. O. F., as part of Its Amerloanlzatlon program.
The first place carries a cash prize of $25. Honorable mention was
given Miss Josephine Wright of Days Creek.
Miss Moon's essay, on Ihe sub
ject "Americanism vs. Alienisms,"
was given first place In the Doug
las county contest, but was elimi
nated for the county prize in the
event it was selected as the state
winner. Anita Young and Bertha
Moon, the latter a sister of the
first place winner, who took sec
ond anil third places, respective
ly, in the county contest, receive
prizes of $5 and $2.50 from the
Roseburg lodge, the Rebekah
lodge co-operating. Seven essays
British Army's Pincers Closing Tighter
Around Massaua, With Italians in Rout
Elsewhere; Nazi Ships, Ports Bombed
KHARTOUM, Anglo Egypt Ian
Sudan, April 5. (AIM The im
perial British army's pincers clos
ed tighter today around Mas
saua, Italy's Red sea port in Eri
trea, wliile other columns enter
ed both Aduwa and Adlgrat, in
northern Ethiopia Just across
the border from Eritrea.
Adlgrat is I0 miles east of
Aduwa. scene of the Ethiopian's
rout of the Italians In 1K!II and
tile place where the Italians won
their first victory in the Invasion
of 1935. It is about 80 miles
south of Asmara, captured capital
of Eritrea.
Italians in Rout
Italians were streaming south
by the main roads south of As
mara toward Adilis Ababa, but
occasionally halted in attempts
to ambush the pursuing forces.
A "free French pilot who
flew over the whole area yester
day said he counted 400 trucks
tearing south on the road toward
Makale.
"They gave the Impression
they were just running for It,"
he said, and appeared to be mak
ing no preparations for a large-
scab1 stand.
Seeking a cleanup of east
Africa that would release troops
lor other theaters of war In
north Africa and the Balkans,
Ihe British had advanced nearly
two-thirds of the distance from
Diredawa, where they cut Ihe
Addis Ababa-Jibuti rail line a
week ago today.
At the same time a middle cast
RAF communique announced
that Australians battled against
Germans In north Africa and
shot down six of the nazl ma
chines and damaged others In
dogfights yesterday and the day
before.
CAIRO, April S.rAP Ger
mans and Kalians ndvanclng east
of Bengasi In Libya are being
successfully held by the British
and the situation is well In hand,
officials said tonight.
NAZI BATTLESHIPS AGAIN
TARGET OF BRITISH FLIERS
LONDON, April 5. (AP)-The
air ministry declared today that
sticks of heavy bombs straddled
the German battleships Scharn
horst and Gnelsenau In a British
ittnck on Brest last night.
A communique said oil stores
at Rotterdam and industrial tar
gets In the Ruhr also were
bombed.
were sent from Roseburg to be
Judged In the state contest.
The Odd Fellows lodge has been
making a widespread patriotic
campaign In connection with the
current national defense pro
gram. Special Deputy Grand
Master Russell reports that In
Roseburg and vicinity the local
lodge has furnished more than
2,000 individual lapol flags and
has presented portraits of George
Washington to six pf the princi
pal high schools.
The attack on Brest, 49th of
the war, was the third since Sun
day when the British first re
ported the presence of the big
German battlewagons In Ihe nazl-
occupied French port.
In daylight attacks yesterday,
lie ministry added, a naval aux
iliary was left sinking off the
French coast and mlnsweepers
were machine-gunned.
Relays of German bombers at
tacked the oft-bombed west coast
port of Bristol for hours last
night and early today In a raid
described there as "heavy but
not one or our Biggest."
Bristol reported only one per
son killed and two seriously
wounded. The British said dam
age was "nowhere extensive."
BERLIN, April 5. (AP) The
German high command reported
today that 718,000 tons of Brit
ish shipping were sunk by nazl
sea and air forces In March.
I his morning, they added, a
German combat plane attacked
a British merchantman of 3,000
tons about 190 miles west of the
Hebrides and l:;ft the ship in
sinking condition.
In all, the high command said
that 18 ships were destroyed In
the convoy, "while the total suc
cesses were Increased to 137,116
tons.
Handy Stand Here
Has New Owners
Purchase of the Handy Stand,
located at 112 N. Jackson street
by George Hunt of Medford and
Donn Radabaugh of Roseburg,
owner and manager, respective
ly, of the Indian and Rose the
aters, was announced today. The
stand was purchased from Austin
Green, who left recently for
Bremerton, Wash., to enter na
tional defense work.
The place of business handles
cigars, candles, soft drinks, maga
zines, etc., and under the new
management will specialize In
popcorn under the name of the
Papoose Popcorn stand.
It is being completely reno
vated and will be redecorated
over the week-end.
Mrs. Margaret Havens will be
placed In charge of the opera
tion of the stand, Mr. Radabaugh
announced.
Diplomatic
Stage Ended
General View
Opening Battle Expected
On Hungarian Frontier,
Where Nazis Mass Army
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, April
5. (AP) Yugoslav relations)
with Germany ebbed swiftly to
day and the Balkan kingdom ap
peared on the verge' of war.
Government circles declared
gravely that the "zero hour" had
arrived and a neutral diplomat
with close government connec
tions asserted "the diplomatla
stage has ended," with the "new
stage" just a matter of days or
hours away.
(Authorized foreign offlco
sources in Berlin, echoing tnese
omlnlous words, said that for all
practical purposes German-Yugoslav
diplomatic relations havo
ceased to exist.)
Yugoslavia's frontier with Ger
many and Italy and nazl-domin-ated
Hungary, Bulgaria and Ru
mania were closed.
(The Hungarian official news
agency said In Budapest that
Yugoslavia had suspended all
Danube river traffic in the sec
tion fronting Yugoslav terri
tory.) Telephone connection with
Bulgaria and Rumania were sev
ered. It was difficult to get calls
through to Germany and Italy
and only diplomatic calls were)
accepted for Hungary.
Military Units Astir
Squadrons of Yugoslav fighter
planes roared over Belgradi
shortly after noon and headed
toward the Hungarian border,
where Adolf Hitler Is reported to
have massed huge nazl forces.
Foreign legations in Belgrade
said that, In addition to German
and Italian frontiers, the troop
lined borders with Hungary, Ru
mania and Bulgaria had been
sealed. (Albania, fascist terrl
tory where Italians and Greeks
were fighting, was not mention
ed specifically.)
The most likely explosion point
apparently was the Hungarian
Yugoslav frontier.
With Yugoslavia virtually en
circled by the axis and axis sat
ellites, only her border with
friendly Greece on the south and
the Adriatic coast on the west
remained open.
ITALY BLAMES BRITAIN FOR
NEW CRISIS IN BALKANS
ROME, April 5. (AP) The)
axis has given Yugoslavia a few
more days to make peace with
It to escape attack, It was Indi
cated today In an editorial by
Vlrglnlo G a y d a, authoritative
journalist of fascist Italy.
Gayda's statement appeared a
few hours after it was reported
in diplomatic circles here that
the Italian-Yugoslav frontier had
been closed.
Accusing Britain of seeking ts
form a new front against tho
axls In Yugoslavia, Gayda wroto
In II Glornale DTtalla that "tha
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Fire Razes Bend
Methodist Church
BEND, Ore.. April 5. (API
Fire, fanned bv high winds, de
stroyed the First Methodist
church last night. The blaze ap
parently originated In a motor
room, part of a circulating heat
system.
Included In the loss was a
memorial pipe organ Installed
three years ago. Officers of the
congregation said the building
was covered by Insurance.
The Bend church was the last
one regularly served by Rev.
Charles A. Edwards, chairman
of the Douglas county selective
board. Dr. Edwards, on a trans
fer from the Roseburg pastorate
nine years ago, served the Bend
church for three years, then re
tired from active ministerial
duty. The edifice, of brick
veneer, was built nbout 20 years
ago and was valued at $45,000,
Dr. Edwards states. Its present
pastor was Rev. John B. Coan,
who served the South Methodist
church In Roseburg years ago
when It was located on the pres
ent Junior high school grounds.