President Roosevelt, Having Opened the Red Sea to American Shipping, Would Now do Well to Open the Nati on's Deportation Channels to Its Sea of Reds,
GREECE
She has thus far proved a
stumbling block to Hitler! Bal
kan drive. Can the allies make
the check permanent, or will
there be another Dunkerque? Fol
low the battle through . NEWS
I EViEW news.
THE WEATHER
( By U. 3. Weather Bureau
Cloudy tonight. Tuesday part
ly cloudy. Little change In tem
perature. . See page 4 for statistics.
VOL. XLVI NO. 6 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1941.
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Two Officers
Jm Slays
Guard, Fights
Cops Outside
Fourth Convict Dies of
Shock; Two Survivors of
Battle Nabbed in Park
OSSINING,-N. Y., April 14.
(AP) Two. long-term j convicts
who shot their way but of the
Sing Sing prison Infirmary in a
. sensational break which cost four
lies were captured a few hours
later today in the woods across
the Hudson river.
The two convicts were cornered
on the slope of Hood mountain in
Palisades interstate park in Rock
land county.
They were still armed with
smuggled guns with which they
and a confederate, who was later
slain, had broken from the pris
on in a battle in which a prison
guard and an Ossining policeman
were killed and a convict patient
died of shock.
Patrolman William Mullen, an
experienced woodsman member
of the park's police, and one of
250 peace officers trailing them,
flushed thpm from underbrush
within a mile of the shore point
from which they had fled after
.forcing a fisherman to ferry
them across the river.
The convicts, Joseph Riordan
and Charles McGale, both under
sentence for robbery, appeared
dazed when Patrolman Mullen
stopped from behind a tree on
the slope below them.
"We'll come down," one said.
Other police quickly disarmed
them and rushed them to Nyack,
N. Y., police headquarters for
questioning before taking them
back across the Hudson to Sing
Sing.
Two Officers Slain.
In their desperate short-lived
bid for freedom, Riordan, McGale
and John Waters, 30, the slain
member of the trio, shot and kill
ed one infirmary guard, over
powering the other, crawled sev
eral hundred yards through a tun
nel leading outside the prison, and
1 slew an Ossining policeman in a
running gun fight.
The dead:
John Hartyde, prison guard.
John Waters, 30, alias Tom Hlg
gins, serving . a . 10-to-30 year
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Jas. Roosevelt, Former Nurse Wed
James Roosevelt and Wife No. 2
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 14. (AP) Eleanor Roosevelt,
.wife of the president, arrived today from Washington for the wed
ding of her eldest son, James, and his former nurse, Romclle
Theresa Schneider. The ceremony was set for this afternoon at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Converse, the latter the for
mer actress Anita Stewart. Municipal Judge Arthur S. Guerln was
to perform the nuptials. Miss Schneider is a Catholic. James has
been divorced, from the former Betsey Cushlng of Boston. Roose
velt said he regretted that the divorce made it Impossible for him
to be married by a priest. "Both of us wish it could be a church
. service," he said. Roosevelt, a captain in the marines reserve at
San Diego, spends most of his leave at his film studio In Culver
City.
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Members of the advisory board to the local corps of the Salvation Army are urging tbat resi
dents of Roseburg and vicinity give cooperation In the financial drive being conducted this week.
Members of the board pictured above are, from left, Harris Ellsworth, Tom Parkinson, V. V. Harp
ham, Chief of Police John Duer, F. L. Crittenden, Leon E. McClintock, W. C. Harding, Glenn Owens,
Captain Olive Coleman, corps commander; Attorney B. L. Eddy, W. F. Harris, Dr. G. C. Finlay, and
Captain Cox of Portland, assigned to direct the finance drive. Roseburg residents are asked to donate
funds to make up the $1,500 budget necessary to carry out the Salvation Army's schedule for relief
and home service activities during the ensuing fiscal year.
Bear Climbs In Boat
With Reedsport Hunters
REEDSPORT, Ore., April 14.
(AP) A bear turned the tables
on two young' hunters from
Reedsporti they reported here today.-
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While hunting for bear in the
vicinity of Lake Tahkenitch, Fay
Willard and Leslie Levitt took
time out for a little boating.
The scenery was good and time
was heavy on their hands until
they suddenly felt the boat heave
1 and looked around to find a piay
1 ful bear trying to climb in with
them.
The unarmed boys beat him off
with oars and made for shore.
P. S. They got the bear next
day.
Writer Sues Chaplin Over
"Great Dictator" Movie
NEW YORK, April 14. (AP)
Konrad Bercovicl, writer, filed a
$5,000,000 suit against Charles
Chaplin in supreme court today,
charging the comedian-producer
had used the author's idea for the
film "The Great Dictator" with
out reimbursing him either by
credit or payment.
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r ation With Salvation Army
County Resources
School Planned
. Plans for a course of study in
Douglas county resources is being
planned to educate merchants,
clerks, service station operators,
restaurant workers and others
having contact with tourists to
"sell" Douglas county to vacation
ists, It was announced today. The
course of study is planned under
the state vocational education de
partment. Scott Williams, . in
structor in the Roseburg schools,
will be In charge of the course.
Similar classes have been or
ganized in various parts of Ore
gon and have been extremely pop
ular. Study is made of fishing
and . hunting resources, scenic
spots are visited, lectures are giv
en by men prominent in state af
fairs on roads, industries, forests,
fish and game management, and
numerous other subjects.
The entire course Is designed
so that persons who come in con
tact with tourists may be
thoroughly informed on all sub
jects in which visitors may be in
terested in order that they may
give specific information.
The Roseburg chamber of com
merce is participating In the ten
tative organization plans.
Kruse Lumber Company
Buys Schieman Sawmill
YONCALLA, Ore., April 14.
The Kruse Lumber company to
day announced the purchase of
the Schieman sawmill, which ad
joins the Kruse plant on the
north. The two mills will be con
solidated In operation and work
will start in the Schieman plant
as soon as the machinery can be
overhauled. It is planned to ship
at least two carloads of lumber
daily from the two mills. The
Kruse company shipped out eight
carloads of lumber last week.
Aged Man Suffocates
Fighting Fire in Home
CANNON BEACH, April 14.
(AP) An attic fire suffocated
Relnhold D. Scheiber, 77, in his
home here yesterday.
The attic caught ablaze after
he had lighted the fireplace down
stairs. He went upstairs to fight
the flames but was overcome by
smoke and neighbors had to chop
through the roof to get him out
side before the house was leveled.
He died a few minutes later.
Two Brothers Drown
In Fishing Accident
MISSION, Tex., April 14.
(AP) Robert Holiday, 14, step
ped into deep water yesterday
while fishing. His brother, 23,
plunged to the rescue. Both
drowned.
Navy To Arm U.S.
Merchant Ships
WASHINGTON, April 14
(AP) The navy was .understood
today to be preparing for the
swift arming of hundreds of gov
ernment and privately-owned
merchant vessels should such ac
tion become necessary.
In addition, congress has pro-
vided funds to enable the navy to
acquire equipment to protect
such vessels against magnetic
mines.
President Roosevelt's action
last week in opening the Red sea
to American shipping stirred con
jecture as to whether United
States merchant vessels carrying
supplies to African ports would
be armed in view of Adolf Hit
ler's threat to torpedo all ships
carrying supplies for the British,
No word has come from the ad
ministration as to whether such a
step had been considered but in.
formed sources expressed belief
that even if the ships were not
provided with guns with which to
fight submarine or air attacks,
they could be equipped with the
anti-magnetic mine device.
It was recalled that prior to
this country s entry Into the
world war, President Wilson or
dering the arming of American
merchantmen as a result of Ger
many's unrestricted submarine
warfare. One consideration which
played a part In that decision was
that crews were distinctly reluc
tant to sail aboard unarmed ves
sels. One-Armed Driver Lets
Go Wheel; 2 Persons Die
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14.
(AP) Easter week end traffic ac
cidents caused the death of eight
persons and the Injuries of scores
of others in northern California.
A freak accident In which a
one-armed driver took his hand
from the wheel to get a cigarette
killed two motorists in Sonoma
county. The car skidded off the
highway and overturned, fatally
Iniurine Mr. and Mrs. Byron
Mitchell of Marshall, Marin coun
ty. Tommy Baccl, one-armed San
Rafael man. was jailed on a
charge of reckless driving.
Grant County Treasurer
For 33 Years Passes
CANYON CITY. Ore., April 14.
(AP) Ala O. Mosler, 63, Grant
county treasurer, died at his
home Friday.
Mosler, who lived In Grant
county all his life, was nppolnted
county treasurer In 1907 to fill a
vacancy and was re-elected for
each succeeding term of office
until his death. Grant county of
ficials believed he held office
longer than any other county of
ficial In the state.
Die in Sing Sing Break
330,000 Given
Pay Hoists By
2 Steel Firms
Bethlehem, U. S. Steel
Up Wages 10 Per Cent;
Tieup Threatens G. M. C.
' By the Associated Press
The Bethlehem Steel comoanv
announced a 10cent-an-h our
wage increase today for about 90,-
uuu employes in all plants and
similar action followed later in
the day on a CIO union demand
for a similar increase for 240,000
employes of the United States
Steel corporation.
Sydney B. Evans, management
representative of the Bethlehem
company, said the wage raise
would be for "all hourly, piece
workers and tonnage employes,"
enecuve as oi April 1.
The United States Steel cor
poration granted a 10-ccnt an
hour wage increase and. more
liberal vacations to its wage
earners, averting a CIO work
stoppage which had been sche
duled for Tuesday midnight.
Representatives of the corpora
tion and the CIO's steel workers
organizing committee, announc
ing a new contract replacing an
historic document signed in 1937,
estimated the increase would add
abo'dt $54,000,000 to '"big steel's"
annual payrolls.
In addition, the now pact pro
vided for changes in grievance
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ESTHER CARROLL, Roseburg
Junior high school student, ad
judged "American Girl for 1941"
In the contest for this honor held
In connection with the annual
Play day festivities last Satur
day at senior high school here.
At this event the girls from the
high schools of Douglas county
foregather, under the direction of
Miss Muriel White of Roseburg
high school, for a morning of
athletic sports and other forms
of recreation.
"Hooray-yy!" shouted Esther's
Jubilant partisans, "THIS sure Is
SOMETHING! She's the only
JUNIOR high school student In
the contest! ALL the others are
SENIORS!"
Winning the title was easy for
her compared to the ordeal of
Idolatry to which her exuberant
classmates subjected her. They
nearly mobbed her. I reckon the
only reason they didn't swing her
to their shoulders and start a I
Treaty Ends Long-Strained Relations
Of Russia and Japan Vows Neutrality
Without Binding Soviet to Axis
MOSCOW, April 14. (AP) A
soviet-Japanese neutrality pact
which ended 24 years of strained
lar eastern relations was wel
comed today by the communist
party press as clearing the way
lor political and economic coop
erationwithout, however, bind
ing Russia to the axis.
The pact, signed yesterday by
Premier-Foreign Commissar Mo
lotoff and Japan's foreign min
ister, Matsuoka, wasi regarded
by observers as rivaling in world
importance the non-aggression
accord of 1939 between Germany
and Russia which preceded the
Invasion of Poland.
It fitted the general pattern of
expressed soviet policy peace
and neutrality in the midst of an
expanding war.
it is the first political pact con
cluded between the two countries
since the resumption of diploma
tic relations after the bolshevlst
revolution of 1917.
Questions to Be Solved
Pravda, communist party or
gan, said the pact and its ac
companying declaration pledging
respect of the Integrity of Man
choukuo and Outer Mongolia
"clear the way for the regula
tion of other unsolved questions
betweep the U. S. S. R. and Ja
pan." S
; The major questions "oustand
ing between' the two countries
are:
1. A trade agreement which
long has been in negotiation.
2. A permanent agreement con-
Newn-nevlew Photo and Engraving.
j parade was because there were
Just too many shoulders and only
one twenolder.
"Put your subject at ease,"
reads the first advice to a pho
tographer; but I submit it's no
time to put a gal at her ease,
or any place else ,at the moment
her good looks, vivacity and tal
ent have won for her a signal
honor, and her friends start
breaking up the furniture In cele
bration thereof!
Esther is a blonde; so-high;
fourteen years old; in the ninth
grade and the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Carroll of Dlx
onvllle. She likes to play base
ball, volleyball and tennis; loves
swimming and adores horseback
riding.
Not so many years from now
the question will occur traitorous
ly to many a young man; "Can
she cook?" Well, doggone It, I
didn't ask her. I figure he can
find that out for himself!
ccrning the rights and privileges
of Japan to fishing grounds in
the far east, which also has long
been In negotiation.
3. Demarcation of the . fron
tiers of Manchqukuo and Mon
golia over which Japan and Rus
sia fought pitched battles in spor
adic encounters in the summers
of 1938 and 1939.
A joint commission has been
at work on this problem, too, for
many months.
The Easter Sunday , accord,
which pledges each nation to re
main neutral in the event the
other Is made "the object of hos
tilities on the part of one or sev
eral third powers " was the main
prize of Japanese Foreign Min
ister Matsuoka's three-week Eu
ropean tour to. Moscow, Berlin
and Rome.
The treaty, valid for five years,
pledges the two powers to re
spect each other's "territorial In
tegrity and inviolability."
It was accompanied by a de
claration specifying that Japan
would respect the borders of the
Russian-dominated Outer Mon
golian people's republic and the
soviet would do the same for
Japanese-sponsored Manchoukuo.
By the Associated Press
German Bpokesmaft confident
ly declared the. signing of the
pact had eliminated Russia as a
Question mark but oDservers in
other capitals were not so sure.
In Washington, some observ
ers felt the agreement foreshad
owed unfavorable far eastern de
velopments for Britain and the
United States since Japan's
backdrop" is protected, while
others felt that by the same tofc
en Russia's "backdoor" was
guarded, possibly freeing the so
viet for a sterner siana against
Adolf Hitler in the Balkans.
The Tokyo newspaper Yom-
luirl said it "definitely is a blow
to the activities and policies of
the United States in the Pacific."
Seerctarv Hull declared at
Washington that the pact "'could
be overestimated" ana inai ine
policy of the American govern
mcnt remained unchanged.
Ex-Convict Faces
Theft Charge Here
Louis Hopper, 34, former Rose
burg restaurant cook, who only
four months ago compieiea , a
three-vear term in the penitenti
ary, was back In custody today on
n burelarv charge pending since
November. 1938, Sheriff Cliff
Thornton rcDorted. Hopper,
whom the sheriff said has served
time In San Quentin and Folsom
prisons prior to coming to Rose
burg, was sentenced November
29. 1938. to three years on check
charges. Since his release four
months ago ho has been residing
at Marshflcld. The officers have
recovered a number of valuable
tools taken In a burglary at the
Douglas county machine shops at
Roseburg November 2, 1938, and
are charging Hopper with the
crime, the sheriff said. Hopper
has demanded preliminary examl
nation and Is being held In cus
tody in lieu of $500 bail pending
the hearing In the justice court.
Records from the bureau of
Identification show that Hopper
was arrested In Seattle on lar
ceny charges, and that he was lat
er sent to San Quentin prison,
the sheriff reported. He later es
caped from San Quentin while
working with a road crew, and
was arrested in Kentucky and
charged with burglary. Brought
back to San Quentin, he served
additional time for the escape and
also had a term In Folsom prison,
Sheriff Thornton said.
Teacher Tells Easttr
Story, Then Drops Dead
KANSAS CITY, April 14.
(AP) Charles Collier Hancey,
80, one-time minister, told his
Baptist church Sunday school
class the Easter story. He fin
ished, gasped and fell dead.
Nazis Checked
With Heavy
Loss. Report
Slavs Rally, Rout Unit
Of Invaders; Axis Gains .
In Africa Continue
By the Associated Press
British infantry have met and
hurled back the "Adolf Hitler dl
vision" in northern Greece, it
was announced In London today.,
while the allied Yugoslav army
was reported counter-attacking
nazl blitzkrieg Invaders in the
mountains 130 miles southeast of
captured Belgrade.
The defeated German division
In Greece was described as an
"S. S." force the elite Schutzr
staff el blackshlrt group, original
ly formed as a guard for the)
nazl fuehrer.
Heavy losses were Inflicted on
the Germans, the British said, in
a battle which apparently was
fought in territory between Phlo
rlna, Greece, and the Bitolj (Mon.
astir) pass, In southwest Yugo.
slavia.
London military quarters de
clared that the Yugoslav army
had counter-attacked the Ger
mans on both sides of the Mora,
via river, southeast of Belgrade;
Isolated a German column at To.
pola, 40 miles south of the Yugo
Blav capital; routed another Ger
man force at Suharjeka, 40 miles
northwest of Skoplje; and recap
tured Prokuplje, 18 miles west ot
Nls.
Nazi Claim Belied
It was this same Yugoslav
army whlcK the German high)
command officially listed as "de
stroyed" last week, and again to
day a nazl communique asserted:
"In Yugoslavia, the mass of
enemy forces which opposed the
German troops are destroyed.
"Remnants of the Serbian army
are retreating in the face of Ger
man and Italian troops into the
mountain . -country along tho
Adriatic."
Countering this nazl claim, the
London ministry of Information
declared there was "good reason
to believe that the Yugoslavs have
captured Durazzo," big Adrlatlo
seaport 25 miles west of Tirana,
the capital ot Albania. . -
The German radio reported
that the British commission
"which organized the glorious re
treat from Dunkerque" last June
had arrived In Athens.
RAF Strafes Enemy
With mud, snow and stiffening
Greek-British resista nce reported
holding back the German offen
sive on the 150-miia frnnt of
nurti:ei:i Greece, the RAP h.is
launched an offensive designed to
cripple Germany's mechanized
columns, an Athens dispatch re
ported. An RAF communique today an
nounced "a large number of
sorties" against German columns
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War Bulletins
NEW YORK, April 14. (AP)
The Italian radio broadcast today
an announcement that Corltia,
Albania, the first major basa cap
tured by the Greek counter-Invasion
of Albania, had been recap
tured by the Italian army.
LONDON, April 14. (API
Withdrawal of British forces to
new positions In Greece was re
ported In a war offloe communi
que tonight
The British retired only after
they had Inflicted "severe casual
ties" on the Germans, It ' was
olalmed.
LONDON, April 14. (AP)
The British war office announoed
tonight that 20 axis tanks sup
porting infantry "crossed the
outer . defenses" of Tobruk In
North Africa this morning, but
were ejected with severs losses,
both In tanks and manpower. .
HtHuira, April ifi
DNB, off lolal German news agen
cy, declared today that British
troops trapped at Tobruk war
trying to escape by sea, but war
under a Dunkarqut-liks aerial
bombardment.
Dive bombers war said to be '
smashing at transports and other
vessels In that Libyan harbor,