Ten Thousand Americans Fighting in the British Forces Constitute an "American FIST" Contingent That Shames the Self-Styled "America First" Appeasers.
THE WEATHER
By U. 8. Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy with scattered
showers tonight and Friday. Fog
in early morning. Little changa
in temperature.
See page 4 lor statistics.
CONGRESS
What will It do with the convoy
proposal? That's, the big ques
tion as Britain continues to tako
destructive pounding from the
nazls. The answer may como
probably next week. Watch fotf
It in the NEWS-REVIEW.
VOL. XLVI N0.27 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941.
VOL. XXIX NO. 225 OF THE EVENING NEWS.
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By FRANK JENKINS
IIAR news is still scarce today
(Tuesday.)
The killing of civilians and the
destruction of property, military
and otherwise, by bombers goes
on, but that is a part of the daily
pattern of modern war. Like a
dull toothache, it goes on and
on, taking the joy out of life but
not stopping ordinary daily acti
vities. AT the Libyan-Egyptian bor
der, where the Germans are
threatening Alexandria and Suez
from the west, a heavy sand
storm is temporarily holding up
military operations.
In Iraq, the censorship pre
vents us from knowing what
goes on, but one guesses that
the British are proceeding with
great caution. They have to
fight off the attacking Arabs,
but obviously they want to do it
as gently as possible so as not
to make them TOO mad.
The possibility of a "holy war"
isn't all talk. The British DON'T
WANT ONE.
IN London, the house of com
mons is going into action,
taking account of Churchill's
stewardship. The action'amounls
to what we know as a congres
sional Investigation with this
VITAL difference:
If the commons refuses him a
I'ote of confidence, Churchill will
be OUT and a new government
will be in.
Here, governments change
only as the result of an election.
N Germany, Italy, Russia and
throughout an increasing area
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Woman Killed,
Guest Wounded In
Desert Shooting
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.,
May 8. (API A young mother
was killed, her baby was placed
In her arms, and her house guest
was critically wounded by a gun
man in the desert near Cajon
pass early today.
Mrs. Jean Wells, 20. of San
Bernardino was slain. Rose Des
tree, 17, of Econdido, wounded,
crawled to a highway and at
tracted motorists, who rushed
her to a hospital for an emer
gency operation. Mrs. Wells' 13-month-old
daughter was rescued
by officers.
- Mrs. Wells' husband, Ray, was
missing and officers said ho
might have been harmed.
Miss Dcstree said Mrs. Wells'
brother-in-law, Alfred Wells, 30,
, was the gunman. Undcrsheriff J.
W. Stockcr made a statewide
broadcast asking for the arrest of
Alfred Wells, 30, Mrs. Wells'
brother-in-law.
Sotcker said Miss Destree told
this story:
Wells, angry that his half-sister,
Violet, had left his home,
went to Mrs. Jean Wells' house
about midnight. He demanded
that she and Miss Destree help
find Violet.
Wells drove the women and
baby Into the desert, then forced
them to walk half a mile through
brush. He forced Mrs. Wells to
write a note to her husband, Ray,
asking him to tell where Violet
had gone.
Then Wells killed Mrs. Jean
Wells, shot Miss Destree, placed
the baby In its mother's arms and
left, believing Miss Destree was
dead. also.
Wells returned to San Bernar
dino, got his brother and drove
off.
Police found Violet Wells nt
Escondido, where she had gone
to live with her mother, Mrs.
Violet Davis, who also Is the
mother of Alfred and Ray Wells.
School Fidget For
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Will Be Less
Than One Mill
Higher Salaries Included
In Items; District in
Good Financial Condition
The tentative budget for the
Roseburg school district, as pro
posed by the budget committee
and announced today, calls for a
slight increase over last year. The
levy, however, will be increased
less than one mill, it was report
ed, and will maintain Roseburg
as one of the lowest taxed first
class school districts in Oregon.
The proposed budget calls for a
total outlay of $131,745 for the
coming school year, an increase
of $2,765 from that of the past
year. Increased salaries account
for 1,820 of the enlarged total.
Because of the general rise in
costs of suplies the allowance on
that item was increased by $845.
Maintenance and repairs were
raised $500, and miscellaneous
items, such as publicity, insur
ance, fuel, etc., were increased
$600. Part of the increase is off
set by the reduction of $500 in
debt service resulting from a de
crease in interest through pay
ment of bond principal during the
year. The emergency fund was
decreased by $500.
Finances in Good Shape.
The financial condition of the
school district was reported to be
the best in many years. All ma
turing bonded debt and all cur
rent warrants were paid during
the year, the district being main
tained on a cash basis. The dis
trict, which had a bonded debt of
$231,316.00 in 1933, has only $93,
000 outstanding in bonds at pres
ent and has no outstanding war
rants, despite the fact that two
new elementary schools have
been constructed during the past
three years.
Receipts for the coming year
have been estimated at $52,700,
leaving a balance of $79,045 to be
levied for the coming year. The
levy will amount to approximate
ly 15.5 mills as compared with
14.9 mills last year.
The tentative budget was pro
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4-HCIubFairTo
Be Held Saturday
At Armory Here
The Central Douglas 4-H club
fair will be held at the Roseburg
armory Saturday, May 10, and
will be larger than ever before,
E. A. Brttton, 4-H club leader, an
nounced today. It Is expected to
have more than 400 individual ex
hibits. The district to be repre
sented extends from Oakland to
Dillard and from Glide to L'mp
qua. One of the highlights will be
the art display, which will include
50 panels, 20 by 40 inches each,
from Glide. Other departments
will include clothing, cookery,
hobbies, homemaking, wood
working and forestry clubs. The
hobby display is expected to be
of great interest and will include
displays of basketry, farm maps,
knitted articles, model airplanes,
fancy work, woodwork, etc.
The armory will open at 8 a.
m. and all exhibits must be in
place by 10 a. m. The display will
be open to the public, without
charge, until 10 p. m.
A program will be offered,
starting at 8 p. m. Elgarose will
bo represented by a troupe of
rhyhmic rope jumpers. Oakland
will present a magic act and a
vocal sextet. Sutherlln will be
represented by a vocal duet and
two tap dance numbers. The pro
gram will conclude with a style
revue.
Shows
'ease
Silencer Alone
Lacking for Soup
This gadget, assembled by W.
J. Haynes, Kansas City broker
and amateur inventor, does
everything to soup except elim
inate noise. Bulb cools it, swab
gets last drop for you and
there's an automatic crackor
dunker and salt shaker. Also a
thermorneW.
Vets Facility To
Hold Open House
On Hospital Day
National Hospital day will be
observed throughout the nation
Monday, May 12, in commem
oration of the birth of Florence
Nightingale, through whose ef
forts hospitals became havens of
cleanliness and healing Instead
of filth and neglect.
Col. E. F. Tandy, manager of
the Roseburg Veterans Admini
stration facility, has extended a
cordial invitation to the general
public to visit the facility on that
day, as a fitting tribute to this
first and greatest of women war
nurses who revolutionized the en
tire methods of caring for the
sick, and to all those who today
care and administer to the sick
and disabled.
The hospital will be open for
inspection from 2 to 4 p. m. that
day. Of special interest will be
the clinics, laboratory'. X-ray,
physiotherapy, surgery, kitchen,
dining rooms, the recreation
building and the occupational
therapy department, where there
will be a display of articles made
by the patients.
Refreshments will be served in
the recreation building to all vis
itors. The Gray Ladies, volun
teer members of the American
Red Cross, will assist the per
sonnel acting as guides and hos
tesses. Oregon Getting Outside
Labor to Harvest Crops
PORTLAND, May 8. (API
Ore g o n employment officials
sought migratory farm workers
from California today to harvest
Oregon crops and offset an acute
labor shortage.
L. C. Stoll, director of the serv
ice, said John Cooter, federal
farm placement chief, was in
California recruiting migrant ag
ricultural families and Sending
them to Oregon singly and in
groups of from three to five cars.
Approximately 100 families
have already arrived, but growers
are asking from 1000 to 2000
workers.
Employment service field men
are routing the workers to the
government's permanent farm la
bor camp at Dayton and to mo
bile camps at Gresham and
Nyssa.
Strawberry picking has started
in some fields and will be in full
swing next week. Stoll said an
effort would be made to shunt
workers on to succeeding crops
as the season advanced.
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Strike Ties
Allis Plant
In Indiana
Hudson, Bendix Concerns
Also Threatened; Two
Other Disputes Settled
(By the Associated Press)
Delivery dates on $15,000,000
worth of plane parts and anti-aircraft
gun mounts were rendered
uncertain today by a strike of
Allis-Chalmers factory at LaPorte,
Ind., and a threatened walkout at
the Hudson Motor Car company,
Detroit.
Nearly all the 950 employes of
the Indiana concern struck yes
terday, calling for union security,
wage increases and "a more sub
stantial contract." Union and
company officials did not disclose
the present wage scale or the In
creases sought.
The plant has $5,000,000 in de
fense orders and has been making
gun mounts.
The Hudson factory at Detroit
has been working on $10,000,000
worth of airplane parts and in ad
dition is building a $20,000,000 na
val ordnance plant. In filing of
ficial notice of intention to strike,
the CIO United Automobile Work
ers announced they were seeking
a wage increase of 15 cents an
hour for 8,500 hourly-rated em
ployes. The existing scale was
not disclosed.
In several previous cases In
volving threatened strikes In de
fense industries, the Michigan
state mediation board has ordered
30-day cooling off periods while
mediators sought to adjust dif
feUcnces. -' . '
Bendix Plant Threatened.
The national mediation board
at Washington, currently seeking
to avert a threatened strike
against General Motors corpora
tion, got a new assignment a
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By Paul
A Ararat
THE WINDSWEPT TREE
(fir, hemlock or spruce, you
can't prove it by me) overlooking
the little beach below Cape Per
petua as a picnic party paused
for a moment beneath It to savor
the fresh, salty fragrance of the
mist laden ocean air.
While cast almost in minia
ture, this tiny beach, through
whose sands the small waters of
Perpetua creek flow and almost
lose themselves, is one of the
most entrancing spots to be
found along a coastline which in
its entirety is wholly enchant
ing. Half moon In shape, it ex
tends from the stern promontory
which is the cape to a perfect
labyrinth of rocky corridors at
its other extremity. Here it's
lots of fun to await the incoming
tide and play hide and seek with
it, sometimes receiving a glor
ious and entirely unexpected
wetting in the process. The
waves have such an insinuating
way with them, sneaking up be
hind a fellow and Impishly en
gulfing him before he realizes
it.
A week ago the rhododendrons,
while blossoming profusely,
werent quite at their best. They
should be Just about at their
prime now, or a few days hence.
In fact, the Lincoln county
beaches are celebrating Rhodo
dendron week, beginning next
Saturday, I believe.
Hotel Fire In
Seattle Ends
Lives of Four
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Eleven Persons Injured
In Blaze Starting in
Office Waste Basket.
SEATTLE, May 8. (AP) The
city's worst hotel fire In years,
spreading rapidly before most oc
cupants awakened, killed four
persons In the small downtown
residential Stewart hotel early to
day. : The dead:
. John Seller, 76, Identified
from a marriage license issu
ed in London.
: Mr. and Mrs. William Mur
doch, each about 60, suffocat
ed in bed.
Mrs. Violet Morrison, 48.
Eleven persons were injured,
four of them in leaps to the
ground from second and third
floor windows when flames rac
ed up the stairway.
George Robert Jordan, 28, Des
Moines, Wash., was critically
burned, and suffered a severe
back injury in jumping from the
third floor.
The fire started, Fire Chief
William Fitzgerald said, in a
waste basket in the manager's of
fice about 2 a. m., spreading rap
Idly up the staircase and filling
the hallways with smoke. The
hotel is across the street from the
new federal courthouse building.
L. J. Nagle, 47, a janitor, strug
gled through the smoke to n fire
escape but was so blinded that
he plunged through a glass win
dow. He was badly cut and
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David Katz,' 47, most seriously
of those burned, said ho groped
his way towards a fire escape,
but became confused and lost his
way twice. Almost overcome, he
finally clambered down the es-
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However, as I recall having
told you before, the one place I
know where they grow in won
drous abundance is in that coun
try lying in the wooded dune
lands between Florence and the
sea. Aside from the rhododen
drons In blossom time, one al
ways may witness a rather re
markable sight - from a certain
place the wide river sweeping
along between banks of yellow
sand towering above It in great
dunes whose surface shifts with
every wind.
The old stage road running
south from Florence crossed
these dunes, and it was weary
going for man and beast. The
"beasts" had the stage to haul,
but without human cargo the
passengers all had to get out and
walk, until the hard sands of the
beach proper were reached. It
was great fun at that; at least
for the first few hundred yards.
After that one fell to wondering
if he'd really done right In tak
ing the trip; if he shouldn't have
stayed home and seen a man
about n dog.
But he soon became reconcil
ed, after he had again ridden be
hind the briskly trotting horses
as they moved nolseiesslv over
Ithe wel sands, and he thought
i bout how good the fried clams
were sure to be In the old Perk
Ins hotel dining room in Gard
iner when he" got there. Such Is
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believed the original Garden of Eden, becomes first Near East na
tion to be enveloped In Europe's war. Map shows vital oil fields,
railways and principal towns of the country. Premier Rashld All
Beg Gailani leads the pro-German government of Iraq that has
sent troops against the British stationed In the nation to protect
oil interests. He seized power a month ago.
New 21-Year Olds
Ta Register For
Draft on July 1
WASHINGTON, May 8. (AP)
Army and selective service of
ficials were reported today to
have decided on July 1 as the date
for registration of approximately
1,000,000 men who have become
21 years old since the first selec
tive service enrollment last Oc
tober. The registration will take place
it the headquarters of the 6,500
local draft boards now function
ing. Authorities said it would be
a "fairly simple job" compared
with last fall when 16,500,000
men, 21 to 35, were signed up for
possible military training.
The date for the new registra
tion will be formally fixed In a
proclamation by President Roose
velt. Authorities Indicated that
the day now tentatively agreed
upon was chosen to give the now
group of prospective military
trainees time to learn whether
they are apt to be called for ser
vice this fall so they can arrange
their school or employment plans
accordingly.
In official quarters here It wag
expected that a largo proportion
of them would be called for train
ing within a few months after
they are registered and classified
as to availability for Immediate
service.
A decision apparently has yet
to be reached on how the order
numbers of the July registrants
will be incorporated In the exist
ing list of numbers assigned af
ter the selective service lottery
last October. Whatever the moth
od, the belief was it would not
hinder plans for drawing on the
newly-registered pool of addl
tional manpower almost Immedi
ately.
Men's Glee Club to Be
Heard in Concert Tonight
The Roseburg Men's Glee club
will appear at the First Christian
church at 8:15 p. m. today In Its
annual spring concert, which Is
expected to be one of the high
lights of the local observance of
music week. The club will be
under the direction of Ralph M.
Church. Instrumental accom
paniment on piano and pipe organ
will be played by Mrs. Homer
Grow.
The program for the concert to
night Is widely varied and will In
clude, In addition to the ensemble
groups, vocal and Instrumental
solos, two male quartettes and a
louble quartette.
Missing Clerk Of
Land Office Found;
Amnesia Victim
Suffering from amnesia, expo
sure and hunger, Albert A. Nor
bock, 28, of Blackfoot, Idaho,
missing since Monday evening,
was found early today In a heav
ily wooded canyon about five
miles southeast of Roseburg. He
was reported to be responding sat
isfactorily to treatment at the
local hospital and was expected
to make full recovery, his physi
cian reported.
Norbeck, who was serving tem
porarily as substitute clerk at the
U. S. land office In Roseburg, left
the office Monday afternoon com
plaining of a headache. Search
was Instituted when he failed to
return to his duties Tuesday, and
the police were called to assist.
He was located about 7 o'clock
this morning, when he appeared
at a farm house in search of food.
The police were Immediately no
tified and had him removed to
Mercy hospital, where he was
found to be in a bad state of ex
haustion from exposure during
two days and three nights In the
woods. During the period of his
wanderings in the narrow canyon
he was exposed to almost constant
rain and cold.
Norbeck was reported to have
partially regained his memory
following treatment at the hos
pital and told friends he felt 111
when he left the office and de
cided upon a walk in the fresh
air. He has no further recollec
tion until his nrrlval at the farm
house today."
Tenth Draft Call to
Take 210 From Oregon
SALEM, May 8. (AP) Ore
gon will furnish 210 men in the
tenth draft call June 2, 3, 4 and 5,
state selective service headquar
ters here announced today.
The number called will include
for the first time the estimated
percentage of men who will be
re I'cted, eliminating replacement
calls. Selective service headquar
ters said the number rejected In
each call averages about 12 per
cent.
Set Net Fisherman Goes
To Jail to Serve $25 Fine
Claude Wyland, 54, of Reeds-
port, was brought to the county
Jail in Roseburg today to serve a
S25 fine following conviction In
the Justice court at Recdsport on
a charge of fishing with a set
not.
Rail Property
Damaged In
Two-Hour Raid
22 Nazi Planes Downed in
Channel War That Deals "
Ruin to British Cries
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Axis warplanes delivered A
two-hour assault on Britain's vi.
tal Suez canal during the night,
the Britiih reported today, and
struck with mounting violence
at the island kingdom itself by
daylight.
The raid on Suez was believed
to have been the longest there
tinea the war began. British of
ficials in Cairo acknowledged
that "some damage" was in
flicted on Egyptian state raiU
way property but said there
were no casualties.
Nazi pilots reported big fire
were raging in Manchester,
English industrial city.
German daylight raiders at
tacked Dover's balloon barrage,
machine-gunned the streets in a
southeast English town,: and
clashed with RAF defense
planes in a series of blazing
dogfights over the, English chan
nel. LONDON, May 8. (AP) Tho
luftwaffo clashed with RAF pa
trols In numerous daylight ail
battles over the English channel
coasts today as RAF night fight
ers claimed a new record in
shooting down 22 German planes
during smashing nocturnal raids
on British port areas. - .
Tn addition to the 22 planes
claimed downed by fighters and
one by nntl-alrcratt fire, a Brit
ish source estimated 10 or more
of tho raiders were damaged and
possibly brought down, making a
total of 73 German night raiders
destroyed or crippled over Eng
land thus far In May only . 14
less than In the entire month of
April.
The sharp Increase might bo
dun to bright moonlit nights
bringing greater numbers of
Germnn planes to shoot at, or Im
proved accuracy on the part of
RAF defense fighters. A British
commentator observed, however,
that "the boys are getting better
nt Interception."
The IOndon nlr ministry re
ported strong RAF attacks on
Brest, the nazl U-boat base at St,
Nazairo, docks at Bremen, oil re
fineries nt the mouth of the Loire
river In France, and docks and
shipping at Bergen, Norway.
Warships Again Bombed
RAF raiders delivered "a heavy
and particularly successful at
tack on the German battleships
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at
Brest, tho air ministry said, scor
ing direct hits with heavy armor
piercing bombs on both ships.
It was the ' second time this
week that the British had claimed!
direct hits on the two 26,000-ton
war vessels, reported to hava
been sheltering nt Brest fot
more than five weeks.
Numerous hits on quays at
which tho Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau are berthed have been
repeatedly reported as the result
of earlier raids.
A Messorschmllt swooped down
on n southeast coast town ami .
machine-gunned the streets, but
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TODAY'S
TOP
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By tho Associated Press
KANSAS CITY Frank E.
Smith's dnrk day had Its bright
side.
Ho saw his favorite baseball
team routed In the first game of
a dnuhleheader. The second start
ed In like manner so he left for
home.
Lightning, striking nearby,
stretched him on the sidewalk as
he hurried to his car. Later a
tree fell across the car, knocking
him unconscious.
Then, as he was telling patrol
men what had happened, the po
lice radio reported his house on
fire.
The bright side? The Are re
port was a false alarm.