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hi THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau k Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday with scattered showers tonight. Little .change In tempera ture, - See page 4 for statistics. RUDOLF HESS What Is the real purpose of hl sensational flight from Germany to Scotland? What Influence will It have on the trend of the war? Follow NEWS-REVIEW news fop the answers to these big ques tions. , j VOL. XLVI NO.31 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURS. OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 1 3, 1 94 1. VOL. XXIX NO. 229 OF THE EVENING NEWS Ml ML Ml m$m m. m UJ . 'Comin' Through the Rye' Held More Appeal lor Rudolf Hess than Bombin' In the Reich. He Preferred 'There He Goes' From Naxis to 'Doesn't He Look Natural?' f HE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAIS' " AZ In The I Das " -News - - By FRANK JENKINS 'T'WO interesting rumors are in the wind today (Friday): Russia has withdrawn diploma tie recognition from German conquered Yugoslavia, Belgium and Norway. This Is interpreted in diplomatic quarters as indicat ing a new Russian agreement with Germany. France's Vichy government is rumored (by way ot Switzer land) to have agreed to passage of German troops through French provinces and mandated territories including Syria. This (rumored) permission is believed to be Germany's price for concessions concerning occu pied France. COME advice here to Americans, who are hanging on the edge of shooting war: Do no wishful thinking about Russia. Russia is looking out for RUSSIA, and is badly scared of Hitler. COME more advice: " Do no wishful thinking about France. The decay of French spirit (among the politicians who i hold the fate of what is left of France in their hands) is COM PLETE. A FINAL bit of advice: " Do no wishful thinking about ANYTHING OR ANY BODY. Let nobody tell you that a shooting war, when we get In to it, will be short and easy. It you feel that we must go to war, grit your teeth, roll up your sleeves, spit on your hands, pull in your belt and prepare to make whatever SACRIFICES may be necessary knowing IN ADVANCE that before the war is won the sacrifices that EVERY BODY will be called upon to make will be heavy. ( That is the spirit that wins wars. IF Germany seeks to strike at Suez through Syria (thus bypassing Turkey) watch Crete. Watch Cyprus. These are British bases threat- 'Contlnued on nape 41 FLASHES of OREGON EVENTS Wage Boost Granted TILLAMOOK, May 13. (AP) Offer of a 71 cent anhour wage Increase was accented by AFL workmen at the A. F. Coats Lum ber company last night. The agreement, affecting l.V) men, Hi ill expire in August. Jailed Shooter Accused THE DALLES. May 13. (AP) A gunshot wound placed J. J. Griffith, Spray, in a hospital here yesterday In a serious con dition. Sheriff Delsay said Smith Daugherty. who claimed he shot in self defense, was held In the Wheeler county jail at Fossil, charged with assault with a dan gerous weapon. Dimes Defray Debts LA GRANDE. May 13. (AP) Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith paid a maternity hosnital bill here with a pint bottle full of dimes. They said they had saved enough dimes to pay the physician too. Attorney Powers Dies PORTLAND, Mov 13. (API Dnnlel E. Powers, 61, Willamette University graduate and Portland attorney since 1909, died yesterday. HESS' UZZLING FLIGHT TO SCOT ,flD MAY INFLUENCE EURO.1 AN WAR'S COURSE Number Three Nazi Declared Sane, Defiant British, Elated at Visit Of Hitler's Ex-Aide, M-iy Get Valuable Information LONDON, May 13. (AP) Ru dolph Hess, parachuting from a crash-bound Mcsserchmitt fight er onto a Scottish moor last Sat urday night a potential bearer of nazi secrets broke the Hitler hierarchy in a development that may alter the course of the Euro pean war, the British declared to day. Authorities, casting aside, for the moment at least, the crop of rumors linked with this strange chapter in a gigantic struggle of men, their Ideas and arms, in sisted only that Hess came to Britain sane and defiant of the nazi regime. A hint and only g hint that Hess was pursued "in his escape npDcarcd In photographs of the tail ot his wrecked plane: ten closely bunched bullet holes. British sources would not say positively that these were put there bv Hess' aerial pursuers. They said that his 800-mile flight was the voluntary act ot a ration- (Continued on page 3) Body of Air Student Found Floating in Bay ALAMEDA, Calif.. May 13. (AP) The body of Patrick Pres ton Cohen, member of a wealthy Portland, Ore., family, was found in the bay today. Cohen was alive at 2 a. m., when he was in the company of Walter Beard of Shrevenort, La., another studi'nt, and Julia Sinko nen, Alameda. His body was found at 10:30 a. m. lust as his worried landlady telenhoned the air school to learn if he was there. Cohen was the son of Frank F. Cohen, Portland. Terms Dealt Robbers TWIN FALLS. Idaho, May 13. (AP) A district court judge yesterday sentenced Robert W. Clnusnltzer, 32, Medford, Ore., and James O. Maxwell, 27, Rogue River, Ore., to 5 to 15 years each for armed robbery to which the pair pleaded guilty. Sheriff Lnw- ery said they also were wanted In Portland on burglary charges. Traffic Crash Kills PORTLAND, Ore., May 13. (AP) A traffic collision killed C. F. Kaseberg, 29, Portland, on the Pacific highway north of here last night. Kaseberg's automobile failed to make a turn and hit a five-ton truck, Sergeant Louis Kestner said. The truck driver was not injured. Urges Church Merger PORTLAND, Ore., May 13. (AP)--Episcopal Bishop Thomas Jenkins of Nevada, who declared "sectarianism has exhausted its usefulness," urged a union of the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches yesterday. He proposed that delegates to the western assembly of Angell enn churchman offer to ordain three Presbyterians as bishops, who could work with other Epls copals In accomplishing the union gradually. Quits Hitler In Fantastic Dash Ha fM Rudolf Hess Major puzzle of Europe's war is the 800-mile flight in a German warplane of Rudolf Hess, No. 3 nazi, from Germany to Scotland, where he is now In a hospital with an jlnjured ankle, suffered in a parachute leap, taken when the plane started to crash. Berlin says Hess, mentally and physically ill, was deluded with the idea of establishing peace. Britons say Hess is sane, is in revolt against nazi party "rottenness" and may divulge Information that will alter the war's course. Earthquake Occurs Off West Coast BERKELEY, Calif., May 13. (AP) A big earthquake occur, red today, probably off the coast of Washington or Oregon, Prof. Perry Byetiy, University of Cali fornia seismologist, reported. He had not completed the read ing of his instruments but said preliminary examination indicat ed it was a "big quake." At Uklah, Calif., an earthquake of considerable proportions was felt at 8:02 a. m., but no damage was reported. SEATTLE, May 13. (AP) -Dr. Howard A. Coombs, University of Washington seismograph opera tor, said today an earthquake of considerable proportions was re corded on his instrument, starting at 8:04 a. m. and lasting for more than an hour. He estimated its distance from here as between 800 and 1,200 miles, probably In a westerly or southwesterly direction in the Pa cific. He said it was "undoubted ly a big quake." Fire Kills Boy Who Plays With Matches THE DALLES, Ore., May 13. (AP) A little boy who play ed with matches, Robert Leef dahl, 4, of Blalock, died of burns at The Dalles hospital Saturday. The youngster, left alone In a cabin, fired the bed upon which he was lying. Neighbors heard his screams and extinguished the flames. He was given first aid at Arlington but died soon after reaching the hospital. Compromise Bill on Farm Loans Passed by House WASHINGTON, May 13. (AP) The house accepted today a compromise bill to require mandatory government loans of 85 per cent of parity on basic farm crops this year. The legislation, which now goes to the senate for expected quick approval, also would Im pose heavy penalties for market ing of crops In excess of quotas. Berlin Claims Hess Victim Of Delusions Flight Won't Interfere With Decision to Smash Britain, Germans Assert BERLIN, May 13. (AP) Ru dolf Hess, number three man in the nazi heirarchy, made his fantastic flight to Scotland be cause "he appears to have lived under the hallucination that he was still able to bring about an understanding between Germany and England with old English acquaintances," the nazi party announced officially today. "Apparently he held the Idea that he could forestall through personal sacrifice a development which, to his mind, would end only with complete destruction of the British empire," the state ment added. - "Thel national socialist ; party regretsnhat his Idealism fell vic tim to such fateful delusion. This will not interfere with the con tinuation of the war against Eng land forced upon the German peo ple. "It will be carried on until as the fuehrer declared in his last speech the British rulers are overthrown or ready for peace." A party communique said Hess, second only to Relchsmarshal Hermann Wllhelm Goering as Adolf Hitler's personally-chosen heir apparent, had suffered ser ious physical disability for years "and recently resorted increas ingly to various aids, mesmerlz crs, astrologers and so forth." "It, however," the statement added, "also is imaginable that, in the last analysis Hess inten- (Continued on page 3) E. O. IRELAND, sitting at the left In the picture above; Ray Reynolds, center, and Ialo Dyer at the right, with Margaret Eve lyn, his four-year-old daughter, clasped In his arms. The three men wondered "what it all was about," but Margaret Evelyn didn't; she just didn't care, she was having a mighty good time sitting there In her Daddy's arms, and what the heck? Mr. Ireland, resident of Monte rey, California, Is the father of Tom Ireland, instructor at Mvrtle Creek high school and Its athletic coach. He is a frequent visitor In Myrtle Creek. "No," Mr. Ireland answered a oucry of mine, "I didn't raise Tom to be a baseball player, even if you do snv he has become fam ous In that line. I taught him how to hoe corn and raise beans. But I guess he thought going to school and teaching was easier work!" 11 SAW ::::::: By Paul Jenkins Colt Arms Co. Placed Into Strike List Non-Union Workers Seek Wage Boost; Dodge Plant Forced to Lay Off 12,000 (By the Associated Press) Colt's Patent Firearms com pany ut Hartford, Conn., one of the nation's largest armaments factories, was affected by a strike of some of Its li.BOO non-union workers, today hut a walkout threatened at the Hudson Motor company in Detroit was post poned. Shipyards strikes continued to tie up more than half a billion dollars worth of naval construc tion at Boston and San Francisco. Neither side In the Colt's com pany dispute revealed demands, but It was reported the strikers wanted a wage Increase of about 20 per cent in present schedules of hourly rates of from 50 cents to $1.20. A company official said an pffer of a 10 per cent increase wa9 rejected last night. The company was making 37 millimeter cannon, .30 and .50 caliber machine guns and side arms for the army and Great Britain and was unofficially re ported to have $30,000,000 in un filled orders. The company SDokesman said the plant con tinued oneratlons with a "very substantial" number of 4,900 on the day shift reporting as usual. The United Automobile Work ers (CIO) union agreed to post-oone-its v strike against .Hudson Motor company until the com pany's directors could consider the demands. A Michigan labor conciliator said the board agreed to give Its answer tomorrow. The Dodge division of Chrysler (Continued on page 3) Alice Faye, Phil Harris Wed in Dash to Mexico SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 13. (AP) Alice Faye of the films and Phil Harris, orchestra lead er, were married in a surprise dash to Ensenada, Mexico, yester day. Miss Faye and Harris had plan ned a September ceremony after his divorce from Marcla Ralston becomes final. Harris Is 35 and Miss Faye 2fi. ewf-Itevlew F'Iioto nufl KriKrnvInx Maybe It Is easier. I don't know. I've hoed corn, and I've grown beans, and If you ask me that is hard work enough. If Tom thinks teaching and coaching baseball and Softball is easier, that's Just his idea, not mine. Ray Reynolds, as you all know. Is a former druggist In Mvrtle Creek, who sold his business there several vears ago to Ted Rice and bought Rice Bros.' Inter est in what now Is Reynolds & Adams general merchandise store. It must be quite a hurdle from formulating prescriptions to unloading a tractor or a peck of potatoes, but Rav has made the grade and enjoys It. Ialo Is a rancher living near Mvrtle Creek, and If bv anv chance you are- Interested In ranching In Doupias county, It might pav you dividends to look his countrv over before von "buv elsewhere." It's a mighty good country. Public Will Back Convoys, Pepper Says U. S. Must Keep Britain Alive, Senator Asserts; Knox Hints at New Need WASHINGTON, May 13. (API With a senate showdown approaching on the convoy ques tion, Senator Pepper (D., Fla.) urged today that the United states undertake to help assure the safe delivery of all supplies to Britain, regardless of the country from which they were shipped. But, capital circles wondered just what Secretary Knox meant when he said: "It is very pos sible . . . that convoys are not the answer after all. Perhaps wo have to develop a new de fense to assure the arrival of our goods on the other side." The statement was made by Knox In an cxtemperaneous speech after he had declared "we cannot half fight this battle, . . . we are committed to all the sup port (to Britain) necessary to produce a victory." Pepper, who has been demand ing "affirmative action" by this country against the axis, told re porters that "public opinion has reached the point where, if con voys are necessary to deliver the goods, the people will support them. "The question of convoys Is far broader than just getting our ma terials to Britain, however. If Britain Is -gottlng supplies from Canada, Australia or Africa, for Instance, It Is just as important that they be delivered as that American supplies reach their destination. "We have got to keep Britain alive, and I hope our people will see the whole picture Instead of just a segment of it." Senate Test Impends A senate test some time this week on the convoy issue was vir tually assured yesterday when the senate commerce committee gave ll-to-4 approval to the h o u s e-approved administration bill for requisitioning of foreign shipping now Idle in domestic K)l'tS. Once this tun is urougnt to tne floor, Senator Tobey (R., N. H.) Intends to offer an amendment, which would prohibit the use of (Continued on page 3) Assn. of Counties Fills Three Posts R. H. Lawhorn, Coos county commissioner, was named chair man of the public lands commit tee of the Association of Oregon counties nt a special meeting In Portland Monday. Lawhorn suc ceeds to the position held by Mor ris Bowker, county judge of Douglas county, who recently was granted a leave of absence dur ing a period of service In the U. S. army, where he holds a com mission as a major In the Infan try reserve. F. L. Phlpps of The Dalles was elected executive secretary to fill the place made vacant by the re signation of Earl B. Day, former Judge of Jackson county, who has been appointed to the state tax commission. County Commissioner If. B. Roadman of Roseburg was ap pointed to membership on the committee lo represent Douglas county In place of Judge Bowker. Dance Revue Will Aid Municipal Park Project Under sponsorship of the Rose burg Business and Professional Women's club, Sandy's Dance Revue will be presented at Hunt's Indian theater Wednesday night as a part of the regular program. The club will share In the pro ceeds and devote Its receipts to the municipal park project. The dance revue will be given in connection with the screen show, "Pier 13." and will feature the dance pupils of Sandra Dono hue. An original skit, written by Mrs. Thomas Parkinson, will In troduce and form a background for the dance program. Orean Justice AccJsed Of Auto Test Negligence PORTli ND, Ore., May 13. (AP) Justice Hall S. Lusk of the slate supreme court will have two to four days In which to escape a bench warrant from the court Municipal Judge Julius Cohn. Judge Cohn, who stakes minor charges seriously, said ho would Issue the warrant unless Lusk ap peared on a charge ot falling to have his automobile tested. A municipal court clerk said, however, that "bench warrants do not Issue until three to five days after failure to appear we don't want to work a hardship on anyone." Justice Lusk was cited to appear yesterday. F.R. Missed Bus, Nazi Editor Says In Dark Forecast BERLIN, May 13. (AP) Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the Ger man labor front, advised "poor Daddy Roosevelt" today that he "missed the bus" and that at the latest, In three years the part of Europe ruled by Germany would be working full blast for the relch. "Then 300,000,000 Europeans of our continent, with the powerful, Inexhaustible resources of their economy and work, will face 130, 000,000 Americans In the United States and 40,000,000 Englishmen In ruined and defeated England," Ley said In an article In the news naner Der Angrlft. .iSIhen w will spo fvhether the Anglo-Saxons will overcome the load ot the Germans." Ley referred to President Wil son's peace efforts in the world war and said, "there was still time then but today? Poor, poor Daddy Roosevelt It would have been so nice, but destiny did not will It. A swindle works only once. Times have changed. All the abuse and lamentation will no longer help. "Now you have really 'missed the bus' for you will never over come the lead of the Germans. This the Yankees can certainly believe: We will certainly so or ganize part of Europe that In one or two, at the latest In three years, It will bo working full speed, working for Germany. "And if they point to the re sources of the empire we Ger mans will point to the near east and North Africa, to Russia and Japan, whose resources are open to use. The Yankee is losing face, it must be sad for the af fairs of Jews and their satel lite." Burglaries Here Cleared By Diary of Parollee Questioning of Louis Hopper and Ted Shellabarger, wno re cently received sentences In cir cuit court here, has cleared up burglaries at the Medical Arts building and the Standard Oil and Shell Oil plants In 1938, Sheriff Cliff Thornton announced today. Hopper, an cx-convlct, was re turned to the penitentiary this week to serve 18 months on a charge of burglary to which he pleaded guilty. Shellabarger was paroled from a sentence of two years after pleading guilty to re ceiving stolen property. Shellabarger, Sheriff Thornton reported, produced a diary giving the dates of the Medical Arts and Oil company plant burglaries and Implicating Hopper. The latter, Thornton said, would not admit a part In the crimes. Eugene's Utility Supt. To Speak in Roseburg J. W. McArthur, superintendent of the Eugene municipal power and water system Is to be the speaker at the Rotary club lunch eon program Thursday noon, It was announced today by Charles Emery, program chairman. Mr. McArthur, associated with the Eu gene system for many years, Is considered an authority on mu nicipal ownership of public utili ties. The Rotary club, Mr. Em ery reports, Is opening Its meet ing at noon Thursday at the Umpqua hotel to all persons In terested In hearing the talk by Mr. McArlhur. Bombs Rip 4 Vital Places In Rhineland British Also Advance In African Campaign, Note Reduced Losses at Sea LONDON. May 13. (AP) Fires that "Involved whole blocks of buildings" were set In the German industrial center ot Mannheim and Its sister city ot T.iiHwtoclinfnn In fin ovcrnieht raid by the RAF, the air mlnls try reported today. At Cologne, another objectlva nt ihn nwttch nttnrk. fires .were started among railway sheds and elsewhere in tne center oi ino city, the ministry's news service ronnrted. One German Messer- schmitt fighter plane which at tacked a British Bomtjer was re ported shot down afire. Attacks also were mane on Ko blenz. In German-occupied territory tn the west, docks ot Ostend and Dunkerque were bombed. On the home front, uerman air attacks dwindled away dur ln the nluht and the eovcrn- ment said little damage was done. One Invading aircraft was claim ed destroyed. fThn nnrmnna nnlrl the RAF. "indiscriminately dropping ex plosive and incendiary oomns at Bremen, had destroyed a school and damaged another school, a hospital ana a museum containing an "Irreplaceable col- (Tho other raids were said to have' Caused only minor damage and the Germans described their own attacks as on a smaller scalo than recently.) Shipping Losses Dwindle In addition to rejoicing over? rholr nrWn nrlsnner of the war. Rudolph Hess, the British found good news in an admiralty an nouncement that British, allied and neutral merchant shipping losses in tne "mime oi inu i lantlc" during April were the lowest In 11 months a total ot 301,070 tons. The sharply reduced sinkings were described by authoritative ntini-rnra no lllnstratincr the effec tiveness of British counter-meas ures against Hitler's sea block ade and as thwarting "the quick victory Hitler needs." Overnight, RAF bombers drlv- (Continued on page 3) Florida Mobsters Kill Negro Youth In 2nd Attempt QUINCY, Fla., May 13. (AP)' A. C. Williams, 22-year-old ne gro charged with assaulting a 12-year-old white girl, was found shot to death today, several hours after n band of men seized him In a second lynching attempt when the first had failed. No arrests have been made In the case, and Sheriff M. P.'Luten said "we have virtually no clues to work on." The slain man's bullet-riddled body was found on a bridge over a creek five miles north of here. The first lynching attempt came In the evening when fout white men armed with pistols locked Officer Dan Davis In a cell at the Gadsden county jail and took Williams with them. Williams was found shortly af ter midnight ot a negro resldenco near here, Sheriff Luten said, "with eight or ten bullet wounds In his body" and badly beaten about the head. Luten said "undoubtedly an at tempt was made to lynch him" and his attackers left him for dead. A physician here said Wil liams had a fairly good chance to recover so the prisoner was put In an ambulance to be taken to a hospital at Tallahassee, about 25 miles west of Qulncy. Luten said he assumed the ne gro's attackers believed him dead and therefore he anticipated no) further trouble and sent the am bulance out without a special guard. . About flvo miles from Qulncy, Luten said, the vehicle was forced to a halt by "four or five men" and the wounded man was pulled out and taken away, , V y..r
