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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?
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the answers to these big ques
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VOL. XLVI NO.31 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURS. OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 1 3, 1 94 1.
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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Russia has withdrawn diploma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-
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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-
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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, ,
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