One Understands France's Bow to the "New Order" in Europe, When it Comes From Hitler, With Leveled Gun, Initialed S-A-D: "Stand and Deliver."
HOW SOON?
That now appeal s to be I tie sold
question In the expected entry of.
U. S. Into the war that Is openly.
Perhaps the answer will be sup
plied it the nazis fulfill their
threat to torpedo American sup
ply ships. Watch NEWS-REVIEW
news.
THE WEATHER
t By U. 8. Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and Sun
day. Scattered showers. Little,
change In temperature.
See page 4 for statistics.
VOL. XLVI N0.35 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1941.
vol. xxder. no. 233 of the evening news
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Entertainment Planned For
Army Units as They Tarry In
Roseburg on Southward Trek
Nearly 15,000 Men of Third Division, Visirinq City
Next Week, Will Be Accommodated With Spacious
Camp Sites and Welcomed With Varied Program
Extensive plans have been made here under sponsorship of
the Roseburg chamber of commerce fo entertain the group of
from 12,000 to 15,000 men of the 3rd division of the U. S. army,
who will be guests of the city next week. Starting Tuesday and
continuing throuqh Saturday, overnight stoDS will be made In
Roseburg by units en route to Jolon, California, In the largest
troop movement ever undertaken on the Pacific coast.
Each unit will consist of from
1,800 to 2,000 men, except the
first group, which will arrive
Tuesday noon. It will consist of
approximately 4,000 men. There
will be from 335 to 400 motor ve
hicles In each unit.
Arrangements have been made
to set up overnight camp at the
rifle range and an adjoining
tract northeast of town. A lease
has been obtained on the adja
cent field thus providing an area
of 65 acres for the use of the
troops.
Travel Program Outlined
The program for travel pro
vides that units shall leave their
overnight bases at 5 a. m. and
shall set up camp at the next stop
shortly after noon of each day.
The 3rd division, moving over
highway 09 will travel 200 miles
from Fort Lewis to Salem the
first day; Salem to Roseburg, 148
miles, the second day; Roseburg
to Weed, 191 miles, the third day;
Weed to Woodland, 22 miles, the
fourth day; Woodland to Salinas,
19G miles the .fifth day, and Sa
linas to Jolon, 83 miles, the sixth
dav.
The Roseburg chamber of com
merce has headed efforts to ar
range entertainment for the sol
diers during their brief stop in
Roseburg.
Local Softball teams postpon
ed the onening of their season
schedule for one week and hence
will be available for games each
night with teams from the vis
iting service units. Arrange
ments have been made to light
the athletic field each night and
challenges have been sent to the
various groups at Fort Lewis for
ball games.
Indoor Amusement Listed
A one-hour program has been
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
TPODAY (Thursday) soberer
second thoughts on Hess'
fantastic adventure are bobbing
up in people's minds and are
being passed by the British cen
sor. IN London, Churchill postpones
for a day his promised state
ment to parliament on the Hess
affair.
Ernest Bevin, hard-headed Brit
ish minister of labor says: "I be
lieve Hess flew to Scotland with
the full knowledge of Hitler. I'm
not going to be deceived by his
'flight, which is the sort of stunt
I've seen tried over and over
again by totalitarian gentlemen
and communists.
"Hess is not a man I would
EVER negotiate with."
IN Los Angeles (not subject to
censorship) Randolph Leigh,
war correspondent and author,
who was a guest of Hess In Mu
nich in 193G, says Hess told him
then that "either England or the
United States could be stooDed at
a critical moment by a QUIXO
TlCgesture." Leigh adds:
"Hess told me if England and
America over lost world leader
ship It would be through an ex
cess Of SENTIMENT ALISM. If,
by creating the Impression there
Is a crack-up within Germany,
he can soften American send
4 ment so as to retard action onlv
a few weeks, It might be a high
service.''
IN London (passed by the cen-
sor) a "high American source"
(one of these big boys who Is will-
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Tax-Free Land Hit
In Cordon's Talk
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 17.
(AP) Guy Cordon, councel for
the Association ot Oregon Coun
ties, declared yesterday it is "un
just to all the people" for the fed
eral government not to pay taxes
on its land and buildings used
for other than governmental pur
poses. Speaking at the National Asso
ciation of County Officers con
vention, Cordon, of Roseburg,
Ore., said if the government paid
real estate taxes to state and lo
cal governments the yearly total
would be $91,000,000.
Against this, he continued, $2,
500,000 is distributed over the
United States as contributions in
lieu of taxes on housing projects,
forests, game preserves and for
other properties not used "pure
ly for governmental or local
benefits."
Cordon said the federal gov
ernment now has 360.000,000
acres of tax-free land. Ho pro
posed the association support
senate bill 1201 that would re
quire payment of 2 per cent of
the fair value of tax-free prop
erty to counties In which the
property is situated.
"Payment of this amount would
mean," he asserted, "the differ
ence between an orderly local
government and one in bank
ruptcy." Death Takes Quadruplets
Few Hours After Birth
CIITCAGO, May 17. (AP)
Mrs. Frances Adams, 20-year-old
wife of a lunchroom chef, gave
birth to quadruplets the second
set on record in Chicago but all
the infants died today less than
10 hours after they were born.
The quadruplets, all girls, were
born three months prematurely..
Mrs. Adams, who married last
November, is 5 feet, 2 inches tall,
and normally weighs 108 pounds.
Neither she nor her husband
could recall cases of multiple
births in their families.
Quadrunlet births occur only
once in 650.000 to 700.000 cases,
medical authorities said.
Two Indicted, Four Are
Freed by Grand Jury
Three indictments, two against
Paul Moodv. accused of obtaining
money by false pretenses, and one
against Philin Tracy, charged
with contributing to the delin
quency of a minor, were reported
late Friday bv the Douglas coun
ty grand jury. The Investigating
body returned not true bills In
connection with four cases In
which complaints had been filed.
Charges were dismissed against
Donald B. Baird and Kermeth C.
Engeman. each accused of grand
lareenv; Wade Fenton, charged
with burglary not In a dwelling,
and Ed Neathawk. claimed to
have issued bank checks without
sufficient funds.
Speaker Collapses, Hits
Radiator, Quickly Dies
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 17.
(AP) Robert Luger, 27, of Seat
tle, stenped to the sneaking plat
form for his turn In the after
dinner forum of the Alma Jesuit
college last night.
He began the discussion, then
was seen to swav. Before any
one could reach him he collapsed
In a faint and pitched forward.
His head struck a radiator.
He was dead when a physician
examined him a few minutes
later. The doctor said his neck
was broken.
G : I? L Baker,
Foi Mayor
Of 0 iand, Dies
George L. Baker
PORTLAND, May 17. (AP)
George L. Baker, 72, mayor of
Portland from 1917 to 1933, died
last night of a heart attack.
Baker was born in The Dalles
to parents of moderate means. He
sold newspapers, dug ditches and
painted wagons from San Fran
cisco to Seattle before he stum
bled into a theatrical job. He be
came property man, discovered a
talent for production work and
ultimately formed the old Baker
Stock company here.
Portlanders elected him to the
city council in 1906 and ho served
on that body 11 years before be
fore becoming mayor.
He retired from politics in 1933,
the year he was chospn Port
land's first citizen. He served.as
manager of the Columbia Empire
Industries since 1935.
His widow survives.
Local Mill to Buy
Registered Cows
Joe Porter, dairy fieldman for
the Douglas County Flour mills,
left Friday for Mankato, Minn.,
to purchase for the company a
carload of registered milking
shorthorn cows. Mr. Porter for
merly lived in that locality and
is well acquainted with a great
many shorthorn breeders of na
tional reputation.
It is the plan of the mill com
pany to sell these cows at ac
tual cost laid down In Roseburg.
One or two of this type of cow
on each farm throughout the
community, they believe, would
raise the standard of the milk
cow Industry in Douglas county
more than any other single fac
tor at the present time. During
the past year they have brought
in a dozen registered milking
shorthorn bulls, and interest at
the present time is sufficient to
warrant the purchase of a car
load of cattle from the middle
west where the shorthorn is one
of the most popular breeds of all,
Al Bashford, mill owner-manag
er, reports.
When the carload of cattle ar
rives In Roseburg It will be on
display, and growers interested
may select the stock they desire
at that time.
Arrangements have been made
with the United States National
bank, Roseburg branch, through
E. S. MeClain, local manager, to
assist growers in financing the
purchase of the cattle where such
aid may be needed.
U. S. Charges Fraud in
Gold Beach Mining Plan
SHREVEPORT, La., May 17.
(AP) The federal government
accused the Western Black Sand
Co., Gold Beach, Ore., of perpe
trating a fraudulent gold mining
scheme yesterday.
Complaints filed by the securi
ties and exchange commission
charged the Oregon company
and five other corporations with
selling stock In a "so-called mag
netic mining machine which ac
tually was not capable of recov
ering gold." as claimed.
The government also said the
machine was "not even In opera
tion" and accused defendants of
using the malls to defraud
through sale of stock.
A temporary Injunction was Is
sued and defendants were order
ed to appear in court May 26.
Sprague Gives
Defense Plan
For Oregon
Councils Wil( Be Formed
But Home Guard Awaits
Necessity, Governor Says
SALEM, May 17. (AP) As
serting that "the burden of de
fense effort will grow heavier,"
Governor Sprague announced in
a radio address last night that he
would organize a state council of
defense, after which counties and
cities will be asked to form de
fense councils.
The form and membership of
the state council will be announc
ed soon, the governor said, de
claring the council's purpose
would bo to coordinate and inten
sify Oregon's defense effort.
Governor Sprague, saying ho
would "follow no pinch-penny pol
icy when it conies to upholding
the authority of government in
this state," said ho would organ
ize a state guard only "when the
need for such a body appears."
He said that the home guard in
the world war cost $500,000, add
ing he doesn't want to put the
state to such an expense unless
it seems necessary.
"I depend upon the state police
as my first line of defense," the
governor said. "Superintendent
Pray is under standing instruction
to advise me if conditions give
any threat of creating situations
beyond police power to control."
Lieutenant Colonel Wooton,
acting adjutant general, has com
pleted the machinery for organ,
izlng a state guard, the governor
said.
Oregon Doing Her Share
After reviewing defense activi
ties which he observed in Oregon
cities, Governor Sprague said "de
fense work in Oregon has not
been held up because of labor dis
putes." He said Oregon now has de
fense projects totaling $135,000,
000 in 17 counties, while Indirect
defense spending In the state to
tals many millions ot dollars
more.
The state now has 18,848 men
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Reigns Over May
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Nw-rtnv)"W IMioto uml KnKrnvlnK.
Selected by the student body of Roseburg high school from
among approximately 40 eligible senior girls, lovely Dorothy
Crocker, above, reigned today over the annual May festival at
Roseburg senior high school. The May queen Is selected on a basis
of scholarship, personality, leadership and general character. The
candidates for this honor must have maintained high averages In
all subjects, must have no failures In any subject, and must have
assumed a place of leadership In aotivitles, together with general
good character and personality. The list of eligible is compiled by
the girls' league and usually consists of a personnel of from 30 to 40.
Canneries Of
California
Strike-Tied
Conference Trying to
End Wage Dispute; Loss
to Growers Heavy
I NEW YORK, May 17.
(AP) The United Mine
Workers of America (CIO)
today ordered 100,000 hard
coal miners to leave their
Jobs Monday because of fail
ure of the union and Pennsyl
vania anthracite operators to
reach a new contract agree
ment. SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.
(AP) Increasing tenseness
marked the cannery worker:,'
strike in north and central Cali
fornia today, pending outcome of
hurriedly arranged conferences
here between Governor Olson
and representatives of cannors
and 11 AFL unions involved.
A public invitation by the can
ners' group last night for work
ers to return to their jobs with
out a union contract brought a
quick warning of possible vio
lence from Dan Flanagan, coor
dinator of the unions.
'Everybody knows that If the
asparagus crop Is to bo saved, the
return to work must be Imme
diate," said a statement from the
canners.
II. L. Strobel, treasurer of the
Associated Farmers, asserted the
growers had already suffered a
$11000,000 loss, adding, "we must
have relief from this Intolerable
situation today."
In a referendum Thursday,
strikers turned down a federal
conciliation sendee plan to set
tle the strike, by a vote of 3791
to 2644. Flanagan said a con
ference of the 11 union lenders
yesterday decided the unions
would insist on 3 cents an hour
more than was offered.
The canners' statement said
the wages offered ranged from
474 to 85 cents an hour, represent
ing increases of from 11.4 pet
cent to 21.1 per cent, and opera-
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Day Fete Here
1 .'.
Farmer Who "Caturer Nazi No. 3
David McLean, Scottish farmer wno captured Rudolf Hess
with a pitchfork as his only weapon, poses with his mother after
Hess parachuted to earth on his farm. Mrs. McLean offered the
No. 3 nazl a cup of tea, but Hess took milk. As a reward for his
deed, the Scot will receive a .12 guage double-barreled shotgun from
another David McLoan, a police sergeant of Denver, Colo., who de
cided upon the gift as soon as ho learned the name of Hess' captor.
"He might need something more than a pitchfork in case Hitler
happens to land In the neighborhood," said Denver's MoLean.
Vichy-Nazi 'Collaboration' Prompts
American Republics to Plan Control of
French Colonies in West Hemisphere
WASHINGTON, May 17-(AP)
The 21 American republics to
day prepared to establish "provis
ional administration" over French
colonies In the Americas, it was
learned nuthorilntivcly, if the
forecast close "collaboration" be
tween Germany and France
should be projected Into the west
ern hemisphere.
The United States and the oth
er American nations are fully
aware of the dangerous poten
tialities of a nazl foothold on this
side ot the Atlantic, authoritative
sources declared, and complete
dans have been prepared to act
whenever necessary to protect
the peace and security of the
American continent.
Arrangements for establishing
provisional administrations for
French, British or Dutch posses
sions In the western hemisphere
If their status were threatened
by developments In the war were
agreed upon at the inter-Amerl-can
conference In Havana,
That conference adonted a reso
lution which proclaimed that
"the American republics would
regard any transfer, or attempted
transfer, of the sovereignty, juris
diction, possession or other Inter
est In or control over any such
region (in this continent) to an
other non-American stale as In
imical to their peace, safely and
political independence."
Roosevelt Charge Proven
Secretary of Slate Hull said to
day that enough facts have fil
tered In to the stale denartment
to support entirely President
Roosevelt's statement yesterday
setllnr.' forlh American apprehen
sion of closer nazl Vichy collabo
ration. Midi's statement was In renlv
lo n ouesllon as to whether the
United Stales had official infor
mation nf the precise terms of a
new nazl-Viehv pact.
Tn Informed niiarters It was
snld that the renorled use of
French mandated Svrln ns a base
for axis air ooeratlons ni'alnst
the British In Iran demonstrated
thai the Vlchv government was
collaborating In that area with
Germany, and raised the Question
of conneratlrin In other French
colonies, particularly In Africa.
FRANCE ABANDONED BY
U. 8., ENGLAND, CLAIM
VTCIIY; France, Mnv 17. ( AP)
The second reference to
France's relations with the Unit
ed States In 1(1 hours nnneared to
dny In official French news acen
cv rilsnitches which snld this
country. If It had followed a dif
ferent course last .Tune, might
havp been controlled by Washington.
,1 "') WW ;' .
The agency said there was talk
of a British-American federation
under United Slates leadership,
and that If France had accepted
British Prime Minister Chur
chill's proposals for a British
French union last June "she
might today be run not from
London but from Washington."
"The campaign waged In the
United States to push the nation
Into war and try to save England
by extending the conflict through
out the world, It said, "continues
to spread."
Deny Land Ceding
A government statement said
categorically that the question of
German occupation of Dakar,
French West Africa, was not
even raised In the interview last
weekend between Adolf Hitler
and Vice Premier Darlan.
"Dakar belongs to France,
France has already guarded It;
she will defend it against any
aggression, 1 said the statement.
High French sources regarded
with "astonished" concern what
they described as "semiofficial
declarations" In the United Slates
Indicating that occupation of
French Guiana and Martinique Is
under consideration.
Says U. 8. Ignored Aid Plea
One semiofficial statement
gave this as France's position:
"In May, 1040, when France
had been abandoned by England.
America didn't think It her duty
to reply to her (Frances) ap
peal.
"Today, France, careful of
guarding her position ns n great
power and the Integrity or her
territory ns an empire, has defi
nitely the right to consider with
the conqucrer the conditions of
common reorganization nr tin:
continent of Europe.
"That In no way signifies she
has the Intention of attacking
England even less the United
States."
Circles close to the French gov
ernment Internreted the attitude
In the United States toward
France's colonies ns resulting
from a misunderstanding of
French collaboration with the
relch.
Britain's moves also were
watched closely after an official
statement acknowledging vester
day for the first time the British
bombing of air fields In Syria.
The French declared, however,
thev would not regard the bomb
ings ns aggression.
NA7IS WARN ROOSEVELT
ON FURTHER "MEDDLING"
BERLIN, May 17(AP1 Au
thorized sources talil today "let
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Birmingham
WorstHitBy
Nazi Raiders
British Strafe Cologne,
Rhine Area; Salum Again
In Axis' Hands, Claim
The Uiftwaffe Intensified Its
attacks on Britain last night by
sending at least 100 planes over
Industrial Birmingham In a three
hour assault the heaviest raleT
of the week. Two German bomb
ers were reported shot down over
England In the night.
The royal air force countered
with raids on Cologne, railway
and factory city In the Rhine val
ley, and over Boulogne, on the
channel const. Watchers In Eng
land said tho sky was lighted by
bomb flashes over the French
port.
The nttncK on i-sirmingnam
was a complete success, the Ger
mans said, and many fires wero
obsered.
Smaller luftwaffe formations
bombed Northampton, Ipswich,
Brighton, Great Yarmouth, South
ampton and Harwich, they add-
ed. A British plane was said to)
have been shot down during tho
operations.
Informed Berlin quarters snUI
several apartment houses nnd an
"unimportant" Industrial plant
were dnmngert by British air
raiders Inst night In western
Germany, nnd n number of civ
ilians were reported Injured.
During tho attack on Cologne,
the! British declared, large flies
woie stnrtod 4n -mnmifacturlnfS
areas on both sides of the Rhine.
The raid followed un a series of
daylight forays by tho RAF dur
ing which a number of vessels?
wero reported attacked off tho
Norwegian coast nnd one supply
ship was sunk.
Salum Retaken by Axis
The seesaw struggle for con
trol of Salum, heat-ridden ad
vance point of the axis drive In
to Egvpt, has swayed again lo
the axis advantage. Germa.i and
Itnllnn forces were reported to
have recaptured the town yeste"-
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Two Army Planes
Crash; 7 Men Die
COLUMBUS, O., Mav 7.--(AP)'
Seven army men five In one
nlane and two In another wero
killed ns their shins crashed in
hilly southern Ohio 15 minutes
apart last night during cyclonic
wind and rainstorms.
Army attaches at Patterson
field, Dayton, said today flvo
men In a twin-motored ship from
Barksdalc field, La., lost their
lives as the plane smashed Into
a hillside near Nelsonvllle, O.,
75 miles southeast ot here. Tho
other plane nl tinged Into tho
ground 100 miles west of Nelson
vllle near Wilmington, killing
two air corps captains.
Tho five killed near Nelson,
vllle were:
Second Lleutennnts Robert
Sonnenfleld, William ,T. Wlandt,
Robert L. Brown nnd .Tames
Crlswell and Sergeant John II,
Dnvls.
Toper His Own
Complainant In
Liquor Ban Plea
A Roseburg man. whose Iden
tity was protected by the court,
todnv made himself both plain
tiff nnd defendant In an action
for an order of Interdiction,
which would nrevent nnv Honor
dispenser from sellln" him alco
holic beveranes. Justice of the
Peace R. W. Marstcrs reported
today.
The comnlalntant Informed
District Attorney J. V. Long, tho
latter snld. that he bad no rela
tives or friends to file the com
plaint and, Inciting the ability to
control his, Knur, ire for llnuor, ac
cented literally the provision of
the state llnuor law permitting
"nnv person" to file a complaint.
He brotmht nctlon npnlnst him
self, signed an answer admitting
all the allegation of the com
nlnlnt and. as defendant, further
petitioned the order.