Theodore, the First
THE WEATHER
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Utile change In temperature.
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VOL. XLVI N0.45 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
COPES
, In The
Day's
News
By FRANK JENKINS
TPHE sinking of tho Bismarck,
which fills tho news today
(Tuesday) almost to the exclu
sion of everything else, Is for the
British a psychological victory
ol the utmost importance.
It AVENGES the sinking of
the Hood, and thus bolsters the
ages-old tradition (a part of the
fiber of every Englishman's be
ing) that the British fleet can't
be monkeyed with.
Its effect on British morale is
incalculable.
TIIE story of the whole ac-
tion involving the Hood and
the Bismarck is emerging slowly
today from the mists of censor
ship. The Bismarck and her lesser
satellite, tho cruiser Prince Eu
gen, were first sighted on Satur
day by British scouting planes at
Bergen, Norway. They were
seen again as they were pass
ing through the Strait of Den
mark, between Iceland and
Greenland.
Apparently they were heading
put into the Atlantic to raid mcr
hant shipping.
UEAVr British naval forces
were at once dispatched to
intercept them, and in the first
skirmish after contact was es
tablished a lucky salvo from the
Bismarck found a weak spot In
the Hood's armor and blew up
her magazines, sinking her.
IN the ensuing confusion, the
Bismarck escaped Into the fog
and was lost for several hours.
Then an American-made scout
ing plane from the British fleet
located her.
Quoting the language of the
official British communique,
"planes from the carrier Ark
Royal struck the first telling
blows and later other (torpedo
carrying) planes from the Ark
Royal and UNITS OF THE AT
LANTIC FLEET gave her the
coup de grace." (Coup de grace
means literally "grace blow"
the blow with which the bull
fighter finishes the bull.)
The Bismarck Is said to have
been slowed down to a speed of
about eight knots after hits
from two aerial torpedos from
planes launched from British
warships.
FURTHER dispatch asserts
that: "The cruiser Dorset-
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May Extend Duty
Of National Guard
WASHINGTON, May 20 (AP)
Indefinite military duty for the
national guard was considered a
virtual certainty by army offi
cials today because of the unlimit
ed national emergency proclaim
ed by President Roosevelt.
An earlv request to congress
for authority to retain the 291,000
guardsmen in service beyong the
current single year of training
was accordingly anticipated, al
though no final decisoin has been
disclosed on the question.
In the light of the threat to
American security pictured by
the chief executive, an Informed
official suggested It would be
"hardly logical" to demobilize 18
full divisions of trained troops,
representing more than half the
number of such major units un
der arms in all the expanding
land forces.
Pending a definite decision, the
war department has gone ahead
nevertheless perfecting detailed
plans to fill the guardsmen's
places with selective service
trainees, organized Into entirely
new divisions.
Roosevelt to Occupy the White House,
ROSEBuiiG LISTED
Warning Service Filter Center Will be
U;S. Officers
Launch Plans
System's Personnel Will
Include About 75 Women;
Equipment Coming Soon
Preliminary arrangements for
the establishment in Roseburg of
an aircraft warning service filter
center for southern Oregon were
made here last night by army of
ficers. Steps to complete the ar
rangements to put the national
defense project in operation
about July first will be taken im
mediately, it was reported.
The visit here last night of Ma
jor E. II. Lavvson of the army air
corps and Major II. G. Miller, of
the U. S. army signal corps, from
the headquarters of Brigadier
General Carlyle Wash, Spokane,
intercept commander of the 2nd
air force, follows closely upon the
recent announcement by Major
John F. Curry, Spokane, com
manding general of the 2nd air
force, concerning plans for a sys
tem of spotting and plotting
enemy aircraft.
System Is Explained
' The system calls for a force of
civilians and trained army per
sonnel to be used in spotting air
craft, plotting courses and spread
ing warnings. The filter stations,
now being arranged, will be the
nerve centers through which are
cleared the information on air
craft operations in connection
with di'fense against raids by
possible enemy powers.
The Roseburg filter area, which
will extend south to the state
line, will include from 150 to 200
scattered observation stations,
and approximately 75 female ci
vilian operator-plotters, Major
Miller explains.
The observers will be roughly
located on a basis of one for each
10 square miles and will be pro
vided with telephone or radio
communication facilities to con
tact the Roseburg filter center.
A building in Roseburg will be
equipped with special plotting
boards and various devices de
veloped by the army for the air
craft warning system, and wom
en will be trained in combining
the reKrts of the observers and
in plotting the courses of the
flights and tho transmission of
reports to the central operations
office, in Portland.
A survey was made last night
by Majors Lawson and Miller of
suitable buildings in Roseburg for
use in establishing the filter cen
ter and tentative arrangements
were made subject to approval. It
is expected a definite selection
will be made in a few days and
equipment then will be installed.
Women To Aid In Plan
A civilian force of about 75
women will be recruited to pro
vide 21-hour service. Women who
have had experience as telephone
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One Killed, Three Hurt
In Oregon Auto Crashes
THE DALLES, May 20. (AP)
An automobile-train collision
here Tuesday night fatally injur
ed Phyllis Sorenson, 15, The
Dalles.
The girl was a passenger In a
car driven by Eldon C. Polf, 21,
The Dalles, who suffered chest In
juries in the collision with a Un
ion Pacific switch engine nt a
grade crossing.
ONTARIO, Ore., May 29 (AP)
Dick Charlesworth, 18, Grants
Pass, and Ray Stokes, 25, Tor-
rence. Calif., were Injured yester
day In an automobile accident on
the John Day highway near Iron
sides. Stokes' right leg was broken in
two places and Charlcsworth's in
one. Charlesworth also suffered
cut tendons in his right hand as
their car missed a bridge. State
police said the men apparently
fell asleep after driving all night
I 1FEK
;
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Annual Commencement Program To
Close Roseburg School Term Tonight;
Junior High Promotion Exercises Held
The 1010 41 term of the Rose
burg public schools will close
here tonight when the 38th an
nual commencement program is
presented at Roseburg senior
high school for the 95 members
of the graduating class. No
classes were held in the several
schools today, but pupils returned
this afternoon to receive their re
port cards for the last semester
and were then free for the .be
ginning of the summer vacation.
The commencement program
at 8 o'clock tonight at the senior
high auditorium will climax the
events of tho closing week of the
school year. The principal address
will be given by Dr. E. W. War
rington, former Presbyterian pas
tor here, now professor of relig
ious education at Oregon State
college.
Promotion exercises were held
at the junior high school last
night for a class of 133 ninth
grade students who were advanc
ed to the 10th grade and into sen
ior high school.
Program and Awards
A most interesting! program
was enjoyed . by i
i anS
audience
Oregon's Plea On
Gasoline Taxation
Given to Congress
WASHINGTON, May 29.
(AP) Favorable consideration of
the Oregon legislature's memor
ial requesting congress to with
draw from the field of gasoline
taxation was asked by Rep. An
gell (R., Ore.), who said lawmak
ers of 23 other states have taken
similar action.
Angell urged that "not only do
we refrain from imposing any
additional tax on gasoline, but
that steps be taken at once to
remove the existing federal tax
thereon so that this one field of
taxation so pecularily available
to the states and local govern
ments may be left to them, with
out interference from the fed
eral government."
Angell recalled that Oregon
originated the gasoline tax, and
with it has built an extensive sys
tem of roads.
"We pride ourselves on having
constructed and maintained a
system of road development equal
to any state in the union, in com
parison with our resources and
population and territory cover
ed," he continued.
"Unfortunately, the federal
government owns over 50 per
cent of the land area of the
state of Oregon, which has re
moved from taxation a very con
ssidcrable portion of the wealth
which otherwise would be avail
able for carrying on state activi
ties." Redmond Starts Work
On $717,000 Airport
REDMOND, Ore., May 29.
(API Construction of Red
mond's S717.O00 class IV airport,
the largest under CAA regula
tions, started here today under
authorization from President
Roosevelt.
The airport will be the main
control point for military planes
flying the north-south route east
of the Cascades and Is expected
to be central Oregon's principal
field for commercial and private
craft.
Germans Pay U. S. Firm
For "Black Tom" Damage
PHILADELPHIA, May 29.
(AP) A report filed in U. S.
district court today disclosed that
German interests have paid the
Lehigh Valley railroad S10.016.
953 00 for property damage caus
ed in the "Black Tom" explosion
at Jersey City during the first
world war.
Sal d Pointedly: "Words are Good When
ROSEBURG. OREGON.
IN PLANE SPOTTING
which filled the junior high
school auditorium to capacity.
Musical features of the pro
gram included a piano trio by
Lou Helen Strange, Ruth Heek
and Elaine Rhoden; vocal trio by
Wanda Olmseheid, Betty Jane
Roberts and Jane Ellsworth; vio
lin duet, Virginia Roselund and
Jack Horn; piano duet, Vivian
Miller and Elaine Rhoden; girls'
triple trio; trumpet solo, Ward
Cummlngs.
The Bashford award, sponsored
by the Rotary club, was presented
to Ward Cummlngs as the out
standing ninth grade boy, the pre
sentation being made by Victor J.
Micelll. The P. E. O. award to the
outstanding ninth grade girl was
presented by Mrs. W. M. Camp
bell to Betty Jane Roberts, junior
high school student body presi
dent.
The class was welcomed into
senior high school by Stuart Slat
tery, senior high school student
body president, and the response
was made by Miss Roberts.
A skit, "Seein' Ma Off," was
one of the highlights of the eve
. (ontlnued-on page 3)
Two Army Fliers Perish
In Flaming Plane Crash
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 29,
(AP) Two army fliers from
Moffett field burned to death
yesterday after their plane
crashed in an orchard near Los
Altos.
The victims were Second Lieut.
Theodore C. Barrett of Wichita,
Kas., and Albert Newmeyer of
Alhambra, Calif. Each was 23.
Two witnesses said the plane
lost altitude rapidly while flying
west, missed the top of a hill,
banked and crashed.
I SAW
By Paul
5?
.ST-
THE ABANDONED DIG
GINGS and dumps of the Oregon-Portland
Cement company
on a mountainside above Glen
gary. For about twenty years
this company mined limestone at
this site, shipping it to Its ce
ment manufacturing plant at
Oswego. Operations were dis
continued five or six years ago.
At the time I last visited the
plant, In 1933, it was employing
twenty-four men and shipping
ii-u I.DI junua ji mill.- uuujr. ji
owned five miles of standard
gauge railroad and Us own en
gine, plus a lot of single gauge
and electric motors, serving Its
tunnels and dumps. The crew
was housed In a camp at the foot
of the mountain.
1 recall that J. B. Bywater,
the resident engineer, and I
hiked to the top of the latter,
quite a climb of a hot afternoon,
and had a look down tho glory !
hole of the mine, which had just
been opened to the sky at (he
time. We then descended thp
mountain about two-thirds of the
way, entered a level there and
climbed back up to the glory
hole from the inside, through a I
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941.
Ml
Established
Bus Drivers
In Washington
State Strike
' System's Tie-Up Extends
To Montana; Portland's
Bakery Strike Eased .
SEATTLE, May 29. (AP)
On tho day before the Memorial
day week-end when hundreds of
persons planned trips, a bus
drivers' strike today paralyzed
motor coach transportation east
to Butte and Helena, Mont.,
along the north shore of the Col
umbia river and on the northern
Olympic peninsula.
A complete tieup was brought
about by the strike last mid
night of 150 members of the Mo
tor Coach Drivers' union against
the Washington Motor Coach sys
tem. The drivers asked four
cents a mile, compared with the
present 3.3 cents and retroac
tive pay to the date negotiations
started, February 1. The com
pany offered 3.7 cents with driv
ers paying for their rooms out
of the city, which the company
now pays.
United States malls ' have -lieen
carried between here and Olym
pic peninsula points and between
Yakima and certain eastern
Washington towns but no serious
tieup of postal service was ex
pected. Postoffico officials said rail
roads could serve most of the
points or such deliveries would
be let out on contract.
Tho strike order was Issued
Tuesday when negotiations broke
off.
C. B. Fitzgerald, company
president, said negotiations
were ended when tho union de
manded retroactive pay at Tues-
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Jenkins
m
Newa-Rev'ew Photo and RnKrnvlng
perfect maze (to me) of tunnels,
slopes, drifts, shafts and what
not un experience I was In no
hurry to repeat.
Y'e see, the limestone was
blasted loose from these upper
workings and descended these
shafts by gravity action to the
waiting ears far below, and I
had no desire to lose my foot
ing and follow its example.
The camp, composed of a resi
dence, numerous cabins, bunk-
h'
cookhouse and various
machine shops, Is now. owned by
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ander-
json, who purchased It last fall,
together with 500 acres or sur
rounding land, from the com
pany and have stocked It with
sheep and cattle. -
I visited three of the old mine
workings, Including the one I
had gone through eight years
ago; but seeing them wasn't
worth the climb, unless one Is
Interested In ruins more than
the thought of rattlesnakes. I
didn't see any snakes, but the
thought of them kept me from
doing justice to some of the
scenery, I'm sure. It's a good
place for both, on that mountainside,
Backed by Deeds,
IMI
Nation Still
Guessing On
Convoy Issue
F. R. Stands by Neutrality
Act, Mum on Methods of
Sending Goods to Britain
WASHINGTON; May 29.
(AP) President Roosevelt adopt
ed the strategy of silence today
on future methods for delivering
the goods to Great Britain.
"You don't telegraph your
moves any more In tho world of
today," one service official ex
plained, referring to the presi
dent's statement that army and
navy technicians were devising
new safeguards. "You can't afford
to. You'll notice the other fellows
never do."
However, Chairman Reynolds
(D.-N. C.) of the senate military
committee looked for "full con
voys of some description." He
said that was his Interpretation
of the president's fireside chat
pledge to see that needed sup
plies reached England safely.
On the other hand, no less a
personage than Vice-President
Wallace was reported to be disap
pointed that his chief had not
been more specific as to how de
livery would be assured.
Guessing Not Halted
Mr. Roosevelt did nothing to
'quell conjecture yesterday nt his
sneclal press conference. He dis
claimed nnv Intention of seeking
change or repeal of tho neutral
ity act, Contending that it In no
way Infringed on the principle of
the freedom of the seas, which he
formally reasserted for the Unit
ed States Tuesday night.
He said that he thought free
dom of the seas could be main
tained In compatibility with tho
neutrality net. The act forbids
American vessels to enter com
bat zones.
Tho president said It would be
a violation of the act for Ameri
can ships to engage In trndo In
such zones and that this step was
not contemplated.
"Then how can we have free
dom of the sens?" a reporter In
quired. Mr. Roosevelt replied lhat ships
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Anti-Trust Law
Fines Imposed On
Medical Groups
W A S 1 1 1 N GTON, May 29.
(AP) Justice James M. Proctor
of district court today fined the
American Medical association $2,
500 and the District of Columbia
Medical society $1,500 for viola
tion of the Sherman antitrust
act.
The A. M. A. and the district
society were convicted of con
spiracy to violate the net on
April 4. At the snme time 18
physicians, including five offi
cials of the AMA, were exoner
ated. In the trial, attorneys of the
justice department argued lhat
the two groups and the physi
cians had conspired to obstruct
tho netlvltles of Group Health
association, a federation of gov
ernment employees organized to
provide cooeratlve medical care.
They charged that tho associa
tion and its affiliated societies
had "concertedly restrained 12
Washington hospitals" by refus
ing the Group Health doctors
the privilege of practicing In the
hospitals and had brought pres
sure to bear to prevent other
physicians from consulting with
the Group Health physicians.
Officials of the two associa
tions denied that they had In any
way obstructed Group Health ac
tivities and that their only In
terest was to assure that ndo
qunte medical care be provided
under that or any other medical
Insurance plan.
1 he case has hinged on wheth
er the practice of medicine is a
trade" ns defined in the Sher
man anti trust act or a "learned
profession" not subject to the
snme control as nrc business or
ganizations. Justice Proctor, In
his original decision In the case,
declared that It was not a trade,
but he was reversed and a new
trial ordered.
and Only So." It's Your Move, Franklin
VOL. XXIX NO.
Max Schmeling,
Ex-Ring Champ,
Slain In Crete
CAIRO, Egypt, May 29. (AP)
Max Schmeling, former world
champion heavyweight boxer,
has been killed while trying to
escape from British Imperial
forces which captured him in the
German invasion of Crete, a
New Zealand ambulance driver
witness declared today.
Returning to Egypt, the ambul
ance driver said:
"Early in the battle of Crete,
a husky German soldier was
captured, slightly wounded.
"Speaking English ,. with a
strong American accent, he said
he was Schmeling and his pa
pers bore that name. " He was
truculent and surly.
"Later In the day he was be
ing taken to a field hospital by
our ambulance corps when more
German parachutists descended
An top of us and a dog fight op
ened. "Schmeling grabbed a rifle
from one of our soldiers who had
been wounded and went into ac
tion like a wild bull.
"Before he did any damage,
however, someone let him have
It, and that was tho end of
Max."
The ambulance driver said he
did not know how Schmeling ar
rived in Crete, but German of
ficials had said previously that
he went there as a parachute
trooper.
Lasting Peace Is
Britain's Sole Aim,
Eden Announces
LONDON, May 29. (AP)
Foreign Secretary Eden, in his
first comprehensive statement
on Britain's war aims, declared
todny that "our political and mili
tary terms of peace will be de
signed to prevent a repetition of
Germany s misdeeds."
Eden said that "under the sys
tem of free economic coopera
tion, Germany must play a part.
But hero I tlrnw a firm distinc
tion. "Wo must never forgot thnt
Germnny Is the worst master Eu
rope has yet known. Five times
In the last century she has vio
lated the peace. She must never
be In a position to paly that
role again."
Eden, addressing a London au
dience, termed President Roose
velt's fireside chat Tuesday night
"a momentous world event" be
cause, "by his words, the presi
dent has given resolute expres
sion to the fixed determination
of the most powerful nation on
earth."
He asserted that "a lasting set
tlement and Internal peace of
the continent as a whole Is our
only aim."
"It is obvious," the foreign sec.
retary said, "that we have no
motive of self-interest prompting
us to economic exploitation elth
er of Germany or of the rest of
Europe.
"Only our victory can restore
both to Europe and to tho world
thnt freedom which is our hcrlt.
age for centuries of Christian
civilization and that security
which alone can make possible
the betterment of man's lot up
on earth."
"We can not now foresee when
the end will come. But it is
tho nature of a machine so rigid
as the German to break sudden
ly and with little warning. When
It comes the need of succor to
European peoples will bo ur
gent." Redwood Route to Post
Signs to Draw Traffic
BAN FRANCIRCO.'MnV 29.
(AP) An Orceon camnalcn to
Increase traffic over tho Red
wood emnlro route to the Golden
Gate bridge was approved by em
pire directors yesterday.
They aecmea to erect an eiec
irie aim In Oreoon at the Gosh
en Junction on highway 99, south
of Eugene, nnd to ask Oregon
highway commissioners to Im
prove Junctions of highways 101
and 99 at Grants Pass,
nireetnrn unlit too manv Der-
sons were taking the Inland route
and missing the bridge,
HISTORIC NEWS
Is due any day now that the U,
S. Is pledged to continue all poa-.
sible aid to Britain and to keep
the nazls away from Atlantic. -bases.
The dally NEWS-REVIEW
will be your prompt Informant
on all developments.
243 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Invaders Take
Prize Harbor
Of Suda Bay
Air Blin Leaves 3 Cities
In Ruins; New Blows Hit
England and Naval Craft
By the' Associated Press
With newly-arrived Italian
troops striking from the east end
of the island, Adolf Hitler's aerial
Invaders captured Crete's prize
harbor of Suda bay on the west
today and occupied Candla, In
central Crete, as the British
struggled desperately .in the
Jaws of a closing vise.
Candia is the Islands largest
city, with a population of- 33.000
about 55 miles cast of Suda
bay.
British military headquarters,
conceding that the heavily-reinforced
Germans had scored ma
jor gains, declared that violent
hand-to-hand fighting was con
tinuing. Casualties were heavy on)
both sides, the British said, with
New Zealand and other imperial
forces fighting bitterly east of
Suda bay.
Seizure of Suda bay gave tho
Germans a bridgehead for land
tncr cno.hnrnn ifnnrto nnrl -ntll-
tary experts said it may prove)
to be the turning-point of the
struggle the beginning of an
other British debacle.
Greek Prime Minister Tsou
deros, now somewhere In the)
middle east, Informed his lega
tion In London today that Geit
man bombers had so hammered
the Crete cities of Canea, Candia
and Retimo that there was "not
one stone left standing."
Tsouderos alleged the German
raiders "ruthlessly machine-gunned"
the civilian population.
Raging fires, he declared, com
pleted the work of destruction
started by high explosives.'
Capture of Khanuqta, . Iraq,
halfway between Fallujah and
Baghdad, was reported today by
the British roval air force.
British Isles Raided
Weather vagaries aided tho
Germans and handicapped the
British In aerial offensives last
night and the British isles wero
strafed by tho luftwaffe with a
severity unequalled since May
17.
Nazi bombers favored by Im
proved flying conditions struck
at towns of the northwest, east
and southwest England and tho
southwest coast of northern Ire
land while a small force of tho
British bomber command air
craft raided objectives of north
west Germany In spite of what
the air ministry called "bad
weather."
A communique acknowledged
the loss of four British planes in
all operations yesterday; claim
ed one raider was shot down
over England. Other sources re
ported destruction of one Ger
man fighter over the French
coast.
In coastal operations yesterday,
the air ministry said, a small
axis supply ship was dnmnged
by bombs.
A southeast England coast
town suffered extensive dnmngo
nnd a number of casualties In tho
night raids. Five bodies, includ
ing those of tho mayor nnd his
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School Ousts 2 Boys for
Refusing to Salute Flag
PORTLAND, Mny 29. (AP)
Tho school board of Parkroso
grade school, just east of Port
land, announced yesterday that
two boys were expelled for refus
ing to salute the flag.
Tho board withheld the boy's)
names, but Norman Larson of Je
hovah's Witnesses, a religious
cult, said they were Robert and
Wllford Woodruff, of the sixth
and fifth grades, respectively.
Senate Approves Taking
Over of Seiied Vessels
WASHINGTON, May 29.
(AP) The senate approved
and sent to the Whit House
today administration legisla
tion permitting tho govern
ment to take over more than
80 foreign ships now lying
Idle In American harbors,