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Roosevelt is at Last Putting the "U.S." in Must to Get Needed Warplanes. His poised Order to Strikers, "GO," Stands Also For Government Operation. SHOWDOWN THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau . Fair tonight and , Sunday, Warmer Sunday. See page 4 for statistics. Will the Inglewood,, Calif., air plant plant strikers return to their Jobs Monday or will Presi dent Roosevelt order the govern ment to take over operations? Watch for the answer to tlio question in Monday's NEWS REVIEW. VOL. XLVI NO.S3 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1941. VOL. XXIX N0.251 OF THE EVENING NEWS fHrDOUGLSS COUNTY DAH? MOM p mi BRITISH REINF i ICE FOR SUEZ CLASH Troops Pour In to Defend Vital Canal French Chiefs In Africa, Syria Voice Fears Their . Men Won't Fight Allies CAIRO, Egypt, June 7. (AP) South African veterans who helped change the map of Pre mier Mussolini's East African em pire occupied positions in Egvpt today ready to tackle the Ger mans in the western desert, while other British forces kept a watch ful eye on Syria. Some of the South Africans, shouting a song, "We'll Go Any where In Africa," arrived in trucks which carried them through British and Italian Soma liland and Ethiopia, while others sailed down the Nile, slipping overside for a swim every time their vessels stuck in a sand bar. These troops lined up to fate the German threat at the Suez canal from the west, while others stood readv for action against the menace of a possible nazi thrust aimed at Suez from the east. Meanwhile, further reports of German Infiltration into French mandated Syria and Lebanon were heard. Routers, British news agency, said eight nazi "pocket submarines" had been seen in the harbor of Beirut, Le banon, during the past week. British East and West African Iroops have crossed the Omo river, in southern Ethionia, at two points, have taken 2,000 pris oners and have enntured the town of Abalti and all Italian de fenses In the region, British head quarters announced. In Ankara, Turkey, foreign military attaches declared Ger man air corps engineers were constructing a fighter plane air drome at Lataki.'i, Syrian port which lies only 62 miles from the tip of Cyprus, last British island base in the eastern Mediterran ean. This airdrome, these reports (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IJEADING over the mountain. On every hand the eye-filling prospect of southern Oregon in early June. No radio in the car. There fore (for a few hours at least) no war news to analyze. (Or, to be wholly truthful, guess at.) Guessing is about all any of us can do. It is a pleasant interlude. AT Tub Spring, the dogwood " is still blooming, its white blossoms catching the slanting rays of the late afternoon sun. A wisp of blue smoke drifts across the highway. It Is CAMP FIRE smoke, redolent of the comfort, the comparative secur ity and the end oflhedny relaxa tion that camp fires have meant to human beings through nil the thousands of generations since mankind began. rjOWN from the summit Into the lush Rogue River valley. Beside the road Is a house. It Is an AMERICAN house. Not a peasant cottage. One knows that inside it must be a radio. Also an electric refrigerator. Prob ably MOST of the mechanical servants brought by modern American civilization to the aid of mankind. One side of the house is half buried under a rose bush, and the bush is aflame with roses. IN a field behind the house a man walks with a spade over his shoulder the badge of the Irrlgationist. Eight thousand years ago. In the fertile valley of the Tigris .(Continued on pace 4). Winn ere utor r? rj V - i Jf v Nowa-ltevlew Photo nml EnKrnvinff. The Johnson outooard motor offered as a prize by the Powell Hardware company In the annual spring salmon derby was award ed today to Earl McCoy of Roseburg. Mr. McCoy, pictured above with the prize and his derby-winning salmon, hooked and landed the 37-pound six-ounce fish at Cleveland rapids, May 16. The award was made jointly by the local dealer and the Johnson Outboard Motor company, the latter also presenting McCoy with a gold trophy cup. U.S. Propaganda Charge Based On Lies, Berlin Says BERLIN, June 7. (API- President Roosevelt's statement that he had papers on his desk outlining the purposes of Ger man propaganda in the United States was described by an au thorized spokesman today as be ing "based on falsified docu ments or false information." "We understand the president believes he had German propa ganda orders directing German friendly elements to spread stor ies that England Is at the point of collapse and wanting peace," a spokesman said. "As a matter of fact this story comes not from us but from Eng lish and American sources." The spokesman then gave numerous quotations, which he attributed to Mr. Roosevelt, Wen dell Willkie, the late Lord Loth Ian, Maj.-Gen. H. II. Arnold of the U. S. army air corps, and oth er prominent Americans and Britons to the effect that Brit ain would collapse If American aid was not immediately avail able. "It is not our propaganda; It comes from the other side," the spokesman said. On the question of German propaganda, the spokesman said "our objectives In the United States are no secret in fact, we are breaking our heads to devise means of convincing the western hemisphere that our sole pur pose is peaceful collaboration." Yen to Run Engines Costs Negro Youth His Life ABBEVILLE, S. C, June 7. (AP) A lG-year-old negro boy, who loafed around the seaboard railway shops here, often voiced a desire to run a locomotive. Yesterday he boarded an engine who had just been serviced, and started running it toward the station. ,The locomotive ran Into a switch and turned over into a ditch after tearing up a long piece of track. The boy died a few hours later of scalds and bruises. In Fish Derby Bill Title Change , Kills Referendum On Free Textbooks SALEM, June 7. (AP) The referendum movement against the bill to provide free textbooks for private schools was virtually killed yesterday when the state supreme court ordered changes made in the ballot title which had been prepared by Attorney Gen eral I ,H. Van Winkle. The high court's decision, which Invalidates all petitions which have been or are being circulated, means that new petitions must be prepared, and that they must contain 15.8GG signatures by next Friday. Election officials here considered this an impossibility. Should the sponsors of the ref erendum obtain the signatures, the bill would be referred to the voters at the 1942 general elec tion. Otherwise, the measure would become law June 14. The decision merely provided a new title, substantially the same as that proposed by Representa tives Ellis and Carson, authors of the hill, who brought the suit to have the title changed. The short ballot title, as pro vided by the court, reads "bill to provide textbooks for pupils at tending standard elementary schools." The title proposed by Ellis and Carson was the same except that they suggested the word "lend" be used in place of "provide." Van Winkle's title was "bill providing for free textbooks for private elementary schools." Ship Fast on Aleutian Rock; Passengers Safe SEATTLE, June 7. (AP) In tercepted messages today report ed that the big cannery supply ship Dellwood of the Alaska Steamship Co., was hard aground on Nicholas rock, False pass, on the Aleutian peninsula. Passengers, mostly cannery em ployes, were being removed in tenders and small craft and the vessel was In no immediate danger. City Armory Will House Spotter Unit Detail of Sixteen Will Operate in Roseburg in Filter Center Program Authority for use of the. Rose burg armory by the U. S. army for the purpose of setting up the proposed aircraft warning serv ice filter center here has been granted by Lt. Col. Elmer V. Wooton, acting adjutant general for the state of Oregon. Colonel Wooton reported in a letter to the News-Review today that the army has been assured of the cooperation of the Oregon military department, but that fi nal details of the transfer of the building to the army had not yet been arranged. At the time the national guard was called into active service, the control of the Roseburg armory was transferred to the city of Roseburg. A committee, headed by Victor J. Micelll, was named by Mayor Young to take charge of the building and has since ex ercised control. Arrangements Planned Colonel Wooton has notified the city authorities of the request made by the army for the use of the building and has been as sured of the city's willingness to turn the property back to the state at any time. Mr. Micelll has been asked by Colonel Woot on to represent the state in the matter of actual transfer and will make all arrangements, both on behalf of the city and the state military department. Army of ficers, during their recent visit here to make tentative arrange ments for establishment of the filter center, reported it prob ably could be arranged to con tinue use of upstairs rooms as meeting places for the service (Continued on page 6) Ex-U. of O. Instructor Freed of Assault Count LOS ANGELES, June 7. (AP) Dr. Ralph C. Bennett, former University of Oregon instructor, was acquitted by a superior court jury here of felonious assault charges. He was accused of striking Mrs. Helen Olivers, operator of a rest home, with a hammer out side an El Monte court room last Dec. 12. D. Bennett testified that he took the hammer, wrapped In a newspaper, to the court room to defend himself against a process server employed by Mrs. Oliv ers. He asserted the man had ittacked him previously. While he was swinging the hammer in self-defense, he add ed, Mrs. Chlvers walked Into a blow. Dr. Bennett and Mrs. Chlv ers had been engaged In litiga tion over the care of the educa tor's aged mother. Tax Exemptions May Be Lowered, Indication WASHINGTON. June 7.-(AP) The house ways and means committee indicated today that present exemptions of $800 for single persons and $2,000 for married couples might be lower ed In the $3,500,000,000 tax bill. The committee voted tentative ly to apply those present exemp tions to surtaxes, which are lev ied on top of normal taxes. The present normal tax is four per cent. The treasury has suggested levying on top of this a stiff sche dule of surtaxes starting with the first dollar of taxable income. In announcing the committee action, Chairman Doughton told reporters that "we might let the normal tax begin lower" than the exemptions voted for surtax purposes. For surtax purposes also. Doughton said, the present $100 exemption for dependents, such as children, also would apply. Uncle Sam May Become Their Boss Next Monday J J IBHi Lllll 1 I118''f jMK If the workers shown above glewood, Calif., in compliance with a CIO strike call, do not return to their jobs next Monday, the plant will be taken over by the government, It was announced at Washington today. The strike, af fecting 11,000 men, followed unheeded pay Increase demands. The federal mediation board's order to the strikers to return to work pending adjustment of the situation was ignored. The plant holds $196,000,000 worth of airplane orders for the United States and Britain. Label All Liquor As Poison, Urge of Trio of Doctors CLEVELAND June "7. .(AP) Three? Boston physicians ap pealed today to the American Medical association to endorse a proposal to have all liquor la beled as poison. Declaring that they were not prohibitionists, but "regard pro hibition as a failure," Dr. Mer rill Moore, Dr. Leo Alexander and Dr. Abraham Mycrson said they believed every man and woman who imbibes any amount of alcohol should be warned by the label on the bottle that what they are drinking is dangerous. if taken in too large amounts and at too frequent intervals. The appeal was made In a re port filed at the association's convention here. No action was taken upon it immediately. 'Arsenic, carbolic acid and oth er poisons are labeled under the regulations of the federal food and drug administration," Dr. Moore said, "and alcohol should he designated in the same way. During prohibition the bartend ers of speakeasies often justifi ably put 'poison' labels on their bottles, possibly Willi good effect on their customers. If the federal food, drug and cosmetics act is designed to pre vent and to protect the Ameri can public and its health from the menace of drug Intoxication and addiction, then it should ap ply to alcohol Instead of neglect ing It altogether," he added. He reported that ho had re ceived hearty support for the idea from many of the large li quor companies. The Boston physicians suggest ed that every brittle of liquor carry a label reading: "Use mod erately and not on successive days. Eat well while drinking anrl. If necessary, supplement foorl by vitamin tablets while drinking. Warning: Mav he habit-forming, not for use by chil dren. If userl Immoderately It may cause Intoxication, neural gia, paralysis, mental derange ment and kidney anrl liver dam age." Jail Escape Try Adds To Prison Terms of 2 PORTLAND, June 7.-(AP) An attempt to escape from the Multnomah county Jail this week cost two prisoners await ing transfer to the state peniten tiary one year. Louis L. Randall, 21, anrl Charles L. Morrow, 24, ronfesserl the escape attempt. Randall's four-year sentence on n burglary charge was Increased to five years. Morrow, sentenced yes. terday to five years for forgery, must serve six years. The Additional sentences were Imposed by Circuit Judge Haw kins. walking out of the North American Pheasant Season Restoration In Douglas Sought Recommendations" that the hunting season on China pheas ants bo reopened In northern Douglas county and that the bag limit on black-tail deer be raised from one to two bucks were adopted by the Roseburg Rod and Gun club at a meeting last night. A delegation consisting of Har ris Ellsworth, A. C. Marsters and John Amaeher was named - to represent the club at a public hearing to be held by the Ore gon game commission Juno 14, at which time recommendations on seasons and bag limits will be heard. The Roseburg club is asking the usual two weeks season on pheasants with a hag limit of three birds, with not more than one hen, or day, nor more than seven birds in any one week. In the discussion pertaining to the bag limit on deer, the pro posal was made that an open season apply only to the county east of the Pacific highway, but general information was that leer are abundant as well In the Coast range district and the club contenrled that the season should bo open In all of Douglas county and that the bag limit should be raised to two instead of one as at present. Douglas Theft Charge Holds Coos Army Draftee Edgar Leslie Ralph of Myrtle Point, awaiting circuit court ar raignment here on n rharge or larceny from an automobile, was snatched by Sheriff Cliff, Thorn ton ahead of the army draft. Ralph, who Is accused of theft from automobiles at a Tenmile dance last month, was scheduled to leave Myrtle Point Wednesday with a group of Coos county se lectees, and his arrest left the Coos county quota short one man. Ralph has admitted the thefts and is expected to plead In cir cuit court on a district attorney's Information, Thornton said. Conscientious Objectors Ordered to Camp Jobs SALEM, June 7. ( API-Eight Oregon selective service regis trants, classified as conscientious objectors to both combatant and non-combatant service, were or dered today to report June 23 to the San Dimas camp near Glen dora, Calif., for work under civ ilian direction, Lieutenant Col onel Wooton, state selective serv ice director, announced. There are only 30 such con scientious objector In the slate, Wooton said. Aviation company's plant at Oregon Terrorist Convict Listed For Chance at Parole SALEM, Oro., Julie 7. (AP)- Albert N. Banks, former business agent for Salem teamsters (AFL), who hired three men to burn the non-union Salem Box factory Nov. 20, 1937, became eligible for parole today from the state penitentiary when Governor Sprague commuted his sentence from 12 years to 9 years. To become eligible for parole, a prisoner must have served a third of his sentence, Banks having al ready served three years. The state parole board probably will order the parole in a few days. Albert Earl Rosser, former head of Oregon teamsters, still Is in prison, serving a 12-year sen tence for ordering Banks to pay the three men to burn the mill. Banks' release, which will be effective in a few days, was rec ommended by the parole board and by Ralph E. Moody, coordina tor in former Governor Martin's drive against labor terrorism, who prosecuted Banks. Others who recommended the release were Charles P. Pray, su perintendent of state police; Bruce Spauldlng, Polk county dis trict attorney, who assisted Moody In the prosecution; Cap tain John J. Keegan, chief of Portland detectives, and Circuit Judge Arllo G. Walker of Polk county, who sentenced Banks. Spauldlng explained that at the time Banks was sentenced to 12 years, lie was believed to be the man primarily responsible for the fire. Testimony at Rosser's trial subsequently showed that Banks acted on orders from Rosser, of ficials then believing Banks' sen tence was too severe. After Banks pleaded guilty and was sentenced, he testified against Rosser. The fire caused between $100, 000 and $130,000 damage. Banks Is .'18 years old, Is mar ried and has a 15-year-old son. Lindbergh, Nye Will Be Denied Use of Buildings PORTLAND, Juno 7. (API Portland residents moved yester day to prevent Senator Geralrl P. Nye anrl Charles A. Lindbergh frnm iiKlnp Ihn plvle auditorium and public school bulffilngs for speeches scheduled here soon. The Portland Americanization council said It believed the Amer ica first committee, which is sHnsoring the speakers, should be opposed during the emerg ency proclaimed by President Roosevelt. America first commlttep mem bers said, however, that they did not contemplate use of the audi torium or the schools, but would hold the meeting In a nearby amusement park. Strikers Have Until Monday To End Tie-Up Production at Inglewood Airplane Factory Must Go on, President States WASHINGTON, June 7 (AP)' The White House announced to day that President Roosevelt would order the taking over by the government of the strike bound North American aviation plant at Inglewood, Calif., if the strikers have not agreed among themselves to return to work Monday. , Stephen T. Early, White House) press secretary, told reporters tho necessary papers were ready for signature for the army to take over the plant and operate it and that the cabinet had unanimously approved such a step late yester. day. Early said tho president had do. elded to await the outcome of a meeting of tho CIO union at tho plant tomorrow before putting the order Into effect. Early said unless the workers decide by Monday to return to work the president will sign the order. He explained that the prcsi. dent's action was ndt a threat or a big stick to be held over the heads of the workers because ha hoped they would settle the dis. pute peacefully and in orderly fashion themselves. Machinists' Head Summoned Early said the president alsa had requested Harvey W. Brown, head of the International Ma. chlnlsts union, to 'come to Wash, lngton and confer with him re garding the machinists' strike in the San Francisco shipyards, which also has been holding up major defense work. All other trades are back to work In those shipyards, Early said. Asked about the third major Kirmu uii Liie wl'si i-waai, nun ul lumber workers, Early said thero was no real shortage of lumber now and if the strike holds up production In the northwest other producing areas would take cara of tho shortage. Pay Increase At Issue North American holds orders for $196,000,000 worth of bombers and other typos of combat planes for the United States nnd Britain. A strike was called there by tho ClO-United Automobile Workers and started Thursday morning in the midst of the defense media tion board's efforts to prevent it. All operations of the company's 11,500 employes were stopped. Should It become necessary for the government to take over the plant, Early said, the army at course would give the workers the right to return to work. Ho added he did not believe the army (Continued on page 6) Easflndie$'"No" Mulled in Japan TOKYO, June 7. (AP) Tho Netherlands East Indies' answer to Japanese trade proposals was delivered in Tokyo today anr) was not satisfactory, Domel, of ficial Japanese news agency re ported, quoting what It called re sponsible sources. rho sources were not identi fied and the report gave no fur- . t her details. Yomiurl, a newspaper with army connections, said armv. navy and foreign office officials were scheduled tomorrow to dis. cuss the Indies situation, which is described throughout the Jap anese press as "serious." A Domel, official Japanese news agency, broadcast received In New York quoted a newspaper Nichl Nichl editorial as snyln? apparent rejection of Tokyo's demands should be followed swiftly by Japanese action. This was based on the conten tion that the Batavla govern ment was relying on backing from Britain and the United States. An Asahl editorial quot ed bv Domel also said Tndles au thorities were under British and American Influence and charg ed that they never had any real intention to come to an agreement. i