France Explains Her Capitulation to Japan-zer Demands In Indo-China as a "Protective" Measure, or, to State it Factually, She "Made a Virtue of Necessity."
SHOWDOWN
THE WEATHER
By U. 8. Weather Bureaa
OFair tonight and Friday, with
little change In temperature.
See page 4 for statistics.
It appears to be nearlng In the)
Pacific as Japan launches a so
called ''protective" , campaign,
. threatening Singapore .and the
Dutch East Indies. Involvement
of the U. S. would be Inevitable)
In ocean freedom were affected.
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VOL. XL VI NO. 92 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941.
VOL. XXIX NO. 290 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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Former Coi f ressman Hawley Dies
House Leader
Under Three
Presidents
Early Day Educator of
Douglas, Aided Roseburg
, To Obtain Vers' Facility
SALEM, July 24(AP) For
mer U. S. Rep. Willis C. Hawley,
77, nationally noted as the co-
; author of the Smoot-Hawley tar
iff, died at his home here today.
Hawley, a republican, repre
sented the first Oregon congres-'
sional district from 1906 to 1934,-
when he was defeated by Rep.
James W. Mott.
Hawley, chairman of the pow
erful house appropriations com
- mittee for many years, was one
of the most influential congres
sional leaders during the Hard
ing, Coolidge and Hoover administrations.-
He was born in Benton county,
Oregon, May 5, 1864, attending
public schools and was graduat
ed from Willamette university,
of which he later was president
for several years.
He also served several years
on the faculty of the old Drain
State Normal school.
He was a member for 30 years
of the executive hoard of the
Woodmen o the World, repre-
sentlng the Pacific states.
Q .Two sons, Cecil and Kenneth,
survive.
Hawley's father, S. R. Hawley,
came to Oregon in 1847 and his
mother, Emma Noble Hawley, in
1848. He was born on a dona
tion land claim at the old Belk
nap settlement near Monroe.
He received five degrees from
Willamette university and was
president of the school from
1893 to 1902, after serving as
principal of the old Umpqua
academy at Wilbur from 1884 to
1886 and president of the old
state normal school at Drain
from 1888 to 1891.
Hawley married Miss Anna
Martha Geisendorfer of Albany
in 1885. Mrs. Hawley and their
daughter, Mrs. Iras Alma Tour
telott, died several years ago.
Ex-Congressman Hawley had
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In the Day's News
uy FRANK JENKINS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
asks congress today (Mon
day) to authorize extension of
the one-year period of active
service in the army for selec
tees, national guardsmen and re
servists. . .
"Unless the extension is grant
ed," lie saids, "the nation will
be taking a grave risk and disin
tegration of the army will be un
der way within two months."
DY disintegration he means
O that within two months the
meyear period of training for
the men first selected will expire
and thereafter at regular Inter
vals these one-year-trained men
will be leaving the army to be
replaced by raw draftees.
As a result, we shall have an
army composed chiefly of un
trained recruits.
IT would be little short of mur-
der to send an army so inade
quately trained into action
against Hitler's veteran armies.
Hence the grave national risk
mentioned by the president.
rPHIS situation ought to have
been foreseen a year ago
when we were enacting the selec
tive service law. Doubtless it
was foreseen by all army lead-
W But we were then getting Into
the chilly waters of war by the!terday at the home of her par
Drocess of sticking in one toe and 'cnts, Mr. and Mrs. Howard
telling ourselves it would never
be necessary to get in all over.
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Ex-Lawmak f
Of OregonTasses
W
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Death came at 77 today to
Hon. Willis C. Hawley, above,
who represented Oregon In
congress for 28 years and at
tained national renown for his
role in tariff legislation. Rose
burg gratefully remembers him
chiefly for his Influential work
in securing for the city the na
tional veterans facility.
Heat Wave Perils
Middlewest Crops
By the Associated Press
Summer arrived belatedly In
the midwest and mountain re
gions yesterday and shoved tem
peratures above the 100-degree
mark as far west at Utah where
a 67-year-old heat record was
equalled.
More of the same kind of
weather was forecast for much
of the area with no relief fore
cast before Saturday.
One death and numerous heat
prostrations resulted and searing
winds threatened crops in the
corn belt.
The death of four-month-old
Patricia Marie Thome was at
tributed to the heat at Kansas
City. The mercury rose to 103
degrees there, highest this year
to date. Lowest temperature
there in the 24 hours was 81.
Four other Kansas Citlans
were overcome and heat victims
also were reported at Emporia,
Kas., and Joplin, Mo.
Huron, S. D., sweltered under a
108-degree blast. Topeka, Kas.,
had 106 and Green River, Utah,
105. Salt Lake City's 102 degrees
was the warmest July 23 since
1874.
Other high temperatures in
cluded Omaha 101, Des Moines
103, Minneapolis 100, Tulsa 100,
Sioux City 100 and Denver 96.
Mandamus Writ Issued
On Textbook Referendum
SALEM, July 24. (API Sec
retary of State Snell is required,
on a writ of mandamus issued in
circuit court yesterday, to show
cause on August 5 why he should
not file referendum petitions
against the 1941 legislature's free
textbook bill.
The writ was obtained by
Floyd D. Moore, Portland, secre
tary of the organization which
sought to institute the referen
dum against the bill providing
free textbooks for private and
parochial schools.
On the advice of Attorney
General Van Winkle, Snell re
cently refused to file the refer
endum petitions. Van Winkle
saM an insufficient number
wore In proper lorni.
Boy Playing With Pistol
Kills His Sister
LEBANON, July 24. (AP)
An accidental pistol shot killed
9-year-old Ruth Miller here yes-
Miller.
The .22 caliber pistol was fir
ed by her brother, Dale, 12, with
whom she luJ been playing.
BIGGEST
HISTORY
More Than VA
Billion Asked
For Defense
Proposed New Schedules
Will Make Corporations,
Individuals Dig Deeper
WASHINGTON, July 24 (AP)
A $3,529,200,000 tax bill biggest
in the (nation's history and de
signed to make both individuals
and corporations dig deeper than
ever to help finance the defense
consideration today after ap
proval by the ways and means
committee.
Culminating three months of
work, the committee stamped Its
final approval on the measure
last night after a number of last
minute changes, among them
incusion of unprecedented levies
on radio broadcasts and bill
boards, i
New surtaxes on, Individual
net incomes starting fit five per
cent on the first dollar of taxable
income and ranging up to the
present maximum of 75 per cent
on Incomes over $5,000,000 would
virtually treble the payments of
persons in the lower and middle
brackets. For instance, a married
man with two children and $3,
000 of net income who now pays
no tax would pay $11 Under the
proposed levies. A man with the
same number of dependents and
a $5,000 net Income who now pays
$74.80 would pay $202.40 under
the new schedule.
Candy, Gum Excluded.
The committee struck out pro
posed excise taxes on candy and
chewing gum, which would have
yielded $18,200,000, and taxes on
electric signs and cutlery. The
latter would have produced about
$6,000,000.
Another change provided for a
slight additional boost in estate
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Sen. McNary Announces
Candidacy for New Term
PORTLAND, Ore., July 24.
(AP) Senator Charles L. Mc
Nary, minority leader and repub
lican vice-presidential candidate
in 1940, announced here today he
would ask Oregon voters to re
turn him to' the senate for an
other term in 1942. .
Speaking of the foreign situa
tion, McNary said he still was op
posed to sending American troops
outside America and that he saw
"nothing at present to indicate
our participation in the world con
flict ... a little calmness now Is
worth a whole lot more than flam
ing words."
More than 90 per cent of the
draftees would "relnlist in event
of an outright emergency," he
said. "I have great confidence in
the patriotism of the boys . . . but
we said they could go home at
the end of their training period
and I stand on that pledge."
Rural, Star Route Carriers
Will Collect Aluminum
SALEM, July 24. (AP) The
postoffice department agreed to
day to a request by the Oregon
civilian defense council that star
and rural mail carriers be per
mitted to pick up scrap aluminum
on their mail routes.
Jerrold Owen, state civilian de
fense coordinator, said the car
riers would collect the aluminum
on designated days. ,
Owen said he had received sev
eral reports that boys are collect
ing aluminum scrap and are sell
ing it to second-hand dealers. He
warned these dealers, and said
that the only boys authorized to
collect scrap are boy scouts and
members of 4-H clubs.
TAX BILL It U.S.
OFFERED TO HOUSE
New Outlay Of
8 Billion Asked
For Army, Navy
WASHINGTON, J u ly 24.
(AP) A new $8,063,238,478 out
lay for the army, navy and marl
time commission, including funds
to step up merchant ship con
struction to two vessels daily by
early next year, was recommend
ed to the house today by its ap
propriations committee.
Of the total, $4,760,203,813
would go to the army to provide
equipment and maintenance for
a land force of 1,727,000 men
309,000 more than present
strength plus critical items for
a 3,000,000-man army. The sum
proposed for the army would
swell to a record high of $15,
328,171,132 the funds made avail
able to it in the present fiscal
year which opened July 1.
The committee recommended
$1,698,650,000 in cash and con
tractual authority for the mari
time commission to permit con-
stimction of 541 cargo vessels
and acquisition of 350 others to
meet a serious ship shortage
created at least In part by the
lend-lease program.
Maritime commission officials
told the committee that 100
American merchant ships have
been or will shortly be with
drawn from domestic service and
chartered to Britain for the haz
ardous Red sea service.
Already 2,300,000 tons of ship
ping .. have been transferred to
the lend-lease traffic in the north
Atlantic, they reported.
An encouraging note in Ihe
picture, the committee said, was
testimony by the maritime com
mission that deliveries on its new
ship construction were being
maue at the rate of two vessels
a week and would be up to one a
day by November and to two
daily by January or February.
I SAW
By Paul
ONE of Douglas county's fine
diversified farms that owned by
H. F. Wells In, Scott Valley, sev
eral miles southeast of Yoncalla,
and operated by him (and his
wife) and their two sons, George
and Lester.
The farm consists of 360 acres,
lying chiefly in the valley but
rising at each side to the low
ranges of hills forming its boun
daries to the north and south. A
series of seven springs gush from
the hills forming the south line,
irrigating and sub-irrigating
much of the fine land below Its
slope.
In the picture accompanying
this article, snanped from the
site of the main farm house, may
be seen, In the Immediate fore
ground, a portion of a 20-acre
planting of dill; Just beyond,
grain hay In the shock; then to
the right, part of a 30-acre field
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Wheeler Uses
Post Cards In
Peace Drive
Troops Urged to Oppose
War Entry; Stimson Sees
"Treason" in Campaign
WASHINGTON, July 24 (AP)
Secretary of War Stimson said
today that Senator Wheeler (D.,
Mont.) had mailed post cards to
army officers and men urging
them to oppose American entry
into the European war.
"I think this comes very near
the line of subversive activities
against the United States, If not
treason," Stimson told a press
conference.
The cards went out postage
free. Stimson said, under the
frank of the western senator.
A million of the cards had been
printed in the government print
ing' office, Stimson said, but were
labeled "not printed at govern
ment expense."
Wheeler told reporters that he
had sent out approximately 1,000,-
000 cards to "a cross section of,
citizens" all over the country "In
an effort to hold the president to
his pledge to keep this country
out of war."
Some of the card "naturally
reached officers and men in the
army," the Montanan continued,
"but they were not directed pri
marily to that group.
"I don't think that Is subver
sive to quote the president of the
United States or any of the other
men quoted on the card," Wheeler
added.
Hits Back at Stimson.
As to Stlmson's statement about
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Jenkins
NewB-rtoview rnoio and rcnftravlnff.
of mint, 20 acres of which are on
almost bottomless beaverdam
land; the small building in the
middle distance houses an arte
sian flow of mineral water, which
is bottled and sold commercial
ly; beyond another field of dill
are 60 acres of wheat, now being
threshed, while surrounding
these fields and others, are good
pastures.
The farmlands not only are
partially Irrigated, but are ex
ceedingly well ditched for drain
age.
Mr. Wells is a pioneer In the
growing of mint, having, I be
lieve, one of the first if not the
first planting In Douglas county.
He has stayed with it consistent
ly, from the days some fifteen
years ago when It was so valu
able the distilled oil often was
stored in bank vaults, to - the
present time, when he finds it
still a profitable crop.
Invasion Of
Russia Hits
Slow Tempo
Third "Finle" Air Raid
Strikes Moscow; Clash of
Japs, Russians Reported
By the Associated Press
Adolf Hitler's invasion of Rus
sia is slowing down if it has not
entirely halted, a u t h o r 1 1 a tlve
London quarters said today,
while at Russia's back door there
were unconfirmed reports that
Japanese and soviet troops had
clashed on the Manchoukuo-Sl-beria
frontier.
DNB, the official German
news agency asserted that a
large Russian force encircled at
Nevel, north of Vitebsk on the
central front, had been smashed
by r.azl troops "with extraordin
arily heavy losses."
The agency said 13,000 soviet
prisoners were captured.
Hitler's high command, once
more acknowledging ','strong lo
cal resistance" by soviet troops,
declared:
"The operations of the Ger
man armed forces and of their
allies are taking their planned
course on the entire eastern
front In spite of difficult roads."
Moscow Bombed 3rd Time
German bombers attacked
Moscow for the third successive
night, the nazi war bulletin said,
pounding "vital military objec
tives."
The Russians said that the
raiders, 150 strong, , Inflicted
casualties- in another five- -and
one-half hour assault, but that
no military objectives were hit.
Windows on two sides of the
residence of United States Am
bassador Laurence A. Stein
hardt were blown in by a bomb.
(Continued on page (I)
Defense Plans In
DangeM
LOS ANGELES, July 24.
(AP) "Washington is in confu
sion . . . our defense program is
in danger," Wendell L. Wlllkie
told 19,000 persons at a meeting
for national unity last night.
"But the remedy is not to ob
struct the defense program. The
remedy is not to hang back, or
. . . to oppose those larger alms
which are Involved In such moves
as that which we have under
taken in Iceland. No. The remedy
is just the opposite of that.
"We must every one of us
appropriate this defense program
as our own. We must realize that
In it lies our greatest hope of
freedom. And we must get the
kind of management we want,
not through petty criticism, but
through the application of the
enormous pressure of American
public opinion, Insisting that a
good job be done. . . The cure for
a bad defense program Is not
more opposition, but more sup
port." As Willkle was Introduced, the
crowd revived his presidential
campaign cry of last fall, "We
want Willkle!" It gave him a
three-minute ovation.
Wlllkie criticized the adminis
tration freely, but he declared:
"Of late we have heard some
men say that the president acts
through Ignoble motives. No man
ever tried so hard as I did to
remove the president from office
but I repudiate utterly any
notion that In this most critical
hour of the country's history that
Franklin Roosevelt Is acting with
anv sinister purpose
"Franklin Roosevelt may he
mistaken In some of his actions
but no American citizen silting in
his place would do other than
pray and work for the preserv:i
Hon of the freedom of America."
In his prepared address, Wlllltie
said:
"The new deal, In my view, has
long sought too much power, and
behind the blind of national emer
gency. Is continuing to do so to
day. To this I am unalterably op
posed. But this is not the time
to deprive the commander In
chief of our army and navy of
his power to act or the president
of the United States of the neces
sary authority to make our for
eign policy effective "
Joseph K. Carson
Chosen Oregon
Legion's Chief
Joseph K. Carson
EUGENE, July 24. (API-
Oregon Legionnaires at yester
day's closing session of the state
convention, elected Joseph K.
Carson, Jr., Portland, comman
der; Robert C .Sipe, Albany, vice-
commander; E. U Knight, La-
Grande, national committeeman;
the Rev. G. M. Bailey, Pendleton,
chaplain; Victor Mlcelli, Rose
burg, district No. 4 commander.
and George Richards, Enterprise,
district No. 7 commander.
The auxiliary elected Mrs. J. W.
Mclnturff. Marshficld, president;
Nota Francis, Ontario, vice-president,
and re-elected Dorothy Tem
plar, Klamath Falls, treasurer,
and Edith Brown, Salem, finance
officer.: ; - y
Eugene was chosen again for
the 1942 convention. The fact
that the national Disabled Amerf
can Veterans convention will be
held here next year was report
ed as a reason for the precedent-
breaking choice of Eugene twice
in succession.
Sea-Air Victory
Claimed by Rome
ROME, July 24. -(AP) A
fierce air-naval battle in the cen
tral Mediterranean, lasting from
dawn to darkness yesterday, has
ended in an Italian victory with
a British destroyer, two muni
tlons-laden steamers and another
"largo unspecified unit" sunk,
the Italian high command declar
ed today.
A big British convoy, escorted
by battleships, cruisers, torpedo
bouts and air craft carriers was
spotted by Italian aerial scouts
at dawn, the communique said,
and attacked by air until dark
ness. Then, It said, light naval
units of the Italian fleet took up
the fight.
(British naval sources in Lon
don made no comment on the
Italian report.)
Italian planes, "defying Impos
ing anti-aircraft reaction and
numerous fighting planes," scor
ed as follows, the communique
said:
Sank a 15,000-ton steamer and
a 10,000-ton steamer, both carry
ing explosives.
Torpedoed a 10,000-lon cruiser
of the Southampton class and an
8,000-ton cruiser.
Bombed a battleship, a cruiser,
a destroyer, another heavy
steamer and "another unspeci
fied unit."
In the night attack by naval
forces, the communique said a
destroyer and another "large
unspecified unit" were sunk by
motor torpedo boats, and a large
vessel in tile convoy was hit by
torpedoes from a submarine.
Consolidated Freight
Line Strike Adjusted
PORTLAND, Ore., July 24.
(AP) Approval of a new con
tract by a union negotiating com
mittee halted a strike of AFL
auto mechanics yesterday. For
several hours the walkout tied up
Consolidated Freightways, larg
est Portland truck freight line.
Details were not announced,
The employers earlier had agreed
to union demands for a 12J-cent-an
hour pay increase to $1,121 but
asked elimination of a 10 per cent
premium for night work.
Indo-China
Move Start
Of Conquests
Peaceful Us of Pacific, :
U. S. Territory Menaced, ;
Sumner Welles Charges !
WASHINGTON, 1 July 24.-1
(AP) The United States govern
ment strongly denounced Japan
today as an aggressor In French
Indo-China and . declared tha .
move there menaced American
security and endangered Ameri
can territory and Interests in the)
far east. . i . ) . ,
Sumner Welles, acting secre
tary of state, Issued a , formal
statement asserting thai Japan's
action was primarily In prepara
tlon for further ''movements o(
conquest in adjacent areas."
Welles said the substance of
his statement was given last
night to the Japanese ambassa
dor during a conference. ;
The statement contained nol
hint of steps planned by the Unit
ed States to counter the Japa
nese move.
Ocean Peace Menaced
It did declare that occupation
of French Indo-China or estab
lishment of further military
bases there "endanger the peace
ful use by peaceful nations of tha
Pacific."-
These steps also, Welles said,
jeopardize American sources of
vital defense materials such as
tin and rubber an allusion to
the rich Netherlands East Indies.
"The steps which the Japanese
government has taken," Welles .
declared, "also endanger the'safel
ty of other areas of the Pacific,
including the Philippine islands.
French Yield To Fooe '
! "The government anpeople of
this country fully ! realize that
such developments bear directly
upon the vital problem of our na
tional security."
"Present developments relat
ing to Indo-China provide clear
Indication that further changes
are now being affected under;
duress. : -
"The present unfortunate sit
uation in which the French gov
ernment of Vichy-and the French,
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Sutherlin Man Gets U. S.
Pay in Army Truck Crash
WASHINGTON, July 24. -
(AP) The senate passed and
sent to the house a bill authoriz
ing payment of $1,536 to William
Corder of Sutherlin, Ore., for in
juries sustained when a truck In
which he was riding was struck
by an army truck on the Pacific
highway. The senate claims com
mittee reported the army truck;
traveling in convoy had hit a
slight dip and got out of control,
hitting the other truck headon.
The soldier driving the army
truck was found guilty by court
martial ot, manslaughter but la
ter tests proved that a drain
pipe protruding from the road
had caused the accident. His sen
tence was remitted and he was
restored to honorable duty.
Another man, William Dala
Witcher, riding on the civilian
truck which had a trailer carry
ing logs, was killed.
One Killed, One Missing
In Collision of Trains
VANCOUVER, B. C, July 24.-
(CP) One man was killed, ono
Is missing and nine others are in
a hospital, three in a critical con
dition following the collision of a
Canadian National railway pas
senger train "Continental Limit
ed" and an outbound Great
Northern passenger train headed
for Seattle.
The collision occurred between
here and New Westminster, 12
miles east, on the Great North
ern line which is used by tha
Canadian National.
Victim of the wreck was Iden
tified as:
A. Tillinger of Seattle, fireman
of the Great Northern locomo
tive. Missing and believed killed Is
H. Krlnks, Canadian . National
railways baggageman.
Critically injured in New West
minster hospital Is J. Carey, Se
attle, engineer of the Great
Northern locomotive,