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Ml the"douglSs:county daily mum iiiirai VOL. XLVII NO.180 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Uffi! C HOUSE , , . , M il KepuMicansxoreNer o 1 Of 41 Representatives, 9 Victors to Senate Strength Prominent New Deal Stalwarts Retired by Votes Of "Repudiation;" Corruption Charge Hurled in Kentucky Contest That Reeleced Sen. Chandler (By the Associated Press) Nearly complete returns from Tuesday's elections today dis closed the republicans had drained off the once formidable demo cratic majorities in congress to a level that1 might ebb in their favor on important legislation and had about divided the 48 state governorships equally with the democrats. Their gains in the congressional and state contests exceed ed the brightest hopes of republican forecasters and almost turn Jed the democrats out of even nominal control of the house. Late returns showed that the democrats had taken 219 house seats, one more than a bare majority, but had suffered a net loss of 41 members as compared with the present house. Republicans had elected 206 representatives, a net gain of 41. In the minor parlres, the progressives had elected two representatives, r net loss of one seat, and the farmer-labor parties had held to one seat each. Six house races still were undecided today. In the present house, which con tinues until the end of the year, the democrats have a majority of !3 over the republicans and five minor party membprs. Their peak was in 1937, with 333 to 89. G. O. P. Gain 9 In Senate With only one senate contest outstanding, that between Sena tor Murray (JMont) and Well ington D. Rankin, (R), the repub licans had gained nine new senate seifts wlth&ut' losing one to'the' democrats, and the latter had lost v eight. Independent George W. ' Norris, Nebraska, also lost out to a republican, Kenneth S. Wherry. The dpmocrats elected 15, which, with 41 holdovers, gave them a total of 56 in the new sen ate starting January 3. Republi cans elected 18 and 20 incumbents not up for reelection gave them a total of 38. The senate's lone progressive, LaFollette of Wis consin, was not up this year. This democratic majority of 17 or plurality of 18 over the repub licans compares with an existing majority of 34 or plurality of 36. Lowest majority in recent years was in 1933, when the division was 59 democrats and 36 repub licans. Highest was in 1937 when it was 75 dpmocrats lo 17 republi cans. i Of the 33 governorships at ' stake, including that in Maine which elected Sept. 14, the repub licans won 17, the democrats 13, and progressives one. Two were still in doubt in Idaho and Wyo ming. Counting holdovers, the democrats now will have at least 23 governors, the republicans 22, and progressives one. Technically of course the demo crats retained control of both houses of congress. However, de pendable working majorities con not be counted on by the admin t istration at all times when it is considered that party members do not vote solidly, particularly on domestic questions. New Dealers Ousted Besides the veteran Norris, the new deal lost in the elections such supporters as Senator Her ring of Iowa. Lee of Oklahoma, , Drown of Michigan. Smathers of ' New Jersey and Schwartz of Wyoming. Other democratic seats won by the republicans were in (Continued on page 6.) Uniform Pay Scale for Plywood Crews Studied PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 5 (AP) The west coast lumber commission will attempt to estab lish for the first time a uniform wage scale in the plywood in dustry. CIO demands for a wage in crease were heard yesterday by the commission and immediate ly afterwards Chairman Ben H. Kizer asked the AFL, which is pressing a separate claim, to pre sent arguments Nov. 12. A de cision will follow. Kizer said about 32 plants and 5000 members of each union will be affected. The CIO demands included a new minimum of 95 cents an hour, plus increases of 5 cents an hour for swing and 10 cents for graveyard shifts. II v. Local Option Plan Turned Down by Voters of Drain Town Also Votes Repeal of - Billiard Hall Bah, Refuses To Let Dogs Run at Large An attempt to vote local option for the city of Drain was defeat ed 110 to 99 at a special municipal election held Tuesday in connec tion with the general election. The Drain voters also voted to permit operation of billiard and pool parlors, and rejected a meas ure, which would have permitted dogs to run at large. The local option measure, pro posed under the state liquor law giving municipalities the right to prohibit sale of liquors within designated boundaries, would have halted sale of all liquors of more than 4 per cent alcoholic content by weight. As Drain has no liquor store, the law was aim ed principally at wines. It would not have affected the sale of beer. Voters however, rejected the measure. Under an ordinance adopted many years ago, Drain has pro hibited the operation of billiard parlors. Repeal of the law was proposed in a measure submitted Tuesday, and the repeal was ap proved by a vote of 115 to 91. Another measure before the voters would have permitted dogs to run at large, but dog owners will be forced to keep their pets restrained as a result of the vote which stood 129 to 75 for rejec tion of the proposal. Oregon House Speaker Candidates Announced PORTLAND. Nov. 5 (API The contest for speaker of the state house of representatives is under way already. Harvey Wells, veteran Multno mah representative, said Mullno mah and Clackamas representa tives would meet here Thursday night to consider candidates. lie said three of them would sneak. They are William M. Mc Allister, Jackson county; Herman M. Chlnclgren, Clackamas county; John Sleelhammer, Marlon coun ty- Pinball Machine Ban Voted at Oregon City OREGON CITY, Ore., Nov. 5 (API Pinball machines were banned in Oregon City as the re sult of a 965-to-825 vote on a bal lot measure here. Baker Turns Down City Manager Proposal BAKER.Ore., Nov. 5 (AP) A proposed city manager form of government for Baker was turn ed down at the polls, election re- I turns showed today, 1333 to 84. ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1 Learns Welding Job in One Day Chalk up a record for Mrs. "Ethel kitchen Brown, above, of Portland, Ore. She learned to weld in 24 hours a task that usually requires at f least 60 hours. She's now a welder in a shipyard. Hub Cigar Store Robbery Admitted By James Shouse Sentence Postponed in Court Here; Drunken Driver Draws Jail Term, Fine of $200 A plea of guilty to a charge of grand larceny was entered in cir cuit court Wednesday by James E. Shouse, 42, who was arraigned on a district attorney's informa tion. Shouse was alleged to have robbed the Hub Cigar store in Roseburg early last month and to have returned to Roseburg two weeks later when he forced an en trance into the McKean and Car- slens Furniture store and then cut an opening through a partition into the Morgan Lawson jewelry store, District Attorney J. V. Long told the court. Circuit Judge Wimberly post poned the imposition of sentence until a later date. A sentence of one year in the state penitentiary was imposed upon William E. Briggs, 20, who pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny several days ago. Briggs, reportedly an army deserter, was accused of stealing guns and per sonal property from a Glendale residence. He was released to the civil authorities by the army. In the local justice court, Justice of the Peace Ira B. Riddle impos ed a fine of $200, and a 30-day jail term upon Charles E. (Red) Hensley, recently convicted at a jury trial on a charge of drunken driving. The court also ordered suspension of Hensley's driver's license for a period of one year. Greer Garson to Wed Man Who Had "Son" Role HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5 (API Ensign Richard Ney, who was Greer Carson's son In the movie "Mrs. Miniver," will become her husband in a marriage at the actress' Bel-Air home over the week-end. In applying for a marriage license at Santa Monica yester day, Miss Garson said she was 31 and Ney gave his age as 29. Ney, a former New York stage actor, received his navy commis sion Oct. 29 and is on a two weeks furlough, so their honeymoon will be brief. It will be the second marriage for each. mm Majorities Increase in Oregon Count Victory of Republican ..' Candidates Taking on Avalanche Proportions PORTLAND, Nov. 5 (AP) Republican candidates for nation al and state offices continued to increase their margins of victory in Oregon as late reports on Tues day s election trickled in. With 1715 of the state's 1770 precincts accounted for Charles L. McNary had been returned to the senate by 208,902 votes over his democratic rival, Walter W. Whitbeck, Portland, who had 61, 796. Secretary of State Earl Snell piled up more votes on his already-overwhelming lead over Lew Wallace, democrat. The same number of precincts gave Snell 215,950 to 63,247. Homer D. Angell, republican congress incumbent from the third district, inched ahead of Thomas R. Mahoney, democrat, 54,598 to 50,772. All 443 of the dis trict's precincts had reported. In the second district Lowell Stockman, Pendleton rancher, widened his margin over incum bent Walter Pierce, democrat, to 25,764 to 15,994. In the first district Jumes W. Mott topped Earl A. Nott, demo crat, 48,827 to 27,021 with 297 of the district's 500 precincts report ed. In the new fourth district Re publican Harris Ellsworth, Rose burg publisher, was far ahead of Edward C. Kelly, democrat, with 377 of 394 precincts in.The count: (Continued on page 6.) Wife. Child of School Teacher Perish in Fire BONNERS FERRY, Idaho, Nov. 5 (AP) The wife of a school teacher and their six-year-old son, who came to Idaho in September from Osceola, Neb., burned to death early today when fire destroyed their home. The dead were Mrs. Sarah Cox, 32, and her son, Roy, 6. The father, W. K. Cox, manual training and orchestra instructor at the Bonners Ferry high school, was severely burned. Cox said that he was awakened by the barking of the family dog about 4 a. m. and dashed out to try to check the flames. He was unable cither to stop the fire or later to break Into the bedroom where his wife and son were trap ped. Cause of the fire was unknown. Japs Given Dose of rir ii Repaying the enemy with interest, gun on the Invaders with deadly rr i vrm it u i L'ffil" L .: I Mm r - .. it ilyj K 1K - - 942. VOL. XXXI NO. Death Lowers ' Curtain on Cohan, Song-Dance King George M. Cohan. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. (API George M. Cohan, greatest song and dance man of them all, died today. He was 61 years old. With him when ho died were his wife, Ills three daughters, and his friend, Gene Buck. Cohan, who called himself "a song and dance man," was just that and king of them all. Since he was 7 years old he sang and danced on I ho stage. In New York he was "I he man who owns Broadway." To the theatregoers or a generation ago In other cities he was I ho em bodiment of his "Yankee Doodle Boy" song In "Little Johnny Jones." To his countrymen gen erally he was the composer of the world war song "Over There." All told he wrote some forly plays, collaborated in the fram ing of thirty more, turned out more tiian 100 songs, close (o 200 vaudeville sketches and about u score of poems. 19 Idlers Choose Jail To Good-Paying Jobs PORTLAND, Nov. 5 -(API-Police recruited 21 workers for construction project? yesterday, but also picked up 19 more jail lodgers. Under the "work, fight or go to jail" edict of Detective Chief J. J. Keegan, detectives picked up 51 men In the Skitlroad district. The nineteen refused to work. Twenty- one others look $1.10 an hour jobs, eight were released and three went to emergency hospitnl for rest. V CUT TO 2 Their Own Medicine it it iw.Mx. 'f U. S. marines on Guadalcanal effect. 70 OF THE EVENING NEWS Battering of Japs Goes on In Solomons Allied Land Forces Gain Fresh Ground in New Guinea and Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (AP) Persistent battering of the Jap anese by land and air gave Ameri can and Allied fighters fresh ground gains today in besieged Guadalcanal and New Guinea. FVrther widening' an attempt ed Japanese vise that threatened lo close on the American-held air field in Guadalcanal, United States marines and soldiers for ced back the enemy's western flank, capturing about 20 machine guns and two small field artillery pieces In the process. In New Guinea, westward ot the Solomon Islands, allied troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australian command overcame "strong enemy resistance" and plunged on through the jungles toward the Japanese coastal base at Buna. The navy reported the con tinued American advances In Guadalcanal last night. Supported by army and navy planes that strafed and bombed the Nippon ese .troops and positions, the United States forces inched for ward along beaches ant thorough the dense underbrush Monday to relieve the pressure on the Im portant airbase. At the other end of the newly Installed enemy vise, east of Hen derson airport, recently landed Japanese troops presumably were (Continued on page 6.) Trial Continuance Plea Of Chambers Denied L. R. Chambers, who has ap pealed to the circuit court from conviction in the justice court on a charge of drunken driving, and whose case has been set for trial at the term beginning next Mon day, today was denied a continu ance lo the February term of court. Chambers pleaded In a motion for continuance that two of his witnesses are in army ser vice and that a third is ill and will be unable to appear. The court, however, contended that an insufficient showing was was made that the witnesses now in service would be available at the February term and that the testimony of the witness now ill would not cover some of the es sential charges In the complaint. The motion was overruled and the case set for trial. . it ii if --4tiS turn a captured Japanese machine XV ill tiA Remnants of Axis Army Flee Across Desert After Defeat By British in 12-Day Fight Routed Foe Strafed Continuously by Allied Planes; One Nail General Slain, Another in Bag of 9,000 Prisoners; Rommel's Supply Ships Also Blasted. ....CAIRO, Nov. 5. (API Weakened by the lots of thousand's, of men captured,' killed, wounded or isolated in their desert strongholds, a once-proud axis army was in full flight today across western Egypt in a frantic hunt for position to avert destruction. Unly a rearward moving screen of anti-tank guns and tanks shielded the bulk of Marshal Rommel's African corps from the.", pressing advance of a united nations army the eighth British while a comparatively impotent air force sought to parry the com bined blows ot American and British airmen. While 9,000 prisoners I by a count already 24 hours old)1 streamed to the British rear, the allied air force blasted furiously at the foe, and the main coastal line of retreat was described at; a veritable graveyard of smoking, twisted tanks, armored cars and trucks. As the axis staggered in retreat, fighting only rearguard ac tions, Lieut.-Gen. Montgomery sent the following message to his troops: "The enemy is in our power and he is just about to crack . . . We have the chance of putting the whole pamer army in the bag ana we win ao so. complete victory is almost in sight. Five Indictments Returned by Grand Jury of Douglas Ex-Myrtle Creek Treasurer On Accused List; Not True Bill Filed In 3 Cases. Five indictments and threcnot (rue bills' were returned Wednes day by the Douglas county grand Jury, meeting In advance of the November term of court. Indicted were Everett Hill, charged with assault while arm ed with a dangerous weapon; Lloyd Houston Ward, accused of larceny In a dwelling; Ray W. Reynolds, accused of larceny of public money; W. C. Hohnsleln, charged with obtaining money by lalse pretenses, and Mllburn Lawrence Wells, charged with non-support of minor children. Not-true bills were filed In favor ot Perry SprlngstcaA. ac cused of non-support; Tom Jen nle, accused of assault with a dangerous weapon, and Tom Cal vert, accused of larceny of live stock. Everett Hill, who was Indicted on the charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, was alleged to have carried a weapon when he went to the neighboring home of Jefferson Morrison In Umpqua park last May 23, when he was angry because he believed Mor rison had freed goats which Hill had pastured in a nearby lot. Mor rison became excited during tne argument and collapsed and died, the coroner's Jury finding that dealh was due to a heart attack. Hill is at liberty on bail. Ward, charged with larceny In a dwelling, is accused of having stolen three guns from the home of Blnger Mumpower at Drain. Ex-Treasurer Accused Ray W. Reynolds is accused by the grand jury of misappropria ting funds amounting to $8,435.30", while serving as treasurer ot the city of Myrtle Creek. Ho is at liberty on bail. W. C. Hohnsteln Is alleged by the grand jury to have Issued a worthless check in the sum of $10 in procurement of supplies. He provided ball pending grand jury Investigation. Wells, against whom a 'similar charge ot non-support was filed previously, Is still at liberty. Complaints were against those for whom the grand jury return ed not-true bills, were ordered dismissed. Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly discharged the grand jury follow ing the filing of their report, after thanking the members lor tne services given over the past year. PUD Proposal Wins in 2nd Union County Vote LA GRANDE, Ore., Nov. 5 (AP) The second attempt ap parently was successful for pro ponents of a $925,000 bond issue for the union county peoples utility district. Complete unofficial election re turns gave the proposal an 87 vote margin, 228G to 2199. The measure was defeated by 2G votes In the primary election. Bow-ond-Arrow Hunters Get First Try at Deer ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 5 (AP) A deer herd numlierlng about 1,000 awaits bow and arrow and rifle hunters in the Blue ridge area of the Chattahoochee nation al forest in northeast Georgia. Archers will try their luck from Nov. 10 to Nov. 14. Groups of riflemen will follow from Nov. If, to Nov. 21. me axis, with Home acknowi. edging severe losses, said thai! Italian and German armies had withdrawn to new lines in tho west. The Germans denied that their front had been breached. ' (The Italian communique, how ever, indicated the depth of tha eighth army's drive at least Its tank spearheads when It told oC "fierce and bloody fighting" by; tank and infantry forces of both sides between El Alamein and Fuka. (Fuka Is about 70 miles to this' west of El Alamein. The Brit ish have not announced their present positions.) Axis Reserves Dwindle. It was believed that Rommet has no larger reserves behind him, either in western Egypt op Libya. Most military observe among the British held that his full force had been marshalled on the now crumbled EI Alamein line where Rommel had pushed nearly to Alexandria and thB Nile. (Reuters, British news agen cy, reported from Cairo that sorne of the axis advance posts in the-western desert were found, unmanned in the first lunge oC the eighth army, indicating that the offensive caught the axis forces by surprise. (There also were reported that Rommel himself was not on tha Job at the time and authoritative sources said ho might not hava arrived there until after the of fensive started on October 23. (He had been In Berlin for con sultation with Hitler and was present there when the fuehrer on September 30 pledged that Stalingrad would be captured. The German press reported that Rommel left Berlin on October, 15.) Axis Collapse Pictured. The sudden collapse of the axis (Continued on page 6.) Reds Repel Nazis In Three Sectors MOSCOW, Nov. 5 (AP) The Russians have broken up all the latest nazl efforts to expand tha invasion salient In northern Stal ingrad and, in some places, have , forced the Germans to abandon several basic points, dispatches said today. While bitter attacks and coun terattacks developed about tho ruined Volga river city, red army troops were credited with local gains northwest of Stalingrad, on the Black sea front and In the Mozdok sector of the central Cau casus. A successful soviet holding action was Indicated before the Caucasian slopes and passes southeast of Nalchik. Dispatches from Greece said the Germans were frantically rushing three or four divisions from the Russian front In an at tempt to reinforce Rommel's bat tered legions In Africa. Four trainloads of nazl troops were said to have passed through Athens en route to embarkation points. Cities League Meeting In Roseburg Scheduled Officers from all Douglas coun ty municipalities have been In vited to attend the regional meet ing of the league of Oregon cities in Roseburg Friday, Nov. 6, at the Umpqua hotel. The mayors and council members from the various towns will meet at 6:3(1 o'clock for a dinner in the ctvlp room, this to be followed by dis- , cusslon of various municipal..' problems. The meeting at Rose-" burg Is one of 17 such gatherings to be held throughout the stata by the officers of the league. ' -