The News-Review from Roseburg, Oregon • Page 1

Straightening of the Roseburg-Grants Pass Highway Bottle-Neck Will Save Many a Human Neck. A Safe Hig hway at Any Cost Beats a Road to the Morgue; BRITAIN Can she prevent a hazt conquest of Crete? Today's dls-patches from the war scene Indicate that the outcome Is In doubt. If the British lose, what will fol. low? Let the keep you posted. THE WEATHER By U.

8. Weather Bureau Fair tonight. Friday cloudy Little change In temperature. See page 4 for statistics. VOL.

XLVI N0.39 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG; OREGON, THURSDAY, May 22, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO. 237 OF THE EVENING NEWS i ii Ml Ik i 3 A Jr fwDQTifiilc-rnriMTY rvvirv GA IF s. in Collision Ar, Cyclist Hurt CJ Army Caravans Pick Up Speed in Trek To California; Hospitality Accorded in Roseburg Stay Wins Deep Appreciation Guard Talk Averts Break AtAlcatraz Four "Lifers" Induced to Yield After Working on Bars, Tying Up Three Men Labor Board Again Tackles Coal Strike Pay Differential Barrier To Peace: 3 of 1 1 Struck Shipyards Reopened In The i Das News Xi and from their camp at the rifle range northeast oi town.

A jrJSjtf. Allies Unable To Use Planes In Struggle British Navy Blocks Nail Sea-Borne Troops, But Fo Keeps Up Aerial Landngs By the Associated Press Dropping- out of the skies by thousands, Adolf Hitler's aerial Invaders seized the old capital of Crete today and gained another foothold in tho Suda bay re- plon site of a big British naval base but British warshipa smashed attempts to land seaborne troops on the Island. -With the 3-dayold battle mounting In violence, Prime Mln-lster Churchill acknowledged that nazl parachute troops had invested the town of Candla, In central Crete, the old-time capital. Pictured by Churchill as al battle without chance of retreat for either side, the struggle went forward with the British and their Greek allies defending the Island as best they could without the aid of RAF fighter planes. In London It was disclosed that RAF fighters were withdrawn from Crete Tuesday because of the "pronounced disadvantage" of operating from the few air NeWH-Uovlou- TCntfmvlTiK Private Ralph F.

Kraber, 209 7th Iniamry, was critically Injured yesterday In a collision near Canyonvllle. Kraber's motorcycle, pictured above, crashed head-on Into an automobile occupied by the Rev. and Mrs. T. E.

Mack of Prescott, Mich. Kraber was reported today to have a good chance of recovery. He was said to have suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was brought to the veterans hospital here. Mrs.

Mack was treated at Roseburg for face and head cuts suffered when she was thrown Into the windshield by the Impact, but, her Injuries were not of a serious nature. SALEM, May 22. (AP) The 3rd division's big suns rolled south to Roseburg early today on the motor convoy trip from Fort Lewis to Califor nia troop maneuvers. Four artillery battalions of about 2,000 men the 9th, 10th, 39th and 41st stayed at the Ore gon state fairgrounds here last night. They include 12 155-mIlll- meter howitzers and 36 75-millI-meter guns.

Arriving from Fort Lewis today will be the 30th Infantry, the "pride of San Francisco and the division's "show" regiment. Oth er units coming today will Include the 3rd reconnaissance troop (cavalry), the 69th engineer company, 116th observation squa dron and the 91st observation squadron. Dr.W.Futrelle New Medical Head Of Vets Hospital Dr. Walter Futrelle, who has been on duty at the ncuro-psy-chlatrlo hospital at Little Rock, has been appointed as chief medical officer at the veterans hospital in Roseburg, according to word received today from Washington, D. C.

The appointment was announced by General Frank T. Hines, chief of the veterans administration. Tho announcement was given Senator Charles L. McNary following the presentation by the senator of a recommendation from Commander Alfred Kcllcy of the state department of the American Legion, urging tho appointment of Dr. Kenneth Kinney, now serving In the local hospital.

Dr. Kinney Is not yet In line for the appointment under the established rules of relative eligibility, Senator McNary was Informed. Dr. Futrelle will take the place being vacated by Dr. A.

H. Mount-ford, who has been promoted to supervisory and Inspection service at the national headquarters oi the administration In Washington, D. C. He has been instructed to prepare to leave for his new post about June 1. Year in Penitentiary Given Bail Bond Broker SPOKANE, May 22.

(AP) Joe Schnltzer, Portland ball bond broker Indicted for conspiracy to transport stolen Jewelry from Spokane to Portland, was sentenced today to a year and a day In federal penitentiary. The sudden ending to the case came when Schnltzer suddenly pleaded guilty to the charge today after his attorneys had lost a six-hour argument for dismissal of the Indictment. By FRANK JENKINS TPWO developments today (Tuesday): 1. The Germans launch an attack on Crete. 2.

The French come farther out of the bushes in their support of Germany. EITHER is unexpected: The Germans must have the islands of Crete and Cyprus if they are to get an adequate army into Syria and Iraq and supply it without Turkish co operation. They NEED these island bases, Turks or no Turks. When the French government threw up the sponge and holed up at Vichy instead of retiring to Africa and carrying on the war from there, it was apparent that sooner or later what was left of France would fall into Hitler's lap. "THE attack on Crete is launch-ed from the air, after a typical blitzkrieg bombardment of strategic points such as airdromes and roads.

Churchill announces that 1500 Germans in New Zealand battle uniforms landed by parachute, GLIDER and air troop transport. They captured a military hospital, he says, but lost it in a counter-attack. Dispatches as these words are written say they fail-(d to capture the British airdrome at Maleni. Churchill says this (Tuesday) morning that the military situation is "in hand." (Better not jump to conclusions. Wait a day or so.) TSE of gliders (planes without engines) is new, but for some time the Germans have been reported as practicing with them.

They are towed behind a plane, like cars behind an engine, and are cut lnoie near the spn: wiirre a landing is to be attempted. They can be landed more swiftly and more accurately than a parachute. Each carries several men, fully armed and fully trained in medal parachute tactics. nrilE Germans WANT AND NEED Crete, which In British possession bars the sea lane to Syria. The attack on it will alo serve as a useful rehearsal for the great project of attacking Englann.

THE; French air minister is re- ported to have arrived in TVIrut to direct the defense of fPnntinnrv) nn pnpn 4 Prison Minimum Set For Ex-Insurance Executive OLYMPIA, May 22. (AP) Hallett R. French, former insur ance executive who confessed embezzling premiums on insurance he wrote on the Tacoma Narrows bridge, must serve a minimum of three years In state prison, the state parole board announced. The prominent Seattle clubman's arrest followed the collapse of the structure. He was given a maximum of 15 years.

Ted Ingles, former Spokane county commissioner, was given a minimum term oi one year lor perjury. By Paul AN ARMY WRECKING CAR which struck my fancy. I'd like to have It to carry along with me on my trips, Just In case. It's a Corbett truck with a dual Ignition six cylinder continental motor; has a compound gear with ten speeds forward and two in reverse: will make 55 miles per hour and think of this consumes a pallon of gas every FOUR miles! It; has two gas tanks, each of thirty- five gallon capacity, and carries any number of big drums of gas besides for emergency use. This big unit is equipped with spotlights fore and aft.

and carries Its own oxygen and acetylln welding outfit. "Oh yes. I am a long wav from home." Corporal Jimmy Martin, pictured above with Private Flvnn, both of the Third Ordnance company, told me. "I live In New York city, but (here he gave me a prodigious wink) that doesn't mean that I don't get a zzl i I A 3rd division artillery band will play a public concert at the bandstand at Library park at 6:30 p. m.

today, It was announced. Officers of the artillery unit arriving here this morning announced that a concert had been arranged In appreciation of the hospitality shown by the city of Roseburg to the traveling troops. The 6:30 hour for the concert was set In order that bandimen might enjoy liberty with ether men of the unit during the balance of the evening. The movement of army con voys over highway 99 was re ported by state police today to be picking up speed. Practice already has resulted in eliminat ing much lost time and a general gain In time spent travelling be tween overnight stops, bergeant Paul Morgan of the state police headquarters at Roseburg reported.

The 15th Infantry and Its de tachments, which spent last night in Roseburg, cleared this city southbound to Weed, California, bv 8 a. shortly before the ar rival of the 3rd Dlv. artillery, which spent last night at Salem, and was due to complete the trek to Roseburg by noon today. The artillery units In Roseburg tonight will be headed by Brigadier General Horace Fuller, commanding officer of the 3rd division artillery and one of the high ranking officers of the S. army.

The 15th Infantry which gain ed the title of the "Can do" regiment while in service In China, reached Roseburg early Wednesday, travelling in approximately 400 vehicles. The men were given the liberty of the city last night and enjoyed a program nt the armorv. band and drum corps concerts, a songfest and a street dance, the latter being the very popular event of the even ing. Officers and men of the regiment expressed deep appreciation nf the hosDltalltv shown In Roseburg. They were particularly pleased by the courtesy of many individuals who used their automobiles to taxi soldiers to Summer Vacation Starts May 30 For Roseburg Schools The Roseburg public schools will be dismissed Thursday evening, May 29, for summer vacation.

The next school session is scheduled to open on Monday, September 8. Activities honoring the ninety-five seniors will keep these members of the class of 1941 busy this week. Roseburg high school commencement exercises will be held In the senior high auditorium Thursday, May 29, at 8 p. m. Dr.

E. W. Warrington of Oregon State college will give the commencement address. A special feature of the program will bo the presentation of "Ballad for Americans," by the High School Glee club and Mr. Leroy Hlatt, accompanied by the high school orchestra, under direction of J.

D. Glllmore. Ninety-five students will receive their high school diplomas at the commencement program. The senior class night program, to be held Friday evening, May 23, will be put on by the seniors and combines a history of the class with prophecy. Dr.

Morris H. Roach will Rive the baccalaureate sermon at a union service In the high school auditorium a evening, Mav 25. The mothers' banquet honoring the seniors will be given Saturday evening. Ninth grade promotion exercises will be held on Wednesday evening, Mav 28, In the Junior high school auditorium. Rev.

Perry Smith will address the class, and the balance of the program will be given by members of the class. 133 ninth grade students will receive certificates of promotion to senior high school at that time. OAKLAND, May 22. (AP) The navy took over today In an attempt to reopen strikebound shipyards on San Francisco bay. More than 40 navy and marine corps vehicles were mobilized at the labor temple and carried some 800 shipyard workers to the Moore drydock plant, and others to the General Engineering shipyard.

By the Associated Press The national mediation board prepared todav to act for a second time In the soft coal wage controversy, while in some other labor disputes tension appeared to be easing. Contract negotiations between the CIO United Mine workers and the southern Appalachian operators were broken off in New York yesterday, with both sides issuing sharp public statements. In newspaper advertisements, the southern mine owners charged that John L. Lewis, UMW president, was attempting to become "dictator of this country" bv gaining a "death grip" on the flow of bituminous coal to industries. In answer, K.

C. Adams, spokesman for Lewis, called the southern operator "mock patriots." The union and southern operators were to appear before the mediation board at Washington tomorrow, and the northern operators and the union Saturday. After a general work stoppage throughout the industry in April, the northern operators agreed to increase wages from to $7 a day. and the southerners entered a temporary agreement to raise the basic wage from S5.G0 to Sfi.60, but were unwilling to eliminate the 40-cont sectional differential as the union demanded. Three Shipyards Reopen Three of the 11 San Francisco (Continued on page G) Wheat Allotment Area Cut by 7 Million Acres WASHINGTON, May 22.

(AP) Secretary of agriculture Wickard today established a national wheat planting allotment of 55,000.000 acres for the 1942 cron. This was a reduction of 7.000.000 acres from the 1941 allotment. The secretary said a reduction in production was necessary because of a mounting surplus and loss of export markets. The 55.000,000 acre allotment is the minimum allowed by corn control legislation. Announcement of the smaller allotment was made as the agriculture department prepared to hold a grower referendum May 31 on marketing quotas for this year's wheat crop.

Quotas require the approval of two-thirds of the farmers voting. Division of the 1912 allotment among wheat-producing states included Oregon 756,281. "As time goes on we will Increase our production and we can continued to do that as long as we stay out of war, but if we eet In we couldn't give Great Britain one-half as much material aid. "I do not believe Great Britain wants us as an active participant in the war and does not want an expeditionary force. Germany does not want us in the war and Japan Is trying to avoid war with us.

With this situation there seems no reason for us getting in the war. "We should complete our national defense program in the quickest possible time and be so strong that no dictator would dare attack us." Mott said the naval building program was year ahead of schedule and with completion of two-ocean navy the United States could not be attacked SAN FRANCISCO, May 22. (AP) Guard Captain Paul Madl-gan kept four desperate life termers from cutting their way out of Alcalraz prison, Warden James A. Johnston said today. The four convicts worked near ly two hours and trussed up three prison officers yesterday in nn attempted break from the mat shop at the San Francisco bay island penitentiary.

Johnston said the quartet were: Lloyd H. Barkdoll, Oregon bank robber; Joseph Paul Cretzer and Arnold Kyle, brothers-in-law eon-viewed of bank robbery at Los Angeles and additionally sentenc ed lor escaping trom mmeii island federal prison and slugging U. S. Marshall A. J.

Chitty, who later died, at Tacoma, and Sam R. Schokley, Muskogee, bank robber and kidnaper. I The convicts had broken the Inside detention sash on one of the four small rooms In the shop and were working on the tool- proof steel bars with an emery wheel when Guard Clyne E. Stoops came into the room. They overcame Stoops and bound him hand and then proceeded with their work on the bars.

Next to enter during routine Inspection was C. J. Man ning, superintendent of prison Industries. He was likewise bound, as was Lionel Johnston, work area yard officer, who entered later. Madlgan's Talk Effective Johnston said Captain Madigan entered the room about 5:30 p.

m. and the convicts grabbed him. By that time they had been two hours at work on the bars, with little success. "Captain Madigan was resourceful and persuasive," the warden said. "Ho convinced the already discouraged convicts that their efforts would be futile.

The convicts, disgusted with their failure, released Madigan and np sounded the emergency alarm, when other guards arrived, Madl- (Continued on page 6) Jenkins NwN-Kevlew Photo nnrt Rnftrnvlnv lot of enjoyment out of seeing the rest of the country!" Having spent some six weeks once upon a time at Fort Jav, on Governors Island, a stone's throw (If you're an exceptionally pood thrower) from the burg of Man nattan. I lelt Inclined to disagree with him. But then, I reflected, New Yorkers I'd met couldn't be classed with Corporal Martin, He's tops! For that matter, so are all the soldiers coming through here whom I've seen and talked with. Who has been crying his eyes out for the past twenty years, saying that the younger genera tlon was going to pot? He's plumb nuts! With about 200 hard bitten soldiers enthusiastically marching In columns of four behind her and her drum corps, last ev ening, Shirley Carter ought to "mark time" from that date for quite a while, don't you think? dromes on the Island, under incessant Stuka dive-bombing attacks, i British Fleet Pounded On their own arms and strong naval support, the allies pitted their hopes ot surviving, but nazl warplancs fiercely battered at the British fleet, and the Ber- Hn radio asserted lato today that German Stukas had sunk a British cruiser off Crete and severely damaged two others In addition to eight other British warships reported damaged yesterday. British middle east headquarters In Cairo colncldentally report-ed that the German "sky troops" had gained a temporary foothold In the Maleml sector, 15 miles south of Canen, tho Crete capital, seat of King George II's (Continued on page 6) Venetian Blind Cord Chokes Baby to Death' HUNTSVTLLE, May 22.

(AP) The 15-months-old daughter of Mrs. Joe Fait, playing In her bed, released a Venetian blind. Later Mrs. Fait found the child dangling from the cord, strangled to death. Oregon State Librarian Gravely III of Cancer SALEM, May 22.

(AP) Tho condition of State Librarian Harriet C. Long, who has been lit several months with cancer, was described by hospital attaches today as "very serious." Is tho one real nnd deadly effective solution, but Just how we are to Insure safe passage ot the Atlantic remains to be seen." WASHINGTON, May 22. (AP) Secretary Stimson assailed the neutrality act today as "a violation of our most sacred and important tradition on foreign policy, freedom of the seas." Like Secretary of the Navy Knox who yesterday termed the act barring American shipping from war zones a "terrible blunder," Stimson stressed he was speaking as an Individual rather than as secretary of war. Stimson added, however, that what he described as a conflict between the neutrality act and the freedom of the seas principle would have to be "very carefully considered," however, In deliver ing munitions to Great Britain. Noting that he had opposed the principle of the neutrality legislation for years, Stimson said "I always prophesied It would bring us Into trouble." "It was abhorcnt to our prin ciples to yield to our fears by this policy." he added.

U.S. Employes to Meet in Roseburg The Oregon branch of the National Federation of Federal Employes will meet in Roseburg in a state convention Saturday, May 31. Approximately 200 delegates and visitors are expected to be in attendance at the one-day meeting. The registration headquarters are to be located at the Umpqua hotel, and business sessions, banquet and dance will be held at the armory. Convention arrangements are being made by the Roseburg local, No.

459. Ted Post is general chairman and heads of other committees are Hugh Cooper, dance; D. W. Smith, banquet; Clarence Rand, arrangements; V. V.

Harp-ham, registration. Delegates from the Roseburg local are Robert Harvey, president; Melba Lowell, Flnley Webb, Hubert Graham and Al Cline. Slayer, 21, of Wife, 43, Draws Fifty Year Term CHEHALIS, May 22. (AP) Superior Judge Hall yesterday sentenced Frank W. Turner, 21, to a maximum prison term pf 50 years for the second degree murder of his wife, Anne, at their home last December 30.

Turner, son of Maj. Frank T. Turner, of Los Angeles, who has been confined to an army hospital at Denver but who came here for the trial, showed no emotion and made no comment. Turner, who married the 43-year-old widow In Chicago only a few months before her death, pleaded temporary mental irresponsibility at the trial and said that because of drinking he could not remember her death. The slate charged he shot her twice as she lay on a davenport with a towel over her face because of a headache.

Juvenile Uses Detective Bureau for Loot Cache PORTLAND. May 22 (API-Police learned of an effective new cache for stolen property vesterdav a room In the detective bureau at the police station. A luvenlle, suspected of taking S7 and two diamond rings, was nuestloned without success Tuesday. Yesterday he admitted that the articles were In thP dectlves" room. Despite the tip, It took two detectives more than an hour to find the cache.

Admiral Says Allies Losing. Atlantic Battle; Stimson Raps Neutrality Act U. S. Not Near War, No Reason To Go Into It, Congressman Mott Declares SHANGHAI, May 22. (AP) Rear Admiral William Glassford, commander of the United States Yangtze naval patrol, declared tonight that the battle of the Atlantic "at this moment Is being lost by the allies." "We are not only facing Inevitable defeat of England and collapse of the British empire but also defeat of the United States unless something Is done," he added.

Glassford told an audience of Chinese and American business men here that something must be done "to stop the sinking of allied ships In the Atlantic, which are going on faster than they can be replaced. "Once again." he declared, "It is the United States' Job to save Eneland. "This means ships. "Once again we are asked to build a colossal merchant marine to carrv war supplies to England. We shall do It.

But If It Is not evident soon, this will not be enough. These shins must get safely across the Atlantic." Referring to the possibility of convoys, the admiral saw ini WASHINGTON. May 22. (AP) Rep. James W.

Mott (R-Ore) said in an Interview that he did not believe the United States was near war and that he saw no reason for the nation becoming involved in war. Mott, who guided the administration's naval bill throueh the house and who has insisted upon a two-ocean naw and a strong armv, said he believed the national defense program should be completed in the fastest possible time. "I do not think we are near war," Mott said. "I have never thought that and if we can get our defense' program completed, we'll never pet Into war. "I do not think and never have thoueht the President wan's to get in war.

think we are doing the thing rleht now most to our advantage and to the advantage of Great Britain furnishing 90 percent of our war munitions to Great Britain..