One Outcome of Portland's Labor Election Is Certain: The Losing Union Will Not Submit. Then We'll Find Out Who's Running the Industries of Oregon.
THE WEATHER
Ilumlillty 4:30 p. in. yesterday , 93
Highest temperature yesterday . 3S
1-owest temperature last niKbl
Precipitation for 24 houra 02
I'recip. since first of mouth (ii
l'rerlp. from Sept. 1. l'J37 12..r."
Klcoss sinco Sept. 1, lM; 2.4 1
Rain; Warmer.
NANKING
Its Inevitable full promises to
lead to h new autonomous Mute
in China, further streiiKthenlng
Jupan'n influenco In the orient;
hut it may also Increase war hor
rors elsewhere. Wnteh wire news.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY
VOL. XLII
NO. 192 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937.
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Hy FRANK JENKINS
A N INTF.LLIOF.NT laboring
man mild to this writer yes
terday: "I've been reading your defini
tion nf wealth, and I agree with
it. Wealth is the product of la
bor applied to nuturul resource
(raw matorluls.)
"Hut the amount of wealth pro-
duced depends on Hie way the la
bor 1h applied. If 1 cut down u
tree, and saw It into lumber to
build t n house, I've produced
wealth. Hut if. I dig a holn and
then fill It up again and go on
d!ng that nil day, I've produced
NO WF.ALTH."
OICillT. If wealth is to be pro
duced, labor must he expended
upon raw materials to produce
something that PEOPLE WANT.
That is where MANAGEMENT
comes in. It Is management's job
to find out what people want and
then direct the application of la
bor to raw materials so EFFI
CIENTLY that what people want
may bo produced at a price that
(Continued on page 4.)
CORVALLIS, Dec. 9 (AP)
Governor Charles Martin told the
Oregon Wild Life federation the
state should capitalize on recrea
tional resources which tnm-ists are
willing to "pay well for the privi
lege" of visiting.
Addressing the association last
night, he said three-fourths of the
states area was adapted to wild
lite "crops," .
Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson. chief of
the V. S. biological survey, point
ed (o gains in the numbers of wild
ducks as a result of conservation
practices, but said regulations
could not yet be relaxed.
Nesting and resting places, he
said, are fairly well provided, the
greatest national need being win
ter refuges in southern states.
V He praised Oregon as being in
advance of most other states, but
held further orderly development
necessary.
Dr. Gnbrielson said scientific re
search in wild life conservation
was making the most rapid strides
in history in land grant schools,
including Oregon State college.
Me said the Pirmun-Rohlnson bill
would create opportunity to "devel
op national wild hie resources
without in any way interiertn,
with state control" by providin
federal aid to states.
Oddities Flashed
mV.y the Associated Press.
False Alarm
PiHIDGE PORT, Con n. S i x-y ear
old Joseph Peluso's mother fuarcd
ho had a "rare skin disease" wheij
she rushed him to the emergency
hospital.
Hut the blue spots dotting Jo
i sepb's head, back and chest dis
appeared when Dr. Daniel M. Mas
Bey applied kerosene. :
"Indelible pencil," was Dr.
Massey's diagnosis.
Remembered
OATESVILLE, N. C All her
life Marian Smith, ex-slave who
claimed to be 107 years old, said:
"I hope the white folks stand
by me when 1 die like they always
have through my life."
When she died, virtually the en
tire population of Cutesvllle at
tended the funeral. County Judge
Godwin and several w hite minis
ters conducted the services. Six
white men were pall bearers.
To Safety Zone
OKLAHOMA CITY. "I tried to
keep away from this woman, but
sh wouldn't leave me alone." com
plained Floyd Greenwood, 23,
when he pleaded guilty to viola
tion of the Mann act.
"Three years In the peniten
i tiarv." said Federal Judce Edgar
S. Vaught. "That will fix it so
MHl Employes Vofe12CHILDREN
,? K - J . I TURK Mill
f?i Portland
i JRTKOUSE
GUARDED FOR
BALLOTING
Fresh Complications Loom
Regardless cf Result;
Woodworkers Spurn
A. F. L. Offer.
PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 9. (AP)
City, county and state officers
guarded the Multnomah county
courthouse, where liiman-Poulscn
mill employes cast secret ballots
to determine their union repre
sentation this afternoon.
The election, ordered by Gover
nor Charles Martin in an unprece
dented action to end a four-month
sawmill tieup resulting from an
AFL-CIO dispute, hVld possibilities
of further complications In n
tangled labor situation which has
rendered thousands Jobless and
paralyzed the Portland lumber in
dustry. The mill has agreed to reopen
Monday with 250 to 300 men re
gardless of the outcome of the
vote. i
Should the CIO win, an AFL boy
cott, to which mill operators at
tributed the shutdown, will be con
tinued, leaders asserted.
Should the AFL ; triumph, , the
liillf will face possible charges of
violating a previous national la
bor relations board order naming
the CIO as collective bargaining
agency.
Plylock Firm Accused
The Plylock corporation, operat
ing with a curtailed AFL crew aft
er its employes accepted a CIO
charter, faced charges of unfair
labor practices, signed last night
by Charles W. Hope, regional di
rector of the NLRLi.
The company's claim that the
employes "discharged t heniselves"
by joining the CIO under a pre
vious AFL agreement was recent
ly upheld by a special master in
chancery appointed by Federal
Judges James Fee.
AFL Offer Recited
The International Woodworkers
of America, ending a convention
(Continued on page til
DERAILMENT HALTS
S. P. R. R. TRAINS
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9. (AP)
Passenger service on Southern
Pacific lines north of here was
delayed from two to four hours to
day by derailment of two empty
automobile freight cars near Pitt,
15 miles south of Dunsmuir.
Three' northbound trains, the
Cascade, Shasta and Oregon, were
running from two hours and 25
minutes to four hours and 35
minutes lute.
From Press Wire
she can't get to you.
Valid Excuse
SAN FRANCISCO. E a r I C.
Hutchinson, 20. paid a $10 due for
speeding but failed to attend a
police traffic school as ordered. A
letter was sent to his home asking
the reason.
His mother answered:
"Karl was killed on the Day
shore highway."
Windy City
CHICAGO. Melvln G. Steph
ens couldn't find his car which he
had parked next to a loop office
building. "Where's my car?" he
bellowed.
A qniet-tipokcn man answered
"rlLht over there " pointing to the
Chicago river 175 feet away.
"Who did it?" Stephens shouted.
"I'll smack him down."
"The wind." hie Informant re
plied. Human Siren
MINNEAPOLIS. When ffre
broke out in his beer parlor. Joe
Sherman couldn't get action on
the telephone, so he stepped out
and lifted a mighty voice.
Residents for four blocks around
reported they heard him. So did
firemen at a nearby station. They
put out the fire.
Congressmen Told
by Mayor in Labor
-War 'Don't Worry'
JERSEY CITY, N. J.. Dec. 9.
(AP) Mayor Fro n k Hague,
hacked anew today by AFL
forces In his fight with CIO or
ganizers, sent his "regards" to
2ti congressmen who asked him
for an explanation of reports his
police had interfered with law
ful labor activities in this city.
"Everything Is under con
trol," he assured Ihem: "Leave,
everything to me and don't
worry."
Ilia statement was lu a letter
to Rep. O'Connell (1)., Mont.),
one of the signers of a letter
asking him to explain reports
which "are sufficiently disturb
ing to move us to ask you for
your version of the situation."
"There is nothing for you to
be disturbed about that I can
see." Hague wrote. "The people
of my city feel as I do. They are
very grateful for your Interest."
T
Freeze Extends From N. Y.,
to Texas; Toll of Death
Increases to 21.
,
Ry the Associated Prefcs.
Winter settled with deeper cold
through the south, east and west
today, with snow and sub-freezing
temperatures in many cities from
Amarillo, Tex., to, the Atlantic, and
a renewal of the biting winds which
have harassed upper New York
state.
New York City's weather was
cold and the forecast was for more
frigid weather. The temperature
tonight was expected to drop to 15.
A 52-niHe-an-hour wind blew
across Ituffalo anil parts of west
ern New York, piling up fresh
snowdrifts.
Deaths, attributed directly or In
directly to the weather, stood at
21 for the past few days five in
the south, eight in New York state
and eight in Pennsylvania.
Cpstate New York roads were
blocked as winds whipped snow
back into places which had been
cleared. .Niagara Falls closed Its
schools Because of the cold, and in
Ituffalo falling heat and light in a
federal housing project brought
misery to tenants of (juS apart
ments. Parts of western Pennsylvania
lay under 18 inches of snow. There
were four-foot drifts in spots.
while the thermometer dived to
zero in numy rural sections.
Snow fell at Amarallo, Tex., and
other parts of Texas, Mississippi,
Alabama and Georgia last night.
Forecasts in Florida, however, in
dicated temperature readings
would be above the mark of danger
for crops.
TRAGEDY STALKS
COCKTAIL PARTY
NEW YORK, Dec. 9. (AP) A
cocktail party that ended In a
slugging match at a sumptuous
Long Island estate became the fo
cal point today of an investigation
into the death of Samuel W. Walsh,
55, retired Wall Street broker.
Walsh, who gave the party In
his ti-room home at Fort Salonga
on Nov. 30, died in a New York
hospital Tuesday from what the
medical examiner described as "a
fractured jaw and hypostatic pneu
monia." After questioning several per
sons who attended the party, state
police said a fist fight apparently
had occurred after Walsh became
abusive toward women guests.
! SELF-OFFERED GIRL
WINS 20-30 SUPPORT
TOLEDO, Ore.. Dec. 9 fAP)
Word from Salem that a Cumber
land. Md., woman had asked Gov
ernor Martin to find her a mate
! who would pay $50 for her moth
ers operation, brought this re
sponse from the 20-30 club:
"We wish the governor to in
voke all the powers of the state in
this affair as there Is a marked
shortage of women along the coast.
We petition that the state pay the
$500 dowry and that the governor
make a special effort to send the
j self-described 'brunette Jean Har
low to Toledo."
s Issue
U.S. STRIKE
COST IN 1937
FIVE BILLION
Worst Era of Labor Strife
in History of Country,
Steel Official Tells
Business Meet.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9. (AP)
Strikes cost this country around
ti ve hi II Ion dollars, or between
Sltia and $175 per family, in 1937
"the worst and mostly costly per
iod of labor turmoil In our his
tory." Ernest T. Weir, chairman
of the National Steel Corp., told
American businesH leaders to
day. Speaking before the annual con
vention of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers, he declared
capital and labor "not only must
get along, but can get along to
gether," and asserted the govern
ment attitude in the present sit
uation" was "one of the biggest
stumbling blocks to a rational get
toget her."
Weir, with Dr. Leo Wolman, Col
umbia university labor authority,
and Charles W. Fuhy. general
counsel of the national labor rela
tions board, was one of the prln-
J cipaL speakers at the association's
rinal sessions of Its three-day con
vention. Today was designated 'In
the program as "labor day" and
devoted to problems of the rela
tionships between management
anil workers.
So delicate and Important were
the problems discussed, In the
opinion of the conferees, that an
nouncement was made the meeting
would he closed and uo reports
would be made of the addresses of
some of the. speakers.
"It Is Just good business." said
Weir, "for all parties to the iu-
(Continued on paje ti)
EiS LIFE 111 CELL
PORTLAND, Dec. 9 (AP)
Airs. Aland Hughs. 41. held in the
city jail tor a meut cleaver attack
l tianlisgiving day upon Frank Elli
thoipe, superintendent of a donni
tory near Grand Coulee dam, was
tound dead in her cell today, a
pujumu belt knotted about her
throat.
The woman, for whom a hearing
was set next Wednesday on
charges of assault wlih Intent to
kill, left three notes addressed to
Klluhorpe, ii lends and the Jail
matron.
Neighbors or Mrs. Hughs found
Elllthorpe early Nov, 20 lying In
(he bedroom of her home, gashed
35 or 40 times. He is recovering
In a hospital here. He hinted lo
police that she had struck him
with the cleaver because she was
a! raid be was going to break oil
a 10-year friendship.
She surrendered voluntarily two
days later, after starling east by
train, her conscience, detectives
saifl, forcing her to return. She ad
mitted the attack, said Detective
Al Eichcnberfier, but claimed sh
acted in sell-defense after Elli
thorpe hit her on the nose in o
rage of jealousy over her uiiBolicit
ed conversation with a stnutKer in
a beer parlor.
INSURGENTS ROUTED
IN SPANISH CLASHES
MADRID. Dec. 9. (AP) Fierce
Insurgent infantry attacks that
shattered weeks of comparative
quiet on the Arauon and Madrid
fronts were reported today by gov
ernment military authorities to
have been Oeateii back.
Dispatches from the Aragon re
gion of the northeast where gov
ernment armies have been array
ed for weeks to block an Insur
gent big push toward the Medi
terranean told of desperate fight
ing from the Kbro river to Martin
del Rio.
A half hour of pitched hand-to-hand
combat at Monle Sillero and
on a road between Mediana and
Puebla de Alberton !n the Kbro
river valley about IS miles south
east of Zaragoza endr in an In
surgent rout,
I HULL liUUL i u
DIE IN FIRES
Knoxville Tenement House
Turns Into Death Trap;
Farm in Illinois
Tragedy Spot.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. Dec. 9.
(AP) Firemen dug (he bodies of
nine victims seven of them chil
drenfrom the ruins of a flame
razed, two-story tenement house
today.
The dead:
Mrs. McKlnley Connatser, 35,
and three of her children, Vir
ginia, ii, Vallee, 4, and Luther,
12.
Mrs. Cora Tuto, 51!, her son, Eu
gene, 17, and her three grandsons,
R. L. Mellon, 12, Junior Melton, ti,
ami James Earl Melton, U.
Firo swept the building shortly
after midnight and trapped the
victims as they Islept. Twenty-
two other occupants, most of Ihem
children, ran or jumped to safely.
Gordon Tato, 22, son of Mrs.
Tate, said from a hospital bed that
he escaped by jumping from n
second-story window. 1 1 it receiv
ed only minor bruises.
Defective Flue Suspected
The blazo apparently started on
the second floor, possibly from a
defective flue, firemen said.
McKinley Connatser, 34, hus
band and father of four victims,
seized his five-monlhs-old son. R.
0. Connatser, and jumped from
a second-story window.
"1 screamed for my wife to fol
low me," Connatser, a newspaper
vendor, said. "Hut she couldn't
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German Emigre Admits He
Slew American Dancer
and Four Men.
VERSAILLES. France. Dec. 9
(AP) The body of pretty 22-year-old
Jean do. Koveu, Brooklyn danc
er missing since last July, was
round today burled under the
porch or a Si. Cloud villa, to
which police were directed by a
2!i-yearo1d German emigre.
The emigre, police said, con
fessed slaying her and four men
because he needed money.
The police said the confessed
slayer was Eugene Weldermann,
who had como to France last
March to escape German military
service. He led In vest Iga tors to
the suburban villa outside Purls,
saying that two or his victims also
were buried there .
Weidinann listed as his men
victims a broker named Raymond
Lesobre. found dead l en days ago
in Hie St. Cloud villa; a young
man nnmed Roger Lebloud; a taxi
driver named Couft'y, and Arthur
Froinmer, a German Jew, w bo
once shared a prison cell with
Weidinann In Germany.
Weidinann was arrested ot the
St. Cloud villa yesterday after a
gun fight wilh police.
It was Ihe discovery of I he rent
al agent's body In a cellar or the
vfllii hhat led invest iga tors into
the battling de Koven case.
That Riuesome fmJ put authori
ties on the trail of a German who
had made an appointment with Ihe
rental agent, Lesobre, to Inspect
the vacant villa us a possible ttm
nnnt. Detectives located the German,
living fu St. Cloud. Three detec
tives were dispatched yesterday to
arrest hlni.
He put up n struggle. There was
a short pistol duel lu which two
of the officers were wounded be
fore Weidinann was ovorpovve'red,
5T 5 More Days to Buv
Christmas Seals
Dryoit know...
that the annual loss Irom
tuberculosis in the
United State is more
than three quarters of a
billion dollars '
VST
GREETINGS
Us; r rntrr.
AMD
BILL PUSSES
Acreage Control Provision
Holds Threat of Chaos,
Oklahoman Says in
House Debate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (AP)
Senator Lee (D-Okla.) told the
senate today ihe pending farm bill
would cause more, strlte than the
Ku Klux Klan."
"We will be splitting communi
ties wide open." Lee shouted. "One
farmer's hand will he raised
analnst another. Why I read of one
farmer who said 'we'll make thorn
reduce I heir acrean'1. or we'll get
out the old night-riders .
lie urged payments lo farmers
on that share or their crops con
sumed Hi this country, us a substi
tute for acreage reduction.
The Oklahoman said the restric
tions under the "ever normal gran
ary cotton section would loreu
small cotton farmers to compete
with Ihe Hottentots, the coolie,
the lowest type of labor In India."
Quota Charge Rejected
Ilefoie the senate debate began,
the house with less than half its
members present, voted down a
proposal to permit the agriculture
secret ary to im pose market tng
quotas on corn when national sup
plies idle up to 2.1300.000.000 bush
els. The unrecorded vote was 78
to a!).
The house farm bill as U now
stands would authorize Invoking
the quotas when supplies reach
2,900,000,000 bushels.
The principle of the defeated
amendment, proposed by Rep. Lu
cas,, was crillcl'.ed recently by Sec
retary Wallace on the ground It
was' too restrictive.
Passage Predicted
Senate debate opened with a
declaration by Senator Copeland
that "pence between business and
(Continued on page 6)
UNKNOWN MOLESTS
COOS BAY GIRLS
NORTH FIEND, Dec. 9. (AP)
Coos Hay officers, reporting two
cases of girls being molested, plan
ncd to use bloodhounds to trace
the offenders If further instances
occurred.
Police said a high school girl
was frightened Into hysterics Tues
day night when an unclothed man,
his face covered by a paper sack
accosted her as she was crossing
a bridge while returning from
school. Her cries drew neighbors
to the scene.
Last night two other girls said
they were chased by a man, strip
ped to the walsl, who called to
them from an abandoned building.
WOUNDED WOMAN
EXPIRES AT BAKER
llAKKIt, Orn., Hie. . fAI')
Mi-h. Lena ThruHhrr Htirriimton nf
linker (ilcii thig morniim in a lo
cnl liHKpitul as u i-i'Bit 1 1 of gun.
Hliot w()iinl Hiirfcrr-il Monduv
nlk'IH nt u Din ly hHd at I hi) homo
or Mert Loomls.
A roronor'H inrUHt into the
ilciith (if Mia. Harrington und ).
M. hoc of nuk!r. who wuh klllrd
hy a KuiiHhot ut tho tlmo tho wo
man was wounded, will he held
Krlclay. OfflcoiH urn mill attemht
inK to (Icterinlne who fired the fu
till holH. Mm. llairlni!toii. who
wan coiiHi'lons part of the time be
fore her dentil. In reported to have
made no Hlalement relative to who
did the HhootltiK-
JURY DISAGREES IN
FEHL INSANITY QUIZ
MKlJKOIll). Dee. I) (AP)
Karl II. Kehl, former JnekHon
eounly JitilKe, awaited a re-trinl
today In the inxnnltv proeeedliiKH
brouKht by t'Yed Kelly, after fail
ure or n Jury to amen and lln dln
mlBHiil by the court hint nlnht.
A poll of the Jury bronchi n
uiianininiiH vole nuiilnxt pnxHlhUlly
of a verdict after the court ruled
II mum rind l-'ehl ell her mine or
Insane. It (hlihointed nine hours.
TYEE MAN FACING
CHARGE OF THREAT
Leonard C. Hateman. 74. Tyee
rancher, was In custody In the
county jail today while sheriff's
otlbt-rs were Investigating a com
plaint of a l hi eat to commit a
f.louv. Sheriff Percy Webb re
port ed . Webb mi Id t hat Ha t em s n
was acci-wed of threatening Ernest
Shot t of T ee. In an aiKUtneiil
which developed while livestock
belonging to tim two men was be
ing separated while occupying the
same rang'.
Turkey Market
Snag May Bring
Plea to A.F.L.
GRANTS PASS, Dec. 9. (AP)
Stale Senator W. A. Johnson of
Josephine county said today the
grange-labor committee may ap-
neal to the Oregon State l-wlerai-
Hon of libor for solution of tur
key marketing problems of south
ern Oregon.
He left for Medford to meet
with Mortou Tompkins of Dayton,
also committee member, to inves
tigate the situation there.
Press reports announcing San
Francisco butchers will refuse to
handle turkeys from Oregon which
do not bear Oregon union labels
were amplified by M. S. Maxwell,
international vlce-presidenl, to
cover all poultry and all Califor
nia markets.
The Medford local, with which
Grants Pass butchers are affiliat
ed, claims jurisdiction over Jack
slon und Josephine county tur
keys.
A carload of Grants Pasa tur
keys was temporarily delayed dur
ing Thanksgiving marketing at
San Francisco.
Senator Johnson said if findings
warranted action, he and Tompkins
would ask the Oregon Al- L lo
clear southern Oregon turVeys
without the requirement that they
be killed and dressed by union
men. The district pickers nre not
now organized and many farmers
prepare their own poultry for mar
ket.
ens
Ward Cockcram's Entry Is
'Named Grarid Champion'
at Oakland.
An n (hi It bronze lorn, entered by
Ward Cockcrnm of Oakland, was
lodayv selected as grandclni niplon
of the dressed division of the
Norllnwalorn Turkey show at Oak
land. The sweepstages slsplay for
bronze turkeys was won by Art
Hamilton of Chehalls, Washington.
Other display winners were Mrs.
A, I). Hudson, Tangent, Narragan
setts; Henry Domes, Uicki call.
While Hollands; Ward Cockeram,
tlourhon Reds, and Fa To Leather
wood, Oakland, lllacks. llreed
championships were awarded In
ihe same order.
The champion adult torn of the
show waB the bronze bird selected
as grand champion of the display,
the prize going to Cockeram. The
champion young torn was a bronze
bird entered by Hamilton. The
champion old hen was a bronze be
longing to Cockeram, and the
champion young hen a bronze be
longing to Hamilton.
The Northwestern Turkey ;;hnw
at Oakland went Into its third dny
with interest unabated. Crowds fu
attendance overflowed the city,
and many were forced to seek ac
commodations in Sutherlin and
Roselbllurlglll.l Uudges continued
(Continued ou pago G)
STOKOWSKI SAYS
GOODBYE TO GARBO
NKW YOItK, Dec. 9. (AP)
(.rein Oiirbo was Swede n-hotim!
today for a ChriHtiniiH vacation in
her native hind.
Leopold Minkowski, nyniphony or
chestra conductor, bade the film
actress farewell aboard ship before
she stilled yesterday.
Hntll MIsh (inrbo and Rtokowski
who was divorced recently, have
denied reports they vould wed.
Aged Man Gives Eye as Birthday
Present to Half-Sightless Youth
NKW ORLKANS, Dec. 0. (AP)
The gratitude of an old man
brought u present today to young
Frank Chabina an eye to supplant
his own ruined hy lime dust.
"Isn't that the swellest thing that
ever happened to anybody?" nsked
the Albany, La., youth who will he
2D years old tomorrow, following
the operation In Charity hospital.
John Amos, the 67-year-old don
or, seemed happy about it, too.
They hail met lu the hospital
ward and acquaintance riHnei
into friendship. There they learned
each other's siory.
Chahlnii's lefl eye was sightless.
A milky scar tissue gradually had
shut out the light. Amos' eye, In
fected since removal of a cataract,
was useless to him, but the comeu
was unimpaired.
Out of two Impaired eyes the
doctors thought t.hey could restore
tho sight In Chablna'e eye. They
broached tho subject to tho old
man, suffering from heart dlseuou.
Clin FALL
HELD SURE,
I
Japanese, Closing In,
Demand Surrender
To Avoid "War
Horrors."
Americans Notified to Get
Out of City; Japs Deal
With Chinese Leader '
for New Set-Up.
NANKING, Dec. 9. (AP)
Japanese aerial attackers
: pounded this capital of China
all day long, but tonight Chi
nese still held positions around
the city.
Chinese defense artillery
hammered steadily at the Jap
anese closing In from the south
and southeast.
Thus far the Japanese have
been able to bring only their
lightest artillery 'into play
against the capital defenses.
The American embassy has noti
fied all Americans remaining in
besieged Nanking of the Japanese
warning, transmitted through
Shanghai consular officials, for all
foreign nationals to evacuate
Nanking without delay.
(Latest advice said 17 Ameri
cans were remaining" in Nanking.)
(Shanghai dispatches carried
Japanese reports the Japanese
army had entered tho southeast
gate of Nanking and predicting
naplure of the city within 24
hours, The Shanghai dispatch was
filed almost ten hours 'after the'
uuovo Nanking cubic.)
JAPS THREATEN "HORROR"
IF NANKING NOT GIVEN UP
Hy MOHIilS J. HAItHIS
SHANtl MAI, Doc. 9. C.l')
Tho Japanese command Issued an
ultimatum toduy denuindliiK the
surrender of ('hluti's abandoned
capital, NankliiK. by noon Friday
and threatenliiK that otherwise tho
city "will become tho scene of tho
horrors of war."
'Ihe ultimatum was Issued by
General Mittsul, comiiiiinder of tho
liipalieso forceH In the Klinnghni
Naukllli; area, lo the Chinese com
mander, (lem Tanir Rellir-Clll.
A Japanese wiu-plnne dropped
a further communication to Nank
liiK. "Abandonment of reslstnnce will
spnro the city. Its historic relics
anil spots of beauty," It promised.
A Japanese tinny spokesman de
cliired Chinese si HI were i cbIsI
Iiik and added that there would
be a major buttle if the reslstniico
continued, lie declined In sluto
whether .Inpnnoso expected the de
fenders lo rinht lo llio Inst or Biir
wunler In oilier to escape a heavy
(Continued on pnxa Ii)
BIG STORM HEADING
FOR OREGON COAST
SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 9. (AP)
Far west states appeared duo
for a week-end of general rains to
day, with a storm 500 miles at sea
moving In rapidly toward tho
northern California and tumtheru
Oregon coast,
R. K. (.'omits, Jr., federal weath
er man, said weathei probably
would he Increasingly blustery and
wet tonight. A fiu-mlle wind raked
tho Fa nil Ion Islands 50 miles west
of the Golden Gate.
Storm warnings were posted on
the California and Oregon coasts.
He approved.
"Frank's been good lo me," ho
told the doctors. "Not many young
fellowH would bother to cheer up
an old fellow like me,
"My left eye Isn't any good to
inn and I haven't so very long to
go. It won't make any dlfferonco
whether I have one eyo or two.
"If you figure ono of my eyea
ran Indp Frank to see, I want you
in take It and give It to him as a
present."
So they wheeled tho two men In
to the operating room yestorda
where doctors skilfully removed
tho perfectly good cornea of Amos'
eyo and put It in Cbahlnu's left
eye. ,
The operation has been per
formed successfully several times
before elsewhere, doctors said.
They were hopeful but Bald they
would not know for at least eight
days whether tho operation would
enable Chabioa to see.
OWtVER