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Compare Today's) Thanksgiving Reasons to Those .-otrjy inwo;--:n98-Mud.:1o be Grateful tor COMING SOON! With Thanksgiving here, and soon gone, Christmas Is Jast 'round . the corner. Special holiday offerings on display soon. WEATHER 1 Cloudy Thursday and Friday; unsettled at times; gentle Tariable winds, no change temperature.. EIGHTIETH YEAR No. 210 MMMM-MMB-----MMMiMMW"'iM--m--rf J-fflT A Ifllill eluttal I MlIK RV II H County Aa LUUI8IU Ul Ui Ui TIT - r V to n iibkfr Now Reslt m w sis w m a Congress Program Calls for Cutting: Immigration; Building. Roads Hawley Feels Country Pre fers to Pass by Income Tax cut now . WASHINGTON. Not. 26 (AP) A three way drive la con gress toward ! the solution or me unemployment . problem tool shape on Thanksgiving eye In proposals to further restrict im migration. Increase federal high way aid and to provide means for expediting the government build ing program. The suggestion the" country was willing to give up the one per cent income tax reduction this year to permit the government to use the money in giving Jobs on its work was made by Chairman Hawley of the house ways and "means committee. His commit tee originates all revenue raising legislation. At the same time, . Chairman Johnson of the .house immigra tion committee, proposed perman ent immigration restriction legis lation and predicted the United States would never "again permit the arrival of immigrants who would interfere .with economic conditions." : Prqposal Made to Match State Road Expenditures A plan to allow the federal government to match dollar for dollar all the funds spent before next July 1 by states for road con struction was drafted by Chair-, man Dowell of the house roads committee with a view to early action at the December session. While Dowell said the federal government could lend its great est Indirect relief of unemploy ment through the road program. Anpther relief measure, that of Rep. As well, democrat of Lou isiana, to provide a $60,000,000 seed andiertiilzar. loan fund for drought stricken farmers, is to be considered by the house agricul ture committee next week. Expressing doubt the lower taxes would be allowed for anoth er year. Hawley said the govern ment would make known its posi tion soon. . Hawley Dubious About Any Tax Increase Question as to the possibility of an increase in taxes', the Oregon member said he would "have to be shown clearly and strongly" that It was necesary before he would approve it. Asserting the remedy for thel economic depression and unem ployment rested with the people and not1 the federal government, Hawley said "it was a dangerous thing" for the government to in stitute a relief program that ul timately mighty become perman ent. - Hawley said he saw signs o: the country recovering from the econ omic depression, which he blam ed largely on a ''buyers' strike." - Turning to the tariff, Hawley, a co-author of the new act, said he saw ho necessity for making any chatfges, adding: "The tariff is fairly well ad justed to the circumstances in this country and should be given an opportunity to operate without in terruption." Most of the talk about retalia tory tariffs, he said, has been er roneous, adding that he believed it it had not been for the new act, business in this country would have been worse. Belgium Wants To Pay Back Big Loan to States BRUSSELS. Belgium, Nov. 2C (AP) A bill for issuance of a loan to repay the balance on the 330,000.000 loan floated in the Unite States in 1921 was ap proved by both houses of the Bel gian parliament today. The vote in the senate was S9 to 5 and in the lower house 97 to 2. There were 30) socialists ah sentlons In the senate and CC in the house. . The finance minister charac terized the 1921 loan yesterday as one of the most costly, which Belgium was obliged to negotiate after the war and asserted that the nation was anxious to pay it off as soon as the state of the public finances permitted. Gunfire Rages : In Lima, Peru; Heads Come Of f . I 7 ''-- ":',. ARICA, Chile, Not. 1 (AP) Private messages reaching the border from Lima tonight said .that grave trouble existed in the Peruvian capital with constant fighting In the streets and gun fire heard In parts of the city. The same information asserted that several persons had been ex ecuted by orders of the govern ment and that the government was holding Its own with diffi culty, it was understood- ft strict censorship was put into effect. ' Carefully Planned Case Presented by Propon ents of Agricultural Worker, Before ' Court; Factual Basis Followed . . Hearings before the county court on the ouestion of a county agent program for Marion county in 1931 closed yes terday noon after proponents of the measure had gone care- iuuy into ail major points raised by the objectors to the step on Monday. Without sarcasm, slander or ridicule a group of I self- characterized "serious, conscientious believers in the neces sity of an agent in the county" offered an array of facts to refute charges that an agent was "expensive, that he was a "smart-aleck" from the state college and that his work in CONVICTS BREAK RESULTS IN DEATH HUNTSVILLE. Tex.. Nov. 26. (AP) Two state eonvlcta were killed and two others wounded late today as they attempted to overpower guards and escape, They were returning to the state penitentiary here from a wood cutting camp. The two men kill ed were Wheeler McCulley, SO, from Tarrant county, and Tony Corona, 20, of Houston. Thorn Shook, former police chief at Electra, who is serving a 35-year sentence for murder, was seriously wounded In the stomach and Jimmy Tally, 30, from Wil barger county, also was wounded. F. O. Ross, a guard, was 'slightly younded in the leg. A gang of 27 convicts had been cutting wood during the day at a camp 10 miles west of Huntsvllle and were returning to the prison on a truck. When the truck was about eight miles from Huntsvllle, Corona suddenly jumped on Ross, who was riding on a fender, and McCulley attacked Leonard Os burn, guard, who was riding on the other fender. The four men fell to the ground and a trusty who was driving stopped the truck. McCully and Corona had knives. Tally jumped from the truck and joined McCul ley in - attacking Osburn. Shook aided Corona in, attacking Ross. Bud Barnes, guard, who was following the truck In another car, drove up. He Jumped from his car with a shotgun' and began firing at McCulley and Corona. Barnes ran around the truck and shot Shook, who was holding Ross nrlsoner. Some of the shot hstruak Ross In the leg. Ross took Barnes pistol and shot Corona and McCulley through the head, both men dying almost Instantly. Maybe Robbers , f Sought Funds To Buy Turkey SPRINGFIELD. 111., Nov. 20. (AP) Three banks were rob bed in small Illinois communities today, one of the exploits result ed in capture of four gunmen, an other in a haul of only $2,000 where $30,000 had been expect ed. While a lone robber obtained $1,000 in the third. Five men - held up the State Trust and Savings Bank at Kln cald, expecting to find the money for a mine payroll. Ordinarily the $80,000 In currency would have been on band, but the im pending holiday prompted dis bursement of the cash yesterday. At Marengo, the First National bank yielded $12,000. to a solo robber who herded five employ ees into a vault and escaped, The Rochester state bank was robbed of $2,800 by a quartet who, au thorities believe, -wis connected with the Kincaid holdup. HUTCHINSON, Kas., Not. 2$. (AP) Five robbers armed with machine guns held up the American National Bank today and escaped with at least $25,000 after slugging a bank employe and two customers. Steamer Kevin Reaches Port After Battle DOVER,1 England, Not. 27. (Thursday) (AP)-The coastal steamer Saint Kevin was towed into port early this- morning by the tug Lady Duneannon after the two had battled high seas from a point 1 hi miles off North Fore land. , --!-' - ' - - The Saint Kevin's engines broke down late yesterday and great ex citement was caused in shipping circles as the ship's wireless sent an S O S. At first It was believed the ves sel was Jammed on the rocks and that lives might be lost, but tne tng answered ; the 8 0S and brought . the -coastal boat here safely despite stormy weather In the Strait of Dover. BANDITS RAID AND KILL EL PASO, Tex.. Nor. Z (AP) Mexican . bandits raided the home of Roman Varajas, CO,-near here today and after sisying var ajas In tbe presence of his farcMr, looted the ranch house of $1500 in cash. is Gi ven, eht on other counties had not paid his budget cost. The matter of the agent now rests with the county court and the budget committee, the lat ter soon to be appointed by the court to determine with the court the 1931 expenditures for the county. If the desired appropriation for agent work goes into the budget, opponents will have op portunity to ask the court to strike the appropriation out when the budget is given a final hearing in December before the levy is made. If the court elects to make no provision for the agent, its backers can yet appear before the levying board and ask them to reconsider its action and to include the agent expenditure. Final Decision to Court Which is Levying Body . Final decision on the agent question is placed squarely be fore the county court which as the levying body is given sole authority to place the measure in the county's list . of expendi tures from year to year. John Ramage, president of the Woodburn Fruit Growers' asso ciation, led the rebuttal discus sion presented to the court, Ramage reminded the court that 3800 taxpayers represented in nine granges, three fruit grow ers' organizations,' 14 commun ity clubs, three chambers of com (Turn to page 2, col. 4 ) BANK BANDITS KILL MA ATHLETE EL RENO, Okla.. Nov. 28. (AP) Dee Foliart, assistant coach at the El Reno high school died late tonight of gunshot wounds received in the attempt ed robbery of the First National bank here today. EL RENO, Okla., Nov. 2 (AP) A bank robber and a bank customer were critically wound ed in an exchange of bullets dur ing an attempted holdup of the First National Bank here , today. George Lovett, 38, was shot through the chest In attempting to escape from the bank after J. M. Burge, assistant cashier, open ed fire on him. Dee Foliart, as sistant coach at El Reno high school, was struck In the chest by one of three bullets fired by Lov ett. ' ' ' ' Blizzard Gets Single Victim WINNIPEG, Man., Nov. 21. (AP) The mercury dropped to 14 below zero in Manitoba today as the first winter cold, sweep ing the wake of yesterday's bliz zard, claimed one life and dis rupted highway traffic. Ingrand Hurley, 23-year-old prospector, froze to death while walking from the Central Manitoba mines to Great Falls. 1 . " i 9 TUGS TO RESCUE ASTORIA, Ore, Nov. 2. (AP) The steam schooner Ed win Christenson grooaded at the month of the Colombia riv er aa she was attempting to ea ter tonight. The 1 amber schooner was not in any danger, reports received here said. Three tugs have gone to her aasUance and will attempt to free her at high tide .tomorrow morning. There was no fog; at the river month. ; j OLD WOUNDS POUND ? ' EUGENE, Ore., Not. tl. (AP) An -tnauest into the death of Ray Sutherland, f 7, who was kill ed by a posse near West Fir yes terday, will be held here tomor row. Coroner Banstetter announc ed today. ' - - - I. ' Physicians who performed an autopsy today said the top part of Sutherland's head had been shot away,' both hands had been hit and several ' bullets c had entered his body. Old wounds, believed to have been the result of previous bullet wounds, also were found.: - V FISHERMEN CRDSVED i ; ASTORIA, Ore, Nov. 20. - (AP Feeling ran high it n. saoeClag held by the Ughthonse serrice here today for the pur Matter Court QUO DEATH BITS T OF BETRAYERS Despite Sure Result, Eight Engineers Tell Details' In Dramatic Trial Entire Soviet Hears Story Over Radio; Other Na tions are Involved MOSCOW. Nov. 26 J API- One by one eight prominent Rus sian, engineers are throwing away their chances for life In a counter-revolutionary . drama which is the sensation of the communist world. While snow Is packed on the cold streets of the Red capital, while the radio blares forth the testimony to the far reaches of the soviet domain, while movie cameras grind and four Judges caimiy smoke cigarettes, these eight are confessing fully to the charges placed against them in indictments last month that they conspired with certain French and British interests for the overthrow of the communist regime. As the trial began yesterday. Professor Leonid Ramzln, accus ed as chief of the plotters, told full details of the scheme which was allowed to have involved for mer President Raymond Poin care and Foreign Minister Briand of France, the French and Brit ish general staffs, Polish and Roumanian soldiers and others and he asked 'no mercy although he repented. Testimony Given Frankly Not as one Repentant Just as frank today and equal ly repentent was Victor. Alexis Larichev, second in command. Like Ramzln, he 'told every thing." A third, Professor Ivan Kalin- ikov, also told his story today, which os substantially the same as that related by the other two and as told' when the indictments were made public last month. It was a widespread plot as the defendants described it, aimed to bring Intervention of France and England with the neighboring countries of Po land and Jugo Slavia: to sab-, otage soviet industries, there-, by slowing them down and raising the cost of production and otherwise spread discon tent among the soviet public so as to make the overthrow of the proletarian dictatorship easy. The principal blame, how ever, was laid on French offi cials and capitalists and the defendants even named by in itials Frenchmen connected with a "certain instruction" in Moscow. The French embassy is the only institution of that country in the Red capital. Daisy is Forced To Put up $1000 Bond on Counts LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 (AP) Daisy. De Boe, former sec retary to Clara Bow, screen star. was arraigned in superior court today on an indictment charging; 37 counts of grand theft from her employer. Superior Judge Walton J. Wood approved Miss De Boe's 1,000 bond and order ed her to return Monday for plea. The former secretary told the court her true name was De Boe, but tnat sne cnangea i m uv Voe to avoid confusion with that of the actress. GROUP Lumber Ship Grounds Inquest Over Sutherland River Beacon Fought Prune men end Meet pose of hearing arguments concerning- a beacon recently placed in the river near Slegler and Point Elllce. Cannery men and represen tatives of four thousand fisher men objects to the beacon on the abounds it was serious ob struction In choice gillnet fish ing grounds. The fishermen con tend the beacon Jeopardizes an Investment of more than 2, 000,000. The Knappton mills - and Captain P. Elfinjt, ferry op erator, urged retention of the : beacon. MARKET PLANS TALKED CORVALLIS, Ore., Nov. 2. (AP) The Oregon Prune Grow ers' three-day short course and conference ended here today. The conference drew a larger number of ' growers than have attended similar meetings In recent years. Marketing plans occupied the attention of the growers . today, a tares and disadvantages of co-ope ratirs marketing were dis cussed... . ;;.: .v.;;'rl,i-,;; . .. MUMPS HIT MEDFORD MKDFORD, Orew Nor. 26".- (AP) About 800 cases of mumps have been reported to . the city health officer. A num ber of pupils are out of sehooL Yum, Yum; Shout Hospital Kiddies . - - - - - - w-r, -"yv ,"-7 i .. -! .J v Norses at the state tuberculosis hospital are seen pre paring turkeys . nave oeea looking forward to FEEDSTOCK WHEAT ADVICE OF LEGEE Russia may Become Export er Soon; Smaller Market Sure to Follow WASHINGTON. Nov. 2f (AP) With many millions of bushels of America's wheat sur plus going into feed troughs. Chairman Lexee of the farm board believes now is the time for miller and stock feeders to buy. He estimated today that 200, 000 bushels of the surplus would be used this year for feeding at the present rate. Legge did not promise sn in crease in prices, but Sam R. Mc- Kelvie, member of the board, was more optimistic. The possibility Russia would return' to her pre-war position as a wneat exporter wumn live years, pernaps sooner was seen by Legge. He empnasized tnat Insofar as wheat was concerned, production in this country should be reduced to domestic needs. In response to Questions, he said that with Russia restored to her old position, dollar wheat at Liverpool would be Unusual,. but he emphasized that there was no need for a tower price than that in this country If production was held to domestic requirements. Two Airplanes Drop But All Escape Alive TELEGRAPH CREEK, B. C, Nov. 2 (AP) Two Pacific In ternational Airways airplanes of Vancouver, B. C, brought to Tel egraph Creek to be used in the search for the lost aviators in the wilds of northern British Colum bia, were wrecked, today while making preparations for a take off. On a one-mile flight to the fro zen sawmill Kae where better take off facilities prevailed, the two planes were wrecked on land ing. One developed motor trouble and ran Into a tree and the other struck a soft spot in the ice and was partly sunk. No lives were lost but Pilots Harry Blunt and W, J. Barrow had narrow escapes. Chilean Police In Giant Graft Frameup in Vice - NEW YORK. Nov. 2. (AP) rA young Chilean who came to the United States eleven years ago with 13,000 to seek his for tune, and became a police in former, testified today in an in quiry into magistrate's courts that he and police trumped up vice charges against dozens of innocent women. , Mustacbed and smartly dressed. "Chile" Acuna testify ing, gave the history of forty cases in which he said he con nived with police officers to trap women and "shake them down" for bonda and lawyer's fees. " He showed an amazing mem ory for names, dates, occurrenc es many of which were corro borated by records. Huge Shark is Caught; Weighs More Than Ton REDONDO " BEACH, - Calif., Nor. Ii-(AP) A man eating shark, very rare in southern Cal ifornia waters, was caught in Santa Monica hay today. The fish was "22 feet' long and weighed more than: a ton. - John Skeekats,' manager of an off-shore fishing barge, saw the shark while enroute to his boat this morning. Y He ' and ' several others set out to catch the fish in a small boat and after several hours harpooned . it. Veteran fishermen said the shark was the first of its species they ever had seen this far north. - V -T $ .- F - j r for weeks. Scorpion Cocktail Or Gila Monster; Like 'Em on Menu? STOVEPIPE WELLS, Death Valley, Cal., Not. 26. (AP) -Death Valley will have its appropriate rough and tough Thanksgiving day dinner so the desert "rata," nickname of grizzled pros pectors, won't be lonesome. Here's the menu: Scorpion cocktail, pickled creosote buds, chuckawalla steak, gila monster a In king, braised burro tongue, mesquite beans, greasewood greens, fishhook cactus sal ad with sulphur dressing, desert holly pudding, sand dune tarts, borax sherbert, arsenic spring water tea. The chef at Death Val ley's only hotel, here on the rim of the burning sinkhole, explained today the giant desert lizard named Chucka walla is considered a dell racy by the Indians. Its flesh being white and tender like a chicken, the chuckawalla is given the place of honor on the holiday dinner. Dandy Menu At Hospital Feast Today Who can enjoy Thanksgiving at the hospital? Folks who have spent a holiday in a general hos pital are usually of the opinion that no convalescent can do Jus tice to a Thanksgiving dinner. However, at the state tubercu losis hospital, the Thanksgiving turkey is anticipated with much eagerness. I At this institution, where ap petites are on the mend, one's food becomes a most important item; and when a patient is spending 24 hours in the open air, the" aroma of roast turkey becomes especially appealing. Doctor O. C. Bellenger, super intendent, and his staff have worked hard to make the Thanksgiving feast all that any one can wish for, and the board of control has furnished sup plies of the best quality. . The cooks take pride in making each Thanksgiving one to be remem bered by every patient. As for the children well, there are over SO lively, happy youngsters at the tuberculosis hospital, and their enthusiasm for Thanksgiving is, as genuine and healthy as may be found anywhere. The following menu, prepared by Miss H. Had wen, matron, easily explains why the hospital patients enjoy their Thanks giving: Fruit cocktail, celery, pickles. roast turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, buttered cauli flower, cranberry sauce, coffee, milk, bread and - butter, and for dessert, pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Colorado Death Toll in Storms Mounts to Three DENVER, Not. 6--(AP) The severity of last week's bliz zard in the west was emphasized again today by discovery of the bodies . of three more storm vic tims and by the death In a hospit al of a man found in a snow bank. The additional deaths in creased , the number of winter's victims to 24. - - if - ' . - Sack Gives up - Bones, 2 Bodies EARL GREY. Sask., Nor. 2. (AP) For days workmen on a . bluff near here had seen a lumpy sack . lying by the road side but never bothered to in vestigate. A curious farmer open ed it today and found the bones of two human bodies. . . A physi cian said he believed - they had been in the bag for at .least three years. , , i( m ' ; t t-..:-lrs I I X -' . j I if f for the big feast, all the patients EARLY THIS fffifl Thanksgiving Quiet White House; Son's Illness Grieves Family WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (AP) Herbert Hoover had arranged tonight for the traditionally quiet Thanksgiving of the presidents, an example that the rest of the capi tal seemed likely to follow. The weather forecast was for clear and cold and if there was less money in circulation than a year ago turkeys were cheaper. The president will attend serv ices tomorrow morning at Central Presbyterian church. Wood row Wilson laid tbe cornerstone of the red brick structure in 1913 and Thanksgiving mornings usually found him in his pew a few spices from the front in the center row. A tablet, unveiled by Calvin Coolidge in 1925, marks the pew. Mrs. Hoover and their son, Al lan, will attend the. services with Mr. Hoover, as will Edgar Rlck ard of New York; Mrs. Rlckard, and their young daughter Peggy, who made her debut only recently. Hoover to Iiy Cornerstone President Hoover will lay the cornerstone for a new Sunday school building for the church. Turkey will be awaiting the party on its return to the White House. Several turkeys have been re ceived but the one that will He on the silver platter on the presi dent's table is a White House se cret. The others will not go to waste but will be distributed among the members of the White House staff and attendants. There will be a somber note to the president's thanksgiving, how ever. Herbert Hoover, Jr., is ill at Ashvllle, N. C, with incipient tuberculosis andhe will be alone. His wife Is in California, where she went to bring their three children to the White House. , Judges Held to Have Right Seek Mponey Reprieve SAN FRANCISCO, Nor. 2f (AP) Chief Justice William H. Waste of the state supreme court said today it was "within the power and discretion" of Justices to "recommend to Gov. C. C. Young that- Warren K. Bffllngs, convicted of complicity in the 1916 preparedness day "parade bombing here, be given a reprieve from his life sentence. Justices, acting as an advisory body for Governor,' Young and who will forward their recommen dation to tbe state. ezecntve Mon day or Tuesday, may also recom mend Billings be granted a par-; don or refuse the recommenda tion. ; ! Steiwer Asks H 1 CHURCH Probe Russian Situation WASHINGTON,. Nov. 21. (AP)-i-A treasury Investigation to determine the "extent of the use of convict labor" by Russia In . lumber production was re quested today by Senator Stei wer, republican, Oregon, with a view to applying the tariff provi sions against Importation of that commodity. The senator, in a letter to Sec retary Mellon, noted the regula tions promulgated by the treas ury this week requiring Import ers and shippers to show impor tations are not produced by con vict labor, and said they would be a "great protection to Amer ican industry" if the law la en forced properly. . " Convict Use In Tjumber Production. Vital Question -"The ' treasury decision refer red to." the letter said, "is par ticularly useful at this moment in connection with the importation of convict-produced lumber and timber products from Russia. I write to request that investiga tion be made at eace for the pur pose of determining the extent of THANKSGIVING SPIRIT RULES SALEM TODAY Union Church Gatherings &t 10:30 o'clock Will be f Bigaest Feature State Institutions Joining With Rest of City in Observance j , Today all over the land folks, from, child to grandfather, pause In the midst of turmoil and toil to pay thanks, consciously or otherwise, to the omnipotence that has . given mercies, of the past year. Nor perhaps do all the people of 1930 stop to take heed that indirectly they are paying tri bute to those long-ago Pilgrim fathers who struggled witb pa tience and courage to build the beginnings of this country. Those sturdy folk held the flrt Thanksgiving feast. And still the custom continues. In few -other places will true spirit of Thanksgiving be better observed than in Jhe churches of the city, and in order that all may worship at convenient plac es, the city has been divided inte five districts. In each a churrk set aside for union Thanksgiv ing services. Places of Service Are Announced ( At the South Salem Friends church, where people of the south end will congregate this morning. Rev. W. Earl Cochran of the Calvary Baptist church will speak. Rev. B. Earle Par ker of the First Methodist church will bring the message to the east side v of the 'district, where services will be held at the Knight Memorial . church. Rev. D. J. Howe, of the First Christian church, will preach at the Ford Memorial church in West Salem. In the north end, services will be held at tbe Jason Lee church, with Prof. J. T. Matthews of Willamette the speaker. Follns living near the center of town will worship at the First Con gregational church. Rev. Grover C. Blrtchet of the First Prenby terlan church in the pulpit. Special Music At all Churches All these services will be held at 10:30 o'clock this morning, (Turn to page 10, col. 4) . BOYLE CONFESSES AT WIFE'S BEHEST SAN FRANCISCO. Nor. 2 .,. (AP) His wife's pleas were re- sponsible for Thomas Boyle, San Francisco bookkeeper, telling of his part In the attempted bomb ing of Spokane newspaper build ings, police said tonight. Simultaneously with this rev elation, John L. Farley of Ta coma, friend of Boyle, arrived In- San Francisco in custody of Tacoma and Spokane police. Far ley, who told Pacific northwest police be frustrated the bomb at tempt, was closeted with Captain of Detectives Charles W. Dullea. Meanwhile Spokane and San Francisco authorities disagreed over which city Henry Use, held as originator of the plot, should prosecute him. Officers said when Mrs. Boyle learned of her husband's con nection with the plot to bomb the Spokesman-Review and the Spokane - Chronicle she begged her husband to tell all he knew. But tor her plea, police said, Boyle might not have surren dered and told of being hired by Use to. ship the bomb to the As sociated Press in Spokane. Mrs. Boyle is 22 years old and an ex pectant mother. . Mellon to the use of convict labor in the manufacture of timber products in the area referred to. Steiwer said It was his under standing the treasury already has Information clearly establishing that convict labor Is used very generally In production of tim ber products throughout Russia and added be believed "no tim ber Is exported from the area that la not tainted (directly or in directly with convict labor." Amplifying his letter, Steiwer said Russia planned to invade the American lumber market after she had "saturated" the British market. Tier present plans called for "dumping" two billion board feet on the British market next year, he said, adding that half of this amount . was enough te "break the American market. Steiwer Is drafting a bill to hamend the tariff act to make ef fective-by next March the provi sions barring importations of goods produced by forced or in dentured labor. Tbe law as it stands would not make this see- -tlon operative until January t, ' 19S2. , . r , i i . . . ".