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PAGE TWO 'The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, November 25, 1938 Air Traffic in East Suspends Snow Covers Many States, Far South as Alabama; . . West Coast Normal (Continued from page 1) to- cancel plans to attend Thanks giving day services. 4 Near zero temperatures gripped central New York -with the cold est Thanksgiving In years: The town of Owls Head, known as the Ice box" of the state, lived up to Its reputation with a tempera ture of eight below. Rochester reported a four-inch snowfall as a temperature ot six abore sero iced streets and highways. Cold winds and snow swept over Pennsylvania and parts of New England. In the mid-west, clear skies pre vailed in Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, ' Missouri, - Indiana and Nebraska, with forecasts generally Indicating rising temperatures and snow. Ohio was covered with snow. arroer Weather v Comes to Kockies At Leadville, Colo., two miles above sea level, the thermometer touched 10 below, while in Mon tana, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah, the cold wave that hovered wound zero or below for three days was banished by warmer weather. A strong wind and heavy tide brought the Socony-Vacuum oil tanker Rochester into ' collision rl1i n Vni.1afa f lialfffitA Ivan Topic off Staten island, in New York harbor. The freighter report ed seven plates tracked In the hull, but neither vessel asked for aid. Sunny weather was doing busi ness as usual in California. Coast states reported no un .iii i ii' i usual conditions uiiuuugu neu . nesday night saw temperatures around freezing in interior val leys and highlands. It was sum mery on the coast with tos An geles weather normal. Pupil Blackshirt Revolution9 Eyed i (Continued from tage I) Morris' announcement followed disclosure leaders of the CC (Cir octty club) kept rendezvous in the country for pistol and rifle practice and have been investi gated for carrying concealed weap ons. ' High school officials, who al ready had conducted their own Inquiry, announced they found state laws provided Inadequate penalties , for persons "contribut ing to Juvenile delinquency" and had given the matter publicity in an effort to Influence parental ac tion . against the blackshlrted. anti-religious .and semi-military-organization. Meanwhile the society's 19-year-old "commisar," Milton Wal ter, lost his earlier defiance based oa t "the right of assembly and free speech. r"Thlrty-three of us cculd hardly-effect a bloodless revolution," Walser told newspapermen. "Only 17. members have the regulation uniforms (brack shirts, trousers and boots). These are traded around among the members, nine of . whom are girls. Girls like that aort of thing, you know." Walser and his "assistant com misar," 18-year-old Manford Ish mael, earlier had maintained the C?C violated no laws "but we hope for a bloodless revolution to estab lish a new economic system." Girls Kidnaped by Bandits, Reported CENTRALIA. Nov. 2i.-(py-Ot-ficers of southwest Washington counties combed the highways to night for three men reported to have forced" two girls to accom pany them In an attempted holdup of service station outside this city. One girt was believed to be for cibly held by the trio. The other escaped. Karnes of both girls were being withheld tonight. Police said the girls were picked up by the three men on a Centra lis street early this evening. When the car drove Into the service sta tion one of the girls leaped from the1 car, calling to the attendant that one of the occupants had a gun. ' The automobile dashed from the station driveway with the oth er girl still a prisoner. Sleepy Passenger Pulls Train Apart . Trying to Stop It WICKFORD JUNCTION. ILL Nov. 24-P)-The 11 -car stream lined gilt edge express. New York Boston flyer of the New Haven railroad, was pulled apart tonight b a sleepy passenger. Thinking the fast-moving train had reached Providence, his des tination, and was not going to stop, the passenger pulled the conductor's emergency valve. The train Jerked to a standstill and a ' coupling was broken. Nine of the ears proceeded to Providence, arriving an hour and five minutes late. Four - persona eating a late Thanksgiving dinner In the dining car and passengers in- the last coach were taken to - Providence about, an hour later by a special engine.- t Pedestrian Killed H HOQUIAM.S Not. I IWJV-Mra. Fred Alspaugh, about 40,. was fa tally injured today when the was struck while walking along the uinault Lake highway by an an ftomobile operated, by Mrs. Floyd Seal Designer rVv-::: Si r Lloyd Coo, teacher of color theory and applied art. Is putting the finish ing touches to the 193S Christmas Seal, on tale throughout the coun try from Thanksgirlng to Christmas. Hutchinson Hits Material Thought Speaker Says Few Things Are Really Ours at Union Services Those persons to whom Thanks giving day merely means a foot ball game and a big feed are suf fering frcm that gangrine of the soul-ingratitude, Rev. Robert A. Hutchinson, pastor of the First Congregational church, told an sudience which packed the new Calvary Baptist church yesterday morning for the union worship sponsored by the Ministerial as sociation. His theme was "Look Behind the Loaf." "We take things very much for granted and in a rather common and vulgar manner label them ours without serious thought, but if you will take an inventory of the things that are really yours, you can pile all the things you have a right to call .your own in a telephone booth and still have 99 per cent of the space left," Rev. Hutchinson said in pointing out that no man today can cut him self off from the rest of the world and live a full, abundant life. Thinking in national terms, he declared th freedom that is this country's today may be traced to the Pilgrims and their votion and held that "if the refugees of 1938 could read the story of the first Thanksgiving they might take heart and thank God." He touched upon the Hitler re gime and read with feeling a let ter written 19 days ago from a Czech who can't enter Germany because of Jewish blood and can't have work in Sudeten because of the Hitler edict, to point home 'how fortunate we under the Am erican flag are that we can eat our loaf of bread, with none to make us afraid." Assisting on the program were Rev. A. Q. Weniger of Calvary Baptist church; Rev. Dean. Poin dexter. Leslie Methodist: Rev. B. Campbell, First Evangelical: Rev. Guy Drill, First Christian: the Calvary Baptist choir directed by E. D. Lindburg; and four mem ben of the Cleveland, Ohio, col ored quintet- Eddie Cantor Has Sav on Dictators (Continued from page 1) With Mrs. Roosevelt at his side and radio chains carrying his brief talk across the country, the chief executive traced a 12-year growth of the health resort he founded here and added: "Last year we took a further step by establishing the national foundation for Infantile paralysis; and after January 30, 1939 (the president's 67th birthday), we hope to have permanent chapters of this national foundation in all of the more than 3000 counties that make np the United States. Convicts Pay for Own Turkey Feed WALLA WALLA, Nov. 2A.-UP) -A big crowd sat around big ta bles and ate a big meal at the state prison here today. The 1625 inmates consumed turkey and cranberries, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, fruits and other "delicacies not accorded them every day in the week. There was no program. Expense of the special "spread was borne by prisoners them selves from their amusement fund, Season s Failure; Four Teams Tied OKANOGAN, Wash., Nov. 24- OtPV-The Okanogan county high school football league ended today in a tour-w: y tie for first place. Omar defeated Okanogan, 9 to 7, and Orovllle won from Tonas- ket, 14 to 7. The losses tied each of the four teams playing with two losses apiece for the season. Wheat Mill feed Demand Buoyed by Light Supply PORTLAND, Not. 24-ftfV-Th wheat mill feeds market buoyed during the week ending yesterday as rseult of a strong local demand and comparatively light offerings. Tidewater mills Quoted standard millrua for water shipment at $1S.SA-17.0 per too, FAS. . Hayden Eames Dies CLEVELAND, Not. H.-ifP-Hayden Eames, 74, industrialist, and a former officer In both the United States army and navy, died Fire Control Not Complete Ranch Worker Arrested; Damage May Exceed Three Millions (Continued from page 1), ' More than 2000 smoke be grimed' men, weary after nearly 3 c hours of fighting in the Santa Monica sector, tightened their belts for a final effort as all but one brush fire was brought un der control. The Will Rogers ranch was saved but fire still roared out of control eight miles away. A blaze which for a time threatened the Fern wood area, where 2000 per sons live, was held to little dam age. From one front after another, howeer, came reports that the flames had been checked. Seventy eight fire fighters were treated for burns "If the men hold out physically, well wipe the fires out tonight, said R. J. Scott, chief ot the Los Angeles fire department. A dozen fires were battled in Ventura county during the past 6 Aours. one burning over 1,000 acres, and in Santa Barbara county brush fires destroyed a home and a highway bridge. San Diego county fought three brush fires, Eight hundred men were kept at work when a rising wind ,7 "U6"V- oL" l"?BLl". l.ur line and' Pinecrest mountain re sorts near San Bernardino. Held in the county jail was Da vid E. Trewitt, ranch worker, who, :tor N o r r 1 a g!1 bneriri 8 Inspector N o r r 1 a G Stensland r e p o starting the fire ica mountains. Trewitt was booked for suspicion of arson Stensland said he admitted dumninz ashes mitsirla h! tn.nking they were cold. The em- bers quickly set fire to the dry brush, and Trewitt was arrested as he fought the flames. 4djective Coined In Political Row Talmadge Tneciable' Say g Ickes; Has to Do With "Constant Fever" ATLANTA. Not. 24-f-iPl-The old name-calling feud between former Governor Eurene Tal madge. administration critic, and !?h7Qt ,CkPPed baCk lnt uisttbuo iuuuj . It started with a snarl in PWA allocations for Georgia. The PWA administrstnr r. ferred to the Georgian as "the eneciable Mr. Talmadge" ex- Dlainine the adleetive w Ms own idea derived from the Greek noun, "enecia." which means - constant fever." Mr. Ickes throwing away money will give any taxpayer a constant fever" retorted Tal- madge. A Griffin, Ga., editor, Quimby Melton of the Griffin News, took cognizance of the word in his column, "Good Evening," to de- scribe the cabinet member as a . Muscuioue. iue aitiumary Bays,. uieaua iiera.iy one wiiqoui u'cclu.". ,au.u .,e.ierf lo inose wno Qiscaraea ineir Dreecnes in the French revolution as "extreme radical republicans, violent re - volutionists, Jacobins. Value of English Teaching Queried ST. LOUIS. Nov. 24-i!P)-The skids may soon be put under Eng lish as a formal classroom subject. Marquis E. Shattuck of Detroit, president of the National Council of Teachers of English, told the opening session of the orgahlza- tion's annual convention today mac experiments are now Ming . . . T carried on to test the worth of teaching English in relation to the everyday life of the pupils. "These experimental classes seek to teach English in a crea- tlve manner by allowing the stu - dents to do their work in connec - tion with research in fields which particularly interest them," he said. Thus English becomes, not formal classroom subject but creative tool." Second of Bolton Brothers Is Slain CHICAGO. Nov. 24,-ipV-Joseph "Red" Bolton, prohibition beer runner and former convict, was slain near his home tonight by unidentified assailants. Bolton was shot to death. lie was the brother of State Representative John M. Bolton who was killed by gangsters in July, 1936. Another brother, Wil liam Bolton, was formerly a mem ber ot the state boxing commis sion. Vegetarians True Even Turkey Day NEW YORK, Not. 24.-avrhe Vegetarian society, With diners present from a number ot sur rounding states, ate a meatless Thanksgiving dinner today. , The " main, dish - was nut roast with Taxied steamed vegetables; vegetable salad, apple padding. pumpkin pie and fig coffee and honey, v COLDS, - Fever and XJaoJO. TaBlets Salve,. Kom Draps Headaches to CoUs try Eak-Hy-TiMa" Wo&anfal dd itics in the News MURFREESBORO, Tenn.. Not. 24.-6!P)-The Murfreesboro Daily News Journal made this front page plea to motorist readers for Thanksgiving day: "The editorial staff would greatly appreciate it if all citizens planning to take a few quick snorts of firewater before getting into the car to drive to grandma's or the football game, would first stop by the office and leave a few notes on their obituaries. 'This thoughtfulness will do away with the necessity of our having to chase around hospitals and undertaking establishments Thanksgiving night trying to find out who you were before you tried to turn two curves where there was only one." SILVER CREEK, X. Y., Not. 2i.-j2P) The rabbit-skin hunt ing cap worn by Thomas Ellis proved too realistic a target for nimrod companion today. Kills was critically wounded in the head when his step brother, Carl Kennedy, fired his rifle at close range as the two hunted on the Cattaraugus In dian reservation. Coroner George E. Blood, who absolved Kennedy, quoted him as saving he mistook the cap for a rabbit. NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-UFHA11 the Home Thrift association asked cf 1,000 needy men, women and children today was that they bring their own knives and forks. TllPV AiA mnlrlncr frran t Inrn.ila " eventually annihilating com pletely a Thanksgiving dinner of turkey with the usual trimmings. r - l 1 C ! Status Still Quo riCKetS JOke About lurk Fast With Policemen, no Incidents Occur CHICAGO, Nov. 24.-;P)-A hol iday quiet virtually undisturbed by a handlers' strike which caused suspension of trading lay over the Chicago stockyards to day. the striking CIO stock handlers uuiuu irampea uacK. ana iorin alongside acres of nearly empty pens and runways. Most of the animals in pens were entries for the International Livestock Ex position, opening Saturday. Pickets joked about Thanksgiv ing day turkey dinners with 50 Uay on "stand by" duty and re- ported no "incidents." Both the union and the union siocicyaras ana transit company, employers of the strikers, appar- enuy awauea a meaiauon conier- ence scneauiea ior baturaay morn- Ing- No Change Observed Rnhfirt Mvthen. n federal rnn. dilator, said the situation was in "status quo," and that he ex Dected it to remain so until the I Saturday meeting. He said some negotiators invited to the parley were out of the city, otherwise the conference might have been ar ranged for tomorrow. vnrmniiv tha pho ti Qatnr. I V . A J A tlUUj Mill klU& day after the Thanksgiving holl- daT aPe Q1liet In the vards. Handlers quit work Monday, the strike quickly bringing com n1etA Btisnensinn nf nnen trains- I in th wnrM' iar Hvev lmirv.t gpokesmen for the company said it could not agree to union demands for a written contract, closed shop and the checkoff, but that differences over paid vaca tions, overtime pay and a 40-hour week might be composed. Prince of Saxony Victim of Grippe DRESDEN, Germany, Not. It: I -JPi Prince Johann George of t ' . .. saxony, brother of tne last Saxon I king, the late Friederlch August ill, died Wednesday night while ( visiting his brother-in-law, Duke I Albrecht Ton Wuerttemberg. The prince, who was years lold, had been 111 with, a heavy 1 attack of grippe. I During the World war he was active in the Red Cross and in effecting exchanges of prisoners. a I A stndent of history and early a Christianity, he was the author of several books. 47ft mil f.t -Mi ti 0 Building Boom Now Forecast Much Capital Being Placed in Construction Says Utility Official NEW YORK. Nov. 25-()-The United States in 1939 and 1940 may hate the best residential bnilding years since 1929 in the opinion of a number ot execu tives in manufacturing Industries interested in building construc tion. A utility executive, who had just collected estimates of planned residential construction in this and a number of other leading cities compiled by local power service companies for their own expansion planning, predicted to day that it was even possible that the 1929 figure would be sur passed and would reach back to all-time records of. the mid-twenties. A heavy Industry manufacturer who depends for a major part of his expansion on new building prospects said that private capital was now entering the residential building field in "great amount" for the first time since the de pression began. ' Moreover, he said, some "fugi tive" British and Amsterdam cap ital is being put, also In big sums, into new privately financed large scale housing developments. Plans for three gTeat developments sup ported by this capital In the met ropolitan district of New York alone have already passed from the planning to the bidding stage, he said. A number of the largest insur ance and other institutions in the country are also preparing plans to break their Investment log jam by way of housing developments, he said, taking advantage of re cent unloosening of legal restric tions in this and other states. Guerrilla Battle Is Facing Crisis Shantung Scene of Heavy Fighting; Japanese Claim Cleanup PEIPING, Nov. 24 -()- The Japanese army reported today that operations against guerrilas throughout north China had come to a head with a series of battles in several provinces. The heaviest engagement was said to have been in Shantung province, where Japanese report ed 3500 Chinese were trapped near Chenchiakou. Most of them were killed when they tried to escape. Near Tungchang, 1000 guerril las were reported killed in an all night battle. Another 2000 were said to have been killed at Hsu- chien, in northern Klangsu prov ince. (In south China, warfare came within 20 miles of the British crown colony of Hongkong when Japanese opened a pincer drive to wipe out Chinese east of Canton. On the central front, Japanese driving south along the Canton Hankow railway were reported to have been stopped.) Marlene Dietrich Back in America NEW YORK. Nov. 24.--Marlene Dietrich, movie actress, returned on the French liner Nor- lor MSM. IRRITATION Am io CoUt. WHEN your nostrils be come red, irritated, and stuffy because you have a head cold, just insert a little Menthol&tum In them. Note how quickly it soothes the irritated membranes and relieves the stufltness.lt will also check sneezing. Once yoa enjoy Mentholatum's comforting relief, youll always want to keep this gentle ointment bandy. u1l thrill to the startling panorama that fwsept below you at the Mark Hopkins. The World's Fair, tha bridgts, the harbor . . Haw horizons for adventure. And in this gay est of hotels, the perfect close-up of good living. Reservations always advisable. Shops and theaters 4 minutes away. I Garage In building. Rates from $5 per day. mandie today after a six-months' absence abroad to complete a pic ture on the west coast , and re ceive final papers granting her American citixenship. - - . She filed papers nearly fire years ago and said she, expected to become a citizen in March. Insurgent Gains Claimed in Spain Complete Victory on West Bank of Segre Gted; Barcelona Bombed HENDAYE, France (At the Spanish Frontier), Nov. 24.-)-Crushing of the Spanish govern ment's salient on the west bank of the Segre river was reported today in insurgent advices. Insurgent dispatches said Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco's fighters had scored a complete victory. The sector lies in north east Spain about 30 miles north west of the Ebro river battlefront which the insurgents cleaned up November 17. Operations in the Segre zone were reported to have thrown back the government troops to positions they held before under taking their offensive which was launched during the Ebro river fighting. As the military campaign came to a climax there, government dis patches said 51 persons were killed and 153 wounded by in surgent bomber attacks on Barce lona in the last two days. Father, Son Visit Same Hospital as Bones Are Broken MORGANFIELD, Ky., Nov. 24. -(P)-Jack Luckett broke his col lar bone in the first high schodl football game of the season here. It mended and today he got into the "big game" with Sturgis, the last game of the season. And broke his collar bone again. On the way to the hospital. Jack's father, J. H. Luckett, started to slam shut the ambu lance door. The wind caught It and yanked the elder Luckett out onto the highway, breaking his arm and cutting his scalp. Father and sous were treated at a hospital and this Thanksgiving night they came home together in the ambulance. Christma Box of Imprinted With Think of it! A box of 21 high grade assorted cards with your name imprinted for only $1.00, But the supply is very limited so we Buggest ordering without delay. ORDER NOW! Only a Limited Number of Boxes at This Price ENGRAVED and PRINTED CARDS A good assortment of extra qual ity Christinas Greeting Cards are now ready for your selection. Order now, well hold them until . you're ready to mail them. Statesman Publishing Co. 215 South Commercial Street Franco-British Pact Affirmed Plight of Jews Scanned in House of Commons; Africa Discussed -(Continued from page 1) oratorv both for and against Chamberlain's policies. Laborite Herbert Morrison ai (svait in the house , of commons what he called Britain's indecision on the question of Jews. He warned that any departure from the 1917 Bairour declaration promising Jews a national home in PoUctino mtirht be "nreiudic- ial" to Anglo-American relations. Says Government Will Keep Pledge Earl Winterton, a memDer oi the cabinet, replied by saying the government would stand by the declaration, v British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, speaking at Cam bridge, said Britain must cling to the aim of Anglo-German peace despite the "setback" caused by Germany's treatment ot Jews. In the next breath be appar ently further closed the doors to the return of Germany's former African colonies by hinting at a broad scheme of self-government for Africans and declared Britain must resist any attempt to "im pose Europe on Africa." Dispatches from Chinese-Japanese said the Chinese campaign had the invaders stalemated in central China and losing ground in the south around Canton. From Spain's civil war came re ports of a crushing mow Dy in surgents against government lines on the Segre river in northeast Spain. Purchase of Land In Palestine Plan NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-(p)-Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish national fund,' a Zionist land) purchasing agency, an nounced today 'on his arrival from London that the fund was pre pared to f nrnish German Jewish refugees enough land in Palestine for immediate settlement of 25, 000 families. At the same time, the American Special Sale s 21 Cards Your Name Jewish congress and representa tives of New York Jewry moved to summon a national conference of all Jewish organizations to con sider the refugee question and or ganize a boycott of German pro ducts. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish congress, protested against the plan pro posed by William Kaadoipn Hearst, publisher, to settle Jew ish refugees in South Africa, and urged more generous treatment of refugees by Great Britain. Windup of Kidnap Trial Draws Near Closing Arguments to Be Presented Today in Case at Olympia OLYMPIA, Not. 24.-)-Su perior Judge John M. Wilson spent Thanksgiving day preparing jury instructions while prosecu tion and defense attorneys an alyzed the evidence preparatory to closing arguments tomorrow in the state capital's "torture kid naping case." Prosecutor Smith Tray said the state will ask leniency for Robert H. Smith, a Brady, Wash., dairy man ; but will mate no recom mendations, for nor against the death penalty, for Dr. Kent W. Berry, 60; James Reddick, taxi driver, and William McAloon, former night marshal at Monte sano, who are charged with ab ducting and assaulting Irving Baker, retired coast guard offi cer, here last August 19. No Jury in Washington has in voked the death penalty hang ingfor first degree kidnaping since the state made that the pos sible maximum penalty under its "Lindbergh law." Berry's defense was that Mrs. Berry, 27, told him Baker forci bly violated her during a Fourth of July house party at Mud bay, during the doctor's absence. Baker denied any illicit relations with the doctor's wife, and testified she proposed they obtain divorces and wed and that he rejected her plan. Baker is married and has two children. Lindy Inspects Planes PARIS, Not. 24. - (Jp) - C o 1. Charles A. 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