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PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, December 7, 193 Appeal to FDR Made by Jews Last Jewish Newspaper in ..Berlin Asks Refuge for 100,000 ; BERLIN. Dee. .-(P)-An aP peal to President Roosevelt to help hard-pressed German Jews "by offering: 100,000 of them tem porary refnge In the United State was published today by the Jue diaches Nachrichtenblatt, only re maining Jewish organ. Simultaneously several German newspapers assured their readers that an anti-Jewish campaign In Rumania had only jnst started, that the anti-semi tic Iron Guard organization there ' was stronger than ever and that Cornelia Ze leat Codreana, Iron Guard leader who was shot dead by Rumanian guards Nov. 30 would be aven ged. ! ' Other developments Included: Propaganda Minister Paul Jo seph Goebbels' newspaper De An griff published the caption "Ugly Jews" with a picture of Magda Lupesca, close friend of King Car ol of Rumania, and her father. Only 13 days ago Carol was the honored guest of Adolf Hitler. United States consular officials said they hoped to obtain a clari fication by tomorrow of the effect vn new antl-Jewlsh ; restriction would hare on American Jews holding property in Germany. The decree of the economics ministry forbade Jews to sell or pawn val uables without a government per mit. The newspaper Deutsche Alle gemeine Zeitung estimated at 13,080,000,000 the total of Jew ish wealth which "must be moved" under an order . authorizing nail officials to liquidate Jews' prop erty. The American chamber of commerce " expressed belie? few Americans ' could be involved be cause American Jews have been leaving Germany as rapidly as possible. United States consular officials sought an official inter pretation of the order, but ob tained no definite Information. Pair Held on Mutiny Charge in Los Angeles Garner Boosted By Texan Croup DETROIT, Texas. Dec. C-(SV Texans opposed a third term for President Roosevelt boosted Vice Presided John Garner for the democratic presidential nomina tion in 1940 today and heard him boomed as "a liberal demo crat practicing liberalism many years before some of the most vocal present day sponsors of liberalism were born." Old cronies who knew Garuer when he played shortstop on the Possum Trot baseball ; team join ed " democrats from all parts of .Texas to organize the first of ficial "Garner for president in 1940" club. ;Roy Miller of Corpus Christ!, for many years a close friend of. the vice president, and a state -democratic leader, lauded Garner for his belief in a "pay-as-you-go system" and called him a liberal "without tinge or taint of radic alism." J Industrial Heads 1 - : . . Gather at Parley J TEW YORK, Dee. .-aVEx ecutives representing! America's SO, 009 biggest Industrial corpor ations gathered today for the largest attendance recorded for an annual convention of the Na tional Association of Manufactur ers "the congress, of American . Industry. Reservations for the dinner Friday night at which Anthony Eden, former British j foreign af fairs minister, will be the chief peaer. tonight broke all records for dinner attendance at the Ho tel Waldorf Astoria, with more than 4, 100 reservations and more pouring in. - s MM .ii ' -' "'atflHf, t' :,v1ro- . .X. i mmttnmma, Accused of mutiny on the high seas, Charles Segal (left) and Abraham KapeHner were recently re leased on 91,000 bail after they bad arrived in Los Angeles aboard an Italian steamer. Segal and KapeHner were 'aboard the schooner ' Metha Nelson," which was disabled daring a projected cruise to the South Seas. Crew members accused Captain R. B. Hoffman, master of the schooner, of mak ing them "victims of his anti-Semitism." Also aboard was the Countess Dorothy Di Frasso. Segal and Kape liner left the schooner at Panama and returned by steamer to Los Angeles. (IIX). Operation Made On Rough Ocean Missionary Doctor Aids Ship Surgeon in Hard Appendectomy BOSTON, Dec. An emer gency appendectomy, performed far at sea by a ship's surgeon and a missionary doctor as they teet ered on a rolling deck, was dis closed tonight when the liner Cal edonia completed the stormiest transatlantic crossing in the memory of ner officers. V with: the vessel s engines slow ed down and her bow headed into the whistling wind, Josephine Mc Nally, 8, of Waterbury, Conn., was operated upon last Friday. Dr. Howard L. Elliot, of Mon treal, returning from his post at the Canadian Baptist missionary hospital In Pithapuram, India, and Dr. Alsjnder B. Burns, the ship's surgeon, performed the ap pendectomy during a lull in a rag ing storm. Although seasick Dr. Elliot left his bed to operate. They teetered on the rolling deck of the ship's hospital, the doctors said, as they cut and cleaned and sewed carefully and occasionally they were . forced to reach out for support. Tonight little Josephine, who was returning from Glasgow with her mother, Mrs. Patrick McXally, and her sisters, Catherine and Sarah May, was still a pretty sick girl. Spy Suspect Held in Los Angeles yHy'r:jv,MMMMM"iiiii v. Hamuli M-'i " 11 '" " V " v - ' ! ' i T " & " I s ' X X ' ' - ? " - f V v ' I " - , X ' ' . - 2 I S k S. .. . . x - v .:-:-x-x-:-:;-:;:..:y:: :::::., . & - y , ' - vVj. i . J i . v.. :: :... : . i 4 ' 1, I - . ' ' I ' ' f V x - f j&-- '- k- -- - j Strike of Lovers Coming to Close Cupid Goes Back to Work as Marriage Drouth End Sighted KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. Oregon's new marriage license law won and lost bridal couples today. At Eugene, a couple after meet ing all requirements of physical examinations, was married . by Judge X. E. Glass. So far as was known, this was the first mar riage performed in Oregon since the law went into effect last week. But it was a different story here. A California couple, hurry ing into town for a quick wed ding, found themselves stymied. They hadn't heard about the new law. After disbursing J 20 for examinations and notarial fees, they found their resources re duced to $1, the parson still to pay and their contemplated hon eymoon just a dream. PORTLAND, Dec. 6-()-Miss Margaret Ziesing, Milwaukie, and Verner G. Sheldrew, Portland, became Multnomah county's first bride and bridegroom under the new marriage-examination law. They were married at 1:15 p m. today, the fifth day of the marriage drouth. One other couple qualified for a license but said they would not marry until Dec. 10. Japanese Probing Report US Fliers Will Aid Chinese TOKYO, Dec. 7-(Wednesday)- (JPyA. report is being lnvestlgat ed that six retired American army aviators with "huge sup plies" of airplanes are waiting in British Burma to enter China, official sources said today. If the report is found true, It was said, Japan would lodge a strong protest with the United States. Japanese officials said they were informed the aviators sailed October 27 from a Mexican port aboard the Soviet freighter Od delseln and arrived at Khost Itland November IS. They were understood to be waiting for ad ditional aviation equipment. Congressman Denies He9s Red 1;:"i r --. ? i I , J' - Tito Uarcantonle Sam Baroa fBrandlnr Sam Baron an "nnmltlrated liar," newly elected Reare- ; sentatlve Vlto Marcantonio of New York asked for an opportunity to testify before the Dies committee In Washington to reply to the , former Socialist newspaperman's charges that he headed the Inter national Labor Defense, which Baron called a "Communist front Qrgani2?.tinn..M Baron said he had resigned from the Socialist party so he might appear before the committee Investigating un-American activities "as an individual only.' dditios ... in the New (By The Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 An excited woman rushed into the Salvation Army salvage shop to day and asked to see a set of win dow drapes. No, she told Brigadier Joseph Sturm, she didn't want to buy them; she wanted to inspect them. Her husband, she said, had Just informed her that he had given the drapes, which they had de cided to discard for new ones, to the Salvation Army. Sturm found the drapes in the second-hand goods shop. A pro spective buyer was fingering them. The woman, name withheld, felt along the seam and there she found-two paltinum rings set with diamonds. "They're worth more than $1000," she said. "I had sewn them in the seam for safe keep ing. My husband didn't know about it." SYRACUSE, NY, Dec. 6 Admitted to citizensliip today, Richard Hurt on, 67, a native of Ireland, informed surprised naturalization court officials that he had been voting in this country for 42 years. Hurt on, who came to this connry in 1802, said: "People told me not to both er to get out citizenship papers when I first came over. They told me just to go ahead and vote. I thought right along J was a citizen until two years ago." Higher Education Problems Talked State School Executives, Governor-Elect Talk College Finances Willard Marks, Albany, presi dent of the state board of higher education, and Chancellor Hunter of the higher educational system. conferred here Tuesday with Gov ernor-elect Charles A. Sprague, relative to their financial prob lems. - Marks explained that the high er educational institutions had re quested a supplementary appro priation of 1664,000 for the next biennium but that this had been reduced by the state budget direc tor to 1200,000. Consideration Promised Of the $664,000 asked by the board of higher education $200,- 000 was to cover the cost of fn creased enrollment and $200,000 for building repairs and equip ment replacement. Sprague informed Marks and Hunter that he would give their budget careful consideration. The governor - elect indicated that he would discuss higher edu cation at considerable length in his message -to the 1939 legisla ture. BOSTON, Dec. 6 Mary's little lamb has a present-day counter part in the family cat. But unlike the lamb, the school committee was told today, the cats go ta school to catch rats and mice. Protesting conditions at the Rose Hill grammar school, Fred erick O'Connell, chairman of an indignant parents' committee, told the school board children were taking their cats to school for protection. PRESTONSBURG, Ky., Dec 0 After a marriage ceremony at which their 85-year-old son officiated, Mr. and Mrs. Charlea Bahlridge were starting their wedded life anew today. . Divorced 22 years ago, Mrs. Im Baldrldge, SO, and Charles Baldridge, C3, took the vows again before the Rev. Albert Baldrldge. Neither of. the parents mar ried again after dividing their household goods in 1010. They were first wed in 1887. . . Debate Meet Set For WU Students An Intramural debate tourna ment will be held on the campus at Willamette university Saturday morning. The purpose of the tour nament is to give students who have not had; any debate experi ence a chance to debate; All of the students participating are mem bers of the university speech de partment. The debate will be on the pump priming question. Pro fessor R. M. Murphy, head of the speech . department, will be in charge of the debates. Those who will participate In tne tournament are Orel Davidson, Glen Olds, Donald Jones, Albert Kief er, Richard Achor, Winfleld Achor, Harold Throop, Loren Hicks, Doris Riggs, Jessie Mae Ruhndorf, Everett Wilcox and Rendell Alldredge. Univertityy Law Dean East to Finish Study EUGENE, Dec -(-A special assignment from the attorney generals office will take Wayne I. Morse, dean of the University of Oregon law school, east . this week to Washington, where he will complete a nation-wide study of paroles. He also will attend sessions of a crime prevention conference at Chicago. Life With Bette Lonely LOS ANGELES, Dec C.-iF)- Home me with uette Da via, screen star, was gloomy, lonely and silent, x Band Leader Harmon O. Nelson testified today in win ning a divorce. Assistant Chiefs Oral Exams Given Sergeant Dana E. Jewell of the Portland police department arrived here Tuesday afternoon to conduct oral examinations of nine applicants for the office of assist ant chief of police. Jewell is a graduate of the federal bureau of investigation school at Washington, DC, and gives examinations for the Port land police department. He came to Salem at the re quest of the local civil service board. Jimmy Is Rapped For Lack of Aid To Church Funds WASHINGTON, Dec. 6ttP)-A 33-year-old minister, noting tl it James Roosevelt's published in come returns for five years list ed no contributions to churches. took him publicly to task to dayand drew a prompt reply from the president's son that he most certainly did contribute." The Rev. Howard Stone An derson, pastor of the First Con gregational church here, told t'.e house committee on unAmerican activities that a bad example was set for the nation when men of large income and political prom inence did not contribute to churches and benevolent organi zations. The clergyman appeared as the first of a series of witnesses who. Chairman Dies (D-Tex) of the committee said, had "affirm ative knowledge of how to pro mote Americanism." Los Angeles Feels Heavy Earthquake but no Hurt LOS ANGELES, Dec. f.-(VA heavy earth shock was felt in Los Angeles and vicinity at 7:41 p. m. (PST) tonight. Dishes were rattled in several parts of the area but no damage was report ed.. Residents of the western part of the city-and of nearby Burbank and Pacific Palisades told of feel ing the shock. Lengthy Schedule Facing Debators A heavy forensic schedule for speech students at Willamette uni versity has been outlined for the winter season and early spring by Professor R. M. Murphy of the speech department. The state after dinner speaking contest before the Toastmasters" club in Portland will take place January 9. State extempore con test will be in Corvallis January 19 and the state peace oratorical contest will be February 10 at Lin field college, McMinnville. The Linfield forensic tournament will be held February 16 to 18 and the junior college forensic tour nament will be March 3 and 4 at Tacoma. The state old line ora tory contest has been announced for March 10 to take place at Forest Grove at Pacific university, The Pacific Forensic league and Pi Kappa Delta tournament will be held at Pomona and Pasa dena, Calif., March 20 to 2. The annual Keyes oratorical contest at Willamette will be held February 1 and the state high school speech contests will again be held at Willamette sometime in ApriL Big Ship Construction Task Starts in Astoria ASTORIA, Dec. S--The lar gest ship construction job here since the World war began to day with building of a $1X0,000 wooden motor vessel, the E. Les ter Jones, for the US coast and geodetic, survey, to be used In the Alaska service It is scheduled for completion next September. Secretly indicted by the federal grand Jury, Karl Allen Drummond, 21, was recently taken into custody in Los Angeles on charges of espionage, lie is accused of attempting to sell Important military secrets to a foreign country. According to federal authorities, he tried to sell photographs of United States army and navy planes in various stages of construction and documents dealing with the building of aircraft, embodying closely guarded secrets of design. (UN). Store's Employes Enjoin Dave Beck SEATTLE, Dec. t-(JP)-X group of 229 store employes, charging Union Leader Dave Beck and the Retail Clerks' union had threat ened to close the Bon Marche de partment store through a strike unless the employes joined the q n 1 o n, sought a temporary re straining order in superior court today. The defendants were ordered to show cause next Friday why the order should not be granted. Employes who brought the suit asserted their decision not to join the union was met with an ultimatum that they join or team sters and allied unions would call a strike and picket the store. Another employe, M. Evelyn Richards, obtained a temporary restraining order in a similar suit last August. Plaintiffs in today's action Intervened in the Richards case. Seal Sale Record Made by Receipts Receipts from Christmas seal sales on Monday in Salem and from residents on Salem rural routes amounted to $214.34, the largest sum received for any sin gle day in the history of the seal Bale program, it was reported by Mrs. George Moorhead, executive secretary of the Marion County Health association. This brought the total of the local sales np to $1387.63, which is ahead of the 1937 figure of the same date. The seal sale ends on Christmas eve, with the booth sale downtown in Salem schedul ed to begin next Monday, Decern ber 12. Mrs. Moorhead pointed out that seal sale funds constitute the only support for the program of detecting tuberculosis cases, the principal means of fighting spread of the disease. Livermore in Spotlight Again jt 1 1) 1 Av r . ; T1 v' ' II 1 1 : : s . . s 1 - J L'y i 1 ; - . 1 M X f 1 ? s - v.- .- -.-::::':. 10:-. vt--x--c-:--.-:: I For many years, Jesse livermore, Sr., has been a front page figure since his spectacular operations on the stock, market brought him Into the limelight. Lately,, however, he has kept In the background. But here he is with Mrs. Livermore, bis third wife,, at a surprise birthday dinner dance In New York. Among; those present was Jesse, Jr, who once suffered a nearly fatal bullet wound at the home of the boy's mother, Mrs. Dorothea, F, Lpngcope, second wife of Livermore, Sr, Eagles Initiation Is Set Wednesday Willamette aerie of the Eagles lodge will initiate a large class into membership at the organize tion'a regular meeting at Prater nal temple Wednesday night, ac cording to Leon W. DnBois, president, The evening's . pro gram also will, include entertain ment and refreshments being ar ranged by the auxiliary. The lodge will sponsor a dance at Crystal Gardens the night of December 14 to raise funds for Its Christmas charity work among the city's needy, DnBois said. Receiver Is Named BARSHFIELD, Dec. t-(JP Judge J. T. Brand named John Ferguson of Marshfield temporary received today for the Empire Lumber company, Charles Gram, state labor commissioner, had re quested a receivership to safe guard $20,000 In labor claims. Grant new Trial In Monarch Suit The state supreme court Tues day granted a new trial in the $4751 suit of John W. and Eliza Galbraith against the Monarch Gold Dredging company. Plaintiffs won the case In Grant county when the attorneys for both , sides agreed to the Judgment without a trial. The supreme court held that the Monarch attorney had no author ity to agree to the judgment. The court affirmed the decree of Circuit Judge J. W. Knowles of Wallowa county in a auit filed by the Wallowa Law, Land & Abstract company against A. S and W. E. McGaffee. The suit involved brokers commission. The lower court held against the plaintiff. Chief Justice Bean wrote the high court opinion. Umatilla Suit on Courthouse Opens Arguments of attorneys will be heard by the state supreme court here Wedneid ay in a suit brought by the Umatilla county court to determine whether it has authority to expend delinquent taxes In constructing a new court house. The Umatilla county assessor who refused to extend the levy on the tax rolls was named as defendant in the suit. The proposed new courthouse would Cost approximately $500,- 000, of which & part would be allocated by the public works ad ministration. Talk Electric Ferry Marlon County Engineer N. C. Hubbs will go to Dallas this morning to discuss the proposed electrification of the Buena Vista ferry with members of the Polk county court. The two counties share in expense of operating the ferry, whose present gaso line-powered motor has been giv ing considerable trouble. Top Speed limit Up to Lawmakers Zoning of Highways Will Be Asked Legislature to Cut Fatalities Establishment of definite top speed limits zones on all Oregon highways will be Tecommended to the 1939 legislature, Secre tary of State Earl Snell announc ed Tuesday. Snell said he was convinced that such action was essential to further reduce traffic deaths and was the only way a substan tial reduction in accidents and injuries could be obtained. The secretary of state said he was preparing a bill covering the pro posed new speed limits. would Zone Highways Under - the proposed new law all highways in the state would be zoned and top speed limits es tablished by the state highway commission. The basic rule, at present the only provision ot the law that limits speed,- would .' till be applicable as a regulatory measure In regard to all speeds within the top. limit. John Beakey, traffic engineer for the state highway depart ment, expressed the opinion that the present law, after a trial of several years, had not accomp lished the desired results. He said speed was a big fac tor in present traffic fatalities and that he favored some i gested amendment. Younger Chamher To Aid Seal Job Newly Formed Body Plans First Project, Hears Baxter Speak The Salem Junior chamber ot commerce voted jinanimouslv . . . 1 - a Tuesaay to doosi me aie 01 Christmas seals. The hope was expressed that for the Bake of Tommy Hoxie and for the cause itself, that Salem would win first place in the sales this year. Dr. Bruce Baxter, first speak- . . a er before the newiy organizea junior chamber, choose as his subject, a quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Carve your name before you are 40 or els9 put up your Jack knife." The speaker read a long list of the world's most illustrous leaders in the field of education, science, industry, and government who were well on the road to fame long before they had attained the age of 40. He included in the list such names as Lindbergh, Hutch ins, Einstein, Hamilton, Washing ton, Napoleon, Alexander. Lodge, and many others as proof. Other speakers included David Eyre, United States National Bank, and Cal Emeis, member of the Portland Junior commerce. Benton Stafford, program chairman, announced that Hollls Huntington, former Salem high football coach would speak at the next meeting December 20. His subject will be "180 minutes in the Rose Bowl." McAdoo Confined With Indigestion WASHINGTON. Dec. -JP)-T)r. George W. Calver, capltol physi cian, announced tonight that Will iams Gibbs McAdoo, war-time sec retary of the treasury, had suf fered an attack of Indigestion and was confined to his. hotel apart ment. 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