Sports? Vesllier Parti cloudy today and Friday I no change In tern- eratire. Mar. temp. Wednesday 07, min. 42. River -8.C ft. South wind. . 1 - Tb Oregon Statesman i 1m .the field of sports new. Bead tills page of lire porta kwi every day. EIGHTY-NINTH Y.EAB Salem; Oregon, Thursday HonJnjr, Norember 30, 1939 Price 3c ; Newsstands 5e No. 213 . . psuncso' 1651 4 . t Paul Mauser's Column W ara happy to aea that It's till leral for a rlrl to protect bar honor with gunfire la the state of Tex. Wo ara thinklnr of the Ctrl - who shot down a man. two tnoi a-blaxln', a few- d ay a ago light ont on tha Da 11 sidewalk and from all ap pearaneaa.lt iiidi aha had fairly good, though ae b a t- able. reaaona for ME.Hniw.Ji. doing it. Anyway tha grand Jury down thero teemed to think so - and It returned a not true bill in the episode. Well. It showa that chivalry la not dead yet In Tex grand Jur ies. We hare a theory, though, that things wouldn't hare gone so well with the gal If ahe had need only one gun. But. ahade of Ca lamity Jane. Texaa can't resist a two-gun girl. If anybody wants a penguin for a pet you can get one from the New York City aquarium for 9 ISO. Wo might a well warn you before you send the money, though, that they aren't rery good pets. They need lota of water to swim la. eat noth ing but fish, and bray like Jackass, though not quite a loudly. They bite, too. Wo had heard It noised about that Western Union, a one of its many and varied aerriees. will de liver telegrams which the messen ger sings to the recipient. The other day a friend of ours had a birthday and wa thought it would bo nice to hara a telegram sung to him In person. Wa called West ern Union and asked them about It. .The man who answered tha phone said ha conld sing a tele gram over the phono but couldn't leave tha office. Just then a met , aenger boy came in and tho man wa were talking to asked him If be wanted to sing a telegram. Over tha phone wa heard him say something and then tho man told us ha said, "he didn't.' hare a To tal voice."- So wo sang It ourself. DITTY OjT DIETING Sugar and spleo And everything nice, ' That's what little girls ara made Of.' , K .;. . J '-' : '" V-r. Sugar and spice And everything nice. That's what bigger girls ara afraid of. MGoao With the Wind will run three hours and forty mln- t o a, Hollywood announce. Moviegoers bringing their lunches will be requested to cut them during the battle scenes. Holiday Observed By "Other HalT Thanksgiving Comes Twice A Year in 3 States; 26 Feast Today (By the Associated Press) About half tha nation will sit down to groaning tables of Thanksgiving food today although the other half already haa thrown out tho well-picked bones of last week'a turkeys. Twenty-six states stood by tra dition and chose to' celebrate tha last Thursday in November, de spite President Roosevelt's decree advancing the data a week earlier than usual. Three of these Colorado, Mississippi and Texas decided to observe both days. Tor the rest of the country, turkey with its aftermath of Jiash and oup waa but a pleasant memory. Today's celebrants, other than the three states with double holi days; are: Alabama, Arizona. Arkansas. Connecticut, Florida. Idaho, Iowa, Kansas. Kentucky. Maine. Massa chusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, - New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklaho ma. Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and Wiscon sin. Kansas City, Mo., found It easy to celebrate both days. Missouri observed last Thursday but Kan eana waited until today.- Thua residents of Kansaa City, Mo., merely bad to cross the river to Kansas City, Kan., to enjoy a second feast day; Governors of 4 1 states eon ' tributed to a feast which will climax a Pilgrim pageant .. in Plymouth, Mas, tonight. Mrs FR Honored- NEW YORK, Not. M.-VDe-seribed . as an 'apostle of good will" Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt tonight i was .given tho religious publication churchmen's bronze plaque tor "the promotion of good will and bottor understanding amour all people.' - Late Sports SEATTLE, If or. 9-(ff)-WiUi Manager Connie KJmg etttag tho scoring pace, the Seattle Beahawks defeated tho league leadlag Portland Buckaroos, 9 to Z, here tonight In fast Pa-, clfte Coast Hockey league game. Head of Bund Found Guilty On 5 Charges 1UC11 I Ul u II U D . I Ur ' Urbanization is Laid 1 to Knhn 4r O Maximum Penalty Years Imprisonment. ' ; Faced by Leader? ' , . " : j ' ; , , 1 : ' NEW; YORK, Ner. liiPr Frita Kuhn was convicted tonight of grand larceny and forgery in the alleged theft of money from hla German-American bund. Eight and one half hours after receiving the case, tho Jury of 12 business men announced their ver dict conviction on all of tho five counts left to the Jury's decision. The maximum penalty for the portly bundsfuehrer could be SO years in prison. Sentence will be Imposed December. 5. There was little excitement In the courtroom. Spectators had been barred from trial sessions for some time and-were not admitted tonight.; Kuhn Is Silent as -Verdict Pronounced As the foreman announced tho decision, Kuhn, in the prisoner's dock, stood erect and blinked bis eyes. Then he sank back against a court railing, but said nothing. As each Juror was polled twice responding to the quesUon as to whether "guilty" waa his ver dict with an "It la," Kuhn faced each man. Excusing tho Jury, General Ses sions Judge James G. Wallace aaid: "The court feelts that tho verdict you have rendered Is on the evidence and Is not based on anything else. The Jury deliber ated so earnestly, heard the evi dence so attentively and haa aat so long on this case that It Is en titled to the thanks of tho court. In a monotone, Kuhn read hla "pedigree' to the clerk. He said' bo waa 43 i married, born In Ger many and ' a naturalised eitlsen. He gave his occupation as "pres ident, the German-American bund, and said he had three de pendents, waa a moderate drinker and had had no previous convic tions. t j- Bund Leader Led . to Musty-Tombs - - nis wire, who attended few. sea-i slons of tho trial, waa not present. Out of tho nearly-deserted court room, Kuhn was led by aa of fl eer across the Bridge of Sighs into tho musty, odorous Tombs, where ho must remain until he Is sen tenced. ! As ho waa led away, Kuhn's at torney, Peter L. P. Sabbatlno, asked thb court, "May I reserve the right to make my motions un til the day of sentencing?" "You may," returned the court, then added sternly, "and I shall also continue the question of what action I shall take for your con duct throughout this trial, until that day, or the day after. The Judge previously had warned Sabbatlno that he might be held In contempt. Spy Roundup Near Indictment Stage WASHINGTON, Nov. 29-AV- Attorney General Murphy lndicat ed today that tho Justice depart ment's sweeping Inquiry Into tho activities of foreign agenta soon would reach the grand Jury stage. Murphy aald that the work on auspected law violations by for eign agents, which ho described i a "very . exhaustive inquiry, was Bearing completion and would bo summed up by tho fed eral bureau of Investigation. This summary will be presented, he sajd, "here and in districts where proper venue can bo had. Murphy emphasized that the in vestigation had proceeded "rery Quietly' In line with the depart ment's desire to "avoid scares, raids or Invasion of civil rights. British Still Hold American Ships for Contraband Search By ROBERT BUNNELLK LONDON, Nov. 2.H?-United States merchant ships, banned from the European war sone by tho American neutrality law, stlil are being brought into Brit ish ports in the war sone- for examination. ' Thlf disclosure today by the ministry of economic warfare waa followed oulekly by the declara tion in neutral circles that vessels thus concentrated for examina tion by tho British contraband control were exposed to. bombing by enemy craft. Thirteen American merchant men were among the 184 neutral ships whoso cases were considered by tho contraband committee In tho week ending Not. 25. There were 85 ships. Including, two Am erican which had been held more than a week, still at three United Kingdom c o n t r a b a-a d control points yesterday. - (Tho neutrality law, which be came operative Nor, 4, prohibits American ships from - entering ports situated In the combat area around most of northern Europe and tho British Isles. British au thorities In Washington have con tended, however, that Internation al law gives Britain a clear right to order neutral vessels Into Brit ish ports for examination. -.' (State : department' authorities GERMANS Cfft While allied and neutral shipping continue to be blasted by German mine strewn throughout the North aea, Baal mine sweepers are active clearing the vicinity of their own ship lanes In tho Baltic Unusually clear photo above shows a fleet of nasi mine sweepers on patrol. Gun crew on afterdeck la foreground la adjusting an anti-aircraft gun, Just in case of unexpected business." BudgetCommitteePasses $1,057,988.29 for 1940 $500 Increase in Original Estimate Expected to Be " Offset j by Greater School Receipt; Necessary Levy Puzzles Study Group Total expenditures for Marion county during; 1940 will approximate $1,057,988.29 according to unofficial fig-urea compiled after the county budget committee yesterday gave final approval to the budget for the next fiscal year. Of this sum $695,288.19 will be raised through direct property levies. The county budget committee itself made only two changes in tho budget aa drawnO p first en first en November which srovlded for total expenditures of S1.07S.347.10 and a tax levy or 9710.C47.10. It approved a $400 contribu tion for aid given to dependent children ' from Marion county by tho Caihobe charities in Portland, and It raised tho boys' and girls aid society appropriation from 1300 to 9400, making a total budget increase of 9600. This raise waa partially offset. however, by the filing of final school census figures by Mrs. Ag nes C Booth, county school su perintendent, with tho budget committee. The final census calla for school expenditures of tit 8 S40 Instead of the 91tS,f 10 esti mated in tho original budget, making a total deduction of 9272.70 when the portion for the county library fund is also In cluded. The drop in the tax levy and budgeted expenditures eamo with Information filed recently by tho state commission and approved of necessity by the budget eom (Turn to page 2, column i) Cain in Industry Reaches 850,000 WASHINGTON, Hot. 19-ifPh- Secretary Perkins estimated to day that further net gains in fac tory employment for November would bring the aggregate in crease for the last six months to 850,000 persons. Allowing for seasonal curtail ments In canning and apparel in dustries,' she said preliminary fig ures for mid-November indicated a net gain from mid-October of 25,000 workers who returned to Jobs compared with a normal de cline of 1.8 per cent. ' This estimate was exclusive of changes In employment in the au tomobile Industry. aald they had not been advised officially of British action In tak ing tho American Teasels into the forbidden areas -t and that therefore international problems which might . be Involved - were not under consideration at pres ent.) v ; : The government tightened its hold on parliamentary procedure, meanwhile, when the house of commons approved by a Tote of 218 to 115 a proposal by Prime Minister Chamberlain to restrict the Introduction of bills to gov ernment measures. A similar rule was In force during. the World war. ' ,4 - - -. : ; ... . In air warfare, the. British re ported their- combat planes brought down a lone - German raider off. tho northeast coast of England. 'r .. t Coastal residents watched tho battle off the north Humberland coast. A lifeboat failed to find any trace of the raider, identified as " a German Helnkel plane, which the air ministry said "dived vertically, into clouds toward tho aea. - - ; ' The British said tho plane waa the 23 rd nasi raider brought down over or near . the British coast since tho Germane raided tho Firth of Forth naval base on October 18- : SWEEP OWN SHIPPING LANES I v n Jury itenises to Indict Gun Girl No-Biir neturned In Quia Of Slaying of Dalian Lawyer by Woman DALLAS, Tex., Nor. 9.-A)-A Dallas connty grand Jury refused to Indict honey-haired Corinno Maddox for the two-gun killing of Brooks C. Coffma'n, 40-year-old married lawyer. The grand Jury twice called her before it and today returned a no bill, which meant the 28-year-old stenographer would not have to stand trial in connection with the slaying 10 daya ago. , Miss Maddox, at home with her mother andjrtster, was Jubilant. "Fine!" she exclaimed. "That's a sure cure for the rainy day blues. "I have no regrets at all except that it (the shooting) had to bo done." "It had to be done." ahe dis closed after the killing., because Coffman, admittedly her attacker in an ice-pick slabbing, had threatened her life. Out of that, she said,' grew fear and hate. On Nov. 20, Miss Maddox wait ed in a Main street shop for Coff man to walk by. She had two pis tols in her purse. She told police later ahe aaw Coffman parsing, trailed him and fired all the cart ridges from each weapon. , Tho screaming lawyer, begging for mercy, fell to tho street. . President Closes acation ABOARD THE ROOSEVELT TRAIN ENROUTE TO WASH INGTON, Not. 2)-Pre8ident Roosevelt and one of his secretar ies, Marvin H. Mclntyre, .held a Jolly reunion tonight when the president stopped off at Asheville, N. C on the way back to Wash ington from a week's Tacatldn at Warm Springs, Ga. After chatting with Mclntyre; who haa been 'convalescing from 4 lung illness, Mr. Roosevelt re boarded his special train and headed toward the capital and a series of Quick check-ups on gov ernmental and foreign affairs. Mr. Roosevelt will remain In Washington until Saturday, then go - to tho Army-Navy football game at Philadelphia ' and on to his Hyde Park. N. T., home for a few days. : Pre-Hbliday Pay For rkers Ordered by Giief '. WASHINGTON, Nor.' 2B-iTy -Colonel PV C Harrington, WPA commissioncT, today or dered that approximately SOO OOO work project employes re eerre pre-boliday pay check to taling almost 20,000,000. - He instructed all state ad ministrators to issue pre-holK day checks for approximatelT 400,000 worker who normally '-. wonld not be paid mntll the day after Christmas and to make similar concessions . for about 400,000 others whose regular pay day fall .on the day after .New Year'sw . ' Georgia V -4 tission Asks Court Decision Opening Unemployment Records Is Protested By State Board Tho state unemployment com pensation commission asked tho state supreme court yesterday to reverse Circuit Judge L. G. Lew el ling's order opening tho commis sion's records to inspection by Emmet T. Rogers of Portland, counsellor for the tax reduction and control bureau. Assistant Attorney General Ralph Campbell, commission at torney, conferred with the court for more than an hour today. Tho court is expected to Indicate to day whether it would accept Juris diction in tho case. If tho court accepts Jurisdiction. Canrfoeli probably will file a man damus: action yet today. Rogers, - who contended m a suit filed in lower court that the commission had Illegally failed to set up necessary reserves in Its fund, was granted permission by the circuit court to inspect the records and accounts of tho 11,- 000 employers In the state whose employes . are eligible to Jobless benefits. The commission contends records are confidential. the Chrysler Plants Tjp Open Monday 50,000 to Get Back to Jobs After Seven Weeks Strike Layoff DETROIT, Nov. 29-(i5)-More than 50,000 Chrysler corporation employes who haven't had a pay day for seven weeks eagerly wait ed tonight for a chance to resume work under a new contract an nounced today. Corporation officials, hoping to recoup an estimated 8100,000,000 sales loss -caused by the 54-day shutdown which marked the auto mobile industry's longest labor dispute,' rushed plans to get final assembly lines ' operating - again. Spokesmen said all plants would be open by Monday.. The corporation.- instructed thousands of employes to resume work at several plants tomorrow morning . for "regular shifts." These Included the Dodge, Plym outh and DeSoto plants. Addi tional thousands were called back for Friday, Saturday and. Monday mornings. A general wage increase of three cents an hour for all hour ly: employes of the corporation, and an additional increase of one eent for workers in all jChryeler plants outside Detroit, waa In cluded in the settlement. Officials of the CIO United automobile- workers estimated that -the Increases total between $5,00,000 and $0,000,000 a year. The corporation aald It was "about $5,000,000." Share in Company Awarded by - Court ; SEATTLE. Nov. 294fp-Seven discharged employes of the Belk nap Glass company, - which was left to tho 40 employes In the will of the late C. C. Belknap, won In court today a share in the com pany tinder tho terms of tho un usual bequest. j . -.- r But -they 'failed to - win back their Jobs with the company, once rained at $ 4 0 0,0 0 0 but now ap praised at $151.000. .. A r Krneger Named OREGON CITY. Nor. 2X&V- w. v. n KTueger, lumberman, was elect,! by the city commis sion today to serve tho unexpired term of the late Mayor Lloyd O Harding. Krueger. Oregon City resident for 30 years, will leave ozuee January 1 . Finns Nervously Anticipate Next Move of Russians Who Claim Intentions Peaceful Russ Soldiers Warned to Be Set for Action Blame for Failure of - Conciliation Laid Upon Finland Molotoff Tells People Situation Is Not Tolerable By WITT HANCOCK MOSCOW, Not. S OP)-801 Russia has broken off diplomatic relation with Finland but left the world in doubt as to her fur ther Intentions. Severance of diplomatic rela tions between nations often Is a forerunner of war but soviet Russia declared she had no in tention of annexing Finnish ter ritory or of compromising ' Fin land's Independence. With a million Russian troops massed on the Finnish border fac ing Finnish forces that at best can muster 400,000 men, Russian Premier-Foreign Minister Vyach- ealaff Molotoff declared in a mid night broadcast that Russia was taking "Immediate steps" to keep her security inviolate. Troops Asked to Be Ready For Instant Aotkm His midnight broadcast, deliv ered with a background of stir ring martial music and red army marching aongs. called on Rus sia's million of red troops and her nary to be prepared for any action. The nary already has been en gaging in exercises in the Oulf of Finland, In dose proximity to Finnish islands which Russia has asked tor naval bases. - Tho official note severing rela tions (was handed by Molotoff to the Finnish minister at 10:20 p.m. (Wednesday) (2:80 p. m., EST). In his broadcast announcing severance of . relations, Molotoff declared that' long, "patient ne gotiations" with Finland had re sulted only In an "irreconcilable attitude" on the part of Finland whose leaders acted "in the inter ests of imperialistic war-mon gers." Only Russian Aim Is To Safeguard Union "The only aim of , our nation Is to safeguard the security of the soviet union and in particu lar Leningrad with its population of 3,500,000." Molotoff declared. "In view of the present Inter national situation, we could not make a solution of this vital and urgent question conditional upon the bad faith of the present Fin nish leaders. "This matter must be solved by the soviet union in friendly cooperation with the Finnish peo ple." "We can no longer tolerate the present situation for .whlfh the Finnish government bears full re sponsibility '. . . Our government has decided it no longer can main tain normal relations with Fin land," Molotoff declared. Edison Proposes Reserve Increase WASHINGTON, Nor. 2 Charles Edison, acting secretary. said today tho, nary planned to use graduates of college naval reserve . training units as Junior officers and was negotiating to increase tho number - of - such units. Dies Challenges Roosevelt To Take Stand NEW YORK, V Nov. 19-UPH- Amid the blare of martial music and the cheers of thousands. Rep resentative Martin Dies (D-Texas) strode to a flag-bedecked rostrum in Madison Square Garden tonight and challenged the Roosevelt ad ministration to "come out openly" in a stand "for or against" his in vestigation of nn Americanism. . The tall, broad Texan addressed a crowd estimated by Garden of ficials at' 12,000 persons . at a ' m nbHnv tfm 1thaHii.n aiwiir. sored , by two dosen patriotic, re ligious, military and other , or ganizations. . Saying ho deplored, a "trend to ward centralization ' of power in Washington as -the first stage to wards dictatorship, Dies assert ed, "these issues rise above par tisan political expediency. This Is no time - for pussy-footing and cowardly politicians. - - Three hundred ' .uniformed policemen mingled ' with the crowd, but there.wa no signs of disturbance.' 1 A roar rose from the assemb lage when a speaker announced that 3erman-American Bund Leader Frits Kuhn, who had ap peared before Dies committee, had been convicted on charges of larceny and forgery. Dies him self withheld comment. -Tho meeting wa under the Apprehensive of NextUSSRMove v. o , - ELIAS ERKKO Finnish Foreign Minister Eight Injured as Bus Hits Bridge Blinding Snowstorm Cuts Visibility of Driver Of Sleeper Stage SPRINGER, NM, Not. 2 A transcontinental sleeper bus, boring southward through a blind ing mountain snowstorm, crashed into a steel bridge spanning the Vermejo river north of the Tillage of French tonight. Injuring .at least eight of the 14 persons aboard. Some of the Injured were taken to Raton, IS miles north of French,' and tho remainder brought here. A tentative list of the Injured was as follows: Buck Shaw, Raton, driver of tho bus, serere lacerations about the head...'.... -:i...A Warren Proctor, Corey, Pa., minor lacerations. Nathan Lippmann, Boston, broken arm. In Raton. 3 Robert Noble, Alhambra, Calif., minor lacerations. In Raton. A man named O'Dowell, thought to be an Englishman, and. the ne gro porter on the bus, identified only as Brewer, were both uncon scious in Springer hospital. .Both had crushed chests. Two other passengers, one of them a woman, were unconscious in a hospital at Raton and had not been Identified. According to witnesses at French, the bus (Greyhound) was traveling southward - through a heavy snow and on a slushy high way When it crashed into the aide of a one-way ateel bridge about a mile north of French. The impact hurled It sideways across the bridge, blocking traf fic on US highway 85 and tearing one side of the bus away. It was expected the bus would have to be partially, dismantled before it could be removed. Sleet and. snow made visibility poor; French residents said, and tho roadway was slippery when the accident occurred about 8 p.m. The bus left Raton at 0:25 p.m.' Ambulances and. doctors were called . from Raton and Springer and the Injured taken to which ever town was on 1 the side of the wreck where they were removed. None; was reported killed, as stated in early reports.' - - -Evacuation Ordered r BEND. Not. 29WJP-Evaention of Camp Klklap before December ST M a a . . is wa oraerea ioay ny reclama tion bnrean and CCn Afflella-tA prevent a blockade from a sudden storm. -, on Committee chairmanship of Merwin K. Hart, president of the New York state economic council,' an organization fostering private enterprise,. - Sponsors ; of - the ' meeting in cluded the American Legion, Daughters of the American Revo lution, Knights of Columbus and Protestant Catholic and Jewish societies. -; -- With a voice vote, the meeting approved a resolution asking con gress to reappoint the Dies com mittee Immediately after conven ing in' January' and finance It for another two years "to ;the end that -every un American' activity bo . laid bare ' before .the people of tho United States. : "Tho "people must be - warned that an organised campaign, com posed of tho red and pinks In all walks of life. Is , about to be launched for the purpose of dis crediting the f word- of vour com mittee," Die said. . V.- -'-i : This ISv Moscow last stand against exposure. The people must also bo warned against the racketeers . who would capitalize for -their own selfish gain upon a rebirth of Americanism." Dies also urged that "organ ised labor, lor its own sake and for .the sake of the whole Ameri can economy, turn out tho red - (Turn to page 2, column 8) Suddenness of Relations Cut Disconcerting Finnish Offer Ignored ' in Swift Break by Moscow Hostilities Feared at any Time by Little Northern State By LYNN HEINZE RLING HELSINKI. Not. S0.-ZPV-Pr foundly disturbed by Moscow' action rupturing diplomatic rela tione but still determined to it and fast, Finns uneasily awaited de velopments -toaay, rearing the be ginning of hostilities at any time. But no to 12:45 a. m. fK:S n. m., EST), officials said, there naa oeen no troop movements across the borders so tar thv could learn. It was all the more shocking to the Finns because tha Mn. cow action came before they could aeuver a note to the Kremlin of fering to withdraw Finnish de fense forces from the frontier aa a gesture towards settling their quarrel. The offer was made by For eign Minister Eljas Erkko In hte reply to Russia's denunciation of the 1932 Finnish-soviet uon-ag-gression treaty. ' . Finns Ready to Solve Problem Peacefully "My ' government is ready to settle with the soviet government the question of the removal l Finnish defense forces on tho Karelian isthmus with the excep tion of frontier customs guardJ forces, to such a distance from Leningrad that It could not even be alleged that they threaten it its security,' Erko's not said. -' He prefaced this statement with the explanation that Finland waa motivated by a desire "to prove emphatically there Js a sincere ef fort to reach an accord with tho soviet government and refute tho soviet government's allegation that Finland has adopted a hos tile attitude toward the USSR, and la desirous of threatening tho security of Leningrad." Finland's refusal previously to withdraw her border forces led to Russia's denunciation of tho non-agression pact Tuesday. A foreign office spokesman said "everrthlnr is nn ta Russia now. The situation is too difficult for comment. ' Note I Delivered Despite Sodden USSR Action Despite the breaking off ot diplomatic relations, and despita the midnight broadcast of Soviet Premier Vyacheslaff Molotoff, who announced the' action, Fin land's note answering Moscow's denunciation of their non-aggression pact was ' delivered to . tho Kremlin at 1:10 a. m., Moscow time' (8:10 P. m, EST, Wednes day). This was almost three hoo after the vice-commissar of for eign affairs, Vladmlr. Potemkia, had notified the Finnish minister that relations were broken. The Finnish answer said the Helsinki government thought Russia unjustified in denouncing tho non-aggression pact and sug gested a conciliation commission. be named to examine the contro versy. The news from Moscow spread rapidly through . Helsinki. Grlna Finns -gathered In clusters to dis cuss the situation. Government of ficials hurried to a midnight con ference. ' . They had received warmly Sec retary of State Cordell Hull's an nouncement of the United States Sllllngness to offer her good of ces in the dispute. "It's the best news we have heard," they said, bnt when the news-came of the drastic soviet move, they commented: "Hull's offer came too late." Warn Words Fly In Shipping Row 'SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2-JP) -Negotiating . committee in tho It-day strike of the ship clerks association met twice today, w1t3t the outstanding ere nt an ex change of heated words between -Mayor Angelo X. Rossi and CIO . Leader Harry Bridge. , "Wo don't want him " here, snapped Bridges, noting the may- " ors . presence at the conference! attended by Dr. Louis Bloch, mar ltlme labor board member. ! 1 don't relish being In lb same room as Mr. Bridges," re torted thei mayor. 2 Die in Crash f MOUNT VERNON. Not. 19 -VPl Two men were killed in a head- on automobile collision at the top of a hill If miles south of here to night and, a third man was brought to a Mount Vernon ho j pits! with serious, injuries.