t. Your Newspaper The Oregon "Statesman l your newspaper. Its page filled with an yon want to read, whether it be local ltemi 1 or International, porta, or women's "shop talk. Weather Bala today and Saturaays saoderate temperature; sale off the coast. )Ui. temp. Thursday 83, min. 47. Hirer 2.1 ft. South wind. . EIGUTY-NINTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, December 15, 1939 Price 3c; Newsstands It No. 22$ mo ' POUNDOO liSl ' TTT n rf T iT n 1 0M email m jtofil lm ivjiomiiievic f c League States Vote to Expel Soviet Russia Invasion of Finland Basis for Complete , Vote of Members Kremlin Is Notified Immediately After Decision Made By CHARLES S. FOLTZ, JR.V ; GENEVA, pec. UVP)-SoyM Russia which in years past used the league of nations as a forum in Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, was thrown out of that council today for having waged unprovoked war on Finland. Seven out of the 14 members of the league council voted to expel the USSR government after the assembly bad condemned the so viet as an aggressor and naa urged all league members to give Finland all possible material help. Four Finland. China, Yugoslavia and Greece, abstained. Three were absent. The job was done in a day, after less than a week of political preparation here in Geneva. It was the league's first expulsion of member. Tonight a telegram informing Russia of the action-was sent to the Kremlin. ; o States Abstain From Voting -. Nine of the 39 states present abstained from voting in the as sembly on the preliminary reso lution marking the soviet as an aggressor. They were the three Scandinavian countries, Norway, Sweden and Denmark; three Bat tle countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; Switzerland, China and Bulgaria. . ? But in spite of abstentions, everyone but soviet Russia seemed to be pleased. - . ' W; . Latin American delegates en Joyed prestige because they took the lniatlve In the matter. Great Britain, -which through out the debate never appeared enthusiastic 'about expelling Rus sia, nevertheless was for helping ; (Turn to page 2, col. 1) Smith Is Accused Of Aiding Union ; Member of Labor Board Is Put on Spot by Group of Investigators WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-S)-Wlth records taken from the files of the national labor relations board counsel for a house Investi gating committee attempted today to show that Edwin S. Smith, a member of the board, had assisted a union in promoting a boycott against a huge Pennsylvania hos iery mill. Smith, in a statement tonight, asserted this "implication" was completely- untrue" and offered . to . testify before Jthe committee. Edmund M. Toland, attorney . lor the committee investigating .operations of the Wagner act. brought the subject up while ; ejuestionlng an aide, Roger ,Robb, about what he found in examining . 40 file cabinets crammed with board documents, i r' At the ouset Toland read" a' statement by Robb saying, that the .American Federation of - Hosiery Workers had called a strike at the Berkshire Knitting Mills. Read ing, Pa., in the fall of lltf, al though the union's membership Included less than 600 of t h e company's 6000 workers. Did the board's flies show, the attorney then asked, whether Smith had assisted the union in (Turn to page 2, coL 2) T Hoover, Red Cross at Outs Over Finnish Relief in US WASHINGTON, Dec. 14-ff)- Ke ports oi tension oetween Her bert Hoover's relief organization and the Red Cross, which is head ed by President Roosevelt; led to the following barrage of pro- nouncementa today (In chrono logical order): " 1. Hoover denied at New York that there was any friction be tween his campaign for Finnish relief funds and any other group. He said it "is a great pity that - people will start out to poison the wells of human charity." , - - 2. Stephen .'- Early, President Roosevelt's secretary, said that bout the time Germany was mov ing into Poland, Mr. Roosevelt, through Chairman Norman Davis 'of the Red Cross, bad sought to have Mr. Hoover become a "sort of general manager of .relief" for European war sufferers. Early added that "apparently Mr. Hoo ver did not see tit to accept the offer." 3. Lawrency Richey, Hoover's secretary, said in reply to Early that there was some confusion ; . that "there was no discussion of Red Cross organization before ti -war. ts.- he . implies." HooveCr 'Ciied Cit siace the war, Is'U' T SIO A MflTFT 1?C J- At- 1 4V '. Am San Francisco's costly pier tienp entered its fifth week, striking Ship Clerks association heads charged "strike basting" at ship owners raggesUoa that secret balloting among workers be taken on whether they would return to work or not under former conditions. Meantime, Los Angeles har bor hummed as cargoes continued to pile on decks for lack of space in warehouses. Thousands of long shore gangs were unable to handle the pressing activity. Photo shows cargo on pier alongside of scores of ships avoiding strikebound San Francisco. ; : O Two Boys AAnit Robbery Series s" ,: Shoplifting, Other Petty Crimes Confessed by Salem Youths Burglary of the General Gro cery company warehouse at Church and Trade street Wednes day night and numerous . shop lifting offenses and other petty crimes were admitted by two minor boys arrested yesterday, police said. 1 The boys, Edward C. Richards, 16. route five, and Edward New man, Jr4 : Xim-T4Se Ea. Turner road, turned back1 to police a Quantity of confections, gum and tobacco, taken from the grocery company warehouse. The two were held on larceny charges. The warehouse' was entered by eutting a hole in a large sliding door and reaching through to raise a cross-bar latch. The cash drawer in the office was broken open and other office drawers ransacked, but no money was taken. H. D. Gordon reported to police that the thief who stole a pair of trousers from his automobile Tuesday - night had apparently found them too large ' and re turned them to the spot from which they were taken. Theft of robes from automo biles was reported by Leo D. Fnl mer, 5S8 Center street, and Charles Prine, 694 North High street. : OLCC Withdraws Dallant's Penitit PORTLAND. Dec. 14.-UP)-Ore- gon state Honor control commis sion inspectors reported Nicholas D. Dallant. Bend, applicant for beer lieense. was "a conservative business man and would make a good licensee." The commission rejected the application today when it learned Dallant was also known as Nich olas Dozenberg, described by New York authorities as a leading communist in the United States. Dozenberg is held here by fed eral bureau of investigation men and will soon be taken to New York for trial on charges of pass port fraud. S The United States consular service is bound by the Knox law allowing persons - to bring only one quart of alcoholic Mqour into Oregon, the commission decided in answering a commerce depart ment inquiry. Diplomatic service members are exempt.. continuously; supported Davis and the Red Cross activities. He said that he recommended "strongly that the Red.: Cross expand to take over every kind of relief, and offered his counsel- and advice," but the Red Cross .'"did not feel that they could assume such, large responsibilities outside their nor mal field." i - 4. Chairman Davis of the Red Cross said that Hoover, some time ago, had declined'-to consider heading a proposed Red Cross committee on European war re lief. Davis said Hoover told him that "while be was ready to co operate and assist the Red Cross, he did mot feel Justified in head ing t committee." Davis did not say whether this discussion took plae before or after the war. Hoover, during his interview in New York, bad said there was "not a word of truth" In a pub lished report that he declined a Roosevelt . invitation to take charge of all public relief activi ties in the United States because he wished to participate In, the 1940 presidential "campaign and did not desire . to become identic fled with, the saw deal. .-1 UT7HM RESULT ar.. Paul Hauser' Column As far as we have been able to determine the department store Santa Clauses are doing their able best to prdmulgate the Yuletlde spirit and, except for the one who was s i e k last week, have had I little trouble ex cept the usual e o m p 1 a int of corns and tired feet. I One of the lo cal Santas was stumped - the ether dy. rsoi R. KaoMrl ir. though. Going his kindly rounds in the toy depart ment he bumped Into a somewhat ragged urchin. The child looked up at old St. Nick in seeming awe and S. Nick followed the rules of the profession by patting the boy on the head and asking, "Well, little fellow, and what do you want me to bring you for Christmas?" . The child didn't follow the rules. He threw look of shocked surprise back at Santa and said: -Well, for Crlpes sake, haven't yon opened my letter yetr OH, SO? DEPT. "The Graf Bpee was fall of battle scars, he said. "On the port aide about 60 feet from the boy and five feet from the water line there la about CO feet from the bow and five feet in diameter. Capital Journal Take a bow, boy. According to a dispatch the Finns are marching off to battle singing a song the translation of which is "Roosevelt is a very good man and he is coming to help us." Maybe he can get a third term In Finland. PURELY PERSONAL The other day we wrote a piece lamenting how we had come too late . a see a storm, which hap pened "yesterday" at the coast. Yesterday the postman brought us a postcard from the Nye Beach Improvement dub at - Newport showing huge waves breaking over a seawall, just to prove to us that they do have storms at the coast. So we had a photo graphic storm and before the day was well along somebody had sent the real McCoy over and the wind was having a fine time. We pick the funniest times to go places, so we went out to . the airport. As we suspected It was ceiling aero and whatnot, i The wind was shaking the ? hangar from left to right. In-. (Turn to page 2, coL 2) to 7 9 .......... ; , .i, s.... lira me & i Eye-Witnesses Describe Battle at Sea MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay. Dec. 14-W)-Vivid eye-witness stories of the Admiral Graf Spee's fight with British cruisers were told tonight by members of a group of 2 British seamen who were prisoners directly under one of the 11-lnch gun turrets while the Graf Spee threw steel at her at tackers. i . Freed of : their marine -prison several after weeks of confine mentthe seamen described how they counted hits by British guns ana cheered for the attacking cruisers, at the same time realis ing they were doomed if the Graf Spee - sank because the doors of their steel cells were barred when the action began. One of the best accounts of the first big sea fight of the Euro pean ' war was told by a quiet mannered officer of the British steamer Doric Star who was taken prisoner before his ship was sunk by the Graf Spee off the coast of Africa. , ' . '-t- ; The prisoners were awakened OF BAY STRIKE s "'t 1 I (I n Clerks Expect to Force Arbitration Federal Leaders Asked to Use Prestige of Posts ; to Bring Settlement SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 14-ff) -San Francisco longshoremen took steps today designed to force arbitration of issues which have virtually stalled waterborne com merce here since November 10. y Acting upon a resolution adopt ed Unanimously by the membfx? ship last Monday night but un disclosed until today, the Inter national Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union tele graphed President Roosevelt, Sec retary of Labor Perkins and Gov ernor Culbert L. Olson urging that the "authority and prestige" of their offices be used to see that "arbltrational processes" be used to end the deadlock between the striking ship clerks' associa tion and the Waterfront Employ ers' association. Announcement of the ILWU's resolution was withheld pending outcome of a settlement proposal submitted to Mayor Angelo J. Rossi by representatives of the clerks and the Maritime Federa tion of the Pacific. The proposal was not acceptable to the em ployers. F. P. Folsie, president of the Waterfront Employers' associa tion, commented: That 'if a state or emergency exists in the port of San Fran elsco, It was created by the un ion; it was the union that went on strike." Folsie previously had written Governor Olson that the employers could not consent to proposed state operation of the harbor. In Los Angeles, harbor business continued in volume and a short age of longshoremen developed because of the diverting of car goes from here. . Silverton Group Will Study Plan SILVERTON At a special city council meeting here Thursday a resolution was passed authorizing Mayor Zetta Schlador to appoint a citizen's committee to Investigate the feasibility of the manager form of city government for Sil verton. : Mayor Schlador said She would ask the following to serve: Norris Ames, R. B. 'Duncan, Hugh Lath am, W. S. Jack, Reber Allen, E. W. Garver, A. A. Ulvln, W. L. MeGinnls and L. M. Larson. at six In the morning, he said, by cannonading. "We knew what that sound meant," he said, "and we le v it was serious when the guards of our Quarters locked and bar red the doors and left to go to their battle stations. "As the battle progressed most of - us realised a British victory might mean our deaths, but. nev ertheless there waa , singing and cheering for the attackers. -' "Altogether; we counted 17 hits by British shells on the Graf Spee In the various encounters : that day. .V -. "V. ".Probably you won't believe this, but several men who were shaving when the cannonading began went on and - finished the Job.- - v J- . 1 "I had a sore throat and : was gargling medicine when we had a British visitor -a piece, of shell which bad exploded outside . tore Its way Into our Quarters without burtlng anyone.' - ' - Finns Grimly Hold in Face Of Russ Fire Artillery Bombardment Fails, to Dislodge . Defending Army Finnish. Troops Claim Tide of Invasion Is Turned By LYNN HEINZERLING WITH THE FINNISH ARMY ON THE EASTERN KARELIAN FRONT, Dec. 14UP)-Several bat talions of fierce fighting Finns clung stubbornly today to their positions on the Taipale river near Lake Ladoga in the face of heavy artillery fire. For more than a week they have been holding out against the Russians, writing a new chapter of Finland's struggle for independence. Today I stood in a first line Finnish trench and watched with group of Finnish soldiers as soviet artillery sent shell after shell screaming , across the wind ing stream Into a forest about half a mile away. When the day was over the Russians had blackened the snow for acres and blasted the woods around but the Finns still were holding the river positions. Finns Announce Tide Of Invasion Turned , (In another southeastern sec tion of their country, the Finns announced officially today they had turned the tide of the Rus sian invasion, forcing the red army Into retreat and recaptur ing an extensive area around Tolvajarvl, which. Is 40 miles west of the eastern frontier and the same distance north of Lake Ladoga. In the north the Rus sians . penetrating the Finnish nickel mining district, nsared the. blazing town of Salmjjeryl while' the Finns retreated in orderly fashion, burning towns and rural buildings behind them.) Acres and acres of stately pine and spruce trees, agleam with winter's frost, have been cut down in this Taipale river area (Turn to page S, coL i) Exeter Limps In To Be Repaired British Cruiser Expected at Puerto Belgrano This Morning BUENOS AIRES, Dee. 14.-65V The British cruiser Exeter, crip pled in last night's battle with the German Admiral Graf Spee, limped tonight toward drydock in the Argentine naval base of Puer to Belgrano In Bahia Blanca, seeking repairs. At Puerto Belgrano, 100 beds were prepared at the naval hos pital for the Exeter's wounded. The base Is 120 miles southwest Of Buenos Aires. Telephone dispatches from Ba hia Blanca said the Exeter was ex pected off Mar Del Plata, Argen tine Atlantic port, before morn ing, enroute to the drydock. The dispatches said the Exeter had made a request that it be al lowed to use the drydock. Reports reaching here from points along the Argentine Atlan tic coast said the Exeter was bad ly hit, making barely 14 knots about half her normal speed. American Planes Arrive in France PARIS. Dec. !4-(flVFIrst consignments of planes bought In the United States since the repeal of the American arms embargo have 'arrived safely. In France, French sources disclosed tonight. There were no details on the number of planes. "But I swallowed all the medi cine! " ' . "Our confinement area was di rectly under one of the 11-inch turrets. Every time a shot w-ts fired it seemed as If the whole roof had collapsed .over us. . "The grandest news we, ever had was when an officer 'came down last! night and told, us, 'Gentlemen, the war la over for you. We just entered the Mon tevideo harbor.' ;;. , - : ' ;, (One of the conditions on which the prisoners were released was that they should not talk about what happened on the Graf Spee.) : , . The D o r 1 e Star off Ieer,': de scribing his experiences with the German crew, said most ' of ' them w-e young an 'l don't j think they, ever: considered -the possi bility of having, to fight another wtttship. Thr itemed to think their only . job. . was sinking freighters, h That probably 1 one reason whjr Jight cruisers, . vara British. - Clash German Fleet Near Jutland British Reconnaisance Fliers Report Nazi Ship Movements Admiralty Claims Four Messerschmidts Shot Down in Battle LONDON, Dec. 15.-(ifp)-British airmen Just returned from a smashing air battle over the North sea reported oday they had seen a section of the German fleet near the scene of the World war battle of Jutland. "Reconnaissance fliers said they saw a nazi battleship, a cruiser, some destroyers, and i submarine," the air ministry an nounced. It was the first report in the European war of such a strong penetration of the North sea by German naval forces. The warships took part in a German counter-attack on the British planes. Four Messerschmidts Claimed Shot Down LONDON. Dec 14.-MVTheaIr ministry announced tonight that four German Messerschmldt fighting planes and three British fighters had been shot down In fierce air battles over Helgoland during the last .24 hours." The announcement said .con siderable foreea of the royal air force have been operating over the North sea in the last 24 hours." The operations, the air minis try said, included a wide search for enemy surface craft and sub marines and close reconnaissance of the estuaries and islands of northwest Germany. The air battles took place dur ing those flights. One British formation engaged strong enemy tighter forces" the air ministry said, adding that ex cept for the three British war- planes shot down over Helgoland all British formations returned without losses. Germans Insist Score to 1 in Their Favor BERLIN, Dec. 14.-UPV-S1X of the latest type of British bombers and one Messerschmldt fighter were reported by German authori ties to have been shot down in a big air battle near the Frlesen island of Splekerkoog this after noon. Germans said a number of Mes serschmidts engaged 12 British bombers when they appeared near Splekerkoog, which is the second Frlesen island from Wllhelmshav en and is southwest of Helgoland. Authorities believed the bomb ers were en route to Bremerhaven to attack the liner Bremen, now tied up there after Its successful dash from Arctic Russia. 80-Degree Heat Hits Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14-UP)- Today was the hottest December 14 in Los Angeles since 1886. The temperature reached 80 de grees at 1:45 p. m., climbing from a low of 55 this morning. The fourth-month period start ing last September promises to be the warmest such period since the weather bureau was established here in 1877, Government Weath er Forecaster L. II. Daingerfield said. Last September and October were the hottest on record here. able to damage the Graf Spee and force her to flee." The officer said he expected to return again to the sea and that he had a son who probably would do likewise. - Captain Patrick G. G. Dove of the tanker Africa Shell, sunk on Oct. 7 by the Graf Spee In a po sition which Dove said was with in Portuguese waters, described bow the commander of the Graf Spee called him to the bridge just before the prisoners were released and told him: ."The cruisers made a gallant fight. - When people fight like that personal . enmity Is lost. . Dove said' (he first officer of the pocket battleship then wished him good luck, and added; 4 ! 'Those British are hard." Another In the group of offi cers given their freedom said that officers of - the- Graf Spee told tlm: :'?.,:.-';,- . -V ?. - " Tou f ellowa bava been pris oner a 'for sv long time now It looks as If it Is pur time.--- Concentrating Nazi Planes Over Helgoland Montevideo Rites For German Dead To Be Held Todav l MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 14-0PV-The 86 who died aboard the German pocket battleship Ad miral Graf Spee In yesterday's battle with British warships will be buried tomorrow in North cemetery which lies in the heart of Montevideo. The coffins will be borne to the cemetery in seven covered vans, followed by the ship's band and lOO seamen from the crippled German raider. Petition Drive to Begin Saturday County Republicans Will Make Effort to Obtain 15,000 for McNary A drive to secure 15,000 or more petition signatures nominal lng US Senator Charles I. McNary as Oregon's republican candidate for president will be started Sat urday when the Marlon county republican central committee meets at the county courthouse at 2 p. m., Lewis Judson, county chairman, announced yesterday. In addition to instructions to precinct committeemen and com mit teevr omen, the program will include an address by Grant Mur phy of Stay ton, republican state committeeman, on the objectives of the McNary for President com mittee. He is county chairman for the movement. A brief business session will also be held. The county central committee has undertaken sponsorship of the McNary for president movement because "there is no contest" and Charles McNary is our senator," Judson said. It Is planned to com plete 'the petition circulation by Lincoln's birthday. PUD Backers Get Sufficient Names Hydroelectric Commission to Be Asked to" Blake Basle Survey The committee sponsoring the Marlon county peoples' utility dis trict movement has secured more than the required 1102 petition signatures asking the state hydro electric commission to conduct preliminary investigations of the district proposal. County Clerk U. G. Boyer announced yesterday. Of the more than 1500 signa tures submitted for checking against the clerk's registration records, 1297 have been found to comply with the law, Boyer said. More than 50 voting precincts are represented on the list. The committee will file the pe titions with the hydroelectric commission within a short time, according to H. E. Barker, secre tary. "If the commission, reports the project feasible, an effort will be made to have a special election called to coincide with the 1140 May primary elections. The area of the proposed dis trict includes all of Marion county except sparsely settled outlying lands. FR Goes Home WASHINGTON, Dec. UiJP President Roosevelt left tonight to spend the weekend at his Hyde Park, N. Y., home. First Diplomatic Reception Of Year Small, Tension-Shot WASHINGTON, Dee. li-Wf The smallest and most tension shot diplomatic reception in many years opened the winter social season at the White House to night. The affair was as brilliant as usual, but the gold braid of diplo mats' resplendent uniforms cov ered. In some eases, heavy hearts and uncertain f eeUnga born of hoetilltiee in Europe and the ori ent. ";- Tew guests outside the diplo matic corps were there to see the ambassadors and ministers with their swords and plumed hats or the diplomatic wives gowned in frocks by famous . American and European couturiers. Instead of the usual 1201 to 1S00 guests, officials said those i In attendance were limited to 700 odd and included only high gov ernment officials and a limited number of state department ex ecutives with their wjves. Again, the war abroad waa re sponsible. Mrs. Roosevelt bad an nounced earlier that Washington residential society. would not.be Uavlted to any receptions this Uruguay Gives Fugitive Ship Special Leave? British Ships Gather at Entrance to Prevent Freedom Dash Extensive Repairs to Be Made Before Fighter Ready for War MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 14P The shell-battered nszl pocket battleship Admlrsl Graf Spee, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a gathering Brit ish . battle fleer; tonight vol Uruguayan permission to remain in this neutral port until she caa repair the damage suffered in tbe war's first great sea fight. Tbe Uruguayan foreign minis ter, Alberto Guani, tonight an nounced that, "In accordance with the Uruguayan neutrality law and international law," the Graf Spee could stay in Montevideo harbor, on request of the German gortra- ment, pending repairs. Tbe announcement waa made shortly before the 24-hour time limit, normally permitted for tbe stay of a belligerent ship, would have expired at midnight, Uru guayan Ume, or 7:80 p. m., PST. Guanl declined to say how long this extension of time woeld run, but explained that the German captain would be given sufficient time to make his warcraft sea worthy. Close inspection of tbe crippled ship indicated the need of exten sive repairs. Suicidal Dash Past Watchers Delayed Tbe Uruguayan decision meaat that the Graf Spee, still at anchor In the bay with her 21 dsad and 10 wounded on board, need not immediately attempt a suicidal dash through the reinforced Brit ish warship patrol outside tbe harbor. Shortly after the crippled nasi floating fortress had surrendered 42 British seamen taken from nine raided merchantmen, British diplomatic authorities indicated that the 10.000-ton British erulaer Cumberland had Joined the "death watch" flotilla outside the harbor. The same sources also said that ' It was very likely tbe great battle cruiser Renown and tbe aircraft carrier Ark Royal would rush here from South African waters. Tbe Cumberland mounts eight (Turn towage 2, col. 8) Mystery Shrouds Origin of Blaze Destroying Home MONMOUTH, Dee. 14. eaose the boose was not wired for electricity, tbe stove was cold and no one in the boo need tobacco, Mr. and Mrs. Gail Adams, both deaf mates, are wondering what c a s e d the blase which destroyed their frame home three miles north west of Monmouth Tuesday night, .The Adamses bad re tired, bmt Mrs. Adams smaelled smoke amd discovered tbe fire. Tbe bouse, owned by Ray Ad ams, was insured, but furniture, of which living and dining i ootu seta were saved, was C laawred. year. She Indicated - the purpose waa to reduce the president's so cial duties and keep the line ef those he must recelre as short as possible. The president and Mrs. Roose velt entertained at a dinner for 22 before the reception, with tse new dean ef the diplomatic corps as their ranking guest. Ambaasador De Frsyre y Saa tandsr of Peru, slight gray-baired (Turn to Page 2 Column 2) 0 : Shopping Q) dm ml' A 39