The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 15, 1939, Page 2, Image 2

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The OREGON STATESMAN.: Salon, Oregon, Friday Morning. Decemher 15, 1933 -yy
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league States
vote miss vui
linTasion of Finland Is
fr, basis for Complete;
jjr Vote of Members
(Continued from page 1)
Chfe Finns and believed the action
twould please neutrals, particular
ly the United Statea. -Finland
Seeks More
UJtterial Help
tfVThe Finns were delighted "so
jar." but pointed out that ma
terial help was more important
i them than league resolutions.
European n eu trals were
feieased, although most of them
-frtre too frightened to back the
aaague ouster themselves and
Warily made It clear they were
Centering no "blocs" against any
one. v? German obserTers and . German
fcewsmen even were satisfied.
-$iey said, "for Russia will work
iwith us now, perhaps."
U,Jtalians, too, liked it, although
3tiey. still haTe not forgiven the
league for imposing . economic
penalties against them at the time
of .the 19 3 5 invasion of Ethiopia.
Disagreeable features of the ac-
ion. however, were noted unof
Icially in league quarters where
i was remembered that the sov-
ft has been contributing about
..tiOO.OvO, or about 11 per cent,
cjf the annual league budget.
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tast US Vessel
Leaves Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Dec.
The S,l 5 1-ton steamer Scanmail,
last American ship scheduled to
leave Denmark for the duration
of the war, ' departed for the
United States tonight with a ca
pacity passenger list
. Included among the passengers
on the Moore-McCormack lines
operated vessel were several per
sons from the American embassy
to Berlin.
In One Ear .
(Continued from page 1) .
side we found Snlx, the flying
waitress, painting stools for her
airport eatery, which will open .
soon, and Johnny Hugbes, dab
bing staff on an airplane. The
weather man, who lives , p
.statrs. wasn't dolus - any good,
as far as we could see
On the way, back we Etopped
to take a glance at the skeleton
of the new baseball park, but
there didn't seem to be much do
ing there, ei then
All in all it was a pretty bad
day for baseball.
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A ' rainbow " was observed
stretching from the city hall to
the court bouse Wednesday.
Diligent inquiry failed to reveal
a pot of goidat either end and
a grand Jury investigation is
not anticipated.
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Smith Is Accused
Of Aiding Union
(Continued from page 1)
attempting to persuade customers
of the' mills to boycott, them?
Robb said he had found corres
pondence between Smith and John
Edelman, an oficer of the union,
in which Edelman advised that a
boycott would be undertaken.
Smith, the witness said, trans
mitted the information he had re
ceived from Edelman to Louis
Kirsteln, an officer of Filene's de
partment store in Boston. Smith
once was employment manager
for Filene's.
Robb testified that no charges
against the hosiery company had
been filed with the labor board
at the time of the correspondence.
Vessels .Warned
SEATTLE, Dec. 1 i.-(&)-T h e
weather bureau reported south
east storm warnings were dis
played tonight on the sound and
straits, and on the Washington and
Oregon coasts as' far south as
Marshfield.
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Uruguay Gives
Special Leave
British Ships Gather at
Entrance to Prevent
Freedom Dash
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(Con tinned from page 1) .
S-lnch guns and has a speed .oi
31.5 knots. .
Cruisers Keep Guard
To Prevent Kacapo ;
Already, the light cruisers Ajax
and Achilles, which drove the
Graf Spee Into this harbor alter
a day-long battle yesterday, were
on watch, along with the
crippled Bltrish cruiser Exeter.
Reports from the Ajax and
Achilles said that they had no
dead and only a few wonnded.
There were unconfirmed reports.
nowever, of some dead aboard the
Exeter.
The Renown, last reported on
guard off Capetown with the Ark
Royal for other German pocket
battleship raiders, has six 15
inch guns.
The seamen surrendered today
by the Graf Spee had huddled to
gether in the brig of the pocket
battleship while yesterday's battle
raged for hours above their heads.
They were released at 6:45 p.
m. (1:15 p. m. PST).
Under the direction of British
legation officials, a tugboat pulled
alongside the pocket battleship
and the seamen emerged from
their prison. '
Prisoners Show Evidence
Of Terrible Day
They clambered happily- into
the tug for the trip ashore.
Headed by five merchant cap
tains, the men mounted the same
gang-plank over which Captain
Hans Langsdorff of the Graf
Spee a half hour earlier had led
half a dozen smartly clad nasi of
ficers on his way to make a for
mal call in port.
The prisoners ranged In age
from a man 72 years old to youths
who appeared less than 15 years.
Most of them carried shapeless
bags holding their scanty belong
ings. Some clung tightly to life
belts salvaged from their old
ship.
Without exception they showed
the effects of a terrible day spent
in close confinement in the bow
els of the Graf Spee while the
battleship was pounded by Brit
ish shells and shaken by the recoil
of its own 11-inch guns.
The Imprisoned captains were
identified as Brown of the S3
Huntsman, Pottinger of the S3
Ashlea, Edwards of the S3 Tre
vanion, Stubbs of the SS Doric
Star and Patrick G. G. Dove of
the Africa Shell. All these ships
were sunk in the vicinity of the
African.coast.
The other four vessels which
fell victim to the raider were the
Clement, sunk off Brazil Septem
ber 30; the Newton Beach, at
tacked off South Africa October
5; the Pairo, which went down
the same day as the Doric Star;
and the Streonshalh. sunk off the
river Platte about a week ago.
Fraternity Thief
Will Be Returned
SEATTLE. Dec. 1 4-UPWSherif f
C. A. Swarts of Lane county.
Ore., took custody of Ed Baker,
23. here today to face a charre
of taking nersonal belon?inea
from members of the University
of Oregon Pi Kappa Alpha fra
ternity. Baker was arrested at the fra
ternity's University of Washing
ton chapter house while contlnu
Insr his Dose of beinr a nlerir to
a southeastern chapter.
Baker-was handcuffed to Lewis
L. Mitchell, 49, who was being
taken by Detective Inspector A.
O. Powell of Portland to face a
burglary charge in the Rose City.
Dozenberg Starts
Trip to New York
PORTLAND. Dec. 14-n-Fed
eral authorities left here by
train tonight with Nicholas Dozen
berg, wanted in New York on a
passport violation charge involv
lng Earl Browder, head of the
communist party in America.
The 57-year-old prisoner, ac
cused Ty US District Attorney
can Donaugh of being one of the
founders of the communist party
in the United States, was arrested
last Saturday at Bend. - Ore..
where he was discovered operat
ing a grocery store.
Rumors of Fight
Off Chile Scouted
SANTIAGO. Chile. Dec. 14-UP
Rumors that a naval engagement
naa occurred off Aneud, province
of Chlloe, in southern Chile, led
today to statements by Defense
Minister GulTIermo La Barca and
spokesmen for the British and
German embassies that they had
no knowledge of any such engage
ment. ,,-.;;-
The rumors followed a report
of the newspaper Critlca that fir
ing had been heard at sea off An
cud.
Late Sports
RA$R f!TH A T.T.
' LA GRANDE, Dec !-)-The
Eastern Oregon college of
Education basketball team was
ever headed as it defeated
College of Idaho, 86 to 28 hero
tonight. . "
ASHLAND. 17 e c. 14. - (T
Soutbem Oregon college of Ed
ucation defeated Pacific univer
sity, 81 to 29, hero tonight.
McCabe and ' Eilertsem led the
on them team, scoring 8
points each. . . . -
HOCKEY.. - 1
PORTLAND, Doe. 14.-(flV.
The Seattle Seahawks came
from behind here tonight to
beat the' Portland BnckarOOS.' S'
to 2, in an overtime Pacific
coast hockey league game.
FIGHTS
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14'
(JPy-Tonj Olivera, 119, San
Francisco bantamweight,
scored a ten-round decision to.
night over Lou SaUca, 117
of Brooklyn, N. Y., to gain rec
ognition in California and New
York as a world's, bantam
weight champion.
Red Radio Scores
Swedish Socialists
MOSCOW, Dee. 14.-ttP)-The
Moscow radio launched a sharp
attack tonight against members
of the Swedish social democratic
party and their organ, "Social
Democrat.
"Slaves and hirelings of capital
ists and imperialistic interests
have dared abuse the glorious red
army, which with such unselfish
ness has lent its help to the demo
cratic Finnish republic, said the
broadcast. "These so-called social
ists hare sunk so deep that their
newspaper has reached the level
of the worst Paris boulevard pa
pers. But the whole world and
even the Swedish people realize
the unselfish work of the soviet
union and her army.
French Battleship
Speeds to Watch
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. l.-VPh-
Officlal Argentine sources said
today they "understood" that the
26,500-ton French battleship
Dunkerque was steaming toward
the river Platte to Join the Brit
ish warship watch there over the
Admiral Graf Spee.
The Dunkerque is rated by na
val experts as one of the five Brit
ish and French warships capable
of dealing alone with the German
pocket battleship..
Carrying eight 13-Inch guns as
main armament, she has a speed
of 29.5 knots and is protected by
14-Inch armor.
The official sources who gave
the information would not permit
themselves to be quoted, and said
they could give no. details.
Finns .Grimly
Hold Position
Artillery J Bombardment
Fails to Dislodge
Defending Army
(Continued from page 1)
by tons of 3-inch, 6-Inch and 8
inch Russian shells. ' "
' But since the attack began In
this ' sector Dec. 6 the "Finns
haven't yielded an inch.
Finns Contemptuous of
Furious Artillery Fire
They have jaipped a dozen at
tempts by the' Russians to throw
a pontoon bridge across the river.
The furious artillery attack,
of which the Finnish officers
speak contemptuously, naturally
haa caused some casualties among
the Finnish troops.
One shell . early this morning
struck a farmhouse where five
troopers were- blHetted. "All were
killed. " y
Perhaps a dozen farm build
ings were wrecked' and a consid
erable number of horses and cat
tie were killed by the shelling
this morning.
The road over which I ap
proached the front line trench
was blocked in many places by
felled trees and rutted by shell
holes.
But despite almost constant
shelling in this sector by the
Russians today the Finns didn't
fire an answering shot.
"We don't shoot unless we have
to." one officer said. "The Rus
sians are just spoiling our for
est with their kind of shooting."
CoL Toivo Sakparanta, whom I
encountered on today's tonr, said
the Russians were using ten
times as many shells as the Finns.
I saw many unezploded Russian
shells.
sued" against two. jeabaret owners
who kept things 'moving until S
a. m. last Sunday morning.
Immediately, the Vancouver
night club operators let It be
known they would keep open un
til 2 a. m. every Sunday hence
forth. . ' - v
MOSCOW, Dec. 1 5-(Friday) -
(fl3) Red army headquarters de
clared today a spearhead had
been driven 75 miles across the
Finnish Arctic, or more than a
third of the way to the Bothnian
gulf.
The communique said only
that the advance had been made
in the Ukhta area. However, pre
vious operations in the same area
have resulted in the reported oc
cupation of Salla and Markajarvl
in a drive to cut Finland in two
at her narrowest part.
Revelers Enjoy
Cabaret Ruling
VANCOUVER, Dec. 14.-(CP)-Saturday
night revellers heaved
sighs of joy tonight on learning
that cabarets will not close at
midnight after all.
The joy had its birth in Victor
ia where Attorney-General Gor
don Wlsmer announced that fiats
for prosecution under the Lords
Day Alliance act would not be is-
Party Leaders of
11 States Gather
GOP Regional Conference
t atTSalt Lake WUl
" Cohvene Today;
SALT LAKE CITY, - Dec. 14.-(P)-Republican
delegates were ar
riving here tonight for an 1 1 -state
regional conference at which for
mation of a permanent organiza
tion "through which all the west
can work and speak" was to be
considered.
; The two-day conference of par
ty state chairmen, national com
mitteemen and women, young re
publican leaders and others, will
convene tomorrow at 10 a. m. at
the call of George W. Snyder of
Salt Lake City, Utah national
committeeman.
Crack Nazi liner
Leaves Vera Cruz
VERA CRUZ, Mez., Dec. 14-(AV-The
German liner Columbus,
fueled and provisioned for a 50-
day voyage, slipped to sea today
apparently attempting to dodge
British warships on the high seas
and run the allied blockade to
Germany. '
A rich war prize if captured at
sea, the S2-SS 1-ton liner had been
in Vera Cruz since September 4,
the day after Britain declared
war.
Efforts to keep her departure
secret were made because of Brit
ish warships patrollng gulf and
Caribbean waters. The Columbus
received clearing papers for Os
lo, Norway, yesterday. Before
dawn she shifted her anchorage
and by 10 a. m. was outside Mex
ican waters.
Anglo-Russ Trade
Relations Tense
Snap Expected as Result
of Soviet Invasion
of Finland
LONDON. Dec 14-VBrItIsh
condemnation of the Russian in
vasion of Finland and a pledge
to give ail possible aid to the
Finns was regarded by reliable
observers tonight as foreshadow
ing a definite breakdown of An-glo-sovtet
trade relations.
It was considered probably
there would be a rupture of other
relations as well.
, Prime Minister Chamberlain, in
a, pre-holiday report to commons;
declared soviet Russia had "out
raged the conscience of the whole
world."
He said Great Britain has re
leased a number of fighting
planes for immediate delivery to
Finland and Intends ot release
other material,
, Praising the league for con
demning Russia, Chamberlain told
commons that "Germany alone
among the nations, even now is
abetting by word and deed the
Russian aggression.'
"We must give what help and
support we can to the latest vic
tim of these destructive forces.
But meanwhile, it Is only by con
centrating on our tak of resist
ance to German aggression and
thus attacking the evil at Its root
that wo can hope to save the na
tions of Europe from the fate
that otherwise must overtake
them."
Chamberlain ld the Finnish
army had proved Itself by far
the better fighting force in every
thing but numbers. It is too
early, he added, "to attempt any
forecast of the outcome of this
unequal struggle, but its political
consequences already have been
farreachlng."
Lumber Interests
Oppose New Park
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. H-VPr
A proposed national park, extend
ing along the Cascade mountains
from Mount Hood, Ore., to the
Canadian border, was opposed to
day by the Western Forestry and
Conservation association.
The association protested such
a park would "lock up" timber
resources.
"We can't find out what it's
all ' about. . And we can't find
anyone who really wanta it,"
George Drake, Shelton, Wash.,
lumberman, said.
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Columbia's Mouth
Lashed by Storms
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 14-
Shipping was baited and trees
toppled over coastal highways to
day as a 70-mlle an hour gale
lashed the lower Columbia river
area. ,
The gale followed a rapid drop
of the barometer, 13 points in
12 hours, forcing cancellation of
the North Beach ferry's noon
trip and stopping movements of
four ships.
Three remained at anchor In
side the river mouth and another
vessel cruised at sea, waiting for
the bar to quiet The blow was
hard enough to keep the Colum
bia bar pilots' schooner Columbia
at anchor inside.
211 Wards
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Christmas Ilix lb. 120
French Creams lb. 150
Luscious fillings rolled In fresh, delicious
chocolate.
Jnmbo Jells lb. 120
Myriad colors of giant Jelly beans to please
the kiddles.
Primrose Filled lb. 170
They're sensational.
Hundreds of de
lectablo Candies
are on display In
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Bombs Explode in
London Theatres
BRIMTNGHAM, Eng., Dec. 14-Of)-Bombs
exploded in two movie
theaters tonight several hours af
ter a Birmingham court had pro
nounced the first death sentences
in the campaign ot terror by the
anti-British -Irish Republican
army. - ,
The flash-type bombs caused
only a slight damage, however,
and no one was injured. 3
Poland Unable to
x Make Installment
T WASHINGTON, Dee. 14-(ff-The
Polish ambassador. Count
Jeriy Potockl, told the United
States' government today that,
because of "invasion by Ger
many and Russia,. Poland mould
bo unable to pay her installment
on Its war debt. ; , 3
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