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Newspaper Page TextOREGON 10 COUGARS 6 STANFORD 7 TROJANS ...... 4-6 PITT 21 IRISH 6 DARTMOUTH ..33 PRINCETON ....... 9 INDIANA OHIO ... ,10 YALE 19 . 0 BROWN ....,.. 0 FORDHAM 21 3 PURDUE OREGON STATE 20 WILLAMETTE . 0 CALIFORNIA ... 0 WASHINGTON . 0 ALABAMA ..... ., 9 TULANE ........ 6 MICHIGAN ....13 CHICAGO ... . . .10 ILLINOIS ... 6 NORTHW - . .,. 0 ARMY 7 HARVARD 6 GOPHERS . 35 IOWA ,., .,.10 1 The Weather The Right One Medford forecast: Cloudy today and tomorrow, probably rain; little change In temperature Temperature: HiKhetft yesterday - M Lowest yesterday ....... ....... S5 If you are looking for an In vestment It mlRlit pay you to turn to the Classified page There are numerous offers of various kinds. Some good ones too. rind the right one then hurry t -KIJjUlNJi Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1937 No. 197. Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. JAPANESE FIBHINO POUCT AROUSES PBOIF.STS ... MARITIME UNION THREATENS PICKET NIPPON'S VESSELS ... ALASKA DF.LEGATE ASKS TERRITORIAL EXTENSION V. 6. NAVY WATCHING NEGOTIATIONS IN TOKYO WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. While of course It wouldn't be admitted of ficially for a second, the United states embassy at Tokyo Is staging a diplo matic race with certain organized American citizens who want action and threaten to take It by direct route if diplomacy fall. The subject of the negotiations has nothing to do with what Is going on at Brussels. It Involves the safety on the high sea of several million salmon and the welfare and liveli hood of thousands of American citi zens In the fishing Industry. In other words, the situation cre ated by the persistent depiction of the aalmon In Bristol Bay of Alaska by Japanese fishing fleets Is reaching' a climax. The members of the Paclflo mari time union have declared that they wlU picket Japanese boats If the Jap anese don't stop their activities In Alaskan waters. That la their solu tion If the government falls them. Anthony Dlmond. Alaskan delegate member of the house of representa tives, wants to settle the question by legislation which would push our ter ritorial watere clear out to the edge of the "continental shelf" and turn a great section of the "high seas" over to American and Canadian Jur isdiction. Mr. Dlmond Intends to Introduce his bill this session, but he'i wait ing OB the state department's say-so before he pushes it. And that's where the rub comes In, because whUo the state depart ment Is off Iclally ''silent, there arc sub-surface Indications that Its law yers feel that the only way the con troversy can be settled Is by Inter national arbitration. Precedent Is at lenst ten points of the law. and there Is the famous Bering Sea arbitration, which found against the United States. It stated that a good Amerlcnn seal, born and educated on American soil, could "be legally shot and skinned by foreign era at sea. The majority of the arbltratora then (1882). Including Mr. Justice Harlln, decided that the United k States had no property rights In fur seal outside the three-mile limit. Before this decision. United States revenue cutters went out and took the pelt away from Russian and Japanese and English scalers and blood filled many a scupper. Fol lowing the award of the arbitration board, the Bering Sea treaty was signed. The other nations agreed to stop shooting our seals, but America stiU pays the excluded nations for share of our own catch. Justice seems to be on the side of the United States in the present ease. We have spent millions to build up the salmon industry, and strictly regulated the fishing amount of catch, and season. Japan marches In and abides by no regulations. Jn fact, she Insisted that she caught no salmon until ovir airplanes swept over her floating canneries and pho tographed the fish on the boat deck. But International law still sets a Button's territorial waters at three miles the range of a cannon In the ancient days when the limit was es ' tanllshed. The rest of the sea Is free. Edward Allen, member of the Canadian-American fisheries commission, doesn't go along with the Interna tional lawyers, think It la "unsound ly fatalistic" to hark back to the "three-mile" rule. But the state department thinks It can settle the matter according to Hoyle. It might, for Instance, sug gen to the Japanese that. If they don't stop crabbing the American sal mon Industry, the United States mlaht stop buying their crab-meat. Since the Japanese fishing fleet Is n auxiliary of the Japanese navy and elnce some American naval men think (Continued on Page Right ) Mai I II Hank Opened. PORTLAND. Nov. . W The mm National bank of PortUnd an nounced the opening dy of lt 4Jnd branch at Malln. also Its third unit In Klamath county. Melvln A. Bow man, assistant manager of the Mer rill branch, VI! mnnsc" the rw of fice. It will r.f th ;.,- rnxlnj ftferaUon in Malm sine 1J3. FEDERAL TAX LAW 1 BTBANKERS State Control Of Relief And Repeal Of Profits Tax Urged Collapse Quiz Planned. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., Nov. 6 PJ The Investment Banker Association of America to day blamed the autumn collapse In the securities markets partly ou fed eral tax laws and heard a former new ileal treasury undersecretary condemn administration spending policies as "destructive of self government and contrary to the welfare and happi ness of the people." In his first public address since he left his treasury post In February. 1P36, Thomas Jefferson Collldgc as serted the appropriating of huge gov ernment funds by a Washington bu reaucracy" was causing a "centraliza tion of power in remote government" which was "exactly what our ances tors tried to prevent through the constitution." The Boston banker urged "that the federal government at' once give up the direction of all this varied welfare work having to do with the Individ ual, and turn the full responsibility back to the states and local govern ments." He said tt could be done -"without financial difficulties" and suggested the federal government apportion cer tain of Its revenues among the states on a population or over-fixed basis. The association adopted resolutions advocating "repeal or substantial modification" of both the capital gains and undistributed profits taxes." The resolution on the capital gains levy said, "In the opinion of the as sociation, among other harmful ef fects, this tax has been tn part re sponsible for , the Impairment of val ues which lias lately taken place upon the public securities markets In this country " A second resolution said ''the un distributed profits tax has weakened the current financial position of many corporations, resulting In a less fa vorable credit standing and conse quent necessity of curtailing expenses and reducing the number of employ es." NEW YORK, Nov. . jJp The big gest "bear" hunt in the history of Wall street was on tonight in an ef fort to learn whether the .current stock market slump was deliberately manipulated. It was undertaken by the twenti eth century fund an independent endowed foundation which has been critical of market practices In the past at the request of the stock ex change. The investigation will run most of the winter, with a corps of perhaps 30 expert auditors digging deep into the records of "short" sales and what effect these "bear" operations have on falling prices. The results will be published, the fund promised, "no matter what they may be." It added: "The public, as well as the ex change and Its members, should know to what degree and in what ways short selling operations have affected the drastic decline in security values during recent months. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. (UP) President Roosevelt, It was learned tonight, ts being , advised by hlgn government fiscal officials to adopt a new economic program designed to stimulate the profit motive m business. The general objectives of the pro posed plan were described as: 1. To lift the nation from an In creasing industrial recession. 3. To Increase federal revenues by encouraging capital Investment and accelerating bunlneas. thus facilitat ing the balance of the national bud get to m h i e h Mr. Roosevelt ! pledged. ICC Leases Space For Medford Office WA.SHINOTON. Nov. 8 (AP.The Interstate. Commerce Commission said today it had leased spare at Medford, Ore.. November 1, for an office to handle motor Mirier eases. An Olvm nta. Wash., man la to be supervisor. Puck plentiful. TIUAMOOK. NOV, 6. fi The largest flocks of ducks seen hare In recent years are giving hunters hooting paradlM. Most . portsmen jot the limit Vr- ftrt :v of th --a. on. txx.r.i . irrrtte L'.if-r t- 10,000 duck In ruiamook bay alone. Family Reunion UNIONTOWN. Pa. rour gener ations of the Myers family were In a hospital today. The day after Mrs. Charles My ers, Jr., gave birth to a daughter there, the child's grandfather and great-grandfather were admitted with broken legs suffered In an auto accident and a fall. Mrs. Hahn Doomed To Die By Eleven Women Jury Fair Defendants Sobs. CINCINNATI, Nov. 6. &) Eleven women and a man decreed today that Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, 81 -year-old mother, die In the electric chair for the poison-murder of Jacob Wagner, 78, one of four men she allegedly killed for their money. The Jury's verdict, after delibera tions of two and a half hours, auto matically condemned her to death. Apparently unmoved and uncon cerned during most of her four weeks' trial, Mrs. Hahn heard the verdict with head slightly bowed and nerv ously twisting a handkerchief. . She blinked and stared at Judge Charles S. Bell as he thanked the Jurors for a "verdict four-square with the circumstances," then was hurried to her Jail cell where, chief Deputy Sheriff Heltzler said, she threw her self on a bed and sobbed. "Get me out quick, get me out quick," Helzler quoted her as saying, as he aided her from the room. ..... No date has been set' for formal sentencing. Chief Defense Counsel Joseph J. Hood In said he would seek a new trial and appeal to the state supreme court If necessary. LOYALISTS LOSE HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron tier, Nov. 6. (AP) Spanish Insur gents reported tonight a government attack on the Madrid front had been thrown back with heavy losses on the eve of. the first anniversary of the capital's siege. The border dispatches said the Madrid forces had attempted to drive a wedge into the Aravaca sector, northwest of the capital, in a thrust to break the siege which will be one year old Sunday. Government Infantry were said to have been mowed down by insurgent machine gun fire and forced back Into their trenches. Insurgent reports said other fronts were quiet. HAITIEN BORDER WASHINGTON, Not. . (UP Alarmed by a sudden threat to the peace of the weatern nemlaphere, the United States tonight acted to seek pacific solution of strife Between Haiti and the Dominican Republics which la estimated to hare coat more than 1,000 Uvea. Following official reports from Haitian sources of border Incidents In which wholesale killings took place, the United States ordered Its minister to the Dominican Repub lican, Henry T. Norweb, to proceed Immediately to the capital, TruJIllo City. Norweb baa been attending the International radio conference at Havana, Cuba, as one of the Amerloan delegates. He la expected to rech TruJIllo City Sunday. THE GREAT LOVER' IN STREET EIGHT HOLLYWOOD, Cal Not. 6. VP John Barn-more emerged In a two fisted, real life role today. It was an Impromptu performance. He said as he and his actreaa-wlte. Blaine Bame, emerged from a drug store, two unidentified youths made disparaging rrmarka about ber. Caliban turned and demanded they repeat the remark about his Ariel. When they did, he said, he swung an open-handed blow and one hr-kler 'truck the pavement. M-.other swlnf and the other fell Then the Btrrymoree drove bom. JAPANESE FORCE Refugees Report Troops Near Sungkiang Powers Offer New Peace Move. 8HANGHAI, Nov. 7. (Sunday) P) The vanguard of a Japanene flying column driving north from Hangchow bay was reported today to be within 25 miles of Shanghai. Refugeea streaming from Sungki ang, 22 miles southwest of Shanghai. Informed Hed Cross ambulance driv er the column had apllt into several units, with an advance body reaching a rice ferry on the Wrangpoo river, three mllea from Sunkiang, at dawn. Chinese reports trickling In fro the countrywide asserted 100 villagers and peasants either were killed or wounded a 40 Japanese planes blast ed a path through Cheklang province for the army'a awlft drive Inland from Hangchow bay. While warships heavily bombarded a number of ports along the bay, from which the Japanese launched their thrust suddenly yesterday, the warplanea invaded the rich silk, cot ton and rice region between the bay and Shanghai. - a BRUSSELS, Nov. 6. ) The pow era seeking to end the far eastern war aaked Japan tonight If ahe would confer with a smaller group of na tions on peace with China. The. not specified such an "ex change of views" would be within the framework of the nine-power treaty under which the Brussels conference was convoked. - , Neither the sit of toe possible meeting nor the participating nations were designated, however, leaving the door open to Japan to express ber wishes, ... The new peace bid, expressing re gret at Japan's absence from Brus sels, took cognizance of Japanese "misgivings" at the presence at Brus sels of so many powers with varying Interests in the -far east but express ed belief such misgivings could be allayed. The note requested a quick reply, . FARMHAND HELD IN SUICIDE PACT INDEPENDENCE, Kas., Nov. 6. (UP) Eugene Fahsholtas, 32-year old farm hand, was held secretly In a Jail In an undesignated town tonight while authorities drafted a murder charge against htra in connection with a strange suicide pact with the 16-year old aon of his former employer. Revived from chloroform fumes. Fahsholte explained that be entered into a suicide pact with Edwin Clublne because he feared that ale discharge by the youth's father would mean their permanent separ ation. Mrs. Harry Clublne went to her son's bedroom at 6:30 a. m. Fri day when Edwin failed to answer a call from his father. There ahe found the unconscious form of the farm hand stretched across the body of her son on the floor. SLAYER GRINS AS HAILET, Idaho, Nov. .(tn; Paul (Red) Boyatt was sentenced to. day to serve ao to 40 yeara In the slat penitentiary on second degree murder conviction for the "unwritten law" killing of Blrt Slater, Hollywood movie engineer. Boyatt grinned as the sentence waa pronounced. His wife, Bobby, who had admitted from the stand that Slat.r had lived with her, was not present. Slater met the couple when he waa here to aid in production of Claud ett Colbert's motion picture "I Met Him In Parle," in nearby mountatna. When Boyatt left bis wife alone to go on a business trip. Slater moved Into the Boyatt home, Mrs. Boyatt testified. Jury Denies Damages In Hospital Action A verdict In favor of the Commun ity botpttal and Dr. W. o. Bishop. In the suit of Prank Jones of Orant Pass, tor MS.000 alleged damages, was returned by a circuit court Jury 1st Saturday. Jones charged negli gence In care, while a patient from injuries i-t Mi back, incurred In an aulo nr. ;. . ', tn the .Tn":'ovllH RiKh highway two fears ho. Asks Divorce at 90 C, B. flu vf on fnlinvp,, fin. filed suit In I.ns Angrlr for a divorce and reasonable dTlmony from Ills wife of eight years, Mrs. Mary Clay ton. 77. He charecd dpfip rtfnn. PITT, DARTMOUTH, HOLD GRID LEAD, FAVORITES FALL Upsets Mark Saturday's Tilts Gophers Big Ten Favorites Deflated. -Golden -Bears By Herbert W. Barker. - It's still strictly a speculative and falling market on football favorites. Another stunning series of posi tively daffy results yesterday. Bay lor's Bears were removed from the undefeated and untied list by Dana Bible's much-trampled Texas Long horns; Nebraska had to fight for its life to get a 13-13 draw with under rated Kansas; California's previously unchecked Golden Bears were held to a scoreless draw by Washington; and Ohio State and Northwestern both were victims of shocking Big Ten upsets. The law of averages, howsvor, still ran second In Its race to catch up with such eastern powers as Pitt, Fordham, Dartmouth, Yale, Holy Cross, Vlllanova and Ln Pa yet to. as well as Alabama and Duke In the south, Colorado in the Rocky Moun tain section and Santa Clara and Montana in the far west, Baylor, apparently headed for tho southwest title without much argu ment, fell by a 9-0 count before Texas. Ohio State, needing only to get past Indiana to gain an almost certain share In the Big Ten championship. found the Hooslere entirely too tough and went down to decisive defeat, 10-0. Northwestern, a heavy popu lar choice, was outpointed by Illinois, 6-0. Pltf burled Notre Dame under a three-touchdown barrage in the rourth period, to win, 21-6. Ford ham, one of the nation's strong teams, played Its most Impressive tame in a 31-3 rout of Purdue. Dart mouth spotted Princeton nine points and then went on to win, 33-9. Duke scored at will against Wake Forest. 670. Colorado kept Its per fect record Intact In a 17-7 victory over Utah. Minnesota, now favored to gain un disputed possession of the Big Ten championship, wore down Iowa, 9fl 10, while Michigan had to wore twice in the last four minutes to take a 13-12 decision from Chicago. Rico went to the front In the onthwest conference race by taking a hair-raising 26-20 decision from Ar kansas. Auburn became a real threat to Alabama In the southeastern confer ence chase by trouncing Tennessee, 20-7. LATEST DE( WAflfTINQTON, Nov. 6. (UP) The supreme court, atudy of It procedure indicated tonight, will an non nee Ite decision on the newest challenge to eligibility of Associate Justice Hugo u Black when It con venea Monday. Crop Uw lilt. COR V ALMS, Nov. 6. (& The Bnton county Pomona Grant;" went on record as oppo?ed to the admin- Utratlon'a crop control plan. FEHL HELD UPON IN COUNTY JAIL Former County Judge Cited In Complaint Filed Sat urdayEarly Hearing Slated. Insanity proceedings were Insti tuted Saturday against Earl H. Fehl, former county Judge of Jackson coun ty, who Is held in the county Jail awaiting hearing. Fehl was taken Into custody late today by Sheriff Syd I. Brown and remanded to the county Jail tonight. The complaint, signed by Fred Kelly, Medford resident, alleges Fehl "Is nn Insane person, and dangerous to be at large." He is not admis sible to bonds, District Attorney F. J. Newman held. It is anticipated that the Insanity complaint will be certified to the circuit court, from the county Judge's court, and a hearing set for an early date. Fehl recently came Into state-wide notice by his filing of a suit for $548,000 alleged damages against Governor Charles H. Martin, on the grounds he was not released from the state prison, where he served a por tion of a four-year term, when "good time" credits entitled him to liberty. A Multnomah county court dismissed the case. Thursday, Fehl filed suit in circuit court for (200,000 damagos, charging "conspiracy" against County Clerk George R. Carter, Deputy District At torney George W. Nellson and former District Attorney George A. Codding. The ault alleges the three paat and present officials "plotted the political and personal ruin" of Fehl, through tho Jackson county ballot theft cases, In which Fehl upon conviction was sentenced to a four-year state prison term. LABOR TIE-UP ON COOS BAY LOOMS MARSHFlSTtiD, Ore., Nov. 6. (UP) Port of -Coos B.y will be closed to ocenn going commerce Monday, un less a truce or settlement la reached In the dispute between longshoremen nnd the Wnterfront Wmployers as sociation. Announcement was made a.er a meeting of the port labor relations committee had failed to reach a peaceful settlement of troubles which started Thursday. Longshoremen, affiliated with the C. I. o., refused three times to load lumber sawed at Smith Wood Prod ucts mill In Coquille, 19 miles from here, whero C. I. O. mlllworkers are on strike claiming they were dis criminated against when an exclusive A. F. of L. contract was signed re cently. FOR COMING WEEK Northern California! Fair and mild SundBy; fresh northwest wind off const. Oregon: Oenerally fair Sunday; but unsettled In north portion and valley fogs in southwest portion; little change In temperature; moderate south to west wind off coast. Outlook period November 8-13, In clusive, for far weatern atates: Gen erally fair weather and nearly normal temperatures but occasionally un settled In Oregon, Washington and northern Idaho. F.D.R. HELENA, Mont., Not. 6 (UP) Senator Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, tonight defended his stand against President Roosevelt's supreme court revision plan and struck back at his critics In a Constitution day address before his constituents In Montana's capltol city. Tho Montana senior senator made fin appeal for the preservation of the constitution with Its government through a batanca between the executive, legislative and Judicial branches. Wool Trade Light. BOSTON, Nov. 8. (AP-UflDA) I Volume of Uus'nrM in the wool mar- kel was small during Uia wsefc. Dangerous Decades EL CENTRO, Cal. Al Coon will take mighty good care of his tight great toe In 1947. It was smashed by an express wagon 20 years ago. Ten years ago a block of tee flattened It. Now It is crushed again, this time by a gasoline drum. READY TO BACK ANTI-RED TREATY Italy, Germany And Japan Unite To Halt Commu nism Spread No Military Clauses. ROME, Nov. 8. (AP) Fascists warned the world tonight the mili tary forces of Italy, Germany and Japan were prepared to back the tripower antl-Comm unlet pact signed today. They Intimated the brief agree ment, which makes Italy a charter member of the German-Japanese anti-Bolshevist front, binds the three powers to a "collaboration" which goes beyond even the fight on Com munism. Officials emphasized the pact was not directed against any country not even Russia, Mwhlch may have all the Communism It wants as long as ahe keeps it at home." Italian writers Interpreted the agreement tn terms of tha military forces of the three powers. Virgin. o Gayda, leading comment to, said 2,000,000 tons of warships and .200, 000,000 men are now at the disposal of tha an tl -Communist front, ' The agreement contains no mili tary clauses but binds the signatories to full exchange of Information on the world spread of Communism and the means necessary to combat it. The brief protocol signed today af firmed the unity of the three powers and brought Italy Into the pact as though she had been an original signatory when the German-Japanese agreement waa reached Nov. 25. 1036. Japan, "which Is engaged In a hard, Asiatic anti-Communist strug gle," waa especially lauded by Fascist commentators. TO VICE CLIQUE SEATTLE. Nov. 6. ( AP) The fed- oral bureau of Investigation under took today to determine whether the "bathtub death" of Mrs. Dell Richardson waa murder and a- link In west coast white slave operations. The girl died of pneumonia alter being burned In a tub of scsldlng water. Her husband told polios ahe leaped Into the tub In a tit ot hysteria. UndAr questioning, Dotectlve a,. W. Yorls said, tho brlde-groom'a sla ter, Claire, admitted ahe waa Im plicated In placing girls In houses of 111 repute. Beside bums, the bride had a broken arm and a black eye, Yorla said. FARM BILL LAGS, WASHINGTON. Not. fl. (JP) A laggard farm bill and a demand for changes in the tax laws are upset ting tha original program for the sneelal session of con Kress and have net leaders to work to chango the plans. Both house and sonata of the last congress made a solemn promise to take up a farm bill ahead of every thing else when they got back. But, though tho house agrlculturo com mittee Is working steadily on ft draft of a new farm bill, tho senate com mlttea Is making slow progress. It now seems highly Improbable the bill will be ready in the sensta until after the house has acted. POMERENE TEAPOT E FIGURE, IL CLEVELAND. Not. t. (m AUee Pomerene, 78, who prosecuted the Teapot Dome and Elk Hllla oil lease raaea, waa critically 111 tonight of pneumonia. By U.S. ATTITUDE TO VISIT RUSSIA Secy. Ickes "Prefunctory" And Late King Wanted White House Dinner The Duke Calm. PARTS, Nov. . (AP) The Duke ' Windsor decided tnnltrhf t hla survey of world working condi tions Until the storm rnliuiH hv Am- Ican labor criticism on his trip to wie umiea atatea subsided. After a dnv of lndeel.lnn Hurl,. which Windsor considered an imme diate trip to Soviet Russia to balance hla tour of Nazi Germany and prove uo wurm ne piaya no polltlca, persons closo to him said he and Ills dUCheaa Woulrl remain In DoH. - week before leaving for a rest. Prlenda said the duke hoped to pave the way for hla postponed study of American labor conditions with possible trlDa tn RtrnxU. Renrfin.i. and Europe'a "neutral countries" after nie miaconcoptiona" over hla mo tives had been oleared. Windsor felt, thev aalit th rent controversy made present con tinuation of his lnbor atudles Imi practical. The ntnrm .mu .h ih. Baltimore Federation of Labor con- aemned hla American guide and friend, Oharles E. Bedaux, as an 'arch-enemy" of labor for hla Inven tion of the work system they call hid Bbrecon-out. , A member of Windsor's anll ..in today the "lukewarm attitude" of Washington officiate to hi, labor ' study contributed to thi. .nHnan w.- olalon to postpone the trip yesterday; inoy wra a repiy irom Secretary of tha Interior Icltea to the- duke' request for advice on hla American Itinerary had been regarded as "perfunctory,"- .... fin WaahlnBtnn. Telr. i. sent Bedaux, as an Individual, a list of American housing and reclamation projects but had had no correspond ence "perfunctorv or otherwlu." wi.h ' Windsor.) Some members of the duke's suite were renresented am having .ir Windsors should have been preferred a atate dinner at the Whlto House instead of the luncheon from which Mrs. Roosovelt was to absent. IThe nresldent's wife mm in wh. lnatftn aevaral d.vt nan nrMrinmi- arranged lecture tour would make It impuBoiuin lor ner 10 oe present.) (tn London, both the duke and American labor were nrit.iri.jwi tn their part In the stormy Incident. iwumsor-s uerrnsn tour waa gen erally considered a mistake because tt caused him to be oharged with Nazi sympathies.) "There was no reaction apparent on the part of the duke." a friend said. "Ho Is used to such thins,." Thla friend said the mval tMrtv Was dlsaatlRfled with nm. m.n. menta for the United States tour, am tney found officials generally "extremely courteous and very kind" In other contacta. Y BY SECY. SWANSON WAflHmOTON, Nov. 1J. (TTP) Sercetary of Navy Claude A. flwanson tonight warned President Roosevelt that "restrictive legislation" an naval construction contracts and material procurement may dangerously cripple the national defense program. Swanson apparently referred to tha Walsh-Healey act, which fixes min imum wages and maximum hours for private firms engaged on government contracts. Swanson, In his annual re port, said tho navy department favor equitable labor standards, but urged safeguards against legislation which might tie up the defense program. TO FEAST WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. UP) The young Democratic clubs of America announced tonight they would hold a nation-wide series ot dinners on November S to observe the "fifth year of the New Deal victory of !9a." Jamea A. Parley, Democratlo na tional chairman, will addreaa tha gatherlnga over a national radio hook up from 7;.10 lol;.nt (EST). ArmlMlce Day Clo.lnr. All stores of tha city will be closed on Armistice Day (Thurs day), It waa announced by the retail merchants' committee of the Chamber of Commerce last nlht.