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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday, temperatures consid erably above normal. Temperature Highest Yesterday an Lowest this Morning A1 Good Reason Thousand, of homei are reach ed every evening by the Mall Tribune. Moat readers read fha Classified Ad. consistently. For this very good reason won derful results are obtainable at mall cost. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 193' No. 153. Q)0) IU1 mi sltl ! SHI re- . i .1 I. MM. EBB . atW AGEOUS'IS WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 18. The Goddess of Freedom (19 feet tali, cast In bronze made In Rome, cost (24.000), from her perch on the capi tal dome, 1b watching senators and representatives gathering for the spe cial session Thursday. With the birds nests removed from her ears work men have Just scoured her she will hear one of the most Intense and vital debates that has been carried on In this generation. After weeks, It la a safe wager, that the congress will adopt the "cash and carry" neutrality policy, which, as everyone recognizes, is not neutrality at all, and Is intended to aid Fiance and Britain. No one is fooled or de ceived about that. Before the mandatory embargo la repealed or amended the American people will be presented with both viewpoints. A sketchy background may be of Interest before the show starts. Out of a senate Investigation of the munitions trade and the causes leading the United States Into the world war, there was ofrered in the senate in August, 1935, a neutral ity resolution Intended to keep Amer ica out of war. This was the genesis of the mandatory embargo. It pro hibited the sale of munitions to bel ligerents; gave the president, after the conflict started, the Authority to designate commodities which could not be sold to belligerents, such as oil, copper or other raw materials. THERE was no war current at the time, but the senate and admin istration were acting or the motto: "In time of peace prepare for war," It was the theory that .the time to adopt a policy was before Mars began marching and not afterward when propaganda might affect the calm Judgment of the people and the ad ministration. Nor did the senate like the Idea of James Pope, then junior senator for Idaho, running around Europe and giving the impression that If England became mixed up the U. S. would back up the empire. (Wisconsin's La Follette had a resolution of rebuke printed and laid on the table). The mandatory embargo finally was enacted. Representatives of the state department appeared before a senate committee, advisd its adoption. The president felt so favorably of the em bargo bill to keep the United States neutral and out of war that .ie ap proved it by writing "Franklin D. Roosevelt" on the dotted line CAME the Italian-Ethiopian war and the conflict in Spain, with not a pound of munitions exported from the United States, except by stealth. Italy had all the supnlles it (Continued on Page Pour.) LOS A. STEWS IN 102-OEGREE SUN LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18. (AP) Los Angeles set a heat record today when the mercury climbed to 102.5 degrees. It was the hottest day In 22 years. The reading, the highest since June 6. 1917, when 105 was recorded, was taken at 10:40 a. ra. An 11-month's old baby was dead, reported a possible heat victim, and at least five persons were treated for heat prostrations. U. P. SHOP MECHANICS CALLED BACK TO WORK JUNCTION CITY. Kaa.. Sept. 18. (AP) The Union Pacific railroad to day called back to work all mechan ics and shopworkers here to recondi tion rail equipment. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Ebcl'a pretty pup Snoot; being among the loudest of spectators at the baseball game, she letting out loud barka every time a good play came through. And Doe Charles Kunz running a close second to Snooty'a boisterous applause. Geraldyn .'erome down to the de pot bright and early to meet grand ma Edith who had been away a long time, the former so anxious to meet the latter she wasn't even concerned with being a bit tardy to school. Kn Parrett being lauded for his excellent manner or putting out a fire with two Pyrrnes at once, he now thinking anut ging into the ftra-putuQE-out business, FIRST WARSHIP LOSTJHCIN Admiralty Fails To Reveal Life. Toll In Sinking Location Also Kept Dark Oldest Of Six Carriers. LONDON, Sept. 18. (AP) Survivors of the torpedoes Brit ish alrcrart carriers Couroceou were landed In England tonight by a destroyer, and an undeter mined number of survivors were aboard other vessels Including an American freighter -It was lenrned authoritatively. One of the survivors said "there were two distinct bangs at Intervals of nbout a second." when a German submarine made Its conquest of the first British warship sunk In this war. By Fred Vonderschmldt LONDON, Sept. 1 8. ( AP ) The British admiralty announced official ly today the loss of the aircraft car rier Courageous "by enemy subma rine action" the first warship casu alty of the war reported by Britain. An undetermined number of sea men and filers aboard the warship were saved. The ministry of Information said the full complement of the Courage ous, plus the personnel of the fleet air arm, was "about.1,200 officers and men. When sunk s'ho had a reduced complement of aircraft and therefore a somewhat smaller crew." Complement Reduced The admiralty said the usual air craft. ...cQmpJIempnt of 48 planes had been reduced since August. The announcement said destroyers "heavily attacked" the submarine which torpedoed the Courageous and were believed to have aunk her In turn. There was no Indication of where the Courageous was sunk, but pre sumably she was attacked In sea lanes close to home waters either In the Atlantic or North sea. "Since the opening of hostilities she had been performing very good service In protecting ships of the mercantile marine against U-boat attacks," the admiralty said. Presumably this meant the Coura geous had been a major factor both- In convoying merchant ships and In launching aircraft to attack subma rines from the air. Converted Cruiser Jane's Fighting Ships, authoritative work on world fleets, described the Courageous as a converted cruiser of 22,500 tons (26,500 tons full load). Built in February, 1916, Jane's fig ures showed her to be the oldest, but one of the largest of the six Bntlsh warcraft used as aircraft carriers. Jane's gave her thickest armour plate as three Inches on her sides and amtdshlps. She carried sixteen 4.7-lnch guns. four three-pounders and 17 smaller pieces. The beam of her flight deck "was 100 feet and her overall length 786 feet. 24 Ships Sunk The admiralty's snnounceaent of the loss of the Courageous enme two weeks after the world learned the British liner Athrnia had boen sunk by a torpedo in the first hours of war between Germany and Orent Bri tain. Since the hostilities began on Sept. 3, 24 British merchant sh'.psa have been announced as victims of what the British government has described as unrestricted German submarine warfare. On the other hand the fleet and the royal air force have ranged far arield and have been officially re ported as sinking numerous subma rines, Simultaneously a general con voy system had been pressed, but this had naturally been a slow under tak lng on British sealanes which circle the globe. Ruehle Reappointed ' on Veterinary Board SALEM, Sept. 18. AP) Dr. Otto Ruehle Jr., of Portland waa reap pointed today by Governor Sprague j to the state veterinary medical ei- Muiig uuiiu,. wjo uew verm enaing In 1942. Other appointments to the same board were Dr. H. W. Riley of La Grande, succeeding Dr. A. O. Pad dock of Union, to a term ending In 1941: and Dr. Fred W. Lange of Sa lem, succeeding Dr. L. O. Heltcrllne of Eugene, to a term ending In 1043. AMBASSADOR BIDDLE IN FRENCH REFUGE WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. Jpy-&c. retary Hull said today Anthony J Drexel Blddle, American ambassador to Poland, would make hi head quarters in Prance for the time being. Hull said no decision had been reached as to whether the American 'mbaMT to Poland would continue to function from Italics, First Picture Of Attack Upon Gydnia J I ' - - t - i ' " "Vrs I J . f'"' WHIP , This picture, radioed from Berlin to New York, shows (.or n inn troop In firing position In a ditch outside fiydnta Just before Germans announced that the Polish Baltic port had surrendered after a two weeks siege. WAR BULLETINS LONDON, Sept. 18. (AP) The British government said tonight Soviet Russia's "attack upon Poland" could not "be justified by the arguments put forward by the Soviet government." PARIS, Sept. 18. (AP) The Polish embassy made public tonight a message issued by President Ignace Moscicki of Poland stating he had decided to transfer the seat of the Polish govern ment "to a place where the free exercise of full sovereignty" can be maintained. The message, the embassy said, was issued Monday from Polish territory a few miles from' the Rumanian border. " PARIS' Sept. 18. (AP) France reported tonight it had sunk her first enemy submarine since war was declared against Germany. A general staff communique reported the attack on the submarine was carried out "with success." FOUR IN FIERY DEATH N TOO SUDDEN CLIMB YAKIMA. Sept. 18. (AP)--Steve Stussy, veteran Yakima pilot, and three of five passengers who took off from the Yakima airport late Sunday afternoon, were burned to death when the plane In which they were riding crashed in the apple orchard east of the field. Killed were: Stussy, Marian Mlsener. age 18; Elizabeth Taylor, 17, and Junior McNeil, 17. Miss Florence Stolt and Glenn Moormeler, 22, were thrown from the plane as the ship struck the trees. Moormeler's ankle was broken In the crash but Miss Stoltz managed to drag him away from the flaming wreckage though she suffered a bro ken arm. An official report of the crush Is being complied today but pilots who saw it are of the opinion the steep climb with which Stussy lifted the plane from the field had forced gasoline In the wing tanks too far back to feed into the fuel line Intake. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18. (AP) The marine exchange said today the steamer Redwood was afire off Eureka and that the crew had been picked up In lifeboats by the lum ber ship Scotia. The Redwood, of 379 net tons. Is operated by the Hammond shipping company and left here yesterday for Eureka. It Is In the lumber trade. Survivors of Sunken Ship Tell Terror Before Rescue FLUSHINGS. The Netherlands. Sept. 18. ( AP) The terror of 68 hours In an open boat hung today over four American survivors of the Norwegian freighter Ronda, sunk by a mine off the northern coast of The Netherlands with a loss, of 17 llTeS. Two Americans and 15 members of the crew went down with the ship. The survivors, exhausted by their ordeal, told a graphic story of the hours of horror preceding their res cue by the Italian ship Provvidenza. which brought them here. "How we made it I don't know," declared Miss Josephine Allen Dun can, formerly of Richmond, Va., swept overboard by waves as the doomed vessel settled. "We were Juxt lucky. said Karl HtUendorf of Milwaukee. Wis., de ftciibed by his companions as t a hro. Hilg-naorr a cx edited vUb sav BASEBALL Ainericnn NEW YORK, Sept. 18. (AP) Joe Gordon's three-run homer, his 26th of the season, boosted the champion Yankees to their 89th victory of the season today, by a score of 6 to 2 against the St. Louis Browns. St. Louis J 8 1 New York fl 10 0 Wade and Harshany: Hadley and Rosar. Cleveland 13 1 Philadelphia 4 10 3 Allen and Pytlak; Page and Hnycs, Score : Detroit R. H. E. 2 7 2 Washington 4 5 2 Bridges, Benton and York; Leon ard and Ferrcll. National First game: R. H. E. Boston 18 1 Cincinnati 4 10 0 Sullivan and Masl; Moore and Lorn bard 1. Philadelphia 4 1 Pittsburgh 11 3 Bruner and Warren: Brown and Susce, Mueller. (First game.) New York 7 13 1 St. Louis 3 11 1 Melton and Panning: Davis, Coop er, Andrews and Owen. 4 ROME, Sept. 18. (API The Ital ian government announced today peasant reservists under arms would be given time off from military duty for wine making and grain planting. ing Mis Duncan's aunt, Mrs. Eliza beth Duncan Etchlson, formerly of Richmond, whose 13-year-old daugh ter, Nan, was among those lost. Other survivors said Hllgcndorf tied Mrs. Etchlson to two floating planks until a Norwegian sailer helped them Into a boat. The other American survivor was Douglas Miller of Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Michigan student. Oor- den Felts of Odessa, Mo., singer who had been studying In Oermany. was among those lost. When picked up by the Prowl- denza, the four Americana and 18 crew members were crowded Into a tiny boat Intended for 10 per sons. It was attached to the Ronda's stern b7 a rope which the ship's carpenter broke as the vessel set tled. Miss Duncan said the Ronda sank so swiftly after striking the mine Wedm-Adar there was no time to launch U lifeboats. TO E PARIS, Sept. 18. (AP) Thous ands of steel-helmeted German re serves . prera reported flooding .into the Siegfried line today to strength en Germany's stand against the French, advance on Nazi soil. The movement of German re serves toward the western front was regarded by military experts here as a sign Nazi expects Polish re sistance on the eastern front to collapse soon. Heavily outnumbered, the Poles appeared from reports reaching here to be surrounded by Germans on the west, north and south and by Russians on the east. Russia's Invasion of Poland shocked France, although the nation ex pected It. The press condemned It almost unanimously as treachery. Officially, however, France gave no hint whether she would classify the Russian move as an act of war against allied Interests or ac cept the Soviet explanation the In vasion was undertaken merely to protect Russian Interests on the asumptlon the Polish government no longer existed. In some French quarters It Is believed the Russian action may bring the official policy of Italy still on the sidelines although a military ally of Germany Into sharper focus. The French army now firmly holds the left bank of the Saar river from the German border city of Saarguemlnes, where the river enters Germany, to Melzlg, where It nears Luxembourg. The French reported fighting off numerous flanking movements at tempted by the German infantry to gain summits overlooking Saar bruecken and Saarlautern, two Im portant objectives In German ter ritory. ThJa the French dominate the whole Saar valley, rich . Industrial region which they have sold more than offsets German mineral gains in the conquest of Polish Seles! a The French also have thrown out a cordon threatening the right bank of the Saar river which they control from that side of Saar bruecken Itself, (Reports in Basel, Switzerland said French fortress troops had gained and held positions within three miles of Saarlautern during last night.) GIRL DIES OF INJURY SAN RAFAEL, Calif,, Sept. 18. (AP) Evelyn Merrell. 17, of Healds burg, died here today from automo bile accident Injuries. The girl, her twin sister, Marian, and two youths. Harold Sprague, 10. and his half-brother, Robert Hanch. 19, of Blachly, Ore., were en route from Healdsburg to San Francisco when the car overturned yesterday 13 mllea north of here. Marian and the boya were cut and bruised. New Ambassador ROME, Sept. 18. (AP) Giuseppe Bsstianlnl. undersecretsry for foreign affairs, tonight was named Italian ambassador to London, The post had bee n vaca n t si nee the a p po n t men t of Count Dlno Or and I as minister of Justice, Russian Meet In TO Titular Heads of Republican Party Accept President Roosevelt's Invitation To Pre-Congress Conference WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. (AP) President Roosevelt has Invited for mer Governor Alf M. Landon of Kan sas and Frank Knox of Chicago titular heads of the Republican party to a White House parley Wednes day at which leaders of tho nation will consider America's neutrality program. Stephen T. Early, a presidential secretary, said Mr. Roosevelt had talked with Landon and Knox by telephone last night and said they had accepted the Invitation without hesitation. Early described the presi dent as being "very happy in their acceptance." Early said Representative Mapes (R., Mich.), ranking minority mem bers of the house rules and Inter state commerce committees, also had been asked to tho meeting and that the list of those attending probably was complete. ' ' ' Exchange of Views The president arranged for the conference, a day before congress meets In special session to consider the neutrality Issue. In order to get an exchange of views among bi-partisan leadera In the national legisla ture. The addition of Landon and Knox, which went outside of con gress was understood to be In the nature of further attempting to bury (Continued on Page Bight.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. (API Jesse H. Jones, federal loan admin istrator, estimated today 15 to 30 railroads had arranged for $125,000, 000 of equipment purchases during the past 60 days, and were consider ing spending as much as 870.000,000 for equipment repairs during the next six months. He added he thought there would be "some more orders" for new equip ment. The Reconstruction Finance cor poration, Jones said, would make loans of about (28,000,000, with pri vate sources providing the remain der. He said the RFC would make equipment loans to the Illinois Cen tral, the New York Central, the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the Erie, but the exact amount of the loan to each had not been de termined. . GRANT DELAY IN BERGDOLL TRIAL NEW YORK, Sept. 18. (ff The court-martial of Orover Cleveland Bergdoll, World war draft dodger, was today adjourned until September 27. The delay was announced shortly after the court convened on Gover nors Island. The adjustment was requested by Major George A. Hadd, military coun sel for Bergdoll, who explained that since the charges of conspiracy to desert and desertion had been drawn up, lie had not had time to preparo an adequate counsel. IS EUOENE, Ore.. Sept. 18 (AP) Fred Ostenrelder, held in the Lane county Jail on a charge of burning tlea owned by the Southern Pacific company, la wanted in Des Motnes. Iowa, for murder, according to Sher iff O. A. Swsrts. The sheriff learned of the man's identity In Pendleton Inst Saturday when he noticed a bulletin with Lit prisoner a picture attached And Nazi Forces Prostrate Poland Britain To Ease Tight Censorship On NewsOf War LONDON, Sept. 18. (AP) The ministry of Information an nounced today the war cabinet had authorized great freedom in the reporting of war news and that press comment was to be given more latitude. Tho world press will be represented tempor arily at the western front, until other correspondents are author ized, by one man, A. G. Clifford, Reuter (British news agency) cor respondent, who worked formorly in Berlin and Spain. Lord CamroBe, publisher of the Dally Telegraph, has been named chief assistant to Lord MacMU lan. minister of Information. CAR HITS POLES E Three persons, two of them young beauty school students, suffered se vere but probably not serious in juries early Sunday morning when their automobile Jumped the curb In the 1200 block on North River side avenue, -finished Into two light- poles 00 feet apart, slammed back onto the road and overturned. Worst hurt, according to their attending physician, was Miss June Fosse tt, 23, of Dunsmulr, Cel., who has been residing at 316 South Central avenue while attending a local school of beauty culture. She sustained a crushed vertebrae, lacer ations of the left hip and shock and bruises. She will be forced to remain In bed for from four to six weeks, the doctor stated, and wilt probably be removed to her home In Dunsmulr by her mother, who Is expected to arrive here to day. Miss Hazel McDowell, 23, of Sal em, also a beauty school student who has been living at 316 South Central avenue, suffered face and right knee hurts and two three Inch cuts on her lower left leg, the doctor said. H. R. Lucas, 23, of the Bishop apartments, an employe of the C. A. Dunn construction company, sus tained a fractured lower Jaw and cuts on his right wrist. The fourth ocupant of the auto mobile, Raymond F. Orr of the Bishop apartments, escaped Injury. Lucas, driver of the Graham se dan, told state police that he lost control of the car while the four were engaged In conversation and that the machine Jumped the curb and struck the first light pole. Traveling south along the parisway the car careened Into the second polo, then angled off onto the highway and turned over on the yellow line, police stated. The two girls and Orr were trapped In the machine, which was almost totally demolished, while Lucas was thrown clear. City and state police and passing motorists extricated the Injured persona from the overturned auto and they were taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Russell 8. Weir of Phoenix. The accident occurred about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. COLUMN OF FIRE SIGHTED AT SEA STAVANOER, Norway, Sept. 18. (AP) A huge column of lira which rose suddenly far out at sa was sighted from here at 8 o'clock last night (3 a. m E.S.T.). Watchera from the shore estimated the blaze waa 600 feet high and theorized It might have been caused by the eiploslon of a tanker. fStavanser Is on the southwest coast of Norway about 100 miles south of the North sea port of Ber gen). NEWS-TELEGRAM EDITOR MOTOR TRANSPORT AIDE PORTLAND, Sept. 18. (AP) Tom B. Shea, former newspaper editor, was selected today as secretary-man ager of the Oregon Motor Transport association. Inc.. It was announced by Herman O. Sites, president. Shea waa editor of the Portland News-Telegram until Its publication waa suspended recently. E EFFORTS TO CRACK WARSAW DEFENSE Invaders Meet In Brest Litovsk Lines Fixed Beyond Which Respective Forces Will Not March. BERLIN, Sept. 18 (AP) The Nasi swastika and the Russian ham mer and sickle met today In the fallen Polish city of Brest-Lltovsk where Russian revolutionists and Germans signed their sep.jate peace in the world war. The Soviet Russians came In from the east, according to German ad vices from the front, and shook hands with German officers at the head of troops who completed the conquest of Brest-Litovsk, 105 mllea east of Warsaw yesterday. German and Russian officers were said tonight to be engaged In fixing a line beyond which their respective forces would not go In Poland. Resum Warsaw Attack ... tn DNB (German official news agency) , . meanwhile reported -the German mill-, tary had resumed Its effort to fore Warsaw's surrender. ' Intimations the German air force soon may take a hand In the fighting on the western' front were contained for the first time in today's commu nique of the supreme command. It said the air force regarded lta work In the east virtually ended and now was ready for tasks elsewhere. Berlin citizens yesterday and today observed members of the air force from the east arriving in the capital. The German communique again (Continued on Page Three) WEST'S LUMBER MILLS EXPECTED TO BENEFIT BY CONFLICT EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 13. (AP) Colonel W. G. Oreeley, manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's associ ation, said yesterday the European war was expected to create a large demand for Willamette valley lumbei but warned there were too many "Ifs" for lumbermen to "get out on a limb" In anticipation of a boom. He said an Increase would oe shown evn if the arms embargo were retained. The northwest lumber Industry was In the best shape in many months September 1, Greeley said. There were unfilled orders for 480 million feet against total stocks of 870 million feet. He credited general business, principally housing, for the Improvement. Canada was caught with many millions of feet of lumber when Eur opean hostilities broke out, he said. This lumber might be dumped on the American market, but Canada has lost Its advantage of cheaper shipping rates, he explained. Radio Highlights By Associated Frees (Time Is Pacific Standard) NEW YORK. Sept. IB. The Co!, umbla broadcasting system an nounces the following schedule of future news broadcaata: Mondaya through Prldaya 4 ajn. European roundup: 8:30 pjn. R. V. Kaltenbora (beginning Sept. 3D); 3:40 p.m. European roundup (also beginning Sept. 25): 4:05 p.m. Elmer Davis, 9:55 p.m. News summary. Sundays through Fridays 8 pjn. Paul Sullivan, comment. Saturdaya 4 a.m. European, roundup: 3 p.m. News summary! 3:30 European .oundup plus Albert Warner from Washington: 4:00 El mer Davis: 7 news: 8:50 p.m. new summary. Sundays 8 a.m. European round up; 7 a.m. news summary: 8 pjn. European roundup; 4:50 p.m. Elmer Davis; 7 pjn. news summary; 8:88 p.m. newit summary. "Wuthertng Heights." often oalled the at'annest love story ever writ ten. vIU be dramatized over WABC CB8 at 0 tonight, with Barbara Sta'.twyrk, Brian Ahcrne and Id Lvpluo. .