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The Weather Forecast: Fair but with oc casional cloudiness tonight and Friday ; not much change In temperature. Highest esterdar .... 75 Lowest thU mnrnlny 56 Those Who Fail Hott peopla realize tha Import nee of a good. live claaalflrd page. It It only thuae who fall to dm Want Adve. who do not. Thouaanda of people read thla page every afternoon. It pays. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939. No. 162. GAMV FAWND mm iMnwic vi ivi r1 UU UU U U L3 at-Athe 1 16- VOTE QnL SENATE . WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 28. Those slow-speaking, deliberate gen tlemen In the department or state know that If the "cash and carry" program Is finally enacted by con gress (chances are excellent) It maj be a two-edged sword and while helping the British and French on the western front, it may load to the destruction or British possession In the Orient. As lor China, they observe with a shrug, that country will have to be looked after entirely by Soviet Russia. (Much of China's supplies have been furnished by the communists.) If. It Is explained, the congress announces that belligerents can buy anything they want by paying cash and taking It away, this la duck soup for the British, who contra! the Atlantic (except when U-boats are operating), but by the same token Japan can Immediately announce a state of war against China end buy and carry off all the war supplies It needs while Us money lasts. Reinforcing Us war materials from Ihe United States arsenal on the Pa cific coast, Japan can then press lta campaign against the British posses sions In China. Britain cannot very conveniently strengthen its naval force In the Pacific when It needs all lta fighting force, land, sea and air, In the European theater. STATE department officials admit that America cannot sell muni tions to one set of belligerents, the Allies, and apply a mandatory em bargo against Japan. What is sauce for the goose Is sauce for the gander. There are bills in congress now, spon sored by western senators, to prohibit shipment of scrap Iron to Japan, and the sponsors of these measures are among, the champions of the "cash and carry" program. Present treaty with Japan, under official notifica tion, expires January 1, but with a "come and get It" foreign policy. Intended for Prance and Britain. Japan can take advantage of the proposed law by merely making a declaration of war. This Is one of the ramifications In the neutrality legislation. SHOULD Japan take advantage of the "cash and carry" law (pro vided such a law Is enacted), all of the war supplies It purchases will have to be shipped out of seaports of Washington, Oregon and California and transported in Japanese freight ers, and these freighters are faster than any American merchant vessels. Whether the west coajjt longshore men would strike rather than load the Japanese freighters is not a re mote Improbability. In any event, the "cash and carry" policy will be felt directly by the Industries of the Pacific coast. , - . LATEST whispering campaign con sists of urging by pacifists and business that congress do not ad- (Continued on page Six.) Bombing Squadron Pays Salem Visit SALEM, Sept. 38. (AP) Six two- engined army bombing planes, en route from Hamilton field, Cal., to Spokane, Wash., arrived here at 11:20 a. m. today for an hour's stay. About 800 persons Inspected the ships. The ships comprise the 11th squadron of the 7th army bombard ment group, which will hold man euvers at Spokane. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS The CCC headquarters office being particularly curious to know why Cappy Bill Driscoll makes so many flying trips down to Los Angeles, the personnel thinking the reason a bit more than Just for the sunshine. Jim Gamer laughing with great glee each and every morning over Cooks Coo-Coo Nest newspaper col umn. Doc. Willy Boney being the butt of numeroua smart cracks from his fellow medics because he seried to prefer, the dinner company of a charming friend rather than a ars slon with hla cronies. Prank Relnhart and Justin Smith swinging Into the football season in the M. N. Hogan brokerage establish ment. Hank Flaher being aomewhat dis. mayed when he called on a friend. only to find the friend had retired for the night at tha unholy hour of 7:45. PUTS UP TO Borah Claims Several Votes For Measure To Enable Debate Credit Restric tions Are Written In. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. JP) The j senate foreign relations committee approved the administration's neu- trality bill to repeal the arms em bargo 16 to 7 today after writing Into , it new restrictions on extension of ! short term credit to nations at war. The measure, which President Roosevelt said would provide a greater guarantee of American peace than the present law with Us ban on arms sales, would prohibit all United States commerce with bel ligerents except that which the bel ligerents themselves carried on in their own ships and without the aid of long-term credits here. Ninety-Day Credit Principal changes made In the measure before the committee ap proved It had to do with the credit provisions and those sections which affect operations of United States airlines in the western hemisphere. The bill already limited credits to ordinary commercial 90-day credits which would not be renewable. To this the committee added the pro viso any country which did not pay off Its obligations in full at the end of a 90-day period would be denied further extension of credit. With regard to air operations, the committee revised a section prohibit ing American vessels from transport ing supplies to a belligerent so it would not apply to aircraft operating on or over land bordering the United States.-"" . y" 1 " The restriction also was lifted as to American vessels carrying to any place in the western hemisphere "any articles or materials which are to be used exclusively by an American vessel or to the transportation of malls and persons and personal effect of any passengers traveling from any port In the United States to a port In the western hemisphere." Plttman said this would permit Pan-American Airways to refuel and repair lta ships at Trinidad and Mar tinique, both British possessions. Exempt Aircraft He said also another section of the measure, yet to be put Into technical language, would exempt American (Continued on Page Two ) DRAW $4000 FINE PORTLAND. Sept. 28. (AP) Fed eral Judge James A. Fee fined Ben net & Lay ton. Inc., San Francisco, I $4000 yesterday after the president, Walter B. Layton, pleaded guilty .o violating the Elkins act regulating rates on Interstate commerce ship ments. The company was accused of mis representing turkey weights In Ore gon to New York deliveries two years ago and as a result was under charged 43796. LEGION LEADER BlES AT NATIONAL MEET CHICAGO. Sept. 28.--(fl Arrange ments were being made today to ship the body of Frank N. Brooks, 52. former national vice commander of the American Legion who died sud denly here last night, to his home In Belllngham, Wash. Brooks, a delegate to the national I convention here, waa stricken while visiting In his room with a proup of his state's delegation. The coro ner's office said death apparently was caused by a heart attack. Pear Markets Today CHICAOO. Sept. 28. (AP-USDAI Pears: 4 California. 3 Illinois. 2 New York, 11 Oregon, 1 Washington ar rived; 30 on track: Oregon Flemish 459 extra fancy 1.15-50. average 123; 411 fancy 1.00-20. average 1.13; Bart letts. 811 extra fancy 2.05-25, aver age 2.18; 79 fancy 1.85-2.15, average I 2.05; Anjoua 300 extra fancy 1.76-85. average 1.80: 360 fancy 1.45-70. aver atfVl.59; Howells 888 extra fancy 1.20; 50 fancy 1.10: Bosc 1215 No. 1. 150-75. average 1.64. NEW YORK. Sept. 38. (AP-USDA) Pears: 31 arrived. 13 California, 3 Washington unloaded. 22 on track; nnrket weaker; Oregon Bartletts 415 rttra fancy 2 00; Bosc 720 No. 1. 2.00-35, Average 2.16. Hitler Plans Spectacular 'End the War' Move Is View Held by London Diplomats LONDON, Sept. 28. (AP) An authoritative sourca said tonight Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London, had assured e British government that Russia was willing to start negoti ations for a war trade agreement. By Dwight L. Pitkin LONDON, Sept. 28. (AP) Conviction Adolf Hitler is working toward a spectacular "end the war' move designed to force British and French acceptance of the 4 'liquidation" of Poland grew in diplomatic circles here today. The British government Kept guarded silence on German-Soviet Russian negotiations at Moscow, but many Informed observers expressed belief Hitler would make the talks a springboard for a "peace offensive." Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax had another interview with Russian Am bassador Ivan Maisky yesterday, ap parently seeking light on the enig matic Russian policy. Some observer declared Hitler's Immediate goal was to have Britain and France recognize a "fait accom pli" In Poland and conclude hos tilities in tho west, with a promise of colonial concessions to Germany. Failing this. Hitler would launch fierce aerial warfare against the Brit ish and French, with the aim of destroying civilian morale, these ob servers predicted. (By the Associated Press.) European hostilities logged today with expectation that Warsaw's capit ulation would bring a new "peace offensive" from Adolf Hitler. A German cemmuntque reported "a heavy British cruiser was success fully attacked" by a German air raider near the British coast. A British admiralty spokesman termed the German claim "all poppy cock." Berlin aald that Poland's eapltal. shattered by 20 days of German siege, was prepared to surrender. probably tomorrow. German announcement of the dty'a unconditional surrender . waa borne out by a Polish news agency dispatch Indicating further defense had been abandoned with German and Russian armies in virtually complete control of Poland. Warsaw Radio Still. The Warsaw radio waa silent after telling the dramatic atory of the clty'a valiant defense and ruin. On the western front, hostilities were slow-paced. A French communique said enemy attack west of Saarbruecken failed" during a "calm night along the entire front." Swiss dispatches said a French counter-attack had driven back Ger man troops which had thrust to ward a fall Junction east of Wlssem. bourg. The French communique declared Brltlrh and French planes had "shot down several German fighting planes." "There were no noteworthy fight ing activities" on the west, said a German communique reporting "one enemy plane" bad been downed near Saarbruecken. The official Soviet agency reported the second attack In two daya by an unidentified sumbarlne on Soviet shipping near Estonia. The steamer Pioneer was forced on the rocks with out loss of life. Look to Mosrow. For a clue to the future, diplo mats looked to Moscow, where the foreign ministers of Germany, Tur key and Estonia were conferring with the Soviet government. Joachim von Hlbbentrop. German foreign minister, had a four and a half hour conference with Premier Foreign Commissar Molotoff in the presence of Joseph Stalin. Moscow speculation mentioned the possibility of a Soviet-German mili tary pact and of the formation of a new Balkan bloc with Turkey par ticipating. Estonia's foreign minister. Karl Selter, was accorded no diplomatic honors on his visit. The Soviet press published attacks on Estonia, accua Ing her of harboring foreign eub marlnea. There were unofficial re porta Russia was making demands on Estonia for fortification concessions on the Baltic. Finnish dispatches said several So vlet warships were sighted making a searcn or tne Estonian coast. iAlbanTc-Mead CITEO IN LOTTERY ALBANY, Ore.. Sept. 28. p Carl Curlee. Chamber f Commerce sec retary, and Carroll Waller, sound truck operator, faced lottery charges today after their arrest before 3.000 persons attending a prize drawing, feature of the Albsny merchants' fall opening. The pair was arrested last night by Sheriff Herbert She 1 ton after five prizes had been awarded. The war rant was based on a law passrd by the 1939 lefislature. Each was re leased on 10 ball. BASEBALL Nat lonal CINCINNATI, Sept. 28. P) The Cincinnati Reds won their final game with the St. Louts Cardinals to 3 today to clinch their first National lengue championship In 20 years. The victory put Cincinnati 8'i games In front with only three games left to play. Score: R. H. E. St. Louis 3 14 2 Cincinnati S 8 3 uinier, uhvis, cowman ana raa- gott, Owen; Derringer and Lombard!. First game: R. Brooklyn .. 1 Boston ...... .. 3 Pressnell and Todd; Errlckson and Masl. First game: R. H. E. New York 4 10 0 Philadelphia 3 12 0 Gumbert end Panning; Pearson and Warren. American Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 4 8 .2 New York 8 11 0 McCrabb and Haynes; Hlldcbrand and Dickey. First game-: ... R. -H. E. Boston . ............ 4 0 1 Washington . 2 0 0 Grove and Desautels; Carrasquel, Appleton and Giuliani. T TAXPAYERS MEET SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. P) The recently-formed Western Tax payers association, representing coun ties In 11 western states, opens a three-day convention here today. The association was organized at the request of Del Norte county, Cal., and Curry county .Ore., to Induce congress to appropriate money to counties which contain tax-free na tional parks and forests. Convention leaders Include Guy Gordon, Rose burg, Ore.; Judge Earl B. Day, Med ford, Ore., and John L. Chllds, Cres cent City, Cal. Charles E. Denney New N. P. President NEW YORK, Sept. 38. ( AP) Charles E. Denney today was elected president of the Northern Pacific railway, succeeding the late Charles Donnelly. Denney has been serving as president-trustee of the Erie railroad. Neutrality Legislation Is Studied by Senate Committee fr'$r Hv ..Ms SkK ld' ' r ' rJ' 1 I if O Oz ! T I t untie I i"viuiiCH) , .-,, eatm) ' mew t towxattv wjwUc.to& - y & -r r "v ,.1 Win Hip lnre of flondllehl! In thrlr fairs and movie camera grinding at Ihelr linoks, nieir'ii-rs nf the are sliimii a. Ihpy met at Waliln,lnn, D. f, lo r r-Uc Ihe ailmh'IVrallnn's new neutrality Irflilatlon to remove Ihe arms embargo. Henalort are Indicated by names. (A. P. Photo), U. S. PREPARED FORIMORSE ACTION AGAINST FOREIGN AGENTS Attorney General Reveals Justice Department To Move At Logical Time Organizations Unnamed. WASHINGTON. Sept. 28. (API Attorney General Murphy said today the Justice department was prepnred to act at the appropriate time against certain "consplcuoxis foreign agents who have been a nuisance." At his press conference, the attor ney general was asked whether this statement applied to the German American bund. He replied "I can not say." The agents, to which he refrrred, he said, represent well-known organi zations. He added that they "have been more conspicuous they have been a nuisance. "They are mistaken if they think we will not be prepared to act at the appropriate Ume,' Murphy aald. WASHINGTON. Sept. 28. (API Representative Dies (D-Tex) proposed today the United States "outlaw" the Communist party. "If all other methods rail, might do like France did Just dis solve the party,". Dies said. He de clined to say how it might be accom plished. The Texan, chairman of the house committee investigating un-Amertcan activities, said the committee prob ably would ask congress "or the na tional administration" In lta report next January to proceed with all haste against the party. 4 : MISSING IN GALE LOS ANGELES, Sept. 38. (AP) With waning hopes, coast guardsmen searched southern California's coast line and offshore Islands today for survivors of Sunday's raging gale. A death toll approximating 70 was feared. Forty-seven were listed as known dead or missing and another 25 be. lteved aboard six boats still unre ported. Fair sklca and calm seas speeded the hunt, and guard head quarters announced that virtually every possible haven had been vis lted. Touching reunions between sur vivors and relatives who had feared them dead marked return of 33 craft to mainland harbors. Previously listed as missing, they reported rid ing out the storm In the shelter of Santa, Catallna Island's coves. Water and Power Pay Town's Taxes MILTON. WdSh., Sept. 28. (AP) All municipal taxes In this town of 484 residents were abolished today. Revenues. Mayor Kenneth Simons said, will come from profits of tho municipally owned light and water systems and Milton's portion of state highway and liquor taxes. Milton Is located between Seattle and Tacoma. TO L0A PEARS San Francisco Longshore men Had No Right To Re fuse To Handle Fruit Is Decision Coast Arbiter. EUGENE. Ore., Sept. 38. (AP) An oral order for longshoremen to load pears on the M-S. California, In San Francisco harbor, given at an emer gency hearing August 31. was con firmed In writing today by Wayne h. Morse, dean of the law school of the University of Oregon and coast mari time arbitrator. With thla decision. which upheld the employers in their contention that the union had no rights under the contract to refuse to handle the cargo. Dean Morse cloasd his term as arbitrator for labor for the Pacific coast. The dispute covered In the award arose when longshoremen temed nine cars of pears "hot" cargo due to a dispute between a warehouse com pany and a union. The union threw a picket line around the cars, but Dean Morse ruled, that longshoremen were to disregard it, sine handling the cargo would not Involve strike breaking procedure. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 38. (AP) The -Waterfront Employe association announced today It had signed an agreement with union longshoremen for an Indefinite extension of the current dock agreement, which ex pires Sept. SO, pending further nego tiations. The employers' office said the agreement provided the current pact would continue In force "with a "no work stoppage" provision, until unless either party gives 80 days no tice of "termination, after which work would cease at the end of 00 days 1f the controversy remains unsettled. ' A system a tlo and extensive search of Crater Lake National park for Alfred C. Goetze, 68, of Ashland, was underway today, In the rough country adjacent to park headquar ters. Acting Park Superintendent T. O. Parker reported this morning a posse of 65 men, in charge of Chief Ranger Carlisle Crouch had found no trace of the missing man. Acting Superintendent Parker aald over the telephone, "the areas where the miss ing man might be, are being liter ally combed, and the search will be continued as long as reasonable, or until GoetE Is found." Goetz, a WPA worker employed as a saw filer on a park project, was last seen Sunday morning, but his absence was not noted until Tues day, due to Goets working alone. Goetz had Informed fellow workers he was about through with his sum mer's work, and intended to return to his home In Ashland. The park officials figure that Ooete has not traveled far, and that he may have met with an accident. PARK IS COMBED FOR MISSING MAN Fuehrer Visits U-Boat Base To Laud Sailormen WILH ELM SHAVEN, O e r m any. Sept. 38. Adolf Hitler visited this North sea naval baae today to congratulate submarine crews returning from cruises In "enemy waters." Announcement of. the fuehrer's visit said he came to laud the submarine flotilla for a "success ful trip" abroad. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, commander-in-chief of the Ger man navy, accompanied Httler. The fuehrer thanked officers and men personally and later at an Informal gathering had mem bers of submarine crews tell him of their experiences. OF SEN BY AMERICANS FLEEING WAR REGION PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 28. (AP) Thirty-seven Americans, fleeing the war in EuroDO. arrived todav on the American freighter Collingsworth with first-hand accounts of the sink ing of British airplane carrier Cour- ageoua ten minutes after she was torpedoed by a German submarine, (The British admiralty, said 679 were lost when the ship went down.) The freighter was about five miles from the Courageous when she sank September 18. Fourteen of the air plane carrier's survivors were taken aboard the Collingsworth and later transferred to a British destroyer. Roger Fay, 32,. of New York, a salesman returning from London, said that as he stood on the Col lingsworth's bow he heard an explo sion and J'the Courageous seemed to , tremble from-stem to stern." The airplane carrier sank within sever! minutes. Fay aald. ' "Our skipper headed for the sink ing ship and we found scores of men In the water begging for help, I shall never forget how the men floundered in the water and begged for aid. Nor shall I forget the scene of this mighty ship disappearing Into tne ocean," he said. 4 BT. FALLS PORTLAND, Sept. SB. (AP) The atata highway - commission opened bids today on 14 project, totaling ap proximately 8760.000. Low blda Included: Jackson county-Butte Palla sec tions of Butte Palla county road, aur faclng and oiling. Norrls Brothers, Burlington. Wash., 831,986.50. A Roseburg chamber of commerce committee, headed by A. O. Marstera. chairman of the North Umpqua road Improvement district, and Harrla Ellsworth, asked the commission to speed completion of a road east of Roseburg up the North Umpqua river to Diamond lake, 1 PORTLAND, Sept, 28. (AP) Big Ash, Portland, submitted a low bid of 187,678 to the federal bureau of publlo roads Wednesday for construc tion of a bridge over the Aiwa river, a national forest highway project In Lincoln county. fennli lnrelBn rthllnns niinmlttea by which President Roowirlt hopea IS KILLED WHEN CAR Alcie Prettyman, 25, Found In Wrecked Machine Near Ashland On Old Highway Accident At Early Hour Aide Tobby Prettyman. 35, of 801 Mountain avenue, Ashland, died early thla morning when the auto mobile he waa driving rammed Into culvert, rolled over and crashed against a telephone pole on tho old Pacific highway two miles aouth of Ashland. The fatal mishap oc curred shortly before 1 a. m. There were no wltnesaea to tho crash. Investigating atate police of ficers learned that Prettyman had left the Dutch Hill, at tha Inter. section of the Qreensprlngs and Pa clflc highways, a short time beforo the wreck was discovered by VlrgU. Be:raft of routs 3. box 385, Med.' ford. Becraft, a passing motorist, reported to Ashland city police at 1:05 a. m. that a car waa overturned with a man In It. Head Badly Bruised On the arrival of authorities a the acene of the mishap, Prettytnsn waa pronounced dead by Dr. R. B. Poaton of Ashland. Tha victim suf fered a severe head bruise, the phy sician stated, which undoubtedly caused hla death. It waa not known whether death waa Instantaneous. Investigation by etate police re vealed tha machine, a 1934 Ford sedan, traveled for approximately 75 feet on the right ahoulder of the road before smashing Into tha oulvert. After striking the culvert It turned over and banged against a telephone pole a few feet distant. Prettyman waa halfway out of tha machine when authorities arrived. While the car waa badly damaged, Prettyman apparently wasn't Injured to any great extent, with the ex ception of the bad head bruise. Prettyman waa alone In tha car. which waa traveling north toward Aahland. Tha acene of the accident waa a ahort distance north of tha Fred Holmes ranch. The car left the highway on a fairly straight section of a gradual "8" curve. Inquest Pends According to Information aent Dis trict Attorney Prank Newman today by Acting Deputy Coroner W. M. Dodge of Ashland, an Inquest la pending. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Prettyman, with hla wife. Sue. had resided In Talent and Aahland for the paat two years. They were caring for a disabled world war veteran In their home in Ashland. Besidei bit wife, Prettyman la survived by four brothera, Archie of Aahland, Robert of Talent and Alby and Aria of Chattanooga, Tenn., hla father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Prettyman of Chattanooga and two uncles, P. D. and J, W. Prettyman of Talent. To Check State for Mislabeled Butter SALEM, Sept. 38. (flV-Stato Dl rector of Agriculture J. D. Mlckla warned today his department would check tha entire state for mislabeled butter, Tha department a few daya ago aelzed more than 3,000 pounds of butter labeled grade A but which really waa grade B. Banker Dies SPOKANE, Sept. 2a. (AP) Eu gene B. Favre, nationally known Spo kane Investment banker, and former head of the house of Murphy, Favra and Co., died at hla home today from a cerebral hemorrhage and heart ailment. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time la Pacific standard) Three of the networka, WJZ-NBO, CBS and MBS, will describe Notrs Dame va. Purdue Saturday, whl'.a WEAP-NBO will pick up Indiana va. Nebraska. Both games on the air at 11:45 a.m. Debata on neutrality Saturday, CBS. 5 p.m., 80-mmuta round-tabls In which Senators Sherman Mlnton of Indiana and Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota Join with six others Rep. James I. Van Zandt of Pennsyl vania, and five newspapermen: CBS at 7:30, Ben. Edward R. Burke of Ne braska. Sen. Lewis B. Schwellenbach apeaks on WEAP-NBC at 7:45 p.m. Friday. Today: European schedule W ABC CBS, 8:65. WJZ-NBO, 8:00; MBS 6:00. WJZ-NBC, 4:45 American Legion convention 7:30 W. C. T. V. conven tion. Friday: European schedule WEAF NBC, 5 a.m., 8:46 a. m, W ABC-CBS, 8 a. m., 8:30 p. in,
