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The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to night and Saturday, cooler to night with light frost. Temperature Highest yesterday 60 Lowest thli morning 44 The Day To Write Friday, to tome people la Just Bitot her day, but to many It la the day to write that want ad (or the Sunday edition of the Mall Tribune. Vou thould fet the habit. Even VOU read Medford Tribune To S p. m. yesterday SI 05 To 5 a. m. today more on Sunday Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1939. No. 169. ULN gjj am mm on a m peak WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 6. It la to be "King's X" for 300 miles off the Oregon and Washington coasts for the duration. Inside that line (drawn this week by the Pana ma conference), belligerent and neu tral vessels may roam in perfect safety. To insure the area as non combatant waters. Uncle Sam will patrol It like a hawk. Outside the 300 mile limit belligerents can let their conscience (If any) be their guide. More and more wartime pre cautions and war effects are being felt In the Pacific Northwest. Still to be determined is United States policy on vessels plying be tween British Columbia and Pacific coast ports, Canada being at war and a belligerent and, at the same time, next-door neighbor to the United States. For years there have been passenger steamers making the run between Victoria and Vancouver, B. C, and Seattle. Mostly the liners are Canadian owned. By terms of the administration's neutrality bill, now under senate de bate, heavy penalties are Imposed on American citizens traveling on ves sels flying the flag of a belligerent. Should the administration bill, In Its present form, be enacted and strictly enforced, the shipping btisl ness between British Columbia and Pacific coast ports Puget Sound In particular will bo dislocated. WHAT eventual form, neutrality legislation will take Is uncer tain. The administration measure, Introduced by Nevada's Plttman, and Intended to repeal the embargo on war munitions and implements of war, will probably undergo substan tial, revision, through amendments, before final adoption. There are many criticisms of the original bill, aside from the embargo feature, not the least being the restrictions placed upon American flag vessels., To Washington shipping Interests have sent a strong lobby. Plttmftn's bill will, In effect, Intern every American passenger ship which has been serving European and Mediter ranean ports. It prohibits American flag ships carrying cargo from At- lnntlc coast ports into the Oulf of St. Lawrence and into the river of that name, and Newfoundland. The "King's X" waters start from Presi dent Roosevelt's old stamping ground, Campobello, extending 300 miles out from Bay of Funday, where the pres ident sponsored the Passamaquoddy project to generate power from the ocean tides. Beyond Bay of Funday the waters are verboten to the American merchant marine. Ship op erators along the Atlantic say they face ruin. ffETTTNG nearer home, the Pitt- man restrictions of American shipping are not clear. His bill per mits airplanes to fly the Pacific. No decision has been made concerning American freighters carrying cargoes to Hongkong, British possession fn China, or to Australia and New Zea land, which like Canada, are bel ligerents. These are points to be Ironed out before congress, finally acta on neutrality. German raiders especially the Emden were a terror to shipping in the Pacific In the first world war. There Is a possibility of west coast shipping having its off-shore business go to foreign bot toms by the "cash and carry" pro gram. (Continued 51' Page ("Twelve) 4 Jobless Benefits Lowest On Record SALEM, Ore., Oct. 8. (DP) The Oregon state unemployment com pensation commission paid Jobless benefits during September totaling 184,S61 a new low since the com mission was formed. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS J. R. Marshall getting excited over the appointment of his pal Frank DeSouza as an air fleet admiral. Bob S ted man hoping for a large turnout tonight for try-outs in his community theater venture. Don Herried, Ray Crosby and Wal ter Kresse, Jr., startling even Jlmmle Orler with their amazing Jitterbug antics. And Edna Shaver and Maxlne Love being completely worn out from hours 'n hours of going through the dance paces to the orchestra's swell tunes. And Cappy Fred Oreene and wlfey Ruth Ann enjoying the mimic but not being so hot on the Jitterbug tuff. Settlement of Issues Through Conference Fuehrer's Suggestion By Louis P. Lochner BERLIN, Oct. 6. (AP) Adolf Hitler today proposed a European peace settlement "on a comprehensive basis," but added that if the allies rejected his "outstretched hand," this "statement will have been my last." . Then we shall tight." he went on, and pictured the new war as one sure to bring unprecedented horror to the world. 'May those peoples and their lead ers,, who are of the same mind (as himself) now make their reply," ne said In his hour and twenty minute speech to the relchstag and the world. "And let those who consider war to be the better solution reject my outstretched hand." Denies Cowardice He challenged the allies to "Inter pret these opinions of mine as cow ardice If they like." "I need not occupy myself with what they think; I make these state ments simply because it goes with out Baying that I wish to spare my own people this suffering." Collaborators said Hitler regarded his proposals aa "formal" and that he would now await for Britain and Prance to act on them. The ' fuehrer waa time and again conciliatory in tone specifically to both Britain and France. The world's history, he said, showed that In war "there never have been two victors, but very often only losers." Germany Unconquerable "Neither force of arms nor lapse of time will conquer Germany," he declared. "It is Infantile to hope for the disintegration of our people." These were among the other most material phases of his speech: 1. A renunciation of further terri torial claims, save for hi old colo nial demands. 2. A declaration that Germany and Soviet Russia together would "re lieve one of the acuteat danger pota of Europe"' by working for a peace zone In enstern Europe. 3. Specific assurance to the world that he had no designs on Rumania, the Ukraine, the Urals or Denmark and an expression that In eastern Europe generally, and Scandinavia as well, hla Interests were wholly eco nomic. 4. A declaration that one of Germany's tasks In dealing with fallen Poland was the establishment of a "new order of ethnographic conditions, that Is to say, resettle ment of nationalities" and a fur ther declaration that It was a prob lem not restricted "to this particular sphere but a task with far wider Im plications, for the east and south of Europe Is to a large extent filled with splinters of German nation ality, .whose, .existence . cannot, be maintained." All Hill Lose. Saying that if the present war was allowed to go on the "vigor of every nation will be sapped on the battlefield," Hitler added It would be a struggle in which "there are no longer any. Islands" an obvious reference to Britain's vulnerability to air attack. , , . Such a war, carried to the end. he added, would leave a frontier of "ruins and endless graves" between Germany and France. Germany, ne said, had no demand to make on England or France, and thus there was no reason for carry ing on the struggle. These were the prerequisites he listed as essential to European se curity: Clarification of the foreign policies and alms of European states', reor- (Continued on Page Nine ) U. S. Solons Doubt Sincerity Of Hitler's Peace Proposal WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. (AP) Some senators Indicated today that th.v had little confidence In the sincerity of Adolf Hitler's speech to the relchstag. "I don't see how England and Prance can put any faith In Hitler's promises." aald Senator Norrla (lnd Neb.), "I don't have any confidence In him. He has lied so often. "Every time he taxes a country he says he ha no further territorial ambitions. But our part In all of this la merely that of a spectator. We should neither Insist that peace terms be accepted nor Insist that they be rejected." Senator Nye (R-ND), a leader of the opposition to the administration neutrality bill, told reporter that Hitler, "like president, kings and premiers, talk for his folks back home." Nye aald Hitler's statement would not affect the neutrality fight In the 'enate and added "no matter what they do (In Europe) wt must I stay out of It. GREAT BRITAIN 10 HITLER PROPOSALS BERLIN, Oct. 6. (AP)--An authorized source said tonight that Adolf Hitler would accept an armistice if proposed by President Roosevelt with the view to a general European settlement. LONDON, Oct. 6. (vP) The British government said tonight Adolf Hit ler's peace proposals would be "sub jected to careful examination In consultation with the governments of the dominions and French re public." "But," the statement added, "it is necessary to remember two things: "First, no peace proposal Is likely to be accepted which does not ef fectively free Erope from the menace of aggression. "Second, that something more than words would be required to establish confidence" In any peace proposals Germany might make. The government statement, read by a foreign office spokesman, said Hitler's proposals "In their present form are in many respects vague andi obscure,. But U 1r noed that they contain rib suggestion for reparations for the wrongs done by Germany to other peoples." PARIS, Oct. 6. Adolf Hitler's peace formula was scorned today by semi-official French sources which described the proposal as "based on the exploitation of central eastern Europe." These sources said Hitler's inferen tial suggestion for creation of a small Polish buffer state "with Ger many and Russia gobbling up" the major portion of Poland, had been turned down by both British and French statesmen, even before it waa made. ROME, Oct. 6. (yp) Italy was hopeful but not optimistic today that Adolf Hitler's proposal for an all-inclusive peace conference might open the way to peace. There was no Immediate official reaction to the relchsfuehrer's Berlin speech. Those fascist who usually explain the government's viewpoint had not yet had time to study the address. MOSCOW, Oct. 6. (AP) Soviet official circles declined comment to day on Hitler's relchstag speech, but there were Indications it was received here with satisfaction, especially the assertions that peace was assured In eastern Europe and that Germany and Russia alone would determine the fate of Poland. SALEM, Oct, 6. (UP) McNutt Brothers of Eugene today were award ed a $77,392 contract for construc tion of a 372- foot viaduct on Water street, in .Oregon City. The viaduct will be utilized as a Pacific highway Improvement. "I think that we should, beware of the Greek when (hey come bear ing gifts," said Senator King D Utah). "I don't believe In Hitler's sincerity. It la hardly to be expected that the allies will give serious con sideration to his proposals until and unless he gtvea additional evidence that he win ceaae making war and will make some adequate amends to the cruel conquest of Poland." Senator Capper (R-Kaa.), Senator Herring (D-Iowa) and Representative Jarman (O-Ala.), listened to the speech by radio and then went on the air (NBC), with comment in cluding these: Capper "He was trying to frighten Britain and Prance Into peace on Oerman terms, also he waa bolster ing up the spirit of the Oerman people, but It Is up to Britain and Prance and not to the United States to give the answer." Herring- "The speech of Hitler Im proved me a the plea of a guilty soul which la finally beginning to recognise It own crimes." Downey Missing Man This is a picture of Albert C Goetze, 68, Crater Lake national pnrk worker missing since September 24. Having searched (lie pnrk as thoroughly as possible without find ing any truco of the Ashland ninn. the administrative staff today asked public aid In the search In case Mr. Goetze wandered away from the park. (Story on pnpre 10) E; Lucille Falls, 26, was being held today In the Jackson county jail pending her return to Portland where she Is to be retried next month on a Mann act charge in U. 8. district court. The Jury hearing the case here disagreed and was discharged late yesterday afternoon by Judge Claude McColloch. In the case of Richard W. Wil liams, a Negro accused of violating the Mann act, the Jury brought in a verdict of guilty after deliberating only half an hour. The Jury recom mended leniency , and government counsel asked that the court take the recommendation Into considera tion. Judge McColloch sentenced Williams to nine months In a county Jail.' - . ...... Husband Admitted Guilt Williams was charged with trans porting Lauvenle ' Alexander, 23 a Negro, from Qulncy, Cal., to Klam ath Falls for Immoral purposes. The Falls woman - was charged jointly with her husband, Ival O. Falls, in a two-count indictment with transporting Goldle Beavers, 17, from Chico. Cal., to Klamath Falls and from Klamath Falls to Dorrls, Cal , for Immoral purposes. Falls was ac cused alone in another two-count in dictment with transporting the same girl from Klamath Falls to Dorrls and from Dorrls to Klamath Falls for Immoral purposes, all the alleged crimes having been committed .last May. Falls had pleaded guilty to the charges and Is to be sentenced fol lowing disposition of the charges against his wife. He testified at the trial here for his wife, attempting to assume full responsibility for transportation of the. Beavers girl. The girl was a principal witness against the Falls woman. She had been held In Jail here as a material witness since arrest of the Palls sev eral months ago. She was still being held today. Falls and his wife had been held in the Portland Jail In lieu of ball. ' Week -End deceits The Alexander woman, who had been held In Jail here as a material witness In the Williams case, was re leased after the Jury reported late yesterday afternoon. She said she would go Immediately to Cheyenne, Wyo., where she would make her home with an aunt. The federal court will be in recess over the week-end. George Harris, 63, la scheduled to go on trial Mon day morning on two Informations charging him with the destruction of trees on the Klamath Indian res ervation. The charges grew out of a forest fire on the reservation last July. Robert Thornton, Medford at torney, baa been appointed by the court to defend Harris. EX-WOODEN BOX CHIEF DIES OF HEART DISEASE PITTSBURGH, Oct. ft. (AP) Frederick J. Kress, 70, box manufac turer and former president of the national wood box association, died today of a heart ailment m i hij nuww mi nil i mmmm m iuinqp Jl" l Sees Inflation if I ON STATE OF Medford Man Among Those Named by Governor to Replace Four Members Removed in Controversy SALEM, Oct. 6. (AP) Governor Sprague, named Leo Eyerley, Snlem, Floyd Hart, Medford. Dr. Clarence L. Gilstrap, La Grande, and George R. Dodson, Portland, to the state aeronautics board today, replacing the four members removed yester day because of a controversy over the resignation of Aeronautics In spector Allan D. Greenwood. Art Whitaker of Portland was re tained as the fifth member. The governor objected yesterday to a resolution- passed by the board Wednesday expressing rcget ovor Greenwood's withdrawal from the 9350-a-month 1 n s p e c t o r's post. Sprague, accusing the board of "lack of. cooperation," described the reso lution ns "offensive." Whltnker did not attend the meet ing. Hart In War Flier Eyerley Is president of the Eyerley Aircraft corporation. Hart a world war flier, Dodson president of the National Aeronautical association and Gilstrap one of the backers of La Grande's municipal airport. All have accepted the appoint ments except Gilstrap who IK en route to New York. The retiring members were Dr. Paul W. Sharp, Klamath Falls, chair man, Dr. Raymond Staub, Portland, Thomas A. Culbertson. Jr. Medford, and " Webster A, ii Jones, Portland Arthur W. Whitaker, Portland, fifth member, did not attend a board meeting Wednesday and was re tained, "The board In accepting the resig nation took occasion to express re grets at the necessity therefore," the governor said. "The resolution also Indulged In generous praise of Green wood's services and gave him an ad dltional month on the state payroll as director of aeronautics. Greenwood Politician "Greenwood was conspicuously ac tive in party politics. He served as president of the young Democratic (Continued on Page Three ) BRITISH LAMBAST NAZI CLAIM THAT LONDON, Oct. 6. (AP) The Brit ish admiralty commenting on the German statement that the United States liner Iroquois might be sunk said "it was surprising that an officer of the former imperial German navy like Admiral Raerer should bemean his uniform by lending himself to such 'baseness.' " , The suggestion, made to Washing ton through United States naval at tache at Berlin by the commander of the German navy. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, the admiralty asserted. enables us once more to realize and measure the criminal mentality of the Nazi party leaders." The Iroquois sailed Tuesday from Cobh, In Cork harbor, Ireland. She carried S84 passengers and a crew of 212. The passengers were American fleeing European hostilities. HYDB PARK, N. Y., Oct. 8. ( AP) President Roosevelt told reporters today the dispatching of naval vessels and a coast guard cutter to guard the American steamship Iroquois waa a very good illustration of the opera tion of the neutrality patrol In At lantic waters. Asked whether that action meant a precedent waa being established and warships would accompany other American ships, the president replied In the negative. The White House announced In Washington yesterday the govern ment had received an official German warning the Iroquois, bringing Amer leans back from Europe, would be sunk at she neared the United States coast. Tho Implication was made that the French and British were planning to attack the liner and blame It on Germany. (Pictures on Page 10) BERLIN, Oct. fl. (AP) Fuehrer Hitler today Mated the losses of Ger many's armed forces In the Polish campaign as 10.672 killed, 30,322 wounded and 3,404 missing. Mother in Iron v?v c l f f ; . Xw4 !.WWWPmWV I III II I IpM iMjUl Mm I k r '4 ' 1" 0 ; I I Jw ' Tr Si 1 ; cr I ; v. J ' I fr"'' if: A , ikk . . J 4-iiirtgi i7im Mrs. Oertrude Epstein, 32, an infantile paralysis victim, Is shown (lower) back In an "Iron lung" after giving birth to a six and onr-lmlr pound daughter In Alt. Slnnl Hospital, Chicago, while wearing Fred n. Suite, .Jr.'a portable respirator. Left to right are Nurse Charlotte Ollnlrk, Dr. M. J. Kosc and Dr. Leonard Kolb. A nurse Is shown holding the baby In upper photo. FRENCH TROOPS DIG IN PARIS, Oct. fl. (Jp) French troops dug in on the muddy Saarland front today in preparation against any large-scale Oerman offensive, while French police rounded up commu nist leaders behind the lines. French military circles reported large Oerman troop movements. Older Oerman soldiers were reported rapidly being replaced by younger campaigners from the Oerman armies that crushed Poland. Last night was calm, however. The war ministry communique said only patrols were active in the sector southwest of Saarbruecken. The strengthening of French van guards waa ascribed In political quar ters to belief that the nazl "peace offensive" had become a dead issue even before Fuehrer Hitler's address to the relchstag today. Police In Paris and In other cities tore pictures of Lenin and Stalin from walls In communist centers and searched for Arthur Rametle who, with Florlmond Bonte, wrote to Edouard Herrlot,' president of the chamber of deputies, demanding a parliamentary session to consider peace, . chandlFr willIecome senator for kentucky FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 6. (AP) Oov. A. B. Chandler, a high official source disclosed today, will resign Monday and be appointed United States senator by Lieut. Got. Keen Johnson, who will succeed him as the state's chief executive. Chandler will take the seat left vacant by the death Tuesday of Sen ator M. M. Logan. Embargo Lifted Lung Has Baby PASSES SOON AFTER BEARING B-LB. BABY CHrCAOO, Oct. fl. (p) Mrs. Ger trude Epstein, S3, who gave birth to a baby girl yesterday during a brief time she was removed from an "iron lung" respirator, died today at Mt. Sinai hospital. She succumbed to what Dr. A. I. Doktrosky described as "heart paraly sis," Hospital attendants said the 6 pound baby was "doing well." " Mrs. Epstein, an Infantile paralysis victim, was removed from a full length respirator and taken to the delivery room while fire department rescue squad mon administered arti ficial respiration, aided by a light, portable respirator, borrowed from Fred B. Snlto, .Jr., the young man who has lived In an "Iron lung" for 3! years. , Medical records showed only 11 known cases of an Infantile paralysis complication In pregnancy and no other case where a respirator was used at- delivery. JAPANESE RECALLING AMBASSADOR TO NAZIS TOKYO, Oct. fl. ( AP) The Jap anese government today recalled Major-General H Iron hi Oshlma, am bassador to Germany and long an advocate of a military alliance among Japan, Germany and Italy. , Ho official reason was given, but the recall has bticn considered In evitable ever since Japan's foreign policy underwent drastic change as a sequel to Oermnny's conclusion of a n on -aggression pact with Soviet Russia, OF ALLIES JANKRUPT Californian Says Purchase of Munitions Here Would Boost Prices and Living Costs for . Americans WASHINGTON. rVf. mi Senator Downey (D Cal.) forecast in the senate today that repeal of the arms embargo would lead ulti mately to "Inflation and a boom of tnLaoM-opnio consequences." The Californian took the floor af ter Senator Thomas (D., Utah) had urged removal of the embargo. Thomas contended no nation could object because under the admlnla tratton's full nAiitralltv hill Ameri can ShltlS Wnillrl Km npMWntarf wwa carrying war supplies to a belllger- "Ai for me." TViwriAv .uMrtwi 'r am firmly set against any further Intervention In Europe by the aala of war materials there In peace tim or war. Attack Home Tasks "Let us not help attack the peo ples of another continent. Tf. ttm attack our own tasks at home.' Besides ending the embargo, th administration's neutrality bill would put thla country'a commerce with belllgerenta on a virtual "cash and trols over shipping and travel In an trola over shipping and trovel in an effort to prevent "Incidents" with either side. Downey proposed this slogan for opponents of embargo repeal: "For the Americas, both north and south,, billlona-for defense but not a alngl son for butchery abroad." . The Californian predicted embargo repeal probably would mean tax on the American people equal to to 60 percent of their Incomes. Long War Seen Ho assumed, he said, that the war would be prolonged and that th British and French would be willing and able to buy In this country. If these assumptions were correct, he aid, approximately $9,000,000,000 of war supplies would be purchased by the allies, boosting prices and raising living costs. After a year, Downey argued, caah resources of Prance and Britain would be exhausted. "We will then either have to ex tend credit to the allies to buy or (Continued on Pag Pour.) GO TO PEN MOSCOW, Oct. 8. (AP) Scores of persons throughout European Russia were sentenced to prison term of from 6ne to eight years today for r hoarding supplies during the mobil ization period preceding Russia' In vasion of Poland. -v ! Plour, soap, textile Roods, matches, i kerosene and sugar were the princi pal commodities hoarded. Radio Highlights Medford radio station KM ED an nounced today it would nnt broad cast a football game Saturday, By Associated Press (Pacific Standard Time) NEW YORK, Oct. 6. Again th networks concentrate on two game for their second Saturday of foot ball. The lineup: Oklahoma va. North western on WEAP-NBO and WABO CBS at 11:18 a.m. Minnesota vs. Nebraska, on WJZ NBO, also at 11:15 a.m. Anthony Eden's address from Lon don to the British dominions has been scheduled for MBS relay at 5:90 tonight. Tonight: Neutrality WJZ-NBO. 7:15 p.m., Sen. Tom Connally; MBA 7:45, MaJ. Qen. Smedley Butler. EUROPE WEAP-NBO 8:15: W ABO CBS 8:60, 8; WJZ-NBO 7; MBS 8, 7. HbS-Chaln 5:15 Cincinnati pre view of world series. What to expect Saturday: Europe) -WEAP-WJZ-NBC 5 a.m.; WEAP NBC 10:30 a.m.; w ABC-CBS t a.m, 9:30 p.m.; WJZ-NBC, 9 a.m. 4 Son Franclsc Butter SACRAMENTO, Oct. 8. (AP) Churning cream butterfat, Ilrst grade, 35; second grade 83. 8AN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8. (AP) -Butter unchanged.
