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
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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.
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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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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Son Franclsc Butter
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 8. (AP)
Churning cream butterfat, Ilrst grade,
35; second grade 83.
8AN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8. (AP) -Butter
unchanged.