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PAGE FIVE IROQUOIS JOINED RE1ER TO WASHINGTON FOR CONFERENCES ON FASCISTS WILL STAY ANTI-COflUNIST IS CLAIM OF NEWSPAPER LOT TF BY N) AT PORT HERE WAITS SURPLUS PEAR PLANS ICT Ft ED E MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933. 548 Refugee Americans As sured Safe Arrival By Convoy Should Reach . New York on Wednesday. WASHINGTON. Oct. .(API Naval vessels have reached the Amer ican liner Iroquois, returning trom Ireland with 584 passengers, and are escorting her home. This was disclosed yesterday by the navy, which declined further Infor mation. The German admiralty noti fied the White House last Thursday the Iroquois, due In New Yor Wed nesday, would be sunk "through a repetition of circumstances which marked the loss of the steamship Athenla." German officials have denied that a. Nazi submarine torpedoed the Athenla, a British ship, on the first day of the war. They declare that the British had It sunk and then tried to blame the relch for propa ganda reasons. PORTLAND, Me., Oct. . (AP) Persistent reports U. 8. navy and coast guard craft were searching by sea and air for a atrange submarine sighted off this coast yesterday ap proximately 200 miles off the norm! course of the "threatened" refugee ship Iroquois weio met with silence today by all official sources. Arthur R. Greenleaf, Maine's com missioner of sea and shore fisheries, announced he saw the submarine clearly, moving at high speed on a. course that would take the craft in the general direction of the Euro pean ship lanes. Navy and coast guard officials both In this state and in Boston declined to confirm or deny reports that a wide search was being made for the undersea craft. While five miles off Portland light ship on coastal patrol, Greenleaf said, he and two wardens saw the sub mersible come within 50 ysrda of their motor cruiser at 3:40 a. m (E.S.T.) yesterday, start to circle the patrol boat, then speed off to the southeast. Portsmouth (N. H.) navy yard offl elals said no American undersea craft was near the position given, which Is 13 miles south of Portland. RUSSIA PUIS WEIGHT BEHIND HITLER MOVE MOSCOW, Oct. 8. (AP) Soviet Russia threw her weight behind Adolf Hitler's peace gestures today in an editorial in the government news paper Izvestla. accusing Great Britain and France of "returning to the mid dle ages" for waging war to "exter minate HItlerlsm." At the same time. It was announced Premier-Foreign Commissar vyaches laff Molotoff had reached a quick de. clslon last night with leaders of l German trade delegation. The delegation arrived only yester. dav to expedite stimulated trade be tween Russia and Germany under the recent formal trade and credit agree ment between the Nazl-Communlst partners. It waa not specified what goods were Involved. Besides the German delegation. Russia was host to the foreign mln lsters of Turkey and Lithuania and exDected a third diplomat, former Premier Juhu Kustl Paaslklvl of Fin land, tonight or tomorrow as she pushed forward her bargain-driving campaign on Russian frontlera from the Gulf of Finland to the BiacK sea 8 0 -w Ht,;if-sr"s aMaft,jiJj, .ZV . i ! f '.--": . est. 1 1 -mMmttx--.eta tsar ;"iji.ui Js-w" . r t-frti W M -if V rvW' AS GAMBLING SPOT LOS ANGELES. Oct. 9. (UP) A deputy sheriff's vice squad lat to day raided the Luxembourg consu late, chased 200 "guests" out of the house and Btopped asserted gambling. Five employee of the consulate were taken in custody as Capt. George Contreras led the officers to the consulate, located on a 77-acrt estate at Culver City. The raid fol lowed several weeks of correspon dence between the sheriff's office and the state department In Wash ington regarding authority to make the raid. PV-V-aai iii ili IJ I J J in.'.yi.im.i mm with HORSE SHOW end RODEO PORTLAND, OREGON Oclober 7 lo I 19 Shows In One Eleven acres un der one roof. E biblts of pure bred Livestock. Dogs, Poultry, Pet Stock. Wild Life, Manufactured and Land Products. 4 H Club and 8mith Hughee Vocation al Education Work: also t h a Horse Show and Indoor Rodeo, tafff Pffmlym IMt 'SEEINC AMERICA FIRST 'Automobiles of tourists line the four-lane highway atop Uncle Sam's 316,000,000 Bouhlcr dam about 25 mlles.southeast of Las Vegas, Nev. Proof of Uie popu larity of the dam siuhts are figures for August visitors: 108.528 tourists visited Boulder dam in 29,182 cars and 216 buses i-.urinit the month. Planes numbering 115 also flew over with 446 passengers. Raymond R. Reter. head of the Med ford fruit parking company bearing his name, left this afternoon by United Malnliner for Washington. D. C where he will take part In vart- oua hearings and conferences as a representative of the west coast pear Industry. Mr. Reter will represent the Oregon - Washington - California Ponr League and the Oregon-Washington- California Pear Bureau at consulta tion pertaining to the program of the Federal Surplus Commodities corporation which Includes a propo sal to purchase Pacific coast winter pears. Mr. Reter and Roy Webster, east ern manager of the pear bureau, will confer with Porter Taylor, chief of the general crops section of the AAA, on October U. In addition Mr. Reter will appear as a witness for the northwest fruit Industry before the committee of reciprocity Infor mation for the proposed trade agree ment in connection with the Impor tation of Argentine pears. He is to testify at a committee hearing Octo ber 10. FINNS NERVOUS ON EVE OF ENVOYS MEETING WITH SOVIET LEADERS 1 STOCKHOLM, Oct. 9. (AP) Dr. Juhu Paaslklvl, Finland's heavy-set. stern-looking minister to Sweden, was expected to carry the hopes of his freedom-loving countrymen to Mos cow tonight to meet the Soviet giant, which In less than a month has ab sorbed part of one European republic and brought dark hours to three others. Paaslklvl, 69, who helped fix Doun daries of the young Finnish republic In 1920 as chief delegate to the Russo-Flnnlsh conference at Dorpet. will personify the determination for Independence of 4.000.000 Finns. While government officials Insisted no demands had been received from Moscow and the Invitation mentioned only "economic and political ques tions.' many Finns were becoming uneasy. ROME. Oct. 9 4.J The newspaper n Corriere Padar.o, owned by Air Marshal Italo Bnlbo. governor of Libya, declared today in an editorial that the Fascists were "born anil Communist and are determined an to remain." While Brtlbo owns the paper, he takes no part in iti active direction. The editorial, signed by Nello Oui llcl, director of the newspaper, was Interpreted as a rebuke to some Italian papers which printed favor able rtlcl?s about Soviet Russia after the development of the new German Russian partnership. II Corrtore demanded "not a gram of esteem, not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks." "For us." the editorial said, "they are and Always will be tragic clowns, professional frauds, models of coarse bestiality and living monsters in the service of the most lunatic. Infamous degradation that universal history re cor as. 4 Southern Oregon College of Edu cation Is waiting for the receipt of formal contract with the civil aeronautics authority before pro ceeding definitely with Its govern ment-financed course In pilot traln Ine. the Mall Tribune was Informed today by Marshall E. Woodell. regis trar. It Is hoped that class?s may be started next week. Mr. Woodell said In relating that the contract was expected dally. Fifteen students have evinced an interest in the coxirse. Mr. Woodell said. The government, he pointed out, recommends students who have had at least one year of college work. Many who have not had a year at college have shown an Interest In the pllot-tralnlug course and pos sibly some of t hese may also be allowed to enroll, the registrar stated. All applicants must pass a standard physical examination before being permitted to register. Minimum enrollment for the course at the Ashland Institution has been act at ten students. GRANTS PASS. Oct. 9 (AP) . County Judge D. A. Johnson said today that th Josephine county court has decided to Institute tax foreclosure against the Oregon and California Coast RMlroad which rune 14 miles southwest from Grants Paae to Waters Creek. It was started shortly before the entrance of the United States la the World war, shut down by gov ernment orders, and has been oper ated only in part. The City of Grants Pass claims an equity In the railroad on the buds of supplying 200.000 for Its con struction by municipal bond issue. Judvp Johnson said foreclosure proceedings were desirable because the county has had to pay the taxes to the state although it has been unable to collect them from the railroad. PARIS. Oct. D. ( AP) The war ministry today announced Premier Daladler had decided to broadcast a speech to the nation tomorrow as the result of Adolf Hitler's peace speech last Friday. Daladler's address will be broad cast on a nation-wide French hook up at 8 p. m. (11 a. m. PST). Before announcement of the speech. Daladler conferred with Gen eralissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelln, chief of the British-French land forces. IP LINE TO CENTRAL AMERICA GERMANS FORCED DOWN INTERNED IN DENMARK ESBJERG, Denmark. Oct. 9. (AP) A two-motored German wnrplane was damaged today in a forced land ing off the Island of Fanoe, near here. One member of the four-man crew was Injured slightly. The crew was Interned. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 9. (UP) A new passenger and freight service to Mexican, Central American and canal zone ports will be opened In a week by the Fruit Expreaa line, a Norwegian service which haa with drawn from the Pacific-Europe traffic because of the war, It was announced today. Tentative schedules call for south bound loadings at Vancouver, Seattle San Francisco and Los Angeles. Calls at Mexican and Central American porta have not been completed. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 9. (UP) It was for the love of his motor cycle not the man that Mrs. Dale Smith, 26, married Horace Lynn Breach, Jr., without bothering to get a divorce from her first hus band, she told police today. Mrs. Smith waa In tears, but her eyes glistened when she talked about the motorcycle. I didn't love him," Mrs. Smith said, "but he used to take me rid ing on his motorcycle. One night we decided to ride to Port Allen , and I got to thinking about the motorcycle and the fun we had riding, so I married him.' Regarding Ernest J. Smith, the husband who complained to police. Mrs. Smith said he didn't have a motorcycle to hold her affections. "I aaked him to give me a divorce and I was willing to pay half." she said, "But he wanted me to pay It all." Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1 :30 p. m. Tough Marine EVERETT. Wash., Oct. 9. (LP) Venard Sutten, U. S. marine, was recovering today from Injuries suf fered when two automobiles struck him. A taxi driven by Ed C. Landers hit the Chicago man and hurled him Into the path of an automobile driven by Robert Dickson. 4 Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1:30 p. m. CENTRAL PT. EWE S PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 9. (AP) Manning Becker of Gresham defeated representatives of five other states in a public speaking contest among Future Farmers of America a part of the Pacific International livestock exhibition Saturday. The Highland dairy of Longvlew, Wash., won first place among 3d entries In the dairy products show, scoring 06.5 on Its Ice cream. Wool show results Included: South down ewe. B. F. Jernstedt. Jr., Carl ton, first, and Gordon Jernstedt, Carlton, second; Corrledale ewe, Ivan Myers, Central Point, first. IF THROAT IS SORB Use Mall Tribune want ads. IF A COLD has given you miserable sore throat. here's how to relieve the suffering. DOTHISNOW-Melt a small lump of VnpoRub on your tongue and feel the comforting medication slowly trickle down your throat bathing the irritated membranes bringing blessed relief where you want it, when you want it. DO THIS TONIGHT Ru throat, chest with VnpoRub. 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