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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1939.
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Washington, D. C, Oct. 17.
Taking advantage of the war
talk, national preparedness,
mixed with a few political am
bitions, Administrator Raver,
new boss of Bonneville, will re
turn to the national capital next
month and ask that the govern
ment's hydro-electric venture
be rushed to completion; built
to its full capacity.
The administrator will ask
that approval be given for $20,
000,000 by the director of the
budget. This proposal will be
that $10,000,000 be allowed in
1940 and a similar sum in 1941.
With this money Bonneville can
be equipped with 10 units, the
number originally planned.
THE program worked out for
Bonneville was to install
two units, then install additional
generators as the demand for
the power increased until there
would be 10. This step-by-step
development sounded business
like to congress, which pre
ferred making appropriations
from time to time for new units
as needed rather than vote a
big lump sum for complete de
velopment at the start.
Before a kilowatt was sold,
the late J. D. Ross, first admin
istrator, came to Washington
and asked money to install a
second set of units, announcing
that he had applications for all
the power Bonneville could gen
erate and that the power would
be selling so fast that all pro
posed 10 units should be has
tened. Despite the statements of
Mr. Ross, the applications have
not been translated into custom
ers. Since Bonneville has been
generating power It has sold
probably less than $150,000
worth.
APPARENT reason why Bon
neville power is not being
sold is the inability or failure
of public utility districts to fi
nance themselves (and 50 per
cent of Bonneville power is re
served for such districts); the
disinclination of the new deal
to sell any of the power to pri
vate utility companies, and the
vociferous objection of a small
group who are opposed to Bon
neville power being marketed
to Industries.
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Folsom Prison, Calif., Oct. 17
(AP) Warren K. Billings said
today as he awaited his release
that he expects to be married
soon to Josephine Rudolph, San
Mateo, Calif., librarian.
He met Miss Rudolph about
18 years ago in San Francisco,
he said, while attending one of
thr- numerous legal hearings in
the course of the Mooney
Billings case.
They manngvd to converse at
times during the hearing. Bil
lings said, and later she visited
with him in the interview room
in the warden's office building
here.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Mary Jane Bcebe making large
plans for a huge event and keep
ing it all an immense secret.
Zelma Wahl just about snow
ed under trying to handle a
dozen different chores for the
P.-T.A.. she taking the -whole
thing in her usual cheerful way
though.
Olive Starcher thinking stay
ing up half the night to whip
up a resume of a meeting just
a lot of canal water.
Paul (Hoonen Hnffnrd's dng
tearing to shrr-tls MTs led on
neighbors' porches
Training Vessel
Target in Raid
By Four Planes
By J. C. Stark
London, Oct. 17. (AP) German bombers struck twice to
day at the Orkney islands, site of Scapa Flow, the great naval
port where Britain bases her North Sea fleet, and once at the
eastern English coast.
The first raid damaged the.
training ship Iron Duke in Scapa I
Flow.
The second raid over the Ork
neys, off northern Scotland, was
repulsed without damage, the
British admiralty said in a com
munique, adding it was "re
ported" one German raider had
been destroyed.
A lone plane which approached
the Yorkshire coast was driven
off to sea.
Plane Shot Down
Lord Chatfield, minister for
defense coordination, asserted
one of the first band of raiders,
which included four planes, had
been shot down in flames.
Lord Chatfield and Winston
Churchill, first lord of the ad
miralty, also claimed signal
success in the British campaign
against German submarines.
They estimated that from
one-fourth to one-third of Ger
many's undersea fleet had been
destroyed since war started Sep
tember 3.
"We may estimate that 13
U-boats have been sunk, five
seriously damaged and possibly
sunk, and several others dam
aged" in the first six weeks,
Churchill said.
Lord Chatfield also disclosed
the battleship Royal Oak, which
was sunk Saturday, had been
torpedoed in Scapa Flow by a
German submarine.
Old Ship Damaged
Two bombs fell near the Iron
Duke, an old battleship which
had been converted into a train
ing vessel, Lord Chatfield said.
She was damaged, but there
were no casualties. Winston
Churchill, first lord of the ad
miralty, made a statement in
the house of commons similar
to Lord Chatfield's.
The 21-250-ton Iron Duke,
built in 1912, was one of the
battleships demilitarized under
the 1940 London naval treaty.
She was the flagship of the Bri
tish commander. Admiral Jelli
coe, in the world war.
Second Raids
The German air raids today
were the second in two days on
British naval centers. In yes
terday's raid at the Firth of
Forth near Edinburgh, Scotland,
16 lives were lost, 45 men were
injured and from four to seven
German warplanes were re
ported unofficially to have been
brought down.
Shortly after the Scapa Flow
raids today, air raid alarms were
sounded at numerous points
along a 350-mile stretch of the
English and Scottish coasts, the
nearest to London being about
20 miles.
Norwegian Steamer
Sunk By Submarine
Bergen, Norway, Oct. 17.
(AP) Its owners reported to
dav the Norwegian steamer Lor
entz W. Hansen, 1,918 tons, was
torpedoed and sunk with a cargo
of wood, bound from Canada to
England.
The crew of 21 was saved by
a tanker at a point two days out
in the Atlantic.
Heavy Boots Hamper Japs
In China's Mountain Areas
By James Stewart
With the Chinese Army at
Nanyo, Hunan Province, China,
Oct. 17 (AP) Japanese troops,
slogging up and down the rough
Chinese mountains, can blame
their heavy boots for recent re
verses in Hunan, the defending
Chinese General Chien Cheng
told foreign newspaper men to
day. Chinese soldiers, shod only in
straw sandals, can negotiate the
tricky terrain with much less ef
fort, he said.
Japanese inability to use
mechanized forces and heavy
mnHprn artillerv also contrib
uted to what the Chinese re
I ported as the repulse of a long
i camppign aeoinct Hunan and its
j capital, Changsha, Chien Cheng
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Berlin, Oct. 17. (AP) Scapa
Flow bay, important British
naval base north of Scotland,
was attacked by German raid
ers for the second time today
as part of what officials called
a series of lightning attacks to
bring Britain to her knees.
"After a week or 10 days of
this uninterrupted attacking
Britain will see what is left of
her fleet," one highly-placed
person said tonight.
Picture Evidence
Commander Pricn and the
crew of his submarine which
sank the - British battleship
Royal Oak Saturday and
claimed to have torpedoed the
battle cruiser Repulse were
awarded iron crosses today for
their exploits.
Britain s first lord of the ad
miralty, authorized sources said,
would "in such form as the Ger
man supreme high command
thinks desirable" be acquainted
with photographs of bombing
activity in the Firth of Forth
taken yesterday by German
fliers.
These sources tauntingly
asked whether the first lord,
Winston Churchill, would dare
deny the extent of the damage
inflicted in the light of the doc
umentary proof said to be in
German possession.
The assertion such photo
graphs existed came shortly af
ter the supreme command an
nounced French troops had re
tired from the main part of
German territory they had oc
cupied outside the Siegfried line
since the first weeks of the war.
West Front Unimportant
This western front develop
ment was not regarded here as
important news, however. Ger
man sources have emphasized
consistently the French merely
entered two or three little "fin
gers" of German territory, in
other words, little strips only
three-quarters to 1V4 miles deep.
A further cause for jubilation
was given by the high com
mand's announcement of shoot
ing down three French and two
British reconnoitcring planes
along the western front yester
day and by the statement seven
steamers totaling 54.398 gross
tons were sunk within three
days in the North and Baltic
seas.
Albany, Oct. 17. (AP) Al
bany claimed the world's biggest
blowout today. Dozens of citi
zens fushed to the scene of a
"big explosion" to find the
seven-foot tire on a state con
struction machine had "popped."
Four men worked four hours to
make a change. A new lire costs
about $1550, workmen said.
He professed to see In this the
impossibility of Japanese con
quest of China.
On a tour of the Hunan battle
fields, I reached this town 60
miles south of Changsha after a
! long trip by plane and train.
General Cheng, Chinese army
political chief who is special
commander of the Hunan forces,
I explained that it was not the
J strategy of the defenders to at
, tack Japanese strongholds.
Instead, by cutting Japanese
communications lines. Intercept
ing supply convoys and bottling
up the Japanese supporting
forces in Tungchcng. in south
ernmost Hupch province, and
continuously engaging the enemy
near Nanchang. the Chinese hope
! to lay the foundation for Jup
' anese disaster, he declared.
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French Report Six Enemy
Divisions Fail in Bitterest
Action of Western Front
By Henry C. Cassidy
Paris, Oct. 17. (AP) A
smashing German offensive
along a 20-mile sector east of
the Saar river has broken down,
the French reported today, in
the face of devastating Maginot
line fire.
At least six German divisions
were known to have taken part
in the offensive yesterday in
two attacks, one of which car
ried 100 yards into French terri
tory, military dispatches said.
Allied army authorities esti
mated the strength of each di
vision to be at least 10,000 men.
Fire Stops Foe
"Our fire stopped the enemy,"
the French general staff an
nounced after explaining ad
vanced French outposts had
been drawn back to prepared de
fensive positions in the face of
the advancing Germans.
Military advices said the Ger
man army threw a full division
of more than 10,000 men into
its first assault yesterday morn
ing on a four-mile sector in the
Moselle river valley. This thrust
pushed forward a mile and a
half, then across the border 100
yards into the French village of
Apach, near the Luxembourg
border.
Blocked by a curtain of French
artillery and machine-gun fire,
the Germans halted north of
Apach.
The second attack, French
dispatches said, put five German
divisions into action yesterday
afternoon on a 20-mile sector
east of the Saar river.
Bitterest Engagement
There the German advance
was said to have been stopped
on "the line foreseen," still with
in German territory and well in
advance of the main Maginot
line.
This was described as the
largest and most bitterly fought
action of the war on the western
front this far.
The Nazis drove hard across
no-man's land in the Saar at
tack in the wake of an artillery
barrage, without the protection
of tanks.
French artillery fire shattered
the German drive, causing heavy
losses, dispatches said.
CCC TO REOPEN
p
UCC Camp Prescott, located
east of Medford In the Koxy
Ann vicinity, and closed since
April 15, 1939, will re-open to
morrow morning when 130 en
rollees arrive on a troop train
attached to the regular south
bound morning train.
The enrollecs are from New
York and New Jersey and have
been located recently at Camo
Many Glaciers in Glacier na
tional park. This group will be
augmented by 64 replacements
from Fort Dix, N. J on Octo
ber 26.
The re-opened camp, number
1213, will be in command of
Henry W. Wilson and subaltern,
William A. Mansfield. Dr. Louis
Ray will act as camp surgeon
and Harrison W. Busby will be
educational adviser. The four
officials will arrive tomorrow
with the enrollees.
The two groups of men com
priie a full company, entirely
organized and ready to move
into camp.
ROUTINE BUSINESS
FOR COUNCIL MEET
Only routine business Is on
the formal agenda to come be
fore the city council at its reg
ular semi-monthly meeting to
night. The session will be held
as usual at 7:30 in tour' il r';am
bers on the top floor of city
hal'
OP
NS SALES
Sen. Maloney Reveals Intimi
dation Attempts Vote
This Week Barkley's Hope
Washington, Oct. 17. (AP
Senator Maloney (D.-Conn.) re
ported today he and some of
his colleagues involved In the
fight over neutrality legislation
have received "physical threats."
The assertion was made in a
speech prepared by the stocky,
be-spectaclcd New Englandcr to
announce his support of the ad
ministration's neutrality propos
als, including repeal of the arms
embargo.
"Like other members of con
gress," Maloney said, "I have
undergone harsh criticism and
have suffered political and phys
ical threats.
Retaliation Threatened.
In presenting his speech in
the senate Maloney left out the
reference to "physical threats."
although he made it clear to re
porters he was standing behind
this section of his speech. He
decided on the omission at the
last moment, he said, in order to
avoid focusing undue attention
on the situation.
Com menting on Maloney's
statement, Senator Johnson tD.
Colo.) said he had received no
physical threats but had numer
ous threats of political retalia
tion for his support of the em
bargo repeal bill.
Senator Minton (D.-Ind.), an
other administration supporter,
said if there had been any
threats in his mail they had
not been called to his attention.
Wild Men Write In.
"There are always a lot of
wild men who write in, but I
never pay any attention to
them," Minton said. "I got
threats of all kinds when the
lobby committee was active and
during the court fight. They
even sent me a shotgun shell
in the mail then."
The reference to physical
threats went unchanged in the
prepared copies of Maloney's
speech made available for pub
lication. He did not go Into detail as
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Moscow, Oct. 17. (AP) The
protracted negotiations between
Soviet Russia and Turkey came
to at least a temporary halt to
day with the announced inten
tion of Turkey's foreign minis
ter, Sukru Saracoglu, to leave
Moscow tonight.
Turkish officials said Saraco
glu would hold no further talks
with cither Stalin or Premier
Foreign Commissar Vyachcslaff
Mololoff before his departure.
Coincident with the announce
ment of Saracoglu's leaving was
the appearance of an article in
the government newspaper Iz
vestia which asserted Britain
and France could not establish
an effective sea blockade against
Germany because of the eco
nomlc aid the reich would re
ceive from Russia and Italy.
The article, signed by I. Van
off, Soviet scientist, reflected
support of Adolf Hitler's "peace
campaign" and hinted Russia
was prepared to give Germany
economic assistance on a large
scale.
High Court Upholds
Insurance Concern
Salem, Ort. 17. (AP) The
Port Investment company failed
today in its attempt to prevent
the Oregon Mutual Fire Insur
ance company from soliciting
customers of the investment
company. ,
The state supreme court up
held the decision of Judge John
P. Winter of Pr" who re
fused to grant a restraining
ord-
Reluctant To
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This picture, made from the deck of the Italian freighter.
Belvedere, shows a member of the crew descending to assist in
the rescue of Guy C. Avery of Tampa, Florida, from his sinking
sailboat off the Azores. Avery stands in the 18-foot boat, in which
he had been voyaging in the Atlantic for five months. He was
without food, but ship's officers argued for an hour before he
would board the Belvedere, which brought him to New York.
NETHERLANDS PLANES
FIRED ON BY GERMANS
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The Hague, Oct. 17. (AP
The government announced
Netherlands planes were fired
upon today by German anti
aircraft guns near the German
port of Emdcn shortly after re
ports came from the frontier
areas of an attempted British
air raid on Emdcn.
The government announced It
was protesting to Berlin.
The announcement, which
said the planes were not hit,
followed upon reports from vil
lages in northeastern Nether
lands that heavy firing had been
heard around Emden.
Villagers along the bay said
they saw a plane that appeared
to be British flying toward
Emdcn.
Informed sources said The
Netherlands planes were fired
upon when they flew in the
vicinity of Emden at 11:15 a. m.
(5:15 a. m., EST).
Radio Highlights
Rr Aunrlntril Prr'S Radio F.rtltor
(Time 1a Pacific Standard)
New York, Oct. 17. Prcnldellt
Roosevelt'i Armlfitlce dny addreaa will
be aent all over the world aa well
aa via American networka under
plana now In the making. The broad
caat will be at 8 a. m. November 11.
Herbert Hoover partlclpn ira In the
radio dlacttaalon of the neutrality
question with a WJZ-NBC broadcast
at 7 p. m. Friday. Meanwhile tonight
on WABC-CB8 added neutrality talka
are to come from Sen. Alexander
Wiley at 7:30 and Sen. Joah Lee at
7:45.
Tonlcht: Europe, WABC-CBS.
5:55, 8; MBS 8: WEAP-N1C 8.
Wedneaday: Europe, WEAP-NBC, 8
a. m.; WABC-CRS S a. m., 3:30 p.
m ; WJZ-NBO. ll a. m.
WJZ-NBC, 7:30 a. m.. Farm and
Home Hour, Secretary Wallace.
Be Rescued
San Qucntin, Calif., Oct. 17
(AP) James P. Watson, 61, re
ferred to as "Bluebeard" Watson,
In the sensational trial when he
was convicted of murder at Los
Angeles 19 years ago, died of
pneumonia at San Qucntin
prison Monday.
Watson was serving a life
term for the murder of Nina De
Lancey, but officers claimed he
admitted slaying several other
women In southern California
to obtain their insurance,
Previous to his trial May 18
1020, he led investigators to a
Iwely spot near Coyote Wells,
Imperial county, where Nina De
Lancey s body was found.
Los Angeles, Oct. 17. (AP)
James P. "Bluebeard Watson
who died at San Qucntin prison,
confessed killing 16 of the 25
women he married.
In statements preceding and
during his murder trial here In
1920, Watson said that for many
years he had lured women into
marriage by artfully phrased
matrimonial advertisements, ob
tnlncd possession of their money
and property and then killed
them. At some periods, he was
married to several women at the
same time, posing as a U,
secret service agent to explain
long absences from his various
homes.
He was arrested here after
one of his wives. Mrs. Kathcrine
Andrews, appealed to authorities
for aid in recovering $8000 from
him. He was using the name of
Andrews at the time.
Swiss Pilots Killed.
Berne, Switzerland, Oct. 17.
(AP) Pilots of two Swiss mili
tary planes on patrol duty were
killed today when the planes
collided in a fog over Curten
dorf mountain south of here.
f. r:s plea
BEHALF OF FINNS
Recognition of Finland's In
dependence Being Ob
served in Negotiations
Washington, Oct. 17. (AP)
President M. Kalinin of the
Soviet Union has Informed Pres
ident Roosevelt negotiations be
tween the Soviet and Finnish
governments are being con
ducted In conformity with prin
ciples which recognized the
state independence of Finland.
The White House made pub
lic a dispatch to President
Roosevelt from the Soviet pres
ident, replying to a note in
which the American chief ex
ecutive on last Wednesday
called attention to the "long
standing and deep friendship
which exists between the United
States and Finland."
Independence Recognised
Mr. Roosevelt, also expressed
"the earnest hope that the So
viet Union will make no de
mands on Finland which are in
consistent with the maintenance
and development of amicable
and peaceful relations."
In reply, Kalinin asserted he
considered it appropriate to re
mind Mr. Roosevelt the "state
independence of the Finnish re
public was recognized by the
free will of the Soviet govern
ment on Dec. 31, 1916, and that
the sovereignty of Finland was
guaranteed to It by the peace
treaty of Oct. 14, 1920, between
the Russian Socialist Federated
Soviet Republic and Finland."
To Strengthen Ties
The Soviet president added:
"By the above mentioned
acts of the Soviet government
the basic principles of the re
ciprocal relations between the
Soviet Union and Finland were
defined. The present negotia
tions between the Soviet gov
ernment and the government of
Finland are also being con
ducted in conformity with these
principles."
The sole aim of negotiations
between the two nations, Ka
linin asserted, is the consolida
tion of their reciprocal relations
and "a strengthening of friendly
cooperation between both coun
tries in the cause of guarantee
ing the security of the Soviet
Union and Finland."
GAIN 33RD DEGREE
Washington, Oct. 17. AP)
Oregon Masons elected to 33rd
degree and knights commander,
court of honor, today Included:
Thirty-third degree Ira
Frank Cobe, Portland; Franklin
Clinton Howell, Portland; Rich
ard Frank Peters, Hlllsboro;
John Howard Rankin, Portland;
Edwin Boone Wheat, Portland;
Ezra Morton Wilson, Medford;
William Finch Woodward, Port
land. Knights commander, court of
honor Carl Clinton Donaugh,
Portland; Luther Andrew Duck
worth, Portland; John Conner
Failing, Portland: Carl Julius
Greve, Portland: Don Hensley,
Klamath Falls; Floyd Thomas
Jones, Baker; Frank Wesley
Knoll, Jennings Lodge; Louis
Tunie Merwln, Portland; Wil
liam Nelmyer, Salem: Paul Ber
thcau Rynnlng, Medford; Rob
ert Lawrence Smith, Portland;
John Talbot, Portland; James
Walter Welch, Forest Grove;
Harold Jesse Welle, Eugene.
Torpedo Survivors
Landed In England
London, Oct. 17. (AP)
Forty-three survivors of the crew
of the 5,186-ton French steamer
Vermont were landed today at
a South England port by Brit
ish warship which rescued them
in the Atlantic.
Two seamen were lost in the
sinking of the vessel and four
of the survivora wore Injured.
The survivors said submarine)
sank their ship. .,