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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1939
No. 179.
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Washington, D. C, Oct. 18.
States of Oregon and Washing
ton have a stake in the adminis
tration's plan to develop trade
with the Latin American repub
lics. However, the administra-i
tion's desire to spread the "good
neighbor" policy is viewed with;
alarm In the Pacific Northwest!
where fear is expressed that the j
products of that region may be!
sacrificed to help the heavy in-!
dustries of the mid-west and the
east. !
Congress will be requested to
increase the loan limit of the j
Export-Import bank a few hun- j
dred million dollars, the money j
to be used in aiding import and
export associations operating be
tween the United States and the
Latin Americas. The lending
spending bill proposed by the
president last summer before
congress adjourned called for a
half-billion dollars to be used to
build up trade with the republics
south of the Rio Grande. This
bill was rejected.
OINCE the first of the year, the
United States has dished out
many millions of dollars to va-1
nous Latin American republics.
"Strong men" of the republics
came to Washington, were dined
and- sent. . home well financed.
The fact that most of the Latin
countries have defaulted bonds
bought by the American invest
ors( just as France, Britain and
Italy defaulted payment of their
war debts to the United States),
has not prevented the adminis
tration from furnishing taxpayer
money to the defaulters.
Everyone recognizes that the
European war has disconnected
the trade relations between the
belligerents and the Latin Amer
icas and this gives the United
States its opportunity to get the
business heretofore going to
Germany and Britain. To at
tract this business, administra
tion agencies know the Latins
must have money to buy United
States goods, so they are lending
funds and, in addition, making
it more easy for those republics
to sell their products to the
United States.
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IJERE is where Oregon and
1 Washington states sit up and
take notice. It so happens that
many of the products o South
America are the same kind of
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POLICE.WILL PROBE
NUDIST CAMP DEATH
SEBRING. Fla., Oct. 18 (AP)
Mysterious death of Lillian Eich
ler, 32, an unmarried woman
from St. Joseph, Michigan, to
day prompted law officers to
investigate three nudist camps
Dick Windish, 26, and John
Windish. 24, brothers, who
brought the woman's body here,
were being held pending verdict
of a coroner's jury. They said
another brother, Jim Windish,
17, heard Miss Eichler fall early
Thursday morning at a nudist
camp near here. She was not
given medical attention because
members of the cult in the camp
oppose such treatment.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Keith Kittle amusing a group
of friends by relating a number
of very jovial escapades he fig
ured in when but a lad.
And wifey Bennic outdoing
hubby Keith by adding a couple
of even funnier tales to the
antics accumulation.
Geraldine Wilkinson, Sr., be
ing in such haste to greet her
offspring after a couple of weeks'
absence as to walk off and leave
her suitcase on the S. P. station
platform.
Jack Matlack icing 50 tired
after a nice vacation at Treasure
Island he couldn't worlt
AMERICAN LINER
SAVES 300 FROM
TORPEOeSHIPS
Survivors Being Returned to
France Aboard Independ
ence Hall; Storm Hinders
U. S. Bars Subs
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.
(AP) President Roosevelt
bared American ports and
territorial waters today to bel
ligerent submarines.
The president proclaimed
section 8 of the existing neu
trality act and thus made it
unlawful for submarines of
nations at war both commer
cial undersea vessels and those
which are ships of war, to
enter United States ports or
territorial waters unless
forced to do so by "force ma
jeure." "Force majeure" was de
fined as meaning "an act of
god" such as a storm.
Mr. Roosevelt said he pro
claimed the section because
he found this would "serve to
maintain peace between the
United States and foreign
states, to protect the commer
cial interests of the United
States and its citizens, and to
promote the security of the
United States."
NEW YORK, Oct. 18. (AP)
The storm-battered American
liner President Harding radioed
the United States Line offices
here today that 45 passengers
and 28 members of the crew had
been injured and that Paul
Johnson, a cabin waiter, had
presumably been lost overboard
at the height of a heavy gale.
Captain James E. Roberts,
master of the President Harding
said the injuries of 13 of the
passengers and 10 of the crew
were serious.
The President Harding said it
was proceeding directly to New
York, with 597 passengers from
Europe, including 330 American
citizens, after having hove to
early this morning 800 miles
from Boston.
New York, Oct. 18. (AP)
The U. S. maritime commission
said today 300 survivors had
been rescued by the American
liner Independence Hall from
two British ships, the 10,138-ton
passenger liner Yorkshire and
the 3,509-ton freighter City of
Mandalay, sunk about 500 miles
off the coast of France.
In London, operators of the
City of Mandalay said they had
information the ship had been
attacked and sunk.
The Yorkshire, which trav
eled between India and Liver
pool, should have left Rangoon
on Sept. 7, according to Its latest
available schedule.
Returning to France
The master of the rescue ves
sel, Captain C. J. McKenzie,
radioed he was taking the sur
vivors back to Bordeaux, France
arriving there tomorrow morn
ing.
Meanwhile, two U. S. coast
guard cutters sped to the aid of
two other ships in distress on
the storm-tossed North Atlantic
the 13.869-ton American liner
President Harding and the 3,509
ton British steamer Blairbcg.
A message from the Harding
said Henry Heimroth, engine
room storekeeper, had been op
erated on for appendicitis at
1:45 p.m. yesterday at the height
of a heavy gale.
The operation, performed by
the ship's surgeon. Dr. Thomas
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Auto Kills Father
At Daughter's Door
Indianapolis, Ot. 18. AP
Mrs Jane Hillman was waiting
up last night for her father,
Richard Koctteritz. 59, a butcher.
A man knocked at the door
and said his automobile had just
killed a man and he wanted to
call an ambulance.
Mrs. Hillman showed him the
telephone and went outside and
looked at the dead man. It was
her father
San Quentin
San Quentin guard T. L. Bell (right), 'was reported to have
admitted participation in the alleged whippings, with lead-tipped
straps, ot 41 young San Quentin prisoners, Walter E. Neil (left),
was quoted as having been a witness to the beatings. Governor
Culbert Olson of California said he would retire the prison
board members from office if he found the charges true.
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San Quentin, Calif., Oct. 18.
(AP) John Gee Clark,- state di
rector of penology, said today
statements taken from six San
Quentin convicts last night in
connection with asserted flog
gings at the prison would be the
basis for a public hearing,
Clark, with the aid of Attor
neys Edward P. Murphy and
George G. Holshausen, ques
tioned the convicts for five
hours last night and planned to
return today to quiz at least 40
others.
The questioning was on the
basis of statements made a week
ago by nine prison guards that
four of the guards, working in
relays, thrashed 41 young pris
oners with a section of hose and
a lead-tipped strap because they
had refused to stand for hours
on a "spot" as punishment for
their alleged participation in
hunger strikes last February and
March.
The board of prison directors
will meet at the prison tomor
row to conduct its own inquiry.
Governor Culbert L. Olson de
clined to attend the board's
hearing, but appointed Clark
and his two aides to obtain the
testimony at a public hearing.
Morse Reaccepts
Arbitrator Post
Eugene, Oct. 18. (AP) Wayne
L. Morse, dean of the University
of Oregon law school, today ac
cepted reappointment as coast
maritime labor arbitrator, fol
lowing a telegram from Secre
tary of Labor Perkins, in which
she declared that Morse's terms
of acceptance had been complied
with by employers and long
shoremen. Morse, who resigned recently
following a union refusal do
abide by an award, had refused
to accept reappointment unless
both parties would agree to
abide by all decisions in the
future.
Wounded 'Prowler'
. Is Shooter's Dad
Portland, Oct. 18 (AP) Wil
liam S. Fremersdorf, 20, slipped
into the backyard and wounded
a prowler four times. A moment
later he discovered he had shot
his father who left his bedroom
at 2 a. m. to quiet the dogs.
The father was hit in the
neck, side, forearm and hand.
Tuna Taking Ends.
Marshfield, Ore., Oct. 18.
(AP) Heavy seas and a sharp
drop in Pacific ocean tempera
tures have virtually ended the
tuna fishing season off Coos
Bay. One boat returned today
from a five-day trip with only
1500 pounds. Rough weather
has curtailed operations otf the
mouth of the Columbia river
near Astoria.
Campbell Pledged
McMinnville, Oct. 18 (AP)
The 162 freshmen pledged by
Linfield college living organiza
tions included: Fraternities
Winston Campbell. Medford.
and Harold Cox, Klamatii Falls
Iota Omega Mu.
Beatings Told
CIO LEADER PIMTT
DENIES HE'S MEIER
OF COMMUNIST PARTY
Klamath Falls, Ore., Oct. 18.
(AP) Harold J. Pritchett of
Vanvouver, B. C, president of
the CIO International Wood
workers of America, declared to
day that he was not a commun
ist and that the only bar to his
entry to the United States was
his work in organized labor.
Pritichett presented his an
nual report to the IWA convon
tion here.
Referring to testimony before
the Dies committee on un-Amer
ican activities, Pritchett said
that on a number of occasions
witnesses had described him as
a "Canadian communist" and
"alien communist."
He asserted John P. Frey,
president of the AFL metal
trades department, told the Dies
committee "Pritchett acknowl
edged he was a member of the
communist party" when brought
before the department of labor
immigration division on charges.
"While I do not wish to in
dulge in quibbling." Pritchett
said, "Mr. Frey's statements to
the committee reveal startling
inaccuracies. I most emphatic
ally state that I am not, nor
ever have been, a member of
the communist party. I have
never been before the labor de
partment on "charges." f : "
Pritchett added he wanted to
become a U. S. citizen but was
prevented by the fact the state
department refused a permanent
Bar Communists
From Ford Plant
Detroit, Oct. 18. (AP) An
official of the Ford Motor com
pany disclosed today approxi
mately 40 Russian engineers
who have been studying Amer
ican production methods in the
Ford plant for several years had
been informed by the manage
ment they no longer will be
permitted free access to the
plant.
Norval Marlett, chief investi
gator for the company's per
sonnel department, declared the
engineers had "local Communist
party connections and abused
their privileges."
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Sad Vacation,
Grants Pass, Oct. 18. (AP)
Death last night of their eleven
months son brought tragedy to
Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Moores
of Seattle on their way home
from a California vacation trip.
The infant, suffering from bron
chitis, died at O'Brien, south
west of here.
Racketeer Perjuror
Kansas City, Oct. 18 (AP)
Charles V. Carollo was convicted
of perjury today by a federal
court Jury before which he lived
up to his advance notices as the
"big man" of Kansas City's once
flourishing S20.000.000 - a - year
gambling rackets. Sentence was
deferred until Friday.
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London, Oct. 18. (AP) The
luck of Donald McBain, 21, of
Edinburgh failed him. He was
transferred from the aircraft
carrier Courageous a few days
j before it was sunk by Germany.
He went down with his new
I ship, the Royal Oak. which was
I junk at Scapa Flow Saturday.
TEXTILE STRIKE
OF
Former Red Leader Reveals
Tactics of Party in Dies
Committee Testimony
Washington, Oct. 18. (AP)
Fred Erwin Beal, former Coin
munist organizer brought from a
North Carolina prison to testify
before the Dies committee, said
today the textile strike at New
Bedford, Mass., In 1928 was or
ganized by the Communist
party.
The Communist International
in Moscow, he testified, laid
down a new "line" for the
American party at that time
calling for the organization of
Communist trade unions separ
ate from old established labor
groups.
Aid Sent Leader
At New Bedford, he related,
the Communist headquarters in
New York directed the conduct
of the strike and "sent down a
flock of leaders to assist me."
Beal, a red-haired, blue-eyed,
young looking man of 43, was
sentenced to serve 17 to 20 years
in connection with the slaying of
Police Chief O. F. Aderholt of
Gastonia, N. C, during a textile
strike there in 1929.
He himself said he wanted to
testify after hearing a radio
speech by Chairman Dies (D-
Tex).
Russia Disappoints
The speech, he said, "was so
good, I felt rather ashamed of
lying in my bunk doing nothing
I thought at last there is an
organization good enough to get
out and make some kind of fight
against Communism."
Beal said he fled to Russia
following his conviction in 1929,
spending six years there, but
"learned that the Communist
party was not carrying on the
kind of government I thought it
was."
"I saw so much misery," he
said, "that I felt compelled to
come back to America and tell
the workers over here. I knew
it would be sort of hazardous for
me but I thought it was my
duty."
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District Attorney Frank J.
Newman said today there would
be no inquest into the fatal automobile-pedestrian
accident Sun
day evening which took the life
of Mrs. Daisy A. Miller, 60, but
that evidence of the tragedy
may be submitted to the grand
jury next week.
"From what I learned," the
district attorney explained, "the
accident seemed to be utrictly
unavoidable. However, I think
it would be best to turn the facts
over to the grand Jury and let
it determine whether there was
negligence on the part of the
driver.
Mrs. Miller was struck by a
machine driven by Elvin Edwin
Cook, Medford auto salesman,
at the intersection of West Main
and Orange streets. She died
late yesterday afternoon in a
local hospital, of a fractured
skull. Her husband, Dan Miller,
was also injured but. not criti
cally. Aged Priest Diet.
New York, Oct. 18. (AP)
The Right Rev. Mgr. Michael J.
Lavclle, 60 years a priest and
53 years the rector of St. Pat
rick's cathedral, is dead at 83.
The venerable prelate, one of
the most beloved in the Amer
ican hierarchy of the Roman
Catholic church, died of a heart
ailment last night.
Salem, Oct. 18. (AP) The
15-year penitentiary sentence of
Pedro Lopez, received at the
prison eight years ago after con
viction in Umatilla county of
manslaughter, was commuted by
Governor Spruguc today so that
Lopez may be deported to Mex
ico tomorrow.
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F STATE
Field Representative of Fed
eral Land Bank Named
Successor Mark Skinner
Salem, Oct. 18. (AP) Ar
thur A. Rogers, field represen
tative of the Federal Land bunk
of Spokane and former presi
dent of the First National bank
of Eugene, was unanimously
elected by the state banking
board today to be state super
intendent of banks.
Rogers will succeed Mark
Skinner, Democrat, whose four
year term expired October 1.
Rogers is a Republican.
The governor, after a 20-mln-ute
closed meeting in his private
office, announced the election
was unnanlmous. The other
banking board members are
Secretary of State Earl Snell
and State Treasurer Walter E.
Pearson, the latter being the
only Democrat on the board.
Sources close to the governor
said the name of Frederick Lam
port, Salem attorney and former
banker who was considered a
leading candidate, was with
drawn yesterday "when the situ
ation in banking circles became
so controversial that the board
looked for a new name, Rogers
had not even made application
for the job, and it was a case of
a Job seckingthe man."
Istanbul, Oct. 18. (AP)
General Maxime Wcygand, 72-year-old
commander-in-chief of
French forces in the eastern
Mediterranean, accompanied by
several military experts, arrived
today as precautionary military
measures were intensified in
Turkey.
This followed upon Prime
Minister Reflk Saydam's asser
tion Russian demands made to
a Trukish delegation in Moscow
were contrary to Turkish policy
in the Dardanelles.
Numerous large motor ve
hicles, particularly heavy duty
trucks, were being requisitioned.
Chauffeurs and mechanics who
do not belong to any army re
serve units were urged to Join
motorized units.
London, Oct. 18. (AP) Count
ess Haig, 60, widow of the late
Field Marshal Earl Haig, died
today at Glynbangor.
U-Boat Commander Relates
Success in Scapa Flow Raid
By Louis P. Lochner
BERLIN, Oct. 18. (AP) A
blond, 31-year-old 'submarine
commander, Guenther Prien, to
day declared that "except for a
lone auto driver, nobody saw our
U-boat enter or leave Scapa
Flow" in the raid which sank
the British battleship Royal Oak
Saturday and cost 810 lives.
Commander Prien talked with
foreign newspapermen after he
had beet decorated by Adolf
Hitler aim received the plaudits
of cheering Berlin crowds on the
way to the chancellery with his
submarine crew.
Prien asserted he had entered
Scapa Flow, Britain's naval base
In the Orkney islands off north
ern Scotland, on a night when
the northern, lights were the
strongest he had seen in 15 years
at sea.
"The British ships could not
be seen distinctly, but we could
determine the location by dim
med lanterns at the anchoring
buoys," he said.
Prien reiterated the German
claim that his submarine badly
damaged Britain's 32,000-ton
battle cruiser Repulse at the
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P.T.A. President
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tlSS SSL. 1
Mrs. C. W. Walls (above),
president of the Oregon P.T.A.,
will conduct a school of instruc
tion for all Parent Teacher asso
ciation units of Jackson county
In the Christian church Thurs
day at 10 a. m. Mrs. Walls is a
veteran P.T.A. worker and has
recently returned to Oregon
from Chicago where she attend
ed a P.T.A. national board meet
ing. She Is a sister of the late
Fred Stelwer, Oregon senator.
GERMANS SUFFER
HEAVY LOSSES IN
WEST FRONT PUSH
PARIS, Oct. 18 (AP) Sharp
lighting accompanying a Gcr
mail, offensive along the north
ern part of the Western front
since Monday already has cost
the Nazis more than 5,000 casu
alties, French sources estimated
today.
The French said their own
losses were slight as their troops
fell back to previously prepared
positions and met the advancing
Germans with heavy blasts of
artillery fire.
Raiding parties from both
sides fought a series of localized
engagements during the night,
the general staff reported In its
morning communique. These ac;
tions were described as "am
bushes and trench raids."
The general staff also noted
"Intense movement" of troops
and materials by both highway
and railway behind the German
lines.
Military commentators said
the greatest activity during the
night centered on a small wood
ed area southeast of Saarbruck
cn which the Germans tried to
capture.
Moscow, Oct. 18. (AP)
Soviet Russia today began to
send troops into Estonia, imple
menting terms of the mutual as
sistance pact which gave Russia
three bases in the tiny Baltic
state.
same time as It sank the Royal
Oak.
(The British admiralty de
clared that the claim was an
"absurd Invention".)
"The Repulse was easy to
make out because it and the Re
nown (her sister ship) alone have
two funnels, Prien said.
"The Repulse was partly cov
ered by the Royal Oak. Never
theless her two aforeship gun
towers protruded,
"So I first aimed In their di
rection, then sent a second tor
pedo into the very heart of the
Royal Oak. I saw distinctly how
water first spurted high before
the Repulse and then was fol
lowed by high red flames.
"On the Royal Oak water and
fire rose even higher, both hits
being followed by detonations
and by parts of the costly ships
hurtling into the air.
"The whole thing was over in
30 seconds. After that only a
dark cloud of smoke was visible.
The Royal Oak had disappeared,
while the Repulse listed heavily
forward."
"Immediately thereafter the
British got busy with search
lights and their destroyers loosed
I water bombs."
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CITY GARBAGE PIT
PROTESTED; NEW
SITE 1SPR0P0SED
Bert Lowry Says Residents
of Area Feel Property
Value Has Been Damaged
A protest against the present
site of the city garbage dump
and a suggestion of another loca
tion were made before the coun
cil at Its regular semi-monthly
meeting last night by Bert B.
Lowry of the South Pacific high
way. Saying he represented resi
dents south of Medford, Mr.
Lowry stated that 22 families
live within less than half a mile
of the garbage dump, situated
outside the city about 3,000 feet
off the Pacific highway east of
the Bear Creek orchards plant.
Mr. Lowry told the council that
the residents feel that then?
property values have been se
verely damaged by the presence
of the dump.
Mr. Lowry said' he did not
understand why the council
would want to spend $30,000 to
beautify Bear creek Into a park
so long as the garbage dump is
allowed to remain at its present
location, referring to the forth
coming special election to vote
on a bond Issue to acquire and
improve land for a park along
the creek within the city. The
dump, he,, added, can be seen
from the Pacific highway.
Smoke curls from it continuous
ly, he asserted.
Saying he came to the meet
ing more to offer a suggestion
than to complain, Mr. Lowry
said the dump could easily be
moved over the hill about half a
mile east of the present site. The
suggested site is on the same
tract of land, it cannot be seen
from the Pacific highway, there
are few houses in the territory,
the nearest being twice as far
from the site as the Lowry resi
dence la from the present dump,
it could serve well for a county
as well as a city dump and it is
otherwise "ideal", Mr. Lowry
declared.
Committee at Work
Councilman Larry Schada,
chairman of the public health
committee, stated that the com
mittee has been working on the
problem in an effort to find a
solution satisfactory to everyone
and indicated that ultimately
the present dump could be made
satisfaotory.
Councilman M. N. Hogan said
the matter was of enough conse
quence to warrant an inspection
of the site proposed by Mr.
Lowry by tike entire council and
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ON GIRL'S PLAINT
Howard Kimbol, 32, of Jack
sonville, charged with an alleged
statutory offense against his 14-year-old
step-daughter, is held
in the county Jail to await grand
Jury action. The alleged offense
occurred October 4, at the fam
ily home.
The girl. In a signed state
ment to the district attorney and
sheriff, gave sordid details of
the affair.
According to the sheriff's of
fice, Kimbol last Sunday night
chased the family from their
home In Jacksonville with a
rlile, resulting In the city mar
shal calling for aid from the
state police and sheriff In
rounding Kimbol up.
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