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STATERS 13 HUSKIES .7 GONZAGA 12 OREGON 7 BEARS ,.-...13 COUGARS 7 UCLANS 20 MONTANA 6 UAJH .... IDAUO ,. .35 YALE 20 ., 0 ARMY 15 .21 IRISH 14 .13 NAVY 7 INDIANA 7 ILLINOIS 6 OHIO STATE . . .23 MINNESOTA .....20 MICHIGAN ..,.,..85 CHICAGO 0 PRINCETON 14 COLUMBIA 7 METHODISTS ....16 MARQUETTE .... 0 TEXAS AGGIES .20 CHRISTIANS 6 DUQUESNE PITTSBURG The Weather Forecast: Generally fair today nd tomorrow; moderate tem perature. Temperature Highest Yesterday 78 Lowest Yesterday.. . 36 Read 'Em Today If you are seeking something that you particularly want, glance through the want adt In today's Mall Tribune ... If It Isn't there you can tare time and money by Inserting your own ad Monday. T RIBUNE EDFORD full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1939. No. 182. S1' . AT ATHE Washington, D. C, Oct. 21. With practically every product of forest, field and stream in the Oregon Washington region af fected by trade treaties which the administration has negoti ated, and others now being ne gotiated, any thing indicating emancipation from these treaties is newsworthy. Long- range guess is that these treaties all of them- will expire on June 12, 1940. The danger in which these treaties stand is just be ginning to soak into the head men of the White House and department of state. Like a snowball, resentment (gainst the trade treaties is growing, for up to the present agriculture and its by-products have been sacrificed to aid the makers of typewriters, autos and other machinery. It was In the Pacific northwest that criticism originally started against the treaties when the administration put the lumber industry of Washington and Ore gon on the chopping block. Now criticism is reaching the climax as the state department nego tiates with Argentina and Chili and plans to make matters more tough for the American farmer, cattleman and horticulturist. ... A PHALANX of senators and representatives have been trooping to the Old Landoffice building and denouncing the proposed reciprocal trade agree ments to the committee on reci procity information. Not one congressman appeared to de fend the treaty. Good admin istration Democrats are fighting this new deal policy, side by side with Republicans. Too many agricultural sections have been hurt through trade treaties. The handwriting is on the wall. This year congress has appro priated $700,000,000 to aid the American farmer; production has been curtailed and regu lated, millions have been spent exporting surplus and now, de spite these efforts of the gov ernment to help the farmers, two more treaties are contem plated which will throw open the domestic market to invasion of agricultural products from South America. TREATY-MAKING is the busl 1 ness of the President and the senate, but during the honey moon of Mr. Roosevelt the sen ate surrendered this authority to the President and he passed it on to the department of state. Secretary of State Cordell Hull passed it on to unidentified clerks (or clerk) and these un knowns have been making the policy. Aside from a handful of people, such as Mr. Roosevelt, Secretary Hull and representa tives of foreign governments, no one can tell the name of the clerk who actually trades-off the dairymen, cattlemen, farmers and fruit growers. Sentiment is now strong for the senate to recapture its treaty making power and end the in visible government in trade agreements. However, every authority delegated to Mr. Roose velt he still retains and he has been successful in various at tempts to deprive him of them. THK statute on which the treaties are owed waa passed In 1934; was renewed In 1P36. then again to l3g and then to 1940. Unless re newed again the law expires by limi tation June 13. 1940. A quiet survey among senators Indicates that at present there are enough senators hostile over the treaties to prevent the law being extended beyond next year. Expiration of the statute auto matically wipe out all ot the trade agreements. Including, ot course, the one with Canada which has been a handicap to the lumber Industry of Oregon and Washington. In malting the trade treaties a (Continued on Page Seven ) Cash to Turkey. Ankara. Oct. 21. (AP) Brit ain and France were reported in reliable quarters tonight to have granted Turkey a credit of 60, 000.000 pounds (about $240. O0O.P00 in ronnection with the newly-signed mutual assistance pact. LINER BATTERED I Prison Whips Examined FRENCH i1 'i BY FIERCE GALE ENDS WILD T Mountainous Wave Alt But Swamps S. S. Harding Piano Amuck Spreads Terror Scores Injured. New York, Oct. 21. (API Battered by a hurricane In a bizarre voyage marked also by the rescue of the crew of a tor pedoed British freighter and a front-row view of a blazing French oil tanker, another U liner President Harding made port today. Aboard were 598 passengers, more than a score of them stretcher cases because of frac tured bones and bruised and lac erated bodies. Many of them were so shock ed by the terrorizing 11-day trip that they were unable to give a coherent account of what hap pened. But a roundup of the tales that were told pictured almost superhuman bravery against the lashing storm, and coolness on the part of passen gers who feared the ship would never come up from a bowling over administered by a moun tainous wave. ' This wave, striking at 0:36 p. m., October 17, and described by Capt. James Roberts as the fiercest sea he had seen in 43 years of seafaring, was the prin cipal cause of the injuries of passengers. It was particularly damaging in the smoking room where many passengers had congre gated after dinner. A huge piano became a rip ping, body-tearing thing, similar to the lunging cannon described by Victor Hugo in his Tales of the Sea, as it slithered across the decks, striking down vic tim after victim. Other furni ture flew about, splintering like exploding bombs. Despite the viciousness of the storm, the 13,869-ton veteran liner suffered only one casualty. A cabin boy. Paul (Red) John son of Stoughton, Wis., was swept overboard when he ven tured on deck just before the gigantic wave struck the ship. Capt. Roberts said Johnson was not on deck duty and that he was the victim of "too much curiosity." In all, 73 passengers and crew members were injured, and to day 266 of these had to be re moved from the ship in am bulances. Only two of the cases were considered critical by ship's surgeon, Thomas Fister of Allen town, Pa., who was assisted by a corps of passenger-physicians. Some passengers said nearlv everyone on board was hurt in some fashion, but the majority of injuries was minor. Chief Butcher Frederick Sto ver of St. Albans, Long Island, termed himself the voyager with the worst luck. A pile of pots and pans knocked him to the floor just in time for a shower of boiling grease and water to spray him. He was burned se verely. Before the storm, the rescue of 36 crew members of the Brit ish freighter Heronspool was the highlight of the trip. The Hard ing received an SOS from the French oil tanker Emile Mlguet largest merchant vessel loss of the current war, and was on the way to the rescue when the Hcdonspool crew was sighted through blinker signals from a German U-boat. Flashlight sig nals from two lifeboats brought the liner alongside. Several hours later the Hard Ing, already 200 miles off her course, spotted the burning Emile Miguet and two British destroyers, who reported there was no sign of the crew. (Miss Pauline Alderman of the U.S.C. musical department, who had been studying abroad, and known locally, was among the passengers.) Dock Peace Sought. San Francisco, Oct. 21. (API Representatives of employers and the dock checkers met here again today in efforts to resume negotiations for a new contract, but could not airee on the sin gle contract for daily and month ly checkers Guard William G. Lewis, in charge of solitary and con demned row prisoners at San Quentin prison and who testi fied before the California state prison board that 41 prisoners at the penal institution had beon whipped, is shown as he appeared before the prison board, meeting at San Quentin, and cut open one of the whips he said were used to show they were not loaded. Another whip lies in front of Lewis. SEA WARFARE By AIR AND U-BOATS British Repel Attacks On Convoy Neutral Ship ping Suffers Deaths Total 1,732. By the Associated Press. The war on the seas, after a two-day lull, was resumed sud denly and furiously yesterday (Saturday) as four ships were reported sunk by torpedoes, mines and unexplained explo sions, and German planes at tacked a British North sea con voy. The sinkings sent the known loss of ships of all nations to 81 and the gross tonnage to 366.083. Ironically, the 701-ton Estc, a German coast guard vessel, struck three nazi mines near the island of Moen, Denmark, sending the ship to the bottom with a loss of 71 lives. Danish officials said one of their naval planes rescued four sailors and recovered one body. The Estc casualties and an official report that 67 died when the British steamers City of Mandalay and Yorkshire were torpedoed in the Atlantic last Tuesday sent the known death toll in the sea warfare to 1,732. Rumania's first loss came with the unexplained sinking of the 6.394-ton oil tanker Oltcnia near Gibraltar as she was carrying Rumanian oil to England. The fate of her crew was undeter mined. The Rumanian report Indi cated a German U-boat was to blame. The English - Rumanian oil trade was struck also by the destruction of the Norwegian oil tanker Deodata, 3,295 gross tons. Her sinking by an "explosion" was disclosed when 23 crew members arrived in England on a British steamer. It was neu tral Norway's eighth loss in the war. The Swedish freighter Gustaf Adolph, 925 tons, was torpedoed north of the Shetland islands. Her crew of 19 was rescued by the Norwegian steamer Bisco. This sent neutral losses to 27. The known toll of other na tions: Britain, 38; Germany, 10; France, 6. The British air ministry an nounced that three of 12 nazi planes attacking a North sea i convoy had been shot down and another forced to alight at sea. The British said they suffered no casualties. The Germans made no com ment on the attack. Reno, Nev., Oct. 21. (AP) Licenses issued late yesterday included- William T HDmus. 59, and Mary Keen, 51, both Medford, Ore tr v 1 - iiJ ALABAMA 10 JOIN GRIDIRON GREAT Pitt Beaten By Duquesne Michigan Shows Power Service Teams Lose. By Herb Barker. New York, Oct. 21. (AP) Bob Neyland's Tennessee Vol unteers proved their right to top fooball ranking with Notre Dame, Texas A. & M., Michigan, Ohio State and the rest of the unbeaten brigade today as Pitt and Carnegia Tech fell off the bandwagon in major upsets. Previously untested by major competition, Tennessee punched out a decisive 21-0 victory over Alabama's Crimson Tide. A 56 yard touchdown run by Sopho more Johnny Butler in the sec ond quarter started the Vols on their way. Two more touch downs in the final quarter set tled the issue. Meanwhile, Pitt, No. 1 rank ing team In last week's Asso ciated Press ranking poll, was blasted Into defeat by a game rally by Duquesne, which spot ted the Panthers two touch downs and came on to win, 21 13. Carnegie Tech, generally recognized as eastern champion a year ago, fell before New York university, 6-0. Notre Dame, after winning three, close ones, stopped Navy handily before a crowd of 81,000 in Cleveland, winning 14-7. Michigan gave another awesome demonstration of scoring power in an 85-0 rout of hapless Chi cago. Ohio State knocked off Minnesota. 23-20, and became the first Big Ten team to whip the Gophers at Minneapolis since 1932. Texas A. Sc M. power house of the southwest, spotted (Continued on Page Two ) Northern California: Fair Sunday; temperature above nor mal; light northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Generally fair Sun day but fogs in west portion; warmer in interior of south west portion Sunday; gentle northwest wind off coast. October 23 to 28 inclusive, far western states: Fair weather followed by rain in northern districts by middle of week and in southern district latter part; temperature ; or" -what above normal but cooler latter part of weeu COOLER WEATHER, RAINS, FORECAST AREA SHELTERING Hope To Drop Shell On General Headquarters No Change On Western Front. Paris, Oct. 21. (AP) Mili tary observers tonight reported French heavy artillery had methodically shelled an area of 20 square miles on the extreme northern sector of the western j ront, hoping to drop a big shell I ,n German general headquar ters. A communique described the fire as "harassing." From military information made public in Paris, it ap peared that German gun posi tions formed a rectangle bounded on the southwest by heights at Ncnning and Sinz (five miles within German ter ritory) and on northeast by heights at Wineheringen and Saarbourg. Within this rectangle lies the Castle Thorn, where French aerial observers have reported the constant coming and going of officers and staff cars, lead ing to the belief that German headquarters have been estab lished there. French reports indicated the Germans had concentrated field guns of 105 millimeters (about 4.5 Inches) at Nennlng and Sinz and six miles behind them bat teries of heavier guns. Aj night , communique said German artillery had begun an swering French fire. The Ger man batteries have been quiet for the past few days and were apparently provoked into en tering a duel by the continued French shelling. At the end of the seventh week of the war, the western front situation was little changed from the beginning of the conflict when the French first began occupation of Ger man territory from which they later withdrew, AT Washington, Oct. 21 (AP) The treasury's gold hoard today passed $17.000,000,000 67 per cent of all the governmental and central bank gold reserves In the world. The war has nearly stopped gold shipments here temporar ily, but fear of it was largely responsible for the present size of Uncle Sam's gold stocks. Before the war started, scared Europeans sent gold here almost as fast as they could in order to get it to a place of safety, and already this year about $2,900, 000,000 worth has come into this country. That includes, however, more than $1,000,000,000 worth which various foreign governments have deposited in their own names in the New York Federal Reserve bank for safekeeping and convenience in paying for American goods. CHANCE SEEN TO T Portland, Oct. 21. (AP) Dr. Ernest W. Goodpasture of Van derbilt university, pathologist known for his research on virus diseases, said today there was a "good chance" the epidemic of influenza which marked the world war might be averted in the present European conflict "It's a matter of speculation.' he told an interviewer. ". . . It's possible the Influenza epidemic of the world war might be re peated, but there's also a good chance it might not. "The many small epidemics that followed the great epidemic immunized a great part of the population. He added "very good" pro gress was being made in the conquest of virus disease RE ONCE IRE HIIS Charters Special DeLuxe Plane To Bring Beauty From Hollywood. New York, Oct. 21 (UP) Impetuous romance lifted Miss Elinor Troy, 23-year-old brun ette showgirl, out of Hollywood today and landed her smack In the arms of Tommy Manvillc, who is awfully tired of reading about the European war. And after a bit of transcon tinental quibbling, playboy Tommy, who Inherited a for tune made in the asbestos busi ness, and the girl said they would be married. She would be his fifth wife and his first brunette. To believe Manville, the whole business had grown out of his distaste for war news on page one and his resolve to do some thing about it. Whatever the reason, he called American Air lines, yesterday, ordered a 21 passenger deluxe plane to fly his beloved from Hollywood. He didn't care if it cost him $2,600. he said, but "See that you deliver her In New York by 9:30 with every hair In place." Somebody found the shapely Miss Troy In a Hollywood movie and told her about Tommy's yearning for her return to Broadway where, by the way, she had achieved some measure of fame by appearing in a big glass bowl with hardly any gold fish around to wear. ANTI PRITCHETT BLOC NOMINATES Klamath Falls. Oct. 21. The antl-Prltchett bloc at the convention of the C.I.O. Inter national Woodworkers of Amer ica tonight nominated Al Har tung of Portland for the Inter national presidency. President Harold A. Pritchett was renominated by his sup porters. A referendum election will be held after the conven tion, which failed to adjourn to night and will reconvene Sun day morning. Spokane was awarded the 1940 convention by an over whelming vote, but afterward a motion was passed leaving selection of convention cities to the officers. Pritchett indicated officers would hardly Ignore the delegates' preference. CIO WILL START Portland, Oct. 21. (AP) Dies committee testimony of communist infiltration, in labor unions will not cause the Con gress of Industrial Organizations to conduct a red hunt within its ranks, Jacob Baker, Wash ington, D. C, a member of the executive board, said today. Baker, who also is president of the United Federal Workers of America, added that "so far as I know, the CIO has had no experience of communist at tempts at control or infiltration. President John L. Lewis said and executive agreed that none of us would knowingly put a known communist on the pay roll." Eugene Plans Pool. Eugene, Oct. 21. (AP) A citizens' group announced today it would seek a two-mill special levy to construct a community swimming pool. The project's cost was estimated at $20,000, Parlor Warfare Basel, Oct. 21. (AP) French military engineers, after politely warning German sentinels on the opposite bank of the Rhine today dynamited a small steel footbridge spanning the river n . the electric plant at Kcmbs, 12 miles north of her. War Off Page 1 Springfield. 111., Oct. 21 (AP) The Illinois State Jour nal appeared ' this morning without any war news on its fron nage. A box calling attention of readers to the lack of war headlines said: "If you still want to read about the war turn to page two." Beneath the suggestion was reprinted the Sermon on the Mount from St. Matthew with line nine in bold face: "Blessed are the peace makers; for they shall be called the children of God." There was no other comment. SPAT WITH MATE Edna Dora Hammond. 27, a traveling employe of a Chicago school of music, took her own life Friday evening, city police and the coroner's office re ported, by drinking from a bot tle of lysol following an argu ment with her husband. She died in a local hospital at 9:15, about two hours after assertedly tilting the bottle of poison to her lips. The coroner's office said there would be no inquest, as the dis trict attorney felt it was an un mistakable case of suicide. Mrs. Hammond drank the ly- 80 1 in ft cabin at Merrick's auto camp, where she anq her hus band, Claude Keller Hammond 37, had been staying for the past three or four days, police said. They were both employed by the music school, and resided at 4507 West Trenton street, Seattle. Hammond told city police that he came home about 7 o'clock Friday evening and he and his wife got into a violent argument over his dinner. Ham mond was quoted by police as stating that his wife ran Into the bathroom and that a short time later he heard her gasping. Up on investigating, police said Hammond told them, he found his wife standing with the bottle of lysol in her hand. Hammond told police he grabbed the bottle, emptied the remainder of the contents down the wash basin, then carried his wife into the other room where he poured soap and water down her throat as an emetic. Dr. C. L, Coyle was sum moned and, aided by Dr. Wil liam P.. Holt, he used a stomach pump on the poisoned woman. The Perl ambulance was called and Mrs. Hammond was re moved to the hospital, where all efforts to save her life proved futile. She died a short time af ter reaching the hospital. Police said that Hammond had several scratches on his face and neck and cuts on his scalp. Ham mond, police said, admitted that he and his wife had quarreled and said that she scratched him and hit him over the head with a slipper. He told police that he didn t believe his wife intention ally committed suicide; rather, that she was just trying to frighten him. Hammond was not held by police. Mrs. Hammond was born In Jewell Ridge, Virginia and re sided there until 1932, at which time she moved to Texas. In 1936 she was married to her sur viving husband and together they had been traveling for the school of music. She is survived by her father, John Whit and a sister, Mrs. George Whit, both of Jewell Ridge. Funeral arrangements, In charge of the Perl funeral home, will be announced later. Pioneer Woman Pastes. Pullman, Oct. 21. (AP) Elizabeth Rebecca Hunt, 83, who taught the first school here when the town was known as Three Forks, died today. She came to the community 59 years ago. Playboy Plays. Newark, N. J., Oct. 21. (AP) T o m m y Manville embraced Elinor Tray, 23-year-old Holly wood beauty, at Newark airport today and disclosed he sent for her because "the war news was boring me." VOTE THIS WEEK Debate Limit Favored By Vice-President Mc Nary Blocks Proposal In Senate. Washington, Oct. 21 AP) Vice President Garner, impa tient over long-drawn-out speech making on the administration neutrality bill, was reported to day to be exerting his influence to secure a final Vote next week. Friends said that Garner, who has given wholehearted support to President Roosevelt's recom. mendation that the arms embar go be repealed, believed that the three weeks of debate had been ample and that opposition sena tors now should accept a limita tion on future debate. The vice president advised majority leader Barkley (D-Ky.) it was said, to ask the senate to agree to a restriction on de bate. If that is not accepted, Garner was quoted as saying, then the leadership should call the senate into session at 10 a.m. each day and delay adjournment until 10 p.m. The chamber usual ly meets at noon and quits about 5 p.m. Senator Nye (R-N.D.), an op position leader, told reporters h would block any effort to limit debate by unanimous consent. Another oppositionist,' Sinator Johnson (R-Calif.), declared tt.et there had been no effort to de lay the bill and that a limita tion on debate was not neces sary. Barkley suggested late today that the senate agree unanimo' ly to limit future speeches a the bill to an hour and addrc :t on amendments to 30 mir s, but the proposal was block. ! by minority leader McNary (R Ore). Barkley then called the cham ber to meet at 11 a.m., Monday, an hour ahead of the usual ses sion time. McNary told Barkley he was sorry he could not agree to the proposed limitation, and that some restrictions might ba worked out Monday. He told the Kentucky senator that opposi tion senators were "deeply grateful" for the way the lead ership had handled the debate thus far. BY ALLIES PLANNED London, Oct. 21. (AP) War Secretary Leslie Hore-Bellsha said tonight that Russia had checkmated Germany in the east. He indicated the allies would use "waiting war" tactics to fight Germany to the finish. "No peace proposals which rely for their sanction on ft broken word can be consid ered," he said. In a broadcast on the pro gress of the war, ending Hi seventh week, the former news paperman said: "Three courses are open to nazi Germany to try to smash through by land, sea and air; to remain quiescent in the hops we will prematurely take up the offensive against them; or to lure us Into the discus 'on of specious terms of peace." i OPERA LAURELS San Francisco. Oct. 21. (UP) Shouts of "Bravo, bravo'" and a roar of applause that rolled through the great San Francisco opera house testified tonight that George Stlnson, two years ago a motorcycle po liceman, had accomplished ft unique American success as a full-fledged grand opera singer in his debut in "I Pagliaccl."
