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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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."