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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather ralr tonljht wltb fro it In morning, increaslni clomllneu, Thursday slightly warnirr. Temperature HlpUpst jestiTiliiy 5J rawest this morning ... 32 To 5 p. m. yesterday..-...,..., .OS To 5 a. m. today None Time and Energy Do your apartment hunting the ClaisiMed way, thus tare a lot of time and energy. You will usually rind the nlrest available apartments advert I wd when they are vacant. When you find wliat you waul, better hurry. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORl), OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1939. No. 185.. M 7 ilSCREl 1 vuu n u vy MI BUSES I w I I I . . I . at Ae I NEUIRALITY STAND Washington, D. C. Oct. 25 When Idaho's Bill Borah, in a radio broadcast, tore the lid off the British propaganda, which Is insisting on repeal of the arms embargo, and is planning and expecting America to send sol diers as well as supplies to the allies, he voiced a situation which has been common gossip (if not exact knowledge), in cap ital circles. No other ambassa dor is so industriously visiting cabinet members, being a good fellow and willing to meet re porters as Lord Lothian, British ambassador. Lord Beaverbrook, leading British publisher, made a quick trip to the United States since the congressional debate; lunch ed at the White House. In the first world war Britain propa gandized the United States by sending literary chaps to lec ture. While Borah was running ov er his broadcast talk, the S. S. Manhattan docked in New York with Alfred Duff Cooper, for merfirst lord of the British ad miralty, to launch a lecture tour. Another passenger is a British author who recently published a book denouncing Hitler. He, too, will 'lecture. Others, less noted, are giving lectures in. the Cosmos Club, which occupies the site of Dolly Madison's home; in the second string hotels and before civic bodies. , . ETTERS from London are be " Ing printed in United States papers insisting that the war against Hitler is as much to America's interest as it is to the allies, and demanding that Uncle Sam send troops to "de fend himself" by occupying the Maginot line with French and British.soldiers. Letters to Borah from "over there" hold him per sonally responsible for any lives lost in the conflict because he insists that the United States keep out of European politics. And there is deliberate sup pression of arguments of im portant senators opposing em bargo repeal. These arguments can only be found in the Con gressional Record. California's Hiram Johnson received two paragraphs on his speech in the senate, while in the same report Louisiana's El lender was liberally quoted when he attacked Hitler and dictatorship. (Ellender was a factotum of the only dictator (Continued on Page Six ) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Gilstrap being disgust personified as he found his beautifully-made decoy ducks shot to shreds by fool hunters, he de ciding they were maybe too ralistic after all. Julia Morgan, Clinton Spen cer and Osborn Morrow huddled around a stove this chill morn ing, they fencing off the heat effectively from J. C. Collins. Art McVeigh so intense upon working in the yard he didn't know his house was on fire until a neighbor informed him. Joe Renard just about to crawl out of bed in the middle of the morning to strangle the person who was blowing his car horn at great length in front of the Renard home when he dis covered it to be his own truck making all the noise. Mabel Mack knowing all the fine points of the culinary art except the recipe for buttermilk pie which a friend wanted espe cially much. Ted Nave in a last desperate attempt to bring home at least one pheasant forced to disgrace himself as a hunter by sneaking in with a jackrabbit. LEFT TO PRESIDENT BY 61 T0 26 VOTE Johnson Fails in Effort To Amend Administration Bill LaFollete for War Vote Washington, Oct. 25. (AP) The senate, 66 to 21, rejected late today a pro posal to fix limits on the nation's war-time trade with other countries. The proposal was offered by Senator La Follette (prog.. Wis.) as an amend ment to the administration neutrality bill. La Follette , said the plan would prevent an unhealthy war boom. Washingto'nToct. 25. (AP) The senate rejected today an amendment designed to limit the president's discretion in in voking the administration's pro posed neutrality legislation. A proposal by Senator John son (D., Colo.) to strike discre tionary lanruaae from the meas ure was defeated, 61 to 26. In effect, Johnson asked that nnrp flip nrpsirient found a state of war existed he would have to proclaim invocation of the law. As the bill now stands in vocation of the law is merely authorized. Approve Retention "Rv th vote the senate an- proved retention of this provi sion which Johnson said would permit the president to decline to invoke the act, despite the outbreak of a foreign war. Senator La Follette (Prog., Wis.) proposed today that the administration's bill to repeal the arms embargo be amended tn riamiirp that a national ad visory election be held before congress could declare an over seas war. "His nrnnnsal came as the sen ate's rush toward a final vote on the neutrality revision legis lation hnaenti rinwn in a fresh flow of speech-making. Leaders of both sides in the arms em bargo controversy said the final ballot was unlikely before to morrow or Friday. Election Not Binding La Follette, an opponent of embargo repeal, described the suggested election as purely ad visory and not binding on con gress. He told newsmen the only case in which such an advisory foct nf nnhlin sentiment would not be required would be in the event of a threatened attack on this country or by a non-American country on any nation in this hemisphere. Senator Lucas .(D., 111.) also intrnritirpd 22 new amendments to the neutrality revision bill which he said were mostly "per functorv and perfecting." He tnlri rennrters the legislation was so important that every pre caution should be taken. The senate leadership, mean while, expressed vigorous op position to an amendment by Senator Clark (D., Mo.) to bar armed merchant Ships from American ports. GRANDlURTEYES BT. FALLS ROBBERY The grand jury. Royal G. Brown, Eagle Point, foreman, was expected to conclude its opening session some time this afternoon and mane a repon ana file indictments, if any. The grand jury was drawn last Mon day at opening of the October term of court. It was reported the grand jury had heard testimony regarding the auto accident on West Main street. October 16, in which Mrs. Dan Miller, 60, sustained fatal injuries. The grand jury heard testi mony today in the robbery of the Faber Grocery store at Butte Falls last July, for which two men. held in custody, stand ac- i cuscd. Nazis Ride ; V tV'JL. Zsjp&r Jim Caption passed by German censor for this radiophoto sent from Berlin says It shows a trucktul of f'rencn prisoners captured By Germans ' somewhere on ihe Western Front". Bayo net equipped Nazi troopers are shown guarding captured foemen. By the Associated Press Great Britain confronted the prospect" today of weakening her North sea blockade to combat fast and powerful German sur face raiders; ranging the Atlan tic in the fashion of 1914. Already the United States freighter City of Flint has been seized and at least four British merchantmen sent to the bottom three of them apparently sunk under the very nose of a British convoy near Gibraltar. These losses raised the total of belligerent and neutral ves sels sunk to 90, of which 45 have been British, and the tonnage toll to 399,319 exclusive of ear goes. The known loss of life mounted to 1,774. Britain reported the loss yes terday, 80 miles off Gibraltar, of the 4,413-ton Tafna, the 3.528 ton Ledbury ' and the 2,474-ton Menin Ridge, and the sinking off the Spanish coast of the 7,256-ton Clan Chisholm. TRIALOFBlWDER SET FOR NOV. 27 NEW YORK, Oct. 25. (AP) Trial of Communist Earl Brow der, charged with obtaining a passport through false reprcscn tations, has been set for Nov. 27 The head of the Communist party in this country appeared nervous yesterday on his release from a federal detention cell after bond of $7,500 had been posted by Mrs. Hester G. Hunt ington, society woman and sister-in-law of Robert Minor, a Communist leader. She said she furnished bail "as a matter of principle." Responding to subpoena, she testified later in the day before the federal grand jury that in dieted Browdcr in its inquiry into the reported operation of a "passport mill" supplying fake American traveling credentials to Communist agents and for eign spies. Browder blames Republican national committee "intcrven tion", surrender of new deal liberals to reactionaries of the "Martin Dies stripe," and impcr ialist war mongers for his prose cution. Drydock Bid Washington, Oct. 25. (AP) The Mhcco Construction com- Danv and the Case Construction Company. Inc., Clearwater, Cal., submitted a Joint low bid of $1,976,800 to the navy today for construction of a battleship drvdock at the Pucet Sound, I Wash., navy yard. With French Dies Committee Lists Names Of Government Employees in Reds, "Front' Washington, Oct. 25. (AP) The Dies comniitto made public today what it called a "membership and mailing list" of the American League for Peace and Democracy. The list con tained names of 563 persons said by the comrulttu to be em ployes of the federal and District of Columbia governments. The list included the name? of Edwin S. Smith, member of the national labor relations board, and Louis Bloch, mem ber of the maritime labor board, both with salaries listed as $10,000. No Charge Made. Chairman Dies (D.-Tex.), in making public the list, said in a written statement the committee was not charging that the gov ernment employes affiliated with the league are members of the Communist party. He add ed, however, "it has been es tablished conclusively the Amer ican League for Peace and Dem ocracy was organized and is controlled by the Communist party." There was no evidence, Dies said, to the effect the government employes In the league were communists. "But," he declared, "the fact that these government employes are members of a' communist front organization and appar ently continued their member ship long after this organization was exposed as being commun istic justifies in the opinion of the committee the publication of this list Privtae Citizens Named. "The committc has not hesi tated to make public the names of private citizens who have been charged with communistic or fascist activities and we can sec no justification for making an exception in the case of gov ernment employes. "In fact, there is more reason for making public the names of government employes than in the ease of private citizens " Dies recalled the committee had unanimously adopted a re port on January 3, 1939. In which "the American League for Peace and Democracy was branded as a communist front organization." Leaders of the league, includ ing Dr. Harry F. Ward of Now York, president, have denied it was dominated by communists. In addition to Smith and Bloch the following are those included in the "membership and mailing" whose salaries were given as $5,000 or more: Identifications are as shown1 in the list National Labor Relations Board: Nathan Witt, position un- dentified. $7,500. Treasury department: Doro - thy Walton (or Mrs. Stanley Survey), assistant legal counsel, $6,500. Securities and Exchange Com ' ant supshrdlu shrdlet shrdluctno mission: t.. u. rvcnneay, assi. j supiv., $5,000; Sigmund Tim berg, attorney, S5.200: L. C. Vass, stat. expert. $5,400. Serial Security Hoard: Ivan I $3,000; Merrill G. Murray, dircc- Prisoners ' Organization tor analysis division, $7,000. Rural Electrification Adminis tration: Foster Adams, chief res. slat., S5.400; Ward B. Free man, coordinator cngr., $6,000; S. R. Gamer, attorney, $5,500: Harry Lamberton, (the league's local chairman), lawyer, $8,000; Allen Moore, lawyer, $6,000; T. E. O'Callahan. public relations counsel, $8,000; Franklin Wood, attorney, $5,400. Interior department: Oscar L. Chapman, assistant secretary, $9,000; Willard W. Beatty, chief of Indian affairs, $7,500. Maritime Labor Board: Grcg ory Silvermaster, economist, $5,600. Federal Power Commission: George Slaff, attorney, $5,200. Department of Agriculture: Mordccai Ezeklel. director AAA, $8,000; Robert Marshall, admin, officer forest service, $5,800. Department of Labor: Carrol! Daugherty, chief econ., $7,000. Railroad Retirement Board: Milton Kramer, prin. atty., $5,800. The list included the names of 23 persons described as em ployes of the District of Co lumbia public school system. A wide salary range was cov ered from $10,000 down to a bureau of engraving and print ing employe listed for 84 cents an hour. The Washington branch of the league issued a statement say ing the obvious purpose of the plan to publicize the names "is to intimidate government em ployes by giving misleading pub licity to their membership in a progressive organization whose aims and purposes have been misrepresented by the Dies com mittee. The league contended that the committee had refused to per mit witnesses to give details of league activities. CROSBYT'OlLP E Hollywood, Oct. 25. (AP) Organization of the Bing Crosby Gonzaga University Associates to help finance Gonzaga football i activities was announced by 1 Crosby's movie studio today Money will be raised, accord ing to the idea, by selling cards bearing the autographs of Cros by and Puggy Hunton, Gonzaga ; coach. Holders will got prefer- encc oi lootoau iickci lor uon- zaga games and supposedly spe cial attention from the singer to watch his broaden ts. Crosby attended Gonzaga at Spokane RAILROADS FACE Attorney General Charges Restraint of Trade by At titude To Motor Lines Washington, Oct. 25. (AP) Attorney General Murphy an nounced today that he had auth orized filing of a complaint charging violation of the Sher man anti-trust act against the Association of American Rail roads, its officers and directors and 236 member railroad com panies. The bill of complaint charges, the attorney general said, that the railroads had combined to restrain trade by agreeing not to extend to motor carriers the same cooperation in carrying freight and passengers which the roads customarily extended to each other. , Through Rates Refused Another allegation was that the railroads had Jointly refused to establish rail rates on carry ing motor trucks, trailers, and truck bodies, "all commodity" rates, container and similar rates, and had jointly refused to establish through rates, joint rates and fares, and joint billing arrangements with motor car riers, in order to eliminate com petition. J. J. Policy, president of the rail association, said in a state ment he would "welcome a suit df this character in order that there may be once and for all authoritatively determined to what extent the railroads arc permitted, under existing law, to declare sound policies, consist ent to public interest." Saying "there is no authority in the law for compelling rail roads and motor carriers to establish these through routes and joint rates," he added the association had no power to force its members to conform to any particular, policy. F E Helsinki, Oct. 25 (AP) A Finnish delegation enroute home from Moscow was reported in authoritative quarters today to be carrying modified Russian demands for consideration of the Helsinki government. Finns at large, yet without official word as to the nature of the "political and economic" talks at the Kremlin, and the foreign office, reported to have only a vague outline of the Rus sian demands, eagerly awaited the arrival of their emissaries. Wallace Claims Third Term Desirable Because of War San Francisco, Oct. 25 (APMport prospects In some lines, In- War abroad, said Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace today, makes clear the desira bility of a third term for Presi dent Roosevelt. Wallace, who said agricultural prospects were brighter than at any time In two years past, re ferred only briefly in an In terview to the 1940 campaign, saying: "Since the outbreak of war in JCurope it has become appar ent that the country needs the talents and training of Mr. Roosevelt not only In meeting the situation abroad but in handling domestic problems." The secretary said farm Income would aggregate bout 8 billion dollars this year, or so close to last that It was impossible to predict a gain or loss. Septem ber's bulge In prices of many farm products has largely dis appeared, he said, but it wiped out what appeared to be a likely deficit under 1938 Income. While he did not directly at- tribute the brightened farm out look to the war. Wallace said the hostilities had improved ex - Tiger Woman Out Sfcfcw EMM WinnU Ruth Judd (above), who killed two women compan ions in 1931 and stuffed Iheir dismembered bodies in trunks, escaped last night from the Arl sona State hospital. RUSE IN FLEEING Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 25 (AP) Winnie Ruth Judd, 34-year-old blonde slayer of two women companions In 1931, twice con demned to hang, escaped last night from the Arizona state hospital here. nospuai ncrc. The small blue-eyed nurse, whom the state accused of kill ing Agnes Ann Lcroi and Hed vlg Sumuelson in a tit of jeal ousy and stuffing their dismem bered bodies in trunks, had en Joyed more than 12 hours of freedom before her absence was discovered. Hospital attaches said she must have escaped shortly after 9:30 p. m. It was 11:30 a. m. today before she was missed. . The announcement of Gover nor Bob Jones that she had es caped precipitated a widespread hunt reminiscent of the one launched Oct. 14, 1931, when the trunks containing the bodies of the two victims were- re ceived in Los Angeles. ' Visited Father Her aged futher, the Rev. H. J. McKinncll, gave officers their only clue. Ho said Mrs. Judd appeared at his humble resi dence here about midnight. Y. C. White, executive secre tary to Governor Jones, took charge of the Investigation, He said Mrs. Judd apparently escaped by the ruse of leaving her bed so as to appear she still occupied It. Attendants believed she was asleep. She was confined to the wo man's ward where all doors are locked from the inside and all windows - are barred. Hospital authorities said they found everything In order. Mrs. Judd, as well as other Inmates, was under guard, White said. tcrfered with them in others, notably apples, pears and other fruits. . Extension of reciprocal trade treaties in South America would give no direct benefit to farm ers, Wallace said, but by stimu lating eastern industrial activi ty would Improve domestic markets. The secretary will dedicate the new agricultural research laboratory at Albany, Calif., on Friday. Washington, Oct. 25 (AP) Official and political Washing ton noted with keen interest today Secretary Wallace's state ment in San Francisco that he believed Europe's war had em phasized the need of giving Pres ident Roosevelt a third term. This interest was heightened by the fact that Wallace has been mentioned as 1940 Demo cratic possibility. The third term stirtemcnt on the coast was interpreted In some quarters as possibly being designed by the : secretary to remove 1 from the field himself U. S. WILL INSIST ON FULL RIGHTS IN SfjEIZURE Sec. Hull Says No Word Received As To Where abouts City of Flint's Crew Washington, Oct. 23 (AP) Secretary Hull said today thii government was determined to follow the case of the City of Flint through to what he called its logical conclusion from the standpoint of international law and American rights. Hull disclosed the state de partment still has had no word as to the whereabouts of the 41 or 42 American sailors aboard the City of Flint, government owned freighter taken to Mur mansk, Russia, by a prize crew from a German raider which seized her as a contraband car rier. He said it was well known the incident would have been averted if the new neutrality bill preventing American ships from entering danger zones, were on the statute books. The secretary declined to state on what principles of in ternational law this government would rest Its case, saying he preferred first to get all the fni-i facts Berlin, Oct. 25 (AP) Ger- man authorities worked with the United States embassy to night to clear up the complicated circumstances surrounding the seizure of the American freight er City of Flint by a German sea raider. i .i Charge D'Affaircs Alexander Kirk was told by Baron Ernst von Weizsaeckcr, secretary of state in the German foreign of fice, that the government was discussing the case with Soviet Russia. The City of Flint was taken to the Russian arctic port of Murmansk, I E Salem, Oct. 25. (AP) Pres ident of the Senate Robfcrt M. Duncan, Burns Republican, will become Oregon's acting gover nor at 7:15 o'clock tonight when Governor Sprague crosses the state line en route to a con ference of western governors' at Berkeley, Calif. Governor Sprague expects to return here Sunday. He left Salem by train at 10:15 a. -m. today. Duncan, serving as governor for the second time since he became president of the senate last January, will not come to Salem unless there is an emer gency. SCOLDED BOY SUICIDES BY-HANGING TO RAFTER Eugene, Oct. 25. (AP) A 13-year-old youth, Earl Jerome Vaughn Jr., hanged himself In his father's woodshed last night because he had been scolded. His body was found hanging from a rafter by a friend of the family. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Pacific standard time.) New York, Oct. at. In closing the ninth annual New York Herald Tribune Porum on current problems Thursday night, President Roosevelt will apeak at 8:03 p. m. over WJZ NBC and WABC-CBS. King Leopold or Belgium also lll speak Irom Brussels at 9:19 via WJZ-NBC In the nlght'e session. The Porum will be on the air Thursday from 6 to 6:30 and from a to 6:19. ... Tonight: New York Herald Tribune Forum WJZ-NBC S ard 6. Europe WABC-CBS 6:99, 11; MBS 8; WEAP NBC east 8. WEAP-NBC 4:46 MaJ. Oen, J. O. Mauborgnc on "Wire In War." Thursday: New York Herald Trib une Porum WJZ-NBC 11 a. m. Jean Olbaubox from Paris and Count Jerry Potockl; WJZ-NBC 13:16 p. m. Pmil V. McNutt. Mme. Chiang Kal- jKlirk from China and others.