The Weather
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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.
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Thirty-fourth Year
MEDFORl), OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1939.
No. 185..
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.