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4UW Mr The Weather Partly vloudr tonight and Saturday, not much change tn temperature. Highest yesterday 47 Lowest Hits Diornliic.... 15 Precipitation To 5 p. in. yesterday......,. .08 To 5 a. m. today J4 Sunday Want Ads 7 o'clock Saturday night ta tht closing hour for "Too Late to Clmir" for the Sunday morn ing edition. Advf. In before 1:30 p. . Saturday Kill be properly classified. Time to prepare your copy. Medford TrtlBUNE full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1939. No. 187. mom i FAVttB LINEUP IN SENATE MIME PLAN Fighting Opposition Quickly Demands Another Ballot On Controversial Issue Washington, Oct. 27. UP) The senate went on record for repealing the arms embargo 67 to 22 today, but a fighting op position promptly demanded one more ballot on the contro versial issue before permitting a final vote on the administra tion neutrality bill. Leaders on both sides agreed the 67 to 22 ballot was a vote to repeal the embargo, but sub sequently Senator Clark (D., Mo.) said he would seek one more ballot on this key issue. The vote, reached on the 20th day of the senate's history-making neutrality debate, came on a proposal by Senator Nye (D., N.D.) to discard the administra tion measure and substitute - a bill, similar to that of the ad ministration, except that it would maintain the existing ban on arms sales. Urged By F.D.R. Repeal of the embargo was recommended by President Roosevelt when he called con gress into special session last month. Although it was but one of his recommendations for re vising the neutrality law, it im mediately became the crux of the entire foreign policy fight in the senate. All sides agreed the effect of repeal would be to give aid to England and France in their war with Germany, but many repeal proponents argued the present embargo is unneutral. Opponents of repeal, on the other hand, argued that action would be unneutral. Clark Proposal Loses -Driving toward passage of the administration's neutrality bill by nightfall, an overwhelm ing senate majority turned aside an amendment to ban armed merchant vessels and submarines of belligerent na tions from United States ports. The proposal, by Senator Clark (D., Mo.), lost out 65 to 26, the heavy preponderance of votes which supported the ad ministration being in line with voting on other controverted amendments earlier in the week. On the house side, it was learned that leaders at a long meeting last night tentatively agreed on procedure by which they hope to get final congres sional action on the bill a week from tomorrow night. The senate version a neu trality bill having been passed by the house last session is slated to be called up in the house Tuesday. An effort will be made to send it to a senate hour conference by a simple order from the rules committee, which is to meet Monday. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Government Engineer James Murphy explaining explicitly upon his arrival here for a year's stay that his two youngest children are positively not twins. La Verne Stephenson jamming her trigger finger so she had to lay off typing for the rest of the day, a substitute rushing to her aid. Bill O'Brien thrilling a group of feminine admirers with his various antics while tripping the light fantastic. Hazel Swayne averring that all work and no play tend to make life not a bit romantic or something equally inane. Gene Monaco advising a friend to turn upside-down to get rid of hiccups, he not being exactly sure how one would go about turning one's self upside-down though. The larcest copper smelter in the world is at Anaconda, Mont. How They Voted Washington. Oct. 27. (IP) The vote by which the Knate voiced Its approval of arms embargo re peal by rejecting a motion by Senator Nye (R-NJ.) to substi tute for the administration neu trality bill his bill retaining the embargo: for the Nye substitute (22) : Democrats Bulow, C h a v e r Clark of IdAho, Clark of Missouri, Donahey, Holt. Overton. Reynolds. Walsh. Wheeler 10. Republicans Capper. Prazler, Holman. Johnson of California. Lodge, McNary, Nye, Vandenbcrg. Wiley 8. Farmer-Labor Shipstead and Lundeen 2. Progressive La Pollette 1. . Against the Nye substitute (67): Democrats Adams. Andrews. Bailey, Bankhead. Barkley. Bilbo. Brown, Burke, Byrd, Byrnes. Cara way. Chandler, Connally, Ellender, George, Gerry, Gillette, Green, Guffey. Harrison, Hatch, Hayden, Herring. Hill, Hughes. Johnson ol Colorado. King. Lee, Lucad. Malo ney.McKellar, Mead. Miller, Mlnton, Murray. Neely. O'Mahoney, Petter, Plttman. Radcllffe, Russell, Schwartz, Schwcllenbach, Shep pard, Slattery, Smathers. Smith Stewart, Thomas of Oklahoma. Thomas of Utah. Truman, Tyd Ings, Van Nuys, Wagner 54. Republicans Austin, Barbour, Bridges, Danaher, Davis. Gibson. Gurney. Hale, Taft, Tobey, Town send. White 12. Independent Norrls 1 . IN DEBTBURDEN Washington, Oct. 27. (P) The federal debt went over the 841,000,000,000 mark today, bringing the treasury within $4,000,000,000 of its borrowing limit. The daily treasury statement disclosed the debt total had reached $41,023,872,434 as a re sult of a $51,955,840 increase in one day due to borrowing on short term bills and to baby bond sales. A year ago, the debt was $38,424,932,579.77. Debate Expected The new peak caused a re vival of discussion in fiscal cir cles of how and when the ad ministration should ask, as it has said it would do, congress to boost the limit from the pre sent $45,000,000,000 to $50, 000,000,000. Mention of such legislation caused some congressional criti cism last session, and is ex pected to bring more debate at the session beginning in Jan uary. The debt limit stirs contro versy because it is the most ob vious signpost in treasury ac counting of the deficits which the federal government has in curred for 10 consecutive fiscal years. $311 Per Person The federal debt was $16, 026.087,087, or an average of S129 a person, on Dec. 31, 1930, but since then has risen almost month by month to its present record level, which equals about $311 a person. It has increased $2,500,000. 000 in the past year, and is ex pected to rise almost as much in the next year. Business con ditions may dictate what will happen after that. The $45,000,000,000 limit, treasury officials say, probably would not be reached until some time in 1941, but they be lieve the capacity ought to be increased before the debt ncars the mark. New York, Oct. 27 (P)-Two school children caught in the crush of merry-making thou sands at the world's fair were hurt today and police reinforce ments were called to handle the crowd of "nickel day" young sters. The official gate at 1 p. m. was 147.757. but fair officials said at least twice that number had entered. When the rush be came too great to sell tickets, crowds of children and grown ups got in free. A Rrnnklvn hieh school girl suffered a fractured left arm and a 9-year-old Bronx Do aura sions of the eye. Russia $124 MORE THAN IN CURRENT YEAR November 24 Slated As Date for Public Hearing in Court House Auditorium Jackson county's budget for 1940, as approved by the budget committee yesterday afternoon calls for raising by tax levy of $370,715.13. This is $124.47 more than this year when the budget total amounted to $370, 590.66. Friday, November 24, was named as date for the public hearing, in the courthouse audi torium. November 2 and Novem ber 13 were selected as dates for two publications of the budget, as required by state law. Publi cation will be in this paper. More Road Oil f The general road fund of the county was increased $7560 to extend the road ojling program, and give road work to districts heretofore lacking Improve ments. This will be augmented by a federal $2500 cooperative donation. It is planned to make road improvement' general over the county next year. Appropriations for relief, for 1940 are listed at $82,100. The old age assistance fund was cut from $44,100 to $42,000, a drpp of $2,100. The allotment for the county poor farm was increased $657. Other relief funds remain practically the same. In the relief set-up, $30,000 is allotted for state and public as sistance; for dependent children, $8000; for old age assistance $42.- (Continued on Page eleven) AFTER HOT CHASE Yreka, Cal., Oct. 27. (Ft John .T. Hansen, 19, Oakland, was captured here today after a 90-mile an hour chase for questioning about an assault on Victor E. Milton, 37, Oakland real estate man. Captain George Daley of the highway patrol, who fired sev eral shots during the pursuit, said Hansen was' driving Mil ton's car, which plunged from the rain-soaked highway and turned end over end down a steep embankment. Milton was found in his Oak land office last Monday. He had been beaten severely and was still in a semi-conscious condi tion. 4 Washington, Oct. 27. (P) President Roosevelt branded as "sordid procedure" today pub lication by the Dies committee of the names of more than 500 government employes on the "membership and mailing list" of the American League for Peace and Democracy. The committee charged that the league was a "front" for communist activity. Asked to comment on publica tion of the list this week, the president told a press confer ence he had not read enough of the details of that rather "sordid procedure" to comment. He agreed to a reporter's re quest that direct quotation of the phrase be permitted, a de parture from the usual press conference procedure. Boost Hop Quota Washington, Oct. 27. (A') The agriculture department to day established the 1939 mar keting quotas for hops grown in Oregon, California and Wash ington at 31,400,000 pounds. I Previously, the quota had been set at 29,400,000 pounds. Withholds Information on City of Flint Flint Skipper Captain James A. Gainard (above) was master of the U. S. freighter City of Flint, at the lime of its seisure by a German raider (A. P. Photo.) EARTH WILL CUI OFF ION'S HEAT SUPPLY IN ECLIPSE TONIGHT Pasadena, Calif., Oct. 27. (P) The earth will give the man in the moon a bad case of shivers tonight. At 8:54 PST the earth will start edging between the sun and the moon and within three hours will have run its satel lite's temperature from the boil ing point to around 180 degrees below zero. The eclipse, 99.2 of total, will be visible in both North and South America. Drs. Edison Pettit and Seth B. Nicholson, using a thermo couple and the 100-inch Mount Wilson observatory telescope, found that on the central part of a full moon the temperature was 214 degrees fahrenheit. At the edge of the moon the tem perature was 58 below zero. When the sun's heat was sud denly shut off by a total eclipse in 1927 the astronomers watched the moon's temperature drop in three hours from the boiling point to 184 degrees below zero. Since some of the sun's rays will "bend around the earth tonight, the mercury drop may be slightly less. POLITICS HINTED III ID ESCAPE Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 27 (P) Dr. Louis J. Saxe, superinten dent of the Arizona state hos pital for the insane, charged to day a former attache of the in stitution "attempted to kidnap" Winnie Ruth Judd, trunk mur deress, last July. Dr. Saxe would not explain what he interpreted as an at tempted kidnaping of the slayer who fled from the woman's ward of the hospital Tuesday night and still remained at large to day. He hinted, however, it might have been a political move to embarrass him. "I questioned Mrs. Judd re garding the attempted kidnap ing," Dr. Saxe said, "but she de nied it, adding that she would never think of such a thing as escaping." Dr. Saxe said he had no Idea where Mrs. Judd might have gone, but named Mexico as a logical place. Demand $5 Minimum Pittsburgh, Oct. 27. fPi A S5-a-day minimum in all Beth lehem Steel corporation milli was demanded today by the CIO steel workers organizing com mittee. A union spokesman said a dozen plant managements had i been informed 'wc will not ac icept 'no' for an answer." W HULL iBY INABILITY 10 State Department Officials Criticize Soviet for Atti tude in Ship's Seizure Washington, Oct. 27. (P) Secretary Hull said today he was completely baffled in his efforts to get adequate informa tion from the Russian govern ment on the City of Flint, which to the state department has be come a veritable mystery ship. State department officials were unanimous in criticizing the Soviet government for giv ing information on the City of Flint through the Soviet news agency some hours before it was delivered to the interested government, the United States. Hull said Ambassador Lau rance A. Stcinhardt in Moscow had tried three different meth ods of getting in touch with the American crew of the City of Flint telephone, railroad and airplane and thus far had not been successful in any. There was a note of bitter ness in Hull's voice as he re counted tho efforts of Ambassa dor Stcinhardt. Hull seemed to look forward to German prize court proceed ings as the only real means for obtaining the facts. Moscow, Oct. 27. (un united States Ambassador Lau rwirp A. Steinhardt was re ported unofficially to have made representations to the Russian government today concerning irnntmAnt nrporrlprl the Ameri can vessel City of Flint while she was in the Soviet port ol Murmansk. Steinhardt called at the for eign office and talked with Vladimir P. Potemkin, vice-commissar of foreign affairs, shortly before 6 p. m. (10 a. m. EST). Steinhardt had difficulty in getting an appointment at the foreign office and was unable to learn any more than what was in the Soviet press simply a brief report that the City of Flint had been freed from Mur mansk. Berlin, Oct. 27. P) Official advices received here tonight said the United States steamer City of Flint was being sailed from Murmansk to Germany un der command of a prize crew from the German pocket bat tleship Deutschland. The freiffhtnr was reported somewhere along the Norwegian coast, heading slowly into the British blockade area. Thp vpsel. seized as a con traband ship and taken to the Rnccinn nnrt of Murmansk, above the Arctic circle, was re leased last night by Soviet mis sia. AHuirps rpaphins Berlin said the Germans lost no time In lifting anchor for Hamburg where a prize court was plan ned to decide on the fate of the ship and her cargo. The whereabouts of tne Amer ican crew of the City of Flint ctiit was unplpnr here, but Ger man officials said they "be lieved" the Americans were aboard the freighter. BRITISH TAKE BODIES Dover, England, Oct. 27. (V) Between 50 and 60 bodies were reported today to have been found by British divers ex ploring a shattered German sub marine washed up yesterday on the Goodwill sands. The Goodwin sands are more than five miles out from the Kent coast, forming a natural breakwater to the downs road stead. Heavy firing was heard off the coast on Wednesday. One theory was that the sub marine was sunk either by depth charges or aerial bombs and drifted aground S . , it, Hr rTwf f-!;.rJx,VyS!r''-.. . I- The American freighter. City of Flint (top), seised In the north Atlantic by German raider, the Emden (lower), and taken to the Soviet harbor of Murmansk, was reported from Ber lin today to be enroule to Germany under command of a German prize crew. U. S. officials have been unable to obtain information on the fate of the City of Flint's American crew. (A. P. Photos). Foreign Policy Critics Guilty Of Shameless Fake-Roosevelt New York, Oct. 27. (tP) Strongly reaffirming American neutrality, President Roosevelt last night said critics of his for eign policy who have warned it would force American boys to shoulder arms abroad were guilty of "one of the worst fakes in current history." "It is a deliberate setting up of an imaginary bogey man," he added caustically. The president spoke last night on the closing program of the ninth annual New York Herald Tribune forum on current prob lems, after King Leopold III of Belgium declared it was vital for his country because of eco nomic reasons to remain at peace but Belgium was ready to fight, if necessary, to preserve its independence. Speak From Capitals The heads of the two nations spoke from their respective cap itals. The speeches were broad cast nationally In this country. In sharp tones President Roosevelt rebuked "orators and commentators and others" in and out of congress who he said have been "beating their breasts and proclaiming against sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. "That, I do not hesitate to label as one of the worst fakes in current history," he declared. "The simple truth is that no person In any responsible place in the national administration in Washington, or In any state government, or in any city gov ernment, or in any county gov crnmont, has ever suggested In any shape, manner or form the remotest possibility of sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. Dishonest Argument 'That is why I label that arg ument a shameless and dishon est fake." Acknowledging It was impos sible for Americans to ho neu tral In thought as well as in i act, the president said: 1 t ft,4 i "The fact of the international situation the simple fact, with out any bogey in it, without any appeals to prejudice is that the United States, as I have said before, is neutral and does not Intend to get involved In war." The president said democracy was threatened by two groups those who "seek the fulfillment of ideals at a pace too fast for the machinery of the body pol itic to function" and "that small minority which complains that the democratic processes are in efficient as well as slow." Values Realised "Extreme rightists and ex treme leftists should not be taken out by us and shot against the wall," he continued, "for they . . . make us realize the value of the democratic middle course especially If that mid dle course, in order to keep up with the times, is 'just a little bit left of center'." King Leopold, speaking in fluent English during his six minute broadcast, said Belgium stood side by side with Hol land, "an Island of peace In the Interests of all." "We are prepared to exert our entire strength In order to uphold our independence," he added. "Exactly 25 years ago, day for day, the Belgian army un der my father. King Albert, ar rested after a hard battle the progress of a cruel invasion. Belgium Stronger Now "If we were attacked and pray God this may not happen in violation of the solemn and definite undertakings that were given us In 1937 and were re npwed at the outset of the nre i sent war we would not hesi tate to fight with the same con viction, but with forces ten times stronger." President Roosevelt at the start of his speech said he wished to "throw bouquets to the majority of the press and the radio" for their objective reporting of International affairs I in the past few weeks. Vr w y V f ' i i wmm.md TAKEN BY THIEF An archery bow valued at $35 was stolen from a bedroom in the Charles Alberts residence, 236 South Central avenue, be tween 8:15 and 9 last night, Mrs. Alberts reported to city police. Mrs. Alberts told police that she had no idea how the bow was stolen, as there was someone In the house during the period the bow was stolen. , The bow was described as being six feet long, over all; five feet 10 Inches between the strings, and made of yew wood. It had cow horn tips and was painted silver and red. Radio Highlights Radio Station KMED will broadcast the University of Washington-Stanford university game in Seattle Saturday after noon, going on the air at J o'clock. Br Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight: Eclipse of the moon, WJZ-NBC, 9 p. m WABC-CBS and MBS, 10:30 p. m. Europe, WABC-CBS, 5:55, 8; MBS 8, 7:15; WEAF-NBC-east, 8. Na tional defense, WJZ-NBC, 8:30, Secretary of War Woodring on "Rearming For Peace." Neutral ity, WJZ-NBC, 7:15, Sen. Theo. F. Green. MBS, 7:30, Gov. Baldwin of Connecticut on "For Youth in National Affairs." Saturday: football, WJZ-NBC, WABC-CBS, MBS, 10:45 a. m., Cornell-Ohio State; WEAF-NBC, 10:45, Yale-Michigan: MBS about 1:15, Illinois-Northwestern.
