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O.S.C. . . . . . 13 UCLANS 16 V OREGON ., 6 HUSKIES 8 STANFORD 5 TROY 26 BEARS 0 NOTRE DAME . . 7 CARNEGIE 6 RAMS 27 PITT 13 CORNELL" ......23 OHIO STATE ... 14 NEW YORK ....14 GEORGIA 13 NORTHWEST ...13 ILLINOIS , 0 IOWA - WISCONSIN , 3 DARTMOUTH ,. .16 HARVARD 0 TENNESSEE 17 CHRISTAIN 21 CENTENARY . . .. 0 DUKE 6 MERCER 0 WAKE The Weather Forecast Fair today and probably to morrow; moderate temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday , S Lowest yesterday . 50 Solely for You There may be an Important meare on the Clalfll papr. thla morning Intended aolely for jou. At any rate a iw minutes of your time might be profitably spent reading the drertlsementi. MEDFORD H RIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirtv-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939. No. 1S8. Mr at'Athe Washington, D. C, Oct. 28 Bonneville power is a hot topic In Washington and Oregon, but It doesn't rate a single para graph in the newspapers of the national capital. Paul J. Raver, the new administrator, called a press conference and discussed the great government experi ment in hydroelectric power in the Columbia river, but local press did not print a line. High spots: Like the late J. D. Ross, first administrator, t Raver says he has applications for all the power the present capacity of Bonneville can gen erate. He says that 13 public agencies are ready to take pow er as soon as he can serve them, that a few can be served about the first of the year, and others by next July and October. He is negotiating with three private utilities and two indus trials, but declines to reveal the identity of the industrials and doesn't intend to be rushed about signing with the private utilities. He can sell all the present power capacity without disposing of a kilowatt to pri vate companies. (The law gives 50 percent, not 100 percent of Bonneville t power to public agencies.) ... CECRETARY of the Interior Ickes, who is Raver's super ior, wired, him to bring to the i capital the contract with Port land General Electric and ex plain why it had not been signed. This contract was draft ed by Bonneville officials and was acceptable to PGE, but Fed eral Power Commission revised wholesale rates, by which time Raver was appointed adminis trator and he did not like the contract provisions. He telegraphed W. M. Pierce, congressman, that he would sign no contract with a private utility without first submitting it to Pierce and getting his re action. Asked at his press con ference if that meant he would be guided by Pierce, Raver stated his telegram required an interpretation, said interpreta tion being that any senator or representative was entitled to know what the administrator is doing, as they vote the money. Also he denied that any Bonne- vine employee, with his author ity, is telling the people of Ore gon and Washington that they will be given the Tacoma rate for Bonneville juice. ... A DMINISTRATOR Raver said he could sell immediately to PGE 10.000 k.w.. but there are three angles involved. While the private company "agrees nrettv well to one fundamental" in pro tection to the government and consumers and the City of Port land in resale rates, there has been no agreement on resale rates. It appears that Public Utilities Commissioner Bean, of Oregon, regulates the rates cus tomers must pay corporations This is a matter of states' rights Commissioner Bean wants to do the same thing we do," but Rav er doesn't know Bean's position It adds up that the private com- . pany wants to pass on the bene fits to the public and the state has control of resale rates, but Raver wants something to sav about resale rates "because we have the power to sell". The administrator did not say in so many words that he wishes to usurp the functions of the state regulatory official. (Continued on Paga Eight t Portland. Oct. 28. lP) City Commissioner W. A. Bowes pre pared for snow today when the weather bureau predicted -rain. He asked truck owners to reg ister for possible duty in the event of snowstorms this winter. DIES REPLIES TO F.D.R. S ATTACK ON 1ST PROBE Committee Head Says Time Here For People To End New Deal Heckling of Quiz Washington, Oct. 28. (API Chairman Dies (D.-Tex.i declar ed tonight "the time has come" for the people to determine whether his committee investi gating un-American activities shall "be constantly handicap ped, embarrassed and thwarted by Washington officialdom." His (CBS) radio address, a re ply to criticism from President Roosevelt, topped off a stormy day in which the committee heard husky Joseph Curran, president of the National Mari time union (C.I.O.) charge the maritime commission with "stab bing seamen in the back." Dies said in his radio broad cast that he had "been deeply grieved by the President's char acterization of the procedures of our committee as 'sordid, " but that "I do know that the fed eral government has communists in key position and nothing will deter me from exposing them to the people." The chairman added that there was "nothing new about this latest attack by the ad ministration upon the work of our committee, nothing new ex cept the occasion which prompt ed it" its publicizing of the names of government employes appearing on a membership and mailing list of the American League for Peace and Democ racy which Dies charged was communistic. He said that "there was no charge of "sordid procedures'" when the committe made public a list of German-American bund leaders and "a mailing list of William Dudley Pelley's silver shirts." "Why then," he asked, "this sudden fury of attack when the membership of more than 500 officials and employes of the federal government in the communist-controlled American League for Peace and Democ racy is disclosed to th-i Ameri can people?" The committee sat today amid an angry roar of voices and constant banging of the gavel while Curran vehemently denied he was a communist and Dies threatened him with contempt proceedings. "T h e maritime commission, instead of devoting efforts to building up the merchant ma rine, has harassed unions," the heavy-jawed seamen's leader roared. Curran's four hours of testi mony, often in the jargon of the waterfront, started and end ed with shouting contests with Chairman Dies. Rhea Whitley, committee counsel, wanted to know if Cur ran ever was or ever had been a member of the communist party. This charge was a "lie " Cur ran replied, and anybody who made it was "a liar." In similar tone he denied that the national maritime union, which he claims to have built into a militant union of 65.000 members in four- years, was a "communist-front" organization. STUDY PROPOSED San Francisco, Oct. 28 (IP) Recommendation that President Roosevelt be Invited to consider the formation of a committee on agricultural labor and inter state migration and endorse ment of the principal of federal aid to the states to stabilize po tential migrants were among resolutions adopted by the west ern conference of governmental problems today. The conference of governors from the eleven western states recognized "that unemployment is chronic and constitutes Amer ica's No. 1 economic problem, affecting every phase of our eco nomic life, all groups and classes, and the very stability and security of the American government." New Wedge Y. UCOSLAvfAJJJJJjj4iJI j BhckStt v WV&' Jyiff' , ANKARA JW.rf.T c HA 0 W0 200 300 Mediterranean Sea J Dodecanese 0?.-' 1 1 .1 ' 2 lid,-- I Miles The heavy black line on this map outlines a new bloc (nations are diagonally shaded), which appeared to be forming in Europe as Budapest sources said Italy and Yugoslavia had promised to aid Hungary if a threat developed across the Carpathians. They said they felt they needed Hungary as a barrier against Communism. Southern European nations vertically shaded favor the Allies! Bulgaria's stand is a question. E BALKS AT SWIFT OKAY FOR NEUTRALITY ACT Foes of Embargo Repeal Serve Notice That Rubber Stamp Tactics Opposed. Washington, Oct. 28. (AP) Seldom-used parliamentary strat egy was put in readiness tonight to slide the administration's neu trality bill through the house without change next week, but militant foes of arms embargo repeal served notice that they would not serve as a 'rubber stamp." Administration leaders ex pressed confidence that they had the strength to steer the measure safely through, some placing the margin of victory as high as 50 votes. However, Representa tive Fish (R.-N.Y.), leading the fight for retention of the em bargo,' hotly contested such claims. He asserted there was a good chance to reverse the ver dict of the senate, which passed the bill containing the repealer last rtight. Whatever the outcome, a floor fight of major proportions ap pears assured when the house leadership tries to start its carefully-geared machinery to pre vent anv amendment of the sen ate bill. Speaker Bankhead announced that the leadership would move to send the bill to a Joint senate house conference committee to compose the wide differences between the measure approved by the senate and that which passed the house last summer. The chief difference is that the house bill provides for a modi fied embargo. It would prohibit the shipment to belligerents of arms and munitions, but not such "Implements of warfare" as airplanes. Under the procedure outlined by Bankhead, it appeared the only chance the house would have to change the senate bill would be through the device of Instructing the house confereees as to what should be written into the final draft. However, the speaker made it plain the leadership was confident it could prevent such action although he asserted he would let the oppo sition try it. Fish told reporters he would make that attempt but declared he had other tricks in his bag he would try first. Chinese Hold Bag Portland. Ore.. Oct. 28. (JP A group of Chinese was left alone today to defend a damage action by the Waterfront Em ployers of Portland after Fed eral Judge Claude McColloch dismissed the Port of Astoria and the Astoria Port commission. Appears Aimed at Russia OF PLANE OWNER Indianapolis, Oct, 28 (IP) Ernest Pletch. 29-yilar-old barn storming Indiana aviator, con fessed to the mid-air shooting of Carl Blvcns, Missouri flying instructor, after slightly more than two hours questioning. State police superintendent Don F. Stiver announced tonight. Clad in dirty blue overalls, Pletch was brought here after he landed a yellow monoplane in a field south of Bloomington, Ind., early tonight. The plane, Stiver said, was the one in which Bivens and Pletch took off from Brookfield, Mo. Here is the story the state police head rclntcd: "Pletch and Bivens had been taking flying lessons in Missouri and they agreed to go south. After they went aloft the two men started to argue. "Then Pletch took out his pis tol and shot Bivens In the head twite. He had difficulty in land ing the plane near Cherry Box. but managed it and left Bivens' body there." Stiver said Pletch, who had been free under $500 bond pending outcome of a trial next week on charges of airplane theft at Frankfort, Ind., had planned "to crack up his plane at the Pletch family home." He related that Pletch "wanted to die in that fashion." Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pletch, the aviator's parents, live on a farm near Frankfort, in north central Indiana. Northern California: Fair Sun day with temperature above normal; light northerly wind off coast. Oregon: Fair Sunday with morning fog in west portion; slightly colder tonight in Inter ior; gentle northerly wind off coast. Outlook far western slates, period October 30-Novcmbcr 4 inclusive: Generally fair weather but followed by rain in northern districts by middle nf urnl(' tpmnpmtnr ffpnprallv slightly above normal. . Cong- Pierce Plans Return Home Soon Washington, Oct. 28 (IP) Rep. Walter M. Pierce (D., Ore.) indicated today that he expected the special session of congress to adjourn soon. He announced plans to return with Mrs. Pierce to their La Grande home by automobile via California, pos sibly late next week. ARIZONA OFFERS ROTH JUDD LURES IF SHEJETOHNS New Beauty Shop to Work In, And No Sanity Claim Assurances Are Given. Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 28. (AP) Assurance that no effort would be made to have her declared sane and executed and the ad ditional enticement that she would have a new beauty parlor in which to work were offered to Winnie Ruth Judd, Insane trunk murderess, today on the condition she return to the Ari zona state hospital. These Inducements were held out by Dr. Louis J. Saxe, su perintendent of the institution, who said the 34-year-old blonde "would be returned here and again placed under observation" if caught. "She will have a new beauty parlor if and when she returns," Dr. Saxe added, explaining that most patients were urged to par ticipate in occupational therapy and that Mrs. Judd chose hair dressing. Any move to have Mrs. Judd, slayer of two friends in 1931, declared sane likely would orig inate with Dr. Saxe or whoever succeeded him as head of the hospital. "Winnie Ruth is worse now than when she entered the hos pital in 1933," Dr. Saxe said. Similar assurance that no ef fort would be made to change Mrs. Judd's status and have the twice-assessed death penalty in flicted has come from Gov. Bob Jones. In his first statement to the press since returning from his vacation to take over the in vestigation, Dr. Saxe related a number of incidents which had caused her emotional disturb ance. Early in July, he laid, an attendant' tried to force his at tions upon the attractive Winnie Ruth. He was discharged. A short time later the state board of beauty culturists objected to her hair dressing activities. Her outside visiting had been curbed All of these things caused her to believe she was being perse cuted. Dr. Saxe said the investiga tion still had not disclosed how the slayer got away nor where she went. "She might be In this vicinity," he added. Grange Mill Burns, Davenport, Wash., Oct. 28. (AP) The Grange Milling com pany's flour mill and warehouse were destroyed shortly after midnight by fire of undeter mined origin, with a loss c-sti mated by Manager A. V. Shank at $60,000 FEARS TOOLjFJOVIET Diplomatic Moves Intense Russia Aims To Be Clari fied Tues. Italy Active. Budapest, Oct. 28. (IP) As the shadow of Soviet Russia deepened over the capitals of southeastern Europe, King Carol of Rumania met in secret con ference today with his foreign minister and his envoys to Tur key, Bulgaria, Greece and Yugo slavia. Fears that Russia may be backing Bulgaria's campaign to regain Dobruja from Rumania wore said in authoritative quar ters to have prompted Carol to call his ministers back to Buch arest for urgent talks. There was intensive diploma tic activity throughout the Bal kans. Diplomats saw hurried con ferences as last-minute moves before the special session of the supreme Soviet called for next Tuesday to clarify Russia's ob jectives in southeastern Europe. Premier Constantine Arge- toianu of Rumania and Premier Draglsha Cvctkovich of Yugo slavia conferred for four hours in the tiny village of Vrsac on the Yugoslav Rumanian border. Diplomats in Belgrade said that Yugoslavia had agreed to warn Bulgaria that flirtation with Russia might result in dis astrous consequences for the whole Balkan area. At Sofia, the Italian minister was closeted for several hours with the Bulgarian Premier, George Klosscivanoff. He was reported to have expressed the fascist government's advice against allowing Bulgaria to come under exclusive Soviet In fluence. Greece, allied with Turkey, watched all moves with Interest and some concern, mindful of Bulgaria's territorial claims on Grecian soil. Hungary, close to Italy, took a keen interest in the diplomatic maneuvering. Most southeastern capitals ex pected an invitation from Italy to a conference at Rome would follow action by Russia to make known her position in relation to the Balkans. SALEM RECORDER'S ABSENCE CAUSES AUDIT OF BOOKS Salem, Oct. 28. (II The ways and means committee of the city council ordered a spe cial audit of the Salem city re corder's office today, Chairman David O'Hara reported. "This was done due to the continued absence of the re corder, Mr. Jones," O'Hara said. Friends of A. Warren Jones, the recorder, said he had been 111 last week and they feared he might be in a hospital some where In Oregon. He left Salem a week ago to attend a lodge meeting In Eugene. He has not returned or advised his office of his whereabouts since. O'Hara said. Oregon City, Oct. 28. (IP) Fred Damm, 41, former Molalla city recorder, was taken to the state prison at Salem today to begin serving a term of not more than three years for lar ceny of $841.11 of public funds. Circuit Judge Earl C. Latour ette, in sentencing him October 20, offered him a parole on condition he repay the money and ordered a stay of commit ment to give him a chance to raise the money. He failed to raise it. Held For "Mistake" Montesano, Oct. 28. (IP) A charge of manslaughter today was filed in superior court against Gilbert Hedges, 29, of Rochester, in the fatal shooting I of his hunting companion 1 George Ogren, 32, also of Ro- hosier on October 10 near ' !ar Creek on the Grays Har I bor-Tlvirston counties' line. Finally Convinced Chicago Mrs. Mary Hen ry, who is 72, was in court with her attorney to complain that her husband. George J. Henry, had deserted her. She told Judge Oscar F. Nelson she was certain he wasn't coming back. The court agreed when Mrs. Henry related it was in 1892 when her husband left her and gave her a divorce. DIZZY SATURDAY Tl Ohio State, Penn and Missis sippi Toppled Good Day For Eastern Teams. New York, Oct. 28. (IP) Ohio State, Penn and Missis sippi slipped off the unbeaten path today but most of the other football powers survived to fight another day. No previous Saturday of this dizzy season has furnished quite so many fire-works. There were long runs all along the line and fisticuffing in at least two ma jor ball games, both, by coin cidence in New York. Ohio State, hailed as one of the country's greatest machines, fell before unbeaten Cornell's Ivy leaguers, 23-14, as a crowd of 50,000 looked on at Colum bus. Ohio State scored 14 points before the easterners began to roll but before the Big Red was through it had scored more points than any previous Ohio State opponent since Francis Schmidt began to coach the Buckeyes. Penn was a victim of North Carolina's brilliant Tar Heels who took advantage of every opportunity and piled up a 30-6 score on the bewildered Quak ers. Jim (Sweet) Lalanne threw three touchdown passes and scored himself. Tulane Wins Mississippi's defeat was no particular surprise since the rebels encountered T u 1 a n e's powerful Green Wave. Paced by B6b Kellogg, who dashed 106 and 24 yards to touchdowns, the Green Wave won 18-6. The east enjoyed another good day on the lntersectlonal front. Not only did Cornell pull one out of a hat, but New York university stopped Georgia, 14- 13, in a game enlivened by some impromptu boxing matches; Villanova whipped Arkansas on Joe Bclot's 82-yard run, and crippled Columbia trounced Virginia Military, 26-7, despite a 95-yard run by Bosh Pritchard. On the other side of the ledger, however, Notre Dame nipped Carnegie Tech, 7-6, as John Mclntyrc, center, blocked what might have been the tying point after Carnegie s touch down. (Continued on Pi Two.) Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 28. (IP) Helen Wills Moody, former world singles tennis champion, and Aidan Roark, wealthy polo player, were married here today. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Albert C. Melton of the Immanuel Community church. The bride wore a wine colored suit, a dark hat and accessories. It is the second marriage for both. Mrs. Roark was divorced from Frederick H. Moody, Jr., a broker, in Carson City in 1937. after eight years of married life Roark's first wife was Esther P, Moore. They were divorced here last year and had been married three years. The bride and bridegroom gave their ages as 33 and 34, respectively. The newlywcds will live in Rolling Hills, near Los Angeles. 4 Wool Mart Slow. Boston, Oct. 28. (AP USDA) Business was very slow on the Boston wool market the past week. EX-TENNIS QUEEN MARRIES POLOIST RUSSIANS REPORT SEIZED AMERICAN FREIGHTER SAILS Mystery Shrouds City of Flint Movements; Czechs Battle Nazis in Prague. Moscow. Oct. 28 (IP) Tass, Soviet official news agency, re ported the American freighter City of Flint had sailed tonight from Murmansk after repairing her engines. The brief Tass report failed to say whether the freighter was in command of the German prize crew which brought her into the north Russian port last Monday or whether the Ameri can crew still was aboard. (By the Associated Press) The American freighter City of Flint, whose whereabouts un der a German prize crew oc casioned intense diplomatic ac tivity in Washington, Berlin and Moscow, was reported to have sailed last (Saturday) night from, the Russian port of Murmansk after engine repairs. The report was issued by Tass, Soviet official news agency. The vessel's destination was not re vealed. ' The latest word on the mys tery-surrounded freighter cam shortly after the state depart-' ment in Washington charged So viet Russia with withholding "adequate cooperation" in the United States' effort to settle' the dispute over the ship. - Results Gained The department's statement reviewed the capture of the City of Flint and her entry Into Mur mansk. It laid the groundwork for further diplomatic action in the case. ' Earlier the state drpartrnnt, deeply concerned by .conflicting reports from Germany and Rus sia on the freighter, had stepped up its diplomatic efforts to pene trate the maze of secrecy sur rounding the City of Flint. German authorities in Berlin insisted the vessel had sailed for "some German port," as pre viously reported, from Mur mansk. Elsewhere in Europe: German police, p a t r 1 o 1 1 e Czechs, and Nazi storm troop clashed In what, once was Czecho-Slovakta as the Czechs defied a Nazi ban on publicly observing the 21st anniversary of the founding of their repub lic, which broke up last March when Germany established a protectorate over Bohemia and Moravia. Reports persisted four persons had been killed, an un determined number wounded and thousands arrested. German Plane Down Britain's air force downed large German reconnaissance plane in Scotland after a spec tacular air battle. Two German airmen were killed and two cap tured. The plane apparently was headed for the strategic Firth of Forth and the Rosyth naval base. The French high command re ported patrol boats had picked up bodies of German officers and sailors belonging to a sunk en submarine. Commentators said the French had destroyed a Nazi submarine Thursday. An order expected to release 100,000 men from war service was Issued by the French gov ernment despite signs that the Germans might be massing for an offensive on the western front. Authorities explained it was necessary for the surplus manpower to produce rather than maintain the men under arms as consumers. On the western front itself, the French said German forays against French lines were driven back while the Germans de clared a local advance of small enemy forces in the border re gion of the Warndt Forest was repelled. ' The battle of statements be tween Germany and Britain raged unabated. Eugene Plan Delayed Eugene, Oct. 28 (IP) Al though a site has been chosen and purchased and a sum of nearly $14,000 has been raised, Eugene will probably not have Its sewage disposal plant for an other two years, it was Indicated here today. i
