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HUSKIES 8
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TROY 26
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CARNEGIE 6
RAMS 27
PITT 13
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CHRISTAIN 21
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939.
No. 1S8.
Mr
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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."
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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.
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