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Expect Results Trantactlont or all klndi, large and email remit dally from the Want Arte In this newspaiwr. No matti-r what yuu may want, It U Mir to say yoti may e pert mulls from a well written AdT. MEDFORD Tftbune Full Associated Press c- ill United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939. No. 191. The Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Thursdrr, no Changs In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 70 Lowest this mornlnf 35 Hire m POT MI MSA . AT QTHE Washington, D. C. Nov. 1 Legislation intended to enable fruit and vegetable producers of the Pacific Northwest and the nation at large to receive bet ter prices is being prepared by Senator Charles L. McNary, Ore gon, minority leader of the sen ate. Inkling of McNary's plan has seeped out and is causing alarm among canners of the Washington - Oregon area and when the bill is introduced it will have arrayed against it the canning industry of the country. Briefly, McNary's program is to extend the provisions of mar keting agreements, under Triple A, to fruits, vegetables and all other commodities which are not under the present act. No com modity, of course, can enjoy a marketing agreement unless 75 per cent of the producers of that particular commodity vote for such an agreement. DACKGROUND Take prunes for instance (and it was the prune situation in Oregon and Clark county, Wash., that de cided McNary in his plan). There is a surplus and such a drug on the market that the canners name their own price, which price is unprofitable for the growers. Canners buy in large quantities, then their goods are purchased in vast amounts by the chain grocery stores. The chains want canned goods as cheap as possible, making their profit on volume, and to meet this requirement of the chains the canners must keep their prices down, and like the chains earn their profit by vol ume. The canners "take it out" on the producers, but without the producers the canners and chains would lose their source of supply. If producers of prunes (or any other commodity) are permitted by law to have a marketing agreement price, or else; the chains will have to pay a shade more to the canners if they want the canned goods, and the price charged the consumer by the chains will be almost unnoticed. It is said that a fraction of a cent more on a can of prunes would give the growers enough to make growing the fruit prof itable. BANNERS have already pro- tested to Oregon's McNary that his plan will ruin the in dustry. His reply is that the in dustry will not be destroyed, but the profits will be scaled down and the farmer will at long last get a "break." 4 (Continued on Page 31 1 ) REDDING VOTES BONDS FOR ENLARGED SCHOOL Redding, Cal., Nov. 1. (AP) Redding voters yesterday ap proved a $130,000 bond issue to enlarge Shasta Union high school. Because of Shasta dam con struction, enrollment increased so rapidly 1.100 students are being crowded into a building planned for 500. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Frank Clark, Jr., winning the Brown & White Hallowe'en win dow art contest, he winning with a horse (of a different colon, neighbors of the real estate and insurance agency having to help wash the windows so the office occupants would have some light to work in. Little Joe Estremada being introduced to a huge audience as the rasslin champeen, age and weight considered, of Gold Hill and points south as far as the California border. Eino Hemmila just a rose among ten beautiful thorns or vice versa and being quite sur prised that he apparently came out of the gathering without a -.latch ALL FOUR WARDS REGISTER HEAVY NEGATIVE VOTE 1108 No; 494 Yes Is Count in Heaviest Turnout Since City Voted On Airport The proposed S30.000 park bond issue was defeated at yes terday's special election by ap proximately 2Vj to 1. The to tal vote was 494 yes, 1108 no. In all, 1602 valid votes were cast. It was the biggest election of its kind since April 2, 1929, when the airport bond issue brought out 242S voters who gave a favorable vote to the proposition, 2244 to 182. Or dinarily, elections of this sort here bring out no more than 500 or 600 voters. To Canvass Vote Today. The city council will meeti at 5 p. m. today to canvass yes terday's vote. The park proposition was voted down in every one of the city's four wards. Even the east side, where many of the park proponents reside and where the land proposed for park purposes is viewed by many as an "eyesore," voted against the bond issue. The heaviest "no" vote was registered in the third and fourth wards, which comprise the west half jt the city.. The proposition lost in these two wards by three to one. The vote by wards Was: 'First ward (Jackson hotcll Yes, 137; No, 198;. total vote, 335. Second ward (Courthouse) Yes, 116; No. 395; total vote, 511. Third ward (Fichtner's ga 'rago) Yes, 95; No. 293; total, 388. Fourth ward (City hall) Yes, 146; No, 222; total, 368. Brisk from Start, Voting was brisk from the start, there being a steady flow of voters to the polls from the opening at 1 p. m. to the clos ing at 8 p. m. The citizens voted on the prop osition to authorize the issuance of not more than $30,000 in bonds to purchase land and de velop the property into a park. The land proposed for the park extends on the east side of Bear creek from the Main street bridge to Jackson street, a tract of about 17 acres. Mayor Comments Commenting on the election outcome, Mayor C. C. Furnas said: "The city council was asked to present this proposition to the voters by a large group of repre sentative and responsible citi zens. We of the council took no active part as a body in promot ing the proposal. "The proposed park would have made a very good work re lief project for this winter. As it is now, we have none. Hereto fore we have had for several years between 50 and 200 men working on the airport during the winter, but the hand work at the airport is now completed. "The chamber of commerce has taken an active interest in helping to provide for these win ter work-relief programs. This park project would have been different from the street recon struction and sewage disposal I plant projects in that they were PWA jobs that had to be done I with as much machinery as pos sible to keep costs down. The WPA is for work relief and pro vides jobs for more people. The park would have been a WPA project. "We appreciate the exception ally large vote cast in this spec ial election." Canzoneri to Give Opponent Weight New York, Nov. 1. (AP j Tony Canzonrri. who has held three titles in his long boxing career, weighed in at 143 pounds today for his ten-round bout with young Al Davis of New York tonight at Madison Squire Garden. Davi. who has been made a 1-2 favorite, weighed 147 3 4 Ruth Judd After Capture Winnie Ruth Judd, mad killer, half-starved and emotionally upset, is shown just after she was captured at Arizona state hospital. Phoenix, from which she escaped a week ago. The trunk murderess, who killed her two best friends in 1931, had been hiding in the vicinity of Phoenjx since she slipped out of the hospital, paid a 15-minute visit to the bedside of her ailing father, and vanished into the night. Hospital attendants caught the insane murderess after she had burglarized a home on the Institution's grounds to obtain food. Dies Witness' Mother Sure Murder Charge Is Frame-up Washington, Nov. 1 (IP) The mother of Seaman William McCuistion, Dies committee witness, said today she was "confi dent" a charge of murder made against ner communist fighting son in New Orleans was a "frame up." But, added Mr 3. Dollie M. Crawford, "if he goes to jail on a framed charge or if he goes to the electric chair, I'd a darn sight rather he'd go fighting the Communist party. ' Go vernment Aims Appearing before the Dies committee, the Frederick, Md., woman also testified Joseph Cur ran, president of CIO's national maritime union, once told her the Communist party was plac ing so many members in key positions in Washington it hoped to take over the government in a few years. ' At the start of ,oday s session she took the stand from which McCuistion had testified for two days about alleged Communist activities among seamen. At the conclusion of his appearance yesterday he was taken into cus tody by Washington police at the request of New Orleans authorities. In the latter city, meanwhile, Chief of Detectives John J. Frosch filed an affidavit in crim inal court charging McCuistion, former Communist and officer of the N.M.U. in New Orleans, with murder in connection with the slaying there in September of another N.M.U. officer, Philip Carey. Mystery to Him McCuistion said he did not know what the charge was about but he would waive extradition to Louisiana. In custody of a lieutenant of detectives he re turned to the Dies hearing today and succeeded his mother on the stand. He told the committee that before he testified yesterday he had read in the newspapers he was wanted in New Orleans but that, instead of trying to escape he wanted "to return here and to complete what I had started and then answer any charges." "I'm a seaman," he said, "and I could have been on the way out of the country i' I'd wanted to go." Mrs. Crawford expressed her views on the New Orleans charge in response to committee questions. "I am confident it's a frame up." she said. Chairman Dies (D-Tcx) of the house investigating group al ready has announced his inlen tion of going to New Orleans to Says Bridges Red rl ij w , -.'.2 w' ,, f, , " Via , William C. McCuI?ton (above), 38-year-old seaman, is shown as ha testiiied before the Dies com miltee and described Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, as a communist, "I know it because leading members (of the Communist party) said he was a communist," McCuiston said. find out whether police there actually want McCuistion. He said he would not permit com mittee witnesses to be "brow beaten or intimidated." Buffalo, Okla., Nov. I. in') Two-year-old Eddie Hucncrgardl may recover from a ruptured appendix and double pneumonia because a nurse completed an operation after a surgeon col lapsed. Mrs. William Finely, 29. took Dr. E. F. Camp's place after he was stricken with apoplexy while performing the appendec tomy. The major part of the opera tion had been completed so Mrs. Finely sewed up the incision. Dr. Camp's condition was rc- ported serious; the boy's "fair." E TO AETER SIS. CALL Wireless Goes Dead Follow ing Distress Signal 600 Miles East of Boston By the Associated Press The mystery of what happened to the Britisli freighter Coul more, the sinking of a second freighter and an attack on a third ship marked today the ir regular sea warfare between the allies and Germany. The Coulmore, a 3670-ton craft, radioed a call for help last night after reporting a subma rine attack 600 miles east of Boston. Then her wireless went dead and today she was missing, perhaps sunk, as other ships, in cluding the U. S. coast guard cutter Bibb, vainly searched for her. The sinking pf the 5317-ton steamer Bronte, the second Brit ish ship, was disclosed when her crew of 40 and one passenger arrived in England on a rescue vessel. Raiders In Atlantic In the house of commons, meanwhile, Winston Churchill, British first lord of the admi ralty, announced one of Ger many's pocket battleships was reported operating in the north Atlantic and another in the south Atlantic. The American' freighter City of Flint, seized by a German prize crew and taken to Mur mansk, Russia, was believed to be still cautiously moving down the Norwegian coast, but her exact position was not disclosed If CLOSES IN RAIN New York, Nov. 1. (fP) The world of tomorrow is a $156, 000,000 ghost town today. A skeleton crew of workmen began boarding up the 1939 New York world's fair, a deserted village of chromium and stream lined plaster which closed its first season in a dismal, rainy finale yesterday. Paid attendance sinco the opening last April 30 totaled 25,811,733. (The fair's west const rival, the San Francisco Golden Gate exposition, closed last Sunday, uncertain whether to reopen in 1940. The Treasure Island show registered 10,496,203 paid ad missions in its 254 days.) As a result of an all-day rain, only 51,382 person, the second smallest crowd of the year, paid to see the plosing ceremonies yesterday. 441h Fatality Portland, Nov. 1. (P) Port land's traffic fatalities since January 1 rose to 44 with the death of George W. Taylor, 41. yesterday. Taylor was thrown from his motorcycle on a slip pery turn along the German town road. 4 Talkative Nurse Attempts To Cut . Own Tongue Out San Francisco, Nov. 1. (IP) With the explanation "I talk too much," Miss Leona Hu dock tried to cut out her tongue today, police said, and succeeded in cutting off two small sections. Officers John Roche and Tom Kelly were called to the brunette nurse's apartment by her roommate, Miss Bar bara Taylor. Miss Taylor said her com panion produced a pair of scissors and announced, "1 talk too much I'm going to end it all." Miss Taylor fled to call help. At Mission emergency hos pital, doctors said the severed sections could not be re placed, but Miss Hudock would talk nenln. Russian Criticism of F. R. Brings Demand for Recall Of Ambassador to Moscow Washington Nov. 1. (JP) A demand that the United States recall its ambassador to Russia because of Premier Molotoff's criticism of President Roosevelt was injected into the house neu trality debate today by Rep. McCormick (D-Mass). SECY. EARLY SEES EEEORT TO SWAY Washington, Nov. 1. OP) Stephen T. Early, a presidential secretary, questioned today whether it was purely coinci dental that Premier Molotoff of Russia had criticized President Roosevelt at the time when an important vote was scheduled here in the house on neutrality legislation. Molotoff said In a speech to the supreme soviet in Moscow yesterday the president had mixed in Soviet-Finnish nego tiations "in contradiction" of the United States' neutrality policy. .Early said he did not know whether the president had yet read Molotoff's remarks. He asserted he himself had read them in the press, however, adding: "I wonder whether the remarks of yesterday were pure ly coincidental. The Russian negotiations . with Finland had been carried on in utmost se crecy over a period of about three weeks, I believe. "The decision to speak yester day and give the first revcla lions on the points being dis cussed between the representa tives of Finland and Russia, whether by coincidence or not, seems to me to be worth con sidering as a question of tim ing." (Mr. Roosevelt recently ex pressed to Russia his hope that it would take no step in its negotiations with Finland which would upset its peaceful rela tions with that nation.) "It would appear," the White House secretary declared, "that Molotoff had something else in mind, because almost in the con cluding paragraph of his speech he raises the question of the neutrality embargo, which if you recall, was timed for an important vote In the house yesterday." Early said it seemed to him that the Soviet premier had the embargo in mind when he criti cized the president. PEACOOPESEEN T San Francisco, Nov. 1. (AP) Waterfront employers expected prompt resumption of contract negotiations with C.I.O. long shoremen today, on receipt of reports that stevedores had re returned to work after a nine- day ticup at Bellingham, Wash. F. P. Foisie, head of the Wat erfront Employers association, said he would communicate with longshore tiegoliators to set a meeting shortly. The announcement of an Im proved maritime outlook was heightened by completion yes terday of a tentative agreement between the Masters, Mates and Pilots df America and the Pacific-American Shipowners asso ciation, subject to a 30-day rati fying vote of the union. BY RUNAWAY HORSES i Ashland, Ore.. Nov. 1. (AP) Don King, 19, son of Joe King. ' city fireman, died last night of injuries received Monday wnen a team of horses ran away with a hayrakc. The youth tried to ride one of the hitched horses. ! The driver. Russell Fowler, was slightly injured. Describing both Russia and Germany as "the anti-God forces of the world today," McCormack said he had read newspaper ac counts of Molotoff's address to the supreme soviet yesterday in which President Roosevelt was criticized as "intervening" in Russia's negotiations with Finland and it was stated this country's moves to repeal its arms embargo would "intensify aggravate and protract" the Eu ropcan war. Breach of Law "For that statement made by the official representative of So viet Russia," McCormick shout ed, "the United States ought to recall its ambassador. That should be the answer of the United States to this attempt to influence American public opin ion this grave breach of inter national law." (Laurence A. Steinhardt Is United States ambassador to Rus sia). Subsequently at the state de partment Secretary Hull, when asked about the Russian pre mier's remarks, said the Ameri can move in the Russo-Finnish situation spoke for itself in that it was a simple appeal for peace, GOLD HILL MAN SEVERELY HURT BY CATERPILLAR Nate J. Milkowski, 40. of Gold Hill, a caterpillar operator, suf fered leg and head injuries about 9:30 this morning when the 60 cat he was driving plunged into a 15-foot ditch on the old VanHoevenburg ranch, now owned by Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Simon, near the Sams Valley store, about 20 miles from Med- ford. The injured man was rushed to Sacred Heart hospital, where It was discovered he had com pound fractures of both legs, a badly mangled left foot, severe cuts on the head and bad body Druises. His attending physic ian said this afternoon he was resting as comfortably as could be expected and that his injuries were probably not critical. Arthur Larson, driver of the Perl ambulance which trans ported the injured man to the hospital, said he was told that Mr. Milkowski was operating the caterpillar near the bank of the ditch when the ground gave way beneath him, plunging the ve hicle and driver into the chasm Mr. Milkowski jumped when the cat began to slide, Larsen quoted a witness as explaining, but failed to get clear of the heavv machine. The tractor rolled over on the drivers legs, crushing T GUESTS IN NIGHT Louisville, Ky.. Nov. 1 (JPi fire routed more than S.in pajama-and-topcoat-clad guests irom the 450 room Kentucky hotel at 2:30 a. m. today and caused damage estimated at $21,000 to $25,000 by Fire Chief Edward McHugh. Forty minutes earlier, more than 50 guests fled the 00-room Imperial hotel when tire broke out In the Price Mercantile com pany shops beneath the hotel rooms. The damage to furnishings in the Imperial was estimated at $3,000 by McHugh. Both hotels are downtown. Mrs. Ashurst Dies Washington, Nov. 1. (P) Mrs. Henry Fountain Ashurst, wife of the Arizona senator, died today at the family homo here after a long Illness from a stom ach ailment FOR COMING YEAR City Expense List Slightly Over Current Year Iver son Registers Only Protest With a single objection for mally recorded, the city council last night approved the budget for 1940 after a public hearing thereon. The council also adopted an ordinance formally fixing the 1940 tax levy at $184,953.27. The millage rate is set by the county assessor. Total amount of the 1940 budget is $235,095.27, as against $230,608.75 for the current year. Cash on hand and estimated re ceipts for 1940 amount to $51,- 042 and this sum is deducted from the total budget to arrive at the amount to be raised by taxes. Iverson Protests The lone protest was regis tered by George Iverson, land lord and taxpayer. Mr. Iverson objected formally to making a levy for the airport, the levy amounting to $805. 'When the people voted for the airport bonds," Mr. Iverson declared, "they were promised that the airport would be self supporting. This year a levy of $805 is Included in the' budget for the airport. This in itself is not much, but I suppose it will grow as-the years go by until it mounts to $10,000 or $15,000." City Attorney Frank P. Far rell explained that the airport has grown far beyond its original anticipated functions and uses and the city was hopeful of fi nancial aid from the civil aero nautics authority which would provide ample funds for operat ing the airport. Unwise Promise Mr. Iverson, however, insisted the main thing was that the peo ple had been promised that the airport would be self-supporting. (Continued on Page Ten ) T0TALSJ20J25 Although the value of build ing permits issued from the city Inspector's office in October amounted to a healthy $20,725, the figure was slightly below the same period for last year and for the preceding month of September, this year. October of 1938 permits were valued at $23,305, and Septem ber of this year brought out per mits totalling $59,360. There were 28 permits issued last month, six of them calling for construction of new resi dences at a total cost of $17,550. Sixteen permits were for repairs to residences and amounted to $2335, while six were for the erection of private garages to taling $840. U. S. Retail Trade Higher This Year Washington, Nov. 1. (P) Secretary Hopkins said today that America's consumers spent $1,700,000,000 more on retail trade in the first nine months of this year than they did in the same months last year. The total was $26,900,000,000. Radio Highlights The Tony Canzoneri-Al Davla welterweight prizefight in New York- city tonight will be broad cast by NBC, Including stations KEX, Portland; KGO, San Fran cisco and KJR, Seattle. The fight will start at 7 o'clock, Medford time. By Associated Press (Pacific Standard Time) Tonight: Europe - WABC-CBS. 5:55, 8; MBS 6; WEAF-NBC East 8 . . . Talk, WJZ-NBC 6, Alfred M. Landon on "Foreign Policy of the U. S." Thursday: Europe-NBC chains 5 a. m. WJZ-NBC 9 a. m WABC CBS 5 a. m., 3:30 p. m.
