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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
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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."
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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.