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TROJANS 19 STATERS 7 OREGON 38 COUGARS 0 UCLANS 20 BEARS 7 HUSKIES 9 MONTANA ....... 0 IDAHO . . UTAH S. 19 . 7 IRISH 14 ARMY 0 PENN 13 NAVY 6 PRINCETON .... 9 HARVARD , 6 IOWA 4 PURDUE 0 ILLINOIS 16 MICHIGAN 7 NORTHWEST. ..14 MINNESOTA ; 7 TENNESEE 20 LOUISIANA 0 FORDHAM 13 RICE . ...'7 BRONCOS 27 STANFORD 7 The Weather Forecast Partly cloudy today, cloudy tomorrow; little change in tem perature. Temperature Highest eterday. 58 Lowest yesterday w.......l8 Good Morning Jutt at thli moment of your trading time why not turn to the Classified Adi? You have a full day ahead to run down any proposition that looks good to you. Remember many eye ate on the today. EDFORD RIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Pre&a Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1939. No. 194. M Washington, D. C, Nov. 4. Lumbermen and stockmen of the Pacific northwest are expecting Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior, to renew his drive to have President Roosevelt trans fer the forest service from the department of agriculture to the interior department. These groups, livestock and lumber, do not want forest service dis turbed and for some reason or other they particularly object to Ickes in the driver's seat. By finesse, Ickes recently at tempted to overcome opposition to his control of the forest ser vice. When Harry Slattery, as sistant secretary of the interior, was made administrator of rural electrification, Ickes offered the position of assistant secretary to F. A. Silcox, chief of forest ser vice. Had Silcox accepted, then Ickes could have said to ob jectors (lumbermen, livestock and congressmen!, that they need not be alarmed as Silcox would again be headman of the bureau It would have been a good ar gument, but for the fact that Silcox declined with thanks pre ferring to remain in his present position as chief forester rather than be assistant secretary un der Ickes. This is the back ground of why Silcox was offer ed and refused the appointment in interior department. DUT the fears of the west u erners are. not without foun dation.' In his message of re organization last summer, the President had a paragraph stat ing that while timber, consid ered as a growing crop, might well be under agriculture, there are various sections of the na tional forests which are better for recreational purposes than for timber crop and these could be under another administra tion. Interpretation of that state ment is that Mr. Roosevelt is more than likely in the next re organization order to take from Wallace and give to Ickes such recreational areas as the Mount Hood reserve with Timberline lodge, and all other recreational areas. There will be a howl against that. Stockmen object to the forest service being transferred to in terior for another reason. For est service has encouraged stock men to use the forests for graz ing and policy of the service is firmly established over many years. Under the Taylor act, interior is given charge of graz ing on the public domain and its principal objective is to build up the public domain for graz ing, and the way to build up grazing land is to keep stock off until the land "comes back." There are advantages In both of these policies to the livestock industry, but stockmen do not want grazing in the national for ests and the public domain un der one administrator; they pre fer the existing arrangement: although to the -casual observer it might appear to be duplica tion. I Continued on Page Eleven ' AUTO ABUSES IN Fairfield, Idaho, Nov. 4. (AP) Senator Fred Reynolds (D. Camas) asserted in a signed statement today that "abuses" in the use of automobiles owned by the state and county govern ments reuires correction. "A state car from the Jerome district stood in the streets of Fairfield for eight days, while a state employe was elk hunt ing," Reynolds wrote, adding: "A county car in Camas coun ty was badly damaged a few nights ago. while not on official business. "If the officials in state and county will stop these abuses, instead of trying to penalize the farmer more, their problem v.ili be solved relative to ga.,ulinv refunds.'' AMERICAN SHIPS Holland, Belgium and Na tions At War Included Combat Zone Designated Neutrality Bill Signed. Washington. Nov. 4 (P) Rigorously applying the newly signed neutrality law. President Roosevelt today excluded Amer ican shipping from virtually all European ports except those of neutral nations on the Mediter ranean and Arctic oceans. The law itself, to which Mr. Roosevelt affixed his signature soon after noon, forbids the ves sels of this country to carry cargoes to belligerent England, France and Germany. By an additional proclamation, author ized in the law, the chief execu tive then forbade them to tra verse a broad "combat zone" in which there appears to be dang er from German torpedoes or British warships. As pencilled off on the map by the President, and aides from the state and navy departments, the "combat zone" means that American sea-craft may carry on no commerce with Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Es tonia, Latvia and Lithuania, or by way of the Baltic sea Finland and Russia. Finland and Russia may be reached, how ever, through the Arctic, over the course followed recently by the City of Flint, and Russian ports on th Black Sea also ore accessible. Otherwise, the European neu trals to which American ships are permitted to go are Norway (north of Bergen), Spain, Portu gal, Italy, Yugoslavia. Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Rumania. In the light of recent congres sional debate, the inclusion of Holland and Belgium in the pro hibited zone was considered to be of high importance. In both house and senate, opponents and some friends of the bill as well, had asserted repeatedly that the president, if ho chose, could let American vessels go through the heart of the North Sea danger zone to Belgium and Holland, carrying munitions for trans shipment to one belligerent or another. Moreover. Senator Pittman (D-Nev.), author of the bill and chairman of the foreign rela tions committee, insisted until the end that there was no danger to American shipping in per mitting Sea commerce with any of the neutrals. In the statement. Mr. Roose velt said that while the procla mation referred in businesslike terms to such things as degrees of latitude and longitude, "in plain English" the following was what was meant: "From now on. no American ships may go to belligerent ports, British. French and Ger man, in Europe or Africa as far south as the Canary Islands. This is laid down in the law and there is no discretion in the matter. "By proclaiming a combat area I have set out the area in which the actual operations of the war appear to make navi gation of American ships dan gerous. This combat area takes in the whole Bay of Biscay, ex cept waters on the north coast of Spain so close to the Spanish coast as to make danger of at tack unlikely. It also takes in all the waters around Great Britain, Ireland and the adjacent islands including the English Channel. It takes in the whole North Sea running up to the Norwegian coast to a point south of Bergen. It takes in all of the Baltic Sea and its dependent waters." The president signed the neu trality bill in a cheerful little White House ceremony attended by a jubilant group of congres sional supporters of the measure and one good-natured opponent Senator Charles L. Mc.N'ary of Oregon who voted against the measure. Plana Crash Kills 5 Batavia, Netherlands East In dies. Nov. 4 OPi A Nethcr- Ii'.m'- h-1 t I:vi!cs bombing piane . crni'd today on the I i o. I Ambon, killing the crew of live. Say 'Reds' Lead . - , v. - H - C ... .... J f ' . nH- . j ' f cU. ifi I I 1 V ' :V s ' ' ft' I ' & Frederick C. Phillips (left), of New York, paused io give a fellow witness at iha Dies Investigation, a light after testi fying that 80 percent of the leadership in the National Mari time Union was communist, and that "the other 20 percent are afraid to open their mouths." Both Phillips Bnd William McCuistion (right) told the committee attempts had been made io murder them because of their opposition to com munism in the union. BILLION DOLLAR NAVY EXPANSION Congress To Get Bill Next January To Provide For Huge Sea Defenses. Washington, Nov. 4. (IP) Congress will be asked in Jan uary to authorize a new $1,300, 000.000 naval expansion pro gram calling for 95 additional warships and about 2,400 more airplanes. Chairman Vinson (D. Ga.) of the house naval committee, made public the details of the huge construction program to night after a conference with Admiral Harold R. Stark, new chief of naval operations. Vinson, who frequently speaks for the administration on naval matters, said he would introduce the necessary legisla tion. The program was formulated, he added, "in the light of world conditions." He explained that it provided for a 25 percent increase in the tonnage of the navy five per cent greater than provided by the so-called "billion dollar" act of 1937. No battleships would be built under the proposed authoriza tion, but all other major shio categories would be included. Altogether the program calls for construction of three air craft carriers, eight cruisers, 52 destroyers, 32 submarines and 31 auxiliary vessels a total of 126 new combatant and non combatant ships. Under the proposed legisla tion, the president would have authority, however, to alter the building program within the specified categories according to "the best interests of the na tional defense." In addition to the new air planes, the authorization would provide for 36 lighter-than-air ships, most of them expected to be blimps. Bulgaria Signs Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 4. (IP) Bulgaria signed a new trade treaty with Italy today. Mattern Lands New York. Nov. 4. (JPi Jimmy Mattern, round the world flier, breezed into Floyd Bennett field today after com- ' tilrting .-'ii HOO-mile hop from i Atlanta. Ga.. in two hours and i 50 minutes Maritime Union BRIDE OF A WEEK E Youth Gives Self up And Blames "Urge" After Two Years Of Waiting. Springfield, Mass., Nov. 4 (IP) His 18-year-old bride of a week found stabbed to death and de capitated, 20-year-old Walter R. Hibberd surrendered today and was quoted by police as having confessed he slew her because of an overpowering "urge to kill." Springfield investigators, in formed of the killing by Night Officer Angus J. McKinnon of Brattlcforo, Vt., police, to whom Hibbard gave himself up after a 60-mile train ride, found the girl's torso in the bathtub of the Hibberd honeymoon apartment here and her head in a wash basin. A hunting knife was near by. McKinnon said Hibberd walked up to him and said: "I've just killed my wife." The young husband waived extradition by Springfield . of ficers holding a warrant charg ing murder and was returned here early this afternoon for questioning by Deputy Chief J. P. Fleming and detectives. Ar raignment was deferred until Monday. Before leaving Brattlcboro, he told newsmen he first experi enced the "urge to kill" two years ago but saw his first chance last night when his at tractive dark-haired wife asked him to bring her a glass of water in bed. "I drove a hunting knife into her chest," he was quoted as saying. "She cried a little and then I dragged her to the bath room." Although hazy about subse quent events, he said he re membered becoming frightened while cutting up the body and fleeing the apartment. Mori Files Ruling Seattle. Nov. 4. (AP) Dean Wayne L. Morse, chairman of the arbitration board In the Pu gct Sound ferry dispute, ruled today the board has power to order Increases above those ask ed by the Inland Boatmen's union or decrrnes below those proposed by the Piiget Sound Navigation company. 'HAM - EGG' FDRGESj PLOT TO SLOW UP MICHIGAN, PURDUE CALIFORNIA VOTEiBEATEN BY IOWA Old Folks Are Told To Take Time At Polls Tues day And Delay Foes. San Francisco, Nov. 4 (U P.) Charges Ham and Eggs support ers mainly elder, citizens with lots of time on their hands would attempt a slowdown at the polls Tuesday, when Cali fornia votes on a 30 Thursday pension plan, enlivened the clos ing days of a bitter off-year elec tion campaign tonight. The San Francisco chamber of commerce and the San Fran cisco registrar of voters took cognizance of the charge such a plan was in the minds of the forces fighting for the second straight year for adoption of the pension plan. The state law permits a voter to spend two minutes in the voting booth. Few take that long. The pension group supposedly was urged to go to the polls early and take as much time as they could on the theory they would hold up the business men, the clerks, the office workers and others considered likely to vote against the plan. The chamber of commerce sent a special message to all businessmen urging them to ad vise their workers they would not have to report for work Tuesday until after they had voted. Registrar of voters Charles Collins said the two-minute law would be rigidly enforced. California Life Retirement Payments Association, the or ganization fighting for the pen sion scheme, issued warnings to its followers to watch for ballot stealing. f Grants Pass. Nov. 4. (AP) C. A. Whillock, 49, who identi fied himself as a former man ager of a Meriford dry goods store bearing his name, con fessed today to District Attor ney Orval J. Millard and Sheriff Donley Barnes that he had com mitted four local robberies. Mil lard reported this afternoon. The district attorney said that Whillock. who now jives here, voluntarily appeared and admit ted theft of furniture valued at scvcrtil hundred dollars from Linger Longer lodge on the Pa cific highway east of here, n washing machine, six rabbits nnd 14 chickens in other thefts. Whillock waived preliminary hearing in justice court and was bound over to the grand jury. RATHER PI MI ES HELD EOR PRANK Walla Walla. Wash., Nov. 4. (AP) If Ponce Dc Leon's name appeared on the missing poi sons' list. Sheriff C. A. Wood ward would start looking for him at Dixie, little settlement ten miles east of here, where, he said today, the fountain of youth probably exists. His office today served Justice court warrants, charging Hal lowe'en mlchlcf on 36-yearold Manard Hertzer, 29-year-old Ha zen Hertzer and 21-ycar-old Wil lard LaSalle. They were charg cd with rolling wagons onto the state highway and otherwise engaging In youthful pranks Tuesday night, after the prose cutor's office had conducted an investigation. Leslie Howard Hurt London, .Nov. 4 (H) Leslie Howard, the British actor, was injured in a blackout automo bile collision just outside Lon don tonight. He went to his hone after ,o.-,pili l '.. -. ....cut . Ilattie Koo!;cr. 01. a Good Sa for chest and facial injuries.. maritan hospital attendant. I LLI N 0 1 S UPSETS Zuppke Springs Surprise Notre Dame Downs The Army East Keeps Edge. New York, Nov. 4. (IP) Illinois, coached by wily Bob Zuppke, sprang the upset to end all upsets today as football form took a terrific beating in the middle west while holding firm almost everywhere else. Tied by Bradley, beaten by Southern California, Indiana and Northwestern and conceded no chance today, the Illini stop ped wild-running Tom Harmon and Michigan, 16-7, in one of the most astonishing form re versals in years. It was Illinois' first victory of the year and the first defeat for M i c h i g a n's steam-roller which most critics had expected would wind up unbeaten. Big Ten ratings were shuf fled radically elsewhere. Iowa's Hawkcyes scored an unexpected 4-0 triumph over Purdue's Boil ermakers on two fourth-quarter safeties, while Northwestern's Wildcats were upsetting Minne sota, 14-7, thanks to a 61-yard touchdown run by young Bill De Correvont. Only Ohio State performed as expected In roll ing over Indiana, 24-0. Meanwhile in the neighboring Big Six conference, Missouri, sparked by the great passer, Paul Christman, handed Neb raska's Cornhuskers a 27-13 de feat that was almost as shocking as Michigan's set-back. : In other sections, however, there was litile cause for sur prise. Tennessee, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Cornell and Texas A. & M., among the elect, came through more or less decisively. (Continued on Pago Two ) Mount Vernon, Wash., Nov. 4. (IP) A Mount Vernon su perior court Jury decided today ihat a telephone which virtually reaches out to bite its user is a menace. The jury awarded $3,500 to Mrs. Mary Kielhamer, of Ana cortes, who testified an Improp erly grounded telephone trans rnittcd an electric shock to her as she was talking into it. The West Coast Telephone company was the defendant. The 11 to 1 verdict was reached on the. second trial of the case. The first jury had dis agreed. 4 BULLETIN Lyublyana, Yugoslavia, Nov. 5 (IP) Strong reinforcements of Yugoslav gendarmes were re ported early today to have sur rounded 60 deserters from the Croatian Infantry regiment en trenched in a woods outside Karlovac (Karlstadt), southwest of Zagreb. The deserters, members of a Croatian reserve regiment which mutinied three weeks ago. were said to have exchanged machine gun fire with the besieging gen darmes. It was understood the regi ment was made up of peasants from the newly autonomous Croatia and had been told they would be sent to the western front for military duty. The mu tineers were said to have shot 50 civilians in their break. On Hyde Park Visit. Washington, Nov. 4. (API President Roosevelt left today for Hyde Park, N. Y., to spend the week end. He plans to vote there Tuesday In a local election. Faces Gat Death. Portland, Nov. 4. (AP) Allen Brumfield, 27, fugitive convict from Washington, was convicted of first degree murder today for the slaying of Mrs. I Asks $150,000 Balm lib Pyi C V m mmmmmmmammt. Mrs. Novelle Tinkler (above), testified during her $150,000 breach of promise suit, heard in Los Angeles, that Charles R. Strine, Downey merchant, show ered her with gifts, induced her io divorce her first husband, and then eloped with another woman. NAZI PRIZE CREW AND FREES 'PUNT: Oslo, Norway, Nov. 4. (AP) The question of how to get home or whether to try for a British port tonight confronted the freighter City of Flint, anchored In Bergan harbor und again un der her American command, after a 3,000-mtle trek through Arctic waters in charge of a German prize crew. The question also was raised by one foreign observer whether the newly enacted United States neutrality legislation would per mit an effort to deliver to Brit ain the vessel's cargo of trac tors, oil, grain, leather, fruit and wax which the Nazis labeled as contraband. The Norwegian navy early to day freed the City of Flint at Haugcsund and interned the German prize crew placed aboard when she was seized by the pocket battleship Dcutsch land October 9. Shortly after the release order the vessel steamed to Bergen, 75 miles up the coast. Usually reliable Informants said It was likely that Norway would reject a German protest presented to the foreign office during the day. London, Nov. 4. (IP) British treasury and naval experts worked on plans tonight to swell the nation's war chest with cash for newly available American supplies and to bring them safe ly across the submarine-infested Atlantic. As the press lauded the United States for repealing the arms embargo, quick revision of existing oversea shipping sched ules was forecast in authorita tive circles to start the flow of previously banned American goods to the allies. The government also prepared to ask parliament next week to pass enabling legislation for the first public loan of the war. The amount to be offered was a government secret but most est imates put it around 250,000,000 pounds ($1,000,000,000), The public, already advised by the government to put off its Christmas shopping until thin war loan came out. Was to be ak?d to help In the war by buying savings certificates. LABOR TOLD NOT TO EXPECT RISE IN PAYJ JOBS War Boom Is Not Like 1917, With Plenty of Workers, New Machinery Washington, Nov. 4 (IP) The labor department cautioned American workmen today against expectations that war or ders flowing from the European conflict would boost employ ment and wages as they did in 1914-17. The bureau of labor statistics said that there probably would be a tendency toward "rising prices and increased employ ment," but noted a dissimilarity of conditions now and in 1914. The outbreak of war in 1914 the bureau said, virtually cut off the vast flow of immigrant labor thereby contributing to the ex haustion of the labor supply at a time of increasing employ ment, demands by war indus tries. In contrast, the bureau noted the reserve of unemployed workers available. In addition there are now Improved machines and techni ques that have been thoroughly tested and are readily available) for vastly increasing productiv ity of labor whenever demands for the product warrant their more extensive use," the bureau said. "On this account as well at because of other circumstances, it is unsafe to assume that war orders will' now have ah effect on employment and on wages analogous to the effects of the World war." The experts observed, how ever, that "on the assumption that the war continues for considerable period certain basie resemblances to the World war are apparent. "The division of man power and resources from normal pro duction into war time channels and the destruction and crip pling of productive facilities abroad will induce scarcity that must tend toward rising prices and increased employ ment." The effect of war-time buying on American business activity was the subject of comment dur ing the day by the commerce de partment and the chamber of commerce of the United States. Secretary Hopkins said that the rush of new orders for raw and semi - finished materials, which developed at the outbreak of the war, had tended to de cline. Northern California: Partly, cloudy Sunday; moderate tem perature; moderate northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Unsettled Sunday; rain northwest portion; snow over high mountains of north portion; warmer southeast and, central portions tonight; increas ing wind off coast. Outlook for far western states,' November 6-11, inclusive: 5en orally fair in southern district and frequent rains in northern district; normal temperatures. E FINDS LOST BOY Flagstaff, Ariz., Nov. 4. (IP) Searchers reported to the Co conino county sheriff's office to night that 7-ycar old Bruce Crozicr had been found alive In. the rugged mountainous country south of here where ht had wandered for six days. First reports received at the sheriff's office said merely that the boy was alive. He was taken by a searching party to the hos pital at Holbrook, Aril., where he will arrive in about two hours.
