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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1939.
No. 194.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.