Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 12, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextJ STATERS 19 OREGON 14 HUSKIES 13 BEARS 6 COUGARS 21 IDAHO .13 TROJANS 33 STANFORD 0 BRONCOS 6 MICHIGAN 0 IOWA 7 IRISH 6 FORDHM 13 INDIANA 0 HARVARD 15 ARMY 0 CORNELL' .' . ..14 COLGATE 12 TULANE 13 ALABAMA 0 ILLINOIS 7 WISCONSIN 0 TEXAS A. & M. . ., 6 METHODISTS , 2 MEDFORD 38 ASHLAND 6 PURDUE 3 NORTHWEST ... 0 The Weather Forecast Cloudr today and rain to morrow; little change In tern perature. Temperature Highest yesterday... .-...61 Lowest yesterday 28 Keep Posted Interesting newi this morning on the Clarified page. If you do not find what you want turn to the "Too Late to Clas sify". It may be there. It pays to read lhee Advi. Keep post ed on Important offerings. MEDFORD TRIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1939 No. 200. g AT TRE Washington, D. C, Nov. 11. Bundled in an overcoat, rifle on shoulder, a doughboy with mea sured tread paces back and forth past a block of dazzling white marble beneath which, in eter nal sleep, is "An American Sol dier Known Only Unto God". From the wind-swept slope of Arlington cemetery (where also rest two Oregon senators, Gco E. Chamberlain and Frederick Steiwer), can be seen Washing ton Monument, the capital dome. Mhe roof of the war, state and navy building. Comes another Armistice day with air full of war talk. Armistice day, 1939, and this is the American scene: Great Britain and France plac ing orders for thousands of bombers, attack bombers, pur suit planes some $175,000,000 for these aerial weapons. Canada placing orders for training planes, Canada to be the base where fliers are instructed in the technique of flying and killing. The army, to aid the allies, re voking its rule that no new type plane can be sold to foreigners until 18 months after the United States has used the type. Army contracts for 3500 planes placed last spring not being rushed in order to permit factories to sup ply the needs of belligerents. To avoid a neutrality law, in tended to keep America out of war, an influential ship company arranges to transfer the registry of eight vessels to' the Panama flag; throws out of employment 8000 American seamen and ad vertise for British officers and crewmen. ... BRITISH and French military missions in the national cap ital to purchase supplies. American financial moguls planning floating a billion dollar issue of securities for Great Bri tain, which still owes the United States about five billion from the first world war. Congress has enacted a "cash and carry" policy; belligerents can buy for cash and take pur chases away in other than Amer ican bottoms. But at the time President i?oosovclt was signing the bill, Leslie Hurgen, minister I o -supply for Brilnin, publicly discussed methods of circum venting the "cish and carry" and cnabltng the allies to buy on credit. . THE espionage act of 1917 re- vived. Fingerprinting of workers in factories filling or ders for belligerents. Elaborate precautions taken to guard against sabotage by secret agents. Canadians, English, Scots and French declaring American troops should be sent to the bat tlefields, asserting it is as much America's war as it is that of the allies. Propaganda as intense as it was before the entry of the Unit ed States into the first world war. British lecturers arriving on every boat, never neglecting an opportunity to be interview ed. Propaganda by radio from k government - controlled stations in the war zone. pEKMAN pocket battleship rantlim. Ampriran trAtttMai carrying contraband. Submarines operating in what Mr. Roosevelt designates as "ter ritorial waters." Expectation that some day German planes will cross the Atlantic and attack Newfound land and Canada, despite Mr. Roosevelts' interpretation that the Monroe Doctrine includes Canada as well as the Latin Americas. (Continued on Page Cleat ) Seek Beet Ban Lift. Denver, Nov. 11. W) Re moval of the restrictions on the American susar beet industry may be sought by the National Reclamation association follow ing its convention here next week, O S. Warden of Great Falls. Mont., the association presUcnt, said tonight. 8 DIE IN STATE DUE TO GUN PLAY, FIGHT!CRASHES Armistice Week-End Toll Youths Killed In Auto Wreck Murder At Salem Portland, Ore., Nov. 11. (P) Two automobile accidents, a shooting affray and a fist fight boosted O r e g o n's Armistice week-end deaths to eight to night. At Salem, Sheriff's Deputy Roy Newport said Raymond Reid, 25, killed himself after slaying his companion, Mrs. Mil dred Rice, 31, and critically wounding Robert Sylvester, 21. Mrs. Rice, widowed mother of an infant son, attempted to leave Reid s automobile to enter one driven by Sylvester when they met on the North Santiam high way near Detroit. After wounding the youth and killing the woman, Reid drove the body to Mrs. Rice's home at Idanha, where he took his own life. Three Portland youths, two girls and a boy, were killed early today when, their auto mobile smashed into a rocky cliff at the west end approach to the St. Johns bridge over the Willamette river. The car failed to make the sharp turn off the span and hit the cliff so hard the motor and a wheel were pushed into the front scat com partment. Dead were Albcrtina Princen. 19, 1937 Portland Rose festival princess"; Vera" Helen Mclnnis. 19, and James M. Sherer, 25. Walter M. Dally, 23, a com panion, was seriously injured. The accident raised Portland's traffic fatalities for the year to 48. Robert Dewey Baskin, 43, of Carlton, was killed in a Port land cafe early today by a blow Detective John Goltz said was struck by Raymond Brady, 36, Portland cement worker. Wit nesses related Brady walked into a cafe where. Baskin was seated with two friends, snatched a dollar bill belonging to Baskin from the table, then struck him on the head when Baskin pro tested, Goltz declared. Brady was booked for murder. A. C. Bills, 60, and his wife, 56, were killed last night when they walked into the Alsea Oregon Coast highway intersec tion near Waldport at dusk. District Attorney L. G. English ordered the automobile driver, William Cowen, 32 of Seal Rock, held at the Lincoln county jail. POPE, PRESIDENT Washington, Nov. 11. (AP) Catholic university announced today that Pope Pius XII will make his first radio broadcast to the United States Monday in connection with university semi centennial exercises. A message from President Roosevelt will be read on the same broadcast program. The pope will start speaking at 12:01 p. m. (eastern standard time). His seven-minute address will be carried over the Nation al, Columbia and Mutual broad casting systems. BOY'S DEATH LAID Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 11. UP) Obliging a stranger cost 10-ycar old Lonzo Dodson his life. Several days ago a man in an automobile stopped in front of Lonzo's house, his mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Banks, related, and asked him to blow into the exhaust pipe. As the youth complied the auto backfired, setting his cloth ing afire. He died from burns yesterday. Police found no trace of the Granger. Nor had they any ex planation for the peculiar request- Belgium, Holland 'Nervous' NORTH SEA g (3 if A K) (5 Th,Hu, NETHERLANDS'" 0 Nervous was the neutral position maintained by Belgium and Holland as ihey watched anxiously for possible indications of troop movements by the German forces. Around Utrecht (1), and Lent and Nijmegan (2) inundation areas Holland evacuated its citizens. .From Brussels (3), Belgium sped troops northward in an apparent move to bolster defenses. The Hague, Nov. 11. () Netherlands officialdom, taking all precautions to preserve and defend . the nation's neutrality, indicated strong displeasure to night over reports published abroad that the little lowland nation was on the verge of be coming a battleground for war ring powers. Well informed sources said tension over reports of German troop movements on the eastern NOTRE DAI LUCK FAILS, IOWA WINS BY EXTRA POINT Prime Grid Favorites Fall In Saturday's Games Min nesota Upsets Michigan, Harvard The Army. New York, Nov. 11. (API There was no armistice for foot ball's favorites today. Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Ken tucky and Catholic all were beaten for the first time as a half dozen other prime favorites also bit the dust. The proverbial luck of the Irish finally deserted Notre Dame, for Elmer Layden's South Bend outfit lost to Iowa's Hawk eyes by the margin of a point after touchdown, 7 B. Nile Kin nich, Iowa's great back, playing his fifth successive game with out relief, scored the Hawkeye touchdown and drop-kicked the decisive point. Notre Dame drove over a fourth-quarter touchdown, but Lou Z o n 1 1 n i "blew" the extra point. Dartmouth, hailed as Cornell's only real rival in the Ivy league, bowed to Princeton, fl-7, while Kentucky's Wildcats dropped a 13-6 decision to Georgia Tech. and Catholic, previously un beaten and untied, was soundly whipped by St. Anselm's, 3 IS There were other surprises, but the upset parade failed to cntch up with Tennessee, Tu lane. North Carolina, Cornell, Oklahoma and Tex A. and M. all of whom remained unbeaten. iContimird it i"wlei Utah G.O.P. to Meet. Salt Lake City, Nov. 11. CP) David J. Wilson of Ogdcn, chair man of the Utah state Repub lican committee, said today par ty leaders from 10 western states would meet at Salt Lake City early in December - 7 Ea frontier had eased. The cabinet met and presumably discussed the international situation but o announcement was forthcom ing. An official announcement said German Minister Count Zech Von Burkersroda had informed The Netherlands foreign office the German government would examine "carefully" the peace mediation offer of Queen Wil helmina and King Leopold. GARNER PLANS EOR PRESIDENCY Texan Fears No Bolt By Roosevelt If Nominated Sit-Down Strikes a Thorn Washington, Nov. 11. U.R) The political armistice ended with a bang today with revela tion of the Garner-for-president plans to organize a majority of the states in the vice-president's behalf within the next two months. Garner managers will stay out of notable favorite son states, such as Tennessee and Indiana where Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Federal Security Ad ministrator Paul V. McNutt would expect delegates' support at the 1940 Democratic national convention. Managers of the Garner cam paign insist President Roosevelt will not be a third term candi date. To suggestions Mr. Roose velt might bolt his 1932-3H run ning mate, the Texan's associ ates will counter with emphasis upon the part Garner played in making possible the first Roosc velt nomination. They figure Mr. Roosevelt should be grate ful. Speculation regarding a Roose velt bolt of a presidential ticket headed by Garnpr is based on knowledge the President wants new deal policies continued in the next four years and uncer tainty whether he considers the vice-president a liberal in the Roosevelt sense of the word. The pair long have disagreed on spending and labor policies of the administration, and there have been less spectacular dif ferences between them, (lamer came close to open break with Mr. Roosevelt because the latter did not immediately and effee lively repudiate the lit down strike technique. 13 DELAY OF FINNS IN BENDING KNEE Navy Base Demand Brings New Crisis Troops On Border Tension Eases In West. By the Associated Press An unexpected crisis in the month-old negotiations between Soviet Russia and Finland de veloped last (Saturday) night simultaneously with an casin, of tension in the precariously situated lowland countries, The Netherlands and Belgium. While Finland's delegation In Moscow waited for another call to the Kremlin, Russia charged the tiny neighbor with recalcit rance a charge immediately challenged by Finland's foreign minister. A statement by Tass, the of ficial Soviet news agency, dis closed the new turn of affairs in the negotiations by which Russia hopes for territorial con cessions and a naval base on Finnish soil at the eastern en trance to the Gulf of Finland Tass said the Finns had in creased from two or three to seven divisions their army strength on the frontier "over hanging Leningrad. That act, Tass added, demonstrated Fin land's "uncompromising atti tude." In Helsinki, Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko pointed to his pre vious statement that Finland hud gone so ir that almost two thirds of Russia's proposals have been accepted "in principle." He asserted there was no founda. tion for the charges. Far across Europe, the 21st anniversary of the World war armistice found authorities in The Hague declaring that con ditions were easier on The Netherlands' eastern frontier. There was condemnation both in The Netherlands and Belgium of what were described as alarmist rumors. For the first time since the war started, the Belgian-German frontier from Aachen to Eupen 10 miles apart, was closed Those towns are near the junc tion of the frontiers of Belgium Germany and The Netherlands. Belgium was told in a broad cast by Defense Minister Gen eral Henri Denis that it must be able to defend itself and that its army was ready for any sacrifice. Acting on the advice of en voys a number of American and British citizens were said to be leaving The Netherlands. LED Northern California: Fair Sun day, unsettled extreme north west portion; no change in tem perature: light northwest wind off the coast. Oregon: Unsettled tonight and Sunday; rains west portion and snows over high mountains: slightly warmer interior south west portion tonight; fresh south erly wind off coast, strong on north coast. The outlook for far western states for period November 13 to 18: Fair in southern districts and unsettled in northern dis tricts with frequent rains west of Cascade mountains and occa sional rains or snows ovrr Co lumbia river plateau; normal temperature. D Washington, Nov. 11. (AP The crop reporting board said today its November 1 survey of crop conditions indicated the to tal commercial production of apples would be 100.530,000 bushels this year and of pears 30.577,000 bushels. This was an Increase over pre vlous pear crop estimates but a decrease in apple crop estimates. NATION TO HELP E Annual Roll Call Opens No Armistice On Human Suf fering, Chief Executive Says. Washington, Nov. 11. W) President Roosevelt asked the American people tonight to give generous, warm-hearted support to the Red Cross and make It "one of our strongest shields against the forces of destruc tion whether activated by na ture or man." The chief executive spoke from the White House on a nation-wide radio program which launched the annual roll call of tie 58-year-old relief organization. Celebrities of the theatre and other entertainment fields joined in the appeal. Mr. Roosevelt said the Red Cross this year was being called upon to meet an unusual num ber of appeals for aid from every quarter, the conflict in Europe bringing "added respon sibilities" to the domestic or ganization, a member of the International Red Cross. "We of this fortunate coun try," he said, "are already doing much, In the name of humanity, on behalf of the unfortunate victims of this unhappy con flict." Declaring that the battle to preserve life and health at home was equally important, he said: "The psychology of hate and destruction so rampant today makes it too easy to forget that while war is not a human neces sity neither are the preventable deaths which harm a nation at peace. "It is essential, therefore, that the Red Cross continue its ef forts to reduce the number of avoidable accidents and illnesses which yearly takes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Amer icans." . The chief executive declared the Red Cross roll call for mem bers "begins today, Armistice day, but there can be no ar mistice in our war against need and human suffering." BEER HALL DEAD, HITLER AT BIER Munich, Nov. 11. (A1) Adolf Hitler attended funeral rites to day for six men and a woman killed In a bombing of which he was the intended victim, and then went to the site of the blast Duergcrbrau hall, where his abortive 1923 putsch started. Hitler placed a wreath on the caskets of the seven victims af ter arriving In Munich unan nounced, presumably by plane. After his visit to Buergcrbrau hall, he heard a report of the commission investigating the ex plosion and called at a hospital to visit the 63 who were in jured. Flags flew at half mast throughout Germany, and the nation observed a "day of sor row" as a state funeral was held for the victims before the field marshal's hall in Munich. Rudolf Hess, deputy leader of the nazi party, who delivered the eulogy, described the bomb ing as "one of the most dastard ly plots in history." "The last thought of the vic tims," Hess said, "was of Adolf Hitler. Their death brought to the full consciousness of the German people that our fuehrer, too, was to have been a victim." (Hitler, who had addressed the gathering In the Bucrgerbrau hall, left the meeting only 11 minutes before the explosion). "But the fuehrer lives!" Hess declared. "He has been given to us anew. Tears of Joy have been shed all over Germany at this miracle of preservation from harm. Providence will continue to keep tlie fuehrer (or us," Well! Los Angeles, Nov. 11. Charging their wedding night was disturbed by their land lady entering their room with a pass key, pulling the covers from their bed and ordering them out, Charles and Elaine Fisher ask $2,000 damages in a suit on file today. E, START PURCHASE By Henry Paynter. New York, Nov. 11. W) Leading Wall street financial sources said today British and French purchases of American products in quantity have be gun, and will sell to high vol ume during the next seven weeks. A number of French purchas ing commissions already here have accepted and approved the first orders, which are now be ing placed through Maurice Gar-reau-Dombasle, veteran commer cial counsellor of the French embassy. Today's announced placement of an order for 4,000 cavalry and 2.000 artillery horses for France was (except for previous orders in the airplane field) merely the beginning of a vast program, which may run Into billions, they said. The British war supplies com mission is expected to "open up shop ' here in the next week or so. ' ' Already some orders have been placed, through the Ottawa office, Wall street source said, and conversations were held here during the past few days in which participants included members of French and British buying agencies, bankers and financiers and manufacturing representatives. Also except for airplanes. Brit ish war orders In volume may be expected before the end of the year, or shortly after, they said. These responsible financial sources said there now remains no doubt that British and French war orders for munitions, sup plies ana provisions are likely to De a major factor in the U. S economy during 1940. Noted Dead Louisville, Ky., Nov. 11. (P) Harrison Robertson, guiding force of the Louisville Courier Journal's editorial policies more than 60 years and once a main stay of the late "Marse Henry" Watterson, died tonight. He was 83. Death came quietly for the newspaper's "grand old man" after a brief illness. He was taken to a hospital after suffer ing a heart attack yesterday while driving home from work. Clinging to his work despite his years, Robertson had com pleted a full day at the office, handling the routine of his edi torial page as usual. Robertson first came' to the Courier-Journal in 1879, a slim, 23 - year - old Tenncsscan. He promptly went to work In the editorial department. Since that time under vari ous titles he had wielded the blue pencil on Courier-Journal editorials, including those of his noted "boss." When he had completed 80 years of service, In 1929, Robert son was tendered a dinner by the late Robert W. Bingham, then publisher of the paper and later ambassador to the court of St. James'. Lumberman Passes Olympia, Nov. 11. (At Arthur M. Anderson, 51, presi dent of the Tumwatcr Lumber Mills company and vice presi dent of the Olympia Harbor Lumber company, died here sud denly early today. Nippon Miners Perish. Tokyo, Nov. 11. W) Thirty eight miners were listed tonight as dead and 26 others were miss ing in the collapse yesterday of a sulphur mine shaft at Morloka northeastern Japan. One hun dred twenty men escapees, . LIFTS PEACE PLEA AS HATES Tribute Paid Unknown Sol-' dier New And Better Peace Urged By President By the Associated Press The 21st anniversary yester day (Saturday) of the end of the "war to end wars" found three great nations in a new conflict and several others watching them warily. While traditional observance of Armistice day was curtailed therefore in many places, Presi dent Roosevelt led the United States' customary celebration by attending a wreath-laying ceremony at the unknown sol dier's tomb in Arlington ceme tery and pleading for a "new and better peace, one that would cause men to "lay down weapons of hatred." At the same time, United States treasury officials figured that European nations still owed this country $14,497,161,340.22 from the last war. 'We work for peace, we pray for peace and we arm for peace," President Roosevelt said in a telephone address to Vir ginia Military Institute, observ ing its 100th anniversary. Even as he spoke from the White House, the war and navy departments, not far away, were engaged in the nation's greatest peacetime arming, but Mr. Roosevelt said: "We have never had the Il lusion that peace and freedom could be based on weakness." Germany took no official rec ognition of the day, burying In-, stead seven victims who died Wednesday in the Munich ex plosion apparently Intended to kill Adolf Hitler. Wartime restraints marked England's celebration. The cus tomary nationwide silence at 11 a. m. was foregone publicly but observed privately. The memor ial service at the Cenotapn, na tional monument in Whitehall, was cancelled for fear of a pos sible air raid on the large crowd which would have gathered. Services were held, however, in Westminister Abbey where Bri tain's unknown soldier lay. King George VI's wreath was the first placed at the Cenotaph. Laid there by Commander Harold Campbell, equerry In waiting, it was joined shortly by many others. The familiar British Legion poppy was displayed widely and with it was the French corn flower, a symbol of French-Bri tish alliance in the new war. 'It was only an armistice af ter all, began an editorial in the London Evening News. President Leburn of France said in an address that moral support of presently neutral na tions was "our Justification and the "guarantee of our vic tory" in the current conflict. The Arc de Trlomph was scene of a curtailed review of troops. As In the United States, a two minute silence was observed at 11 a. m. in Canada. Units of the Canadian active service force and veterans of the last war marched together to ceno taphs for ceremonies led by Prime Minister W. L. MacKen zie King and Gov.-Gcn. Lord Twecdsmulr. Italy's armistice was cele brated November 4, date of th end of World war fighting on the Italian-Austrian front, but yesterday the nation joyfully celebrated the 70th birthday oi King Vittorio Emanuele III. DEATH COMES TO ARCTICEXPLORER Washington, Nov. 11. (APV Robert Marshall, 37. Arctic ex plorer and conservationist, was found dead In his berth aboard a train when it reached New York from Washington today. Death apparently was due to natural causes. Marshall entered government service as a director of forestry in the Indian service in 1933 and four years later became chief of the recreation and lands di vision of the agriculture department.