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The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to night and Wednesday, little change in temperature. Highest etenlay 59 Lunest this morning .. 39 Precipitation To 5 p. in. yesterday .00 To S a. m. today r T Around the Table IF VOt WAST TO SELL tli automobile the family' been riding around In ou alM Hant a more recent model. Get around the table tonight, and go through our Used Car columni. You'll find It profit able! Do It nowl Tribune EDFORD Full Associated Press Full United Presa Thirty-fourth Year BEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1939. No. 202. in j Irakis) riwu M IS mm IF A , t Wtl IMIrM t AT AtHE Washington, D. C, Nov. 14. First problem of state depart ment under the "cash and carry" clause of the so-called neutrality act, was 24 carloads of Hood River fruit in Portland harbor. Hood River shippers raised a point which caused the legal brains of the department to do some heavy thinking; it was an angle vhich had not been an ticipated. Hood River shippers were confronted under the law i with either committing perjury Vor unconditional surrender of ( the fruit. Here is what the state depart ment had to solve: Shippers were presented with a statement to be signed in which the ship per swore title to the fruit had passed to the foreign customer (a belligerent). Until this was signed and the fruit stowed on board, the shippers could not receive a bill of lading. But the shippers cannot receive their money for the fruit until they have a bill of lading to present at the baik, and surrender of the bill of h.ding at the bank releases the title. If the shop pers swear the title has passed before they are given a bill of lading, they are guilty of per jury; also they have no recourse . for should they be refused a - bill of lading they have nothing 1o give the bank in exchange for the money due. ' ' TWENTY - FOUR carloads of 5 fruit, a very parishable com- ! modity, stood waiting for long- ; shoremen to stow it aboard while Hood River shippers struggled 1 (Continued on Page Seven) ASK $271000,000 TO ' Washington. Nov. 14. (fP) A request for $271,000,000 to fi nance expansion of the army. ,navy, marine corps, coast guard and federal bureau of investiga tion, in accordance with Presi dent Roosevelt's declaration of a state of limited national emerg ency, has been transmitted by kthe chief executive to Chairman Taylor (D.-Colo.) of the house appropriations committee. The president disclosed at a press conference he had sent Taylor the supplemental esti mates asking for additional money to carry the agencies through the year ending next June 30 on the expanded basis. He said the figures broke down this way: For the military establishment 5119,000,000, for the naval es tablishment and marine corps S146.000.000, for the coast guard $4,500,000 and for tile F.B.I. 51,500.000. Recover Body Tillamook. Ore., Nov. 14. UP) Coast guardsmen and com mercial fishermen recovered the body of Glenn D. Hincr. Jr. 23, of Tillamook from the bay today. He lost his life Sunday when a canoe capsized. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Fred Strang diggin' up a car toon of himself drawn by Pinto Loivig wnen tne two were col A lege campus cutups. u-nk Horner having an ex ceedingly irritating experience trying to make his brand new shiny car start, it being much more stubborn than his old one. Betty Vilm feeling much bet ter after reading in the M.I. ' she was only slightly ill, she having thought up till then that she was desperately sick. Evelyn Winningham making a whole section of rasslin' fans " temporarily deaf with her blood curdling screams while viewing her first bout TRIO GET $1810 Bank Staff and Customers Forced to Stand Facing Wall Until Escape Made Portland, Nov. 14. (fP) Two men who intimidated half a dozen employes while an accom plice stood watch outside, rob bed the Milwaukle -Powell branch of the United States Na tional bank of $18,000 at 12:33 p. m. today. Witnesses supplied detectives and federal bureau of investi gation agents with conflicting reports of the escape. One ver sion said the men escaped in an automobile traveling south on Southeast Milwaukie avenue. The other claimed the trio dash ed down the street afoot and disappeared in an alley. Detectives asserted A. C. Fries, assistant manager, was not lock ed in a vault, as described in the first police radio bulletin. Grab Coin Packages. Two men entered the bank during the noonday business lull. Each carried a weapon. One menaced the employes and grabbed packages of coins and currency from two of the three tellers' cages. His companion hovered in the background, ap parently covering his actions with a revolver, detectives said Fries, John P. Bruno, teller. Howard S. Pollock, bookkeeper, Robert O. Sproul, teller, and Jack Urfer, messenger, were forced to stand with their faces to the wall. Fries was then commanded to open the vault's safe where one of the gunmen obtained several packages of bills. As the holdup was in progress, two customers entered and were forced to join the lineup at the wall. The men stuffed the bills into their pockets and admonished the employes and customers to "stay where you are" until they escaped. Stanley Burgess, dry goods store operator on the same block, said he noticed the men looking into the bank window for half an hour before the holdup. Recent Money Delivery. Bank officials explained the reason there was so much money on hand was that an armored Car had made a delivery just before noon. The robbers joined another man when they left the bank. The men who entered the bank were described as follows: No. 1, six feet tall, 26 years old, medium complexion, brown suit, adhesive tape patch on cheek; No. 2, five feet seven inches tall, blue eyes, dark overcoat, gray hat. No description of the third robber was obtained. Third Bank Robbery. The suburban bank is located at Southeast Powell Valley road and Milwaukie avenue. It was the third Willamette valley bank to suffer a robbery within the last few weeks. Last week a neatly dressed man and woman held up the Canby Union bank teller when he was alone at noon and escaped with be tween $1000 and $12000. A gun- man, apparently working alone, took $1200 from the Gcrvais bank in September. OFFER HIM DISTRICT JUDGESHIP Washington. Nov. 14. (Pi Senator Schwellenbach (D-Wash) was reported today to have been offered an appointment as fed eral district judge in his home state of Washington. Although two vacancies exist in the state, the appointment in question was said to involve that created by the retirement of Judge J. Stanley Webster in the eastern district at Spokane. Schwellenbach's home at Ncppel is in this district. Friends here said they did not know whether Schwellenbach. whose senate term expires next year, would accept the post. Polite "No " Will Be Nazi , insWer to Mediation Wins Nobel Prize 4 , f t Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California, Berkeley, Calif., is shown re ceiving congratulations on his winning the Nobel priie in physics for creation and use of the atom-smashing cyclotron. M'JUNO ADDS VOICE TD CHORUS FAVORING THIRD TERM FOR F. R Washington, Nov. 14. (API Former Senator McAdoo of Cali fornia was added today to the group publicly advocating a third term for President Roose velt. In a statement issued last night in San Francisco, McAdoo said recent discussions with "a number of outstanding Demo crats" in Washington had shown "a general consensus" the presi dent would be renominated. He expressed the opinion the chief executive, whom he sup ported throughout his senate term, would be overwhelmingly re-elected. "The third term tradition is mere, dogma, anyway," McAdoo said. "We don't have to ob serve it unless we want to." His statement occasioned no great surprise in Washington. Senator Johnson (D.-Colo.) com menteYl that it was "in the same category" as the recent third term statements by Secretaries Wallace and Ickes. On the Republican side of ihe political scene, Senator Borah (R.-Idaho) told reporters that "the only remedy there is for the evils of the party system is the independent voter." He -made this comment in re sponse to a statement by Chair man John Hamilton of the Re publican national committee that voters always should sup port the nominee of their party. Invitations to hold the 1940 state convention of Oregon Countv officials In MedfnrH nrp to be sent tonight to the 1939 meeting in Portland It was an nounced by the Jackson County Lnambcr of Commerce. The Invitations were to be signed by Mayor C. C. Furnas. Glenn L. Jackson, chamber of commerce president, and Cole Holmes, chairman of the cham ber's convention committee. They were to be extended to the group through Commissioner Ralph Billings. The 1939 con vention opens tomorrow and continues through Friday. The organization is composed of county clerks, court.-, engineers and treasurers. AERIAL RECRUITERS REACH HOME FIELD San Rafael, Calif., Nov. 14 ItV) Back at Hamilton field from a tour of Washington. Ore gon, Montana and Nevada, fliers of the army's first renal recruit ing station report: t'. tod.'.; they brought back 200 enlistment applications. 1 CITY WILL INVITE OFFICIALS TO MASSING TROOPS Russia Hopeful Economic Strain Counter Mobiliza tion Will Bring Surrender Moscow, Nov. 14. (P So viet Russia, hoping the economic strain of counter-mobilization still may bring Finland to terms probably will continue massing trooDS along the Finnish border, diplomatic observers said today (Finland has been preparing for five weeks against a show down with Russia, and approxi mately one-tenth of the 3,067.000 population has been mobilized for defense service.) There appeared to be a gen eral belief there the Finnish diplomatic mission, which de parted for Helsinki last night after steadfastly resisting Soviet demands for certain territorial concessions, would not return. The Finns themselves, silent and serious as they boarded a train, indicated resumption of the negotiations was up to their government. The delegation is due in Helsinki tomorrow. Only one minor Soviet of ficial an assistant chief of pro tocol in the commissariat of for eign affairs accompanied the Finnish mission to the station. The ministers of Norway, Swe den and Denmark were present, however, to say good-bye. Los Angeles, Nov. 14. !P) Rodney Pantages of the theater family, seeking a divorce irom prclty Beatrice Vegyl Pantages and custody of their two enn dren, introduced testimony she had associated with a Palm Springs bartender. The case was barely under way yesterday, before a court room jammed with spectators anticipating spicy developments, when Pantages' counsel called George Kliman, a private detec tive. Kliman told of breaking into an upstairs room at the Pantages home last May 1, accompanied by Pantages and two other men. What he saw, he said, was an "intimate bedroom scene." He testified Pete Bed well, the bartender, was dressing and Mrs. Pantages was in bed. Ho said he restrained Pantages, son of the late theater magnate, Alexander Pantages, as he "took a swing" at Bedwell. Gcraldine Graham, nurse for the children, Manettc, 7, and Alexander, 1, declared Bedwell spent considerable time at Mrs. Pantages' Palm Springs bunga low last winter. PUPILS SUFFER FLU Grants Pass Ore., Nov. 14 (P) An influenza epidemic kept seven regulars and two reserves of the Grants Pass high school football team in bed today. The last home game of the season, a return affair, will be played against Roseburg here Friday. Kcrby Union high school was i closed for this week because of an epidemic there. Unconfirmed reports were made here that the Kerby elementary school was also closed and that half the pupils from Drydcn school were absent. - Joblets Man Suicides St. Helens, Ore., Nov. 14. Wl Charles Garrlol, 42, uneni ployed, committed suicide ut his home today. City Marshal Harry I Houser said Garriot had been j despondent over his inability to find work German Children Giving Pennies For U. S. Starving Oregon City, Ore., Nov. 14. (A') German school chil dren are contributing pennies for the relief of starving Ger mans in the United States, John Gensheimer said today on his return from Europe. The 26-year old Oregon City resident said he was questioned repeatedly about the "abject poverty" which Germans believe exists in this country. Gensheimer said Germans had an attitude of surprised apathy toward the war, com modities were high, wages low, food scarce, and many professional men and older Germans longed for a return of the monarchy and its vreater freedom. Tl BIG APPLEGATE b! DESTROYEDBY BLAZE Big Applegate, Nov. 14. (Spl.) Fire early this morning destroyed a large barn and shed and contents on the Frank Pres ton farm on the Big Applegate river two miles above Ruch. Destroyed in the Intense flames were 15 tons of baled hay. 100 tons of loose hay, a Ford car, a drill, several har rows, a tractor and other ma chinery. Forty head of sheep and other livestock were driven safely out of the flaming struc ture. Rogue River national forest was called for help and Ranger Lee Port responded to the call, but there was nothing he could do to save the burning build ings. A forest service pumper, however, helped save other buildings, water being pumped from an irrigation ditch. Mr. Preston said he had no idea how the fire started. Com plete loss had not been estimated today. The loss was covered partly by insurance. The fire was discovered at 1 a. m. BALKS TRANSFER OF SHIPS TO NEW FLAG Washington, Nov. 14. (IP) The maritime commission re fused today to permit the trans fer to Panamanian registry of four steam screw vessels owned by the Pacific Steamship cor poration. The firm, incorporated in Nevada, is In process of liquida tion under the bankruptcy act, the commission said, and the transfer would be "detrimental to the best interests of the United States." The application was filed by Anthony C. Stralla for princi pals listed as James Lloyd and John T. Basom of Beverly Hills. The vessels were built In 1020. They are the Admiral Wood, Admiral Way and Ad miral Chase, each of approxi mately 3.300 tons, and the Ad miral Gove of 3.500 tons. The application did not state what use was planned for the vessels, it was said at the com mission. Controversy over shipping re strictions in the neutrality law was stirred anew today by Irish objections to being included in the war zone and by a proposal to prevent transfer of United States vessels to foreign flags. At the same time, another maritime problem the case of the City of Flint appeared near solution when the Ger man government ordered Its warships not to interfere with the American freighter on her way back home. Brussels, Nov. 14. (A') Two British planes were confiscated and their crews Interned upon landing on the Belgian coast to J day, one n"ar Coxhyde and the other near Lapannc. The pilots isald they believed they were in I France. TAKE HEAVY TOLL Destroyer and Three Mer chant Vessels Sunk 32 Lost With Norwegian Ship London, Nov. 14. (iP) The sinking of a British destroyer, three British merchant vessels and a Norwegian tanker was re ported today as sea warfare in tensified. At least 32 were dead and missing in the sinking of the tanker, disclosed when 33 mem bers of her crew were picked up in an open boat after 30 hours adrift. The tanker, whose name was not given, was tor pedoed. A freighter, a trawler and an unidentified third craft were the British merchant victims. Destroyer Hit Mine The admiralty announced a Germnn mine sank the uniden tified destroyer, first of her type lost by the British navy since the war began. The freighter, the 8,003-ton Matra, also was believed to have been victim of mine. The trawler Creswell was reported torpedoed. Loss of these ships came on the heels of an admiralty an nouncement that British war ships had destroyed the German steamers Mecklenburg, 7,892 tons, and Parana, 6,038 tons. Tho Matra went down in the North Sea last night. Two of her crew were killed and 22 injured. (In Berlin, a German high command communique reported nazl planes had scored a prob able hit on an English cruiser" in a raid on the Shetland islands yesterday. The British previous ly had asserted the raid did no serious damage). Craw Picked Up More than 70 of the destroy er's crew were known to have been picked up and landed by tugs and drifters which hurried to the scene after the explosion. The sinkings raised the toll of ships sunk in sea combat to 120 and the total known tonnage destroyed to 489,117. At least 1,875 persons have been killed or drowned and many others were listed as miss ing. Great Britain has lost 65 ships, Germany 14, France 7, the Scandinavian countries 24 and other neutrals 10. Waley Tries Again San Francisco, Nov. 14. (P) Harmon Waley, convicted kid naper of George Weycrhaueser in Tacoma, filed his fourth pe tition for release from Alcatraz prison in federal court today. First Lady has Ready Reply For Town Hall Questioners Newark, N. J., Nov. 14. (IP) They fired a steady stream of questions, left and right, at Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt last night and the first lady met them all with replies as ready as her smile. Nearlng conclusion of her lec ture tour, Mrs. Roosevelt fin ished her prepared talk to an audience of 3,500 at the Essex county town hall forum and then the chairman asked If there were any questions. There were: "Do you believe a change of administration at this time would affect the possibility of retaining peace In America?" was the closest any one came to the third term Issue. "No, I don't," Mrs. Roosevelt answered. "1 believe any admin istratlon would do its best to keep this country at peace." When should the United States act as Intermediary for peace? was another query. "At any time it looks as thuuiih the United States could Blind Date y o ! 1 This man. who gave hit name at Donald Hopper, 29, and hit home at Si. Joseph, Mo., It shown after hit arreat at Or chard, Idaho, at the climax to a day-long auto ride, on which. officert laid, he forced Leone McNicholat, 17 year old high school girl, to accompany him. She was reloased unharmed, and Hopper, armed with a pistol surrendered. Mist McNicholat wat quoted at taying the had ac cepted a "blind date" with him, Tl OF MEDFORD STORES '.24 At one of the most enthusias tic and representative meetings held in somo time, retail mer chants this morning set the 1939 formal Christmas opening for 7 p. m. Friday, November 24. At the hour set, there will be a brief blackout of downtown street lights, store window cur tains will be unfurled on spec ially Illuminated Christmas scenes, Santa Onus will make an appearance, and groups of Yulctide melodies In various parts of the business area. Other features are to be worked out. said A. H. Banwell, general chairman. It Is hoped to have the street decorations in place in time for the opening, Mr. Banwell said, adding that this work will be done under the direction of Fred W. Schcffel, city superintendent. Special committees to carry out various phases of thq Christmas opening are to be appointed. The meeting was sponsored by the retail merchants commit tee of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce. Charles Adair, committee chairman, presided. act effectively; when a real de sire for peace is shown." Under what conditions should the United States Join the allies? This brought an instant "I don't know" from Mrs. Roose velt. "I believe that Is something up to the people of the United States to decide. Must "capitalistic influences" be eliminated before an endur ing peace can be established? Mrs. Roosevelt was smiling broadly now. . "I don't think so. However, It Is the duty of capital to show its proper interest In the peo ple." What were Mrs. Roosevelt's views on the transfer of United States ship registrations to that of other nations? "It somehow goes against the grain to sec the seamen of this country being forgotten by ship pers who are more Interested In making money. ... An attempt should be made first to place ships on other American routes so American seamen could keep their Jobs," BRIEF REPLY BY READYT0N1GHT Will Inform Belgium, Neth erlands Allies' Stand Makes Peace Impossibla By Loult P. Lochner Berlin, Nov. 14. IP) For eign Minister Joachim Von Rib bentrop today Informed the Bel gian and Netherlands envoyt that Germany's reply to the joint mediation offer from the. lowland nations would be a po lite "no." The formal reply to the offer made November 7 by the queen of The Netherlands and the king of Belgians will be sent tonight to The Hague and Brussels with introductions to German envoys that it be presented tomorrow, informed sources said. Page And Half The note was said to be only a page and a half in length and was drafted by Von Ribbentrop who informed the two small nations of its contents today. Von Ribbentrop was said ta have stated Germany s reply was based on answers already received by the two sovereign from Britain and France which he said rendered peace impos sible at this time. (The French reply, delivered Sunday, declared it was up to Germany to repair "the Injus tices which force has imposed on Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland" before peace could be discussed. (Britain promised considera tion of any German proposals which might "afford real pros pect of achieving" Britain's avowed him to halt German "aggression.") Air Succen Claimed A German high command communique today asserted nazl bombing planes shot down two flying boats and scored a "prob able hit on an English cruiser" in a raid on the Shetland Islands yesterday. (British spokesman said the Shetland Islands suffered no damage except a few shattered windows). At the same time authorized sources Indicated a sterner nazi sea campaign was in the mak ing, involving possible subma rine attacks without warning. Berlin newspapers published a list of 29 British and five French merchant ships as armed for combat. The communique said: "The entire front was quiet with only restricted reconnais sance and artillery activity. PORTLAND T Portland, Nov. 14. (IP) The healthy turkey market tone ex tended premiums today with buyers paying 16 and 17 cents a pound for No. 1 toms and 20 and 21 cents for top quality hens. Resale prices were up 2 and 1 cents from the buying figures. There has been an Increased call from Puget Sound and Cali fornia points. Radio Highlights (By Associated Prett) (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight: Europe W A B C CBS 9:55, 8; MBS 6, 7:15; WEAF-NBC-East 8. Wednesday: WABC-CBS WJZ NBC MBS 11:30 a. m., Presi dent Roosevelt at laying corner stone for Thomas Jefferson memorial. NBC 10:30 a. m., university extension debate, "Public Ownership of Rail roads;" 1:30 p. m Inter-American financial and advisory com mittee, Sumner Well.
