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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.