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V Annual Autumn Dollar Days Friday, Saturday in Medford Stores i The Weather Fair tonight and Thursday with fog in morning, no rhangp In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 62 Lowest tills morning ...9 To 5 p. m. yesterday .... T. To 5 . m. today T. Your New Home! If you are looking for ft new place to live m sweet place out of town, but near enough for Had to commute, check the Keal rotate columns In the Classified section. You'll find your new home I Medford Tribune Full Associated Press all United Presi Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1939. No. 203. . AT fjTHE Washington, D. C, Nov. 15. National politics is now resumed and politics will influencp every act of the regular session ot con gress, which meets January 3. Much of the political planning centers around the unanswered question of a third term. Those who have observed Mr. Roosevelt during his career are satisfied that he will take a third term. It is the opinion of "Dear Alben" Barkley, Demo cratic leader of the senate; James A. Farley is said to believe that Mr. Roosevelt will be nominated and, if nominated, Jim will "go along," as his sense of loyalty is beyond measure. JN THE Republican side of " the picture there is as lit tle harmony as among the Dem ocrats who are divided into Jef fersonians and new dealers. There is a strong suspicion that Herbert Hoover is determined to have considerable to say In the Republican nominating con vention and in the east the whis per is that Hoover is in Dewey's corner. Some of Dewey's managers have denounced Hoover as heartily as any Democrat, but a meeting was held in a Phila delphia home after the Notre Dame-Army football game and peace was made. Vandenberg and Taft are not on speaking terms since the neu trality debate. , Bob Taft sup ported the administration bill for repeal; Vandenberg stood for retaining the embargo. This was sufficient to cause a coolness. Taft is now trying to explain to the farmers of Ohio why he opposed the agricultural bill Ohio is a farming state. The colored vote of Ohio is very important and has gone new deal, but recently a wealthy relative of Taft made- a splendid gift to the colored people and Taft was the headlincr at the dedication. T"HE offering of Oregon's Mc- Nary as a presidential possi bility is receiving kind words from Taft and Vandenberg (either, if he cannot make the grade himself, would prefer Mc Nary to win). Offers of assist ance have been made in eight of the 11 public land states of the west. In the east McNary is known as a progressive; the , Republican bosses viewed him with alarm in the days when the fat boys ran the show and he was striving to solve the farm problem with the McNary Haugen act (vetoed by Coolidge and Hoover). On the progressive side the Oregon senator's rec ord is better than any other Re publican being mentioned. INVITATIONS are being ex- tended to McNary to address ( Continued on Pae Pour. ) CHINA BUYS BOMBER FROM VULTEE PLANT L03 Angeles, Nov. 15. (IP) A Sl.000.000 order, for one at tack bomber, a set of assembly jigs and diralimium for 25 planes, from the Republic of China, was announced today by Vultee Aircraft division of Avi ation Manufactuers Corp. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Jean Hart taking advantage of hubby Bob's absence to wear her favorite perky little chapeau which he doesn't care much for. Fritz Brewer and wifcy Drew looking forward to residing In Medford and everything despite the fact they but recently simply adored the "Climate City." C. M. Kidd passing out Aus tralian pennies as large as U. S. half dollars. Foresters Herschel Obye and Paul Brinson and a non-forest guy having a very confused 3 way discussion on what was sup posed to be the same subject, one. however, talking about a bow. the other a bowl and the third bowling 39 OIL COMPANIES CITED ON CHARGE OF Anti-Trust Laws Violated by Coast Concerns Finding of Los Angeles Grand Jury Los Angeles, Nov. 15: (P Indictments charging conspiracy to maintain gasoline prices in violation of the Sherman anti trust laws named 39 oil com panies and two petroleum asso ciations today. A federal grand jury, which in five months heard more than 150 witnesses, accused the con cerns of purchases from inde pendent refiners at arbitrary prices calculated to eliminate competition between t he two groups. All of the companies operate in California, but the jury claim ed effects of the conspiracy ex tended into Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. It list ed the firms as controlling 95 per cent of all gasoline sold on the Pacific coast. Understanding Charged. Purchases were made by ma jor companies, it was charged, on the understanding the inde pendents would, in return, main tain prices for the remainder of their gasoline at about the same level as that of major companies. It also was alleged the inde pendent refiners were allotted fixed quotas which had the ef fect of limiting the amount of gasoline which each could pro duce. As a part ot the conspiracy, it was charged, the defendants brought .about organization of two associations, the Fair Prac tices association and the Inde pendent Refiners association of California, Inc. The two or ganizations were charged with furthering the conspiracy. Major Firms Cited. Major concerns indicted were Standard Oil company of Cali fornia, Texas company, Rich field Oil Corp., Shell Oil com pany, Inc., Tide Water-Associated Oil company, Union Oil company of California and Gen eral Petroleum Corp. of Cali fornia. Others named were Gilmore, Rio Grande, Seaside, Signal, Sunset, Aromaline, R. R. Bush, California Oil and Refining, Century, Caminol, Eagle Oil and Refining, East-West Refining, El Camino, El Tejon Oil and Re fining, Envoy Petroleum. Mer cury Petroleum, Mohawk Pe troleum, Olympic, Pan-Pacific, Triangle Oil and Refining, Petrol Corp., White Star Oil and Re fining, Rothschild, Estado, Exe ter, Norwalk and Socal . Willamette Sophs Dunk 50 Freshmen Salem, Nov. 15. (P) Class warfare between Willamette uni versity freshmen and sopho mores broke o't today, the sophs winning by ducking 50 fresh men in the cold waters of the campus mill race. The battle started shortly be fore noon after freshmen re fused to obey a sophomore edict that frosh must continue to wear their freshman caps. High -Up Democrats Predict No Primary Fight by F. D. R. Washington, Nov. 15. (IP) Persons high In Democratic party councils predicted today President Roosevelt would make no fight for Democratic conven tion delegates in preferential primaries next spring. They expressed the opinion that, even if Mr. Roosevelt in tended to run for a third term, he would not authorize use of his name on the primary ballots in states requiring candidates' consent. Instead, they predicted, he would rely on uninstructed dele gates and on his chances of pick ing up delegations from states pledged to other candidates after they had recorded their primary directed preferences in initial voting at the convention. Mr. Roosevelt once more de clined to rhed any light yester- 1 day od hi third term intentions. No Luggage Search Mrs. Stella Crater Kunz, re married widow of the missing Justice Crater today was de nied access to the luggage ot the now demented ex-show girl Jean Covell (above) whose apartment Crater visited just before he disappeared. FIRST LEG OF JAUNT TO ANTARCTIC WASTE Boston, Nov. 15. (With out the slightest fanfare, the first half of Uncle Sam's first Antarctic expedition in 100 years sailed away from frigid Boston today on the first leg of the long journey to the frozen south land. Just before dawn-(6:14 a: m:, E.S.T.) the motorship North Star loaded down with every thing from food to phonograph records, from sled dogs to a 27 ton snow cruiser cast off her lines at the army base and slid quietly down the harbor en route to Philadelphia. All the good-byes were said. the farewell ceremonies com pleted, final kisses exchanged, yesterday, and with the declara tion that he believed Little America might provide a new and "safer" base for a United States-Australia air trail, Rcar Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition's leader, gave the sig nal for the takeoff. E IN GEQRG1 Dahlonega, Ga., Nov. 15 (IP) A new gold strike, baring a lode of bonanza ore which a state geologist said assayed $60,- 000 a ton, was disclosed today by operators of the century-old Calhoun mine three miles south of here. State Geologist Garland Pey ton described the strike as "a vein of quartz, two inches in thickness and of unknown depth, so thoroughly impregnated with gold over approximately ten inches that it appeared as one continuous ribbon of yellow metal ." At the White House press con ference, a reporter mentioned the week-end announcement Vice-President Garner's name would go before the Democratic convention. "Does that change your plans in any way, Mr. President?" he asked. The president smiled and told his questioner not to be so subtle. Senator Van Nuys (D-Ind) told reporters today he thought Mr. Roosevelt should state imme diately whether he intended to run again. "The next election is going to be crucial," Van Nuys said, "and the party and public arc entitled to this information so that they can weigh the several candi dates and pick the best man the event President Rooseveli declares he will not run." Money Belt On Pauper's Body Contains $4040 Pittsburgh, Nov. 15. fP) Nurses preparing the body of Mrs. Anna Meyer. 73, for a "pauper's burial" today found a money belt containing S4, 040 strapped around the wom an's waist. Mrs. Meyer died at the May view City Home where her husband, Jacob Meyer, died five years ago and was buried at the city's expense. The money belt contained 40 $100 bills and some smaller currency. HUNDREDS LOSE LIVES AS FLAMES ROLL OVER VENEZUELA OIL TOWN Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 15 (iP) Volunteer workers search ed Lake Maracaibo today for the bodies of 500 to 800 persons estimated to have died in a fire which swept the oil town of Lagunillas, a village of wooden shacks, perched on stilts at the water's edge. While the searchers paddled through floating debris and charred piling all that remain ed of the shanty town which housed 2,500 natives employed in the great oil fields nearby the government mobilized its re sources to aid the survivors. Several years ago the Vene zuelan government, with the as sistance of the foreign oil com panies, built a new village called Ciudad Ojeda to replace the flimsy, oil-soaked Lagunillas. However, in spile of the fact the natives were supplied at the new town with free water, gas and light service, they did not.like it and failed to move in great numbers. BAY COMMERCE AT STANDSTILL San Francisco, Nov. 15. (A1) Commerce was virtually at a standstill on San Francisco Bay today, with three strikes still in deadlock and contract nego tiations between waterfront employers and the key CIO Longshoremen's Union stale mate. Business observers noted with anxiety a rush of 3,000 longshoremen to apply for state unemployment insurance benefits of a possible maximum of $15 a week, and wopdered if the action pressaged a long siege on the waterpront. Longshoremen are not on strike. If they were, they would not be eligible for the insurance benefits under state law. But they arc idle because they decline to pass picket lines of the Ship Clerks' Union before piers operated by mem bers of the Dock Checkers Em ployers association. The ship clerks, numbering about 650. struck last Saturday. Free Young Mother Who Drowned Baby LIMA. O., Nov. 15. (IP) Pretty Velma Baker Fink, ad judged temporarily insane after she drowned her 10-wciks-old son Haldon in a creek near Clyde last June 13, was freed from the Lima state hospital for criminal insane on parole today. The 22-year-old divorcee was placed under the supervision of her family physician after hos pital officials testified at a hear ing that she is now sane. There was no opposition to her release. Murder Is Charged To Klamath Negro Klamath Falls, Nov. 15. Pi Earl Williams, 44-year-old negro, was charged with first degree murder today in connec tion with the death of his com mon law wife, Weola, at a shack near here last Saturday. Williams waived preliminary hearing and his case will be pre sented to the grand jury. Belleville. 111. ,Nov7' 15 U.R George A. Theodoroff, 22 : year-old aviator of East St. , Louis, was killed late today in : when a rebuilt plane he was piloting crashrd in a field one mile south of here. War Bulletins London. Nov. 15 OP) The 790-ton British coastwise tanker Woodtown was reported iunk today after an explosion in which nine o her crew of 12 were lost. Three survivors were taken to a hospital suffering un determined injuries. London. Nov. 15. (.T) A Reuter (British news agency) dis patch from Kaunas, Lithuania, reported two Lithuanian freight ers, the 1.607-lon Paneveiys and the 945-ton Nida, were sunk to day in Baltic waters off the Esto nian coast. The Nida carried a British coal cargo. Brussels, Nov. 15 OTM Fur ther relaxation of tension in Bel gium was reflected in the resto ration today of leaves for sol diers. Cancellation of the three days-a-month leave was ordered after King Leopold made his hurried trip Nov. 6 to the Hague to con fer with Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Other military precautions were taken then. London. Nov. 15 (!) The 2,216-ton Greek steamer Goor- gios sank today off the east coast, of England after colliding with a half-submerged wreck. Her crew of 22 was rescued by a coast guard lifeboat. PRE-YULE BARGAINS IN SPECIAL EVENT Annual autumn Dollar Days will be held by all Medford stores Friday and Saturday. ' Special merchandise has been stocked for this yearly bargain event and everything has been marked ot prices to attract the most careful shopper, committee in charge stated. The Dollar Day sales event will be a sort of prelude to the Christmas season, the last major bargain offer before the Yule tide merchandise ;o-s on sale. To guarantee a good Christmas season, all merchants are co operating closely in offering gen uine bargains during Dollar Days, the committee declared IHE STARTED BY F. D. R. Washington, Nov. 15 (P) President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone today for a $3,000, 000 marble shrine to Thomas Jefferson and asserted In a brief address that the people of the United States today "are more than over satisfied with the republican form of govern ment. ' The president stood beside the memorial rising to honor the author of the Declaration of Independence to declare the cornerstone was being laid in recognition of the "ever pres ent vitality" of Jefferson's type of Americanism. "He lived as we live," Mr. Roosevelt asserted, "in the midst of a struggle between rule by the self-chosen individ ual or the self-appointed few, and rule by the franchise and approval of the many. He be lieved as we do that the aver age opinion of mankind is in the long run superior to the dictates of the self-chosen." Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) What is announced as the I first broadcast direct from the war zone in France is the pro gram scheduled for the MBS network at 7:15 p.m. Thursday. The broadcaster will be Victor Lusinchi, speaking from the French general headquarters over a phone line to Paris and i thence by short wave to this country. Tonight: Europe WABC CBS 5:55, 8: MBS 6: WEAF NI1C East 8: WJZ-NBC 4:46. Virginio Gayda, Italian editor, speaking from Rome, Thursday: MBS 8:30, Sec. Harold L. Ickcs on Ocean Cruises." a.m., "Safe BEL1EVEDS0LVED Two Transients Held in Chehalis Admit One Fire; Other Activity Suspected Chehalis, Wash., Nov. 15. (IP) Two transients a man and a youth were in jail here today after pleading guilty to first de gree arson in a $200,000 Che halis fire of last July, and au thorities attributed to them a recent incendiary reign of terror in Pacific northwest industrial plants. Deputy Prosecutor L, B. Dy sart said the younger of the two, Robert Walztr, 22, of Rome. N. Y., confessed that he and Fred Stine, 47, of Rochester, N. Y., set fires which saused an estimated $2,000,000 damage in Washington and Oregon. Heavy Loss. William A. Sullivan, state in surance commissioner and fire marshal, set the figure at $1, 000.000 in Oregon and half a million in Washington in the past two years. Sullivan said they apparently enjoyed the fires, and remained usually at the scene to watch them. Deputy State Fire Marshal Edward Smith, who aided in questioning the men, described Stine as a man who is against society and who fails to see good in any democratic institutions. He has not worked for five years. Fingerprints ot the two were sent to the federal bureau of investigation at Washington. Smith and Charles E. Landin, both former Seattle firemen, ar rested them at Tacoma nine days ago. Admit One Fire. The men pleaded guilty In superior court here only to the Chehalis lumber mill. Iron works and dairy plant fire of last July 27, on which the arson charge was based. Judge C. A. Studebaker deferred sentence. Portland fires Sullivan blamed on the pair included: Western Foundry, vacant house, Pope Cordage company. Holly Press, Pacific Honey com pany, warehouse, Portland Box and Lumber company, Portland Spar company, Oregon Door and Lumber company, Golde block, Kcrr-Gifford mill, Spauldlng building, Layton Cooperage com pany, Great American Casket company, E. V. Prentice Wood working company, Douglas Sales Agency, General Paint company. Union depot and Northern Pa cific oil house. 4 CZECH STUDENT HELD FOR DEMONSTRATION Prague, Nov. 15. (IP) Sources close to the Czech unl versity chancellery said 16 of 2,000 Czech students who dem onstrated against the German protectorate government today had been arrested. The youths atcmptcd to es cort the body of a 24-year-old student who died of injuries Oct. 28 to a railway station. The demonstrations extended from the medical school where the funeral was held to the station. Demand for "Small Change" Makes Mint Work Overtime San Francisco, Nov. 15 (IP) There's a "sort of a boom," as Superintendent Thomas J. Hag gerty puts it, at the U. S. mint here this year. Haggcrty declared today the mint was working double shifts 7 a. m., to 11 p. m. to make coins. He reported the federal reserve bank here was yelling for more pennies, nickels, dimes, 25 and 50-ccnt pieces. Last year the mint employed 184 men. The number employed at present is 2B0. Last year the mint spent five months turning out P0.000.000 coins for the Chi nuic government, but 1939 has Seeks 1 in 5000 One person In 5,000 whose blood may save Catherine Felt, 8 (above) is being sought In Philadelphia, Fifteen transfus ions to far have failed to halt acute lymphatic leukemia and physician! say the blood of one who has recovered from the malady might aid her, adding that only about one in 5,000 does recover. RRIGAT10N SURVEY FOR SAMS VALLEY DISTRICT STARTS IN DECEMBER Grants Pass, Nov. 15. (IP) The federal reclamation bureau will start work early in Decem ber on its anxiously-awaited survey of practicability of fi nancing new Irrigation districts in Josephine and Jackson coun ties. .. With . Grants Pass as head quarters, Merlin and Sams Val ley districts will be the first to be surveyed. E. Reed Carter, secretary treasurer of the Grants Pass irrigation district, wired the news today from Denver, Colo., where he is attending the Na tional Reclamation association annual conference. The text of Carter's telegram was: "E. B. Dcbler, division of In vestigation, says work there to start early December. Air map for whole Rogue river water shed almost complete. Grants Pass to be headquarters. Don M. Forester v in charge. Start on Merlin, Josephine, Sams Val ley, Jackson. Bureau -intends complete watershed survey pos sibly by next year." The survey is financed by the two counties, the state and the federal government. QUESTION COP !N Long Beach, N. Y., Nov. 15 (IP) Mayor Louis F. Edwards of Long Beach was shot and killed and his bodyguard, Patrolman James Walsh, was wounded to day while on the steps of the mayor's home as he was prepar ing to leave for his office. Soon afterward, Patrolman Alvin Doolcy presented himself to Long Peach police for ques tioning. Dooley was formerly presi dent of the Patrolman's Benevo lent association. Last week he was defeated for re-election by Patrolman Walsh whom the mayor had favored as a candi date. been occupied entirely In sup plying the domestic demand. Haggcrty said he could make no estimate of the amount of money minted this year. He attributed the increased de mand for silver to the Golden Gate International exposition, the usual holiday demand, and the two bay'bridges, where the tolls usually range under a dol lar. The government has com pleted the scraping of the old mint's walls for flakes of precious metal, Haggcrty said He did not estimate how much gold and silver was recovered. FRUIT INTERESTS Favorable Treatment to Be Sought in Pact Under Ne gotiation With Argentina Washington, Nov. 15. (ZD Henry F. Grady, assistant sec retary of state, assured Senator McNary (R-Ore.) today the de partment in negotiating a trade agreement with Argen tina would make every effort to obtain the most favorable treatment possible In the Ar gentine market for American apples and pears. Grady said apples were not included in the announced list of products on which conces sions would be sought, but pears were included. He said in 17 of 19 trade agreements so far negotiated concessions had been obtained for exports of American apples and pears. Want Same Treatment The letter was in answer to one sent by McNary and 11 other members of congress urg ing that the department In ne gotiating the agreement insist American apples and pears be accorded the same treatment In the Argentine market as ac corded Argentine apples and pears in the American market. Thoy also asked Argentina guarantee to eliminate "unreas onable sanitary and exchange" restrictions. Grady said this would be considered during the negotia tions, but reminded McNary the senate had not yet ap proved the Argentine sanitary " convention. He said there was resentment in Argentina against this country's existing embargo on meat Imports from the South American country, where it was believed to be an "arbitrary and unreasonable" law. (Imports of livestock and livestock products, except Q; canned meats, into the United , States from Argentina are pro- -y , hibited by statute on the y. ground that foot-and-mouth dis- p j ease exists in Argentina. The ?N convention, which the senate has refused at several succes sive sessions to ratify, would lift this embargo from sections of Argentina declared to be free of the disease.) WRAPPED IN FOG Portland, Nov. 15. (P) One of the thickest fogs of the season hovered over the Willamette val ley from Portland to Eugene to day. The weather bureau pre dicted it would waft away late this afternoon, but return in the morning. North Bend and Newport re ported fog but the mouth of the Columbia river was clear. The north bound United Airline plane skipped Portland, going directly to Seattle where Port land passengers were forced to lay over until the atmosphere cleared. Planes scheduled to depart from the Swan Island airport were grounded. For a time today Medford municipal airport was the only open port between Seattle, Wash., and San Francisco, Cal. The United Mainliner due here at 11 . m., was held for a time in Seattle because of the Port land fog and did not arrive here until 1:38 p. m. The Oakland San Francisco area also was fog bound and United was using its, alternate field at Livermore, Cal. Medford was also -fogged it for a short time this morning. Finnish Delegates Home From Moscow Henslnkl, Nov. 15. (IP) A Finnish delegation returned home from Moscow today after steadfastly resisting Soviet Rus sian demands for territorial con cessions and prepared to report at once to the government. . The delegation was greeted at the station by Premier Almo Ca jander, members ot his cabinet and ministers of the Scandina vian nations.
