Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 19, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSTATE 21 DEARS 0 W.S.C 7 UCLANS ,-. 0 BRONCOS 0 FORDHAM 13 ST. MARY'S 0 NEBRASKA ....14 PITTSBURGH ..13 NOTRE DAME . . 7 NORTHWEST .. . 0 MISSOURI ..... 7 OKLAHOMA ... 6 TENNESSEE ... .13 VANDERBILT .. 0 OHIO S. 21 MICHIGAN 19 ILLINOIS 0 PENNSYLVANIA 17 TEXAS ... - .19 TULANE 25 RICE . 0 COLUMBIA 0 CORNELL' . 35 DARTMOUTH ..... 6 IOWA 13 MINNESOTA . .... 9 J-lLJJ V 4X1 The Weather Forecast Probably cloudy today and tomorrow; no change In tem perature. Temperature Highest yesterday -..57 Lowest yesterday 27 Have a Look Medford il RIBUNE Good morning . . Now that you have finished reading the front page why not hare a look at the Clarified pagef If "IT" Isn't advertised there try the Too late to Classify for lurk. Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1939. No. 206. OPPOSED Al Capone Freed From Prison To Last Reward DEATH COMES TO . AT ITHE Washington, D. C, Nov. 18 Under the blankets yet is a plan to ask congress to author ize the secretary of agriculture to issue a half-billion dollars of securities to finance tenants, share-croppers and farm labor ers in purchasing farms under ' the Bankhead-Jones act. This act is now entering its third year and congress has author ized a continuing appropriation of $50,000,000 a year for a long time in the future. The half-billion of securities iis to speed-up the farm-owning 'program. Other federal agencies issuing obligations are appre hensive that if the proposed plan is approved by congress their own securities will be a drug on the market. Skepticism is expressed by many practical farmers and soil experts as to the ultimate suc cess of this government venture - in paternalism and prediction is made that eventually the gov ernment will have to take back the land when the tenants, sharecroppers and farm labor ers are unable to keep up the payments. At least, such is the view coming from the Pacific Northwest states. Tied in with the criticism of the resettlement program is the policy of Farm Security Ad ministration's establishment of ramps for migratory labor in Oregon, Washington, California i ana a tew otner stales. ... "THERE is a farm security, or resetlement, project in Yam hill and adjacent counties in Oregon. One hundred and five farms constitute the project and the average cost for land and improvements is in the vicinity of $10,000, making the total out lay by the government of about $1,050,000. Farmers placed on these acres are given 40 years to pay with 3 percent charged as in terest. Of the 105 settlers, two are said to be "making a go of it" raising poultry. ... "THERE is no authority under law for construction of the camps for migratory labor, but FSA has proceeded on the the ory that something must be done for these underprivileged no mads on the Pacific coast. There are no such camps in f the east, but Oklahoma and Texas have been given camps because of the wandering labor engaged in picking cotton, and California, Oregon and Wash ington on account of the crops of apples, pears, prunes, hops and sugar beets. The house com mittee saw the humaYiitarian as pert and made no censure. While for years there has been a flow of migratory labor drift ing up and down the Pacific Coast, following the various crops, their numbers did not become important until refugees from the "dust bowl" began swarming into the three west coast states. Thousands managed to reach Oregon and Washing ton, particularly from the Da kotas, other thousands went to California. Now they have be come a problem. (Continued on Page Bigot, 'RELIEF CAREERS' Orcpon City, Nov. 18. UP) "Relief career men" and relief pressure groups were flayed by Governor Sprague last night in a speech at a council of Clacka mas cities meeting. The Clackamas county relief problem, the governor declared, was one of the most difficult in the state to administer "be cause of relief organizations and pressure groups, usually found only in the more metropolitan centers, whose chief objective is to raise a lot of hell." He praised the county's wel fare board for "refusing to be stavipcd'd '.'V those chiseling re lief raciii '.ccrs. who moke a career out of the dole." HITS NORTH SEA MINE, J40PERISH Germany Denies Blame for Tragedy British Charge 'Nazi Gangster Methods'. Berlin, Nov. 18. (IP) Au thoritative sources, commenting tonight on the sinking of the Netherlands liner Simon Bolivar In the North Sea, said "a Ger man mine could not have been responsible." They declined further com ment. London, Nov. 18. iff) The Netherlands passenger liner Si mon Bolivar sunk in the North Sea with a possible loss of 140 lives today after striking a mine which the British Admiralty charged the Germans had laid without notifying neutral ship ping. I The 8,309-ton vessel carried; 400 persons, including women and children. A total of 260 sur-, vivors, of whom 140 were said to be crewmen, were landed at an unnamed British port. Many of the rescued were re ported "badly injured." Official sources here ex pressed fear that all those miss ing were dead. Aside from British naval losses, it was the worst sea dis aster of Europe's current war. The heaviest loss to a non fighting ship previously was in the smking of the British liner Athenia, northwest of Ireland Sept. 3 the day Britain and France declared war on Ger many. The Athenia's loss was re ported at 112 persons. Two other ships, their names and nationalities undisclosed, were damaged by mines near the spot where the Simon Boli var sank. Both made port. British trawlers picked up the Simon Bolivar's survivors who included some British, many Netherlands and other na tionalities. Those able to travel were brought to London. Stewart J. H. Wristers de clared the ship was about 20 miles off the English coast when a "terrific explosion" shook her. "The master, Capt. Voorspuiy, was killed on the bridge," Wris ters said. "It seemed as If the explosion was right under him. All oil pipes burst and people in the cabins were smothered." The ship was listing sharply, he added, and some of the life boats could not bo lowered prop erly. The steward said a second ex plosion, apparently another mine, came within fifteen min utes of the first. "I saw about 80 people in the water and the sea was covered with oil," he related. The admiralty charged the Germans laid the mine in the channel followed by merchant ships without notice to neu trals and added that "there is no doubt that they were laid for the specific purpose of des troying such shipping. The statement added that the mishap to the Simon Bolivar "is a further example of the ut ter disregard of International law and dictates of humanity shown by the German govern ment". Among the survivors hospital ized tonight was a 11-month-old baby and a little boy who con tinuously called "where is my daddy?" The British Sunday morning press with one voice attributed the sinking to "Nazi gangster methods" and described it as "another ruthless blow at peace ful shipping." (The last listing of the Simon Bolivar in the New York mari time register showed the vessel sailed Oct. 17 from Barbados. West Indies for Amsterdam.) Anti-Trust Victory Washington, Nov. 18. UP) The justice department claimed a "major anti-trust victory" to day in announcing approval of a court order for disposition of $28,000,000 worth of shares of capital stock of Libby- McNeill & Libby, owned by Switf S: Company. In j 5 iri ; Al Capone, prohibition era gangland czar of Chicago, is shown as he left a train at Harrisburg. Pa., en route to Lewis burg. Pa., where he was freed by the United States govern ment after spending seven years in prison. For a time he was in Alcatraz, and later at Terminal Island prison, Los Angeles. From Lewisburg he was taken to Baltimore by relatives. He entered the Union Memorial there for observation and treat, ment. Shown with Capone (left) is a federal officer (center!, and Frank Smith, a reporter. Picture made by Chicago Daily Times photographer. REAL PROSPERITY TOUCHIS FALL Briskest Retail Trade in a Decade Noted Industry Perked By War Trade. New York, Nov. 18. UP) Business is seasoning the na tion's Thanksgiving this year with touches of old-fashioned prosperity. Payrolls and dividend checks have fattened on the best au tumn pickings industry has seen in a decade. Merchants from coast to coast are preparing for a big Christ mas shopping season. Many are counting on the extra week from an earlier Thanksgiving date to join with the business upswing in producing the brisk est retail trade in a decade. The trend was still moving forward this week, although at a slower pace than in October. The Associated Press index of industrial activity touched the highest figure in 10 years, surpassed the 1937 recovery top. It has risen 17 out of the past 18 weeks in one of the fastest marches in the country's eco nomic history. I Prosperity, it seems, makes the trimmings rather than the whole turkey in the 1939 menu. War-stimulated industry, more over, has produced considerable skepticism in business circles as to the duration of the feast. Recent estimates place unem ployment between 8,000,000 and 9,000,000, although lately some complaints have been heard of skilled Ubor shortages in cer tain machine-making lines. KILLED IN CRASH Bend, Ore., Nov. 18. UP) Gale D. Richardson, 19, of flranfs Pace wbc Inatuntlv killnrl about 5 p. m. today when a car' driven by Jerry Runey, Eugene. ' nhinoorf nff !h marl intn a rnek. pile on the McKcnzie Pass high- way near Sisters. Runey and a third occupant i suicide Thursday in his jail cell were uninjured. Runey told here, was removed by ambu state police he gave Richardson ! lance late today to the state a ride. He said the steering gear: penal farm at Angola to start jammed and he was unable to , serving a prison term for for control the car. ' gery WITH Ml HAND Martial Law in Prague People Urged To Obey Three More Executed. Prague, Nov. 18. UP) Nazi Germany used the firing squad again today and then added mar tial law to its stern measures to stamp out anti-German moves in the protectorate of Bohemia Moravia. The execution of three more persons, two policemen and an unidentified Czech, brought to 12 the number shot to death in 48 hours. Nine students were executed yesterday. Martial law, established in Greater Prague, Prague-Land, Kladno, Beraun and Horchow itz, did not affect German citi zens. All these districts are near Prague, Kladno to the West, Be raun to the southwest and Hor chowitz to the northeast. Simultaneous with the estab lishment of martial law, Presi dent Emil Hacha broadcast a warning, that "any further sacri ficc for the Czech nation serves no purpose." Hacha declared that demon strations would be suppressed by the "public might" of the German and Czech governments and urged the people of the pro tectorate to "obey with all disci pline the appeal which I and the government direct to you.' Prague appeared calm out wardly, but reaction to the exe cutions of the alleged ringlcad ers in the anti-German acts, and the closing of Prague academies and universities for three years was reported to have spread to other sections of the protector ate. It apparently was for this reason that martial law was in troduced in the five areas. Incidents similar to those In Prague, were reported to have occurred In Bruenn (Brno) the j protectorate's second largest city. Prexy To Prison Baton Rouge. La., Nov. 18. ('P Dr. James Monroe Smith former president of Louisiana; state university who attempted TO SPENDING EOR E Money Needed For Relief Nebraska Solon Holds Sees Tax Increase. Washington. Nov. 18 (IP) Senator Norris (Ind.-Ncb.), who usually supports administration legislation, said today that he would oppose increased defense appropriations at the next ses sion of congress because he be lieved the money could be spent more wisely for relief of unem ployment and agricultural dis tress. Voicing the opinion that en actment of the present neutrali ty statute had minimized the chances that this country would become involved in the Euro pean war, the veteran Nebraska legislator said he thought con gress should give its attention primarily to domestic problems. "If we didn't have any other troubles," Norris told reporters, "I wouldn't feel so strongly against spending large sums for the army and navy. But we can't stop the expenditures for the re lief of unemployment and ogri cultural distress." Reports as to the amount that congress may be asked to ap proprlate for national defense have been highly conflicting. Some well-informed legisla tors said they understood that requests for the army might to tal $1,700,000,000 and those for the navy $1,300,000,000, but de partmental experts have pro tested that these figures were too high. . In an interview today, Secre tary of War Woodring indicated that the war department's an nual budget would exceed $700, 000,000 compared to this year's figure of approximately $450, 000,000. Without mentioning any spe cific figure, Woodring said that the departments objective was "perfect army" of moderate size and "real striking force". President Roosevelt has indi cated that funds would be asked to recruit, equip and train "an initial protective force of some 600,000 regulars and guardsmen, involving an increase of about 138,000 men beyond the exist ing authorized strength of the land forces. Norris said he felt that de fense construction work offered no solution to the problem of providing lobs for the unem ployed. Even if Congress pares down defense expenditures. Norris predicted that it might find it necessary to increase taxes to find needed funds. "I think congress should in crease the taxes of everybody who makes more than $5,000 a year and get money enough to Daiance expenditures with in come," he said. Northern California: Fair Sunday; local morning fogs on the coast; no change in tempera ture; light northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Partly cloudy east and overcast west portion Sun day: light intermittent rains northwest portion; little change in temperature: gentle southerly wind off coast. , Outlook far western states: Nov. 20-25 inclusive: generally fair weather and normal tem perature except frequent rains west of the Cascade mountains. PRESIDENT'S TALK AT New York, Nov. 18. UP) Three networks, CBS, NBC and MBS, will relay the address of President Roosevelt at the lay Ing of the cornerstone of the Roosevelt Memorial library nt the villuge of Martigny to a Hyde Park, N. Y., at 12 noon depth of 45 feet. The popula (PST) Sunday. ' lion escaped. TO 13-9 Missouri Wins Big Six Title Tennessee Keeps On Winning Other Scores. New York, Nov. 18. Ok lahoma's Sooners and the Tar heels of North Carolina bounced out of football's dwindling un defeated class today, but the headlines belonged to Iowa's sensational Hawkeyes. Paced as usual by the great Nile Klnnick, Iowa spotted Min nesota a 9-0 lead and then ral lied to whip the Gophers. 13-6, before a crowd of 50,000 at Iowa City. Kinnick, completing his sixth successive game with out relief, passed for both Hawk eye touchdowns. Oklahoma suffered its first regular season defeat in two years as Missouri's Tigers squeezed through to a 7-6 vie tory and virtually clinched the Big Six crown. Ronald King, a sub back for the Tigers, stole the show from his more famous team-mate, Paul Christnian, as well as from Oklahoma's Beryl Clark. North Carolina was decisively outplayed by Duke's Blue Dov lis, whose second-half drive buried the Tarheels under a 13 3 score. There was no stopping such other unbeaten arrays, however, as Tennesee, Tulane, Cornell and Texas A. and M. as well as oncc-beatcn Ohio State, Notre Dame, Holy Cross, Nebraska and Princeton. Tennessee, top-ranking team In the Associated Press poll or several weeks, whipped Vandcr bllt, 13-0, but had to make one early goal-line stand to main tain intact Its unscored-upon record. Tulane pushed Columbia around almost at will to win, 25-0, while Nebraska chalked up another intcrsectional victory a. the east 3 expense, beating Pitt in a great duel, 14-13. (Continued on Paga rwo ) GOVERNOR LAUDS EDUCAT Corvallls, Ore., Nov. 18. UP) The unified administration of Oregon's system of higher edu cation has proven successful, Governor Charles A. Sprague told Oregon State college alumni at a home-coming' banquet to night. "There is a better feeling be tween the units of the system and certainly higher respect for the schools than formerly," he said. He called upon the state board of higher education to apply "real educational statesman ship" in bringing about changes that may be needed in the fut lire to meet new conditions. He credited the Morrill act, which created land grants for colleges, with making possible the democratizing of education and bringing high schools and colleges within the financial grasp of many more students. E AT A THIRD TERIi Portland, Nov. 18. (.'P) Charles E. Baird, Baker, was elected president last night of the Association of Oregon Conn ties. Others elected Included Guy Boylngton. Clatsop, vice president, and Roy S. Melson. Marion, secretary-treasurer. Earl B. Day, Medford declined a third term as vice-president. Mud Avalan-h-j Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 18 (!'; An avalanche of mud and "tones caused by rains roared aown e o.uuu-iooi slopes oi Mount unavaiara tociay covering ""t,5!,',f!!? 11 r 11 i Delroy Getchell IN OREGON' DEAD Portland, Ore., Nov. 18. (P) Bishop Wallace E. Brown, ill with a heart disease the past two days, died today, less than two weeks after arriving to take charge of the Methodist church in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. He was 71.- He came here from Chatan- ooga, Tenn., November 7. Death came a few minutes after he was stricken with a heart attack following break fast in a hotel dining room. At his bedside were Mrs. Brown and Dr. William Wallace Young- son, Portland area director of world service for the Methodist church. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at First Meth odist church and burial will be at Syracuse, N. Y. Bishop Brown was the suc cessor here to Bishop Titus Lowe, transferred to Indian apolis. He was a member of the Methodist general conference from 1012 to 1916 and from 1920 to 1924. He also was a delegate to the 1921 ecumenical conference in London. FOUNDER PASSES Baltimore, Nov. 18. IP) Isaac Fuld, 74, the ouija board man, died tonight. With his brother, William, Fuld held the original patent on the little "talking boards" which swept this country and foreign nations as one of the strangest fads on record. In the early 1920's, when the craze put pressure on the Fuld factories here, William once said: "The ouija told mo to 'pre pare for big business' and on that advice I called in architects and planned a factory of much greater capacity." No figures were available to show how many of the boards Improved and streamlined from time to time were ship ped out of the factories, but esti mates ran into the millions. ON 10-HOUR DAY Berlin, Nov. 18. UP) Nazi Germany increased the laborer's working day in essential Indus tries today from eight to ten hours. Robert Ley, leader of the Nazi labor front, announced the long er working day and said that pay for the ninth and tenth hours, although at the same rate as for the first eight, would be tax free. Women will not be asked to work nights and an extra pay rate will be established for night and holiday work. Liner to Braill. New York. Nov. IB. UP) - The Moore - McCormlck liner Scanyork was turned over to the Brazilian government today the first of 14 ships the com pany recently sold to the South American republic lor $3,- 500,000 1 f iw ' it DELROY GETCHELL, Varied Career Of Local Resident Closed Resi dent Here For 30 Years. The Farmers and Fruitgrow ers Bank will be closed all day Monday in respect to the mem ory of Delroy Getchell, presi dent of the institution. Death early Saturday morning closed the long and active career of Delroy Getchell, president of the Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank since 1912, and one of Mcdford's best known and most public spirited citizens. Mr. Getchell succumbed to pneu monia after only a few days' illness. He was born October 27, 1861, In Galion, Ohio, the son of Edwin and Mary Ellen (Smith) Getchell. His mother died when he was four years old. At the age of 13, while away at school, he learned his father had suffered financial re verses and young Getchell in sisted upon returning home and going to work to help his father recoup his fortune. Was Newspaper Man Mr. Getchell first engaged In the newspaper business in Cin cinnati, Ohio, training himself through extensive reading for journalistic career. At the aga of 20 he was president of the Minneapolis Typographical . un ion, and for distinguished serv ice to this organization was pre sented, upon retirement from of fice, with a gold-headed can inscribed "Sans Luche, Sans Peur et Sans Reproche." His newspaper experience In cluded service as reporter and associate editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Tri bune and Minneapolis Journal. Eye trouble, resulting from sev eral hours in the icy waters of a Minnesota lake when a launch capsized, forced abandonment of his newspaper career. Next, becoming interested ia lumbering, he engaged In thai wholesale branch of that indus try for about two years, devel oping a remarkable faculty for judging land values. This abil ity brought opportunity to enter the banking business in Minna- (Continued on Pane fweivai Portland, Ore., Nov. 18. UP) An explosion in a small oil refinery tonight blew John P. Feldman, 59, solitary attendant, through a sheot metal wall and converted him into a human torch. Deputy Sheriff George Min- icily said Feldman was so se verely burned his recovery was doubtful. Feldman, after being blasted through the wall, fumbled for a rainbarrel and dived in. Ai he climbed out his clothing ig nited again and residents of the district found him rolling in the grass trying to extinguish the flames. Minielly said Feldman had been distilling crankcase drain- ings when a 50-gallon drum of oil exploded, igniting eight others. Rancher Held Roseburg, Ore., Nov. 18. UP) Henry Denley, rancher residing east of Sutherlin, was in custody here today on a charge of grand larceny. CCC's Rewarded Roseburg, Orlo., Nov. 18. (P) One hundred and twenty-five CCC enrollces at Steamboat CCC camp were rewarded today for their work on the North Umpqua road with trip to Diamond and Crater lakes. FiryDath Shabonna, 111., Nov. 18. OP) Two Wheaton college divinity students, one of them the ion of a World war flier, burned to death today in the crash of an airplane whose owner was rid ing as a passenger.