Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 20, 1939, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextEAXT Day to Trade There are tome splendid oppor tunltlei offered almost every day to trade your old ear In on a better I'secl Car. Watch for these ad and art promptly when the right proposition conies along. Head the .Ids rial I v In the Mull Trlhune. The Weather Forecast : Fair tonight and TueUa, with fog In morning; Utile tliange in temperature. Tempe rat tire HlKhet yesterday 58 Lowest this morning 25 Medfor RIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MED FORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 19? No. 207. imi Ml mm iruu iAv'i-mF((y r .-ska v. ar ar v mm MA HWLES&LI 2)0 , AT THE 1 NiHL Washington, D. C, Nov. 20. Public enemy of the orchards of the Pacific Northwest, villain of the Argentina trade treaty, is Henry F. Grady, who has ad vised Senators Schwellenbach, Washington, and Senators Mc Nary and Holman, Oregon, (also , Senator Byrd, big apple grower of Virginia and brother of the explorer), that they should take a broad view of trade relations: that if Argentina cannot ship its apples and pears into the VUnited States the Argentinos ' will have nothing to use for money with which to buy goods from the industrial east. Or words to that effect. Do you know, the senators inquired of Grady, of the state department, that in 1930-31 the United States exported 66,800 bushels of pears to Argentina and in 1939-40 only 8,160 bush els? But in 1939 Argentina ex ported 1,387,789 boxes of pears? Do you know that in 1930-31 United States exported 727,671 bushels of apples to Argentina while the 1939-40 export is down to 43,200 bushels? Yet in 1939 Argentina" exported to the United States 549,284 boxes. Since 1930 pear exports from Argentina have increased 33.7 times. ; AND tnat ten'1 a11- For some ' " reason the transportation on )u 44-pound box of apples or pears from Argentina to New York is 60 cents, but transpor tation from New York to Ar gentina is 83 cents for apples and 75 cents for pears. Northwest fruit growers pro test against Argentina sanitary i estrictions against United States fruit. Mr. Grady answers that the senators have refused to modify the sanitary restric ; tions on beef from Argentina. (Taboo was placed on Argentina beef on account of the hoof and ' mouth disease). Mr. Grady im plies the senators should remove ) the restrictions on beef if they want the apples and pears given a clean bill of health. Here is how one government agency works against and nul lifies the efforts of another, as the senators informed Grady: Each year Argentina has been dumping more apples and pears on the American market as the ; surplus of domestic fruit piles up and while Argentina has been encouraged to invade the United States market, Uncle Sam has been spending $1,246, 497 to reduce the domestic sur plus pears and apples and give the fruit to the needy. Senators will insistf the result is in doubt) that henceforth (Continued on Page 81) Earthquake Repair Seattle, Nov. 20. (P) Harry Marsh, county-city building su perintendent, today asked a S3. 000 emergency appropriation to cover costs of repairing dam age done by the recent earth quake. Most of the damage was cracked plaster. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mary Day and Bill Roberts really going to town on a unique dancing step which seemed to be a cross between the rumba and a jitterbug antic. Bob Peterson acknowledging an introduction with the poise of a diplomat and all the rules and regulations of Emily Post's well known publication. Anne Barnes looking simply gorgeous in an exquisite gown while tripping the light fantastic with hubby Ernest. Hester Bishop giving a friend several different kinds of par ticular bawling outs and all over a nickname which she is trying to cast off. Margo Boyle taking it upon herself to be quite concerned over the moniker of Cornelius Collins nppf.iring in this pillar of playfulness. 9 VESSELS SUNK 177 FEARED DEAD British Collier Torchbearer Among Victims Five Ships Under Neutral Flag. Cork, Ireland, Nov. 20. (P) The British steamer, Arlington Court, 4,915 tons, has been sunk by a submarine 200 miles off the Irish coast. London, Nov. 20. (P) Mines at least temporarily supplanted submarines as the leading sea menace off the British coast to day as the floating explosives added still further to the war's greatest week-end toll for mer chant shipping. Nine vessels were reported sunk in the North sea over the week-end, with 177 persons dead or missing. The sinking included the 345 ton British trawler Wigmore with a crew of 16 and the 1,267 ton British collier Torchbearer which were disclosed today. Four survivors of the Torchbear er's crew, reported to have num bered 13, were landed at an Eng lish port. Big Freighter Lost In addition the sinking of the 4,258-ton British freighter Pen silva "by enemy action" was disclosed today. It was not im mediately clear whether the ves sel was a mine victim. Her crew was landed safely. The total tonnage lost was 32,003. Neutrals lost live ships to Britain's four. The sunken vessels were: Simon Bolivar, Netherlands, 8,309 tons: Grazia, Italian, 5,857 tons; Blackhill, British, 2,492 tons: B. O. Borjesson, Swedish, 1,586 tons; Carica Milica, Yugoslav, 6,371 tons; Kaunas, Lithuanian, 1,521 tons; Torchbearer, British, 1,267 tons; Wigmore, British, 345 tons; Pensilva, British, 4,258 tons. Authorities had not computed the full loss of life in the sinking Saturday of the Netherlands liner Simon Bolivar, but the number was set tentatively at 140. Eleven were believed drowned or killed by explosions aboard the four other ships. i The admiralty accused Ger many oi laying ine mines, ana the British press today raged (Continued on Page ren ) No Peace Seen In Ship Clerk Strike San Francisco, Nov. 20. (IP) The CIO ships clerk's strike reached the letter-writing stage today with angry missives flying back and forth between business and employer groups and the unionists, but with no sign of a settlement in sight. Red Mouthpiece Urges Young To Oppose 'Capitalistic War' Moscow, Nov. 20 &) The newspaper Red Star, organ of the Soviet Russian army, urged the youth of the world today to oppose continuation of the pres ent "capitalistic war" under the leadership of the Communist In ternational. In a special article, the Red Star asserted students of the United States. Great Britain, France and India are strongly against war. The newspaper said while "the Soviet is in a strong position, capitalism is falling in to ruins." The tenor of the article was echoed in a New York dispatch to the communist party newspa per Pravda, which said anti-war sentiment is growing in the Uni ted States. "The song, 'the Yanks are not coming,' is sweeping the coun try." Pravda said. These thrusts, accompanied by continued press attacks on Fin land for "increasing prepara tions for war" came as official Russian sources reported pro gress in negotiations to improve relation! with Japan. Show Girl's Togs Proved Too Scant; Manager Is Fined Philadelphia, Nov. 20. (Pi Magistrate Elias Myers asked a detective to prove today why he insisted the costume of an entertainer at a girl show was too flimsy. Painstakingly the detective folded the '"costume" and squeezed it into a match box. The magistrate fined the show manager $12.50. TABER ELECTED FOR NINTH TERM AS CHIEF OF NATIONAL GRANGE Peoria, 111., Nov. 20. (Ay) Louis J. Tabor, of Columbus, Ohio, was re-elected today for his ninth two-year term as mas ter of the national grange. Taber had wanted to retire but yielded to the insistence of the delegates at the national convention of the farm organiza tion here. His new term will carry him through the Diamond Jubilee year of the grange in 1941. Delegates also re-elected David H. Agans of Three Bridges, N. J overseer, and James C. Farmer of Keene, N. H., lecturer. J. J. Martin, of Watertown, S. D., was re-elected steward. F. Ardine Richardson, of Strong, Me., will serve as chap lain for the next two years, suc ceeding W. W. Deal, of Napa, Idaho, Everett W. Stone, of Auburn, Mass., was elected treasurer to succeed the late Robert P. Rob inson, of Wilmington, Del. Harry A. Caton, of Coshocton, O., was re-elected secretary. E FOR CO. A DRILL Three camps to provide seven days of field training were ar ranged at a meeting of Oregon national guard officers in Port land Saturday and today the fol lowing schedule was announced for Company A and headquar ters company. 18fith infantry, by Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald and Lieut. James W. Grigsby, respec tive company commanders: Saturday and Sunday, Novem ber 25 and 26 and December 2 and 3 and Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 5, 8 and 7. The two companies here will encamp in the armory, sleeping and eating there but going afield to carry out the problems as signed them by the high com mand. For this week-end's camp, all men are to report at the armory at 3 p.m. Saturday. Regular drills will be held in the armory by both companies as usual at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Tass, official news agency, an nounced agreement had been reached on the "composition and functions" of a mixed commis sion to establish a boundary be tween Sovietized Outer Mongo lia and Japanese-protected Man choukuo.. The commission, which will attempt to settle frontier prob lems left unsolved when the two countries concluded a truce Sept. 16 after more than four months of border fighting, will meet soon at Chita, Siberia, Tass said. At the same time. Tass re ported Soviet premier-foreign commissar Vyachcslaff Mololoff and Japanese ambassador Shig ernori Togo had found "a com munity of views" after ' ex changing opinions on the funda mental principles upon which a Soviet-Japanese trade agreement must be based." (A Japanese spokesman said last Friday conditions were more satisfactory "than ever before" for settlement of outstanding questions between the two countries.) PRAGUE WORKERS REFUSE 10 STRIKE AGAINSTGERMANS Protectorate Government Assures Grievances Will Be Given Consideration. Prague, Nov. 20 (P) Prague workers, ignoring agitation for a strike to protest conditions under the rule of Nazi Germany, went to their jobs as usual today with the assurance their com plaints would receive early con sideration. Anxious to avoid further dis turbances following recent ar rests and executions of Czech student leaders and others, the protectorate government ap pealed to the workers by a promise protests occasioned by rising prices and oilier griev ances would be studied. Czech police also spread a warning through workers' dis trict in Prague and four other industrial centers that any strikes today in sympathy for executed compatriots would be suppressed sternly. This action was taken in dis tricts already under martial law, despite assurance from labor leaders to German officials they had persuaded their followers against a sympathy movement. The former Czecho - Slovak capital was reported generally quiet yesterday after two days in which nine students, two policemen and another uniden tified Czech went before firing squads. (In London, former Czecho Slovakian President E d u a r d Benes and Polish Premier Gen eral Vladyslaw Sikorski agreed to collaborate on measures to "repair the damage" done to their countries. Both Polish and Czech legions are being trained to fight with the allies.) This action was taken in dis tricts already under martial law, despite assurance from labor leaders to German officials they had persuaded their followers against a sympathy movement. GREEN AND LEWIS SEE NO HOPE FOR Washington, Nov. 20 (P) Amid persistent talk of a new administration effort to bring the AFL and the CIO together, President William Green of the AFL has asked the neutral pub lic to. place the responsibility for labor's internal feud "where it belongs." "We believe that an attitude of neutrality toward the dispu tants in this case who profess to be anxious for labor peace mere ly serves to shelter and protect the side which is to biamc." Green said in a statement last night. "Therefore, such an at titude hinders the attainment of peace. Reports have circulated among union officers that an influential cabinet officer would make the new gesture toward bringing the two factions to gether. But John L. Lewis, the CIO leader, is known to be opposed to any more conferences unless he can be convinced a salisfac tory settlement will result. PORTLAND TURKEY Portland, Nov. 20. (AO Turkey receipts were light on the Portland market Sunday and trade retained a generally firm undertone. Outside busi ness is completed except for last minute shipments to Grays Harbor and Puget sound. Local buyers arc paying 21 to 22 cents a pound for hens and 16 to Wh cents for toms and reselling at 23 to 24 cents for hens and 17 to 18 cents for I toms. 140 Missing A report received in London said The Netherlands' liner Simon Bolivar (above) struck a mine in the North aea and sank. It was believed thai 140 of the 400 persons aboard. Includ ing women and children, were missing. This picture of the ship was made In Curacao. British said the mine was laid by the Germans without notifying neutral shipping. SHIVER AS 1APS BALK ACCESS TO COAL PILE Tientsin, Nov. 20. HP) As wintry weather set in Americans presented a singular sight today as they tried to bring baskets of coal by 'Inrikisha and automo bile into the British and French concessions where the Japanese blockade has caused a coal short age. U. S. Marines, unable to ob tain coal for the past ten days, attempted to arrange for sup plies to be brought by boat down the Hal river from coal yards which an piled high. The blockaded British conces sion facing a growing coal short age, will be without light, power and water within 10 days, au thorities said today, unless the Japanese permit supplies to en ter. The present flow of supplies, it was said, is confined to a limited mtion for hospitals and bakeries. The American consul was re ported to have applied unsuc cessfully for permits to trans port coal through the barriers for use of American firms. Washington, Nov. 20. (IP) The stati department said today Senator Charles McNory (Fl. Ore.) had protested a British em bargo on fresh apples and pears from the United States while United Kingdom markets remain open to Canadian fruits. The department sain it was seeking relaxation of the restric tions but thought the outlook was unfavorable. McNary argued Britain should not add new restrictions on Uni ted jStntes fruit shipments in view of benefits conferred on Canada , in reciprocal trade agreements. SEARCHERS SEEK ,4 Klamath Falls, Nov. 20. (IP) Sagebrush covered hills near Klamath Falls were searched today for "Sonny" Maxwell, 4, missing since Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Police were notified Inst night by the child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Maxwell. An Intensive search was or ganized this morning after a night on which the temperature dropped to 27 degrees above zero. The boy was wearing only a light sweater and over alls when he wandered from the family yard. A Dobcrman Pinseher dog was used to track the child today. The dog led searchers into the hills cast of town. When Dutch Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Pacific Standard Time) Tonight: Europe WABC-CUS 5:55, 8; MBS 6, 6:15; WEAF NBC.East. Tuesday: Europe NBC Chains 5 a.m.; WABC-CBS 5 a.m., 3:30 p.m. JAPANESE IN SOUTH CHINA Hongkong. Nov. 20. W) Re ports from Chungking said to day a Japanese force landed on the South China coast, in Wes tern Kwangtung province; al ready numbered 10,000 and was being reinforced hourly, chiefly by cavalry. The landing was started last Wednesday for the declared pur pose of cutting the Chungking government's "back door life lines' through French lndo-Chl-na and British Burma. Chinese in Kwangsl province, north of their landing point, acknowledged a drive of Increas ing intensity toward Yamhsien, about 25 miles from the K.wang si border. Last week, the Japan ese reported reaching Yamhsien. Japanese reports placed the invaders within 25 miles of Nan ning, capital of Kwangsl pro vince, and 30 miles from the Indo-China road. E IN CENSUS AREAS Washington, Nov. 20. (P) Appointment of 150 area man ager and assistants to direct tak ing of the 1040 census was an nounced here Saturday. The census bureau announced the appointees, who have just completed special courses de signed to teach them how best to induce citizens to part with vital information, will open offices in 150 cities next month. Each of fice will direct work In five to eight census districts, these will be divided Into a total of 143,000 enumeration districts. Salaries range from $175 to $350 a month. Among the appointments were: Oregon: Portland Byron G. Carney, Milwaukie, Ore.; assist ant not yet appointed. Ex-Kaiser Escapes Death Under Tree Doom, The Netherlands. Nov. 20. lPt Former Kaiser Wil hclm II of Germany had a nar row escape today when a sud den windstorm uprooted three large trees In the garden of Doom castle. The 80-vear-old former kaiser, walking with an official of his court, was only 50 yards from where the trees fell, having Jus' passed the spot. He returned to the castle in a highly nervous state. Liner Sunk TEXAS TWO-GUN LADY SLAYS ASSAILANT AND Dallas, Tex., Nov. 20. (ip A woman armed with two guns shot down Brooks Cotfman, 39, an attorney, on Main street to day. He died a half hour later. Miss Corrine Maddox, 26, whom Coffman was charged with stabbing with an ice pick last May, surrendered to police soon after the shooting. "I have just shot Brooks Coff man," Assistant District Attor ney Jimmy Martin said she told him. Coffman was under a charge of assault to murder for the ice pick stabbing of Miss Maddox. Found wounded at a gravel pit near Irving,-Tex., she recovered after several weeks In a hospital. Public hearing on the Jack son county budget will be held next Friday in the courthouse auditorium. The session is sched uled to start at 10 a.m., with Henry G. Enders of Ashland, as chairman and Leonard Carpen ter, Medford; W. H. Young, Eagle Point; and the county court, as members of budget committee In attendance. Following the public hearing, the budget will be formally adopted and certified, and turned over to the assessor for extension on the tax rolls. Assessor J. B. Coleman said today, he anticipated a four tenths of a mill increase over last year. In the general tax levy. He estimated the school levy would be higher, the city levy slightly lower, and the county mid state levy about the same as last year. London, Nov. 20. (IP) The admiralty announced tonight German aircraft had "made an unsuccessful bombing attack" on a British destroyer in the southern part of the North sea. An unidentified airplane earli er drew anti-aircraft fire In fly ing over the outskirts of London, Essex and southern Kent and German scouting activities ex tended to the north of Scotland. Insurance Chief Denies Rumors Salem, Nov. 20. (P) State Insurance Commissioner Hugh Earle denied today rumors that he expected to resign soon to accept a Job with a large Insur ance company. Earle, a Democrat appointed during the Martin administra tion, said "No one has asked me about these rumors. All I'm trying to do Is do my job. ROOSEVELT'S TALK 3RD TERPUZZLE President's Words Hint En joyment Of Hullabaloo Over Campaign Intentions Hyde Park, N. Y.( Nov. 20. (fP) Another wave of specula tion over President Roosevelt'i political intentions rolled along today in the wake of a speech in which he expressed the hope his collections and papers would be ready for "public inspection and use" by the spring of 1941. In a bantering mood yesterday at the site of the library that will house the private papers of his public life, the president said he hoped "my good friends of the press' would give "due interpretation to the expression of my hope that when we open the building to the public it will be a fine day." Enjoying Hullabaloo The remark was interpolated in his address at the laying of the library cornerstone on the Roosevelt estate and interpreted by most reporters as meaning the president actually is enjoy ing all the hullabaloo over whether he will aim for a third term. The disclosure the president's correspondence would be avail able to students, historians and biographers by the middle of 1941 furnished no real clue to his Intentions. It did serve, how ever, to bring the third-term puzzle to the fore again by lead ing to conjecture whether Mr. Roosevelt would wish the public to have access to records of the new deal's Intimate workings, if he intended to seek reelection next yir. Into a copper box that fitted Into the cornerstone of the li brary, the President tucked cop ies of newspapers which printed stories that linked the third term and the 1941 opening date of the library. Then he heard s e'v e r ? " speeches and made one himself. Youth Recalled Mr. Roosevelt recalled how he had played as a lad In the very field where the Dutch colonial library was rising climbing trees, eating strawberries from the plants, sailing toy boats in water from melted snow, and helping his dogs dig into wood chuck holes. Looking up from his manu script, he remarked smilingly, "Some of you are standing right on top of those holes at this minute." The descendants of the game woodchucks inhabit the field, he said, "and I hope they will con tinue to do so for all time." "This is a peaceful country side." the president said, "and It seems appropriate that in this time of strife we should dedl cate this library to the spirit of peace peace for the United (Continued on Page Ten ) Portland, Nov. 20 (P) Sub freezing temperatures won an even break in Oregon today when 7 of 14 reporting com munities recorded ice-producing weather. Fog overcast western Oregon and a strong northeast wind whistled through the Columbia Gorge. Baker was the coldest report ing city, with a 14-degree mini mum. Other low temperatures included Bend 24, Brookings 42, Burns 24, Eugene 43, Hood Riv er 27, Lakeview 22, Medford 30, Newport 45, North Bend 42, Pendleton 29, Portland 40, Rose burg 41, Siskiyou Summit 38. Chrysler Peace Hope Dims Again Detroit, Nov. 20 UP) Hopts for an early settlement of the CIO's quarrel with Chrysler cor poration dimmed again today in the face of a deadlock over wage demands.