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Forecast : Fair tonight and
TueUa, with fog In morning;
Utile tliange in temperature.
Tempe rat tire
HlKhet yesterday 58
Lowest this morning 25
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Thirty-fourth Year
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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
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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
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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
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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.