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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939.
No. 209.
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Washington, D. C, Nov. 22.
David E. Lilionthal, director of
TVA, told a meeting of farm
ers at Lafayette, Ala., last week
that they and their fellow farm
ers in Oregon are bringing elec
tricity for the first time to the
farms and into the homes of the
farmers. Promptly a private util
ity of the region declared it had
built 7000 miles of line to serve
farmers before Director Lilien
thal knew anything about pow
er. - As for Oregon, farms in the
thickly settled sections were be
ing serviced with electricity
years before Rural Electrifica
tion Administration was created.
DUBLIC ownership advocates
in the new deal make care
less statements. Last week Har
old Ickes, secretary of the in
terior, who is over-lord of Grand
Coulee and Bonneville, in a
prepared address defending his
charge of fees, such as tolls
and admission to national
shrines, observed that "it would
not be fair" for the government
to compete with the concession
aires in the national parks. .
However, Secretary Ickes is
pursuing a policy of competition
with private power companies
has financed many municipal
projects with PWA funds to
compete with private utilities.
ACROSS Potomac river, out
side the District of Colum
bia, thousands of government
workers are buying homes. The
government ownership advo
cates launched a campaign to
bond the county where these
clerks dwell for $1,450,000 to
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MUNICH BOMB PLOT
WORK OF
AVERS NAZI EXILE
Paris, Nov. 22. IP) Otto
Strasser, erstwhile lieutenant of
Adolf Hitler accused as the Insti
gator of the Munich bomb plot
against the German fuehrer
wSharged in an interview today
that the Munich explosion was
"organized" by his accuser
Heinrich Himmler, head of all
German police.
"I have just received formal
proof from a devoted member
that the project emanated with
Himmler, himself" said Strasser,
an exile from Germany, in an
interview with Havas, French
news agency.
"He declared to Rudolf Hess
(deputy leader of the Nazi party
and second in line of succession
to Hitler) that he needed the at
tack in order to unleash a 'hate
offensive' against England and
in order to have a pretext which
would permit him to deal with
domestic adversaries, notably
the Black Front."
(The "Black Front" is the
name given to an anti-Nazi or
ganization understood to be
active within Germany).
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
.Jim Murray fearing he wasn't
going to win a Thanksgiving
turk by his bowling prowess,
and then winning two, though
he won't be able to enjoy them
this Thanksgiving, what with
being in the hospital.
Judge Earl Day laughingly
referring to his demotion by
the AP from president to vice
president of the Association of
Oregon Counties.
Grace Kresse directing the
first winter bridge tournament
in her usual efficient manner.
Sarah' Hammond anticipating
children Virginia and Bruce's
arrival home for the turkey
holiday with the zest of the
Vrovcrbial fond mania.
IN ATTEMPT TO
BLAS1SHIPP1NG
Royal Air Force Seaplane
Set Afire By Invaders
No British Casualties.
London, Nov. 22. (IP) Ger
man air raiders bombed the
Shetland islands and set fire to
a Royal Air Force seaplane to
day in two sharp thrusts at
Britain.
A communique said the Nazi
raiders first made an attack on
shipping but were driven off
and then attacked a seaplane at
a mooring and set it afire.
The air ministry also an
nounced the Royal Air Force
made "successful flights'' on
Monday and Tuesday over Stutt
gart, Frankfort, Hamburg and
Bremen.
Six planes took part in the
raid, but failed to score any
hits, British sources announced.
Essex Sounds Alarm.
Anti-aircraft guns also roar
ed in South Essex during the
afternoon, but villagers said no
planes were visible.
An east coast anti-aircraft
battery fired a dozen rounds at
a German bomber flying out
to sea. British planes followed
the Nazi aircraft.
The warfare entered an in
tensified phase today as Britain
planned an unrestricted block
ade of German export trade in
repsisal for recent shipping
losses.
The admiralty announced a
British warship had intercepted
the 4,110-ton German freighter
Bertah Fisser off Iceland's coast,
stating the crew started to sink
the ship, took to their boats.
and were then picked up by the
warship. (A dispatch from Reyk
javik .Iceland, Indicated the
German ship may have been
shelled.)
The 6,660-ton Italian freighter
Fianona was added to the list of
mine victims off England's south
east coast. Although she was
badly damaged by an explosion
last night, she was still afloat
today. She was the 16th vic
tim of mine and torpedo war
fare off the British isles in the
last five days.
IN ROW OVER $4
Aberdeen, Wash., Nov. 22.
IP) A quarrel over the disap
pearance of $4 leu two men
dead today, a woman slightly
wounded and a dwelling charred
by flames.
Frank Fcrgestrom, about 45,
a south Aberdeen service sta
tion operator, was shot and
killed, Police Chief George Dean
said, by William Gessner. about
47, a 225-pound mill worker,
last night when Fergcstrom
attempted to protect Mrs. Gle
nice Ostrich, Gessner's land
lady, from her tenant's wrath.
Gessner was shot and wound
ed by Mrs. Ostrich's 15-year-old
son, Joe, a few minutes later.
The husky mill worker then
staggered to the Ostrich home
and was badly burned when he
set fire to the dwelling. Dean
said.
Gessner died In the hospital
a short time later.
TROUBLE PREDICTED
OVER SHIP TRANSFERS
Timtni Nnv 22. (IP) Con
gressman John M. Coffee of Ta-
coma predicted loaay mat ine
lihoral hloe will "raise hell"
next session over transference
of American vessels to foreign
registry to circumvent the new
neutrality law.
"It was a slicker stunt." the
liberal democrat said. "We're
going to raise hell about that
at the regular session.
Portland, Nov. 22 'Tl Dr.
George Bernard Noble of Reed
college said today no Rhodes
scholars would be selected for
Oxford this year because of war
conditions. Scholars in England
now have been recalled.
Accuses Nazis
Erich RiX, 38. anti-Hitler na
tive of Germany, said Nazis in
this country "put the linger" on
him, causing his arrest in San
Francisco on charges he con
cealed a criminal record when
he applied for American citizen
ship papers. He faces a deporta
tion hearing. This picture of Rix
was made just after his release
from a German concentration
camp in 1935.
600 TOUGH GUYS OF
Folsom Prison, Calif., Nov. 22.
UP) Six hundred of Folsom
prison's "tough men from the
lower yard" today refused food
for the second day and were
returned to their cells.
Warden Clyde I. Plummer,
facing his first major incident
in his two years as warden, an
incident that occurred almost
on the anniversary of the bloody
1927 riot, had 11 arrested strike
leaders placed in solitary con
finement and said, "We'll just
sit around and talk to a few
of the boys."
Approximately 2,300 other
convicts at the state's prison
for two-time losers were not
involved in the incident which
started yesterday when the men
were served sour mush for
breakfast.
Prison Director A. R. O'Brien,
who went to the prison last
night, reiterated his belief the
trouble was caused "by unrest
and the belief of the convicts
that the present prison board
can be harassed."
LA. STREET CARS
HIT AT CROSSING
Los Angeles, Nov. 22. (P)
Thirty persons were injured,
two of them seriously, when two
street cars collided at a down
town street intersection during
the heavy traffic hour today,
A crowded Los Angeles rail
way car coasted through a traf
fic signal as its brakes failed on
the Fifth street hill, and crashed
into the side of a Pacific Electric
car on Figueroa street.
Traffic was snarled for half
an hour as four receiving hospi
tal ambulances removed the
injured, most of whom were
women. All were Los Angeles
residents except C. H. Franklin,
40, a government accountant
from Seattle temporarily cm
ployed here. He suffered cuts on
his lip and eye and a broken
tooth.
CACTUS JACK HUNTS
FOR BIRTHDAY MEAT
Uvalde, Tex., Nov. 22. (IP)
Vice President John Garner
went hunting today for half his
birthday dinner. His wife al
ready has supplied him with a
cocoanut cake but he's got to kill
a deer before sundown if he has
venison steak on his 71st birth
day. It's Okay Now
Omaha, Neb. An Omaha
cleaning concern received a let-
jler and $12.15. It read: "Several
years ago I collected from you
the enclosed $12.15 for what I
then considered a damaged rug.
I no longer feel that way about
) it, to am returning the same."
AS LOVE LETTER
TO
Revelation of Kuhn's Note
Follows Close on Denial
Of Marriage Proposal.
New York, Nov. 22. (A) Fritz
Kuhn, red-faced and confused
among the reading of a series of
torrid love letters addressed to
Mrs. Florence Camp, his "golden
angel," acknowledged late today
he had lied earlier on the wit
ness stand.
The portly bundsfuchrer, on
trial for grand larceny in the
theft of funds from his German-
American bund, said reluctantly
that he told Mrs. Camp in 19.18
that he had divorced his wife
four years earlier.
New York, Nov. 22. i.-P)
Fritz Kuhn, bespectacled fueh
rer of the German - American
bund, blushed scarlet today
when the prosecution depicted
him as a shipboard Romeo and
read a billet doux he wrote to
his "heaven sent" woman friend,
Mrs. Florence Camp.
Spectators tittered, while
Kuhn's cheeks reddened and his
eyes blazed with anger, as Pros
ecutor Herman J. McCarthy read
the letter at the bund leader's
trial on larceny charges.
"Florence," it said, "1 am ter
rible In love with you 1 beg
you to become my beloved wife
I will always be real true to
you and will love you forever
can't be without you any
more because I realize heaven
did send you and I never will
forget that. (Signed) Fritz."
Kuhn, who already has a wife,
had denied just a few seconds
earlier he proposed marriage to
Mrs. Camp during an ocean
cruise on the steamship Wcst
ernland. v
All in Fun.
"Mrs. Camp was too much of
a lady to listen to proposals of
marriage within four days on
board," he said.
McCarthy then produced the
note, which brought a protest
from Kuhn that it was "all In
fun."
"It was done the night of a
ship party," Kuhn said. "Every
body does that sort of thing."
McCarthy's continued delving
into the bundesfuehrer's roman
tic life finally impelled Judge
James G. Wallace to question
Kuhn himself In bald terms.
"Did you ever have a love
affair with Mrs. Camp?" the
court asked.
Kuhn pulled back as though
horrified. "No, I did not," he
said. "Mrs. Camp is very much
a lady. I am still on very
friendly terms with her."
Earlier, the prosecution elicit
ed testimony Kuhn was a man
of many aliases. Kuhn acknowl
edged that at various times he
had been known as Fred Costan,
Fred Kellar, Henry Larson and
Frank Carson.
The reason for the aliases was
not gone into.
Cartoonist Dies
New York, Nov. 22. IP)
Walter C. Hoban, 49, widely-
known comic artist and cartoon
ist, died last night after a two
months illness. He was with
King Feature Syndicate for
more than 20 years. He was best
known, perhaps for his comic
strip "Jerry on the Job."
Legion Commander
Made Caveman By
Oregon C hie f tain
Indianapolis, Nov. 22. (A')
Oregon war veterans officiat
ed last night at the pledging
of Ray Kelly, national Ameri
can Legion commander, as
honorary member of the
Grants Pass Cavemen.
State Commander Nicl R.
Allen of Grants Pass, garbed
in sabre-toothed tiger skins,
inducted the national leader
into the western order with
the assistance of Carl R.
Moser, Oregon adjutant, Ben
F. Dorris of Eugene, Vic Mac
Kenzie and J. Valient, former
Oregon legionnaires.
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Harriet Haddon (above), now
playing In a New York Ice
Revue, will be Jackie Coogan's
next wife, he said at Fort Wayne.
Ind., after his divorce from
Betty Grable becomes final in
10 months.
ENTRY OF U. S. IN
WILL
IS HINT BY EX-I
Tokyo, Nov. 22. (P) Toshlo
Shiratori, ex-ambassador to Italy
today declared If the European
war should spread into a world
conflict "too many Japanese re
member the bitter lesson of the
Washington conference to feel
inclined to fight again for Bri
tain and America."
(Many Japanese feel that In
the Washington conference of
1921-22 their country was com
pelled to accept a position of
naval inferiority to Britain and
the United States.)
Shiratori, who was recalled
after his attempts to forge a mili
tary alliance with Italy, Ger
many and Japan failed, praised
Germany and Italy in an inter
view. He said Japanese relations
with those powers were still
close despite the Russian-German
agreement.
"If the United States enters
the war it will be a world war
in a literal sense," he asserted,
"because then it would be ex
tremely difficult for Japan to
remain neutral."
"The totalitarian nations work
to establish a new order thruout
the world," he added, "Japan ts
doing its job in the Orient. Ger
many and Italy are doing theirs
i in Europe.
! marketTwill CLOSE
I FOR thanksgiving day
' New York, Nov. 22. (.V)
j Thanksgiving Day, a week
I earlier than the traditional last
I Thursday in November, will be
widely observed tomorrow by
1 the country's principal financial
and commodity exchanges.
The New York slock and curb
exchanges, banks and commod
ity futures markets will close.
!
Hot Aftermath
Eugene, Ore., Nov. 22. (IP)
It was much hotter after than
during the "fire" toduy for a son
of a local "flame chaser." An 11
year-old youth wanted to show
"dad at work" to his pal. So he
1 turned in a false alarm.
E SEEPAGE 1
AT HOTEL REMAINS
UNSOLVEDPUZZLE
Search For Source of Leak
Fruitless, Plea for Water
Refund Brings Out.
The city council last
was asked by Mrs. M. F.
enson, manager of the
night
Clem
Hotel
Jackson, for a rebate of $20 for
each of two months for water
used in operating a siphon to
keep the hotel basement free
of water in which gasoline or
some other inflammable liquid
has become mixed.
Mrs. Clemenson said she had
been advised by city department
heads to install the siphon to
replace an electric pump to
eliminate the danger of fire
caused by electric sparks ignit
ing fumes from the inflammable
liquid.
City Attorney Frank P. Far
roll informed Mrs. Clemenson
and her "counsel, Porter J. Ncff,
that the council had no Jurisdic
tion over the water commission
and therefore could not order
the rebate. Mrs. Clemenson re
plied that she had taken the
matter up with Robert A. Duff,
water superintendent, and had
been advised to go before the
council. Mr. Farrell said the
only thing the council could do
would be to recommend to the
water commission that the $20
for each of the two months be
cancelled. Mrs. Clemenson ex
plained that the siphon had
caused an increase of $20 a
month over the hotel's average
water bill of $28 a month. The
council voted to instruct the
public safety committe to rec
ommend to the water commis
sion that the $20 be cancelled
for the two months.
Trouble Sine. August
Request for the rebate or can
cellation disclosed that the prob
lem that originated early last
August had not yet been solved
although city departments, the
hotel management and neigh
boring concerns have been
working on it steadily ever
since.
Seepage of gasoline or other
inflammable liquid into the
hotel basement was discovered
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eastern star leader
takes life with gun
Salem, Nov. 22, (P) Coro
ner L. E. Barrlck said that Mrs.
Charles E. Colvin, 51, active in
Eastern Star affairs and a past
grand officer of the order, com
mitted suicide early today at her
home near Aumsville by shoot
ing herself in the head with a
revolver.
OFFICES AND STORES
WILL CLOSE THURSDAY
Thanksgiving day (Thursday)
will be generally observed in
Medford with city and county
offices, banks and business
houses closed for the day.
Christmas Giving This Year
On Scale of 'Good Old Days'
New York, Nov. 22. (IP) An
old-fashioned Christmas, with
gifts exchanged In greater quan
tity and variety than any year
in the last decade," was forecast
today by the National Retail
Dry Goods association on basis
of a rising business trend.
The association pointed out
the shopping period would get
off to a week's earlier start in
25 states and the District of
Columbia observing tomorrow
as Thanksgiving.
In states clinging to the old
Thanksgiving date Nov. 30 this
year merchants are preparing
to push "shop early" programs
In expectation of the biggest
gift-giving Christmas since 1929.
the announcement added.
Anticipating a 10 per cent
trade gain, the association cal
culated sales In the traditional
Thanksgiving Christmas shop
ping splurge by department, dry
goods, general merchandise and
War Bulletins
With the British Air Force in!
France, Nov. 22 (IP) British
and French fighter planes were
reported to have swept the skies
clear of Nazi reconnaissance
planes today, shooting down
oven. An eighth enemy plane
was destroyed by anti-aircraft
fir. irom th ground.
London. Nov. 22 (iP) The
ftdmiralty announced tonight
the destroyer Gipsy struck a
mine off the east coast yester
day, and was subsequently
beached.
Paris. Nov. 22. (JP) The
French announced tonight two
German submarines had been
sunk by the same torpedo boat
within three days. On. of th.
undersea craft was said to have
been sent to the bottom by the
torpedo boat after it was lo
cated by French aircraft.
EOR KLAMATH LAD
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Klamath Falls, Nov. 22. (IP)
Authorities admitted today they
were baffled In the search for
Irwin Jack (Sonny) Maxwell, 3,
who has been missing more than
72 hours without a clue to his
fate turning up.
While hundreds of men con
tinued to comb the area east of
here in ever widening circles,
city police dropped powerful
lights into two abandoned deep
wells near the boy's home and
declared them empty.
Search leaders regarded the
rugged country and three succes
sive nights of sub-freezing
weather as too much for a child
of three and declared that U the
lad is really lost in the hills
there is almost no chance of his
still being alive.
The boy's mother, Mrs. Wayne
Maxwell, remained hopeful and
his stepfather, a storage com
pany truck driver, had been
with the searchers steadily. Also
In the posse was the lad's own
father, Elmer Becbe, former
husband of Mrs. Maxwell. The
child took the name of Maxwell
when his mother remarried.
TOTS ATTACKED
The Dalles, Ore., Nov. 22.
(IP) A vicious sow attacked two
little brothers today and the
recovery of one was doubtful.
The animal, bent on protect
ing its litter, inflicted numer
ous tusk wounds on four-year-
old Gerald Malcomb's body and
broke his wrist. It had Larry,
3, by the throat when the father,
Merton Malcomb, truck driver
for the Foley Lakes dairy, in
tervencd.
Physicians said Gerald had a
"chance to recover.
apparel stores would approxi
mate $1,320,000,000 an in
crease of $120,000,000 over the
comparable 1938 figure.
"More than a million Jobs
have been opened up In Indus
try and part-time employment
extended to full-time for many
millions more," It noted.
"Profit-sharing with em
ployees, In form of holiday
bonuses, Is considered likely
to prove the largest since the
Christmas season of 1938. When
the Christmas rush reaches
its peak, regular store forces
throughout the country are ex
pected to be augmented by
500,000 extra workers to help
handle the busy trade."
Retail prices were figured as
likely to average about three
per cent above last year's Christ
mas levels.
The association said 90,000,
000 persons would come within
scope of the lengthened Thanks
giving Christmas season.
OF GENERAL
ARE LIQUIDATED
Debt Erased For First Time
Since 1927 Excellent
Fiscal Condition Shown.
For the first time In more than
12 years, Jackson county was on
a cash basis today.
A call was issued by Countv
Treasurer Ralph E. Sweeney to
day for the remaining outstand
ing general fund warrants which
total $5,031.30. Calling of the
warrants liquidates the entire
general fund debt, first time the
county has been free of general
fund indebtedness since April,
1927.
A dally balance sheet issued
by Mr. Sweeney showed that
the county has enough cash and
credits on hand to pay off all of
the other warrant indebtedness
and to liquidate, lacking only
$22,539.94, all bonded dett
which embraces permanent road
bonds which are not callable and
therefore must be bought in the
open market if they are to bo
acquired.
Large Debt Cut
Today's call for the remaining
outstanding general fund war
rants centered attention on what
is conceded to be the excellent
financial condition of the county.
To attain the present status.
however, has involved the liqui
dation of a large volume of debt.
After liquidation of all gen
eral fund warrants In April,
1827, the debt gradually in
creased again until it reached
$79,098.91 in May of 1931. From
then on it rose rapidly to a peak
of $307,843.41 on December 31,
IV6Q, records show. Several fac
tors were involved in this tre
mendous rise in debt, County
Judge Earl B. Day explained.
These included the Banks-Fehl
debacle which increased county
expenses and mounting tax de-
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L BASE, IS
New York, Nov. 22. (IP)
The New York Times said to
day that "for the second time
since the outbreak of the war
a German submarine has slip
ped through the defenses of ,
British naval base and launched
an attack on a British warship,
according to private advices re
ceived In New York last night."
"The ship, it was stated, was
the cruiser Belfast, lying in the
Firth of Forth. The extent of
the damage was not disclosed,
but the submarine was reported
to have escaped."
(Private information reaching
the Associated Press in New
York indicated the Belfast had
suffered damage but that this
may have been caused by a mine
and not by a submarine's tor
pedo.) WELL LIKED IN EAST
Portland, Nov. 22. IP) Sen
ator Charles L. McNary, Ore
gon's favorite son candidate for
the Republican presidential nom
ination, stands high in the es
teem of eastern party leaders.
Former Governor Charles H.
Martin said today.
General Martin, who recently
completed speaking engage
ments in the Chicago area, also
said there was growing senti
ment among Illinois Democrats
for Vice-President John Nance
Garner as the Democratic party
nominee.
Early Thursday Paper.
In order to permit employes
to enjoy Thanksgiving activ
ities, the Mall Tribune will
go to press at noon Thursday.
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