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Newspaper Page TextMr The Weather Forecast ( Korwat: Partly cloudy and tool tonight and Tuesday. I Temperature Highest yesterday 6t Lowest this mornluc 26 Easy Money Now Ihmt Thankiclvlnc li put, II U I Inn to btfln thinking about rhrUtnias. Htw about extra Chrlilmai money? Why not search the premise! and ell oft dltrarded artlrletf It make easy money. MEDFORD TP IBUNE Fall Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1939. No. 213. M B Ml Ml li Jl Mil MS V AT AtHE Al HflSftiL El WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 27.-How Bonneville power running to waste and natural re sources of raw material can be brought togetiier industrially, furnishing a market for the power, making available com mercially the latent resources and creating payrolls, is a prob lem that has been dropped in the lap of Harold Ickes, secre tary of the interior. Part of the task has been assigned to the bureau of mines and geological survey, and later, the general land office will participate. To be decided is whether var ious federal agencies will act independently or have represen tatives on a joint committee, the committee to direct and co ordinate the investigations. For sake of efficiency, the committee plan may be adopted. Much is known of the latent resources of Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho. Many researches and explorations have . been made by private and public agencies, such as state mining boards, chambers of commerce and a multitude of government bureaus, but the information obtained is nowhere available at one source. No one has taken the trouble to assemble the data and it is scattered from Dan to Beersheba. Collecting this material will be a task of the joint, committee, if such com mittee is organized. j ()NE reason wny 8 Joint com mittee is advisable is the inherent jealousy of the differ ent bureaus. Every bureau wants credit for its accomplish ments and has no desire to sur render the fruits of its efforts and see the glory go to some one else. Only by being credited for results is a bureau's exist- tence justified. There has never been much teamwork in federal agencies, whether they are bur eaus or departments represented (Continued on Page Pour.) STATE PROPERTY TAX LEVY LOOMS Salem, Nov. 27. (IP) A pro perty tax for state purposes, the first in three years, will be levied in 1940 because the in come taxes will not raise enough to meet the state's expenses, the state tax commission said today. The levy will total $301,203 and will go into the state's gen eral fund. The last property tax for state purposes was levied in 1937. The commission also announc- ' ed the property tax for elemen tary schools would total $1,798. 184 next year, compared with $1,801,442 this year. This tax is collected within the counties and remains in the counties. The Jackson county property tax levy amounts to $9,297, the elementary school tax, $55,505. Liner Commandeered. Shanghai, Nov. 27. (IP) The British admiralty has comman deered the 21,517-ton Canadian . Pacific passenger liner Empress of Canada, it was, stated here ' today. : Jv . SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Adults enjoying the Craterian mystery Santa Claus as much as the children, and Impresario George Hunt hdving more fun than anyone else. Sherf Syd Brown having a busy time when left In the office by himself, he trying to take care of business callers, jangling telephones and the press all at the same time. Don Krous getting off with only a few eye-brow stitches and k ' swollen phiz after looping-the-loop in a friend's car at Redding, Cai. A m flUFRTI IRMx I nuiu uiLiiiumiUfii ELIZABETH YOUNG. F DAUGHTER, KILLED Tragedy Near Poor Farm on Highway Late Sunday Accident Cause Unknown Jackson county's worst auto mobile accident of the year late last night caused the death of two well-known Medford wo men, a mother and her daugh ter Elizabeth L. Young, about 52, private secretary to Walter H. Leverette, and Dorothy R. Young, 30, a teacher in the Med ford senior high school. Returning home from a Thanksgiving day visit in San Francisco with Patricia Young, Mrs. Young's other daughter. their 1937 Buick coupe left the Pacific highway a quarter of a mile south of the county poor farm and overturned in a ditch. Rushed to a Medford hospital, Mrs. Young died at 12:40 a. m. today, less than an hour after the accident. Her daughter, Dor othy, died at 1:35 a. m. No witnesses There were no witnesses to the fatal mishap and the exact cause of the accident is not known. However, investigating state police officers believe that whichever woman was driving apparently dozed at the wheel. Tire tracks, police said, indi cated that the car traveled for a distance of 290 feet along the shoulder of the highway before coming to a stop on a drive way into an orchard. The machine, badly wrecked and with both doors ripped off, probably overturned several times before stopping, police said. It was lying on the left side of the highway, facing east, when police arrived at the scene. Both women were thrown clear of the wreckage. Mrs. Young was lying just on the edge of the highway 17 feet from the car, while her daugh ter was 54 feet north of the machine and in the ditch. Warren E. Fichtner of 613 South Holly street, was the first at the scene of the accident. He had been to Talent and was returning to Medford when he noticed the wrecked car, he said. Time of the accident was definitely determined as being about 11:55, as Fichtner said that he had passed the spot 10 minutes before while driving south. Upon investigating, Fichtner found that Mrs. Young was still conscious. "She kept telling me to turn her over," Fichtner said, "but nobody moved her until the ambulance came." Miss Young was unconseious, though still alive, he said. Ambulances Called Perl's ambulance from Med ford and the Litwiller ambu lance from Ashland were sum moned from the county poor farm. Arthur Larsen, driver of the Perl ambulance, said that Mrs. Young told him what hos pital to be taken to and what doctor to notify, although she didn't reveal the cause of the mishap. Miss Young was taken to the hospital in the Litwiller ambulance. All efforts to save their lives proved futile. Mrs. Young suf fered two broken legs, a broken lower jaw, a fractured left shoulder, internal injuries and severe head lacerations. Miss Young died of a skull fracture, Visit With Kin Mrs. Young and her daughter had left here Wednesday morn ing for San Francisco, where they visited over the Thanks- (Continued on Page Five.) Jackson Roads In Next Highway Bids Salem, Nov. 27. (IP) Bids on 15 highway projects costing $1,000,000 will be opened by the state highway commission in Portland December 7 and 8. Projects include: Jackson county surfacing with bituminous macadam on 6.31 miles of Siskiyou-state line section of Pacific highway. Jackson county Provide 7, 600 cubic yards of crushed rock on Siskiyou Junction-Klamath county line rock production project on Creen Springs highway. Uncarded Thrill I i O fi if A After fainting on a platform 40 feet above the floor of the Boston Garden, Henrietta Wal lenda of the Wallenda tight rope troupe it shown being lowered to safety. She was balancing on shoulders of a fellow performer, who was in turn balancing on a chair on the rope when the spell seized her. She fought for con sciousness until she was lowered to the platform, then collapsed. Twelve thousand attending American Legion circus saw the unscheduled thriller. SECY. HULL BACKS ICE Washington, Nov. 27. (IP) Secretary Hull used the words of Prime Minister Chamberlain today in renewing his argument that unhindered trade is a neces sary foundation for any lasting peace. Asked for comment on the British premier's radio address yesterday, Hull issued a state ment saying he was "gratified but not surprised to find that Mr. Chamberlain should emph size so strongly the idea that there can be no lasting peace unless there is a full lasting trade between nations' and that 'only by an increased inter change of goods and services can the standard of living be improved . Saying the administration's trade agreements program had been developed in an effort to increase prosperity and employ ment at home, Hull added if the philosophy of the program were put aside and "our trade policy is again to be determined solely by the short-sighted and mis taken claims of particular inter ests ' determined to win a com pletely favored position for themselves" then this country would fall again into the dis orderly depression that followed the Hawley-Smoot tariff." The existing reciprocal trade program is scheduled to expire next June. Considerable oppo sition to the program has de veloped on Capital hill and any move to continue the plan may provoke a major legislative bat- FLU EPlLHC IN The flu epidemic is gradually lessening its hold on Medford public school students and en rollment figures are increasing, City School Superintendent E. H. Hedrick said today. A check today disclosed that 300 students in the six public schools were absent, as com pared with 617 forced to remain home a week ago. Today's absence-figure is approximately 15 per cent of the total normal en rollment, as compared with the 25 per cent of last Monday. By schools, the absences were listed as follows: senior high, 50; Junior high, 65; Jackson. 57; Lincoln. 44; Roosevelt, 80 and Washington, 84. TO BE 'HELPFUL' AS Un-American Probe Hears Charge Communists Raid Colleges And Schools. Washington, Nov. 27. (IP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said today she was willing to be a Dies committee witness if she had any information which might be helpful. She made the remark at a press conference about the same time Hampden Wilson, an in vestigator for the house com mittee on unAmericanism, was testifying the American student union was an instrument used for spreading communism among students. The First Lady, who has ad dressed the American Youth Congress said repeatedly she did not believe it was commun ist-controlled, was replying to a suggestion from Alfred M. Lili enthal of New York that she and he appear as opposing wit nesses on the subject. (The American student union is one of several organizations making up the American Youth Congress.) Mrs. Roosevelt told her press conference she would not care to take sides as a witness in opposition to Lilienthal, who led a group which split off from the American Youth Congress, but she added: . "I would answer anybody's questions asked in the Interest of truth." Asked if the Dies committee, which several times has had her name brought into its hearings, ever had asked her any ques tions, Mrs. Roosevelt said never. When a reporter asked if she would volunteer to testify be fore the committee the first lady asked why should she and re plied certainly not. Wilson said a report which he submitted at a committee hear ing was based on an eight month tour of 50 colleges and universities and discussions with state and city school board mem bers. The investigator, who was lent to the committee by the veterans' administration, also read into the record what he said were excerpts from "The Communist" a magazine of the communist party, which de clared "how important" it was "to build the American Feder ation of Teachers." The excerpt was read, Wilson testified, "to show the real sig nificance attaching to the re peated assertion that the Ameri can Federation of Teachers is strongly impregnated with com munists." Wilson asserted he had made contacts with the following in stitutions and individuals, among others, in his nationwide investigation. Reed college, Portland, Ore gon; University of Washington, Seattle; School Authorities of Seattle; chamber of commerce, Spokane. T TAKES OWN LIFE Grants Pass. Nov. 27. (IP) P. Edward Raney, 62, farmer, fired a rifle bullet through his head Sunday before noon at his home two miles from Pro volt on the Williams highway. Coroner Virgil E. Hull stated Monday that he committed sui cide. Saturday night, Del Raney of Los Angeles, his wife, arrived with her son - in - law. Jack Thomas, Hull said he learned. At 10 o'clock Sunday morning he persuaded them to buy some ice cream. His body was found In his bedroom along with two loaded rifles and a loaded pistol. Raney had lived five years on the Provolt farm. He had j been ill the previous week. Two daughters survive Bee I Thomas. Los Angeles, and Ethel Miles, San Gabriel, Cal. Candidates Hit Washington, Nov. 27. (IP) City officials, now worrying about federal Income tax blanks along with the aver age citizen, got the answers to a new stickler today. Under a new law. state and city officials must pay income tax to the federal government. City attorneys were told at a meeting that the internal revenue bureau had ruled that: "A candidate's contribu tions to his own campaign are not deductible for federal income tax purposes." "The accounts expended by a public official for enter taining, etc., arc not consid ered ordinary and necessary business expenses." SEA LOSSES WITH IT Full Fury U-Boat War Yet To Come Polish Liner, Warship Sunk in N. Sea. London, Nov. 27. (IP) The admiralty disclosed tonight that the armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi, the sinking of which was announced yester day, was attacked by the Gcr mon pocket battelship Deutsch land and another raider. The announcement said search for the two Nazi warships "is continuing in tempestuous wea ther both night and day." The 16,687 -ton Rawalpindi was on northern patrol duty at the time she was sunk with the estimated loss of 280 lives Only 17 members of her crew were saved. Rotterdam, Nov. 27. (IP) The Holland-Amerika line re ported tonight an elderly Amer ican woman identified as Mrs. Stephen Goebl was killed to day when the line's 8,859-ton freighter Spaarndam sank after striking a mine in the Thames estuary. Her American address was not immediately known, By the Associated Press. Intensification of the already severe war at sea was presaged today with new sinkings and a British order in council for seizure of German exports. Even as King George VI issued the order in reprisal for German mine-laying, more Brit ish ships went to the bottom and admiralty officials marked down last week- the 12th week of the war as the most costly at sea 29 ships lost. That the 13th week prom- (Contlnued on Pago Five.) E, FEB. 29 Washington, Nov. 27. (IP) The federal crop insurance cor poration announced today Feb ruary 29 would be the dead line for accepting applications from farmers for government insurance on ncx year's spring wheat crop. County agricultural adjust ment committees In the spring wheat area are ready to start writing insurance applications. Premium payments must ac company applications this year, officials said. Approximately 60,000 grow ers of spring wheat had policies on their 1939 crop. Officials expect this number to be In creased sharply under the 1940 wheat program. They reported that already 302,000 wheat growers, mostly producers of winter wheat, have paid pre miums on 1940 policies. These growers are Insured a produc tion of 83,198,000 bushels. Portland, Nov. 27. (IP) Orr Lyda J. Brown, 18, Eugene, 1939 4-H club cooking cham pion of Oregon, will compete December 1-9 in Chicago with other state champions in a na tional contest 2 STATES REACH T California -Oregon Modify License Rules Affecting Trucks And Workers. Salem, Nov. 27. 4IP) Cali fornia and Oregon motor vehicle administrators reached an agree ment here today whereby they would grant reciprocity to each other in connection with the op eration of cars and trucks be tween the two states. They agreed that if a resi dent ot one state accepts gain ful employment in another state but does not establish residence in the other state, he does not have to get a license in that state. This particularly favors migratory farm laborers. Foreign corporations of one state with branch offices in the other state do not have to have their trucks licensed in both states if the trucl-s carry on an interstate business exclusively. For instance, a California cor poration may have a branch in Oregon and trucks connected with that branch would be li censed In Oregon Under today's agreement, these trucks could enter California without getting California licenses if the trucks were conducting business in In terstate commerce. But If they carried on intrastate business in California, they would be li censed In that state as well as in Oregon. . - . They also agreed that trucks carylng potatoes from the Tule Lake district of California to San Francisco via Klamath Falls have to be licensed In California because this is busi ness .conducted solely, within California. These trucks gener ally have Oregon licenses, and the owners have objected to the requirement that they must get California plates. those attending the meetlne today included Assistant Attor ney General Wilmer Morse of Sacramento, Motor Vehicle Di rector Howard Philbrick of Sa cramento, motor vehicle direc tor C. H. Gunn of Denver, Colo.; state patrolman George Ellis Jr., of Sacramento; motor ve hicle director Dave Cohn of Olympla, Wash.; Secretary of ouue r.an oncu ot Salem, and superintendent of state police Charles P. Pray of Salem, San Francisco, Nov. 27. (IP) Twenty-five leaders of Califor nia agriculture met in executive session today to discuss what Holmes Bishop, president of the Associated Farmers, described as the "present and future in regard to the movement of Cali fornia produce to and from wa terfronts. The meeting was called by Associated Farmers as an out growth of the current labor con troversy which has tied up the San Francisco and Oakland docks. Press and public were barred from the meeting, Bishop stating he feared "these men might not unburden themselves fully if they knew the press was pres ent, but there is no desire on our part to squelch news." CATCH OF SILT Portland, Ore., Nov. 27. (IP) Smelt fishermen moaned to day that there were no fish in the Columbia river, and even If it was packed, nets gummed up by pulp from paper mills would be too expensive to clean. Usually the river Is full of the tasty little fish at this time of year, fishermen said, but low water has prevented a run up stream this fall. A few rains would clean up the stream and bring fish, they added, Bioff Surrenders r UMiiMiiii.iiiiiii m" iliiWHr' I U f William Bioff, western repre sentative of AFL motion picture studio unions is shown as he surrendered in Los Angeles on a warrant from Chicago asking his arrest on a pandering charge on which it was asserted Bioff was convicted 17 years ago but had failed to serve his sentence. Bioff denounced the charge as a "frameup". He surrendered shortly before he was to. have begun wage negotiations on be half of 23,000 workers. E MENACE NOT AS BAD AS 1917, MACKENZIE SAYS By Dewltt McKenile (Associated Press Writer) It was a bad week-end for Bri tain at sea, with the loss of two more big ships the Polish liner Pilsudski which was chartered by England, and the armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi but there was no indication the plague of mines was any worse. In assaying the extent of this very definite menace which the Nazis have thrown In the way of the allies, we should remember the German mine and submarine campaign in the World war was much more severe in late 1916 and early 1917 than it is now. That was the period when Admiral Jellicoe, commander-in-chief of the grand fleet, told the prime minister the loss of shipping alone might soon force the allies to conclude peace. Be sides the unrestricted U-boat warfare, the kaiser's submarines were laying their mine-eggs in clusters like caviar. The allies had a tough time, but the ultimate answer was that the kaiser ceased to be the all highest mine-layer and became the exile or Doom. British Pre mier Chamberlain last night de clared none of the recent losses had affected Britain s over whelming naval superiority" and asserted England would soon master the mine. The really new aspect of this situation thus far apparently barring possible technical impro mcnts in the mines is that the Germans have been laying mines from seaplanes, which does pre sent an entirely fresh problem for the allies. They must figure out a way of combatting this smart innovation before they can clear the seas of mines. The British navy undoubtedly will get some easement from this mode of mine-laying during the next few months. From Novem ber to March there are constant and heavy fogs over the English channel and the North sea, The fogs frequently get so bad that visibility Is only a few feet. Air pilots have to do a great deal of "blind-flying" and minelaylng from seaplanes will not be easy. Commonwealth Plans, Portland, Nov. 27. (IP) Farm, labor and pension prob lems will be discussed by 300 Oregon Commonwealth Federa tion members at a December 9 10 convention here, Secretary Monroe Swectland said Satur day. Wool Mart Moderate Boston, Nov. 27. (AP-USDA) A moderate amount of busi ness was being transacted in the Boston wool market today. MJnn.mj m '--.s5 1 FATE OF POLAND. Red Soldiers Killed in Border Incident; Press Fans Tur moil; Ultimatum is Sent. Helsinki, Nov. 27. (IP) Fin land told Soviet Russia today she was willing to negotiate on a demand for withdrawal of Finnish troops from the bor der on condition that the Red army likewise withdraws. A Finnish note forwarded to . the minister In Moscow for de livery to the Kremlin said in vestigation had shown there was no firing from the Finnish side yesterday, as alleged In a So viet note, but that It had been learned there had been firing from the Russian side of the border. The Soviet note had alleged that 13 Red soldiers and of ficers had been killed or wound ed by seven Finnish cannon . shots at Mainila, north of Len ingrad. The Finnish reply said shell holes made by Red artillery could be seen 800 meters (over 700 yards) from the frontier on the Russian side and that seven shots had been heard. Moscow, Nov. 27. (IP) Soviet Russian troops, in mass meetings after a "border Incident" yester day in which Finnish artillery allegedly killed or wounded IS red army soldiers, today urged the government to "adopt strict est measures." The meetings were held as Moscow awaited an answer to an ultimatum-like note in which Russia demanded Finland with draw her border garrisons to prevent a repetition. It was de livered last night to the Finnish minister, Baron Aarno Yrjo Kostine. The press campaign against Finland was strikingly similar to that which preceded the In vasion of Poland and no mention was made in the newspapers or over the .radio of the denial Is sued in Helsinki that Finns had fired on the Russians. The nrefls wa flllH with - u resolutions rushed through mass meetings of workers on night Shifts. UrVltlS nmnn, U .... --- "'"""ft wild things in denunciation of Fin- iana mat tne Soviet union "re ply with a triple blow." iney reiterated the Soviet union's demand that the Finns Withdraw their trnnru fmm h frontier, stating that otherwise we win tnrow them out." Some warned that if th. pp.,.,. were unvlelrlinir "u. mill the lesson given to Polish pan viuuuiorasj. Finnish leaden of fulfilling orders of their ifn- periansiic masters -presumably Great Britain and France. a Troons in th Mnnww 4l...l4 adopted resolutions declaring mere is a limit of patience" and requestlne the unuflmma. H "bridle provocations of war." I en days were enough to con quer Poland," the resolutions sternly reminded Finland, which was left facing the dubious alter native of complying with the Russian demand or risking the wrath of the mighty neighbor whose proposals for territorial concessions she hn itnniu re sisted. While asserting that Russia was "not inclined to magnify this abominable act of attack," the Russian note demanded Fin land withdraw her troops "with out delay" a distance of 12 to 18 miles from the Soviet frontier on the Karelian Isthmus. Continued troop concentration at this point, the note said, "not only creates a menace to Lenin grad, but Is in fact a hostile act against the U.S.S.R." (The Finnish border on the Karelian Isthmus, which lies be tween the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, is only about 30 miles from Leningrad.) Army Filer Killed Mt. Clemens, Mich., Nov. 27. W) Second Lieutenant Har vey E. Griegcr, of the army air corps, was killed today in the crarh of a pursuit plane he was piloting In maneuvers of a group from SelXridgt field near her.