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The Weather Foreout Cnttlm Kith rain Sunday and Monday, little change In temperature. TniM"ratiire Hlslie-t esterd:i...... 48 LuHc&t )tmy ,, a. Keep Posted flood morning . . . Th clutf fled la waiting for you . . . One ran neier tell what will apprar on this page . . . Alwa.ve aome tiling nf Interrtt however . . . Take a little time now . . . keep posted. MEDFORD Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year JUfciDFUKU, UKUUUJN, SUMDA1, DtiUriJMbtiK 3, 1939. No. 218. r FBfS fjyjL r- 1 -ll raws HIM Washington, D. C, Dec. 2. Some fine day the campus of TT-.1. .....!.. Wncltt nnfnn University, Reed- College and : f i,;nun. learning in the Pacific North west will be buzzing over dis closures of the Dies committee on un-American activities, with particular reference to the American Student Union, Amer ican Federation of Teachers and American Youth Congress. With out a brass band, a very quiet survey has been conducted by at least one government official. Aside from the debatable question of when an individual is no longer a "youth" but a young man or woman (oldsters have been prominent in the American Youth Congress) the committee expects to be told that there is more genuine Americanism in a meeting of a 4-H club, a basket-ball game or a football classic than in ses sions of communist-controlled American Youth Congress with its denunciation of Hitlerism but not Stalinism, and that the American Student Union is as dominated by communists as is Ambassador Cumansky, who takes his orders from the Com intern. MOT many members of the students' union have been reported in the Oregon-Washington institutions, but they are represented here and there. The committee will be informed that these students are identified with opposition to ROTC, with demanding representation on l-UMCfiC ajJCl, Willi Lt IklLlSllI of the faculty (except such facul ty members as are at least "pink") and go off the campus to participate in industrial strife. (In the national capital they join picket lines; formerly participated in demonstrations against the German and Italian embassys). Briefly, the members of the students' union are agitators, are not active in the athletic life but strong for picking flaws In the American system. Some are members of the communist party, others "fellow travelers". Witnesses scheduled to appear are prepared to connect the American Student Union as closely to Moscow as is Earl Browder, American-boarn head man of the party in the United States, or the abolished WPA writers' project. . jLIERE is something a few gov- ernmcnt officials are keep ing under their hat for the pres ent: How to take from the farm ers $225,000,000 for parity pay ments (now coming from the treasury) and 'use this money for national defense and at the same time devise a scheme which will give the farmers the money and keep them satisfied. The solution, if any, touches the pocketbook of every wheat grower of Washington and Ore gon. The money for parity pay ments is a drain on the treasury, because congress refused to look for some source to tax to meet these payments. This failure of congress has been criticized by the president but he could not veto the appropriation because he has no power to veto single items. Now that Mr. Roosevelt intends asking for two billion dollars (at least) from the next session to bolster the armed forces, tapping the treasury for a quarter-billion for parity pay ments is one place he hopes to make a saving. IContlnued orj Page Eleven) No Quake Damage Seattle, Wash., Dec. 2. (IP) The recent earthquake thnt rocked the northwest failed to damage the 450-foot unsupport ed towers of the Tacoma Nar rows bridge, the U. S. depart ment of commerce said today. Nehalem Logger Hurt Tillamook. Dec. 2. iPi Henry Rcust. 45. Nehalem log ger, was in serious condition to day from multiple injuries in flicted by a falling tree at the Markham and Callow logging camp. sua mm HEAVY LOSS IN STUBBORN FIGHT Petsamo, Chief Artie .Post Retaken Plan L of N Ap pealScorn Puppet Rule. (By the Associated Press) mutual assistance pact last (Sat- tirHavl nioht with thp COmmu- nist-sponsored Finnish "peoples" government wnue ner army ie ported new gains against the stubbornly fighting Finns. The pact with the Soviet-recognized "Democratic Republic of Finland" gave Joseph .Stalin all the things he had asked of the Helsinki government before Viictiiiiios f a r t p d. including sweeping territorial changes, islands for naval Dases in me Gulf of Finland and a military agreement. Helsinki, Sunday, Dec. 3. (P)Embattled Finland, proclaiming anew her deter mination to remain indepen dent, decided today to lay her case before the League of Nations as her stubbornly fighting troops withdrew slowly in the face of over whelming Russian invaders. Military authorities said Finnish forces fell back along the border in the Karelian peninsula, abandoning five villages, after inflicting "heavy losses" on the red army legions. The decision to refer to the league the question of Finnish-Russian relations w a s reached during two meetings of the cabinet presided over by Premier Risio Ryii. The new foreign minister ex pressed the hope that Finland and Russia might yet return to peaceful relations but added: "Anyone who believes, the Finnish can be bought, by threats of force, to make con cessions that would mean the loss of liberty is mistaken." (At Kirkenes, Norway, refu gees said the Finns had recap tured Petsamo, their chief Arc tic port, from the Russians after an all-night march in the snow). "The aggressors suffered heavy losses," a military com munique said. "The enemy made several attempts to cap ture our positions but the troops have been able in most cases to throw them back. The hardest fighting of the day was at Suo jarvi (about 50 miles north of Lake Ladoga on the Russian Finnish border.)" The Finns said they withdrew from Jappinen, Maitonen, Sirk lal, the island of Saaroinen and Terijoki. (By the Associated Press) Finland fought back fiercely yesterday (Saturday) in defense of her homeland and reported signal success in the Arctic Pet samo district while in the south her troops withdrew before the crush of Russian manpower to the prepared defense positions of the Mannerheim line. On that line, miles of pill (Continued on Page Seven ) Portland. Ore., Dec. 2. W) Charles B. Welch, managing edi tor of the Tacoma News-Tribune, and A. E. Voorhies, pub lisher of the Grants Pass, Ore., Courier, were elected chairmen of the Washington and Oregon organizations of Associated Press newspapers today. About 40 representatives of Associated Press member papers from Oregon, Washington and Idaho attended the one-day regional conference and dis cussed their mutual problems. Among the delegates was William H. Cowles, Spokane publisher who is a national dl rector of the Associated Press. Voorhies succeeded Claude E. Ingails, publisher of the Cor ral I is Gazette-Times, as Oregon chairman. Welch was re-elected 1 Washington chairman. Russian Incendiary Bombs Set Finnish Capital Afire kSl,. rJtXV t-- " ' . jtsitasts . Parts of Helsinki (above), capital of Finland were reported in flames after Russian bomb ing planes had attacked the Baltic city in Europe s latest undeclared war. The Finnish radio reported ten Soviet planes had been shot down. Many civilians were reported killed or In jured, Shown here is a view of part of the city and the harbor. Helsinki, Dec. 2. (,'P) Only the clatter of workmen's shovels, the hiss of water from fire men's hoses and the commands of soldiers were heard today as debris-cleaning squads took charge of a bomb-wrecked section of Helsinki that two days ago was a flourishing business center teeming with life. Two days of invasion by Soviet Russians had left Helsinki badly scarred by air attack. i T CALLED TRAGEDY, TRADEJACTS HIT Gannett Says Roosevelt Will Seek Third Term,' . And Be Hard To Defeat. Salt Lake City, Dec. 2. (P) Western agriculturists repeated their condemnation of recipro cal trade treaties today at a conference which heard Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y.,' assert President Roosevelt must be prevented from sitting in the White House a third term "if we are going to save the Amer ica we love." "It is a tragedy," said Gan nett, eastern newspaper pub lisher, "that this magnificent country, with all its resources, should be ruined by a lot of crackpots in Washington." He predicted without qualifi cation that President Roosevelt would seek a third term. He said he believed it would be "a tough job" to defeat the president but asserted it could be done if the Republicans nominate a popular candidate and drafted the "right kind" of platform and educa tional campaign. Representatives of general farming and livestock interests Joined in urging abandonment of the reciprocal treaties. They made their observations at a conference called by four Re publican congressmen who said the session was designed to de termine needs of western agri culture. The four, representatives Hor ton of Wyoming Hope of Kan sas, Dworshak of Idaho and Al len of Illinois, will conduct a similar conference at Denver, Colo., next Monday and Tues day. Gannett said he believed a successful Republican platform should include pledges of non participation in the European war, preservation of constitu tional government, return of idle men and idle money to work, termination of planned economy, improvement of the condition of farmers, miners and lumbermen, and stabiliza tion of the commodity price level. Cement for Coulee. Portland, Ore., Dec. 2. fP) The bulk carrier Santacruzce mcnt finished delivery of 300, 000 barrels of cement for Grand Coulee dam here tonight. Salmon All Transplanted Washington, Dec. 2. (IF) CKarlcs E. Jackson, acting com missioner of fisheries, advised Secretary Ickes today the fish eries bureau had completed suc cessfully the transplanting of thousands of Columbia rivt-r salmon prevented from reaching their old spawning frnunds by the massive Coulee dam in Washington sJSaSiesSfciSitsIa U-BOAT WARFARE FAILS TO CRIPPLE S Losses Small Price For " Complete Blockade Nazi Ships Captured, Sunk. London, Dec. 2. (IP) An au thoritative announcement as serted tonight that Britain's big navy had "enabled 21,000,000 tons of British shipping to keep to the seas with a loss of just four percent of her total naval tonnage" in three months of war. This declaration followed closely the disclosure of another loss of mines in waters around England, the sinking of the 8,010-ton British tanker San Calisto off the southeast const. Two of her crew were killed, seven injured, and 35 landed unhurt. Balanced against this was the capture of two Gbrman vessels, the 2,185-ton steamer Eilbek and the 215-ton trawler Sophie Busse, and the reported scut tling of the 9,521-ton German liner Watussl by her own crew. The crew of an unnamed ad miralty trawler reported the sinking of a nazi submarine and possibly a second off the cast coast this week. After sinking the first U-boat, the crew said they attacked another with depth bombs and that oil patches indicated they had been successful. The Watussi was run ashore south of Cape Point, Union of South Africa, by her German crew after being intercepted by South African bombers. Her 35 passengers and crew of 127 were rescued. This was the eighth German steamer beached or scuttled to avoid capture. The British statement said that Germany had "put out of action through sinking only about 53,000 tons of British war ships and the most important units in the group were a quar ter of a century old." , The statement said Britain had 1,500,000 tons of war craft of all types at the start of the war and added this "makes no allowance for completions from one of the most extensive build ing programs the world has ever seen." Naval losses were described as "part of the price for remov ing from active participation In world trading of some 4,500.000 tons of German shipping . . . and bottling up except for spas modic raids and general pirat ical work of the whole of Ger man naval forces." Ex Mayor Succumbs. Oregon City. Ore., Dec. 2. 141 Guy C. Pclton, 65. former mayor of Oregon City, died last night of injuries suffered Wed nesdoy when he was struck by a truck. 21 FACE NAZI EXILE TO EASTPOLAND Deportation To New Hitler State Will Be Completed By April Gestapo Busy, Berlin, Dec. 2. lP) Nearly 2,000,000 Jews in greater Ger many and Poland will be trans ferred to the Jewish reservation in eastern Poland, set apart by Adolf Hitler, authoritative sources said today. The transfer of these people to a segregated district around Nisko on the San river, a small Polish town on the new German-Soviet Russian demarca tion line, is being carried out under Hcindrich Hlmmlcr, head of the S.S. (Elite Guard) and chief of all German police. Besircs, approximately 1,500, 000 Polish Jews are to be evict ed forcibly from their homes in cities and villages which are to become parts of the new Pol ish state devised by Hitler. The Gestapo, or secret police, has laid upon the Jewish com munity in each town or village the responsibility for organiz ing and financing the exodus. Each reported Jew may take along 300 marks ($120), only such personal belongings as will go into a large suitcase, and essential household goodf, es pecially bedding, cooking uten sils and such tools that would be useful in building barracks and primitive homes. Towns and villages of the region around Nisko are being abandoned as quickly as pos sible by Poles, Germans and Ukrainians, and the dwellings. many showing the effects of the German-Polish war, turned over to the Jews. The Jews are to be strictly segregated from the rest of the people under Ger man jurisdiction. Germany hopes to complete the resettlement movement by April 1, next. E' Aberdeen. Dec. 2. (IP) A crowd of 400 pickets. appearing at a Grays Harbor communist "victory dance" tonight smashed windows and broke in the doors to the workers while two blocks away, 500 Finnish-American citizens observed the 22nd an niversary of Finland's independ ence at a relief meeting. After breaking in the door of the hall, known locally as "Red Hull" the crowd tore down pic tures of Earl Browder and Jo sef Slnlin. The scheduled dance failed to materialize ENTRY IN RACE OUT OF ORDINARY Not A Politician, But In The Spotlight Often First Speech Tuesday. New York. Dec. 2. OP) A presidential candidacy as ex traordinary in some respects as any in the country's history has been launched with the entry of Thomas E. Dewey into the field for the Republican nomination. Dewey, 37, is one of the youngest ever to enter the presidential lists; he never has held an office higher than his present post as district attorney of Manhattan; he has no na tional "record" as a politician; and is not identified by the public with any wing of the Republican party, right or left. Set against this, however, Is the fact that in a series of spectacular victories as a prose cutor he has moved for nearly five years under a spotlight of national publicity, and the fur ther fact that he came so close in 1038 to defeating the veteran Governor Herbert H. Lehman, a Democrat, that the rival po litical managers were atrcmble all election night. In Washington, Senator Wheel er (D., Mont.) predicted Dewey "will make a very formidable candidate but he will never be nominated." He looked for the Republican choice to fall upon some ultra-conservative and said "youth and inexperience" will be held against Dewey, Most Republican legislators In the capital indicated they would withhold comment until Dewey makes public his view on na tional issues. He has several speeches scheduled, the first for Minneapolis December 6. E T Portland, Dec. 2. (P) Fin land has a chance to turn back the armed might of Russia, Arno Dosch-Fleurot, war cor respondent and former Portland reporter, declared today. " The Russian army Isn't the German army," Dosch Flcurot said. "I campaigned with the Russian army during the World war, and while there is a different type of govern ment now, the character of the Russian soldier hasn't changed. The Russ army has a terrible driving forct! It has always had but If It is stopped It crumples." Dosch - Fleurot predicted a long war and added that "the German-Russian alliance Is like ly to last for some time." BULLETIN Honolulu, T. H Dec. 2. (U.R) Fresno State college of Cali fornia today walloped Univer sity of Hawaii, 38-2, in a foot ball game before 21.000 in Honolulu stadium. Portland, Ore., Dec. 2. V) The University of Oregon bask etball team, successor to the national championship outfit of 1938-30, ran the legs off the Multnomah athletic club cagcrs I tonight and won, 59 to 22. The webfoou, no longer as tall as the lofty crew of last season but seemingly every bit as fast, raced tirelessly up and down the court until the club men gasped for breath. They were ahead at halftlme, 25-10 and might have blanked the clubbers had not Garber of Multnomah whipped in three long shots and a free throw in the last couple of minutes. In the last half the Ducks continued to pile up scores with everybody sharing in the point making. Matt Pavalunas was high for the Oregonlans with nine. Garber made 11 for the club team. REPUBLICAN I War Bulletins Stockholm. Sweden, Dec. 3 (Sunday) (U.R) A dispatch from Helsinki in the news paper Dagens Nyheters today said that 50 airplanes purch ased In Italy had arrived in Finland. Delivery of the planes, it was said, was speeded up be cause of the Soviet invasion. Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 3 (Sunday) (U.R) The news paper Dagens Nyheters re ported today that a Soviet airplane had dropped a bundle of pamphlets outside Helsinki threatening mass bombing of the Finnish capital unless it surrendered unconditionally. The report, contained in dispatch from Helsinki, said the pamphlets were dropped yesterday. Molotov's threats, according to the dispatch, said 800 Soviet planes would bomb the capital if the demand for surrender were rejected. The newspaper's Helsinki correspondent said that the Finnish cabinet met all day Saturday in the Vaults of the National Bank of which Pre mier Risto Tysti is governor. There was no confirmation, the newspaper said, of ru mors that the government would move to Vsa, 250 miles northwest of Helsinki on the Gulf of Bothnia. T U.S. RECOGNITION OF REDS IN 1933 Washington, Dec. 2. IP) Rep. Knutson (R.-Minn.) said in a statement tonight the Roose velt administration was at least partly to hlame for "the tragic course of events In the relations of Finland and Russia." "It Is quite understandable why the administration is ob viously embarrassed," Knutson said. His statement was issued through the Republican national committee. , The Minnesotan declared that the administration had strength ened the hand of Stalin, Rus sian dictator, by officially rec ognizing Russia In 1933. He concluded with a declara tion that "no offer of good of fices or pious expressions of sympathy will enable the ad ministration to escape Its share of the responsibility for the tragedy that has overtaken Fin land." FOR GIRL ATTACK Spokane, Dec. 2. (JP) Guy White, Deep Creek service sta tion operator, was sentenced to day under a law Superior Judge Louis Bunge said was passed recently to make life Imprison ment mandatory for statutory offenses against girls under 15 years of age. i ne morals charge upon which White was found guilty Involved a 14-year-old domestic in the White home. Judge Bunge said he had received "15 or 20" letters from White's friends, urging leniency, but he had no alternative in pronounc ing sentence. Local Woman Hurt In Minor Accident Mrs. C. T. Steward, owner of Adrienne's store here, was confined in a Eugene hospital last night with minor injuries suffered when the car in which she was riding with Mr. Stew ard left the Pacific highway near Yoncalla and overturned late yesterday afternoon. According to meagre reports received here of the accident the steward automobile was forced off the highway by stage, after which it overturned several times, Mr. and Mrs. Steward had left Medford about 2 p.m. for Portland to transact business. Mr, Steward was not hurt . IPRESMFNT ASKS LE ON PLANHALES Reds Bombing of Civilians Hit Senators Talk of Cancelling Finland's Debt Washington, Dec. 2. (IP) President Roosevelt followed up his denunciation of the Soviet attack on Finland by serving clear notice today that Russia now falls under the ad ministration's "moral embargo" against sale of warplanes to nations bombing defenseless ci vilians. The chief executive named no countries in issuing a formal statement calling the attention of American airplane manufac turers to the official condem nation of nations "obviously guilty" of unprovoked aerial bombardment of civil centers. He did refer, however, to the recent recurrence of such acts." And within an hour. Secretary of State Hull made public ad vices from H. F. Arthur Schoen- field, American minister to Fin land, saying that he had per sonally witnessed indiscriminate. Russian bombing of Helsinki within three blocks of the Amer ican legation. The "moral embargo" has no force of law, but it was quickly apparent that the airplane in dustry in general would comply with it, as it has with a similar embargo on sale of warplane to Japan. Most major manufac turing companies immediately indicated that they would fol low the government's wishes, FDR's Statement The president statement said: "The American government and the American people have for some time pursued a policy of whole-heartedly condemning the unprovoked bombing and machine gunning of civilian populations from the air. "This government hopes, to the end that such unprovoked bombing shall not be given material encouragement in the light of the recent recurrence of such acts, that American manufacturers and exporters of airplanes, aeronautical equip ment and materials essential to airplane manufacture, will bear this fact in mind before nego tiating contracts for the expor tation of these articles to nations obviously guilty of such un provoked bombing." The government first invoked the "moral embargo" after the Japanese bombed unfortified Chinese cities. Japan was not mentioned by name at that time, but American plane man ufacturers stopped all sales to Japan. How damaging to Russia the (Continued on Page Seren ) IS FOR COMING WEEK Northern California: Fair Sunday but becoming cloudy in nort hportion tonight with light rain extreme north coast; cooler in north portion tonight; light northerly wind off coast. Oregon: Sunday cloudy with rain in western portion; little change In temperature; moder ate southerly wind off coast, in creasing tonight. Outlook far western states period Dec. 4-9, inclusive: Oc casional rain in Pacific North west and probably in northern California and plateau region middle of week; otherwise fair weather; temperature normal to slightly above normal. Find Swindler's Cache Washington, Dec. 2. (Pi Director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of investigation announced today that two $10, 000 bills found In a Minneapolis, Minn., safety deposit box had been identified as part of a $52,000. "race horse" swindle in which a wealthy Baltimore, Md., business woman was victimized at Harrlsburg, Pa., in April, 1038. Y
