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Thirty-fourth Year
JUfciDFUKU, UKUUUJN, SUMDA1, DtiUriJMbtiK 3, 1939.
No. 218.
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Washington, D. C, Dec. 2.
Some fine day the campus of
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University, Reed- College and
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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