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TVfe The Weather Forecast : Increailnf cloud Intel with Upht rain tonight and Wednesday, 1 1 1 h 1 1 warmer tonight. Temperature Highest yesterday A3 Lowest ttiti morning 25 Christmas Money Sell off pvrtonaj and other article you no longer need to be found around the home. In tltU way hate extra Chrtt tna money and at the unie time make Christ mai happier for other a. Medford 1K1UUJNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939. No. 220. Ml BUM ! i i IWif MBS at Ae I ATTACK ON lit r t" i,'?! i i n i .' ' NHMNjTL HELD OUTGROWTH : Clll RUSSO-NAZI PACT Washington, D. C, Dec. 5. Policy Committee this week with representatives of 50 eas tern power companies contains more than a potential threat to the prospective development of industry in Washington and Ore gon, with respect to utilization of energy from Bonneville and Grand Coulee. This committee, chairmaned by Secretary Ickes, and with most active advocates of gov- crnment-ownership as members, proposes creation of a super- grid or transmission system ex tending east from the Mississip pi river, with Chicago as its most westernly point. In this grid, as planned, will be all the public and private generating plants, hydro and steam, all pouring their electric energy into one gigantic pool. Ostensibly, the theory is to provide sufficient power for in- dustries needed for national de fense and to guard against stop page of vital power should an important plant be sabotaged or bombed. Another reason for the series of conferences is political. Sec retary Ickes and his group wish to avoid the power Issue (ad ' ministration nagging at the pri vate utilities) in the presidential campaign. I Continued on Page Six.) ADDIE HALLEY ESTATE VALUED AT $106,517; Appraisal of the estate of the late Addie Halley, filed with the county clerk today, lists the es tate value at $106,517.13. Ap praisers were M. N. Hogan, Oris Crawford, and M. A. Goldy. Bulk of the estate is in United States treasury bonds with realty values in this city placed at $52,400, including the Palace hotel property on South Central avenue. The remainder is in per sonal property and a bank de posit of $1500. Mrs. Halley in her will made J bequests to a brother and two sisters, to the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, two Medford churches, and two Medford Sunday schools, and trust funds of $500 each to the local fire department and police department, to be used as a Christmas fund for the regular members. Mrs. Halley was a resident of this city for nearly half a cen tury and widely known. Josephine Tax Levy Takes Slight Rise Grants Pass, Dec. 5. OP) Josephine county's tax levy will rise 1.1 mills to 22.5 mills in 1940. County Assessor Jns. J. McFadden estimated today. As sessed valuation rose $135,931 to $6,275,305 total. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Minnie Bryant getting the Christmas gift urge early and delivering a box of simply lus cious home-made candy to a friend. Lester Price denying to a group of friends that he keeps his thumb wrapped up to get out of a lot of work, but finally admitting the bandage was really retained to incrca.-e his ping-pong handicap. Magician John Eads not be ing able to solve the mystery concerning the Craterian Santa Claus workings. And Jack Matlack giggling to himself. Helen C'onroy simply fed up with various cuto antics of other persons' pet cat FINNS I British Foreign Secretary Says People Shocked By Bombing of Open Towns. Moscow, Dec. 5 (P) So viet Russia has given notice of withdrawal from sessions of the League of Nations call ed lo act on Finland's charge of aggression. Russia, in fact, construes the invitation as an insult. London, Dec. 5 (P) Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax today called the Russian invasion of Finland an "inexcusable act of aggression by one of the largest on one of the smallest" nations in Europe. The foreign secretary told the house of lords the Russian at tack was a direct outgrowth of the Germ&n-Russian agreement, and added: "Open towns have been bom barded, women and children mutilated and done to death on the pretext that a nation of un der four millions had hostile designs against one of 180 mil lions. "The British people have been profoundly shocked by the cir cumstances of the Soviet attack and they have profoundly ad mired the magnificent resist ance of the Finns." Halifax said the British posi tion would be made plain at the League of Nations session. Washington, Dec. 5. (P) Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, announced today the United States government had notified certain Latin-American nations it would be very glad to participate in a joint Pan American condemnation of Rus sia's invasion of Finland. Certain Latin - American na tions, which he did not name, have approached this govern ment in support, Welles said, of the principles of interna tional law and with reprobation (Continued oa Page Seven ) WOMAN IS SAVED BY Bingham, Utah, Dec. 5. (P) Lying abed, Mrs. E. L. Acker- man of lower Bingham felt that something fearful was about to happen. Uneasily, she left her bed and drew up a chair beside the kitchen stove. Instants later, she heard a great roar. A two-ton boulder, gathering speed and force in its descent of the steep hillside above the house, broke through the roof of the bedroom, demolished the bed and crumbled a dressing table. Then it rolled through the outer wall of the home and again into the darkness of the night. Soviet Mouthpiece Urges 'American Toilers' To Act Moscow, Dec. 5. VP) A com munist party organ today called upon "American toilers" to de feat the "war plans" of "Amer ican imperialism" and declared "the American communist party is actively preparing fulfillment of its historical task in the new international situation." The call was made in an art icle in the monthly magazine "Sputnik Agitators" the "Agi tator's Companion" an organ providing propaganda material for party lecturers and organ izers throughout the country. The article, signed by "N. Ross," was by far the most bit ter press attack against the United States yet to appear here. "President Roosevelt." said the article, "is more and more siding with the incendiaries of war. The United States govern - I inent U issuing extraordinary Chops Off Hand ' . . - . ' Elbert Snyder (above), 24, dis plays the stump of his right hand which he asserted "the Lord told me to cut off." Sny der said he had been careless in the use of a Sunday School paper and declared he didn't mind the pain. He is from Charleston, W. Va. SWEDEN ALARMED BY CALLS UP RECRUITS Stockholm, Dec. 5. (IP) - Sweden, in increasing alarm at the extent of the Soviet Russian incursion into Finland, called more troops to the colors today and for the first time acknowl edged "partial mobilization." About 40,000 men, including artillerymen, engineers and com mission detachments, were or dered into service, bringing to about 150,000 the number under arms as against a normal standing force of 20,000. The troops are for "wartime service," published notices said. Previous military orders re ferred only to "preparedness." The number of Swedes en listing in volunteer corps for service with the Finns passed 1,000 today, and more than 1,000,000 kronur ($240,000) was subscribed by citizens for their benefit. Sweden herself, however, con tinued to direct her efforts to ward neutrality, one official informant remarking, "We may be wealthy, but our forces are too small to send to the aid of another country." Finnish refugees reaching Haparanda, on the Swedish side of the frontier, related today they were machine-gunned by Russian planes which they rushed out to greet near Pet samo in the mistaken belief they were Red Cross craft. ROUTINE BUSINESS ON , CITY COUNCIL PROGRAM Only routine business is due to come before the semi-monthly meeting of the city council tonight at 7:30 in the council chambers of city hall. decrees which It is claimed arc directed against spies and sab oteurs but In reality are used against communists and all anti war forces. . . . "American toilers are faced with a great task that of crushing the war plans of a powerful f o e American im perialism." The Soviet Union observed a holiday in celebration of the third anniversary of the "Sta linist constitution" as the Rus sian armies and fleet battled Finland. Most of the press devoted IU space to praise of the consti tution and life in Russia and to attacks on capitalism. Pravda, the official commu nist party organ, said that "CM government exists without Mor I gans, Rockefellers. Nobels jr ; Rothschilds, and even without a i notorious Al Capone." E BACK AT IN BALTIC Paldiski Port Bombarded New Russ Attack on Hel sinki Feared Tomorrow. By Lynn Heinierling Helsinki, Dec. 5. W) Fin land was reported today to have struck back at Soviet Russia by air bombardment of Paldiski, the Baltic port which Russia leased from Estonia for a naval base. The reports lacked con firmation, however, and gave no details. Finns had declared Paldiski was the base for some of the Soviet planes which raided Hel sinki last week. (Dispatches from ttie Norwegian-Finnish frontier told of unconfirmed reports that 60 Russian planes had been de stroyed by Finnish fliers drop ping incendiary bombs at Mur mansk, Russia's Ice-free Arctic port. (The border reports also said three Soviet planes had raided Saimijaervi and nearby regions of northern Finland). Put Hope In Sweden Finnish hope aid might be forthcoming from Sweden was indicated by quick fortification of the Aaland islands which would keep open a sea route between the two nations. ' Helsinki's early winter night closed down after a quiet day which saw no resumption of air attacks on the capital, But Finns gloomily expressed fear that Soviet Russia might choose the 21st anniversary of Finnish in dependence tomorrow to un leash a new attack from the sky. Always observed with solem nity by the Finns, the indepen dence anniversary will have added significance as the sturdy northerners fight to preserve their freedom. Movement of civilians out of Helsinki to the interior is prac tically complete, but workmen still are hurriedly boarding up windows and doors. Russian Claims Hit A Finnish government spokes man, discussing Moscow's state ment that Russia is at peace with the Finnish people, de clared "The world's diplomatic history knows no document as cynical as this. "All that the Russian govern ment has to say about the gov ernment based on Finland's par liamentary system consists of lies and false allegations. "This document better than anything shows the real face of the Soviet government which declares itself the protector of small nations and creator of the independence and liberty of small nations." E Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 5. lP) Representatives of Gov. Bob Jones failed again today to ob tain possession of a note left by Winnie Ruth Judd, fugitive mad slayer, who still led offi cers on a wlll-o-the-wisp search. The mysterious communica tion to the governor is held by Mrs. H. J. McKinnell, aged mother of Mrs. Judd. Fourteen highway patrolmen were beating the brush today In a large area north of the hospital, in the belief Mrs. Judd might be hiding In orange groves. A woman was reported to have burglarized a house in that neighborhood last night SUB-POST OFFICE Post office Sub-Station No. 1. will be opened tomorrow at 31 North Bartlett street. The sta tion, which will be In charge of Edna Eifert, clerk, will be available to patrons from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily. Influenza Forces Rogue River To Suspend Schools Grants Pass, Nov. 5. (A) n influenza epidemic In Rogue River closed the grade Hid union high schools in the lackson county town east of nere today until at least n"xt Monday. Four of the ten teachers were among those II. Half the students at Murphy, south of here, were jbsent yesterday. The Rogue valley flu epi demic in the past three weeks has at times closed schools at Kerby, Medford and Talent. Locally, an epidemic which saw more than one-third of the Grants Pass pupils absent has practically disappeared. FLU EPIDEMIC El BUT PRESENT ATTACKS HIT SUFFERER HARDER A Medford physician stated this morning that approximately 75 per cent of the city's popu lation is either now suffering from influenza or just recently recovered from the disease. The physician stated that while the epidemic seems to be ebbing, those now in its clutches are suffering greater prostration and more complications than ap peared to be the case in the early stages of the onslaught. The county health office re ports that the epidemic in rural districts has not been as severe as in city districts-'and that the number of cases is dwindling. Hospitals report that they are filled to capacity with influenza cases and others. Another Medford medical man stated that a good rain would put an end to the epi demic almost immediately. The city school superintend ent's office reported the follow- ing number of students absent' today: Higli school, 63; junior L. I L. - 1 Oft Tl fin. '"8" "uui. oo, ddunwiii, i;,trated the front of his neck. Lincoln, 28; Roosevelt, 40 Washington 56. This is a con siderable drop from absentee figures of last week. NAZIS WARN TURKEY RUSSIA MAY ACT TO E NEAR EAST Berlin, Dec. 5. (P) French activity In the Near East and Turkey's pact with Britain and France are leading to counter measures, authorized sources in timated today, which may change the whole character of the present war and make Rus sia the decisive factor. This Intimation was seconded in a much franker editorial in today's Coelkischer Beobachter, principal Nazi party organ, Rus sia, according to this officially inspired view, can make history repeat Itself as exemplified in Alexander the Great's con quests. (Alexander the Great con quered huge sections of the Near East, Asia and Africa, including what now is Turkey, parts of India and Egypt.) The Voelkisehcr Beobachter published a long analysis of the strategic situation in the Near East, the obvious purpose of which was to let the Turks know they are betting on the wrong horse. ON WING FOR HOME Lisbon, Dec. 5. ff'i Joseph P. Kennedy, United States am bassador to London, departed for New York this morning on a trans-Atlantic clipper. (The London embassy an nounced November '23 Kennedy had been called home by the state department for consulta tion, the nature of which it did not disclose). The envoy has been waiting here since last Friday to con tinue his aerial trip. CORONER SLATES AT 7:30 Officers Involved And De ceased's Brother Will Be Witnesses At Hearing A coroner's inquest Into the death yesterday of Zera Edward Dahack, 71, Lake Creek rancher killed in a gun battle at noon with State Police Sergeant Ed Walker and Private George Al bright, will be held in the coun ty courthouse auditorium at 7:30 tonight. The inquest will be op en to the public. Deputy District Attorney GcorgiMNeilson, who arrived at the shooting scene a short time after it happened, will conduct the inquest. Those slated to tes tify are Officers Walker and Al bright, State Police Captain Lee M. Bown, Private Al Stoehr, Sergeant O. A. MacKinnon and Irvin Dahack, brother of the de ceased. 187 Pounds Venison It was disclosed by state po lice today that 187 pounds of venison, apparently parts of four deer, were confiscated by Officers Albright and Walker when they went to the Dahack cabin, in the wilds of the Lake Creek country on the Dead In dian Soda Springs road about 12 miles above the store, yesterday morning. The meat, the officers stated, was on a small porch connected . to the cabin. Irvin Dahack, who lived with his brother in the cabin, was brought to Medford yesterday for questioning concerning the venison, and was released on his own recognizance by the dis trict attorney. He admitted, po lice stated, that the deer had been killed after the season closed. No action has been taken on him. Zera Dahack was struck by two bullets, one of which pene- ...... severing the juglar vein and ranging downward, and the other striking him In the back below the right shoulder, ac cording to the coroner's office Neither state policeman was wounded. Followed Cabin Visit The shooting fray followed the officers' visit to the Dahack cabin. The two officers left Med ford at 9:20 yesterday morning, armed with a search warrant Issued after Information had been received that Dahack had venison in his possession out of season. Arriving at the cabin, after a long ride over the twist ing and rocky road, the officers found neither brother at home. They searched the small house, and after loading the venison in their coupe started back toward Lake Creek. About two miles from the cabin, the officers related Da hack stepped from behind a large tree at the left side of the road and. at the point of a rifle, commanded them to halt Sergeant Walker explained max, alter the car was stonnerl he got out the right door and heard Dahack shout, "I'll give you Just 10 seconds to Unload that meat before I kill you." . Reasoning Tried The officer said he retorted, "Now put that gun away and don't make matters any worse." Dahack then ran to the other side of the road, the officers stated, stepped behind a small tree and fired from a distance of 43 feet. Sergeant Walker drew his gun and returned the fire, as Private Albright climbed irom Dehlnd the wheel of the car and also opened fire, the policemen explained. Dahack fired again, then ran back across the road and found partial con cealment behind another tree 150 feet from the car, the of ficers said. There, the officers said, Da hack shot once more. The policemen continued firing as Dahack ducked from behind the tree and back again, and it is believed by police that .the bullet, striking him in the neck, spun him around as he started to run down the side of the road. He finally fell 237 feet In a direct line from the car, and ubout 10 feet from the road. It is assumed by police that Death Laid to Dad L mi!.,! ., i nr lie i ni-iiifl Arthur Schiller, Jr., (upper), seven-year-old Seattle boy was fatally stabbed. Seattle police said, by his father (lower), who then attempted to take his own life. The elder Schiller Is shown in the hospital. TEXAS HEREFORD Chicago, Dec. 8. (IP) A Hereford steer from Texas, Lucky Boy 2nd, owned by May field Kothmann of Mason, was adjudged the grand champion steer of the 40th International Livestock show today. It was the first time since 1932 that a Hereford won the most coveted purple ribbon of the show. Another Texas Hereford, Tex as State Fair, shown by Jack Baker of Bluff Dale, won the reserve grand championship. Dahack, In the vicinity of the cabin at the time it was entered by the two officers, saw them tako the venison and used a shortcut from the cabin to In tercept the automobile. The road at this point swings around a mountain for a distance of about two miles from the scene of the shooting to the cabin. and by going straight down the mountain Dahack would have had to travel only about a quarter of that distance. Used Wrong Cartridges In Dahack's 38-55 calibre Marlin lever rifle were 30-30 shells. The Dahack's also had a 30-30 calibre rifle in the cabin, and police believe that Dahack, in his haste to secure ammunition after the officers left, grabbed the wrong shells. Apparently those wrong-sized shells in Dahack's gun caused him to miss Sergeant Walker, who was in uniform, at 43 feet. Irvin Dahack, who had been to Lake Creek with a team and wagon obtaining groceries, came upon the scene a few minutes after the shooting. He identified his brother, then drove the team to the cabin and returned afoot. He re marked, when he got back, that "If 1 had been here this would never have happened." Captain Bown quoted Ser geant Walker as saying, "I was dumfounded when he started shooting. I had known him for many years and never before had any serious trouble with him." Dahack was arrested once before for possession of venison In closed season. In March, 1934, he was fined $50 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, ' according to court records. Yesterday's report of the shooting was telephoned, Just before press time, to the Mall Tribune by a staff reporter, who accompanied Captain Bown, Deputy District Attorney Niel- son and Private Al Stoeiir to ; the seen. KUHN SENTENCEO 1 LOOTING OF BUNDJREASURY Two And a Half To Five Years Imposed On Leader Of German Americans. New York, Dec. '5. (IP) Fritz Kuhn, German-Amprican bund leader, was sentenced to day to a prison term of from two and a half to five years. He was convicted last week of grand larceny of bund funds. The sentence was imposed on the count of grand larceny in the James D. C. Murray transaction and in two counts of forgery in that connection. Sentence was suspended by James C. Wallace on the trans action involving the alleged payment of the moving expenses of Mrs. Florence Camp, the "blonde angel" of Kuhn's love letters. Murray had testified during the trial that he had never re ceived $500 which Kuhn claim ed to have paid him for legal services. Hiite Not Factor. The other charge of larceny concerned $717 allegedly given Mrs. Camp. "This man is not to be sen tenced because he is a hate dis penser or a rabble-rouser, for there are thousands of others in this country," Judge Wallace) said before he pronounced sen tence. -Kuhn's attorney, Peter L. T. Sabbatino, had contended during the trial . that political perse cution lay at the bottom of the case. The judge denied a defense request to suspend sentence. - "I will rely upon your vast store of experience to pass fit ting sentence," Sabbatino said. He made no motion to defer execution of sentence pending a possible appeal. Loses Civil Rights. Conviction and sentence auto matically deprive Kuhn of such civil rights as voting, holding public office and other privi leges granted by citizenship. These can be restored only by action of the governor after Kuhn has served his sentence. His citizenship, as. such, is not revoked. Kuhn, German born, became a naturalized citi zen in 1933. The state contended at Kuhn's trial that he altered his records to conceal the dis position of the $500 in the Mur ray matter. Kuhn already had turned over the bund leadership to an acting fuehrer, Gerhard Wil helm Kunze. Kunze, In .an interview, said he would make no changes in the bund work, and added ha would act as leader only tern' porarlly. REPULSE GERMAN RAIDS ALONG WESTERN FRONT Paris, Dec. 5. (P) The ra pulse of a series of German raids on the western front was reported by tonight's high com munique. "The enemy attempted a series of raids, all of which failed," it said. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Pacific standard time.) Tonight: Europe WABC-CBS 5:55. 8; MBS 4:30, 0; WEAF NBC East 8. WABC-CBS 7:45 Rural Youth program, Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt. WJZ-NBC 7 Secretary of State Hull's address to Ameri can Farm Bureau federation. Wednesday: Europe NBC Chains 5 a. m.; WABC-CBS S a. m., 3:30 p. m. WABC-CBS 1, Harry P. Davison on Christ mas Seals. WJZ-NBC 1, J. Howard Pew addressing Con gress of American Industry.' MBS 8:15 a. m., Howard Coon ley's address to National Asso ciation of Manufacturers; 11:30' a. m., special recruiting broad cast from navy airplane; 1:30 p. m., award to baseball announcer 9 1
