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Washington, D. C, Dec. 7.
When heavy pressure was ap-
0 plied to President Roosevelt to
recall Amoassaaor n. x, mmui
Schoenfeld, from Moscow, and
to abrogate the commercial
treaty with Soviet Russia, the
only official "consultant" he
found to consult in the national
capital was Oregon's Charles
McNary. Advice of McNary:
"Don't be precipitate."
When President Roosevelt ad
dressed congress at the special
session called to act on neutral
ity legislation in September, he
suggested congress confine it
self to that subject, then ad
journ. During the interim be
tween the special session and
the regular session in January,
he announced he would consult
on important foreign develop
ments the official leaders of
congress, requested them not to
go home.
FORMER president Herbert
Hoover, many new dealers,
some members of senate and
house, urged Mr. Roosevelt
to demonstrate disapproval of
America of Russia's conduct in
Finland, by severing relations.
Mr. Roosevelt decided to con
sult the leaders,
Democratic leader, Senator I
Barkley, was in Mayo clinic for
an operation; democratic house
leader, Sam Rayburn, was ab
sent promoting the presidential
boom of Cactus Jack Garner.
Republican house leader, Joe
Martin, was in New England
observing Thanksgiving (not
Frank's giving). Key Pittman,
chairman of senate committee
on foreign relations, had gone
duck hunting. There was no
body home but republican lead
er, Senator McNary.
IT WAS after Maxime Litvin-
off, then foreign commissar,
gave Mr. Roosevelt a complete
set of Russian stamps, that the
president recognized U. S. S. R.
The conversations leading to
this were conducted in the
White House late at night, some
times after guests of a White
House party had gone home.
Commissar Litvinoff (whose
wife is English-born), in return
for recognition, promised Mr.
Roosevelt, (A) Russia would pay
its debt to Uncle Sam; (B) Rus
sia would not indulge in com
munistic propaganda in the
United States; (C) assured Mr.
Roosevelt freedom of religious
worship in Soviet Russia. Com-
missar Litvinoff reiterated these
promises in an interview with ;
the writer. j
(Continued on Page Eleven
EDGAR BERGEN CONFINED!
BY POISON DUE TO BOIL
Hollywood, Dec. 7. (JP)
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen is
confined to his home with an
infection, resulting from a boil
on his face, but his condition
today was reported improved.
Yesterday, his physicians said,
he was in a "serious condition."
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Leona Kingman being in
happy state of surprise over
bright and shiny new radio.
Ginevra Green looking like a
pretty little love bird in a
chapeau fashioned entirely of
turquoise colored feathers and
down.
LaMurle Beck Witt busily
knitting while waiting her turn
to try out for a play.
Marjory Kelly describing in
a dramatic and terrifying man
ner the horror of being the
victim of a flu germ.
Delta Deb members senourly
considering presenting Leonard
Smedley with a membership bid
into their feminine orsanira
t ion. so v.cll did he fit in wit'i
the club r.ftrr crji-hiiig a meet
ing last evening
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NVAD1NG PLANES
Ninth British Naval Loss is
North Sea Trawler; Dutch
Motorship Is Torpedoed
London, Dec. 7. (JP) New
blows were struck at the British
navy and neutral shipping to
day as royal air force planes
turned back German warplanes
in two encounters over north
east Britain.
The ninth acknowledged Bri
tish naval loss was counted with
the sinking of the 209-ton traw
ler Washington by a mine in
the North Sea yesterday. The
admiralty said eight lives were
lost.
The 8,159-ton Netherlands mo
torship Tajandoen was tor
pedoed and sunk in the English
channel. Six of her crew were
missing.
The air ministry declared that
one enemy plane "was seen to
be hit" in a raid on the Firth
of Forth area, site of the Rosyth
naval base, and a second in
vader was damaged in another
encounter off the northeast
coast.
Eight Attempt Raid
The fight over the Firth of
Forth occurred at 12:45 p. m.
4:45 m. PST) when eight
German bombers were reported
heading for the Firth. Coastal
batteries blazed into action and
R.A.F. pursuit planes whizzed
into the air a moment later.
The second fight developed a
short time later when two more
German planes were engaged
by the R.A.F. Both planes, the
R.A.F. said "at once turned
back and were pursued out to
sea, one of them being seen to
be hit."
The air ministry announced
tonight one British plane failed
to return from patrol duty yes
terday. Paris, Dec. 7. (JP) French
advance positions withstood re
peated shocks of savage German
patrol attacks along the entire
northern flank of the western
front today after a night of ac
tivity in which the French re
ported inflicting heavy losses
with automatic and artillery
fire.
A new German strategy was
reported by French military re
ports. After being halted during
the night by deadly French fire,
the German patrols, instead of
retreating as usual, dug in on
bare no-man's-land,
The French countered by
raining shells on the attackers
and then dislodged them with
infantry counter attacks. ,
! EDUCATION BOARD MAY
ANNOUNCE NEW PREXY
Portland, Dec. 7. (JP) Selec
tion of a new Oregon State col
lege president may be an
nounced by the state board of
higher education at its monthly
meeting here Monday and Tues
day. Committees will hold separate
sessions Monday with the board
convening Tuesday.
Finns Exact Terrific Toll
In Defending Karelian Line
Moscow, Dec. 7. (JP) A
Soviet Russian army has smash
ed the main Finnish defense line
on the Karelian isthmus, the
Leningrad command announced
today, and is thrusting on north
ward. The Leningrad communique
said "Soviet troops, after artil
lery preparation, broke through
the main defense line of the
Finns along the Wuoksi water
system, known among Finnish
white guards as the
Maginot-
Kirke line.
The natural defenses of the
Vuoksi water system, a chain
of lakes and water courses zig
zagging almost across the 65
mile wide isthmus north of Len
ingrad, had been augmented, it
is said, by pillboxes, trenches,
wire entanglements, tank traps
and mines
The Finiu defended th line
Kidnaper ofK F. Salesman Killed by Policeman
War Bulletins I
Helsinki, Dec. 7 (JP)
Russian warships bombarded
the southern coast of Finland
today while the red army
launched an attack on the
central front along the north
ern shores of Lake Ladoga,
Finnish advices received here
said tonight.
Finnish coastal batteries
were said to have held off
the fleet bombardment direct
ed at undisclosed points along
the coast.
Paris, Dec. 7. (JP) Infan
try fire along the long-dormant
Rhine river sector of
the western front was report
ed in tonight's communique
of the French high command,
which said:
"A quiet day on the whole.
Patrols on either side. Infan
try fire along the Rhine."
FINNS WILL STAKE
ALL IN EFFORT TO
Kirkenes, Norway (at the
Finnish frontier), Dec. 7. (JP)
A big engagement, possibly de
cisive, is expected to take place
soon on Finland's Arctic front.
The finns are said to be mass
ing large forces around PetsaniOj
Finland's strategic port at the
head of her narrow corridor to
the Arctic ocean. Some reports
received today said 20,000 men
were being massed there with
the apparent intention of clear
ing out the Russian invaders at
all costs and thus safeguard the
northern outlet.
The Russians, on the other
hand, were reported to be con
tinuing the landing of troops on
Petsamo fjord.
There were no reports of im
portant fighting on the northern
front today.
Helsinki, Dec. J'-tt-VP) Two
hundred and thi&tv Finnish
Americans, some iff whom never
before have been in Finland,
arrived today to enlist in the
Finnish army to fight against
Russia.
A spokesman for the group
said they left New York as soon
as they learned Finnish inde
pendence was threatened.
Rumors circulating in the
capital today that Russian forces
had broken through the Man
neirheim line the system of de
fenses on the Karelian isthmus
were discounted.
Reliable sources disclaimed
any knowledge of sudden Rus
sian gains in that sector and it
was suggested the rumors prob
ably originated with Russian
broadcasts.
Helsinki itself was quiet; the
early dark ended another day
without air raids.
Silverton, Ore., Dec. 7. (JP)
Rev. E. F. Clower, 73, retired
Methodist pastor who formerly
served congregations at Vale
North Powder and Joseph, died
here today.
with artillery, machine-guns and
automatic rifles.
(A Swedish woman newi
paper correspondent reported to
Stockholm the Finns were ex
acting a tremendous price for
the invasion of the isthmus.
(She quoted a Finnish com
mander, Alexander Mcelblom
as saying the Russian front line
forces there, counting airmen,
numbered at least 100,000 with
another 100.000 in reserve. Hel-
j sinki military experts have esti
mated about 200.000 Russians
were engaged in the campaign
on all fronts.
("Whole companies advancing
In line were mowed down by
Finnish artillery and infantry in
thousands." the correspondent
wrote. "Many Russians had no
leggings, only overshoes, which
were tilled with straw and
1 bound with ccJrd.")
CITY'S TAX LEVY
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IN COMING YEAR
Combined Levy Fixed at
48.5 Mills - 48.3 Mills
Basis Current Payments.
The combined tax levy for
the city of Medford for 1940.
including state and county, city
and schools, amounts to 4R.5
mills, according to figures com
piled by the assessor's office.
The millage is two-tenths of a
mill less than this year, when
it was 43.3 mills.
For Medford, the school levy
is 16.5 mills, the city levy 18.8
mills and state and county 13.2
mills.
In Ashland, the combined levy
is 51.6 mills, a decrease of 1.3
mills compared with this yenr
when it was 52.9 mills. The
Ashland school levy is 20.7
mills, the city levy 19.3, and
the state and county 11.6 mills
The combined levies for other
inncoprorated towns of the
county are:
Butte Falls Schools. 4.3
mills; city 22.4, state and county
13.2, a total of 39.9 mills. This
year's combined levy was 25.8.
an increas of 14.3 mills.
Central Point Schools 19
mills, city 29.2, state and coun
ty 13.2, a total of 61.4. This
year it was 58.6, an Increase of
2.8 mills.
Eajjle Point Schools 17.4
mills, city 14.6, state and coun
ty 13.2. a total of 45.2, a de
crease of one mill compared with
this year's levy of 46.2 mills.
Gold Hill Schools 19.3 mills.
city 25, state and county 13.2.
a total of 57.5. This is an In
crease of 7.5 over this year,
when it was 49 mills.
Jacksonville Schools 24.2
mills, city 16.1, state and coun
ty 13.2, total 53.5, a decrease of
7.4 mills under the current 60.D
mills.
Phoenix Schools 12.8 mills.
city 15.1, state and county 13.2,
total 41.1, a decrease of 4.4
mills. This year it was 43.5
mills.
Rogue River Schools 22.6
mills, city 12.3, state and coun
ty 13.2, total 48.1, an Increase
of 1.7 over this year's total
of 46.4 mills.
Talent Schools 15.4 mills!
city 21.5, state and county 13.2,
total 50.1 mills, a decrease of
1.6 mills. This year it was 51.7
mills.
SAY G O P. LEADERS
Washington, Dec. 7. (JP)
John Hamilton, chairman of the
Republican national committee,
said today many party leaders
with whom he had talked felt
President Roosevelt's policy with
respect to the Russo-Finnish war
"hag not been helpful to Mr.
Roosevelt In this country."
"Do you mean falling to
break relations with Russia? '
a reporter asked Hamilton.
"Yes," the chairman replied.
Summing up the results of a
meeting of the executive com
mittee of the national commit
tee here today, the chairman
said a "definite drive" would
be put on to raise X655.000 bj
December 31, to pay off the
party's deficit.
He said an effort would be
made to raise this money by
$1,000 individual subscriptions,
but the committee would take
any amounts.
Hamilton, said it would be a
"pretty good thing" If his party
could loo' over the 1940 Demo
cratic nominees and platform
before holding its own national
convention.
DEWEY CAMPAIGN
AT 'DEFEATISM'
Government Hostility, Tax
ation, Political Quackery
Held Stifling Enterprise.
Minneapolis, Dec. 7. (JP)
Thomas E. Dewey probed down
to the roots of the farm prob
lem today, seeking facts and
suggestions to use in his drive
for the Republican presidential
nomination.
He opened his campaign last
night with a blast at new deal
"defeatism," and today contin
ued it with a conference with
a dozen of the state's top rank
ing farmers and farm organi
zation leaders.
The New York district attor
ney announced he was eager
for facts and well primed with
questions about agriculture's
troubles. He hinted at the trend
his investigation would take yes
terday when he mentioned the
drought and southern competi
tion with northern dairy inter
ests as two important questions.
Waits Repercussions
His inquiry into the farm
question coincided with , spot
lighting of.the problem by Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace
and Senator Burton K. Wheeler
(D., Mont.), who came here to
address a farmers' union con
vention in the St. Paul auditor
ium tonight.
Meanwhile Dewey and his ad
visors awaited the repercussions
from his keynote speech last
night, when he declared "gov
ernment hostility, repressive
taxation and economic quack
ery have stifled American en
terprise. He quoted President Roose
velt as having said "Our indus
trial plant is built. The problem
just now is whether under ex-
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IN MURDER OF GERMAN
New York, Dec. 7. (JP) A
vengeful person with racial
or personal grudge was sought
today as the bludgeon slayer (
Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42. Ger
man consulate secretary.
Deputy Medical Examiner
Manuel E. Marten said Engel
berg, who had been In the con
sular service nearly 20 ycarr,
had been struck at least three
times while asleep, and the
blows, with an "ax or some
other heavy weapon," were so
severe the man was "practically
decapitated.
No weapon was found In
Engelbcrg's Brooklyn dwelling,
which neighbors called "Hitler
house" and which Is on dead
end street that winds up at a
Jewish burial ground.
Engelberg's battered body,
clad in a bloody nightshirt, was
found in a second-floor bed
room yesterday. Marten said
the man had been dead "about
24 hours." Walls, carpet nd
ceilings were splashed with
blood
Police said they found 50 or
60 photographs of nude men
in the house.
District Attorney William F
X. Geoghan said he believed
Engelberg, a bachelor, had been
.lain hv L "vonn,.',. m,.rHr.
r .nH (h., T..i .i
er, and other authorities were
inclined to support this theory.
Berlin, Dec. 7. (JP) The
heads of two spies and trai
tor fell today. All were con
victed of serving the inter
ests of Great Britain.
Heinrich Peters was convicted
of high treason yesterday.
Walter Israel Becker of Vi
enna, a Jewish rmigra'it, and
Herman Stctcficld were behead
ed as spies.
Kuhn Sentenced to Prison IRflY HITCH-HIKER
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Frits Kuhn (right) of the
is shown on his way io court In New York where he was sen
tenced to prison for a term of 2'i to 5 years. He was convicted
recently of grand larceny of Bund funds. Men with him
are officers.
Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Time is Pacific standard)
Tonight: Talks, WJZ-NBC, 6,
Paul V. McNutt on "Democ
racy's Obligation To Its Youth;"
WJZ-NBC. 6:30, A m c r 1 c a's
Town Meeting, "Can Business
and Government Work To
gether Today?" Sen. Robert A'k
Taft and others. Europe, WABC-
CBS, 5:55, 8; MBS 6, 7:30;
WEAF-NBC 8.
Friday: Europe, NBC-chains,
5 a. m.; WABC-CBS, 5 a. m..
3:30 p. m Congress of Ameri
can Industry, WEAF-NBC 10:30
a. m., H. W. Prentiss Jr. on
'Current American Crisis."
HOUCK BIDS LOW ON
PAC. HIGHWAY WORK
Portland, Dec. 7.P) Bids
totaling nearly $300,000 were
submitted to the state highway
commission on seven projects
today.
Low bids included:
Jackson county: Paving 6.31
miles and furnishing crushed
rock for Siskiyou-state line sec
tion of Pacific highway, Roy L.
Houck, Salem, $108,244.
Fourth Set of Twins Within
Five Years Astounds Medic
Vancouver, B. C, Dec. 7. (JP)
A medical phenomenon appar
ently unequalled anywhere In
Canada was disclosed today
through a doctor's announce
ment that Mrs. Jack Dye, 32,
had given birth to her fourth
consecutive set of twins.
All the twins, born In the
period of five years, are alive
and well.
Dr. R. Elder, who attended
Mra. Dye at the birth of her!
fourth set of twins Aug. 31, said
I can find no other case in
Canada of such a record as Mrs.
Dye has established."
Mr. and Mrs. Dye came to
Canada from Yorkshire, Eng
land. They said today that there
was no history of twins being
born to ancestors on either side.
Each pair of twins is com
posed of a boy and girl. In each
case the girl was born first. In
each case doctors held little
"Vir'.-,-
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German - American Bund, fame.
LOCAL ATTORNEYS
Salem
Artioles
Ore., Dec. 7. (U.P.)
of Incorporation filed
today:
Tip Top Mining Co., Inc
Medford. H. D. Duncan, G. A.
Codding and Victor Tengwald.
Mining. Capital stock 100 shares
NPV. filed by Duncan, atty.,
Medford.
H. B. Duncan explained to
day that the mining property,
embracing 160 acres and seven
claims, was located In Josephine
county above Holland and near
the Oregon California line.
Three Los Angeles persons,
whose names can't be revealed
at present, "are backing the
mine," ho stated.
' He said there had been con
siderable prospecting on the
property and that "prospects
looked fairly good." A meeting
of the corporation officers will
be held soon, he said.
hope the boy would live, but all
gained strength rapidly and
soon were normal.
Mrs. Dye doesn't find It very
difficult, she says, to look after
the twins and her 10-year-old
daughter, Marion.
"We manage somehow," she
says. "They arc all so good, and
the babies are perfect."
The new arrivals are Edna
and Edward. Frances and Frank
; are now a year and five months
old; John and Joan two years
and five months, and next old
est are Donald and Dorothy
Dorothy is the only one not at
home,
Dr. Elder said he has found
no record of a similar phenome
non in his 30 years as a physi
cian.
"It Is extremely difficult to
account for this phenomenon,"
he said. "There are about one
set of twins to every 100 births,
but consecutive girl-boy twin
births are exceedingly rare,
T IN EFFORT
T0.AV01DARREST
0. W. Spiker, Locked In
Rear of Own Auto, Makes
Escape on Eugene Street.
State police here said today
they had no Information con
cerning the time the automobile
passed through Medford, nor the)
location where It stopped while
the owner was forced Into the
trunk.
Albany, Ore., Dec. 7. (JP) A
youthful hitch-hiker who turned
robber, with the man who be
friended him as his victim, lay
dead in the county morgue to
day, his escapade ended by a
state patrolman's gun.
The youth, described as be
tween 18 and 20 years, was fa
tally shot In a brief gun battle
last night with state patrolman
Wallace Hugg, who said the
youth fired as he drove along
side of him.
State police Captain Walter
Lansing said the car had been
stolen from O. W. Spiker, Klam
ath Falls sawmill equipment'
salesman who had picked up
JYie Wiaki-clad . eitch-hiker 2S
miles east of Ashlnnd.
Spiker said the youth, brand
ishing a gun, locked him in the
car's rear trunk near Medford.
He said he finally freed himself
at Eugene by removing the
trunk lock with screw driver.
Hugg spotted the youth short
ly after Spiker unfolded hie
story to police.
Eugene, Dec. 7. (JP) A 54-year-old
Klamath , Falls sales
man, O. W. Spiker, owes his
escape, and perhaps his life,
today to tool placed In hie
hands by the hitch-hiker who
locked him Into the trunk of
his automobile near Medford af
ter threatening him with death.
He tumbled to the pavement
of Eugene street four houri
later, gaining his freedom by a
screw driver which his captor
knocked from the trunk and re
placed before he locked the own
er of the car Into the small
space for his wild 200-mile drive,
nortnward. other contents of
the trunk, however, were dumn.
ed.
As soon as the car was In mo
tion, Spiker, who had picked up
the youth on a highway east of
Ashland and had been forced to
drive to a lonely spot near Med
ford where his machine was
taken at the point of a gun, be
gan the difficult task of remov
ing eight screws which fastened
the lock. It took him two houri
but It was not until two hours
later that he gained the deter
mination to take a hance and
roll from the moving car to
spread the alarm.
The youth, evidently not
knowing his captive had es
caped, drove on north to Shedd
where he was shot and killed
in a gun battle with a state po
liceman. Spiker found it difficult to
talk with his kidnaper, even be
fore the gun was pulled. "Don't
open your mouth or I'll plug
you," he was told. I have miles
to make and I'm going to make
them. All the law is on me."
"Yes, I picked up a hitch hik.
er, but it's the last one," Spiker
observed today. "From now on
even my grandmother will
walk."
RED CROSS TO ACCEPT
Washington, Dec. 7. (JP) .
Norman Davis, chairman of the
American Red Cross, disclosed
after a White Houso call today
that the organization had au
thorized Its 3,700 chapters to ac
cept contributions for the relief
of the Finnish people.
Davis aid also it had 80,000
surgical dressings ready to send
to the war-ravaged country.