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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1939)
The Weather Forecast Rain today and tomorrow, now In surrounding moun tains; modrra t e ten. perat urt. Temperature Highest yeBterflaY...mmw.55 Lowest yesterday ...43 Leisure Time ir you hate torn leisure tune this morning Jnet torn to the Classified pi re. There are tome twt Interesting propotltlonM oWered that may appeal to yon. If you find what you want, contact tha aaTertlter at once. MEDFORD Tribune Full Aitoclated Press Full Unll.d Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1939. No. 224 ui AM US HE 1 i AtJ, VICTORY SCORED MM ON ARCTIC FRONT; IM. SWEDEN NERVOUS Washington, D. C, Dec. 9. Converging on Washington to day are several hundred poli ticos. In white tie and tails they will be wandering from one ho tel room to another tonight be fore and after their alibi for be ing in the national capital- the winter banquet of the Gridiron club. From the headman, him self, down to the satraps of new deal and the innumerable as pirants for the White House job, the gang is on hand. More politics is being cooked up In smoke-filled rooms (has been since the executive com mittee of the republican nation al committee met Thursday), than in a similar space of time in the past four years. Aspir ants for the democratic or re publican nominations are town in person or by proxy. The conversations do not deal with possible planks for party platforms, but what are the chances of this or that aspir ants; how many delegates can he muster; will Mr. Roosevelt decline a third term and, if so, will he be drafted? For the next few days the news columns carrying Wash lngton. D. C, date lines will be saturated with accounts of the doings of the past three days and the probable effect on the future. ASA matter of western inter- est it can be said that prom inent republicans of the east have been holding little talks with Senator Charles L. Mc- Nary, of Oregon, who will go to the convention as Oregon's choice for president. The Ore gon senator is in the happy po sition of not seeking the re publican nomination for presi dent and holds the good will of all the aggressive aspirants for that honor. This is a fine sta tus If the convention is dead locked and a compromise can didate must be found. The far west has two poten tial names: Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, and Ore gon's McNary. They represent and carry the. banner of west ern thought, know its problems and each has a long record as a forward-looking statcman. Na tionally, McNary's name is a household word among farmers; Wheeler's among railroad work ers. Both have good labor rec ords and have been identified with the building of the west. Wheeler, democrat, whose fight against the supreme court bill placed him in the dog house with the 100 percent new deal ers, is making an active cam paign: and someone is circula ting a coin-like disc with Wheel er's face engraved upon it. (Continued on Page eight ) Northern California: Intermit tent rain and snow over high mountains Sunday; mild tern-1 perature; strong southerly wind off coast. Oregon: Intermittent rain Sunday: snow over high moun tains; little change in tempera ture; strong southerly wind off coast, reaching gale force to night. Outlook Far Western States, Dec. 11-16, inclusive: Showery weather Monday, followed by clearing, but rain again latter part of week west of Cascade mountains: temperatures norm al or slightly above normal. Wool Market Slow Boston, Doc. 9. AP-USDA Sales were somewhat slower than in the previous week in the Boston wool market. Stocks Irregular, New York, Dec. 9. OP) -y Speculative inspiration was lack ing in today's final stock mar ket of the week and si ichtlv Irregulr price changes ruled throughout. IRE RAIN SEEN FOR COMING WEEK Boats of Reds Landing Force Swamped By Waves Capture Tanks, Places. Stockholm, Dec. 9. (IP) The Swedish government to night appointed an active commander - in - chief of all Swedish military forces a step usually taken only in anticipation of an emergency. The new commander is Lieutenant General Olof Ger hard Phoerncll, previously a "coordinator" of army, navy and air force branches, but without power of active com mand. Kirkenes, Norway, at the Finnish frontier, Dec. 9. (IP) Thundering avalanches loosened by Finnish dynamite charges were reported today to have caused mountainous waves which drowned between 600 and 800 members of unsuccess ful Russian landing parties in icy Arctic waters off northern Finland. Reports reaching here from across the border said masses of steep hillsides on the edges of fjords near Fetsamo and Liinahamari were sent tumbling into the water with such force that the boats of the red army landing parties were swamped. The Finns were said to have employed similar tactics pre viously, in repulsing landing attempts by the invaders. Many of those surviving the man made waves were reported cap tured. East of Petsamo, the reports said, Russian tanks attempting to cross frozen lakes plunged into holes cut in the thick ice by the Finns. Crews were re ported to have perished in the plummeting tanks. Greater numbers of Norwe gian troops were understood to be massing along this section of their frontier, 200 miles above the Arctic circle. Civil ians were moving south as a precaution. Helsinki. Dec. 9. (IP) The Finnish high command report ed tonight that three Russian planes were downed and nu merous enemy tanks, armored cars and cannon destroyed today. "No naval engagements worth mentioning," the communique added. Officials said the enemy planes bombed four towns( yes terday without inflicting seri ous damage. Official quarters neither con firmed or denied reports that the Finnish port, Hanko, had been bombed by Russian planes. Earlier today, 30 British Blenheim bombers were re ported to have arrived to aug ment the Finnish air forces. The text of tonight's com munique: "December 8 fighting con tinued on the Taipale river on the eastern Karelian isthmus "The whole eastern front was the object of enemy attacks. Our troops offered successful resistance at all places and the attacks were completely re pulsed. "In various sectors, numerous enemy tanks, armored cars and cannon were destroyed. "No naval engagements worth mentioning. "In the air, enemy planes on December 8 bombarded Laes kelae, Vaertsilae, Valamo, and Mantsinsaari. The bombing caused no damage worth re cording. At Suistamo, enemy fliers machine-gunned civilians, wounding several. "Our own air force per formed several reconnoitering flights and bombed enemy troop concentrations and columns Our air defenses shot down three enemy planes." Dredges Lauded. Portland, Dec. 9. (P) Gold dredges turning up rock piles in once fertile lands of Jackson Josephine, Baker and Grant counties create more wealth 1 than they destroy, F. W. Libby I said today German Planes Drop Bombs on Shetland Island Town - -J : - tr This smoke rose over the rooftops of a Shetland island village from a burning Royal Air Force plane, fired by bombs dropped by the two German planes faintly seen in the sky above. The British caption stated that this was tha eighth German air raid on the islands, which are north of Scotland, in less than four weeks and that the planes had been driven off by anti-aircraft fire. 6 KILLED, 3 HURT IN CRIME SERIES, E Murder, Robbery, Kidnaping And Arson Linked To Chippewa Falls Suicide. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Dec. 9. (IP) The killing of six persons today, a $40,000 kidnaping plot, robbery and arson all seeming ly related sent the police on a hunt for clues confirming their theory that the crimes were the work of Donald T. Cameron one of the dead. Chief of Police Edward Holtz said these things were known: 1. Cameron, about 35, com mitted suicide about 1:15 a.m., a few minutes before the bodies of his wife, Louise, 35, his two- year-old son, David, and his par ents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. W Wilk, of Minneapolis, were found in the charred ruins of his Lake Wissota cottage, six miles east of Chippewa Falls. 2. Marshall Brenden, about 40. was shot to death and his body left in an Eau Claire ceme tery, nine miles south of here Two empty cartridges found nearby were similar to those found in the German type pistol with which Cameron killed him self in the garage back of his home. 3. A note addressed to a Mr. Linton, demanding "$40,000 or else" and warning that "marked money means death your boy" was found in Cameron's pocket 4. Earl Redard, Chippewa Falls filling station attendant, identified Cameron as the man who robbed him of $20 at 12:45 a.m., slugged him and wounded him and two motorists whose help he had solicited. 5. The odor of gasoline was strong in the Cameron cottage when police broke in after an swering a fire alarm. Gasoline had soaked one of Cameron's trouscr legs. 6. Cameron attempted to borrow $2,000 several days ago from the Eau Claire Citizens Loan and Investment Co., head ed by Arthur Linton. Linton has an 11-year-old grandson, Don-! aid, whom he adopted after the death of his daughter, the boy's mother. Portland, Dec. 9. (IP) The Oregon-Washington council of A.F.L. lumber unions decided in a resolution today pay raises were In order but announced demands would await an industry-wide survey by the execu tive committee. Washington, Dec. 9. (IP) President Roosevelt's reported desire to sidetrack controversial issues as far as possible In the coming session of congress got i a cool reception today from Republican leaders. BULLETIN Helsinki, Dec. 9. (IP) Thirty British Blenheim bombing planes were report ed today to have reached Fin land to strengthen the Fin nish air forces rositting tha Russian invasion. Gnaltln flnn O t TP Tl, University of Washington bas ketball team, already warned by various observers that the going may be muddy and wet this season, found out just how bad it can be tonight when a collection of alumni handed the 1939-40 crew a 54-33 trimming in a practice game here. The defeat was the worst ever administered by alumni to a team coached by Hec Ed mundson. Corvallis, Ore., Dec. 9. (IP) Oregon State college's Beavers scored an easy 52 to 30 win over Willamette University here to night in a basketball game. It was the Beavers second victory of the season. STATE OF SEIGE San Francisco, Dec. 9. (IP) The waterfront . dispute which has virtually closed the harbor to commerce appeared .to be settling into a stage of scige to day, while cargoes lay untouch ed at the docks and business men fumed helplessly as the holiday season advanced. Ed Whelan, publicity chair man for the striking CIO Ship Clerks, said soup kitchens were being prepared for strikers, first steps had been taken to seek aid from the state relief admin istration and appeals for funds had gone out to other Pacific Coast unions. He said San Pedro longshore men had voted $250 a week for the strikers' fund as a "starter." Roy Donnelly, southern Califor nia member of the Internation al Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's union executive board, issued a statement assert ing San Pedro longshoremen had also voted confidence in California CIO director Harry Bridges. FARLEY PREDICTS Washington, Dec. 9. IIP) Postmaster General Farley pre dicted today that Christmas mail volume and postal revenues would set a new record tllis year. Coupling the prediction with a plea to ship and mail early, Farley said deliveries on Christ mas day would be limited to gift parcels and special delivery maucr E, BEER SALE JRGED BY STATE ATTORNEYS Resolution Says ''Alcoholic Sales Increase Alarming; Plan Bill In 1941 Portland, Dec. 9. (U.R) Dis trict attorneys of Oregon voted today to press legislation curb ing the "indiscriminate" sale of wines and beer which they said had worked to the detriment of Oregon people. A resolution passed at the closing session of the annual convention of the District At torneys association of Oregon said the sale of alcoholic bever ages in Oregon has "Increased to an alarming extent." "This seems to be made pos sible, at least in part, by the indiscriminate sale of fortified wines, beer and other liquors of lesser alcoholic content, such sales being made in and about garages, grocery stores, drug stores and other places of busi ness," the resolution said. G. Russell Morgan of Wash ington county, who was elected president of the association, was directed to appoint a committee of three to confer with the Ore gon liquor commission and law enforcement officials regarding drafting of a bill restricting such sales, for presentation to the 1941 legislature. Another resolution urged that any audit of public office which disclosed a shortage or irregu larity "should not be released for publication until it has first been submitted to the district attorney" and its release author ized by him. SEEK BOB SMITH Milwaukee, Dec. 9 (IP) Pro fessional football 1940 style probably will be more of an aerial circus than ever before. Oregon players drafted, by clubs, included:. New York Giants: Bob Smith, Oregon guard. Chicago Cardinals: Victor Rcginato, Oregon end. Philadelphia Eagles: Ebcrle Schultz, Oregon State guard; Frank Emmons, Oregon back; Don Jones, Washington back. Detroit: John Hackcnbruck, Oregon State tackle, Cleveland: Morris Kohler, Oregon State back. Washington Redskins: Jay Graybeal, Oregon back. Brooklyn Dodgers: Dennis i Donovan, Oregon back. GROCER IS IN SOVIET PLOT Aided Browder in Passport Fraud, One of Communist Party Founders, Claimed. New York, Dec. 9. IP) Nicholas Dozenberg, described by federal authorities as "one of the founders of the Com munist party in the United States and a highly important witness in the federal Investi gation of espionage," has been arrested in Bend, Ore., U. S. Attorney John T. Cahill an nounced tonight. Cahill's office said Dozen berg, born in Riga, Latvia, in 1885, and naturalized February 6. 1911, had given his naturaliz ation papers in 1921 to Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist party in- the U. S. On these papers, Cahill's office said, Browder obtained a passport to travel to Russia. Cahill charged In a warrant sent to Oregon that Dozenberg had conspired to violate the passport laws. Thomas F. Fitch, attached to the NewYork office of the state department, already has left by plane for Portland. Cahill has asked the U. S. district attor ney there to have Dozenberg held in $50,000 ball. Cahill's office said Dozenberg had been prominent in Com' munlst party affairs until 1928, when he suddenly disappeared as "Dozenberg." He was later found living with his wife In Washington, D. C, under the name of Nicholas Dallant, Ca hill said, but disappeared again when Browder was arrested re cently on a passport fraud charge. They we,re using the name Dallant when federal agents picked up Dozenberg In Bend, said Cahill's office, which accused Dozenberg of Illegal use of passports In New York, Chicago, Manila and other cities. Bend, Ore., Dec. 9. (IP) A man described by federal auth orities in New York as Nicholas Dozenberg but known here as Nicholas Delant, was arrested at 1:30 p. m. today by Sheriff Claude L. McCauley and U. S. Secret Service Agent William S. McSwain, who started with him for Portland immediately. Friends of Delant, stunned at the news of his arrest as a Communist party founder who had given his naturalization pa pers to Earl Browder in 1921, said they knew the man only as an industrious grocery store proprietor and amateur motion picture enthusiast. They said they had never heard him ex press himself on Communism. He came here last fall and had operated the grocery store since October. Washington, Dec. 9. (IP) Senator Hattie W, Caraway of Arkansas underwent an emer gency operation tonight for perforated duodenal ulcer of the stomach and physicians reported her condition satisfactory but critical. lne senates only woman member, who is 61 years old came here from her home at Joncsboro, Ark., yesterday to attend Mrs. Roosevelt's "Grid iron Widows' dinner" at the White House tonight. A sharp recurrence of a stom ach ailment from which she long has suffered sent her to the hospital Instead, however, and after observation physicians de cided to operate immediately. Garner Talk Sat Dallas, Texas, Dec. 9. (JP) E. B. Germany, a leader In the Garncr-for-prcsidcnt campaign announced today he would speak on "John Garner in 1940' over the National Broadcasting company's red network Thurs day at 5.30 p. m. (3:30 Pacific standard time). He Hid Riches Miami, Fla., Dec. 9. P) Charles H. Barnes, thought a penniless WPA laborer at the time of his death in a hospi tal charity ward six months ago, was disclosed today to have had a $47,000 fortune hidden in a safety deposit box. His widow, Anna, and his daughter, Mrs. Anastazia La Plante knew nothing of his mysterious wealth and how he accumulated It. T THIRD TERM QUIZ Gridiron Club Banquet Jibes Both New Deal And Republicans. Washington, Dec. 9. (JP) Political reporters posed the third-term question in a new way tonight they crooned their query to President Roosevelt. As a guest of the Gridiron club, the president heard a chorus of Democratic bedouins, gathered around a sphinx with a Roosevelt smile, sing: "One alone can make it known: You, alone, what is your decision? win you run? or are you done? Must all our plans un dergo -revision? Will you be, eternally, the one to hold our party s nomi nation? We come to you, the way we always do; It rests with you a lone. ' At the newspapermen's semi annual banquet and pin-sticking spree, the president, high gov ernment officials, foreign am bassadors and business leaders witnessed, along with other guests, a revival meeting of Republicans "kindled with the old-time religion." An actor called "Governor Dickinson of Michigan" deliv ered the exhortation against sin: Brothers and sisters, you've all been living with Democrats. How many of you ain't been taking money from WPA? How many of you ain't got brothers, and how many of you ain't stealing away in the dead of the night, running down to Washington to see how many orders you gonna get for air planes and submarines?" The other speaker of ' the evening, Federal Security Ad ministrator Paul V. McNutt, was portrayed among the Dem ocrats gathered around the Roosevelt sphinx as "the sheik of Terre Haute." . Another of the wandering Democratic bedouins, searching the deserts for the answer to Is he or ain't he," turns out to be Vice-President Garner. When Thomas Corcoran, "the great Tommy the Cork, high priest, major domo and general factotum of the sphinx," tells them they'll get the answer, If your hearts are right," Garner leaves with this cowboy ballad: "I'm headlh' for the White House,- try and stop me If you kin. I don't have to ask per mission from a smllln' bllllkin. "Just to set the new deal fryin', just to hear the new deal cry. Hear the White House moan in the early morn while I'm drlnkln' rock and rye. "How it beckons and I reckon that the White House longs to be, "To be free again, just to see again, a Democrat like me." More Plane Service. Portland, Dec. 9. (IP) Croll Hunter, president of Northwest Airlines, said today his com pany would put four new 21 passenger (Douglas) airplanes into service after January 1. Masons Conferred. Yakima, Wash., Dec. 9. (Pi Eleven thirty-second degree Ma sons from Washington and Alas ka received the thirty-third de gree In ceremonies here today and tonight 18 received the in vestiture of knight commander of honor REVISION OF ALL TRADE TREATIES Oregon Solon Says Foreign Money Depreciation Bur dens Farmers, Workers. Washington, Dec. 9.' (IP) Senator McNary (R-Ore.) de manded today that Secretary Hull reopen existing trade treaties or cancel them because the depreciation of foreign cur rency had placed a "heavy bur den" on American farmers and workers. The senate republican leader charged in a statement that since the time when a majority of the trade pacts were negotiated, the European war had tobogganed foreign currencies in relation to the dollar. He said that since December 1, 1938, the British pound had declined 17 per cent in relation to the dollar, the French franc 66 per cent and the Canadian dollar 12 per cent. In plain language, he con tinued, - "this means a substan tial reduction In the price of articles imported into the Uni ted States. The practical effect is that it removes the tariff on imported articles and places la bor on the farm and In the fac tory on a level with the under paid workers in other lands." Many republican legislators, and some democrats, have indi cated that they would fight re enactment of the trade treaty law in the coming session of congress. The present law ex pires June 13. , McNary was the first, how ever, to stress any depreciation of foreign currencies and the re lation of this factor to Hull's trade program. Citing figures, the republican leader said that an article cost ing $4.72 In England at the time the trade agreement with that country was negotiated now could be purchased for $3.90 in . American money because of the, British pound's depreciation. "Actually," he said, "we are subsidizing Imports of goods which we produce. Any program which permits goods for coun tries which have depreciated . currencies to enter the United States at. substantial reduced duties is opposed to the best in- Continued on Page KleTen) HIGH WIND. RAIN SWEEP O'ER STATE Portland, Ore., Dec. 9. (P) Drought-breaking rains which blew over Oregon caused one death today as winds rose again to gale ' proportions. Orvis Odessa Mudge, 20. Ro beline, La., a Steamboat Camp CCC .nrnlro tun- trllloH kit U 11.. 1 -1 .! 1 1 i . I icaviJjr-iauvii UWH WHICH SKIU- ded and rolled 17S feet from a slippery road near Roseburg. After a day of 22 -mile -an hour winds, a gusty southeaster reached greater velocity but failed to gain the 65 to 70-mile speed attained by a southwest erly wind last night. A nine-foot-plus tide hammer ed the Oregon coast but failed to cause much damage. DEATH COMES TO Portland, Ore., Dec. 9rJP) Death claimed the second high ranking Methodist churchman In recent weks here today. Dr. Eben Samuel Johnson, 73, suc cumbed at the Veterans' hospi tal. Dr. Johnson, a retired Metho dist Episcopal bishop, served 20 years In African missions where, in 1920, he became bishop and general superintendent. He re tired in 1936. Bishop Wallace E. Brown died suddenly last month, nine days after he arrived to take over the northwest district. .
