The Weather
Forecast
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now In surrounding moun
tains; modrra t e ten. perat urt.
Temperature
Highest yeBterflaY...mmw.55
Lowest yesterday ...43
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Thirty-fourth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1939.
No. 224
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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.
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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
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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,
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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-
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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. .