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The Weather Forecast: Partly cloud j to night and Wednesday with tog In morning, normal tempera ture. Temperature Highest yesterday 40 Lowest this mornlnf ........... M Fat Workers Start something do It now get one of thou busy Want Ads. working for you. They are fait workers and do produce aplendtd results. Rates: 2c a word first day and la a word for each day following. Medford Tribune Full Associated Prett Full United Prcu Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, ). No. 226. Bi m llll . Washington, D. C, Dec. 12. Employers of the Pacific North west who have had unpleasant experience with lawyers and examiners of NLRB should fol low with interest the hearings being conducted into that fed eral agency by a special com mittee of the house of repre sentatives. This committee is determined to learn what, if anything, is wrong with NLRB, the Wagner act and why theie is now such criticism of the act and its administration by both CIO and AFL as well as the harassed boss. It will be disclosed that many practices of the field force (ex nminers and the lawyers) which have caused the indignation of employers were unknown to the three directors of NLRB sitting back in the national capital, in complete ignorance of the razz ing of employers, the doctoring of the records and the piling up of unnecessary costs. Enough documentary evidence has been assembled bv the committee to demonstrate that the policy of many field agents of the boaia was never to give the employer a break. Dozens of mill operators: thousands of employes in Ore- eon and Washington are sour on the board. What took place in the Pacific Northwest'was typical of occurrences through out the country from Atlantic to Pacific. In a way, the special house committee will take NLRB to the cleaners. ORIGINALLY the White House opposed creation of the house investigation, but this attitude has been modified. The administration recognizes that unless the Wagner act is to be tossed into the ash can and NLRB liquidated, there must be amendments to the statute and the board curbed, its scope of jurisdiction limited by specific legislation, wjtli law and not regulations, as the guide posts for the triumvirate. Neither of the two principal labor organizations want the act repealed nor NLRB abolish ed but they, no less than em ployers, express dissatisfaction with parts of the act and its ad ministration. In short, NLRB. ( Continued on Page Six.) DELAY SENTENCING OF Phoenix. Ariz., Dec. 12. (IP) Spntpncine of Otis V. Miner, 51 Oklahoma railroad worker who confessed stealing his niece in 1929, was delayed a week yes terday by Superior Judge Ar thur T. La Prade. Miner said he took Alice Ves tal, then a minor, from her home to Picher. Okla., where he mar ried her in 1932. Four children were born to them before she left him last July and went to live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Vestal, in Ashland, Ore. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mary Rcinhart being simply snowed under with details of organizing a huge New Years Eve whing-ding but getting a reat bang out of it all. Marjorie Findley and hubby Dwight almost falling out of their chairs while viewing with interest the lady rasslers at the weekly riots. Art McVeigh looking like a slim version of brother Santa Claus, so loaded down with packages was he. Babe Lewis losing her coin purse containing Christmas spending money just al oei.ht of Uie bo'lida.casou. REDS' EXPULSION SEEN NEXT STEP IN GENEVA MEET Soviet Sources Say Diplo matic Break With Britain, France Will Be Result. London. Dec. 12. UP) A Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Geneva tonight said Russia was being given until 10 a.m. tomorrow (1 a.m.. PST) to reply to the League of Nations' telegram calling on her io submit her contlict with Finland to me diation. The extension was agreed on because of uncertainty as to when the telegram reached Moscow. - Previously It was under stood the 24-hour time limit expired at 6 p.m. (9 a.m., PST) today. Geneva, Dec. 12. (IP) The 24-hour deadline for a reply to the League of Nations' offer to mediate the Russian-Finnish war passed today without a reply from the Soviet Union. The deadline was 6 p.m. (9 a.m., PST), but. officials said consideration still would be giv en a reply if it were . received later. Nevertheless at 6 p.m. the 13 national league committee con sidering Finland's appeal for aid began drafting a report to the league assembly which would condemn Russia as an aggres sor;" " Steps Not Suggested The committee adjourned nearly two hours later after adopting five pages of its re port to the league assembly. Delegates said this part includ ed condemnation of Russia as an aggressor, but did not sug gest what ' steps the league should take. Tomorrow's public session of the assembly was set for 10 a.m. Although the committee meet- (Continued on Page rwo ) Dashing Douglas Fairbanks Succumbs to Heart Attack Hollywood, Dec. 12. (IP) Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who leaped to film fame with his spectacular acrobatics, died in bed today of a heart attack. He was 56. The dashing Don Juan, for la i years the ranking male star of pictures, succumbed after a day's illness at his beach home in nearby Santa Monica. At his bedside were his wid ow, the former Lady Sylvia Ash ley, and his brother, Robert. His son, Douglas, Jr., was called a few minutes before Fairbanks died at 1 a.m., but had not reached the house. His life in recent months had been quiet and retiring. He was seen occasionally at Hollywood functions and only last Satur day, in the best of spirits, at tended a football game. Condition Unrecognited He did not complain of illness until Monday morning, but even when he suffered a slight heart attack in the afternoon physi cians did not consider his con dition serious. Fairbanks' career in films started in 1914. His early sua cesses were chiefly notable for his athletic accomplishments and a flair for romantic com edy. He was divorced in New York in 1918 by Beth Sully Fair banks, whom he married .in 1907. Douglas, Jr., Is their son. A little over a year later, Fair banks and Mary Pickford were married here. For years, their romance was considered ideal by all Hollywood. Their man sion, "Pickfair", was the scene of some of the film colony's most famous parties. Named Co-respondent But in 1933, Miss Pickford announced their separation. A vear later, Lord Ashley won a divorce from Lady Ashley, the former Sylvia Hawkes, British musical comedy star, naming Fairbanks as co-respondent. Early in 1935, Miss Pickford sued for divorce. On January 14. 1936, Miss Pickford was giv- thclcn a final decree and less than t two month later Fairbanki and Ballard War Bulletins Moscow, Wednesday, Dec. 13. (UP) Soviet Premier and Foreign Commissar Via cheslav Molotov today reject ed the League of Nation's offer to mediate the Finnish Russian hostilities. Paris. Dec. 12. (IP) The French high command, in its evening communique, report ed German forces had attack ed between the Saar river and the Warndt forest tonight but French troops held their lines. London. Dec. 12 (IP) Loss of the British steamer King Egbert, 4,500 tons, in the North sea was disclosed today with landing of 32 sur vivors. The King Egbert tank after an explosion. On man was drowned. ' A neutral steamer picked up the survi vors. Copenhagen. Dec. 12. JP) The 3,792-ton Swedish steam er Tome struck a mine and tank today in the Oresund 25 miles south of Copenhagen. The crew't fate wat not im mediately known. London, Dee. 12. OP) A Reutert (British newt agency) dispatch from Moscow today said it was reported reliably that since beginning of the Finnish ' conflict Russia had recalled to the colors reserv ists who were released after occupation of eastern Poland. $5 DONATION FOR FINNS ON GRANTS PASS RECORD Grants Pass, Ore., Dec. 12. (IP) L. G. Thayer laid four one- dollar bills on a newspaper desk today and said it was for relief of the Finnish people. Told that his was the first local contribution, although for mer President Herbert Hoover issued a call for funds last Fri day, Thayer in an amazed and breaking voice demanded his money back. He wrote a check for $5 in stead. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Lady Ashley were married in Paris. Miss Pickford later wed Charles (Buddy) Rogers, actor and orchestra leader. J Fairbanks rme to his greatest fame after his marriage to Miss Pickford. Ho began producing as a member of Famous Players Lasky and later United Artists, in which he was associated with D. W. Griffith, Mist Pickford and Chavles Chaplin. His greatest personal suc cesses of the period were "Robin Hood," 'The Mark of Zorro," "The Thief of Bagdad," "Don Q, Son of Zorro" and "The Three Musketeers." All were characterized by his leaps from ever-present danger, Named RUSSIANS HALTED ON EASTERN LINE WITH HEAVY LOSS Finns Say Dead Invaders Lying in Heaps Before Positions; Destroy Tanks. Copenhagen, Dec. 1 2. (fP) T h e Finnish telegraphic agency reported tonight it had information that Soviet Rus sia, irritated by stubborn and unexpected Finnish resist ance, wat preparing to throw a million and a half iirtt clatt troopt and one thousand planes into an offensive against Helsinki. The major thrust, the agency taid. wat expected in the Karelian isth mus. ' Helsinki, Dec. 12. (IP) Fin nish military authorities an nounced tonight Finnish troops had stopped a large scale Rus sian offensive along the eastern front leaving the Russian "dead lying in heaps before our posi tions." The Finns said many Russian tanks had been destroyed and the Russian air force was de scribed as active but "largely ineffective." - "The ncmy launched a pow erful attack today along several sectors of the Karelian isthmus a Finnish communique said "Hard fighting took place all day especially on the hill Over looking a church at Muola. Tanks Destroyed "Almost a constant scries of attacks were repulsed, the en emy suffering tremendous losses. We destroyed many tanks and hundreds of Russians, leav ing the dead lying in heaps be fore our positions. "Severe fighting occurred also all along the eastern front particularly at Tolvajarvi and cost the Russians a severe de feat," the communique contin-1 ued. Three enemy battalions were destroyed. We captured 27 machine-guns, 25 express rifles, 13 machine pistols and other materials in addition to destroy ing several tanks." The communique said "noth ing worth mentioning hap pened" on the sea. Previously, the invaders were reported as pressing two separ ate campaigns which might bring Finland to her knees. Finn Line Holds The newer of these parallel offensives took shape along the icy shore of Lake Ladoga and in the lake-dotted country to the north, where numerically super ior Soviet Russian forces were bent on rounding the northern part of Lake Ladoga to outflank the stubborn defenders of the Karelian isthmus. Twelve days of attack by planes, tanks, artillery and in fantry had failed to crack the isthmus defenses between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland the Mannerheim line accord ing to the Finnish command, and the Russian strategists may have decided a flanking maneu ver held the greater chance, of success. POLICEMAN'S PENSION DWINDLES TO 12 CENTS Portland, Dec. 12. (IP) Patrolman H. E. Taft, retired, gets $10 a month when there is ' sufficient cash in the police men s pension fund. The De cember payment amounted to 12 cents. The pension board asked the city council to remedy the sit uation by passing a special or dinance. BELGIAN FISHERMEN FIND MINES IN NETS Ostend. Belgium, Dec. 12. (IP) A Belgian fishing fleet re turned safely to port today to tell of running Into a French mine field. When they drew their nets three mines went off in succefsion. The fishermen cut their cables and fled. President Oregon State AWARDS CONTRACT EOR HYDRO PLANT Gold Hill Plant To Have J 500-Kilowatt Generator And Wing Dam in Rogue. Plans for Immediate construc tion of a 1500-kilowatt hydro electric power plant by the Beaver Portland Cement com pany, to supply the company, "and perhaps part of the city of Gold Hill" with electric pow er, were announced today by W. H. Mulrhead, president and general manager of the Gold Hill concern. Although the amount of money Involved in the project was not revealed, it is believed the figure will be between $150,000 and $200, 000. R. I. Stuart & Sons of Med ford have been awarded the contract for all construction, which will include the plant it self, a 400-foot wing dam ex tending Into Rogue river and the widening and deepening of a mile-long canal. Gilbert Stuart stated that about 35 men would be employed on' the project, which will be started within a week or 10 days and completed by June 1, subject to the weather. Plant on Rogue. The power plant will be lo cated on the northeast bank of Rogue river, approximately one mile upstieam from the rail road bridge at Gold Hill, at the edge of the city limits. A power line is now being laid from the cement company plant in Gold Hill xj the loca tion of the proposed power plant The plant will be 60 by 40 feet In dimension and construct- ed of concrete and timber. It (Continued on page Two.) LOIR FREIGHT RATE ON APPLES AND PEARS LINED BY Chicago, Dec. 12. (IP) The Transcontinental Freight Bur eau declined today a request of fruit growers of Washington, Oregon and California for re ductions in freight rates of ap ples and pears. Chairman J. G. Stubbs an nounced the bureau's decision after a meeting of a day and a half. He did not comment furth er. The present rates, filed In March, 1938, will remain In ef fect. The transcontinental rates for pears are $1.50 per hundred pounds, with a minimum of 34, 000 pounds, or $1.63 on a mini mum of 26,000 to Chicago or farther west, and 27,500 east of Chicago. Apple rates, with a 37.000 pound minimum, are $1.31 east of Chicago and $1.05 to Chicago The growers had asked $1.10 on pears, with a 36,000 mini mum, and the following apple rates: $1.10 to cast; $1.05 to Buf falo, Pittsburgh and Cleveland; $1.00 to Detroit and Cincinnati; and 90 cents to Clfcago. i Eight transcontim ntal ri.il roads were represent ;d on t.ie bureau. CHRISTMAS TREE CUTTER JAILED FOR SIX MONTHS Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 12. (IP) Carl Fink, 50. pleaded guilty In federal court yester day to cutting down 735 trees in Lassen national forest for Christmas sale, and was sen tenced to tlx months In the county jail. He is a Siskiyou county lodge owner. Wife Sobs at Mrt. John Frederick Wund husband, John( left), and tob er's murder trial In which he killed their 16-month-old daugh in their apartment while he and Seattle. BREMEN NEAR Berlin, Dec. 12. (IP) The great liner Bremen steamed safely into German waters to night, onco more escaping the British navy's net on her home ward voyage from Murmansk, her Russian Arctic refuge. German authorities said she had arrived within an uniden tified "safe zone" under com mand of Captain A. Ahrcns. the skipper who took her out of New York August 30 and sailed her into Murmansk by a far northern route. Earlier authorities had Indi cated she was expected at a German port, presumably Brcm erhaven. The asserted German scout ing planes were hovering over the Bremen as she neared home port after an absence of REDS SINK GERMAN SHIP Helsinki, Dec. 12. (IP) A re port from the Finnish port of Mantyluoto tonight said the German freighter Bollheim had been sunk in the Gulf of Both nia by a submarine which a survivor said he believed was part of the Russian naval block ade of Finland. The submarine was siHd to have sunk the steamer with ap proximately 15 shells. Several officers were killed. Most of to seek mm ofJOSEP1E m 1U J Mn I MAUL AIM KtbiriUJUttL IRHUL HOI Washington, Dec. 12. (IP) President Roosevelt said today congress would be asked at its next session to extend the reci procal trade agreements act. The act has been under fire recently from many Republi cans and some Democrats at the capltol. Mr. Roosevelt told reporters at his press conference congress would be asked to extend the act but'the question of possible modifications had not yet been raised. Nor did he indicate whether as far as he was con cerned any changes might be suggested. A great many countries, he asserted, are potentially in the field for American export in creases, along lines of what he termed successful efforts to boost shipments abroad thus far Hood River, Dec. 12. (IP) Mrs. David R. Cooper, the first white woman to settle in the Hood River valley, was burled today. She crossed the plains with her husband in 1873. Mrs. Cooper died at her Parkdale home Sunday. Mate's Trial 0 Q J ert (right), tat at the tide of her bed during the 22-yer.r old fath wat convicted on charges he ter by turning on the gas jets hit wife went to a thow in HOME PORT more than three months, and these planes compelled a British submarine which waj encoun tered to submerge, ';, London, Dee. 12. (IP) The German luxury liner Bremen successful In dodging the Brit ish fleet since war started, was sighted this morning by a Brit ish submarine which the ad miralty said refrained from at tacking her without warning. The admiralty s announce ment said the submarine in fall ing to attack without warning acted according to "the rules of sea warfare." The admiralty gave no hint as to where the submarine en countered the Bremen or whether it took any action to capture her. the crew reached land in life boats. The Bollheim was en route to Hamburg with a load of grain. Several of 29 survivors who were landed by a lifeboat at Merikarvla, on Finland's west coast, insisted the submarine was Russian although it was not definitely identified. The captain, second officer and radio operator were killed 1 by shcllfire. 1111 1 nr L DL Grants Pass, Dec. 12. (IP) An eight-day Josephine county sensation, a recall move against County Judge W. A. Johnson and Commissioner Richard Mc- Elligott reached its apparent finale today. T. H. Dawson and Wm. L. Schroeder, two leaders of the six-man committee which filed preliminary petitions and circu lated others, signed a statement today declaring their intention of dropping the entire recall movement. They said economy and reduc tion of high taxes were their aim in asking the recall; that they were dropping It because they were told it would mean added expense to the county. They said they expected the newly-formed Josephine County Taxpayers' league, which held an open meeting on the subject last night, to carry on the economy move. Although 250 crowded into the circuit courtroom, fireworks fizzled. The throng applauded speakers from among their own number who said they came ex pecting to hear something and were disappointed. Coll ege PICKS SUCCESSOR FOR DRJ3. PEAVY Five -To -Four Vote Later Made Unanimous in Favor Of Chancellor's Candidate Portland, Ore., Dec. 12. (JP) Frank Lewelllng Ballard, 48, who did odd jobs to pay for hli education at Oregon State col lege, became president of that institution today. Ballard succeeds Dr. George Wilcox Peavy, who has reached retirement age and will become president emeritus on July 1. the date the new president takea office. Selection Criticised The selection was made on a fivc-to-four vote of the board of higher education amid accusa tions of "political gangster methods on the college campus" by one of the dissenting mem bers. The vote: Aye F." E. McCallister, Al bany; Willard L. Marks, Albanyt Herman Oliver, John Day; E. C Pease, The Dalles; and Edgar W. Smith, Portland. Nay C. A. Brand,- .Roseburg; Robert W4 Ruhl, Medford; Beatrice Walton Sackett, Marshfield, and E. ' C. Sammons, Portland. In explaining his negative vote, Sammons explained that his stand was "not so much be cause of the man himself, but was in protest against the politi cal gangster' methods used on the State college campus to bring about Ballard's election. Brand Explains Vote Brand said he voted "no" be cause he did not "believe in taking a fine and capable man from a position where he be longs and putting him in a posi tion where he doesn't belong." Mrs. Sackett moved that the election be made unanimous, and Sammons agreed so far aa he was concerned, but added that "there are many hard feel ings on the campus." He con tinued that he hoped "Mr. Bal lard will get the full support of the board and faculty together so that he can mend broken fences and hearts." After discussion, the board voted to make the selection unanimous. The new president was select ed for an Indefinite tenure at a salary of $7500 a year. The vote came on the recommendation of Chancellor Frederick M. Hunt er, who placed only one name before the board. (Continued on Page Seven ) GRENBEMER TO HEAD Portland. Dec. 12. (U.R) Dr. E, T. Hcdlund, postmaster here and state chairman of the 1940 campaign for the aid of infan tile paralysis victims, appointed William Grenbemer of Medford to be chairman of the drive in Jackson county. MADELAINE CARROLL IS GRANTED DIVORCE London, Dec. 12. (IP) Made lalne Carroll, British star of American films, today was granted a divorce from Captain Philip Astley on grounds of mis conduct with a woman named Dorothy Everard. They were married Oct. 2, 1931. Radio Highlights I By Attoclated Prets. (Pacific Standard Time.) Tonight: Europe WABCCB3 5:55, 8; MBS 6; WEAF-NBC-East 8. Wednesday: Europe NEC Chains 8 a. m.; WABC-CBS S a. m., 3:30 p. rri. t
