MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1939.
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YEARJNDECADE
Three Days Celebration for
Last of '30's Sunday
Laws Boom 'Parties'.
HIRER PROMISES
GERMANS VICTORY
By the Associated Press
Bidding farewell to the 30's,
convivial Americans began a
three-day celebration of the
new year last (Saturday) night.
It promised to be one of the
gayest festivals 01 the decade.
The national round of recep
tions, parties and dances started
24 hours earlier than usual be
cause of New Year's eve falling
on a Sunday night. In many
communities, where laws re
strict undue merriment on the
sabbath, the principal celebra
tion was held last night.
This was true in Kansas City,
where, like . other Missouri
cities, liquor sales are prohib
ited from midnight Saturday
until midnight Sunday. Many
clubs in Indianapolis moved
their celebrations up one dav.
Indiana has banned the sale of
liquor on Sundays.
The great metropolitan cen
ters, however, were planning to
celebrate on the traditional
night. New Yorkers may quench
their thirst at 2,200 bars, and
in t the cabarets they will be
.permitted to drink until 5 a.
m. Prices were generally down,
and reservations up.
In Chicago police informed
merrymakers their consciences
would be their guides on the
big night.
Some of the nations most
famous streets will be the
scenes of mass celebrations
Randolph street in Chicago,
Times Square in New York,
around which all traffic will be
rerouted; broad Canal street in
New Orleans, and San Francis
co's Market street.
Los Angeles authorities have
arranged to rope off six blocks
of Hill street and Broadway for
the celebrators and have as
signed 250 extra policemen to
keep their antics under control.
A 2 a. m. liquor curfew will be
enforced strictly:
Reports from throughout the
country showed that Sunday
laws had resulted in a greatly
increased number of home par
ties,being planned this year.
Iowa folks rushed to liquor
stores last night for supplies
to last them from 9 p. m. Sat
urday until 9 a. m. Tuesday.
Only private clubs are permit
ted to sell beer and liquor on
Sunday.
Liquor sales in Michigan to
night will be restricted to the
period from midnight until 2
a. m. Governor Dickinson said
if that wasn't long enough for
some "they'll just have to drink
faster."
Berlin, Dec. 30. P) Adolf
Hitler today expressed his con
viction that 1940 would bring
victory to Germany and de
clared the reich was fighting
"for the construction of a new
Europe."
In a year-end message to the
nazl party the fuehrer stated
Germany's "clear, precise war
aim:"
"Germany and beyond that
Europe, must be liberated from
the oppression and constant
threats which today as in the
past originate in England."
The "new Europe," Hitler de
clared, "cannot be shaped by
the outmoded forces of a decay put all disproved slanders be-
"Labor fought the case, and
won. To the thousands of union
men and women who gave
their aid in time and money, I
can best express appreciation
by saying 'It is your victory.' "
Bridges said he h o p e d it
would be possible now for em
ployers "to sit down with un
ions and work out their prob
lems in sensible fashion.
"In regard to our local water
front situation, it would seem
that the time is ripe for the
employers to forget their slo
gan that their boycott of the
port of San Francisco was nec
essary to save ships and man
agement from seizure by
'Bridges and Communists.' "
(Waterfront employers have
said that the 50-day Ship Clerks'
association strike now on at
San Francisco was inspired by
action of Bridges which
Bridges and the union denied
and other employer organiza
tions charged that Communists
dominated longshore unions.)
The labor leader said he
hoped that "now employers will
ing world" the western pow
ers but "only those peoples
and forces are called upon
which in their conduct and
their achievements can be
spoken of as young and produc
tive.
Hitler cancelled his tradi
ditional New Year's receptions
at the chancellery for the dip
lomatic corps, German cabinet,
defense forces, the nazi party
and other officials because of
the war.
An authorized source said
that well-wishers would enter
their names in a special visitors'
book. Newspapermen were re
minded that receptions were
cancelled also during the world
war,
In messages to the army and
the nazi party, however, Hitler
invoked God's blessing on the
reich and declared that afcad
of the Germans lay "the most
serious struggle for existence or
non-existence."
He gave a long summary of
nazidom's achievements and ob
served that "eighty million peo
ple cannot in the long run be
kept from participating in the
world's wealth.
LOCAL and PERSONAL
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hind them. If they do this the
unions' earnest desire for indus
trial peace can be speedily rea
lized." Bridges declared that Landis
in his report "made clear the
character and motives of red
baiters." He said that John
L. Leech, one of the witnesses
at the deportation hearing, "is
the principal Dies committee
witness on asserted radical ac
tivities in Hollywood."
He said it "is well known"
that Stanley M. Doyle, Captain
John J. Keegan of the Portland.
Ore., . police department, and
Harper Knowles, former head
of the California American Le
gion radical research commit
tee, all witnesses at the deporta
tion proceedings, "have already
performed similar services for
the Dies committee in the face
of the truth and against the in
terests of the workers and the
general public'
Special Meet Townsend club
2 will hold a special council
meeting at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday
in Townsend hall, 123.i West
Main street.
Guest Here Walter Gerkhc
of The Dalles is a holiday sea
son guest at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. L. G. Pickell of 823
Taylor street. Mr. Gerkhe is
Mrs. Pickell's brother.
Street Here Bob Street of
Portland is a New Year holi
day visitor in this city. After
having lived here approximately
a year. Street moved several
weeks ago to Portland.
Skiing Fair Despite rain,
fair skiing conditions prevailed
on selected slopes in Crater
Lake national park yesterday,
rangers said in their afternoon
short-wave radio broadcast. It
rained hard all day in the park.
the rangers said. The sky was
overcast and visibility zero. The
snow at headquarters was 33
inches deep. The snow was de
scribed as "wet." Some of tlve
park roads were slushy and
tire chains were advised in driv
ing between headquarters and
the lake rim.
MONTANA SLAYER
Home on Leave Robert C.
Hargitt, member of the crew
of the U. S. cruiser Philadel
phia, is spending a six-day leave
of absence from the navy at the
home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard W. Hargitt of
Rogue River. Hargitt enlisted
in the U. S. navy through the
Medford recruiting station last
June.
Plane Passengers Mrs. Gip
son Driver arrived by United
Mainliner Friday evening from
Seattl-, Wash., and departing
on the same plane was O. Ken
neth Anderson, meteorological
observer at Fairbanks, Alaska,
and former assistant at the
Medford weather bureau, for
Washington, D. C, where he is
to take a special course of study
before returning to his Alaskan
post. Mr. Anderson spent the
Christmas holidays with his
parents in Central Point. H.
R. Spinner left by Mainliner
for Yakima, Wash., via Port
land by Mainliner Friday after
noon. Plane service between
Oakland, Cal., and Seattle.
Wash., yesterday was disrupted
by adverse weather north and
south of here. Several trips
were cancelled.
To School Harold Clement,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Clem
ent of 1223 West Main street,
left Thursday for Seattle where
he is a student at the University
of Washington. He had visited
his parents during the Yule
holidays. He a sophomore at
the college.
In Portland Mr. and Mrs
Clem Finley and daughter Mar
guerite of Central Point are
transacting business and visit
ing relatives and friends in
Portland during the holiday
season. Mrs. L. B. Walker is
staying at the Finley home dur
ing their absence.
To Have Watch Medford
Christian Youth Council will
hold New Year's eve wntch at
the Methodist church Sunday
evening at 10:30. All voune
persons interested arc invited j
to attend. Games, refreshments Cj
and devotionals by Price Shai-iSw
fer will be given. S3
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Highway Open With rain .
falling for two days at Union
Creek, the Diamond Lake high-'
way became passable yesterday I
after being closed by snow for i
several weeks. Crater Lake na-1
tional park headquarters here
said. Tire chains, however. '
were advised for travel over j
the highway.
Visits Parents David Moore,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Rawles
Moore of the Old Stage road,
was a holiday visitor here. He
attends U.C.L.A. Also a
visitor here was Jack Gray,
who visited his father. Frank
Gray. He is a student at Santa
Monica Junior college.
Job Tests U. S. civil service )
commission yesterday announc- j
ed open competitive examina
tions for the following posi
tions: junior poultry aide, $1440 i
a year, bureau of animal in
dustry; statistical supervisor,'
S3200 a year; special agent
$:i800 a year, and assistant spe
cial agent, $3200 a year, civil '
aeronautics authority. Complete !
information about the examina-'
tions and positions may ba ob-'
tained at Medford postoffice 1
from Stanley O. Sherwood, act
ing secretary of the local board
of civil service examiners.
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the eastern Karelian isthmus, at
Kitalae, on the northern shore
of Lake Ladoga, and on a front
betwen Lake Ruoko and Lake
Sysky. A several days battle
around Lake Kianta continued.
A military communique said
two enemy tanks were de
stroyed between Summa and
Lake Muola, and that Finnish
planes shot down two Soviet
raiders.
Finns on this last Saturday
of the year realized with proud
satisfaction that Russia's armies
seemed much further away than
they did on the terrible open
ing day of the conflict No
vember 30.
They were puzzled, however,
by numerous foreign reports
that foreign volunteers were
arriving In Finland.
So far, the Swedes have been
the only ones to come in notice
able numbers, although the first
Norwegians are expected next
week.
Today was the first time the
Finns have officially admitted
the presence of Swedish volun
teers under General Ernst Lin
der. In a statement, Foreign
Minister Vaino Tanner ex
pressed Finland's thanks and
"great encouragement."
The Finns got much pleasure
out of knowing that the world
now was asking: "What's wrong
with the Russian army?" Real
istically, however, many feared
a great battle was imminent,
with experienced Soviet troops
reported moving up front to
replace callow conscripts under
cover of continual artillery
bombardment of the isthmus
Russian strategists also weie
using captive balloons for tne
first time to spy out Finnish
1-ositions; h.cVlon in the thick
Wants to Be Citizen.
San Francisco, Dec. 30. P)
Harry Bridges, California C.I.O.
leader, said today "now that ob
stacles have been cleared away"
by Dean James M. Landis' re
port on deportation charges
against him, "I shall seek nat
uralization at the earliest pos
sible moment."
"I have long desired to be
come an American citizen," said
the labor leader in a written
statement. "It should now be
obvious through the disclosures
of the proceedings, why I have
been unable to fulfill that de
sire." (Bridges has filed notice of
his intention to become natural
ized three times since he came
to this country from Australia
in 1920. The first two he al
lowed to lapse and the third
was filed in recent months.)
He declared there was "noth
ing personal" in the proceedings
which the Harvard law school
dean conducted during 11 weeks
here this summer as special ex
aminer into labor department
charges that Bridges belonged
to the Communist party.
Labor on Trial.
"I was on trial but labor was
the defendant," Bridges said.
HAD DEATH LIST
Ryegate, Mont., Dec. 30. W)
Sheriff E. L. Dolve, whose name
headed the list of 16 persons
marked for death by Lee Simp
son, 51, rancher, sprang the
trap that sent Simpson to his
death on the gallows today.
Simpson was convicted of
slaying Deputy Sheriff Arthur
Burford on his Golden Valley
county ranch, April 14, 1938.
Burford and Sheriff Dolve
had gone to the ranch to inves
tigate the disappearance of two
ranch hands whom Simpson
subsequently admitted slaying.
The ranch hands but not
Burford were on the list of
those Simpson said were "try
ing to steal my land. Mrs.
Simpson also was listed.
Simpson stepped directly from
a courthouse window to the
steps of the gallows, in a stock
ade 60 feet square.
The Rev. E. L. Mills offered
a brief prayer "by special re
quest of Mr. Simpson."
Sheriff Dolve then warned
the 250 witnesses, who had been
searched for guns and cameras,
not to speak if Simpson made a
last statement.
Simpson surrendered at Liv
ingston to Sheriff Guy Tullork
of Fergus county the day after
the slaying. He gave Tullock
the "death list" and told where
the ranch hands, Robert Mc
Donald, 21, and his brother
Gerald, 19, were buried.
The next night Simpson
slashed his wrists and wrote in
blood on a cell wall: "The re
sult of a frameup through my ;
HANCE H. CLELAND
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MCDFORD, OREGON
JANUARY 1st, 1940'
For many years, The California Oregon Power Company has
welcomed each New Year as an opportunity to extend to YOU a cheery
greeting and a sincere "Thank You" for your patronage. This year
is no exception.
We are truly grateful and fully aware of your part in the pro
gress of our company. We are sorry, indeed, we cannot make such a
greeting as this in a more personal way, for, as years come and go, we
are more and more appreciative of friendships, old and new, which this
company cherishes.
Each year finds us more determined to serve you faithfully and
well in the months and years to come. It is gratifying to us to recognize
the growing appreciation of the comfort, convenience and labor-saving
qualities of our product electricity.
It is our hope that Copco Kilowatts may bring to YOU easier,
healthier, happier living in 1940.
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1940. We hope that we may continue to
contribute to your enjoyment by servinj
you well.
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