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The Weather Forecast Rain today and tomorrow; no change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday , .44 Lowest yeaterday -S3 ' Worth A Look Take a look at me CLaulflrd ilimk eu do not ka- a waat oj any Kind, you may rhanje ymtt Tntnd. ft ntsrtfc a look. EDFORD 1RIBUNE Full Aiioclaitd Pmm full United Pi.it Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7. 1940 No. 247. M Washington, D. C. Jan. 8. New bills to deal with Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, have been tossed into the legis lative hopper; others are being written. Report of James M. Landis, Harvard law professor, giving Bridges a clean bill of health, instead of ending the controversy over the alien, has but added fuel to the flames. One proposal goes so far as to withdraw benefits from members of any union which is directed by an alien. The opinion of Landis (he is known as one of the "hot dog boys" because introduced to the new deal by Felix Frankfurter, now an associate justice of the su preme court), that an alien agi tator, a man whose allegiance is to a foreign country: can create trouble in the United States with impunity, appears to be shared by few members of congress, and the further fact that the administration has con- doned the activities of this alien will be the inspiration for many debates in the months to come. ALREADY the American Le gion and the AFL are pre- paring to support sucn legisla tion as is deemed necessary to dispose of Bridges. There may be reprisal in other directions, such as transferring from Madam Perkins some of the few bureaus which she still retains as secretary of the department of labor. (Miss Perkins has dis posed of her famed tricorn hat, now wears one which is more becoming, but less distinctive). There are a series of meas ures which appear rather harsh on aliens, and they range from concentration camps for the un " deportable " undesirables (there are more than 600 Russians Joe Stalin refuses to take back, so they have no country and per force must remain here although the immigration bureau would like to ship them away), to ex pelling the alien unemployed. Dean Landis dodged giving an opinion on whether the com munist party is a subversive organization, but the Dies com mittee has submitted evidence to that effect. PRESIDENT Roosevelt has given the nod of approval, which is the reason the U. S. maritime commission is permit ting a number of American freighters, which operate be- (Contlnued on Pag Five.) FIRST LADY AND MARY IN IVIES Washington, Jan. 6. IIP) Mary Pickford, "America's sweetheart" as a movie star, credited Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt with being a better actress than she tonight at a White House mobilization of American women for the "fight infantile paralysis" drive. With movie cameras grinding. the first lady, smiling and poised in a long bronze lame gown, announced that the com mittee for celebration of the president's birthday was trying "to raise the ammunition" with which to fight infantile paraly sis epidemics. "That means money," she explained. Then she introduced Miss Pickford, who looked very petite in a turban, dress, fur jacket and gloves. FREQUENT RAIN DUE COMING WEEK Northern California: Rain Sunday, moderate temperature, increasing southerly wind, be coming gales on the coast and fresh to strong in the interior .Sunday. Washington and Oregon: Sun day rain, west and local light rain or snow east portion: in creasing southeast wind off the coast, becoming gales Sunday, Outlook far western states, period January 8-13 inclusive: generally unsettled with fre quent rains: temperatures nor mal or above, with snows only at higher altitudes. MURDEREDWOMANi PAID YULE VISIT 10 Iff KIN Bloodstains On Sidewalk Give Clues To Aberdeen, Wn., Tragedy Mrs. Dick Law Slain. Mrs. Dick Law, 24, wife of a C.I.O. labor official, brutal ly slain Friday night In hr home at Aberdeen, Wash., was a Chriiimai lima -visitor in this city. She visited here with Mrs. . Laura Vickery. 232 South Grape street, mother of her husband. Ac companied by her young son, she left here Wednesday for her Washington state home. She wss known to a number of local people, including Mrs. Eva Nealon Hamilton. The boy slept undisturbed through the tragedy. Mrs. Vickery, mother of Mrs. Law's husband, is a wi dow, and is ill. She under went an operation three months ago. She has a daugh ter, Winnifred. Dick Law, the husband of the murdered woman, spent two days here at Christmas time. Aberdeen, Wash., Jan. 8. (Pi Mysterious blood stains found on the sidewalk near her home and a reported fight between a man and two women short ly before her death, were listed by authorities as important clues today in the brutal slay- ling last night of Mrs. Dick Law, 24-year-old blond mother and wife of a union official. Acting police chief Robert Schmidt said a witness reported the fight on a downtown street shortly before 7 o'clock last night and one of the women was described as similar in size and appearance to Mrs. Law, Passersby reported to police they saw a pool of blood two blocks from the Law home and bloodstains on an automobile parked there early today. The automobile was gone when po lice arrived. Mrs. Law was found dead less than a month after her husband, a member of the exec utive board of the ClO-af fili ated International Woodworkers Association appealed to police to protect his family. Law's appeal was made a short time after a riot in which a mob wrecked a workers hall a few blocks from where the Laws resided. Chief Schmidt said he was "probing the possibility that the killing might have resulted from ill will created by labor troubles and the recent raid on the hall, but we are confident no organization had any con nection with the slaying." In Seattle, Harold Pritchett, International president of Law's union, termed the slaying a "terrible thing" and pledged the union's aid in investigating the tragedy. He said the district union council would employ an ex pert criminologist and that O. M. Orton, international vice. president of the union, went to Aberdeen last night to make a personal study of the case. Law has been identified with lumber workers organizing since 1933 and his dead wife was active in the union's wom en's auxiliary, Pritchett said. Eugene V. Dennett, secretary rectly responsible for this hor rible crime." of the Washington State Indus trial Council, also issued a state ment in connection with the slaying. He said, in part that he placed "full blame for this outrage upon Aberdeen offic ials, whose cynical disregard for law and order in the recent vigilante outbreak is di- (Continued on Pags Two) Frown On ConlTol Oakland. Calif., Jan. 6, (IP) Federal control of ports or tidal oil lands was disapproved in a resolution pawed by . the Joint convention of the Northwest Marine Terminal association, the California Association of Port Authorities and the San Fran cisco Board of Harbor Com missioners. AAA Expenses WahlnBton. Jan. 6. IIP) Th Affricultural Adlustment Administration reported . today that its expenditures, including subsidies paid farmers for co - oneratine with croo control pro - grams, totaled $334,388,277 dur- ing the first five months of the current fiscal year. Finns Drive ' V Kuolajarviteal3ksha FINLAND fel cH Ta,,iflfl 1 Highlights of the Russo-Finnish war: (1) Finn ski pa trols reported menacing Russia's Murmansk railway, (2) Finns, pursuing remnants of a shattered Red division, said to have driven ten miles Into Russia and surrounded a sec ond division, (3) Finnish troops also reported to have crossed the border in this sector, and, some time ago, in the Lieksa area (4). (S) Russia massed troops en the Karelian Isthmus, but Finland's Mennerheim line was considered impregnable in winter. (8) Finns reported to have raided Leningrad with leaflets, (7) Reports from Copenhagen said Finnish bombers had blasted Soviet naval bases at Dago and Oesel. RUMANIA SERVES NOTICE ON REDS SUE WILL FIGHT King Carol Declares Nation Ready To Defend Against Soviet Union Invasion Balkans Tense. (By The Associated Press) Russia and Finland, their land and sea war slowed almost to a standstill, fought in the air yesterday (Saturday) while Russia s Balkan neighbor, Ru mania, served a blunt warning she would protect her borders against any aggression. Finland claimed destruction of 22 Soviet planes Friday and Saturday while Russia said 10 Finnish planes were downed yesterday. The Finns said Red army planes inflicted considerable damage and killed several civil ians at Mikkcli, in south central Finland. With Russia halted after more than a month of what was in- tended to be a swift conquest of that little republic, King Carol of Rumania made a bris tling address only 12 mites from the Russian frontier and the Balkans took his words as di rected at Russia and Hungary , Rumanians are "ready to die together to defend their bor ders," Carol said during a milt tary review at Chlsinau (Kishi nev), capital of Bessarabia, once a Russian province, Russia wants Bessarabia and Hungary long has wished the return of Transylvania, a prov ince lost to Rumania in a World war settlement. But diplomats in Rumania believed Carol was encouraged by Finland's rebuff of Russia and would not consider- an offer of Hungarian help in exchange for Transyl vania. A conversation which might affect future Balkan politics was under way between Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeaz zo Kiano, and the Hungarian foreign minister. Count Csaky, at Venice even as King Carol spoke. Italy advised Hungary to seek a peaceful settlement of her claim for Transylvania because of the danger of a .Russian invasion of the Balkans, which Italy regards as within her sphere of Influence, The sinking of an unnamed ! Estonian steamer by belli j gerent" warplane In the North sea 25 miles off the Norwegian , coast was reported In a British , dispatch, two men ported wounded when the crew was machine-gunned at It took I to lile Boats Into Russia CHAMBERLAIN ON SPOT AS RESULT OF RESIGNATION British Premier Urged To 'Tel! All' Army Social Clique Mentioned Cause. London, Jan. 6. (IP) Dis missal of hard-driving Leslie Hore-Belisha as war . secretary shook to the foundations today the national unity behind Ne ville Chamberlain's wartime premiership. From all parties came de mands that Chamberlain "tell all" about the departure from his war cabinet of one of his most vigorous and popular min isters and why he did not at the same time rid his government of some so-called "dead wood." The Star, voicing general press demands for a fuller ex planation of Hore-Belisha's re tirement, declared: "There is no satisfactory reason adduced for shifting a man who had the public con fidence and was doing a fine job, . "If It is shown that Mr. Hore Belisha was thrown overboard to satisfy a clique of generals who disliked him on social grounds or because he was pressing the pace of democracy in the army too strongly then public resentment will be wide, deep and lasting." - In the cabinet shake-up. Oliver Stanley succeeded Hore Belisha and Stanley's portfolio as president of the board of trade went to a newcomer, Sir Andrew Rae Duncan. The only other change found Lord Mac- Millan replaced as minister of information by another new comer, Sir John Rcith. The parliamentary recess spared the 70-year-old prime minister from immediate atiacxs In the house of commons but he will have a chance to an swer his critics In a Mansion house speech Tuesday night when he will start a series of ministerial addresses to stir the war spirit of the people. Should Chamberlain ignore then the controversy, which sur passed the heat of those cre ated by the peace-time resigna tions of Anthony Eden as for eign secretary and Alfred Duff Cooper as first lord of the ad miralty, he would wait until parliament reconvenes January 18. Demands for a full explana tion of v Hore-Belisha's "resigna tion" were foreshadowed in parliament by both opposition party members and conservatives RUSSIAN PU:S BAGGED BY f IS N AIR ACKS Soviet's Blitzkrieg Fails- Finnish Forts Shell Red Supply Columns. Helsinki, Jan. 8. IIP) Twenty-two Russian warplancs pos sibly more have been shot down In the last two days by Finland's stiffening air defenses, military circles asserted tonight. An army communique offic ially accounted for eight Soviet 1 machines destroyed yesterday at j Mikkelli railroad town about 135 miles northwest of the Ka relian Isthmus frontier. Unofficial but reliable sources reported that eight more planes were shot down today at Uttl, 90 miles south of Mikkelli on an east-west railway line. In addition, anti-aircraft bat teries at Savlo, northwest of Lake Ladoga, were reported to have destroyed six additional Soviet pianes. The Russians managed to In flict considerable damage at otf, several civilians, inciuaing women and children, were re ported killed. In fighting yesterday the high command reported destruction of two enemy tanks and cap ture of 11 others along with large quantities of supplies left behind by retreating Red army forces In the center of the east ern front. Brisk fighting continued on the eastern front at Suomus- salmi where the Russians have been beaten back in their ef forts to sever Finland's wasp like "waistline." The Finns said their coastal forts turned their guns inland to destroy Red army supply columns and artillery, ; 'On the Karelian Isthmus, tbo high command said two minor infantry thrusts toward the Mannerheim line were repulsed. Russia's attempt at a blitz krieg, after a 38-day trial against Finland, a country of 3,800.000 inhabitants, has netted her about 5,000 square miles, or about one forty-eighth of the 240,000 square miles she ap parently set out to capture. And Finnish leaders say they gave up voluntarily most of the Finnish territory now occupied by the Red army. SEA LOSS DROP, SWEDES PERK UP By Associated Pratt The 18th week of the war, marked by a continued decrease in destruction of ships, saw a sharp spurt in economic and diplomatic activity as England took steps to tighten Its rule of the seas, Sweden, possibly encouraged by Finnish claims of military successes, protested to Russia over the destruction of the Swedish coastal freighter Fen- ris, 484 tons. In the Gulf of Bothnia. Survivors SBid a Rus sian submarine shelled the ves sel and set it afire. Washington told Great Brit ain the United States would hold her responsible for any damages suffered by American ships forced into forbidden waters for a contraband search. The warning followed the taking of the freighter Mormac sun into the control station at Kirkwall, Scotland, about 250 miles Inside the neutrality act's danger zone. BULLETIN By the Associated Press Ashland 20, Lake view 18. Santiago, Chile, .an. 8. (IP) A sharp earth shock was felt here at 11:43 p. m. (10.43 p. m., E.S.T.), tonight. There were no Immediate reports of damage or casualties. WHdervilie School Closet Grants Pass, Jan. 8. IIP) New scarlet fever cages reported today have caused a decision to j close the Wilderville school (Monday, according to the coun- ty health office. County Doctor S. B. Osgood expressed concern over the number of cases. There have been 15 In wide spread communities since Nov ember 18 HINIES, HISTORIAN OF OREGON, GOES TO LAST REWARD Distinguished Figure Long, Pioneer, Set Type For First Scott Editorial. 1 Portland, Jan. . r George Henry Himes, whose career plumbed the depths of Oregon's history, died here to day. For 42 years curator of the Oregon Historical Society and secretary of the Oregon Pioneer association for 53 years, Himes was the final authority on pio neer Jore. He had been confined to hospital since December, suffer ing from a stroke. The son of Tyras Himes, a cobbler-farmer of Troy, Pa., he walked most of the way across the plains as a boy of seven, reaching Oregon In 1853. The family settled at what Is now Oiympia, Wash., where young Himes attended school. He became a printer, and In 1885 set in type the first edi torial written for the Orcgonian by Harvey W. Scott, Oregon's most famous editor. While in Oiympia, he began a diary which grew to more than 80 volumes, crammed with entries now of great value to historians. One item, dated March 21, 1888. recorded "printed 'Cincinnati 3, H. Mil ler's first poem. Suggested the use of Joaquin. He was the subject of a bio graphical volume written by Mrs, Minnie Dee, A park south of Portland was named in his honor and the forest service in 1934 named after him a camp ground on the Green Water riv er where the old Pioneer Road first crossed the stream west of the Cascade summit. In 1886, "'Himes mafriesf Anna F. Briggs at Salem. She died here in 1933. Survivors Include five daughters, Mrs. Robert A. Held, Mrs. Harold G. Rice, Mrs, Thomas W. Mann, Mrs. Edward A. Albrecht, all of Portland and Mrs. Guy C. Buswell, Tual atin, 15 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. BRIDE SLAIN BY RBECTED LOVER Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 9. (if) A love triangle ended her today In a burst ot pistol fire, which killed a 21-year-old bride of two months and left her re jected suitor critically wounded, The shooting, described by District Attorney David Car mody as a slaying and an at tempted suicide, occurred at the home of the bride, Mrs, Frances Lyon, wife of a Santa Fa garage employe. Carmody quoted witnesses as saying Lewis Walton, 27-year- old mine worker, shot the young woman as she lay sick in bed, then turned the pistol on him self. Walton was still alive to night In a Santa Fe hospital, but physicians did not expect him to recover. OREGON RELATIVES SHARE IN ESTATE Portland, Or., Jan. 8. (IP)- Louie M. Johnson, widow of Samuel w. Johnson , Carbon county, Wyomfng, rancher, left an estate estimated between $300,000 and SI, 400,000, pro bate records showed today. A sister, Mrs. Inez M, Ecker- son, Portland, with whom Mrs. Johnson, Bn invalid, had lived until her death December 28, received the bulk of the estate, consisting of olLlands and rtnch property in Wyoming, Rufus M. Zckerson, Corvauis, a nephew, was named executor, A $30,000 deques! was made to him for the purchase of an annuity for Ruth Strauss Leidig, Carmel, Cal., a grand-niece. Other bequests, ranging from $5000 to 250, were left rela tives and friends in Indiana, Washington, Jan. 8. (IP) Senator Charles MeNary nom Insted James D. Kidder of Rose- buie today as the principal for appointment to the United States military academy at West PoiP Pungle Or Else Portland, Jan. fl. fP Office-holding Democrats had better contribut to the party's national campaign fund un less they want to see a Republican victory, Frank Tierney, state Democratic chairman, declared today. The response to the Jack son day fund drive has "not been as generous as antici pated." Tierney said. "Many who have been en joying good salaries under the Democratic admimstra tion are hiding behind their own construction and inter pretation of the Hatch act and the civil service inter pretation of that legislation," Tierney added. COUNTY AFFAIRS , START TO SIZZLE AT GRANTS PASS Grants Pass. Jan. 6. (IP) The steadily rising temperature of Josephine county affairs climbed three degrees closer to the boiling point Saturday, warmed by the fire of an audit and Investigation submitted by Alfred W. Mundt, C.P.A. Three public letters were Is sued. I. Judge W. A. Johnson, writing a letter foT the county court addressed ts District At torney Orval J. Millard. : the court Is desirous of follow-: ing recommendations, asked for an opinion on what powers the court has In ordering changes, and called to the district at torney's attention mention of legal questions and "irregu larities" mentioned by the au dit. S.The district attorney re plied, also in writing, that he would present the matter tn full before the grand jury which will meet Monday, and Indicated verwaiy that the jur ors would be ceiled upon to make a thoroughgoing study of all allegations. 3. I. J. Ha gen, sexton of the county cemetery until recently, mentioned in the audit by of fice only, declared that the re port was a "slander". The audit said the sexton had been re lieved of his position and had returned S313 to the county after having made no payment tor sale of cemetery lots for long period. GIL, 10, A BRIDE HER MOTHER AND HUBBYSEHTENGED Athens, Ohio, Jan, 8. IIP) The four-day marriage of a girl of 10 to a 21-year-oid coal miner wound up in courtroom tonight. Wlihin tn hour after Sheriff Charles Bayless arrested the couple, Mr. and tin. Charles William Schail, and the bride's mother, Mrs. Lydta Hudnall, all were sentenced on delinquency charges. The marriage Tuesday was Tevcaled when Donald Hudnatt swore to warrants against his wife, the child, and the hus band, Bayless said the mother told a marriage license clerk her daughter, Mary Alice Llm berg, was 18. "Yes, I knew the girl was yaung but I didn't see anything the matter with her getting mar ried," the mother said, "She's almost as big as I am. Schall Is a good worker and will take care of her." The young couple stood mule while Juvenile Judge Francis White sentenced Mary Alice to an indefinite term tn the girls Industrial school at Delaware and Schall to year In jail. Mrs, Hudnall sobbed as she was sentenced to a year In the women's reformatory at Marys villa. Salem, Jan. 8. (P5 Every section of Oregon reported, larger payrolls and fewer Job less men and women as the state entered the new year, Silas Caiscr, administrator of the . state unemployment com penittlon commission, an nounced today. Portland, Jan. , IIP) State j liquor commission authorities j were undecided today how j many agents would be dismissed j in a reorganization of the en-j foreement division. Most sources j said "probably eight," J i ROOSEVELT OKAYS PLAN BY SOLONS TO MAKE BUDGET Harrison Takes Proposal To j President Ami Approval indicated Shuns Delay. Washington, Jan. Senator Harrison (D., Mm f talked over with President Roosevelt today his plan for congress to write Ms own bud get, and reported that the chief executive felt A was a step in the Tight direction. Doubt that the Idea might be carried through was raised, however, by a statement from Senator Byrnes (D.r S C.), who was a luncheon guest of tha president, that house leaders were "about right" In contend ing thBt the house should -j ahead with consideration of those supply measures already prepared. Harrison's proposal Is that the house and senate create a 24-man committee to study Mr. Roosevelt's budget for 80 days and then make Its own recom mendations. The committee would be com posed of members of the house and senate appropriations and revenue committees. Byrnes, an Influential mem ber of the senate appropriations committee, made 11 clear thai he thought it would be best this time to go along -with the usual congressional procedure. "Uesirable sa a ought be ts make a study," he said, "now that the house Is ready to con sider bills, nothing would b gained by holding them up for 80 days." The South Carolinian said a joint study "might well be cos- sidered for the future," but added! such an Inquiry should begin In the summer preceding congress session. . . . . . A Byrnes' statement, ' 'earning after Harrison's, and slier both had seen the president separ ately, led to the impression that Mr. Roosevelt attitude was that it was a question entirely tor congress. Harrison, chairman of the senate finance committee. Indi cated that he felt assured, t least, of no administration op position to his Idea, CHILL OF WINTER SWEEPS TO EAST By lh Associated PtM Winter winds whistled across) the United States yesterday depositing Ice and snow from Utah to the Atlantic coast. The western snowstorm. sweeping over nine states, left s 12-inch blanket in northwest ern Oklahoma and six Inches In sections of Wyoming and Colorado. There was ice skating t Seat tyville, Ky., where the Ken tucky was frown from bank to bank, and frosts nipped the fields of northwestern Florida, Snow, sleet and rain drenched all of Texas, halting air traf fic and slowing automobile traf fic. Telephone lines Is the Pae handle were damaged by heavy loads of Ice, In Oklahoma, mo torists were advised to stay at home over the weekend. Three and m half Inches of snow fell in the valleys of Utah, while In the mountains five Inches more were deposited to bring the total to 32. Mew York Solon Fines New York, Jan. 1. VP) Hep, Edward W. Curie? (D-N.Y.). died tonight at his Bronx home following heart attack. Requism Mass Woodburn, Jan. 8. VP) Archbishop Edward D. Howard will offer a requiem mass here Monday for Father Joseph C. Heesaker, pastor of St. Luke's Catholic church since 1937, who died Thursday, Lodge Notices Starting Monday the Mail Tribune will group paid lodge notices on the classi fied page under the heading "Lodge Notices." Organisa tions desiring notices to ap jjear under this heading ihould arrange with the cl iified advertising department not later than 6:30 a. m. of the day the notice is to ap pear. Kates will be quoted upon request.
