The Weather
Forecast
Rain today and tomorrow;
no change In temperature.
Temperature
Highest yesterday , .44
Lowest yeaterday -S3 '
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1RIBUNE
Full Aiioclaitd Pmm
full United Pi.it
Thirty-fourth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7. 1940
No. 247.
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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,
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