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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940.
No. 250.
To)
Washington, D. C, Jan. 10.
Senator Carl Hayden, Arizona
democrat, stalked into the pri
vate office of Senator Charles
L. McNary, Oregon republican.
An hour later when Hayden
emerged they had agreed on a
program which, if authorized,
will designate highways as part
of national defense. The meas
ure will carry the names of
Hayden and McNary; may even
receive the blessing of the Great
White Father of 1600 Pennsyl
vanla avenue.
Within a week, a survey
which has been conducted by
the bureau of public roads, will
be filed with congress. It will
feature such highways as the
war department regards as es
sential for moving troops. This
report is not to be confused
with the so-called "MacDonald
plan," which dealt with con
struction of s u p e r-highways
which were to be toll roads,
and was intended as a guide for
the spending lending bill spon
sored by the administration last
July and killed before congress
adjourned.
department has a list of
' highways it would like to
see improved or constructed on
which troops can move without
being obstructed by normal traf
fic; wants these highways to
go around towns to avoid traf
fic; wants the roads to be as
straight as possible: wants easy
grades over mountains; wants
the pavement plenty wide and
100 foot right-of-way at least.
No secret is the fact that on
the war department map arc
routes 99 and 30. The former
Is more familiar to the public
as Pacific highway, the latter
aa Columbia river highway and
Old Oregon Trail. These routes
have been shown to Senator
"Dear Alben" Barkley, of Ken
tucky, democratic leader, by
President Roosevelt.
pLAN of Hayden and McNary
(the former looks after road
legislation in the senate and
consults the latter as official re
publican leader), is to designate
the routes favored by the war
department as military high
ways, and then ask for an ap
propriation specifically for such
routes. A specific appropriation
would be apart from and in ad
- dition to the regular federal aid
(Continued on Page Pour.
CITY OF FLINT DUE
HOME IN TEN DAYS
Washington, Jan. 10. (U.R)
The American freighter City of
Flint, whose odyssey to Europe
last fall led to international
complications, is en route home,
the state department revealed
last night.
The ship sailed Saturday
night or Sunday from Narvik
Norway, the department said,
and is expected to arrive in
New York in 10 days or two
weeks.
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Jim Owen delighting the for
est service gals with three boxes
of luscious chocolates.
Mrs. J. R. Marshall still talk
ing about the lovely birdhousc
she received for Christmas.
Dwight Houghton toastmas
tering at the Active club ban
quet with the aplomb of a Jim
Farley even though it wasn't
a SlOO-a-platc dinner and he
wouldn't vote far the honorable
postmaster general.
And Bill McAllister declaring
the club would have elected
John Naglcy president again but
for the preponderance ot Re
publicans who have developed
an antipathy against third terms
for anybody.
Ennel Shaver being a report
er deluxe, despite the fact he
wandered about for a couple
of weeks with a newsy bit.
n
Ski Troops Mopping Up Rem
nants of Two Divisions
Previously Cut Jo Pieces
By Thomas F. Hawkins
With the Finnish Army at the
Russian Frontier Near Raate,
Central Finland, Jan. 10. (IP)
Victorious Finnish troops who
have thrown shattered remnants
of two Russian divisions back
across their border were re
ported today to have surrounded
a third enemy division at Kuk
kammo, south of the scenes of
recent triumphs.
For the first time since the
red army invasion began the
Finns have cleared the area De-
tween Lake Kianta, Suomus-
salini and the frontier, of Rus
sian units and today they estab
lished border posts along a 30
mile stretch.
Details Lacking
Details of the Kukkammo ac
tion were lacking, but si troops
finished mopping up remnants
of the Russian 44th and 163rd
divisions, routed in 14 days of
bitter fighting.
Finnish control was complete
in the border region directly east
of Lake Kianta, into which two
Russian divisions marched at the
start of the war.
Equipment and personal be
longings abandoned by the flee
ing Russians indicated the 44th
division smashed southeast of
Suomussalmi was one of the
red army's crack units from the
Polish campaign.
Defeat of the 44th along a
four and one-half mile stretch
of twisting highways was the
biggest Finnish victory of the
war.
Evidence of the fierce three
day battle which began Jan. 5
could still be seen in scores of
trucks scattered along the high
way and cannon with piles of
hundreds of shells and shellcaps
beside them.
Finn Losses Small
A Finnish general revealed
victory might have belonged to
the red army if it had counter
attacked strongly. He expressed
belief the counter-attack was not
made, because of lack of rein
forcements and disorganization.
Finnish' losses were small in
the three days of fighting, a
Finnish colonel in the Raate sec
tor said, compared with the
thousands of Russian killed and
more than 1000 taken prisoner.
In comparing the battles
against the two Russian divis
ions, the Finns said the fight
with the 163rd division was a
rout while that with the 44th
was bitterly contested.
The 44th apparently was one
of the crack Russian regiments
in the Polish campaign. Enve
lopes with Polish postmarks and
a truck containing copies of
Polish songs was seen.
Official Finnish figures on the
war booty seized from the 44th
included over 100 field guns, 45
tanks, ten armored cars, 160
trucks, ten of which were
equipped with four anti-aircraft
guns. 20 tractors, 1200 horses
and 29 antitank guns.
Continue Hunt For
Redding Youngster
Redding, Cal., Jan. 10. (IP)
The long search for 14-year old
Billy Coleman in the deep
woods near Viola continued
again today, but only the father
and a cousin of the boy carried
on the quest.
Billy disappeared New Year's
day after telling his mother he
was going for a walk. Searching
parties which at one time num
bered 500 men could find no
trace of him. Within a few days
a foot of snow had fallen in the
woods.
Airman Bails Out
When Plane Ices
Tacoma. Jan. 10. (IP) A
young Fort Lewis army pilot
bailed out of his plane when
it iced up and went out of con
trol nine miles southeast of here
today but landed safely, receiv
ing only a scratched cheek. The
plane was wrecked
Finns Claim More Victoriesl;ANTI-LYNCH BILL
NORWAY
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HAMPERS
RED NAVY
Turku
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TONIA
Outstanding developments
cluded: A report by the Finns that ihy had wiped out the
44th Russian division, killing thousands and taking mora than
1,000 prisoners, near Suomussalmi. Previously, the Finns said
they had defeated a Red ski detachment in the Salla sector.
Russians were reported digging
Ice on the gulfs of Finland and
pering Russia's naval warfare.
Communist Dozenberg Waits
Sentence on
New York, Jan. 10. (IP)
communists indicted in the government's investigation of fraud
ulent passports, pleaded guilty today in federal court.
He was indicted on charges
of misuse of two passports ob
tained through false representa
tions. Sentence was postponed
until January 17.
Arrested in Bend, Ore., last
month, he was described. by U.
S. Attorney John T. Cahill's of
fice as a native of Riga, Latvia.
He is 55 years old and was nat
uralized Feb. 6, 1911.
Cahill's office said Dozenberg
gave his naturalization papers
in 1921 to Earl Browder, gen
eral secretary of the communist
party in the United States. On
these papers, it was charged,
Browder obtained a passport to
travel to Russia.
Cahill said Dozenberg was
prominent in the party until
1928 when he suddenly dropped
out of sight. Later he was found
living in Washington, D. C,
with his wife under the name of
Nicholas Dallant.
Also under indictment are
Browder. Robert William Wci
ner, financial secretary of the
party: Isaiah Lilvackoff, and
Harry Ganncs, columnist and
foreign news editor of the Daily
Worker, communist organ.
I
San
Francisco, Jan. 10. (Pi
rain from the Hawaii
More
storm area drenched all of Cali
fornia today, and indications of
following high winds caused the
weather bureau to post warn
ings on the coast from San Luis
Obispo to Marshfield, Ore.
The current rain was warm.
washing away snow at lower
altitudes and threatening to
create flood hazards In valley
rivers. Snow was falling at
higher levels.
Repairs were being pushed
on the Southern Pacific freight
tracks at Placerville where a
cloudburst struck yesterday.
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MILES
Murmansk
RED SKI TROOPSX
DEFEATED
Suomussalmi
I FINNS REPORT ANOTHER
RUSS DIVISION DESTROYED
Llcksa
Leningrad pJ
RUSSIANSDIG
INONISTHMUS
in the Russo-Ftnnish war in
in on the Karelian Isthmus.
Bothnia was reported ham
Passport Fraud
Nicholas Dozenberg, one of five
LISTED BY G-
Washington, Jan. 10. (IP)
The nation's G-men have com
piled an extensive file, congress
learned today, of individuals
and organizations engaged in
subversive or espionage activi
ties and could identify them
swiftly in event of war.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the federal bureau of investiga
tion, told a house appropriations
sub-committee a special intelli
gence division created when the
European war broke out had
compiled "extensive indices" of
all persons engaged in "any
activities that are possibly detri
mental to the internal security
of the United States."
GRANT WPA FUNDS FOR
TUNNEL AT UNIVERSITY
Eugene, Jan. 19. (P) An al
lotment of federal WPA funds
totalling $87,069 has been made
to the University of Oregon to
complete the project which will
connect all buildings on the
campus with a tunnel carrying
water, light, telephone and other
facilities, it was announced here
today by Dr. Donald M. Erb,
university president. Notifica
tion of the grant was received in
a telegram from Rufus Holman
Oregon senator.
BULLETIN
Bartley, W. Va., Jan. 10.
IF) An explosion in Bartloy
No. 1 mine of the Pond Crock
Pocahontas coal company in this
southern West Virginia town
today trapped part of a shift
of men, at first repo'tcd un
officially to number between
80 and 85
FACES FILIBUSTEF
IN UPPER HOUSE
House Passes Measure After
Amendment Southern
Bloc in Senate Will Talk
Washington, Jan. 10. MP) A
federal antl-lynching bill was
passed today by the house and
sent to the senate where a
strong southern bloc already
had threatened, if necessary, to
talk it to death.
House approval came after
the representatives had stricken
out a provision which would
have eliminated from the defin
ition of lynching those crimes
of violence occurring in connec
tion with labor disputes.
Senate action on the bill ap
peared improbable because a
group of southern senators,
headed by Senator Connally (D.t
Tex.) have announced their in
tention of blocking the measure
if it comes up for consideration
there. In past years similar bills
repeatedly have been killed by
senate filibusters.
Get Down To Work
As congress settled down lo
work in earnest, the senate and
numerous committees were
busy.
In the'sonate, Senator Adams
(D., Colo.) asserted President
Roosevelt had "outsmarted'
congress when he made up his
reduced budget, submitted last
week, by trimming items "which
are very dear to the heart" of
congressmen. If congress ups
these items, he told his fellows,
then the president is in position
to say that "we are the ones
responsible for going over the
debt limit or increasing taxes. '
The senate approved a pro
posal to create a congressional
budget-making committee.
Chairman Burke (D Neb.) of
a senate subcommittee studying
the nomination of Attorney
General Frank Murphy to the
supreme court said a "number"
of protests had been received
and would be considered by the
committee tomorrow.
Receive Money Bill
The house received the ses
sion's first money bill from its
appropriations committee. The
measure provides $267,197,908
for the army, navy, coast guard
and federal bureau of investiga
tion to use during the next six
months In strengthening neu
trality and defense protections.
Admiral Harold Stark, naval
operations chief, told the house
naval affairs committee in re
sponse to questions that a "coal
ition of various world powers
against the western hemisphere
was considered a possibility
by the navy. Questioners named
Germany, Japan, Italy and Rus
sia specifically.
CITIZENS SEIZE
HIGHWAYPLOWS
Jackson, Wyo., Jan. 10.-UP)
Snowplows seized by citizens
and operated under the guns
of guards, cleared the Teton
Pass highway into Idaho today
in defiance of the Wyoming
highway department.
As soon as the road was brok
en open, restoring to this north
west Wyoming town its chief
outlet to a railroad, the equip
ment was thken by guards to
the tiny village of Wilson, at
the base of the pass, and a
guard of IS men was placed
around it.
At Cheyenne, meanwhile, the
highway department refused a
demand by citizens that the pass
be kept open all winter. The
department has contended ex
pense of maintaining the road
is not justified.
MILK MAN STRICKEN
AT HOSPITAL DOOR
Redding, Cal., Jan. 10. (IP)
William Breckman, 46, Red
ding dairy company employe,
collapsed yesterday as he walk
ed past the street entrance of a
hospital here. A policeman car
ried him inside, where he died
within a short time. Attendants
said he suffered a stroke.
Patrol Over Region Near
Island of Sylt Is Reported
Ship Sinkings Admitted
London, .Tan. 10. (IP) Tha
air ministry announced to
night that one British fighting
plana was lost in a half-hour
running air battle with Ger
man craft ovar tha North sea
today.
Copenhagen, Danmark, Jan,
10. (IP) Heavy firing was
heard from tha direction of
Sylt, German island air bate,
between 3:30 and 6 p.m. (8:30
a.m. to 9 a.m. PST), for tha
third time today. Sound of
aerial-ground battle also was
heard before dawn and at
9 a.m. (midnight. PST).
London, Jan. 10. (IP) The
air ministry announced tonight
that Royal Air Force planes
had dropped bombs near the
German island of Sylt while
"on patrol" over enemy sea
plane bases last night.
The announcement failed to
mention whether the British
planes met any German opposi
tion. (Germany announced, how
ever, that three of nine invad
ing British planes had been
shot down over Helgoland bight
In the early afternoon.)
Danish reports of heavy fir
ing and glimpses of searchlights
before dawn had Indicated there
was aerial fighting near Sylt
Admit Sinkings
The 1,000-ton British steamer
Upminster was disclosed to have
been another victim of German
air raids on British shipping
yesterday when at least 12 ves
sels were attacked.
(Continued on Page Five.)
State Representative Earl T.
Ncwbry of Ashland nnnounced
tiiis "afternoon that he would
be a candidnte for re-nomina-tlon
this year.. He has rerved
one term in the legislature. He
Is a republican.
His Republican colleague,
William M. McAllister, Medford
attorney, has a good chance to
be elected speaker of the house
if he is returned to the legis
lature this year, political ob
servers here stated today.
Heroic Grants
Negotiates Canyon on Rope
Grants Pass, Jan. 10. VP)
The most heroic story of a coun
try doctor making his rounds
in all kinds of weather had
nothing today on Dr. S. B. Os
good, public health officer, who
went out to treat his patient
and to bring him back to a
hospital.
Ho Inched his way along a
makeshift line spanning the
boiling Illinois yesterday, a riv
er southwest of here swollen
by floodsiin the bottom of Its
deep roibed canyon. The
"Bridge" was a last hope de
vice, built up from an anglers
fishline into a knotted rope 370
feet long.
On the other side of the flood
was Ray Fountain, 50, gold min
er, crushed by a, rolling boul
der. His right leg was broken
in two places, several ribs were
fractured, and he had a large
laceration on the back of his
head. His clothing was drenched
and he lay holding back his
croons on rough boards in a
tumbledown shack.
The rope bridge was the final
attempt to cross after the river
had foiled a rescue party of
24 men for a night and day
Fred Volght, Fountain's part
ner, had sent a man named
Yates for help. But after he
Prefers Jail
.
i - j- "11
Patricia Winfrew (above), 21.
New York dancer, who vainly
sought a film career in Holly
wood, said aha preferred Jail
to becoming a strip-tease danc
er. Patrolman Ross Gray said
Miss Winfrey tossed a brick
through a drugstore window to
'attract his attention. Tha of
Hear said she told him she
would rather starve than do
sirlp-teasa dancing and that har
money had run out and aha
had baan evicted by har land
lady. She was booked on a
malicious mischief charge.
Berlin, Jan. 10 (VP) Das
Schwartze Korps, organ of the
Hitler Elite Guards, asserted un
less more money were saved for
use in paying for the war a
forced economy would be neces
sary. It said a spending wave
was sweeping the country.
The organ said one plan under
consideration to force workers
to save was a payment of wages
partly In certificates which
would come due some years
hence.
Walther Funk, economics min
ister and president of the rcichs
bank, hinted some form of com
pulsory saving was under con
sideration in a speech at Salz
burg January 2.
Portland Schools
Hit By Influenza
Portland, Jane. 10. (IP) In
fluenza has reduced Portland's
normal public school enrollment
of 40,000 students 10 percent
since the resumption of classes
after the Christmas holidays.
Assistant Superintendent E. H.
Whitney reported 60 to 78
teachers 111.
Pass Doctor
returned the river rose so high
and fast that Volght and a man
named Charlson, both with
Fountain, could not guide an
ungainly' skow across the
stream. The canyon walls pre
vented a new boat being low
ered.
Fred Llnkhart was the first
to cross by rope, sitting In a
rude triangle formed by a cross
bar and an Inverted fork chop
ped from a llveoak tree. Dr.
Osgood came next, fastening his
medical kit to the crossbar
When he reached a big knot of
ropes in the middle, his legs
dangled only Inches from the
crest of the torrent.
"We didn't think he could
make it," said Virgil Hull, coro
ner and ambulance driver. "He
Just didn't seem to have the
strength to lift himself, the live
oak fork, and the medical kit
all at once over that knot. Fin
ally he wrapped both legs and
one arm around the rope and
worked the whole thing over.
Osgood t r ea t e d Fountain
while the others fastened ropes
to the skow. The entire party
pulling against the current got
the injured man across the river
In five minutes. The trip to the
hospital ended 28 hours after
the man was injured.
FOR JREE LOSS
Medford Orchardist Sues
County Officials in Long
Battle Over Blight Claim
Thomas L. Taylor, orchardist,
filed suit yesterday against
Jackson county, Robert G. Fow
ler, county agent, C. B. Cordy,
assistant county agent, and H. E.
Warner and Theodore Sims,
county fruit inspectors for $30,
000 damages.
The suit is based upon alleged '
removal by county authorities in,
January, 1938, of 720 pear trees,
on nine acres of the Taylor
orchard, located on Bear creek,
on the grounds the trees wera
diseased and pest-infested. The
complaint claims the trees wera
worth $30,000, were "profitabla
and productive," and seeks dam
ages in that amount, plus .tha
costs. '
Attorney F. J. Lonergan- ot
Portland, best known here aa a
defense counsel in - the L. A.
Banks murder trial at Eugene
in 1933, appears as attorney for
Taylor in the suit. ,
Second Phase
The damage suit la the second
legal proceeding instituted aa a
result of the removal of the
Taylor orchard pear trees. Tay
lor first sought an injunction
against the present defendants,
and the secretary ' ot the state
department of agriculture,. Solon -T.
White, enjoining them from
removal of any more of the trees.
The court granted relief in de
cree. At the hearing, testimony was
produced showing the county of
ficers had acted within the horti
cultural laws, and due notice ot
Intentions to remove the treea
had been posted.
The case attracted wide local
attention among frultmen at the
time. ...
D. A. IS TARGET IN
ABERDEEN SLAYING
Aberdeen, Wash., Jan. 10.
W) Officials of the C. I. O.
unions on Grays Harbor and
a Finnish workers group today
demanded that Attorney Gener
al Hamilton "immediately with
draw" Stanley Krause, county
prosecutor, and his deputy, Paul
O. Manley, from any further
participation in efforts to find
the slayer of Mrs. Dick Law,
wife of a C. I. O. union official.
who was brutally murdered
here Friday night.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor Kraus
announced FBI men have ar
rived to aid in, the murder
probe. ' :f
He also announced that a
man arrested last night in
Raymond on a two-year-old
warrant charging embezzlement
of funds from a union news
paper here, would be questioned
in connection with the murder
of Mrs. Law at the request of
Law and the C. I. O. unions.
F. R. PEACE MOVE
Washington, Jan. 10. (PH
Representativea ot the Dunk
ards, Mennonltes and Quakers,
denominations which call them
selves the three peace churches.
asserted after a call at the White
House today that they were in
accord with the United Stat''
taking the lead In peace
move."
The appointment of Myron C.
Taylor to represent the presi
dent at the Vatican was men
tioned. The churches represent
ed today, unlike some other,
have not excepted to that ap
pointment, It was added.
Seattle, Jan. 10. (IP) A 18-year-old
high school girl under
went lengthy cross examination
today by counsel for Raymond
Prucha, 24, and Arnold R. Bee
zer, on trial for their Jive In
a kidnap-assoult case.