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The Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight nd Friday; light rain; nof Temperature much change In temperature Highest yesterday !W Lowest thti moriilng..MMM..37 Precipitation Put 24 hour .01 Busy Week-End If you with to keep busy on week-end, try a Want AdT. tn the Friday evening edition. People who follow this practice report uplrndld remits. Many repeat their Adi. Sunday. Tribune EDFORD Full Associated Prtu nlttd Prtit M Thirty-fourth Year r;AT-jTHE' Washington, D. C, Jan. 11 First battle of the administra tion this session to induce con gress to approve a major policy of the new deal has commenced with Cordell Hull, secretary of state, presenting arguments why the reciprocal trade act (it expires Ju.e 12), should be extended for three more years. Before the hearings end in the house and are transferred to the senate, every representa tiv and senator of the Pacific Northwest will have plenty to say against the extension. " The extent to which treaties already made and others in negotiation, affect Oregon and Washington is rather remark able. The man in the street is paying small attention to the current struggle over this issue in congress, but the pro ducers who recognize how it is impairing their income are clamoring for information. In dividuals and groups are so worried over trade agreements that many have come to the national capitol from time to time to lay their troubles be fore the state department and members of the delegations. POR instance, Alton Hurley, ,Salem, Ore., came to pro tect the Oregon turkey indus try (Oregon stands fifth in tur key production), from threat ened competition from Latin America. R. R. Reter of Med ford, Ore., came with a group to save the pear and apple growers of Hood River valley and Rogue River valley, from similar fruits scheduled to be let in from South America. R. A. Ward, of the Pacific 'Wool- Growers Association, came to show what the depreciation of the pound sterling has been doing to the wool market. The Oregon State Horticultural So ciety, meeting at Hood River, submitted to the state depart ment (copies to the Oregon senators), resolutions opposing the trade agreements, citing (Continued on Pae Pour.) D0HERTY FORTUNE IS LEFT TD New York, Jan. 11. (IP) Henry L. Doherty's great for tune, composed mostly of cities service securities and Florida real estate, has been bequeath ed in its entirety to his widow, who before their marriage 11 years ago had nursed him through a critical illness. The will of the 69-year old utilities magnate, who died De cember 26 in Philadelphia, was filed for probate today. It was brief and the only beneficiary listed was Mrs. Grace Doherty, the widow. First Passenger Rides K. F. Airway Portland, Jan. 11. (IP) Former Mayor J. R. Roberts of Redmond went into state avia tion records today as the first airline passenger out of central Oregon. He came to Portland yester day on the Oregon Airway's trial trip from Klamath Falls launching the central Oregon route. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS John T. Eads showing no intention of slowing down on his 90th birthday. Rosalie Leslie being so very very absorbed in the fashion ing together of a pert blue afghan. Jim (Ned Sparks) Garvin dig- appointed because swarms of friends neglected to offer con Bratulations on his new mem bership in the Active club. Doc Walt Hoppe taking up accordion lessons to satisfy his craving for the finer things of life but admitting that it has always been his desire really to beat the daylights out of a xylophone. DEFENSE OUTLAY IS DEFENDED AS Rep. Woodrum Criticizes Those Who See F. R. Request As War Step Washington, Jan. 11. (IP) The house was asked today to approve President Roosevelt's request for $267,000,000 for emergency defense outlays as a peace program not a war pro gram." Representative Woodrum (D., Va.), house appropriations com mitteeman, made the statement as debate opened on legislation to appropriate that sum. He criticized those persons who claimed the new funds meant that the United States was about to go to war or about to be attacked. "Some say, who are we go ing to ' fight who's getting ready to jump on us, Woodrum remarked. "The same reasoning applies to the question of why have any army at all. Anything Can Happen "If there's one thing that America has learned it is that anything can happen anywhere, Let us not say that it can't hap pen here'. America is not getting ready to make war on anybody. We're preparing for peace. This is not a war program, it's a peace program, and America has always stood for peace." Woodrum began his remarks by pledging "100 per cent" co operation with President Roose velt's expressed hope of trying to reduce next year's deficit and to keep from going above the statutory $45,000,000,000 federal debt limit. Congress apparently had sty mied itself on the anti-lynching bill and an independent budget ary ' survey as a house move gained momentum to keep 1941 expenditures within President (Continued on Page rnree ; FELT IN MEDFORD High pressure areas over the Pacific ocean and in the Idaho Utah region sent cold air cur rents in motion today and put a slight chill on the balmy weather Medford has been en joying since last Sunday. It was still, however, far from cold here and the weather bureau said there would not be much change in temperature. The mercury early this af ternoon stood at 43 degrees as against 50 at the same time yesterday. Yesterday's maxi mum of 52 degrees was only seven degrees below the maxi mum in Los Angeles, heart of southern California's famous sunshine belt. HOT CLUE FOUND Aberdeen, Wash., Jan. 11. (IP) A "metal object" which might lead to the arrest of the slayer who bludgeoned Mrs. Dick Law, CIO leader's wife, to death Friday night, was found today by Aberdeen police, Chief Geo. Dean said here at noon. Without describing It in detail, Dean said the object might have been the murder weapon, and added that it was "a very im portant bearing on the case." He did hot say where it was found. RIOT OVER ICE PRICE Buenos Aires, Jan. 11. IP) A riot at an ice plant marked the fifth day of one of the Ar- j gentine capital's longest heat waves today, but police declined to make any arrests. They ex cused the combatant's actions as being a result of the "sun spots" which are blamed for the heat. More than a score of citizens stormed the plant in pnptcst against the raising of the price of 50 pounds of ice from 20 cents to $1.25. Many needed first aid treatment after the fight. , Roy Gardner Ends Notorious Career by Suicide in Hotel San Francisco, Jan. 11. (P) The notorious career of mail robber Roy Gardner, who boasted that he could escape from the law, was closed in suicide today because he could not escape from the stigma of "ex-convict" after nearly 20 years in prison. Fashioning a lethal chamber in the bathroom of his hotel quarters here, Gardner, about 56, breathed deadly fumes which he created last night with chemicals, and died quick ly, "old and tired" but bearing "no malice toward any human being." Since his release from Leav enworth federal penitentiary in June, 1938, he had tried to re build his life in the world out side bars, trying the motion pictures business, writing and lecturing. Can't Come Back "All men who have to serve more than five years in prison are doomed," he said in a note, "but they don't realize it. They kid themselves into the belief that they can 'come back,' but they can't. There is a barrier between the ex-convict and so ciety that cannot be leveled." Gardner, whose final capture in Arizona came about because he refused to shoot at his cap tor he never fired a shot in a long series of robberies was solicitous to the last. On the door of the bathroom, he posted a note which said "do not open this door. Poison gas. Call the police. Always Played Ball" Gardner's note, addressed to newsmen, asked that they "let me down as light as possible," because "I have always played ball with you all the way, and now you should pitch me a slow one and let me hit it." The ex-convict, whose crim inal career began with an $80, 000 mail robbery in San Diego in April, 1920, said he would have "checked out" then had he known what the future held "and saved my loved ones the disgrace and shame that they have had -to endure these many years." He added that every convict on forbidding Alcatraz island, where he served about five years, "would be better off if they would jump in the bay and start swimming for China." Gardner appended a request to newspapermen that they not bring the name of his married daughter into the story of his death "because her in-laws do not know she is my daughter." His wife, who separated from him for 15 years by his prison sentences, obtained an annul ment of their marriage in 1936, and later married again, said "I regret this very much" when informed of Gardner's death at (Continued on page Five.) E Springfield, 111., Jan. 11. lP) Gov. Henry Horner an nounced today he would sign a requisition for the extradition from California of William Eioff, west coast labor leader, to finish serving a jail term im posed in Jf'Tt. Bioff was sentenced to six months for pandering, but served only a few days. Bioff, 41, now Hollywood rep resentative of the International Alliance of Theatrical State Em ployes and Moving Picture Ma chine Operators, was Indicted by a federal grand jury yester day on income tax evasion charges at Los Angeles. E Helsinki, Jan. 11 Smashing of Russian attacks on the Salla and Petsamo sectors was reported in the Finnish army's dall; communique to day. Salla is on Finland's eastern front and Petsamo on the ex treme northern corridor to the Arctic Sea. The Russians were thrown back, it was said, after an attack for which they had prepared by artillery fire. These we're the only develop ments reported in the com munique. 281 New Flu Cases Portland, Jan. 11. lP) The : state health department said i Oregon physicians reported 281 . new cases of influenza for the J week ending January S. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940. Roy Gardner (above) shortly before his Incarceration in At lanta penitentiary for mail rob bery. HID IN EAGLE PT. Roy Gardner made a person al appearance on the stage of the Rialto theater here and gave a lecture on "Crime Doesn't Pay" on October 9, 1938. A feature film especially booked for the Gardner ap pearance was "King of Alca traz." ..-A few days pfior-to his Ri alto engagement, Gardner ar rived here and was interviewed by the Mail Tribune, the story being published October 6. He was then en route to Grants Pass and Roseburg to fill thea ter engagements. Visit Recalled ' It was Gardner's first vlsii to Medford in 17 years, he re called. His previous visit was in September, 1921 when he was a fugitive from McNeil island penitentiary. At that time he holed up in an Eagle Point boarding house until bul let wounds in both legs, re ceived during his escape, healed. Once during his stay at Eagle Point he came to Med ford to have his hair cut and in the barber shop heard pa trons discussing his escape and relating what they would do if they could get their hands on him. It was wjiile Gardner was here for his Rialto appearance in 1938 that he wrote the let ter to a newspaper woman in Lodi, Cal., that subsequently led to his arrest on a charge of sending obscene matter through the mails. 'It was brought out that he had en tered into an agreement with the woman to write a story of his life and arguments ensued which led to the writing of the abusive letter. The charge was later quashed. Postmaster Frank DcSouza recalled today that he resided in Phoenix, Ariz., when Gard ner was caught there in an at tempt to rob a mail car on November 15, 1921. The mail clerk attacked Gardner and overpowered him. It was then discovered that Gardner's pis tol was made of wood. The train robber always boasted that he never physically In jured anyone in any of his crimes. TO Palo Alto, Calif., Jan. 11. IIP) The appointment of Clark D. Shaughncssy, 47, of Chicago as football director for five years, was announced today by President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford university. Shaugh nessy succeeds Claude E. "Tiny" Thornhill, recently dismissed. Shaughnessy is coach at Chi cago university, which an nounced football would be aban doned next season. The brief announcement by Dr. Wilbur 1 made no mention of what salary I had been offered the Chicago mentor E IS HELD FOR nrcniir nr Aimrno Kcobuc ur KIHOO TOMBED BY BLAST Crews Struggle to Reach 87 in Coal Mine Depths At Least Four Known Dead Bartley, W. Va., Jan. 11. (IP) As rescue crews struggled through debris and gas toward 87 miners entombed by an ex plosion that killed at least four, a mine official expressed hope today "50 or 60" would be found alive. The crews, which have pushed almost a mile and a quarter through the blast-wrecked cor ridor in the Bartley No. 1 mine of the Pond creek Pocahontas Coal corporation, were reported within a few hundred feet of the men trapped by the blast yester day. Manager Hopeful G. J. Stollings, general man ager of the corporation, reported at noon the crews might reach the men within six hours and added: "We're very hopeful that pos sibly 50 or 60 can be found alive." Veteran miners in this squalid southern West Virginia coal vil lage shook their heads, however, and expressed fear all had per ished. George Pile, company auditor, said the "chances are heavily against finding any of the men alive." The known dead: Roy Evans, 41, imotprman, married, four childreniro';1 - Roy Hyatt, 32, ..jnotarman, married, four children. ijharley Moffitt,, 1XJ negro, married, four children) One man still. unidatittfied. The body of EvMf Was dis covered as rescuey"';W. ad vanced tt within; 9 ttW-6T the estimated cento. r ,'lfie ex plosion which tore ttuoagh three sections of the pit:'- '(iWv Wives WatttlWwaYy Wives and ebJMranl of the trapped miners and hundreds of curious who gathetwd - ftear the mine stood dumbljjs in'j a cold, sleety rain waiting for word from the eight rescue crews. Occurring at 2:20 p. m. yester day, the explosion at first was believed a slate fall and it was more than an hour before se riousness of the accident was known above ground. Forty seven diggers in an eastern sec tion of the workings came out at 4 p. m., unaware there had been a blast. Cause of the mishap was not determined immediately, al though District Mine Inspector W. C. Sturgiss theorized it might have resulted when the men cut through to some long unused, gas-filled entry. The stpte de partment of mines reported the Bartley No. 1 was gaseous, but was thoroughly rock-dusted. FEOERlSrlDING OVER FIVE BILLION Washington, Jan. 11 UP) Federal expenditures for this fiscal year have passed $5,000, 000,000. The treasury said today that, including transfer of S288.000.- 000 of social security tax money to me oia age reserve fund, it spent $5,012,026,993 between July 1 and January 9 slightly over six months. President Roosevelt estimated in his recent budget message to congress that the spending total exclusive of the social security transfers would total $9,109, 253.641 by June 10. The spending total was nearly twice the size of the revenue figures for the same period. By January 9, the treasury had taken in $2,851,085,159, leaving a $2,160,941,834 deficit. This, in turn, was responsible for a rec ord high debt of $42,040, 575,811. WYOMING RETRIEVES SEIZED SN0WPL0WS Jackson, Wyo., Jan. 11. (IP) The stale of Wyoming has re trieved its purloined snowplows by promising to keep Teton pass open "as long as possible" this winter. Two hundred Jackson Hole citizens', some carrying pistols took the Idle equipment Tuesday night to clear the 26-mllc pass that winds over the Tctons to their closest rail point, Victor, Idaho. RECIFROC iRADEl me nrmiiv L; ULTUW J CRITICS ASSAILED Secretary Says Choice Lays Between Ruin Or Heights of Economic Progress Washington, Jan. 11. (P) Ascribing "flagrant and unscru pulous suppression and misuse of material facts" to critics of the reciprocal trade program, Secretary Hull declared today it had expanded markets for Amer ican farm and manufactured products. He appealed to the house ways and means committee to renew the expiring trade agreements act in order to aid in worldwide economic readjustment after the European war. "The choice before us," Hull said, "Is whether we shall lead the way toward the slough of despair and ruin for ourselves and for others, or toward the heights of economic progress sustained prosperity and endur ing peace for our nation and for the world. Democratic Method He took issue with members of congress who are demanding senate ratification of each agree ment, by asserting the method followed In state department ne gotiations "is democratic in every sense of the word." Hull's statement, opening the congressional fight over tho reci procal trade issue, was voiced in familiar atmosphere. For 18 years as a representative from Tennessee, he was a member of the ways and means committee, historically, the battleground in congressional tax and tariff fights. Some of those who heard his plea had served with him. jtlQ concluding the pacts, Hull said, American tariffs have been lowered only - where they are "unduly burdensome" and where other countries have agreed to accord better treatment to United States exports in return for tariff adjustments. CHATTY BURGLAR Santa Monica, Calif., Jan. 11. (IP) Wendy Barrie, 27-year-old screen actress, was held up by a burglar In her home today, but instead of taking loot he promised to send her a diam ond. The red-haired actress said she was awakened by a hand over her nose. Screaming and struggling, she was finally quieted when the man drew a gun. For 20 minutes the Intru der, whom she described as about her age, sat on the bed and told of his exploits. "He asked where my money and jewelry were, and I told him I had none at home," she told detectives. "He said he guessed I was right, because he couldn t find any, "He was about six feet two, smooth shaven and wanted to talk about himself. "You've been so nice, I'm go ing to get an unset diamond from one of my jobs and leave it in your mailbox for you, he said." She said he left quietly. She Immediately called police. PORTLAND CONTRIBUTES $4356 TO FINN RELIEF Portland, Jan. 11. (IP) Port land displayed its friendliness to Finnish war refugees today by Increasing its share of a na tional contribution campaign to $4356. Soviet Officers Because of Copenhagen, Jan. 11. (IP) Reports were received here to day that more than 100 Soviet Russian officers had been called back from the Finnish front, some of them to face trial be fore special court. The reports, which reached Norwegian and Finnish quarters from numerous sources, said the officers would be tried before courts consisting of people's commissars. T h Russian commissariat Western Romeo I . . , i. . j. i-WWrV i 1 I a With a court order, which ha hoped would fore Mrs. Louise Deihler to present her daughter. Isabel (above) in a San Fran cisco court, John B. Adams (lower), San Francisco's "Ro meo voted I ra going to marry her If I have to go to the sup reme court to do it." Ha said Mrs. Dashler was preventing him from seeing her daughter. SWEENEYWLSEEK I Ralph E. Sweeney, county treasurer, announced today his Intention to file for renomlna- tlon for the office, In the May primary of the Democratic party. Sweeney Is serving his first term. As yet no Republican candidate for the office has ap peared on the horizon and It Is not expected the treasurer will be opposed In his own party. Candidates have started to stir in the county, but are not expected to be In full bloom until the first of March. This will give nearly three months In which to meet the voters, as the primary election will be held May 17. It was reported this week that Otto Caster, of Phoenix, former county commissioner, would run again for the berth on the Dem ocratic ticket. Caster served one term, and was defeated tn the last general election by William Perry, Republican, of Eagle Point. The commissioner ship held by Ralph Billings of Ashland is up for a contest this spring. MINERS' BODIES TAKEN FROM HUGE ORE SLIDE Bingham, Utah, Jan. 11. (IP) The crushed bodies of two miners were recovered early to day from tons of ore loosened by an unexplained explosion tn the world's largest open cut cop per mine. A third victim's body was found last night. The dead: Teofilo Martinez, 27, Copper- field. . Gluseppl de Marchl, 38, High land Boy, Nikola Tomas, 24, Highland Boy. Face Purge Finland Debacle dealing with supplies was re norted especially to be under a penetrating Inquiry, which, It was said, already has led to executions. Immediate verification of the reports was lacking. There were persistent report the Russian forces were, being reorganized because of weak nesses shown up in the invasion of Finland. These reports reached not only Helsinki but several Mother Scandinavian capitals. JDM1NATI0N FOR COUNTY TREASURER No. 251. f U ST Traffic Assn., Fruitgrowers League Name Commit tee for Local Survey Announcement was made to day of the appointment of a committee "to make a study of ranch and fruit industrial power rates" in the Rogue river valley. The committee represents jointly the Rogue River Valley Traffic association and the Fruit growers' League, Inc., and was appointed by the presidents of the two organizations acting to gether. Appointment of the com mittee was authorized by both groups. Jack Spalding, sales manager of Southern Oregon Sales, Inc., is president of the traffic association and S. G. Nya heads the league. The committee, the announce ment said, has authority to call in outside experts if it is deemed advisable or necessary. The committee is composed of David Holmes, chairman, Bear Creek Orchards co-owner; S. M. Tuttle, general manager of the Southern Oregon Sales, Inc.; Ma jor Morris, manager of the Med ford Ice & Storage company; Martin Luther, manager of Rogue River Orchards, and H. S. Deuel, a co-owner of the Del Rio Orchards. German mm DROP NO BOMBS IN WIDESPREAD FORAYS L6ndon,"jah." 11. (rf") Ger man warplanes ranged from Scotland to the southeast coast today in the third day of stepped-up aerial warfare. No bombs were dropped on land and no alarms were sounded and, in contrast to the heavy Nazi attacks on ships off the coast Tuesday which started the aerial spurt, the only victim was a small coastal vessel set on fire by a bomber. There were two additional marine losses, however, as a ship believed to be Italian struck a mine off the east coast and an unidentified vessel sank after collision off the west coast, The three victims brought the toll for the last three daya to 15. The 10,000-ton liner Dun bar Castle struck a mine and sank Tuesday and 11 smaller vessels were bombed and ma chine-gunned. The British retaliated yester day with an attack on the Ger man Island of Sylt, and a sub sequent clash between British and German warplanes over the chill North Sea brought conflicting accounts from the two capitals. AS AIDE FOR NAVY Washington, Jan. 11. (IP) The senate speedily approved today the nomination of Charles Edison as secretary of the navy after Senator Borah (R-Idaho) had protested against legislation recommended by Edison to give President Roosevelt certain broad peacetime emergency powers. The senate also confirmed the nomination of James H. R. Crom well, husband of the wealthy Doris Duke, to be minister to Canada. Grants Pass, Jan. 11 (IP) Mora tourist than ever before wore guided through tha marble labyrinths of the. Oregon Cave in 1939. Manager George Sabtn reported to the Oregon Cave Resort company today that 48,. 513 persons made the trip, an Increase of 6,156. The figure are only for those entering the caves and do not Include the total entering the national monument area. Frank Mashbum was reelect ed retort president.
