Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1940)
r The Weather Unsettled tonight and &t urday with tog tontjht, tem ptratura below normal. Temperature Higheit yesterday 44 Lowest this mornlng.w.3ii To I p. m. yesterday.,- 0 To ft a. m. ttf ..- T. Do It Now Medford Tribune Bandar U the blr Claulfled Day. Today U Friday wnlch meui It It time to plan that Ail. lot the bl( day. Do It Vow and be ready. Atlva. In before 3:30 Saturday will be properly classified. Full Associated Pri nlled Press Thirty-fourth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940. No. 252. IN- BM BBFEKI I VI u . ....AT '4THE' ' Washington, D. C, Jan. 12. r- Days of hysterical appropria tions are over and now an ap- propriation must be justified Insofar as he can do so with his vote on the senate appropriation committee, Oregon s Rufus Hoi man Intends doing some slash ing. Already he is asking ques tions along these lines: How many on the federal pay roll of the department of agri culture in Oregon are' duplicat ing or usurping functions of the State Agricultural college, at Corvallis? He is asking the com pilation of such a list if there is duplication and usurpation. Steamboat traffic on the up per Willamette is almost extinct; logs are now trucked on high ways instead of being rafted down the Willamette to the mills In Portland area. Holman wants to look into the proposals for a redesign of the locks at Oregon City. (This data was compiled by army engineers long before the revamped locks were decided part of the Wil lamette valley project said project being for flood control and improvement of navigation). CENATOR Holman wants to " know more about the gov ernment agencies which are sup posed to find jobs for unem ployed. He has heard complaints from housewives who say it ' is impossible to obtain a domestic. He had a personal experience in point. The senator cites a young couple with two children who sought a maid from a govern ment office and were told by the person in charge that they re quired a nursemaid and a cook joint wages $120 a month in addition to board and room. Maybe these government of fices should be abolished be cause of the percentage of un employed who do not want work. A NOTHER inquiry. What is "the need and cost of the mi gratory labor camp south of Dayton, Ore.? There are no crops being harvested in Oregon now, says the senator, yet when he visited the camp it was popu lated. In one of these cabins (Continued on Page Seven ) M'ENTEE IS PROPOSED AS DIRECTOR OF Washington, Jan. 12. (IP) Senator Smathers (D-NJ) said today he had recommended to President Roosevelt the appoint ment of James J. McEntee of New Jersey to succeed the late Robert Fechncr as director of the Civilian Conservation Corps. McEntee has been ' acting CCC head. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Leabel Miller Wray ponder ing and pondering over what to cook for lunch, she deciding it had to be something extra good on account of company coming. Ken Parrett dismantling a stove while wifey Oma stood by declaring that she didn't think he could get it back to gether again like the original. Gilbert Stuart quoting Shake- spare an ! r.i. "-' Mtnry bade dates inWrrrm;- while try - ing to cnvinre a friend that it took a grid hot-by really to make a man out of guy. Ward Spatz getting his full of spare-ribs and . sauerkraut, this dish, his favorite hereto fore, being served to him at four con'-cutive dirners. Doc LRoy Jensen puffing contentedly on swanky pipe, night's stabbing and bludgeon all inlaid and oiherwi.e decor- mg of Mrs. Law, a CIO leader's atci with silver ife $264,611,252 F0R,Lilf ARID FORCES IS OPPOSED BY FEW Measure Sent to Senate Without Record Vote Amendment Efforts Fail Washington, Jan. 12. (IP) The' house passed by an over whelming vote today a $264,611, 252 emergency defense appro priation for use of the army, navy, coast guard and federal bureau of investigation. Just before the final voice vote, the house rejected a mo tion by Rep: Schafer (R-Wis.) to send the bill back to the appro priations committee with instruc tions to write in a prohibition against using any of the funds for construction, maintenance or operation of ships engaged in patrol of what he called the "300-mile Welles neutrality zone." (Sumner Welles, undersecre tary of state, was instrumental in bringing about the Pan-American agreement declaring the zone in existence.) Few Vote No There were only a few scat tered noes when the question was put on final passage and no roll call was demanded. The measure now goes to the senate. The bill represented President Roosevelt's recommendation for emergency expenditures for na tional defense and neutrality. The money Is for the remainder of the current fiscal year which ends June 30. The budget bureau first recom mended a bill providing $271, 000.000. The committee cut this to $267,197,908 and a further re duction of $2,586,656 .was made by amendment today. President Roosevelt said at his press conference he had asked congressional leaders of both parties to work out the problem of giving assistance to Finland in its resistance to Russia. He said it should be a non-partisan matter. Secretary Wallace of the agri culture department rallied to the side of Seqretary Hull with testi mony before the house ways and means committee in praise of Hull s reciprocal trade program. Wallace said he knew of no in stance in which reductions on farm product import duties had "seriously inconvenienced" agri culture. F. D.'s First Trip Will Be To Home Washington, Jan. 12. (JP) President Roosevelt told report ers today he was going to start his 1940 traveling with a trip to his home at Hyde Park, N. Y., the end of the month. Asked at his press conference whether he planned to go to the west coast in April, the presi dent said he did not believe so but April was a long time away." C. 1. 0. Plans Demonstration At Murder Victim's Rites Aberdeen, Jan. 12. (JP) State patrolmen assembled here today as a mass CIO unionists' demonstration was planned for the afternoon funeral of Mrs. Dick Law, slaying victim, but authorities said they expected "no trouble." A state patrol official said a "few patrolmen" would be on hand but only to "handle traf fic" and Police Chief George Dean said he had made no plans for unusual police activities and ! wouih have no special police at !, he cemetery Caravans, including one of 25 automobiles from Seattle, were reported on the way here. The police chief, at a morn ing press conference, said a metal object found yesterday was still being analyzed and "looks as good as it did then," in the search for the weapon ! or weapons used in last Friday Annie Laurlne Dodge (above). former Canadian telephone op erator, will receive $1,250,000 from the estate of her husband. the late Daniel D. Dodge, who was fatally Injured in 1938. The estate estimated to total $11-, 000,000. was divided by the de cision into the widow's share, $3,500,000 to the mother, Mrs. Mathilda R. Wilson, and $6,000, 000 to inheritance taxes. The widow is a student at Alma col lege, St. Thomas, Ont., where this picture was made. J CLERK PLEADS TO LARCENIOF $7.27 Grants Pass, Jan. 12. (IP) F. L. Coon, Josephine county clerk, pleaded guilty to larceny of $7.27 in public funds yester day, a few minutes after being indicted.' Circuit Judge H. D. Norton said a hearing would be held on the case today. Coon was at liberty on his own recognizance. After returning the indict ment the grand jury immediately resumed its study of an audit of county affairs ordered by the county court and prepared by Alfred W. Mundt, certified pub lic accountant. Coon announced a month ago he would not be a candidate for re-election. He is a Republican and had served as county clerk for several years. Mundt's audit and investiga tion reported that conditions in other county offices should re ceive "legal" scrutiny. He had not completed his in vestigation of all offices at the time he made his report a few weeks ago. . SOCE Enrollment Exceeds 300 Mark Ashland, Jan. 12. (JP) Southern Oregon College of Ed ucation enrollment for the win ter term passed 300 today. Reg istrar A' rshall E. Woodcll said attendance was the largest since 1935. Dean said federal bureau of investigation agents were still in the city. A reported "break" between the sheriff's office and police and Prosecutor Stanley Krause In work on the case drew this comment from Krause: "The sheriff's office will work Independently but with our knowledge. There has been no 'break' but the sheriff's office will specialize on one feature of the case." A statement was issued last night by CIO leaders and the Finnish Federation, criticizing the way in which the investiga tion has been carried on. N. E. Mason, chairman of a special committee handling fu neral arrangements, said he ex pected 5,000 to attend. Law, member of the I.W.A. district executive council, has charged unnamed foes of his efforts in behalf of organized labor for the slaying and sought aid from Gccrnor .".iartin in investigal- Gustav Krupp Von Bohien Und above 1 0.000 compared with oO, ing the cas I Halbach I 278 in 1930 T FINNS OFF REDS IN LEAPS Several Groups Annihilated Attempting Land Behind Karelian Isthmus Line Copenhagen, Jan. 12. (IP) Finnish marksmen were' reDort-' ed today to have picked off groups of Soviet Russian troops in the air as they attempted to land by parachute from planes behind the Finnish lines on the Karelian isthmus. The Stockholm newspaper Tidingcn said several groups of 50 men in parachutes were "virtually annihilated" as they floated to earth at dusk yester day. Some Finnish riflemen shot the descending troops while they still were in the air and others' were quickly rounded up after landing, the paper said. Meanwhile Scandinavia's re sponse to Finland's appeal for "practical aid" was reported in creased by the arrival in Fin land of Danish volunteers, de scribed by the Copenhagen newspaper National Tidende as "the first company" of men from Denmark. Four contingents of Swedish volunteers, including some who resigned commissions in the Swedish army .previously had reached Finland and some were reported already at the frwit.- There was no announcement of the number of Danish volun teers or where they were as signed. ' Helsinki, Jan. 12. (JP) Rus sian . warplanes ranged over southern Finland this afternoon interrupting Helsinki's foreign telephone connections by bombs dropped near the city. No planes were seen over Helsinki, but the capital had its first air raid alarms of 1940 from 2:15 to 3:50 p. m. (4:15 to 5:50 a. m. PST). Slight vibra tions were felt here and were believed due to bombs which the enemy raiders dropped on some islands about 30 miles to the south. E.B. Portland, Jan. 12. (JP) E. B. Aldrich, publisher of the Pen dleton East Oregonian, said to day he would not continue as a member of the state highway commission after the expiration of his term in April. Aldrich, a member of the board for eight years, resigned early last year but, at the invi tation of Governor Sprague, consented to remain until the adjournment of the 1939 legis lature. He continued to serve through the year because the governor did not announce his successor. There have been frequent re ports Herman Oliver of John Day would resign from the state board of higher education to take Aldrich's . highway post. The publisher said he believed the delay in making the change was due to postponement of se lecting Oliver's replacement on the higher board. Low bids totaling about $180.- 000 were oppned, Including: Jackson county: Construct ad dition to maintenance building at Medford, Walter J. Stutte, Portland, $10,767. Klamath county: Grading, surfacing and oiling .51 mile Dairy section of Klamath Falls- Lakeview highways, Rogers con struction company, Dayton, Wn., $19,733. Berlin, Jan. 12. -MP) Lieut Claus Krupp Von Bohlen Und Halbach, second son of the head of the great Krupp works, mu nitions makers, was killed In action January 10, his family announced today. Claus was 29, an aviator, and was the son of Garner Gallant At White House Solon Reception Washington, Jan. 12. (P) Vice President Garner, in white tie and tails, spent only three minutes at the White House reception for members of congress last night, but in that time he Held out both hands for the president to shake; Gave Mrs. Roosevelt the same double handshake and smile, then bowed, and kissed the first lady's hand; Called "Cm o n, c'm o n," while Mrs. Garner stopped to speak to a friend as they approached the White House door. The Garners had been guests at a small dinner given by Mr. and Mrs. Roose velt before the reception. AT : Mcdford's third set of auto matic traffic control signals, at Sixth street and Central avenue, went into operation shortly be fore midnight last night. Other signals are at Main street and Central avenue and Main street and Riverside avenue. Controlled by a timer in the alley back of Adrienne's, the new signals at Sixth street and Central avenue work in con Junction with the-Maln. street Central avenue flashers, enabl ing motorists on Central avenue to travel through both signals on the green light, it was ex plained by Citj Inspector Frank Rogers. Like the Main street-Central avenue signals, the new control system flashes the green light for 17 seconds and the red light for 22 seconds on Central avenue. The green light is on for 22 seconds and the red for 17 seconds on Sixth street, and the yellow for four seconds each way. Since the installation of the traffic control system at Main street and Central avenue, it has been estimated that move ment of automobiles at Central avenue and Sixth street has in creased 25 per cent, making it one of the busiest intersections in the state, Mr. Rogers said. STAGE Fi BUSH COAST VISIT; FEW BOMBS DROPPED London. Jan. 12. (JP) Gcr man bombing planes cruised over British ports today for the fourth successive day, drawing fierce bursts of anti-aircraft fire as they appeared in cloudless skies above the Thames estuary the Suffolk coast and off York shire. The raiders were flying at a high altitude and no air raid warnings were sounded al though a few bombs were drop ped. The air ministry announced the royal air force, engaged with the nazis In a tlt-for-tat war of feeler thrusts, had made successful scouting flights last night over western and north western Germany and over sea plane bases in Helgoland Bight, German bombers meanwhile continued their raids on ship ping off the English coast. Berlin, Jan. 12. (JP) The German air force reported today it had sunk four more British ships and warded off a British air raid on an unidentified Ger man island yesterday. Alaska Census to Show Fast Growth Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 12. (JP) Census Supervisor J. P. An derson predicted today the 1940 count of Alaskan noses, under way for several weeks, would show the northerners to be Uncle Sam's fastest growing family. He forecast a population count PEARS BY FSCC Hundred Cars Wanted in Medford District Grow ers Should Contact League The Federal Surplus Commo dities corporation has Issued a purchase announcement offer ing to buy a limited amount of pears of the Cornice and D'An- jou varieties in the Medford dis trict during the period of Jan uary 8 to January 31, One hun dred cars will be purchased. Forty cars were bought in No vember, making a total of 140 cars of the 1939 crop. The announcement states that the Fruitgrowers league has es tablished offices in the Medford Chamber of Commerce building, telephone 63, and growers In terested in selling their pears to the Commodities corporation are requested to get in touch with the league. Allocation of purchases will be made by the Fruitgrowers league, It is an nounced. Pears to be purchased must grade U. S. combination grade or better, and must not be further advanced than firm ripe, with not to exceed two percent decay or internal break down. Prices to be paid will be as follows: Anjout Standard Wrapped Pack per box Sizes 180's and larger. $1.05 Sizua 193's 1.00 Sizes 210's .90 Sizes 225's 80 Comic Standard Wrapped Pack Sizes 180's and larger 1.03 It is provided no car shall contain in excess of 25 percent sizes 193's to 225's Inclusive, of which not more than 15 percent shall be sizes 210's to 225's in clusive, with no deviation from the size regulation. The purchasing agent of the federal agency Is Donald E. Wil cox, with offices at 401 Liberty building. Hood River, Jan. 12. (JP) Hood River valley pear growers said today the decision of the federal surplus commodities cor poration to purchase 56 carloads of russcted Anjou pears solved marketing problem. The pears, which will bring from 75 cents to $1 per box, will be distributed to relief re cipients. Russeting of the skin followed frost damage after the blossom period, but did not in jure the eating qualities of the fruit. Y TRIPLE SHOOTING Oakland, Calif., Jan. 12. (JP) Worry over the future of his "family, religion and country" were listed by J. Harold Fried man, 48, as the motive for a triple shooting today In which he killed his wife and critically wounded himself and his 4-year-old daughter. Police Inspector Lou Jewell said Friedman, an automobile In surance broker, shot himself in the chest, that his daughter, Mar- jorie. was wounded in the abdo men and chest and that the wife, Pauline, died before she could be taken to a hospital. Fried man's 7-month-old son, Stanley, slept through the tragedy. BALENTINE WILL RUN FOR SENATE RETURN Klamath Falls, Jan. 12. (JP) U. S. Balentlne of Klamath Falls, state senator for the 17th district, announced his candidacy today for the Republican noml nation to succeed himself. His district includes Crook, Klam ath, Lake. Deschutes and Jeffer son counties. Olympia, Wash., Jan. 12. (JP) An initiative filed with Sec retary of State Belle Reeves yes terday would prov.de old age pensions of $40 monthly to all persons over 65 years of age in stead of $30 as at present. Candidate Circuit Judge H. D. Norton who announced today he would be a candidate for re-election to the six-year, $8,000 position. SKILLFUL PILOT LANDS BIG AIR LINER ON ICE Moline, 111., Jan. 12. (JP) Ten-inch Ice and some dexter ous piloting saved five passen gers and a crew of three from possible death early today when a United Air Lines plane made a forced landing on a narrow stretch of the Rock river. The plane, with, one of Its two motors disabled, slid across the ice and smashed into a con crete retaining wall on the river bank. Four passengers and the two pilots sustained only minor Injuries. The 14-passcnger sleeper, en route from New York to San Francisco, developed motor trouble about rhidnight while near Iowa City, Iowa. Unwilling to risk a landing on the small Iowa City airport, Chief Pilot Charles E. Wheeler of Oak Park, III., turned his craft about and backtracked to Moline, 60 miles away. The plane overshot the Mo line field, just cleared a hill on the north end, and then began to settle. The lone functioning motor pulled the plane over the tops of trees and a concrete wall on the river bank before the craft mushed to the ice. HOPE GIVEN UP FOR SURVIVAL OF MINER! ENTOMBED BY BLAST Bartlcy, W. Va Jan. 12. (m With more than a score known dead, the Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal corporation to day virtually gave up hope for the survival of any of the 92 men trapped in Wednesday s ex plosion in the Bartlcy no. i mine. Twenty-five bodies had been found and 67 still were missing approximately ; 48 hours a: tcr the blast ripped through the cor ridors 600 feet underground. As rescue workers doggedly press ed their search for more vic tims, the company Issued this statement: 'Anyone would have to say hope is all but abandoned for any of the 91 men in tne ex plosion coming out alive." A death toll of 91 would make the Bartley explosion the na tion's worst mine disaster since 195 were killed in 1928 at Mather. Pa. A blast that killed 361 miners at Monongah, W. Va., In 1907 holds the all-time record, SUNSHINE RETURNS TO WARM MEDFORD AREA After an absence of several days, sunshine returned to Med ford today and had a slightly warming Influence on the wea ther which has be.-n mild any way since last Sunday. Temperature at 2:30 p. m. stood at 45 degrees, two higher than at the same time yester day. Yesterday's maximum was 44 degrees. Lowest this morn ing was 33. REELECTION AS II JUDGE Announcement Warms Up County Political Pot Co, Judgeship Is Main Quest Circuit Judge H. D. Norton told the Associated Press in Grants Pass today he would be a candidate fpr re-election. He is Judge of the .first judicial dis trict which embraces Jackson and Josephine counties. The of fice, which pays $6000 a year, la non-partisan, but Judge Norton is a Democrat. The term Is for six years. Judge Norton Is 75 years old and there has been political speculation as to whether ha would run again this spring. While declaring his intention to be a candidate, he stated he might resign after serving only a part of the new six-year term, if elected. The Associated tress quoted him as saying: "I have no special objectiva In the way of tasks to be fin ished. All I have to do is take care of current business. I will run again. I do not want to hava the burden of the work for an other six years. But if I should be elected, under suitable condi tions I would then be glad to re sign and let the governor maka a suitable appointment, I would like my successor to be agree-. , able to the bar and public gen erally." Judge Norton's announcement set the air buzzing with political speculation and the names of candidates and potential candi dates flew thick and fast in va rious quarters here today. Re ports which hava a little mora weight than mere rumors pro jected District Attorney Frank J. Newman as an opponent to Judge Norton. Newman is a Re publican. George Codding, who was defeated for the district at torney's office by Newman four years ago, is counted upon by the Democrats to recapture this key position for the party this year. Political soothsayers are con vinced that all incumbents will be candidates for renomination excepting in cases where aspir ation develops for another of fice, as In the case of County Assessor J. B. Coleman (Repub lican) who, there Is a general (Continued on Page five.) E Phoenix, Ariz., Jart. 12. (JP) Joan Bennett, 29, motion pic ture actress, and Walter Wan ger, 45, a producer, were mar ried here at noon today by Jus tice of the Peace Harry West fall. Witnesses to the brief cere mony were Margaret Ettinger, who came here with the bride and groom, and Mildred Niles, West fall's clerk. WORKER UNINJURED IN 60-FOOT FALL ON CAR Pittsburgh, Jan. 12. (JP) Henry Grabowskl made quite a dent when he fell 60 feet from a fifth story window and landed on the metal top of an automo bile but that s about the extent of the damage. X-rays failed to find a single broken bone in the 20-year old window cleaner but he was kept at a hospital overnight just to play safe. Grabowskl said a window sash gave away yesterday and he started to fall backwards. Winter Caiualty Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 12 (P) Robert E. Smith, 58, was fatally Injured today when a 20 pound fragment of Ice tzM 30 feet from a rpof and fractured his skull.
