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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940.
No. 252.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.