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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1940.
No, 255.
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Washington, D. C, Jan. 16.
Having a bump of inquisitive
ness, as becomes a newspaper
man, and being a republican
who wants to know how gov
ernment money is being ex
pended, and, furthermore, be
ing a member on the committee
on appropriations, Dudley A.
White, representative of the
Ohio 13th district, has asked so
many questions about Bonne
ville that Administrator Raver's
reply amounts to a complete
report of that enterprise.
Among other interesting
items, the administrator's com
munication to Representative
White shows that he wants to
build a transmission line from
Albany to Waldport, and esti
mated $750,000 for the job; he
planned a line from Pendleton
to LaGrande to cost $1,525,000;
another from The Dalles to
Bend for $1,092,000. Because
President Roosevelt reduced es
timates for the budget, the line
from Pendleton to LaGrande is
choped down to $25,000 (reduc
tion of $1,500,000) and the line
from Albany to Waldport has
been confined to a mere sur
vey, as is the proposed line
from The Dalles to Bend.
But Administrator Raver and
his staff do not intend taking
the reductions laying down. He
is here to fenagle the appropri
ations committee( including the
gentleman from Ohio), into up
ing the budget items to a point
where, presidential cut or not,
Bonneville will receive every
nickel the administrator wants.
pROBABLY realizing that
members of the congress do
not know as much about Bon
neville as doe3 the manage
ment, a ghost writer of the ad
ministration has carefully pre
pared statements for members
of the Oregon- Washington
group so the lawmakers can go
before the appropriations com
mittee and put up a good argu
ment for restoring the cuts.
Each statement is guaranteed
not to be duplicated; each argu
ment being prepared from the
view point of each member's
congressional district. To illus
trate, the argument for Con-
(Continued on Page Four,
OHIO DEMOCRATS
FOR THIRD TERM
Columbus, O., Jan. 16. (JP)
Ohio's delegation to the Demo
cratic national convention will
support President Roosevelt for
a third term, the state Demo
cratic chairman, Arthur Lim
bach, announced late today.
Limbach said the delegates
would be pledged to Sen. Vic
Donahey as Ohio's "favorite son"
until released, but in addition
would be "in accord with and
will support the new deal."
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Lauretta Hanby adding a new ature outside 25 degrees below
club office to her already num- zero, attributed slackening of
erous activities, she being elect- warfare on the isthmus to Rus
ed to the post without even sian transport inadequacy and
having to make a campaign ; added there were indications
speech.
Lorraine Morris not being
able to drag hubby Major out
to an evening event, he appar
ently jtist flat-footedly refusing
to budge.
Doc Bert Elliott telling an In
quiring friend a bit about his
unique horseshoe collection, he
now boasting a pile of 300 of
the equina, brogans.
Palooka tfoe Smolinski being
the recipfcprit of peanut shower
in hoiot fjfhj 12th consecutive
defeat in v the local rasslin'
arena.
E.AGAI
IS
BY CHAMBERLAIN
Ousted War Secretary Re
luctant to Believe Army
Officers Caused Dismissal
London, Jan. 16. (P) Prime
Minister Chamberlain told the
( house of commons today it was
j "pure invention" to suggest
there had been pressure on him
from the army to displace Kes
lie Hore-Belisha, dropped from
the cabinet in the shakeup of
January 5.
The prime minister spoke to
a packed and frequently cheer
ing house which had gathered
to hear both sides explain the
sensational dismissal of the war
secretary.
Previously Hore-Belisha de
clared he was "reluctant to be
lieve" that high army officers
would have made "representa
tions" that led to Chamberlain's
decision.
Hore-Belisha Forgiving
Making a "personal state
ment," Hore-Belisha professed h
desire "to clear those who have
worked with me of any aspers
ion" of knifing him in the back
with the prime minister.
"It did not occur to me," he
declared discussing his adminis
tration of the war secretaryship,
"to consider that we were mak
ing an army too democratic to
fight for a democracy.
. I am reluctant
t6vbeUeve'
that any high officers with
whom I have been associated
would have been so unfaithful
to the code which imbues the
whole army as to make any rep
resentations irregularly, or that
if he had done so, it would have
been countenanced."
Chamberlain declined to give
detailed reasons for the change
in the war office, which he said
was in his "prerogative."
"I will only say," he added,
"that I had become aware of
Continued on Page Two.)
Chicago Convention
Favored By McNary
Washington, Jan. 16. (IP)
Reports circulated among Demo
cratic and Republican leaders to
day that Chicago could have
both national party conventions
this year if it equalled or bet
tered the cash-on-the-barrelhead
offers of other cities.
Senator McNary of Oregon,
the Republican leader, already
has suggested his party meet in
Chicago. He has contended the
midwest will be a major battle
ground in the campaign, and the
convention thus should be in
that section.
Chain Tax Proposed
Olympia, Wash., Jan. 16.
(JP) An annual license tax on
chain stores was proposed to
day in an initiate filed with
secretary of state Belle Reeves.
Poor Transportation, Cold
Hampering Soviet Advance
By Wade.
With Finnish forces on the Karelian Isthmus, Jan. 16, (IP)
Soviet Russia's difficulties in sending supplies to her forces
of invasion on the Karelian front may prove as helpful to the
Finns here as the paralyzing cold has on other fronts.
A Finnish colonel, who chat
ted with this correspondent in
!a snug dugout with the temper-
some of the red troops were re
ceiving short rations and these
only frozen meat and bread.
1 The colonel said the isthmus
terrain was "overloaded" with
Red soldiers he estimated the
number at 400.000 and said:
"A very heavy strain must
! have been placed on the rail
way lines to Leningrad which
I are needed now both for the
population of the city itself and
for maintenance of
Soviet
I troops on the isthmus."
j Leningrad, a city of 2.776,000,
: is about SO miles southeast of
. this front.
The officer declined to spec -
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r,Hl' I ,,..,.." I 1,11 '
Raymond W. Mugford (above),
37, sought by police for the club
and-knife slaying of his 67-year-old
aunt, Mrs. Louise S. Mugford
Brewer, was captured at a
friend's home In San Francisco,
where he had gone for food and
a shave. He was booked on a
uu.-ier charge.
BLAZE DESTROYS
K. t NELSON HOME
ON 0L0 HIGHWAY
The K. C. Nelson home on the
Old Pacific highway and most of
its contents were destroyed by
fire about 7:45 this morning. The
blaze started apparently in the
attic over the kitchen and was
ntlrihutori hv Mir -MlcrYi irv art
overheated or faulty flue. Insur
ance covered the house and most
of the other loss. i
Mr. Nelson was quoted as say
ing he lighted a fire in the
kitchen stove and then went out
on his farm to do some work.
The house caught fire while hej
was out. The blaze was discov-;
ered by a neighbor. The state
forest patrol and the Medford
city fire department were called
and both sent men and equip
ment but the house was too far
gone to be saved.
Only a piano, a washing ma
chine, a bedroom suite and a few
odds and ends were saved. In
cluded in the loss was all of Mrs.
Nelson's clothes which she left
behind when she went to Ne
braska during the holidays for a
visit with relatives. Mr. Nelson
was living alone at the house
since she left. The house was a
six-room, one-story frame dwell
ing. The place, a 30-acre ranch,
was formerly owned by O. V.
Myers of 20 Ashland avenue,
and is generally known as the
Myers ranch. It adjoins the home
of Dr. Charles T. Sweeney on
the south.
Finns Would Fight
Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 16.
(JP) Helge Ekengren, Finnish
vice-consul in Vancouver, today
said that he had received more
than 200 offers from Finns in
British Columbia to return to
their native land to fight against
' Russia.
Werner
ulate on the ultimate result of
the Russians' transport difficul
ties but foreign observers famil
iar with peacetime difficulties
suggested the question might be
answered in the Finnish favor
just as the numbing cold has
worked for the defenders else
where. While by ordinary standards
the 25 degrees below on the
Karelian front might be consid
ered a terrific handicap to mili
tary operations the hardships
here by no means compare with
those brought by the 40-below
in the far north.
Finland Is undergoing the
coldest weather in 10 years.
With the Russian troops ap-
parently largely busy digging in
and trying to keep warm there
I was only desultory artillery fire
', yesterday.
F. D. R. SUGGESTS1
NON-MILITARY AID
FOR FINLANDERS
Credit to Finance Agricul
tural Surplus Buying Seen
Most Seasonable Move
Washington, Jan. 16. (JP)
President Roosevelt suggested
to congress today that it au
thorize the Export-Import bank
to finance non-military credits
to Finland and gave assurance
that such action would not
"threaten . any so-called 'in
volvement' in European wars."
While making it plain that
he considered the matter one in
which congress should take the
initiative, the chief executive
wrote in identical letters to
vice-president Garner and1
speaker Bankhead:
"It seems to me that the
most reasonable approach
would be action by the con
gress authorizing an increase in
the revolving credit fund of the
Export-Import bank to
enable it to finance exporta
tion of agricultural surpluses
and manufactured products, not
including implements of war."
Others Want Aid
He tied in with this suggest
ion the question of establishing
policy covering other expected
loan applications, saying that
"this government will have ear
ly occasion to consider a num
ber, of applications for. loan
to citizens and small countries
abroad, especially In Scandi
navia and South America."
The chief executive declared
that the matter of extending
credit to Finland was wholly
within the jurisdiction of con
gress. Invocation of the neutrality
act in both the Russo-Finnish
and Sino-Japanese wars was
proposed in the senate.
Senator Danahcr (R-Conn.)
Introduced a resolution which
would Invoke congress power
to find that a state of war
exists between Russia and Fin-
Continued on Page Three )
B
T
ei
Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 16. IP)
Herbert Williams' complaint
that his bride gave him a sleep
ing potion and disappeared a
few hours after their wedding
with $250 and two bus tickets
caused his arrest at Lakeview,
Ore., on a bigamy charge, Coun
ty Attorney Richard Harless
said today.
Williams, 32, was arrested on
Harless' instructions.
The county attorney said that
after Williams reported theft of
his money and bus tickets by a
young woman he married at
Tempe, Ariz., January 3, Wil
liams first wife wrote Phoenix
police from Oregon inquiring
for information as to his where
abouts.
SOVIET INCREASES
Copenhagen, Jan. 16. (Kt
A Soviet Russian broadcast ac
cusing Sweden of forcing the
unemployed to fight for Fin
land increased today the strain
of relations between the U. S.
S. R. and Scandinavian coun
tries. Russia previously expressed
dissatisfaction with replies of
Sweden and Norway to her
complaint they were sending
mpn and supplies to the em
battled Finns and permitting
anti-Soviet press campaigns.
Meanwhile, the Swedish Bnd
Norwegian governments last
night directed their ministers
in Moscow to protest alleged
violations of their borders by
Soviet planes
Nazis Supplying
Munitions Which
May Aid Enemies
Washington. Jan. 16 OP
Germany, in return for con
tinued shipments of badly
needed Rumanian oil, is send
ing Rumania war implements
and supplies which would
help that nation fight off any
aggression in the Balkans.
Authoritative sources dis
closed today that the nazis.
despite their war with Great
Britain and France, had de
livered 70 Heinkel bombing
planes, 70 Heinkel pursuit
planes, anti-tank guns and
ammunition to the Rumanian
army. Regular, large scale de
liveries were continuing, these
sources said.
CANDIDATE IS JAILED
AS LOUISIANANS VOIE
IN FATEFUL ELECTION
New Orleans, Jan. 16. (JP)
Police detention of one of the
principal gubernatorial candi
dates was reported today as
Louisiana voters decided the
fate of the 12-ycar-oid Hucy P.
Long political dynasty.
State Senator James A Noe,
the candidate, and two aides
were taken to a police station
by officers after they had made
pictures of what Noe contended
was a vote irregularity.
"They won't book me," Sen
ator Noe said at the station, as
he summoned attorneys.
Police, however, had jailed
Scott Wilson, Noc's publicity rep
resentative, Vnd ' William Vanri;
a photographer, on charges of
disturbing the peace. They were
released an hour later on parole.
"There is a gallery overlook
ing the booths at that precinct,"
Noe said, "and our people had
protested that persons were
standing up there looking down
and seeing how the voters were
marking their ballots."
Voting was heavy before 7
a. m., in the New Orleans resi
dential districts. Numerous ir
regularities were reported to the
local arbitration committee be
fore three hours had passed.
CHRISTIAN FRONTERS
IE TO GIVE BAIL
FBI CONTINUES HUNT
Nov York, Jan. 16. (JP) A
woebegone group of 17 men
accused of plotting to over
throw the United States gov
ernment fretted in jail today,
unable to raise $50,000 bail
each, as federal agents sought
other alleged conspirators of
the "revolutionary" syndicate.
While federal, state, national
guard and New York city po
lice authorities pressed inves
tigation of the fantastic
scheme to launch an anti-semi
tic pogrom, assassinate a doz
en congressmen and set up a
Hitiercsque dictatorship in this
country, jail attendants des
cribed the 17 prisoners as
greatly subdued.
All pleaded innocent yester
day when they were arraigned
on a charge of seditious con
spiracy, mumbling their pleas
with the exception of blond,
long-nosed William C. Bishop
alleged ring leader, who shout
ed in a voice heard outside the
courtroom:
"Not guilty!"
One of the group, George
Kelly, 24. a hotel worker, ex
pressed bewilderment Bt the
G-men's charges, complaining:
"I don't know whether I'm
against communism or not. I
don't know what it's all about."
3 Children Burn
To Death In Home
Coronation, Alta.. Jan. 18.
(CP) Three children were
burned to death when fire des
Iroyed their farm home in the
Brownfield district 24 miles
north of here today.
Hartley Lindsay, 13, Freda
Lindsay and Arthur Lindsay
died in the fire, cause of which
was not given in first reports.
The mother and one child es
caped. The futlicr was away t
the time.
C. 1.0. AND FAMILY
DISPUTE LEGALITY
OF LAWJNQOEST
Woman's Husband Sobs
During Hearing Bicker
ing Marks Court Progress
Aberdeen, Jan. 16. UP) A
declaration by C.I.O. and fam
ily attorneys that they consid
ered a coroner's jury hearing
an inquest into the slaying of
Mrs, Dick Law, wife of a un
ion official, "without legal sta
tus anyway," and testimony
concerning what happened in
the hours preceding the wom
an's brutal death kept an over
flow crowd on the edge of city
council chamber seats today, j
The woman's husband cried ;
quietly as he listened to Louis
Mandic, a taxi driver, testify. ;
"Dick came out of the dis-;
trict I. W, A, council office and
told me: 'take me home, quick.
Something is wrong at my
house,' " Mandic said.
Feared Vigilantes
"Did you have any conver
sation?" asked prosecutor Stan
ley Krause.
"Yes. Dick said: 'maybe the
vigilantes have Invaded my
home.' "
Law maintains his wife was
slain because of his union ac
tivities. The declaration shout the
jury's" status came as John
Caughlan, family attorney, was
questioning B. B. Jones, Aber
deen photographer who was re
called to the stand.
Coroner John W. Stevenson
asked Caughlan to let the jury
see Jones while he testified.
Caughlan continued to stand
between the photographer and
the jurors.
"We take the position this
jury is without legal status
here anyway," Caughlan said
Constant Bickering
"Well, ho doesn't need to sit
on the slices' lap," Paul O
Manley, deputy prosecutor, told
Dr. Stevenson.
"You've been doing it," coun
tered Caughlan and stepped
aside.
There Was constant bickering
between Krause and Manley
and Caughlan and Irvin Good
man, CI.O. attorney from Port
land.
FROST AND FOG
N CALIFORNIA
San Francisco, Jan. 13. (IP)
Frost and fog rnottied the ter
rain of California's great val
leys today until brisk tempera
tures gave way to bright sun
shine. The army's Moffetl Field,
next door to the wide orchard
belt of Santa Clara valley, re
ported a low reading of two de
grees below freezing.
Colusa, in the sunny Sacra
mento valley, reported 30 degrees.
Loss of Three Submarines
Acknowledged by England
London, Jan. 56. OP) ThCj
loss of three; British submar
ines, the Seahorse, Starfish and
Undine, was acknowledged to
day by the admiralty, marking
Germany's first victories over
Britain's underseas fleet.
An official statement said the
three vessels "have been en
gaged on particularly hazard
ous service and the admiralty
fears they must now be regard
ed as lost."
"The German wireless has
announced that part of the
crews of the Undine and Star
fish have been rescued," the
admiralty said. The three sub
marines normally carried a to
tal of 107 mrn but total cas
ualties' were not known.
Envoy to Canada
t jn i, 00 111 43
Economist and sportsman.
wealthy James H. R. Cromwell
above) was nominated by the
president si U. S. minister to
Canada. Cromwell, with his
helress-wUe, Dorli Duke, has
long been a supporter of Roose
velt's administration.
NE1LS0N TO FILE
AS GOP ASPIRANT
FORD. A. OFFICE
George W. Neilson, deputy
district attorney, said today he
would file for the office of dis
trict attorney, on the republi
can ticket In the May pri
maries. The announcement followed
the statement of District At
torney Frank J. Newman yes
terday, that he would enter the
contest for the circuit court
judgeship for the Josephine-
Jackson county district. Judge
H. D. Norton annoimced last
week, ho would seek rcnomln-
ation.
Mr. Neilson has had wide ex
perience in the office, serving
under prosecutors Newton Cha
ncy, George A. Codding, and
the present Incumbent. During
this time, he was identified
with a number of the leading
criminal matters arising in this
county, including the Banks-
Fehl turmoil trials. He is
known as an indefatigable
worker, and a helper, often out
of his own pocket, of people
entangled with the law. He also
bears a wide acquaintance
throughout the county. Before
taking up law, he engaged in
railroad work, lie has been
a resident here for more than
a score of years.
It is reported George A. Cod
ding, former district attorney,
will enter the race for the of
fice on the democratic ticket.
Find Skier Dead
In Sierra's Snow
Auburn, Calif., Jan. 16. (IP)
Sheriff Elmer Gum of Placer
county said he received a mes
sage today from Soda Springs
saying Frans M. Wlessing. 23,
had been found dead a short
distance from The Cedars.
Wjessing had been missing in
the snow-covered Sierra since
Sunday, He was on a ski trip.
The Berlin communique cov
ering yesterday's But ion said
"the British U-boats Stavfish
and Undine were destroyed
through German defense meas
ures in German (Helgoland)
Bight," but did not mention the
Seahorse.
The loss of the three submar
ines was the greatest blow suf
fered by the British navy since
the German pocket battleship
Deutschland sank the armed
British raider Rawalpindi with
a loss of 280 lives last Nov. 25.
FBch of the three submarines
cost approximately $1,000,000
The Undine was a sistership
of the Ursula, which the British
said a month ago sank a Ger
man cruiser of the Kocln class
Dec, 14.
STORAGE CAPACITY
BEING INCREASED
FOR LOCAL FRUIT
Medford Ice and Storage Co.
Adding Unit io Hold 50,
000 in Coid Storage
Reconstruction of an ice room.
Into a fruit storage unit wa
underway today at the Medford
Ice & Storage company, 83S
South Fir street. The remodel
ing represents an investment st
$25,000 to $30,000, said Major
Morris, general manager.
When reconstructed, the new
unit will provide cold storage
for 50.000 boxes of commercial
fruit, pears or apples, Mr. Morris
stated. This will bring the total
storage capacity of the com.
pany's big, modern plant to 450,-
000 boxes.
Complete in May .
The ice room is 80 feet wide
and 80 feet long. Remodelm
involves the use of heavy timber
and concrete construction and
the installation of a large quan
tity of cooling equipment, Mr.
Morris explained. The work will
be completed about May 1, in
ample time for next season'
fruit. The job is being done by
the company Itself, its own en
gineers and foremen supervising
the work.
The change is being made, t
was indicated, because there la
greater need for fruit storage;
than ice storage facilities here.
The trend has been to hold fruit
in storage here for shipment t
markets in the cold months,
rather than forward the fruit
during the warm fall months to
distant storage plants for hold
ing, it was explained. So as the)
need for stored ice has been di.
minishing, the demand for add',
tlonal fruit storage facilities has
been increasing.
Shippers Appreciate
It has been found preferable,
it was explained, to store the
fruit here at the source of pro
duction rather than ship H out
for cold storage at intermediate)
points. For this reason, shippers
expressed appreciation of the
company's willingness to make
a substantial investment in nder
to provide more storage room.
It was pointed out too
the storage of fruit here keeps
that much more of the financial
returns from the fruit industry
at home.
The remodeling nmlt Al
lows closely the construction of
a new, modern, fire-nronf h.,,UA.
h.g for the company s offices and
engine room after the fire last
July. The new office and cngine-
iuuiii unit cost $07,000.
I RUNNER GETS
YEARJPSON
Roscburg, Ore., Jan. 16. (JP
Earl Wooiridge, 32, local res
taurant COOk. Was xentrnrnf
here today to one year in the
state penitentiary followino
guilty plea in circuit court to c
cnarge of failure to stop and
give aid at the scene of an ac
cident. He was acctsed of driv-
mg the automobile which oa
December 17 struct and ser
iously injured Harr. Hatfield,
local railroad conductor.
Wooiridge parked his car
nearby and fled from the scene
of the accident and later was
arrested in an intoxicated con
dition. District Attorney J. V.
Long told the court. Wooiridge
pleaded innocent to a charge of
drunken driving.
Ann Sot hern's Scar
Of Plehian Variety
Hollywood, Jan. 16. WP)
Ann Sothern, petite motion pic
ture actrcs, was "feeling very
good," attendants said today at
the hospital where she under
went an appendectomy yester
day. Her expressed wish for nice
looking, crescent shaped scar
was In vain, however. Her phy
sician said he considered the
subject one to be looked upon
from a medical rather than
artistic standpoint and made
straight Incision.