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I PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941. 18 REDS GUILTY OFI Socialist Workers Face Jail Terms Verdict Is First Under Smith Amendment. Minneapolis, Dec. 2. UP) A possible federal prison term up to 10 years loomed today De fore 18 persons, members of or associated with the Socialist Workers Party who were con victed by a Jury here on charges of conspiracy to create Insub ordination In the armed forces of the government. Albert Goldman, New York attorney and one of those con victed last night, announced that "every legal step and every other resour?e would be ex hausted for appeal purposes." He Immediately made plans for filing an appeal before Judge M. M. Joyce in federal court here next Saturday. Sentence Monday Judge Joyce set next Monday at the date for sentencing. Conviction of the 18 defend ants was on one of two counts of an Indictment returned last July after a raid on the Social ist Workers Ptrty offices here and in St. Paul. Bushels of lit erature were seized In the raid, and introduced in evidence at the trial, along with two red flags and several pictures of Leon Trotsky, communist leader who was assassinated In Mexico. Court attaches said the ver dict marked the first convictions under the Smith amendment to the sedition act of 1861. That amendment, added to the law in June, 1940, makes it unlawful to advocate overthrow of the government. . Oklahomans Curious About Coast Reports Of Secession Effort Oklahomans are exceedingly curious about the secession movement of Oregon's Curry county and the four northern California counties that want to form a new state, Walter K. Clifton of 425 North Columbus avenue said today after his re turn home from Alva, Okla. News stories of the secession movement were featured In Oklahoma papers and people just didn't know what to make of It all, Mr. Clifton said. They do know, however, what to make of Oklahoma sales taxes and they definitely don't like the levies which in some in stances are 20 per cent of the retail price, Mr. Clifton assert ed. The people don't see where any good la being done by the tales tax revenue and so they are complaining about it, he said. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton and their ton, Jimmy, made the trip to Alva to visit Mrs. Clifton's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Dun ning. They were gone 18 days. They arrived home last night. Flying Showcase Hangs Motionless In Tacomas Sky Tacoma, Dec. 2. VP) The army tested a new-type plane over Tacoma today and Its pecularitles In the air result ed in a flood of telephone calls to newspaper offices. The plane, a new-type ob servation two-seater, dubbed by airmen as a "flying show case" because of its numer ous glass windows, appeared almost motionless In the air. The plane can land and take off on a field only about 100 yards long. When buck ing a head wind it can re main almost motionless In the air over an object on the ground. TACOMA PUPILS Births Stork Outraces Car As Pair Speed for Roseburg Hospital Roseburg, Ore., Dec. 2. (IP) When the seven pound daugh ter born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Schmidt of Cam as valley Is required at some future date to designate the place of birth, the answer, to conform to literal truth, will have to be "a Ford automobile on highway 99, somewhere near Roseburg, Oregon." Departing from their home, 38 miles from Roseburg, this morning. It was realized by the parents-to-be when they reached Coos Junction, eight miles south of Roseburg, that the race with the stork to the hospital here would be nip and tuck. The stork won by about three miles. Hospital attendants aided the mother, the newborn child and a badly frightened father from the automobile upon their ar rival here. Mother and daughter were re ported this afternoon to be In a very satisfactory condition. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 2. (P) Seventeen thousand school children of 38 public schools be gan a forced vacation today be cause of a strike by Janitors, furnace and maintenance men. Several thousand pupils re mained at home, but others who went to class were being tent home during the cold, rainy morning as rooms got colder. No fires were reported in school house furnaces. Ray - Moislo, AFL-T a e o m a Building and Trades Council of ficial, said the union was de manding a 20 percent Increase In pay. Teachers recently re ceived restoration of their pay to pre-depression levels and all city workers, Including police men, have received pay In creases this year. The strikers contended their pay was still at the depression level and varied from $75 to $193 monthly. SAN FRAN OFFICE (Continued From Pit On) F Fort Lewis, Dec. 2. AP Col. Ralph P. Cowgill, of Port land, retired from active military duty today as commander of the 186th (Oregon) Infantry regi ment. The 82nd brigade, composed of the 162nd and 186th regi ments, marched In review In the colonel's honor this afternoon. Colonel Cowgill retired under the war department's age limit of 86. Col. Cowgill made hit home in Medford for about IS yean, leaving here to make his home In Portland following hit promo tion in army rank. STEVENS To Mr. and Mrs. Fred N., 405 Maple Park Drive, December 1, at Community hos pital, a girl, Rosemary Dorothy, 614 pounds. Um iuu rnsuiM int ids. MAN BLEEDS TO DEATH FROM VARICOSE ULCER Portland, Dee. 2. (P) The coroner's office reported today that Frederick Schiller, 79, Port land, bled to death last night while trying to apply a tourni quet to his leg alter a varicose ulcer had broken. A neighbor discovered the body. PRIEST PASSES Pendleton, Ore., Dec. 2. (IP) The Rev. J. L. McKenna, 67, rector of St. Mary's Catholic church here for 16 years died in a hospital this morning of a heart ailment which brought on an attack Sunday morning as he stood at the altar for second mass. Dreaded Nazi Raider Sunk by Australians At Cost of Cruiser London, Dec. 2. (JP) The P. 030-ton Australian cruiser Sydney has sunk one of Ger many's most dreaded sea raid ers of this war but an official announcement today said she apparently paid for the triumph with her own life and the lives of 646 men aboard her. She fought her last fight with the heavily armed, 9,400-ton German Steiermark somewhere off Australia, probably not far from the Cocos islands. The Steiermark, sailing un der the name of Kormoran, had sunk nine British, British-allied or neutral ships in at least three oceans before the 6,830-ton Syd ney came to mortal grips with her. The Stelermark't survivors told the story of the combat. None of the Sydney's men were found and the Australian gov ernment, after scouring the bat tle area with planes and ships, announced that "it must be pre sumed that she has been lost." No date was given for the struejgle but Australian Prime Minister John Curtin disclosed that next of kin of the Sydney's missing 42 officers and 603 men had been Informed Novem ber 26. ant, and Frank Bacon, field auditor, Capt. Bean said. He added, however, that about a third of the civilians would be re-employed at the San Francisco office. "I should like to take them all to San Francisco, but unfor tunately this can't be done," Capt. Bean commented. The per manent clerical force at the San Francisco office will be able to handle much of the work of the Marysvllle, Albany and Medford projects, he pointed out, the con solidation, to this extent, being ai economy move. Capt. Bean has been here since early last May when he came from Vancouver Barracks, Wash., to establish the construct ing quartermaster's office in the armory. A few days later the civilian architect-engineering firm of Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers - Blackie and Wood moved into the armory and be gan the advance planning and bluepr: .lting of the proposed 35,-000-troop cantonment in the Beagle-Antelope district. At peak work, the architect -engineer staff comprised 153 persons. Sorry to Leave "We are all sorry to leave Medford," Capt. Bean said for himself and his fellow officers. "We like it here and we have been made to feel at home' ever since we first arrived. We are grateful not only for this friend ly attitude but also for the active cooperation we have received In our work from all quarters, from officials, organizations and individual persons. Our work has been facilitated by this gen erous cooperation and we are all deeply grateful." SPOKANE BATTLES THREE-BELL FIRE Spokane, Wash., Dec. 2. (IP) All available downtown equip ment was called out shortly after noon today to combat a three-alarm fire In the center of the Spokane business district. Reportedly starting from an i explosion In the office of the Northern Optical company, the fire by 12:30 had destroyed the fifth and sixth floors of the Fernwell building, at Riverside and Stevens, and was reported by firemen to still be burning fiercely. So rapidly did the blaze spread that firemen were forced to take Neveral persons from the upper ! stories of the building with ex- i tension ladders and a number of others, including a mother and baby in arms were forced I to flee down fire escapes. ALLEGED AUTO THIEF NABBED ON HIGHWAY Ronald L. Veach, 19, was be ing held in the county Jail to day for Roseburg authorities following his arrest on the Pa cific highway near Rogue River last night on a charge of auto mobile theft Veach, who told police his home was in Ohio, was in pos session of a 1936 Chevrolet codch which had been stolen in Roseburg some time after 3:30 p. m. yesterday, police stated. 19 Shopping Day Until Christina Cqmplett Feminine Hygiene demands: V IM Ftmlnin hygiene in the REAL sens of Itw word demands underarm cleanliness and sweetness. You cannot be attractive with armpits moist, stained and smellr. Use Arrid, the new cream deodorant, i. Arwe dow oat rat dmsta, doss m L No tnitlns to dry. Cm t utd rift altM thanna. t. Iiutantlr chKta emplntlno tn) din. Rtmovf odM Uwn penpirauoo. taps armpiia dry. "'a Pure, "tun, (itucltst, ante. a, Awirdta spproyti , Anwrku Imri tuu oi UufxWfloa u liannlcw to (abac Woman nae mm Arrid than any othai deodorant. 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A lovely hand made Tie from our famous Cohama Tie fabrics in stripes, paisleys and screen effects in silk, wools and rayons. You'll find it surprisingly easy to fashion a tie, and very, very economical, tool Remember we supply a tie pattern absolutely free with each purchase. Ask about tie making tomorrow. Cohama Tie Fabrics Your Christmas Store YD. Wool Tie Linings 2 for 25c
