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FOR 1934
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Twenty-ninth Ytar
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1934
No. 115.
The Weather
forecast; Fair Sunday; normal tern.
By PAUL MAM.OV
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 3. The
t North Dakota authorities feel
jure tnat ex-uovernor Linger win
Change his abode
to Leaven worm
(by request)
ihortly, and, In
1 1 probability,
bla wife will be
alected. governor.
Outsiders will
not be able to
understand thaw
man convicted
of corruption by
authorized court
s t a n d a auch a
good chance of
being vindicated
by voters.
raul Mallon
it I
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The answer la the farmers are mad.
The word is used advisedly. Tbe
courts which convicted Langer are
those which upheld the farmers'
irort.gages. The law which made it
illegal for Langer to extract political
-funds from federal relief workers
also said It was Illegal for farmers
Vto keep their homes if they could not
pay their interest.
The bald truth Is the farmers are
not inclined to think much of the
law or the courts.
That makes the underlying situa
tion far more important than the
political force it seems to be. When
respect for law and Justice dwindles
among a majority of people in any
community, the gravest political pos
sibilities arise.
It is alarming national Judicial
authorities In the government. They
cannot see their way clear to do
much about it because, essentially, it
is a state political matter. Their
personal sympathies, however, are
trongly against Langer and, if an
opportunity offers they may do some
thing. An entirely different .Inner attitude
was taken at the outset of the con
temporaneous political farce in New
Orleans.
The big democrats hava marked
Huey Long down as a bluffer, and a
smart one. They declined to take his
1 national guard siege of New Orleans
as seriously as It appeared to be. They
believed Huey was merely playlntf
politics with guns, and he would
make sure none of them went off.
No one seemed to think much
about the question of state and city
rights Involved, because they knew
the situation was alt Huey.
The hullabaloo over George Harri
son's whispered conference with
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau gen
erated new rumors about dollar de
Taluatlon, stabilization. Inflation and
whatever you can think of.
The truth seems to be that Mr.
Harrison was filling In Mr. Morgen
tibau on Harrison's unofficial talks
recently in Europe. '
As Mr. Harrison's talks do not seem
o have been very productive the best
Informed people here regard his meet
ing with Mr. Morgenthau as similarly
unimportant.
There is a growing feeling among
the wise money boys that the admin
istration may have to create some
fresh Inflationary talk sometime soon.
It worked very well last year in a
similar situation. When people be-
ieve prices are going up, they may
Woosen up and buy.
The stagnation of money Is quite
an Important problem now. There la
plenty of money In the country, hut
it is being hoarded in banks and else
where. Talk of Inflation would un
doubtedly encourage spending.
At the same time, no officials In
responsible positions here want to
take any sincerely inflationary step,
They might go for some pseudo-Infla
tionary step, but not for straight-out
money Inflation.
They burned the Blue Eagle at the
take very quietly In the commerce
department building a few daya ago.
A dozen huskies were employed to
carry bundles of Blue Eagles from
NRA headquarters down to the base
ment. The furnace was used as the
take.
The explanation for thus roasting
helr own bird Is that the NRA had
a surplus of old Blue Eagles (now
supplemented by code eagles) and
wanted to destroy them so they would
not fall Into Improper hands.
The administration bought about
1,000,000 worth of sliver last month.
rThat Is, the unfa'-homable treasury
figures Indicate that Its holding In
creased by that much. It may have
bought more and sold some.
At that rata, it would probably
only take a couple of hundred yean
to accumulate enough sliver to estab
lish its proposed parity with gold.
Montagu Norman, alias Professor
Sitlnner, has been sought out by
newsmen In all the dark alleys and
treasury corridors, but there are good
reasons for believing he will not come
to Washington His presence here
would encourage rumors of stabiliza
tion between the dol'ar and the
pound and neither side wants that
Tft.
(Continued on Page Six)
Mcht Mnol 1 ratlin?
BOSTON. Aug. 4. .VP", (U-S D A,)
Fxtremely light tracing was re port fd
throughout the Boston wool market
during the pmt week. A few aa'es were
Cosed on OhJo and similar fieeces at
prlc about steady to slightly eaVfr
tlian wnif wiirs of the pa.t U
yrriu'-t on in nr-k;nc prices o.i in
Hur o4 otaer red Km growa oo4i
PRESIDENT VIEWS
AIN'S WELFARE
IN Dl PROJECTS
Grand Coulee Speech Pic
tures Northwest As Hope
To Thousands And On
Eve Of New Era, With
Benefits To All.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4. (AT)
Arrangement have been made
for President Roosevelt to deliver
a 15-mlnutc (radio) address from
Glacier park, Mont,, tomorrow
night.
Two national broadcasting net
works and the Columbia broad
casting system are to carry the
address from 6:30 p. m., (Pacific
Standard Time) to 0:45.
EVRniTTU WITH PPITRTnENT
ROOSEVELT TO WASHINGTON, D.
u., Aug. . nf j rresiaem nouw
velt traveled from the Columbia river
basin tonight with a message that
the public works program was going
forward with particular Interest in
Drovldlnnr welfare for more families
in "this great northwest area."
Kis special train moved across
Washington state late In the after
noon from the village of Ephrata
wnere a stop was mane io permit n
mntnr t.Hn tn tha nit Of the newlv
commenced Grand Coulee power dam
on tne uoiumma.
With a smile breaking his dust cov-
nrArH f nj th nrMlrlrifc tM the
thousands standing on the hills of
ifagebrush near the Coulee dam pro
ject we are m tne process 01 mnii
lng the American people dam-minded,"
and added more dams were go
ing to be bunt as neeaea.
R. (dinar In an onen car for the trip
of more than 100 miles, the presi
dent oDservea wun odvious interest
the plans for the dam Just being
built with aid of federal funds and
the broad stretches of desolate sage
brush territory which some day will
be cultivated by aid of Irrigation
frnm tha Ham
Tonight his train aped along for
'nincler national Dark In the north
west corner of Montana where the
Sabbath day will be spnt on tne
homeward trip to Washington.
Bafnp. innnn rheorlnir rjersons who
gathered at Coulee dam sltt, center
or a 83,000,000 water ana power
nmi.t. fnMtn.ri bv the zovemment.
the chief executive said these fec'eral
undertakings concerned not omy ne
states directly involved dui. also w.o
nntlon as a whole.
Sees Cheap Toner
wa sre eolnu to see. I believe,
nmn .vh electrlcltv and
power made so cheap that they will
become a standard article 01 use, uu..
wi fnr wrlnultiire and manufactur.
Ing, but also for every home within
reach of an electric ngnt line.- mo
the chief executive,
it., .mac Mr. Roosevelt's second
since returning to the continent yes
terday from a sea vacation, waa on
11 .rta. h hnH been welcomed
tumultously by assembled cltlMns of
Idaho and Washington uo iic, ...
had inspected the work already done
on the big dnm. ,
This dam will control an upper
section of the Columbia river and
make Dosslble the reclamation of sur
rounding land.
As the day advanced, tne sun nut
more Industriously and the spectators
beesn to wish they had left their
coats at home.
Recalling that he had epoxen '
the opportunity for development of
the Columbia basin In a Spokane
address 14 years sgo, the president
quoted a few sentences from It and
Bald:
Well, that Is tne text of what we
are trying to do In this country to
day." Vision Comes True
"tt took 14 years for that prophecy
to come true." he continued, "hut
It la on Its way. And most of us here
today sre going to be alive when
thla dam Is finished and the Bonne-..m-
iBm ono noo nrolect which
he visited yesterday) Is finished and
a lot of other dams are imineu.
Mr. Roosevelt quoted an engineer
as saving the eventusl completion of
the Orand Coulee project wouin nib
ble the potential power of every
city In Ita distribution area.
"It Is going to affect not omy tne
Columbia river basin but It l going
to affect U mountain states and the
Pacific coast territory . . ."
(Continued on Page Three)
BLUElMTBOSS
IS 52JTARS OLD
CHICAOO, Aug. 4 ZAP) Genera!
Hugh 8. Johnson "cracked down" on
,.- m blue eaele today. He ftta
couple of them. They were done tn
sugared bas-relief on a birthday cake
presented to the NRA leader by a
Chicago hotel. The general la 63
years old tomorrow.
McAilno On Vacation
VEW YORK. Aug 4. yp Senator
William Oibbs MrAdoo of California
esllfd todav with his diw;htcr-in-l i
Mrs. Robert McAdoo. for a ill weew
vacatlcn In Europe.
CYfMirt Wheal td
! PORTLAND. Aug. 4 iKP) The
-.r,rt; F.Tijnrt corporation today
,)id 62 cents a buihel for ft hlte
i hrat for foreign on. very Vrster
Ui' quoutwn wu B8 ceuu OusUel.
President Roosevelt, at 'extreme
epochal sea voyage. In the car, from
Meier of Oregon, and the president. He reached Portland August 3 aboard
sailed from Annapolis on July 1. (Associated Press Photo).
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Action Taken Curbs Trouble
Makers And 'Beat Up'
Gangs By Employers
And Union Leaders.
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 4. (AP)
Hiring agencies declared today there
were "more Jobs than men" available
as work, was resumed on Portland's
waterfront on the largest scale since
long before the recent marine trades
strike. Hiring of longshoremen was
extremely heavy.
The resumption of work on a full
scale followed an agreement reached
last night between representatives of
the International Longshoremen's as
sociation, the Waterfront Employers'
association, and E. P. Marsh, labor
concllator, for disciplining trouble
makers among the workers.
Early yesterday violence flared
near a neutral hiring hall. Two men
were severely Injured and others were
cut ai;d bruised.
Under the agreement, any long
shoremen accused of an act of ag
gression vill be brought before a
board consisting of two representa
tives of the union, two representa
tives of employers, and one represen
tative of the federal longshoremen's
board. If found guilty he will be
barred from work on the waterfront
during the period of coastwlde arbi
tration of differences between work
ers and their employers.
Marsh said union chiefs are as
eager as the employers to end the
epidemic of violence here since
men returned to work.
the
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PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. i.tT)
Within the next year the skies msy
become literally infested with sturdy,
light 00 horsepower airplanes selling
below 91.000. Tex Rankin, Portland
aviator, said tonight.
The aeronautics bureau of the de
partment of commerce discovered
30,000 potential buyers of such ma
chines. The planes probably will be
on the morket within six months, sa'd
Rankin who has completed a cru'ao
of eastern cities,
"It will be as good or better than
any of the $3,000 airplanes we have
on the market within six months, aalJ
Indications," he said.
"Don't be mistaken about this air
plane. The word 'light' does not mean
that It will be a small or fllmsy-bullt
plane. It will be a real airplane In
every way. The low price will be made
possible through quantity produc
tion and quantity sales."
LEN CARPENTER IS
ROOSEVELT GUEST
Leonard Carpenter of this city,
manager of the Southern Oregon Sales
company, and Curtis Bailey of Port
land, manager of the Regional Agri
cultural Credit corporation, both
classmates of President Roosevelt at
Harvard, were Invited by the presi
dent to be guests at the family
luncheon aboard the Houston Friday
noon when It docked at Portland
Dean W. A. Schoenfleld of Oregon
State college, friend of the partici
pant, reported the Incident. The
president was greeted by his old claas-
l mate from the shore, and recognla-
! lis tl.m InimwlltUIV frnm hlB DO-
Uit.cn nn th bridge signaled them
1 aboard.
The President Greets His
right, waves greeting to thousands
left: James, his son: Mnyor Carson of
IN TALE OF
Convict, Shaving And
Ready For Parole. As Re
ward For Tip To Warden,
Stabbed In Back All Is
Silence.
McALESTER, Okla., Aug. 4. (1 -Revenge
and death ride like twin
witches on the keen blade of the pris
on "shlv." '
Thus crime, locked up behind walls
and bars, strides on.
Oklahoma's prison Is situated here.
On the docket of the next district
court term In McAleser are murder
charges against five Inmates an ac
cusation of attempted murder agalmt
a sixth. -In
each case, th "shlv" did it.
A "shlv" is s crude but effective
dirk. Like Its name, it Is prison made.
Any convict, quiet enough about It,
can make a "shlv" from a file, a spoon
or a piece of Iron by grinding It pains
takingly on the concrete floor.
"Shivs," say prison officers, are even
bought, sold and traded by the con
victs. Guards "screws" to the prisoners
never stop looking for "shlvs". But tbe
cunning of Imprlsoneo minds, brood
ing in the dark, keeps apace of the
searchers.
With the approach of a "screw" the
narrow daggers are flung, with in
credible speed and accuracy, to an
other cell.
Or they are drawn swiftly between
many bars at the end of a string.
A flash the "shlv" la gone.
It Is the "squealer" who usually gea
a "shlv" in the back , by the time ne
is found, there la nothing but alienee.
Silence when the case comes to
court la the defense of the accused
"shivman."
Paul Evans, convicted robber, was
braver than the others. Now he's In
the prison hospital a 'shlv" wound
healing In his back.
Evans talked about a plot for a
wholesale break last May. He talked
to the warden.
Pistols were taken from two prlnn
er "shlvs" from others.
Fearing for Evans' life, prison of
ficers guarded him In solitary con
finement. Last week he got a parole. He wtnt
to the sergeant's office to shaveand
then walked out into the open air
As he scrapped the bristles from his
face a "shlv" flashed from the near
by cell block.
Evans crumpled, gasping. The war
den said Grady Mlckle, a former cell
mate, did It.
Unless Evans dies and that's un
likely there will be no charge,
There's not much u Micle al
ready has 90 years to serve. And al
ienee is with him.
LIKE WAVE TO FOE
WASHINGTON. Au. 4. yp Plans
for an invisible ship which would be
revealed to an enemy submar'ne
merely as a huge wave sweeping acrou
w.e sea were sent the navy recently
They call for a vessel covered w;th
glass containers filled with sea water,
but th navy la taking no steps to
accumulate a glaas supply. In fact,
the plans are destined to collect dust
:n pigeonholes alongside counties
ideas and suggestions which ambitUu
inventors submitted.
The novel offerings center particu
larly around submarine safety devices
Many come from individuals who
never have seen undersea craft
Four thousand suggestion cam In
within two week arte- one aubmarin-
tUsaster. Occasionally a useful Idtii.
turns up, but the proportion It some'
I UiJufl 1U oo In a hundred uouaauo.
Nation
at Portland, Ore., on his return from
Portland; Mrs. Roosevelt, Governor
the cruiser Houston, on whlrh he
AUSTRIAN REVOLT
JUST BEGUN NAZ
Schuschnigg Regime Now
In Control Declared Under
Italian Dominated, And
Likened To Ten Dillingers
By WADE WERNER
Assoc It aed Press Foreign Staff
(Copyright, 1934, by the Associated
Press)
SOMEWHERE ON THE YUGOSLAV
BORDER, Aug. 4. The rebellion In
the Astrlan border has only begun,
Konstantlne Kammerhofer, generalis
simo of the defeated Nazi forces, told
me thla afternoon at his headquarters
Ivj a Yugoslav town where he Is sur
rounded by his staff planning his next
move.
Approximately 3000 Nazi fighters,
remnanta of the forco which for a
time held sections of Styrla and Ca
rlnthla, are interned In fugitives'
camps, but the leaders, who crossed
the border with them, still are foot
loose. It was hot, and Kammerhofer, a
stock built blond teuton with a mus
cular chest, was at ease, his soft blue
shirt open at the neck and his well
croased gray trousers supported by
suspenders.
He looked as though he had come
from tennis rather than a revolution.
"We are not finished," he began
explosively.
(Continued on Page Three)
TO VISIT VALLEY
13-15
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 4. (AP)
A tour of 16 counties will be started
Monday by Congresman Charlea H.
Mar' In, Democratic candidate for gov.
ernor. Mrs. Martin will accompany
him.
No set addresses are on the sched
ule, It was declared The tour has
been arranged to enable the candi
date to meet personally people of the
state and to more thoroughly famil
iarize himself with conditions In va
rious sections.
He will start down the lower Col
umbia river district, continue down
the Oregon coast, and arrive at North
Bend and Marshfleld August 10, vis
iting at least two dor.cn cities en
route.
On down the Oregon coast the ma
jor general will "march" all the way
to Oold Beach. On August 13 he
wing back over the Redwood high
way and reach Orants Pass He will
remain In the Cave City overnight
and reach Medford, via Oold Hill and
Central Point, August 13.
Jacksonville and Ashland art to
bn vis ted August IS. Then the can
didate will cross the Greensprlngs
mountains to Klamath Falls and con
tinue up The Dalles-California high
way and back through Hood River.
TO
CHICAOO. Aug. 4. ( AP) Chicago
bank clearing! thla week totaled
1225.300.000 compared with 208 000,
000 In the previoua week and jao.-
400,000 In the correapondlng week of
1933.
CHICAOO, Aug. 4. (AP) Roy D,
Chaptn, prealdent of the Hudson Mo
tor Car Co., today announced do-
mestlo sales totaled 40.083 for the
yesr to date, eurpsviliig the total
laales of 133 bjr 831 unite,
GEN. MARTIN PLANS
8001
RELIEr
ROLLS
Further Loss To Crops And
Livestock Now Totaling
Hundred Millions, Unless
Rain Comes Soon Fed
eral Aid Operates.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 4. (AP)
Approximately 800,000 persons a I
number equal to the combined popu
lation of the states of Idaho, Dela
ware and Nevada are on relief rolls
In the drought blighted western half
of the United States, It was shown
by a tabulation tonight from official
records.
As a result of the distress caused
by the searing heat and prolonged
dry spell, the government has desig
nated, for relief purposes, more than
1350 counties In 23 states as emer
gency or secondary drought counties.
The loss to growing crops and live
stock in the affected area has not
been estimated officially, but unoffi
cial estimates placed the total in the
hundreds of millions of dollars.
A further loss, through severe short
age of winter feed for livestock, has
been predicted by agricultural and
relief officials unless substantial rain
falls soon. Weather forecasts gave no
sign of a break in the drought.
Barren paoturea, shortage of water,
and scarcity of fodder, have caused
forced sale of thousands of head of
cattle to the government to be can
ned for distribution to the needy. A
week ago, government purchases had
totaled 1,737,596 head In IB states.
Another 190,000 head had been con
demned as unfit for consumption and
killed on the ranges.
Federal relief and farm adminis
tration officials geared the cattle
purchasing machinery to a possible
load of 10,000,000 head.
The bureau of agricultural econom
ics in Washington described the sit
uation confronting the sheep Indus
try as well as that of other livestock,
aa "the most serious ever known."
Farm administration relief officials
pushed plans to purchase 8,000,000
cheep.
.Milk prices were Increased In some
parts of the drought area, In some
cases as much as 60 per cent In the
price- of delivered milk. Burned pas
ture land, shortage of forage and
water, forced dairyman to decreasa
the slM) of their herds, and to pur
chase feed.
The farm administration's milk
section, In Washington, adopted a
policy generally favorable to price
Increases to prevent a possible deci
mation of the dairy herds. j
Scattered rains during the past;
week lowered temperatures, but did
not benefit crops except In a few
sections.
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VILLAIN, BATTLES
EX-WIFE'S CUUM
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 4. (AP)
Saying "Edna O. Bancroft 1 not now
my legal wife," Oeorge Bancroft,
movie actor, filed an affidavit In
auperlor court today disclaiming re
sponsibility In her recent 'filed sep
arate maintenance suit asking an
allowance of 11,000 a month.
In the affidavit Bancroft said "A
ceremony purported to unlta the
plaintiff and myself In marriage oc
curred In Buffalo, N. T., April 7,
1013" and they separated n the fall
of 1014.
The actor said that soon after the
separation he hired a theatrical law
yer, Herman Roth, In New York to
obtain a divorce. Soma time later.
Roth handed him what appeared to
be a legal document telling him he
was divorced, Bancroft said. He said
he had not been able to find a rec
ord of the divorce, but had not heard
from the flrat Mrs. Bancroft since
the separation until this year. She
charges he never obtained the di
vorce. Bancroft and Octavla Broske, opera
singer, were married In May, 1918.
They live near here and now have a
17-year old daughter, Oeorgette.
Another affidavit was filed In the
case today In which Carolyns Mc
Lean Goodhue, actress, awore she
lived with Mrs. Edna Bancroft tn
1919 and 1020 and the latter told
her sha was divorced from Bancroft
"and had no claim on him of any
kind."
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UPSTATE, OUTLOOK
Oregon : Fair aaat and aouth and un
tettled and ahowery northweat por
tion flundaj and Monday; normal
temperature and humidity! moderate
to fresh aouth wind nffahore.
AflN PRANCiaCO, Aug. 4 (Pi
The outlook for the coming week Is
for fair weather and normal tempera
ture in California and the plateiu
region and occasionally unsettled else.
where with light rains early the weel
i over western Washington and nor'.a
kveat Oregon.
FAIR, WITH RAIN
Black Bully Mobbed
By Own Race For
Negro Girl Insults
BHHEVEPORT, La., Aug. 4.
(AP) A negro was lynched laat
night by members of his own
race because, officers said today,
he had insulted a negro gtrl.
A group of about ten negroes
tied Grafton Page. 30, to a tree
limb near Bethany, 22 miles from
here, stripped him and then beat
him to death with pine knota, of
ficers reported.
Page, described ai a "bully" In
the negro community at Bethany,
was selred by the group after the
automobile In which he was driv
ing the girl away had collided with
a truck, knocking the girl uncon
scious. No arrests have been made.
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FD'S TARIFF PACTS
Cuban Treaty On Sugar To
Be Yardstick For Dom
inant Agricultural Group
In Accepting Reciprocal
Tariff Treaties.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. (AP) The
American farm bureau federation's
attitude on reciprocal tariff treaties
probably will be determined by the
results of pending negotiations with
Cuba.
Cheater H. Gray, Washington rep
resentative of the dominant farm
group, today said all future recipro
cal negotiations may be regarded with
suspicion if American farming inter
ests are not safeguarded in the Cuban
treaty.
"If we find," Gray said, "that
American agriculture will suffer In
expanding our foreign markets, we
will have to arouse public sentiment
against the whole Idea of executive
reciprocal treaties doing any good for
agriculture."
He said he would oppose the treaty,
In part at least, If It lifted seasonal
tariff barriers against tropical fruits
and winter vegetables, Gray also ad
vocated higher tariffs on sugar, add
ing the United States should develop
a self-sufficiency In this production.
"If we permit foreign fruits and
vegetables eaay entry into our mar
kets In the winter, It takes the bloom
off the market for our own pro
ducts," he said. "Furthermore we
have a great under-glass agricultural
industry developing here that Is cap
able of supplying the domeatlo mar
ket the year around."
Gray said free trade with the Phil
ippine Islands after Independence was
"Impossible" becruMi all other na
tions would Immediately invoke most
favored nation treaty clauses to gain
equal treatment, and that would "de
stroy" the American producer.
He said he foresaw no probability
of food shortage In the United
States because of the drouth, and
approved In general farm adminis
tration plans. Oray, however, added
there were some tendencies that
should he corrected.
"There Is a danger," he said, "that
If we voluntarily retire from foreign
markets or accept insignificant ex
port quotas, even temporarily, other
nation will edge Into these markets
and absorb them so that we can re
gain !them only with difficulty. We
will find lines of trade established
elsewhere that will be difficult to
break."
SET FOR MONDAY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. (AP) The
war department announced today the
board of englneera for rlvera and
harbors will hold a publlo hearing
here Auguat 0 on proposala for the
Improvement of Crescent City harbor,
California.
The division engineer hna recom
mended that the ealstlng project, be
modified so aa to provide for exten
alon of tha present breakwater to
Round nock, construction of a aouth
breakwater about 0300 feet long, and
excavation to a depth of 30 feet be
low mean lower low water of a harbor
basin 3800 feet long from 500 to 3000
feet wide.
The board, according to the war
department announcement, la not
convinced of the advisability or tne
United States undertaking tha pro
posed Improvement because It doubts
that commerce handled through the
port Justifies the expense.
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BASEBALL
Night Oame
SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 4 (AP)
Before a yelling crowd of 13.000 fans
which filled the park to overflowing,
the Indiana won their fourth atralght
game tontght from Oakland, 11 to ft.
In the first gam of a double header.
The win waa their tentji In the laat
11 games.
H. H. H.
Oakland ft S 8
Seattle .11 10 1
Walsh. Rego and RalmondU Vlncl
land Tobin.
CRESCENT HARBOR
CHANGES HEARING
HEARST CHARGES
STORM TROOPERS
PLOTTINGREVOLT
California 'Silver Shirts'
Gird To Rout Reds And
Then Seize Government
Solons Hear Evidence
Plan To Oust All Jews
From Office.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4.
Los Angeles Examiner in a
story tn Ha Sunday edition w.. say
that testimony has been given before
the congressional committee on un
American activities, now sitting in
Los Angeles, "that armed men known
as the Silver Shirts, with a secret
auxiliary called storm trooper and
avowedly organized to change th
government of the United States" ars
drilling In the neighborhood of San
Diego.
The testimony, the newspaper will
say, was presented to the committee,
presided over by Congressman Charlea
Kramer of California, In & session
held behind closed doors.
While the testimony was being
given before the committee, the news
paper will aoy. It was learned that
an "Investigation was being pressed
vigorously by Intelligence officer of
the army, navy and marine corps,
a well aa by other government
agencies" Into the activities of th
Silver Shirts on the entire Pacific
coast.
The Silver Shirts, so the newspaper
will say the committee has been in
formed by various witnesses, display
no swastikas, the emblems of the
Nazi party, on their uniforms, but
that the swastika emblem Is con
spicuous In their homes.
Captain William Hyne of the Lo
Angeles police department antt-radl-
cai squad said today the police hava
been watching the Silver Shirts in
Los Angeles for several months. He
said he did not know what testimony
had been given the congressional
committee.
Revelations made by the govern
ment operatives disclosed that 3,000
rounds of .30 calibre ammunition
was purchased for the Silver 8hlrts
at the naval air station at North
Island, San Diego," the newspaper
will say. "It wa purchased from
members of the United States armed
forces on active duty at the time." '
Membership in the organization 1
secret, the members themselves not
knowing, generally, the names of
their comrades, the newspaper will
say,
Members of the United 8tate
navy, United States marine corps,
and the California National Guard
are enrolled In the organization." the
newspaper will say the committee was
Informed.
"An 'old man' supplies the San
Diego organization with gold, and
also supplies arm and ammunition,
operating through 'fence' on Univer
sity avenue. Bant Diego.
A corporal of the United States
marine corps In San Diego, assigned
to Intelligence work to obtain In
formation concerning the Silver
Shirts, was 'on the spot' once, being
target for mysterious shots, and
again beln attached by five men.
"The avowed purpose of the Sli
ver Shirts and their auxiliary, Intel
ligence officer reported, Is two
fold: "First: They plan to ua their
armed strength to overcome the com
munists, because they believe tha
communists will atage an uprising
and will seize the government of the
United States, and they In turn are
planning to wrest it from tha com
munist. "Second: They are planning to re
move all Jew from public office, In
cluding Henry Morgenthau, United
States secretary of the treasury.
HONOLULU, Aug. 3. With
Dollfuss, tho conservative, gone
and that fine lcvel-hcadcd old
patriot, Von Hindcnburg, gone,
it looks like it takes a radical
to live. England saying that
hor borders reached to the
Rhine, was good news to these
islands, for that means that
ours at least reach our own
possessions.
The army and navy ought to
bo flying this hop all the time.
It's like carrying the mail. We
ask 'cm to do something right
now and then blame cm be
cause they have had to prac
tice. If we ever had to fly here we
would have to ask 'cm to post
pone the emergency till wo
learned it. So don't blitmo the
boys. They will have to wait
now till commercial lines do it
first. Yours,
V