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Medford Mail Tmbune The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Wednes day; not much change In tempera ture. Highest yesterday $: Attest thl morning 47 WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, No. 153. PflBE WIPES 1TT M flLflSKfl - i ' , . , ; , ' j By TALL MALLON WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 18. No one can prove It, but every financial Insider knows that a certain group of tinkers is trying forcibly and dan gerously to show president Roose velt the error of tits spending ways. They are the ones who are sell i n g government bonds In large and small quan V titles. Their pur ; pose is to scare the new dealers about their fi Paul MalJon nancing and convince them that they had better get conservative. The elder financiers In Wall street do not like the Idea. They (the Mor gans, for instance) are taking no part la it. They are sensible enough to realize that the new deal Is here for a good long while: that there Is noth ing constructive they can do about It; and. If they want to make money, they had better adjust themselves to the unpleasant (for them) require ments of the existing situation. The young turks of the financial district "think differently. Their namfs are well known among the treasury Insiders. The treasury got so excited about the situation last week that Mr. Mor genthau sent to New York hla able emissary. Under - Secretary Thomas Jefferson Coolldge. Mr. Coolldge nvade the rounds of suspected short sellers, telling them that they are making a ' mistake If they think they can profit " toy selling the new deal short in tne government bond market. Mr. Mor-1 genthau also has pressed Into similar i service a New Yorker with wnom ne la closely acquainted. They were putl to work when Mr. Morgenthau heard that a New York crowd dumped some fifteen millions of governments on the market In the middle of his reflnane ln program. The conslpratora do not realize it. syut their tactics cannot be anything more than annoying. The upshot of it probably will be that they will lose money ln a fruitless endeavor to em barrass the government. However, you cannot tell them that. They think they will put the new deal on the run. There have been a lot of exaggera tions about the drouth. It was very fcsd. but not as bad as it was pic tured. As far os national purchasing power Is concerned. Its effects cer tainly have been over-emphaalzed . Mall order sales picked up nearly 18 per cent In August over July. They have their roots ln drouth areas. De partment store sales either held their own or Improved. The conclusion . from the figures is inescapable that ine drouth area (bolstered with gov ernment handouts) has a purchasing power stronger than lastr year. The redcral reserve figures show the Index of department store salea in creased from 60 to 83 during August In the Chicago district. That may have been the result of paying off the teachers. MinncapoUa Jumped from 61 to 75. undoubtedly aa a result of the strike settlement. But the others are sus ceptible to no other explanation than generally Improved conditions: Dallas up 5 from 78; Atlanta up 7 from 83: Cleveland up 3 from 88; San Francisco up 3 from 75; Philadelphia up 4 from 8!). New York up 3 from 76. A "gentlemen's agreement" Is ex pected by inner NRA circles to be the outcome of the pending controversy over the tobacco code. The code pre sented by this bllllon-dollar Industry has been privately held to be unac- ocotable because of Its failure to pro rule for a code authority, low wage nrovlslona, and lack of mandatory features. Hearings on the code were marked .v.- skillful legal jousting by Clay wu v:ama, representing tobacco manu facturers, and Sydney Hlllman of the labor advisory board of NRA. For l while there was talk of Imposing a code on the Industry. But the to bacco men know their way around Washington too well for that and a compromise solution 1 now being worked out. NRA la making a point in the dis cussions of the fact that the Industry. w;ic- annual profits are more than $00,000,000, has a wage bill of only 35.000,000. While the tobacco Indui trv la one of the larirest In the ns- t on. It employs but 80.000 workers at ivs peak. Introduction of labor-saving machinery has gone farther in manufacture of tobacco than in al most inv other Industry. A new ma chine Just put on the market can turn cut 2.000 cigarettes minute. another thing about the drouth. Trices of foods hare gone much too !r.jh. There Is no shortage at all for two-th'.rds of the foods we Americans est. For most of the remaining foods, t'ae probable shortage will be from tn 10 per cent. Only a few foods will V mv a reduction of over 10 per cent If you like cereals. m;ix. fruit. cn- CoaUaued po fags oui POPULATION LEFT T Famed City of Gold Faced by Dire Dilemma Loss Estimated at $2,000,000 Help Plea Is Sent Out WASHINGTON. Sept. 18. (API Secretary Ickes. the public worka ad ministrator, aald today that he might be "able to aid In financing a re building program" a Nome,, Alaska, with public works funds. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 18. (AP) the "Gateway to Alaska," Seattle, stood ready today to rush aid to stricken Nome, and one 4.000-ton vessal hai already been chartered to rush lood and supplies north. While cabled news of the disaster was still reaching here last night Ralph Lomen. vice-president of the Lomen Commercial company and head of the Arctic Transport company, an. nounced the vessel had been char tered. Loading will begin within a day or two, he said. "Seattle has the ships and the ton nage to take care of the situation." he said. NOME, Alaska, Sept. 18. (AP) Alaska's famous city of gold lay in smoking ruins today with two dead and a property loss estimated as high as $2,000,000. Faced by a definite food shortage and an early winter which will lock the city's roadstead with Ice, Nome'a homeless citizens pleaded for imme diate aid from the states. We must have help from outside speedily." aald Dr. Rex M. Schwartz. the city's physlclan-mayor. Aid to Be Rushed The federal government, Red Cross and American companies promptly nromlsed to rush aid in an effort to beat the winter's Ice Into the harbor. starting from a spark on tne root of the Golden Gate hotel yesterday morning, flames roared through the wooden town. Leaping from building to building, and then from mock io block. Efforts of firemen, aided by all able bodied citizens men, women and children were futile. Federal buildings, the miners and merchant's bank, every grocery etore and restaurant, all of the hotela but one. fell before the worst aisasier this city has known ln lta 35-year history. Two Eskimos Perish. Two Eskimos were trapped by the flames. They burned to death. Buildings were dynamited as the blaze raced down front street. A number of white persona were In jured. At the hospital one of the tm h. inclines to escape the fire physicians said Nome was In a aerioua condition. Most of the city's food supply was consumed by the fire a dire predlca. ment for a city as lsoiacea as num which must import Ml that It cats. Food and material to rebuild the city must be brought ln by boat over long rough water Journeys from aouth esstem Alaska or Seattle before Ice frecrea out all shlpa six weens Food Supply Problem. Fond mav also be flown In by air plane from Fairbanks, half way across AlBka. Doff siea journeys mu. i.ki months under normal con Hitinn and the fall is one oi poorest times of the year for mush Hundreds of Nome's summer popu i.tmn of 1000 were utterly homeless. In winter time the city haa about 1500 residents. While some watched the fire throughout the night, aa It died down moat of the remainder spent the night crowded Into the one hotel, the hos pital, the remaining houses and a section of warehouses along the -.rfrnnt. Relief kitchens took care of their food needs, temporarily. The temperature was again near tne i Ing point, as It has been at night ln recent weeks. Hundreds iiomeirse. Several hundred persona are home less out of a population of a little .k.. innn eltv officials said, in the winter the population la near 1500 but miners and prospectors are now still out on their claims and mines over the peninsula. As the fire progressed yesterday. .-.-.r. calls went out for help and nearby gold dredging operatlona were shut down, while their employes were rushed here to aid. men and women were overcome by exhaustion while fight ing the fire and had to be resusci tated away from the fire rone. Among tales of heroism ws. the work of young Bus. Msynsrd son of George Msynsrd. owner of the cltys . i.t.ri Press newspaper, who cabled first word of the fire to the outside world. He ;ot the lory. While aiding In a futile effort to save machinery at hla own plant, he was nearly trapped as the roof col leuwd. Undaunted and uninjured. 'he "tot the story" srd fart It to ! the world. ' Manv persons Bk1 tlist word ff (sent to tlie atatat ol then safely. Flaming Torch Thrown In Room Of Sleeping Boy SEATTLE. Sept. 18. (DP) No motive could be found today to ex plain hurling of a flaming torch into the bedroom window of six-year-old Monte Solkover. Mrs. Ben Solkover, hla mother, told police a wad of newspapers soaked In gasoline, was lighted and tossed through the window aa the child slept. It Ignited window cur tains. The boy's screams brought his mother to the room, where she ex tinguished the blase with a blanket. DEAL. FLAYED BY ILLS AS PATH T NEW YORK, Sept. 18. (UP) Ogden L. Mills, secretary of the treasury In the Hoover admlnlatra tlon. declared last evening that the "new deal" government of President Roosevelt was rapidly leading the American people toward a dictator ship and the death of democracy. Mills, speaking before the Women's National Republican club ln a con stitution day address, declared the Rooseveltlan theory of government was the negation of the fundamental prlnclplea set forth In the constitu tion and of the aupreme objective for which It was established." In the field of government." he said. "It calls for an authoritarian government, of which a dictatorship is the supreme expression, and which la exemplified ln the modern world by the fascist government of Italy, the nazl government of Germany, and the communist government, or Rus sia." Mills pointed to the decline of de mocracy In Europe, and the rise of dictatorships with the rule of single men over nations. He pointed out how parliaments delegated "vaat powera to the executive: then were satisfied merely to record his wishes, finally fading from the scene alto gether." "Wo have witnessed something of this kind In our country," Mills de clared. CHICAGO. Sept' 18. (AP) De scribing, by Inference, the gold na tionalization act aa "brutalized ras cality." and asserting that "democracy Is not safe In this republic," James A. Reed, former democratic senator from Missouri, ripped Into the new deal In a fiery addreas here last night In which he said the current adminis tration was sponsoring a paternalistic violation of the constitution. Apparently referring to Upton Sin clair, democratic nominee for gov ernor of California. Senator Reed de clared that "thoughtful people every where gaze with astonishment aa the most radical socialist of our time Is lionized by official Washington." PORTLAND. . Sept. 18. (AP) Ben jamin Popham. 76, was fatally In jured Monday when he fell from a tree, which he had been pruning. Skipper Sopwith Gains Second Leg on 'Mug' U ENDEAVOUR, fa t I ' t ' Jftf II TWff DZftMlK I T. o. m. fnpaitn. inn. irr'aint,,;-;" r:zrx - .m b, .... oie Brltlsb ;athnmctt. ' ' ANO SETSJECORD British Endeavor Sails 30- Mile Course 51 Seconds Faster Than Rainbow Bad Luck Attends Start Sail Tomorrow NEWPORT. R. I Sept. 18 (AP) The New York Yacht club an nounced today, following the sec ond straight victory of the British zhallenger Endeavour, that the rhlrd official race of the America's nip series would be sailed tomor row, starting at the usual time, 10:40 a. m. (E. S. T.) ABOARD U. S. C. G. CUTTER ARGO OFF NEWPORT, Sept. IB. (API Endeavour. British challenger for the Amerlca'a cup. today set a new cup record for a 30-mtle triangular course aa she boiled home ln 3 hours. 0 minutes and 1 second to defeat the American defender Rainbow by 81 seconds for the second strateht day. The British sloop's elapsed time for the windward leg of 1:17:01 bet tered the cup record, aet by Reliance In -1903, by 2 mlnutea and 57 seconds, but a shift In the wind hsd made the last hitch of today's beat more of a reach than a beat and the com parison hsrdly would stand challenge Bad l.uck at Start Beaten over the starting line and handicapped with a torn sail, the blue-hulled challenger quickly made each mark a winning ono aa sha boiled home winner by 51 seconds. In her victory she added new lau rels as she broke the record for a triangular course set by Enterprise in 1030. Her time was 8 hours. P minutes and 1" second, compared, to -Knter-prtse'a old cup record of 3:10:13. With the start at 10:40 a. m. IE. S. T.). the official finish was Endeavour 1:40:01, Rainbow 1:40:52. It was only the second time In the 83-year history of the lntertlonal rac lng classic that a British boat has won two successive races. The other time was In 1020 when the late Sir Thomas Llpton's Shamrock IV dt feated Resolute ln the first two races only to lose the next three and her chance at the cup. British Now Favored Today's race was one of the closest In cup history but It established the British boat aa a favorite to regain the famous trophy won by the schooner America In 1851 and de fended successfully against 15 chsl lengers. Endeavour had all the hard luck, making a late start with a torn Jlo. then losing control of her reaching Jib aa she rounded the first mark and again losing precious seconds at the 20-mlle mark sheeting In the Jib again. Harold S. Vandcrbllt and hla Amer. lean cud defender cut down tho vlc- tor'a margin on the last 10-mlle lo,7 In a close reach, but could not over- (Contlnued on Page Five) ... 4 ...... "n n .r.m '""' . Jfti cx.i i H BASEBALL Amr rlcfln. R. H. E. New York 0 8 0 Detroit - 2 7 0 Ruffing and Jorgens; Rows and Cochrane. Philadelphia Chicago 0 Dietrich and Hayes; Kennedy, etje and Madjeskt. National. R. H. E Pittsburgh . - t 11 Brooklyn B 17 0 Swift, Melne, Grimes and Padden; Leonard and Lopez, t AT LUNCH MEET Another splendid musical program waa presented by Mrs. Lllla Puruckcr at today's luncheon meeting of the Medford Rotary club. Mra. Frederick Relnecke of Los Angeles, better knoan ln this city aa Helen Purucker, enter tained a large group of Rotarlans with two song numbers: "I Passed by Your Window" and "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise." Mrs. Effic Herbert Yeoman then delighted the members of the club with two vocsl numbers. Tho songs presented by both these artist were enthusiastic ally received by the Rotarlans. Lee Bishop's populsr thumbnail sketches this week featured the fam ous child prodigy. Ruth Oienczynskl. and the dynamic Benito Mussolini. One of the features of the lunch eon, held In the basement banquet hall of the Hotel Medford. was1 do Ucloua deep aea Chinook salmon, brought to Medford from Bandon by Jack Wakefield, and cooked "to a turn" by the ataff of the Medford hotel. Thla fish trest was furnished the Rotary club through the courtesy of F. E.- Drane, who operates a gen eral dockage and warehousing busi ness at Bsudon. Jack Wakefield, who haa Just com pleted a abort vacation at Bandon, voiced the appreciation of tho Rotary club for Mr, Dranc'a fine fish feed. Harlan P. Boaworth of Klamath Palls waa a visiting Rotarlan at to day's meeting, and H. N. Sankey of Eugene waa also a guest. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 (UP) Ruth Chatterton, celebrated screen actress, filed suit for divorce todsy against Cleorge Brent, Irish film play er. on chargea of extreme mental cruelty. Miss Chatterton'a complaint alleged that Brent displayed a "sulky, moody, unreasonable and dlsagreable" tem perament. He objected to her friends she said, and behaved toward them In an unsociable manner, to her grent embarrassment. ,h. aM'niifl Irtr nn fhe America's RUTH CHATTERTON SEEKINGDIVORCE ,ir Ne,mrl. K. 1. It T CERTIFICATE PLAN FOR RELIEF UPHELD AS LEGAL Decision Clarifies Air in Plan! to Draw Ahead On Rum Profit Eddy Loses in Fight for Ballot Spot SALEM, Sept. 18. AP) Issuance at certificates of IndebtcdneM of 1,2 50. 000 against the state liquor fund for unemployment relief waa held constitutional while the demand that the secretary of atate place the name of B. L. Eddy of Roseburg on the non-partisan ballot for circuit judge of the Second district waa re jected n two major opinions handed down today by the state aupreme court. Both were mandamus proceedings, the former a, friendly one, but neither received the unanimous decision of the court which heard the casta en banc. Chief Justice Rand dissented ln the test constitution all ty suit, while Justices P. R. Kelly and H. J. Bean dissented ln the Eddy opinion. Justice Harry Belt wrote the majority opinion ln the former while Justice J. U. Campbell wrote the majority opinion In the latter. The cae to compel the three mem bers of the state board of control to lAsue certificates of Indebtedness to match federal relief funds, waa a teat suit brought by the atate relief com mittee. The matter was contested on the grounds It conflicted with the constitutional provision which limits the credit of the atate to $30,000, ex cept by vote of the people. The cer tificates were, to be Issued however under a legislative act specifically empowering the officials to Issue cer tificates ln excess of this sum. In the Eddy suit, the Roseburg Jurist brought action In the Marion county circuit court to compel hla name be placed on the ballot for the November election for one of three positions for circuit Judge In the Second district. Eddy was low In the primary election, the three high can didates being O. P. Sklnworth of Eugene. J. T. Brand of Marshfield and Carl Wlmberly of Roseburg. The circuit court denied the mandamus writ and the aupreme coutt today affirmed the action. RUSSIA ELECTED TO LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP GENEVA, Sept. 18. (DThe assem bly of the League of Nation today elected Soviet Russia Into member ship. PORTLAND, Ore., SeptTl8. f AP) Declaring "there Is no dm nee of ne gotiation," Hugo Nlssen, labor leader, said today he had been assured at least 160 of the 450 employes of Swift Ss Company's huge packing plant hre would atrlke tomorrow. run. defended by Harold . Vawlerbllt ...m , pre,, - Herd of Reindeer Plunge Into Deep Norway Crevasse NARVIK, Norway, Sept. 18. (AP) About 600 reindeer have perished near Vardo after plung ing into a deep crevasse In a gla cier, it was reported to authorities today. Some of the animals at the bot tom of the abyss remain alive, but It was ssld they will starve unleaa their suffering la ended by Lap lander sharpshooters. WHEN AUTOS I Mrs. Ora W, Pock, 31, of Grants Pass, suffered alight bruises In an auto accident thla noon on the North Pacific highway near the en trance to the Owen-Oregon Lumber Co., and Herman William Newland, 38, of Fort Jones, Cel., was slightly Injured ln a motorcycle accident Sun day on the South Pacific highway, as the only casualties out of a total of five accidents reported by state and city police today. Mrs. Peck waa traveling south tn a Butck sedan driven by her husband. O. W. Peck of Grants Pass, when it collided with a car driven by Georee Cook. Owen-Oregon employe, who waa making a turn off the highway, police report. Newland'a motorcycle collided witn a car driven by Margaret Tauerner of Elk Grove, Cal., who waa passing a third vehicle when his accident oc curred, reports at the city police ela tion ahow. W. P, Nickoll of the Red Mountain Spike camp, driving a government truck, collided Sunday on the Beaver road, near Ruch. Ore., a report at the city police station reveals, with a motorcycle driven by Archie jonn son of Provolt. Ore. The motor cycle waa slightly damaged In the aceldent. Care driven by D. T. McDonough 70, of West Fourteenth, and Kaye Brenner, 34, of 30 Cottage street, hooked bumpers In a minor accident yesterday on Sixth street, It waa re ported to city police today, when McDonough pulled from the curb. In another minor accident yester day at the Intersection of Main and Crater Lake streets, Kate McMurtrey. 01. route 4, and O. C. Clemena of 303 Vancouver avenue, were the drlv ere of autoa which collided. 4 ST SUlMttnn nt a dsoutv to fill the vacancy ln the sheriffs office, caused by the sudden death of Miss Olfla E. Anderson last Friday nlghOa under consideration by Sheriff Walter J. nimsaheid. A. decision will not be reached for a week or 10 daya. Miss tnri.rwin aM-ved under three sheriffs and possessed a vide knowledge of the Intricacies ol legal papers. fTnt.u Mn snnnlntmant la made, the work wU; i handled by employer of tha tax department. Howard oault. secretary of the Justice court, a law student, waa drafted for short service this morning. t.nM Bnt. IB. (APl-Oovernor M tnAv nnntnt,1 Miles Blandish of Portland, as a member of the port of portlsnd commission, replacing the late W. W. Payne. . Pear Markets NEW YORK, Sept. IS (AP) (U.S.D.A.) Pear auction market: Prices slightly weaker; 98 care ar rived: 4 Oregon cars, 30 California, Washington unloaded; 6 cars on track. Oregon BartletU: 1495 boxes extra fancy, 3JS(3.05. average S.S7; 1539 boxes fancy. 3 30i?2 SJ. average 13 01. Oregon Bosca: 7 ooxea, hw. fancy, $3.1na5: average $3.33; 608 boxes fsncy, l.0e9.55, average 2.34. Washington Bartletta: 1318 boxes fsncy. S3 00 m 3.43. average 1339. Washington d'Anjous: asi ooxes unclassified, 13.00. California BartletU: 53B0 boxes. 83350 utann. average 13.03. California Bosca. 3118 boxes, 1135 03 59, average 83.03. CHICAGO, Sept. 18. (AP) (USDAl Pear auction market: 8 Oregon cars, 8 California, S Washongton. I New York unloaded; 31 cars on track; 8 cara sold. Oregon Bartlftts: 840 boxes fancf 83.3J-J.75, average 8388. Oregon D'AnJoua: 80 boxea special, 81.85-1.D5: 585 boxes, choice. $1.40 1.60. average, $1.63: 130 boxes extra fanrv. $330-3.36, average. $337. Oregon Boars: 858 boxes extra fancy, $1.53-3.06. average. $1.79: 3lu boxes fancy. $1 .60-1 8;average, ii.ro. California Bartletta: 1.140 box's. $3 86-3 35: average, $3 88. California Boars: 608 boxes, $3.30 133; aversge, $3.39. OF NATION MAY BE CALLEDINSTR! KE National Leaders of Textile Workers Consider Vast Walkout Preparations Made for Fight to Finish WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. (A P) The executive council of the United Textile Workers today voted authority to the textile strike committee to call out all allted groups or the textile in dustry at lta discretion. WASHINGTON. Sept. 18. (AP) Amid a tense atmosphere, national leadera of the vast textile strike gathered today to consider quick ex tension of the walkout call to every cloth-maker of the nation. Aa militiamen's bayonets gleamed ln north and south and "flying pick ets." seized In a dramatic sortie by Georgia troops, languished behind barbed wire In an Internment camp, the atrlke leadera prepared for a fight a finish. (ny the AsHoriAtcrt Pres.') Over 420.000 textile workers wsrs Idle from the genersl strike in the Industry todsy, an Independent sur vey showed, as unions and employers made determined moves to strength en their position. In Washington, national strike leaders gsthered to consider a quick extension of the wslkout by calling out every cloth-maker ln the nation. An additional 100,000 would be af fected. Employera opened many mllla and made plans for opening mora throughout the textile areas.' National guardsmen stood by to protect property and to guard "the tight to work." Additional unna were called out In Georgia, where martial law Is ln effect. In Connecticut; however, quiet was the order of the day and Governor Wilbur Cross ordered the national guard demobilised. In the Carolinaa tna numoer oi Idle was decreased by sevelal thou sands aa mills opened under the pro tection of national guard bayonets. In Maine, the closing or several Pepperell mllla at Blddeford and the York mills at Saco Increased the roll of Idle by 4,500. There was virtually no diaorder nut llkewlso little lessening of tension. BETTER HOIS B. B. Harder, chairman of the Jack son county committee In the national program for better homes, now under way through the Federal Housing ad ministration, today announced that O. O. Alenderfer and. T. H. Fletcher hava been add! to the executive committee recently appointed to rnak , plans for the local tampalgn. A meeting of the now complete lit.. Mnnnud of H. A. Thler- olf, chairman; Frank Runts, Fred Flck, B. a. Trowbridge, Alenderfer and Fletcher, will be held tomorrow after noon at 4 o'clock. The housing act and its eneci on . i .nrf the huildlni trades lUVMI MUMiim - waa explained by Chairman Harder at a meeting last rrioay a. mo of Commerce, when first steps wer. taken ln starting the drive for Mcd- ford'a part In the program. LONDON, Sept. 17. Will you please tell me what hap pencd at tho BO-called yacht race Snturdnyt I never saw as many confliet iii(r statements as in tho local papers today. Some say the roce was in doubt to the last minute; some say that cruisers or Roosevelt or somebody got in the way of the l'.nnlisli boat. Tlmv snv our crew is profes sional and that theirs just work for the love or. the sea airs ana that ours is not built right be low decks. Send all particulars to the trf-iiiriio of Nations and let's get this thing straightened out. 9 IDjITHiKaugTil SynHicalt, lee. COMMITTEE TO MEETTOMORM
