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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Sat urday, but with some cloudi ness; cooler tonight. Trmperature Highest yesterday HI Lowest this morning 3 Special Rate of 80o for one montb to new subscribers will last for only Bedford BUNE i 30 das. beclnnlne August J. ; All subscriptions must be paid In advance. Thirtieth Year (Eighteen Pages Two Sections) MEDFOED, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 193:). No. 131. 0) o) JVU 1M I. I , V ; n n nn BrefilE iatiia utl lTu By P.lll MA1.LON (Copyright. 1935, by Paul Million) WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. The Brit ish seem to be more excited about Ethiopia than anything since the world war. Tho Ing and cabinet iould not be act ing more gravely If the Italian conquest were go ing to be staged In the yard at Buckingham pal ace Instead of In duskiest Africa. A story is going iround that what has shaken cus tomary British PAUL MAI.I.ON reserve is the prospect that the Ital ians will cut the Ethiopian head waters 'of the Nile and thus ruin British Interests down the river. f It is true that the modern Romans Intend to come very close to Lake Tsana. which feeds the Nile. The lake Is only 150 mllos back up In Ethiopia and Just off the direct Ital ian route to Addis Ababa. But you may accept as a flat fact that the British have already taken that matter up with Mussolini. He bas given them private assurances that he will guarantee British drain age rights If he conquers the terri tory. Consequently, the British have more reason to feel safe with Musso lini in control than they have had under Ethiopian rule. Mussolini's In terest is in soil, not water. A better but still Inadequate ex planation Is the widespread one that there are two big questions back in the British mind. What will the Yugoslavs do to Italy with Musso lini's army off In Africa? What will Hitler's mice do m Austria curing ( tne aDsence or me itauan cair Those who think they know what la going on in world diplomacy be lieve Mussolini has also thought of these things. In fact, they have been 1 tipped that Mussolini has a secret agreement with the French to watch what will go on in Europe behind his back. The possibilities or a Eu ropean backwash to ' the Ethiopian war therefore are not generally con sidered dangerous unless Mussolini's Ethiopian campaign, drags out for a longer time than he thinks It will. What the British have in mind par ticularly need not be thus speculated upon. While they have said little out loud, their diplomatic, agents have been quite specific in communicat ing their apprehensions to other na tions, notably Prance. They told the French, in effect: "The conquest of Ethiopia will mean the end of the League or Na tions and the end of a world era. Prior to the world war, nations did not even pretend to have a con science. They took what they want ed and could get. The league was founded while the world was In a conscientious mood. It has not done anything important economically. IU efngle accomplishment worth noting was prevention of the disintegration of Austria. Its failure In Manchuria was a world Joke. But, at least. Man churia was far enough off to permit the league thereafter to pretend that It was still a big Influence. But if Mussolini walks off the league portico with his thumb at his nose, then even pretense will no longer be pos sible. It Is the end of the conscience era." That, sny the Brl tish, Is worth getting excited about. None of the munitions makers closed up shop when the senate pass ed the neutrality resolutions. There is good reason to suspect tney wiiij (Continued on Page Ten) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mesdames Horner and House de scending from a plane ride slight iy pale, even though the latter Is a champion speedboat pilot. Arnold Bauman, pitcher, receiving the appelatlon "Hot Cakes" for his unusual habit of devouring 10 flan nel cakes for breakfast each day. Johnny Soon, after taklne a ter rific pummeling from Pete Belcastro. including 32 riving mares, remark ing woorily, "I feel kinds fhook UP." John Patron from the re-employ ment bureau, down tern sxmrtng the utrectA for mn to pick pears Gangway! H"re comes the football reason. Vern VanDyke was bu.y this morning dressing a window with football equipment. Page Joe Pcnncr. There's a pet duck, dubbed O-ar. a. an abbrevia tion for Osir. wht('h is lie; plug tiie four painters fix up the Union ser vice staucn at Main and Tlx. OF THREE YEARS ON PAYMENTS DUE Designed to Give Farmer Breathing Spell After Bankruptcy Declares Rep. Lemke, One of Fathers Buy Tickets Home. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. (AP) Bustle at the capltol fortified the general belief today that the 74th congress will last but JM hours more at most. Some legislators were exhibiting tickets home. Carpenters fashioned the usual ramp to ease President Roosevelt's entrance to the building for the signing of last minute bills. Of course, there was always the chance that plans would go awry. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. (AP) Congress sent the Frazler-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium bill on to Presl dent Roosevelt for signing into law today. The house passed it easily, and the senate assented to inconsequential changes made by the other branch. The bill would let farmers who clrfim bankruptcy go into federal court and get payments on their mortgages deferred for aa long as three years. Representative Lemke (R.. N. D.) described It aa "simply designed to give the farmer a breathing spell af ter he goes into bankruptcy." WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. ( AP) The Guffey bill to set up "a little NRA" for the blUiminous Industry went to PrpKidfmt Roosevelt late today for certAjn signature. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. (AP) Congress sent to the White House to day a resolution directing the federal trade commission to investigate prof its of middlemen handling farm pro ducts. WASHINGTON, - Aug. 23. (AP) The new seven-point neutrality plan, approved by the president and con gressional leaders, was brought be fore the house today for passage, WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. (AP) Congressional action was completed on railroad pension legislation today when the senate passed and sent to the White House a measure taxing the payrolls of railroads and the wages of employes to finance the benefits. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. (AP) The senate finance committee today approved without amendment the house bill levying a tax of 3'3 per cent each on railroad payrolls and Incomes of railroad employes to fin ance the railway pension bill now awaiting President Roosevelt's signa ture. Chairman Harrison announced the measure would be brought up on the senate floor late today or tomorrow. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-.4Wlth neutrality legislation and the Guffey bill for a "little NRA" in the coal industry heading swiftly toward his desk, President Roosevelt cleared it (Continued on Page Nine) 4 IS james w. Turbey. Jr., of Williams is in the Grants Pass hospital today suffering from razor cuts inflicted by Jake Mitchell, also of Williams. In a family row at that village last night, according to state police. Although details were meager here this afternoon, state police stated that Mitchell Is being held for the grand Jury. The case will not be heard, however, until Turbey Is re leased from the hospital, probably about Tuesday. His condition was said to be serious, but little fear was J felt for his life. MEN MOPUPEMBERS LAKE 0' WOODS BLAZE One hundred men were engaged to day In mopping up the brush and alpine timber fire that burned over 700 a'-rca this we-k in the Lake of ne woooa arra, it was rrponea the Roeue River n' tonal forest flcee. The fire has been under con trol since 7 a. m. Thursday, but pre caution is being taken against spot tine caused by the wind. Howard Phelps of the fire protec tion department of ihe regional for est service offices in Portland arrived ve&terdav to Inspect work of the na- tional forest's new fire tractor which has b-n engaged In constructing a fne Une at tut scecfl, Pear Markets NEW YORK, Aug. 23. ( AP) Pear I auction market; 16 cars arrived, 2 California cars unloaded, 1 car track. Market opened easier . and closer stronger. California Bartletts, 16,798 boxes sold 91.603.85, average $2.46. CHICAGO. Aug. 23. (AP-USDA) Pear auction market: 6 cars arrived. 4 cars on track, 4 cars sold. California Bartletts: 2,635 boxes sold $2.10 3.10, average $2.45. LEAVE SATURDAY FOR HOI FIELD The 31st bombardment squadron of the United States army air force will take the air about 10 o'clock Satur day morning for the return flight to Hamilton field. San Rafael, Cal., after a week's practice maneuvers over a 200-mile terrain centered by the Med ford airport. Thee service squadron will break camp Monday and will re turn south Tuesday by motor trans port. The bombardment squadron per sonnel, which la under command of Major Harold D. Smith, left today by, motor transport for Crater lake, a, holiday for the pilots having been declared upon completion of the practice flights. The service squad ron, under command of Major Dev eraux M. Myers, is scheduled to make the same trip Sunday. The encampment, situated Just west of the hangar and landing field, waa quiet today, with little, activity except for the usual maintenance work1 of the ground crew. This In cluded servicing the nine huge Mar tin 'bombers which line the. field with noses pointed toward the. tents of the officer and 4naiu.j Although open house on Wednesday found p proxlmately 1500 at the airport for close-up inspection of the ships, cur. lous civilians have continued to go to the port during the afternoons and evenings, but are limited to the yard and parking space at the hangar. Test flights, which consisted of simulated bombing attacks at various points in Oregon and northern Cali fornia during the week, were official ly discontinued Thursday upon re turn of the bombers from a, four hour mission to Salem. . A crew of ten ground men has been engaged for the past several daya In dismantling the bomber whose land ing gear was tripped off in landing Monday. The plane has been crated and packed In sections for shipment by rail to Rockwell field, Pan Diego, where It will be reconstructed. Crat ing and packing the ship has been under command of Major Delmar H. Dunton, post engineering officer. Clear weather, ideal for the forma tion test flights of the bombers pre vailed during the maneuvers. ET FAST LA.-S. F. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23. P) Up to his old tricks again, Co). Roscoe Turner, transcontinental speed cham pion, made the 672-mlle round trip to San Francisco today in 2 hours, 20 minutes in his rebuilt racing plans. He did not land there, but only cir cled over the municipal airport. His time averaged nearly 300 miles an hour, but Col. Turner said he did not "open up" completely. He was not trying to set any sort of record. His flight was merely a test In preparation for the transcontinen tal trophy race, which will be flown from here Aug. 30 In connection with the national air race meet at Cleve land. COTTON PRICES RALLY AFTER ABRUPT DECLINE NEW YORK. Aug. 23. i7P, Cotton future recovered partially in the New York cotton exchange today, af ter an abrupt decline In response to news of the government's 9-cent pound loan on the 1935 crop. Initial losses ranged from 2.50 to $4.35 a bale, but by late afternoon, these had been reduced to around $1.60 to 2.70 a bale. The market slipped' buck' 'little in the final trading, and closed with net losses of 13.00 to 05 a ba. : f f f KfV KPCOt)erM2 From Skull Injury Joseph T. Bowman. 31. CCC enrol-; i lee of Camp Annie Springs, who suf fered skull fracture and concuaslon j ! of the brain Wednesday when he I accidentally ieu irom a lorest scmce j truck near Crater Lake, was reporteo M.ghily Improved today at the Sacred , Heart hospital. whrc he was removed Uannexilatety lollowUag tht accident. OF ITALIAN FORCE AUSTRIAN LINE 150,000" Soldiers Moved Up for Practice in What to Do Should Austria Take Hand in Ethiopian War By Amlrue Berdlng (Associated Press Foreign Staff) BOLZANO, Italy, Aug. 23. (AP) One hundred and fifty thousand soldiers moved to poluts near the Austrian frontier for trial "warfare" regarded by Italian officials as a dress rehearsal for defense against anything that might happen In Austria during Italy's campaign against Ethiopia. The stage was set for the most realistic and largest practice maneu vers ever to be held in western Eur ope. Dhey will begin Sunday. In addition to the troops concen trated in this vital Alpine sector, 350,000 more are amassed at other points in Italy for the maneuvers which will be held throughout the nation. The nature of the tactics! problems which the command must face In volve the constitution of a "red" army, with Its back to Austria and slightly inferior in force to a "blue" which will attempt to break through. (Continued on Page tieven) The body of Will Rogers lay in state In Forest Lawn Memorial park In Qlendaie. Calif., for several hours before the funeral while thousands of persons from an waiKt of life passed tno casKot. Lpper; tht casket being carried to a spot under an olive tree and (lower) casket at left with honor guard Ir foreground and a line of persons paising In tha background. (Associated Press Photoa GUARD OF HONOR FOR BODY OF mil 'fel The body of Wiley Pott, killed with Will Rogers, In an sir crash given a military guard of honor at It lay In the Landmark Mmlonir tht fllr homt town, Attocljjttd Ptn P.hotoi Arctic Aviator Joe Croiion (above), noted Alas ka filer, piloted his plane from Fairbanks to Point Barrow to carry :he bodlel of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, killed near Barrow In an air plane crash, to Fairbanks. (Asso ciated Press Photol Fisherman Killed By Blow From Fin WACO, Tex.. Aug. 23. (AP) Her man Eichelberger, 61, died in a hos pital here today of injuries inflicted j by a catfish Tuesday while he was seining In the Brazos river. The fish struck him in the eye as he stood neck-deep in water, and a fin penertated his brain. Eichelber ger never regained consciousness. LAST HONORS PAID TO WILL T PRIVATE CITIZEN Business' Pauses During Funeral Mountain of Flowers Seen .Pastor Deeply Affected at Rites LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 23. (AP) Honored In death as ho was beloved in life. Will Rogers lay In a flower banked funeral crypt today. His stocky, rough-hewn body rested In the mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial park, but the real Will Rog ers was a living memory to those who yesterday accorded him probably the greatest tribute ever given a private citizen. The body whs taken to the crypt after a brief private ceremony In the Wee Kirk o" the Heather. It will rest there for a while until Mrs. Rogers takes it to Oklahoma for a final burial. Business Pauses While these rites were being said. the life of a whole community stopped. Business paused. Public offices were closed. The vast engines of produc tlon in more than two score of Holly wood fllfm studios were silent, and thousands of people participated, In one way or another, In the homage to Rogers memory. (Continued on Page Four.) ROGERS WILEY POST near Point Barrow, Alaska, was Baptist church In Maytviltt, Oklt., BASEBALL National. First game ; R. H. E. St, Louis 6 18 1 Brooklyn 18 1 Batteriea: Huesser and Davis; Clark and Lopes. Second game: R. H. E. St. Louis li 17 1 Brooklyn 5 10 1 Batteries: Hallahan, P. Collins and Dclancey; Leonard. Rets, Baker and J, Taylor. R.. H. 15. Pittsburgh - 7 14 0 Boston : 6 13 I Batteries: Swift, Bush, Hoyt and Orace; Cantwell, Blanche and Spoh rer.. . - . The score: R. H. S. Chicago 7 18 3 New York 4 11 2 French and Hartnett, O'Dca; Cas tleman, E. Moore, Stout and Man euso. American The score: R. H. E. Philadelphia , 1,7 3 Cleveland - 10 11 0 Doyle and Richards, Berry; Harder and Phillips. The store: R. H. E. Boston 0 4 3 Detroit 6 11 0 Rhodes, Wilson and R. Ferrell; Rown and Cochrane. The score: R. H. E. Washington w 4 10 0 Chicago . 3 8 1 Hadley, Russell and Holbrook; Fischer, Tietje, Wyatt and Sewell. REMAINS OF POST AT REST IN CRYPT OKLAHOMA CITT, Aug. 23. ( AP) Tha body of Wiley Post, aerial globe circler and dauntless voyager of the upper air, rested In a crypt In Fair- lawn mausoleum here today. Almost at the same hour yester day, millions of Americans paid deep. eat homage to the two Oklahomans who died in the Alaskan airplane crash a week ago Post,' the strto aphere flier, and Will Rogers, cowboy philosopher and screen favorite. "He died doing what he wanted to do," reclared the Rev. W. R. White, who led the hour-long funeral service for Post at the First Baptist church. The church ' was crowded with sober-faced men and women. Out side the streets were thicks with oth ers who stood in the hot sunshine until the casket was borne out through a guard of honor. ' ( 4 , County Physician C. I. Drummond reported today that there Is one case of Infantile paralysis In the vicinity, the patient being an J 1-year-old boy whost home Is west of the city. His condition was reported today as being favorable. The boy evidently contracted the disease at Klamath Falls, where he lived before coming to Med ford, Dr, Drummond said. The case Is only the second In the county during the past four years, according to the county physician's office. MARTIN SALARY TEST TO SUPREME COORT SALEM, Aug. 23. (AP) Notice of appeal to the state supreme court of the suit to test the constitution ality of the governor's $7600 annual salary, was filed here late yesterday by Rodney Alden, attorney for the plaintiff, Ed A. Jory. The salary suit, In which It was contended that the governor's salary was limited to VloOO yearly under the constitution, was dismissed in circuit court for lack of facts, by Judge L. O. Lewelllng. who held the amount named In the constitu tion was not a limitation. , f OPT VANTALIA. O.. Aui. 23. (AP) J. 8. Royall. 61-year-old railroad conductor, from Tallahassee. Fla.. won the grand American champion ship, the most prised title In trap shooting, today. He defeated 8. O. Vance, of Tlll sonburg, Ont., 47 to 4", In a shoot- off. They had tied at 88 out of 100 targets from 30 yards In the regu latlon event. Ival Cloodman. rookie Cincinnati outfielder, hss stolen as many bases as the entire Boston Braves' dub. YOUTH CONFESSES MURDERING 27 IN Wholesale Killing Revealed After Bodies of Two Vic tims Recovered Tells Where Others Concealed AUBURN, Cal.. Aug. 23. ( AP) A sheriff's posse was organized today to backtrack over a trail of mur der in the plne-junglcd forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains, where two., brutal slaylngs already have been revealed this week and where, a confessed killer calmly announced, 25 other victims He burled. The posse was expected to leave here about 8:30 a.m., for the region of an abandoned mining camp near Emigrant Gap, 40 miles to the north east, where Earl Kimball, 21, an itinerant prospector, said It would find two more victims. Kimball already has admitted tht killing of James G. Kennett, Br re tired Chicago contractor, who went Into the mountains in search of health, and a red-headed youth ten tatively identified as John T. Man- gan, 17, of Sacramento. Their bodies. Continued on Page Four.) 24 CARS BARTLETTS FIRST PEACHES ROLL Thursday, according to Southern Pacific railroad freight offlcr. report, -2 cars of Bartletts -er shipped to eastern markets and canneries. Thla li the heaviest day's shipment of the season, and In excess of the esme period laat year. The first carload of Rogua Illrer valley peaches for this aea&on were also dispatched yesterday to Pore land. Valley pear shipments to date total 0 cars. Of thla number 41 cars went to California and upstate canneries, and 18 to eastern markets. The cannery situation remains un changed, with Indications that closa to 13.000 tons of Bartletts will find their way to Pacific coast canneries, leaving between (5.000 and 9.000 tons for eastern shipment, and tonnage. A San Jose. Calif., cannery has a force busy on the Southern Paciflo right-of-way near Sixth street malt. Ing pear boxes. Second picking , of Bartletts Is scheduled to get underway the first of next week, and the first picking of Howells Is scheduled for the end of the week. Local labor Is being hired In the orchards snd plants, aa far aa pos sible. The Influx of transient labor has been the lightest In many years. OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 23. (Pi lot Crosson, who piloted the plana that brought the bodies of Will Rog ers and Wiley Post to the United States from Alaska, left by air for Chicago today with Jlmmle Mattern. Income Shares Maryland Funding, bid 18.77; asked 16.14. Quarterly Inc. Shares, bid 1.39; asked. 1.53, The Ethiopian Situation By the Associated l'ress. ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian govern ment watches Italian consulates fol lowing ; Ethiopian report of spy ope rations; Emperor Halle Selassie re ported willing to sell border province to Italy. ROME Informed circles here re port Great Britain moving warships In Mediterranean: Italy atlrrea by prospects of "ssnctlons" by Great Britain. LONDON Imoerlal defense com mittee speeding redistribution and reinforcement of Britisn military force, at vital DOintS BS GCOrgS Langsbury, labor opposition leader, aaya United States cannot keep out of next war. ATHHNS Greek government grants permission for squadron of British flying boats to cross Greece on wsy to the Sudan. PARIS France fears sanction threat may stiffen II Duces deter mination toward war, but regards British cabinet action as "clarify ing." OENEV A League leaders foresee huge pressure for peace on Mussolini.
