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The Weather Forecast: Cloud' tonight ana Wed., with tof. Little chanf. In temperature. Temperature: Hlihmt yenterday Lowest this morning St USE THE WANT ADS No matter what your want may be a imati Classified Ad In thtt newspaper will jet n suits. Many people use the ads regularly Why not you? Tribune EDFORD Thirtieth Yir Full awoclated Preee MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 193'). Full United Preea No. 212. E3 M vr A l By PA IX MALLON. (Copyright, 1935. by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON. Not. 3rl K ahred of high ausplclon has developed here lately that Britain, France and Italy may get to gether eventually bv c&rvinc up H .Ethiopia In com paratively equal parte. It m a 7 sound strange now, but more then one top official senses this as the pos sible outcome of the very noble diplomatic con flict now raging. Britain could use PAUL MALLON a slice of the dark meat around Lake Tana, and the Nile headquarters. Mus solini already has his handa on the white meat. A couple of drumsticks of territory adjoining what Prance now holds would undoubtedly make her statesmen appreciate the prac tical side of brotherly love among nations. The realization of this on high Sere may have a barely noticeable In fluence on Mr. Hull's semi-weekly economic threats egalnst nations now involved In the so-called war. Diplomatic novice can aoe what Mr. Hull la up to. He wanta to give moral force to Britain league sanc tions without actually stepping over the line. That la why he Issues state ments every few daya threatening this or that step if cotton exports increase or what not. The severest critics of the new deal here are not against that. But both they and the secretary of state ap parently have come U realize It is a risky business. Mr. Hull cannot afford to get. too far out on the lea gue limb in a position' where Britain and France could saw it off on him, by declaring an Ethiopian dividend among themselves. Consequently, there is every rea son to expect that Mr. Hull's words may continue to be much more fero cious than his actioni. The Japaneae alibi now la that the communist are beoomlng , menacin? rot only In north China, but In Ja pan Itself. At least that Is the of ficial word spread among the hoity toity here In explanation of Japan's sudden grab at north China. It is an interesting story and possibly hlf true. The Japanese say they have infor mation that the Soviets are supplying Chinese red armleo with arms and money. This did not worry them as long as the red armies kept south of the Tangtze. But recently the crim son Chinese have been entrenching themselves In north China, particu larly Senshl, Shanst and Bulyan prov inces, three of the five provinces in volved in the "autonomy" movement. Likewise it would be hard to ex aggerate the fear with which Jipaneae Imperialists view any communist ten- (Continued on Page SIX) r. p ni5P0slIPLANT STARTING THIS wttrv GRANTS PASS, Ore.. Nov. 38 -1 (API A constant stream of film pouring Into the Rogue River here will be checked this week when j Grants Pass' sewage disposal plant starts operation. SIDE GLANCES by TRIB0KE REP0RTER8 Toots Estes. wrestling champion of the Hawllan Islands, touring about In a sedan with "Toots Estes. Elk City. Oklshoma" on the tire cover and the car equipped with a Kansas license. A l-year-old girl quoting her mother as having said "If that's the wav cocktails are going to affect you. you'd better lay off them for awhile." Lynn Croxdsle flaunting his disre gard for the laws of gravity, precar iously teetering along the tin root of the new gas station at Main and nr. Ed Kirtly being proud of one of his "bovs." Burdette Kindred, cap tain this year of the University of Washington Prosh team, who played the W. S. C. gsme with a broken nose. Frsnklc Peck, world-trotting wres tler: "Ton gotta remember that vou're a foreigner over there, and thev want to see any tighter pom the V. S. get gobbled up." Bill Hclloway. Junior, rendering ihe night sir hideous with his own rendition of "The Old Cornet." wnlrn he can make sound worse thsn even the originator of the ditty. CAPTIVE ADMITS SHOOTING POLICE NEARTM falls Cold Overcomes Man Who Abducted Former Wife in Tacoma and Fled to Idaho Fear Woman Harmed TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Nov, 26. (AP) Douglas Van Vlack, sought as the slayer of a state highway patrol man and the abductor of his former wife, Mildred Hook, of Tacoma, was found, numb with cold, lying In roadside ditch today. He waa brought hera and lodged in the county Jail. A few hours later the coupe in which he and the 22-year-old girl fled after Fontaine cooper, highway patrolman.' was killed and Deputy Sheriff Henry C. Givens, seriously wounded, was found about three miles away, abandoned In a ditch. Search for Woman Officers continued search for Miss Hook but the discovery of long black hairs on Van Vlack'a pistol gave rise to police fears she might have been slugged by her alleged abductor and left unconscious somewhere before? his capture. Discovery of the car by Ed Hart- man, a Tancher, bore out Van Vlack's earlier atatemcnt to the officers that the pair had abandoned the car and "walked a little way together." "Then I told her, 'I guess we'd bet ter split,' " he said. Van Vlack admitted shooting the two officers, Sheriff E. F. Prater said. and added : "Kidnaping Is a capital offense In Washington and I thought I might Just aa well burn them up." Overcome By Cold The sheriff said Van Vlack told him -ho shot Cooper first and then Givens aa the two officers attempted to drag him from his machine. Overcome by the cold, disheveled and frightened. Van Vlack was found lying in h roadside ditch two mllea north of Hdlllster by three employes of the mechanical department of the Contlnued on Page Seven! IN DEATH OF CCC VALE. Ore., Nov. 26 (AP) District Attorney M. A. Biggs ordered an In quest today into the death of George Dapkus, 19, Cleveland, Ohio. His body, the head crushed, waa found on the John Day highway near here late Sunday. He was a member of the Vale CCC camp Sheriff C. W. Glenn said there were no bruises or tire marks on the boy's body. He bald he was Informed that Dapkus was last seen here at 7:30p, m. Sunday and had attended a Chris tian Endeavor meeting. BROWN RETURNS AFTER LONG HOSPITAL SIEGE Harold Brown, Medford Insurance man who was injured In an automo bile crash near Portland on August 3. arrived In Medford by train this morning, accompanied by Mrs. Brown, after having been confined to the Oood Samaritan hospital In Portland since the accident. Although his leg. which wu broken !s still in a brace and ho la forced to use crutches, Mr. Brown is hope ful that he will be able to be at his office In a short time. Until that time he will be recuperating at his home. TWO PlANESlRACK up AT OAKLAND, Cal.. Nov. 58 (API Two planes cracked up today but crews and passengers escsped Injury. A United Air Liner from Los An geles srrlved during a heavy fog and overran the runway. It Jolted up a 10-foot bank before halting but the only damage was a bent propeller. A Jammed mdder caused a private plane to rra.h through a hangar at the bay airdrome at Alameda. Its four passengers escaped Injury but the plane was destroyed by fire. Passengers In the United Air Lines plane Included O. Hall, Portland. Ore. NEW YORK. Nov. 2". (AP) Major Frsncls Murphy of Nashua, N. H., one of the minority stockholders, said to- ; day the National league would take i over tht franchise of the Boston Braves. Kyle Pugh Freed on Chi' 'ge of Communism HAUPTMANN AIDE DILLS TURNING UP Chief Investigator Says Al most $700 in Lindbergh Bills Received by Boston Bank G-Men Silent Says Jnfsle Holds Key TRENTON. N. J., Nov. 26. f AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann, con victed of the Lindbergh baby kid-nap-murder, from his death house cell today said that Dr. John F. Condon, ransom Intermediary, "la holding the key In this case and with It the key of my cell." Hauptmann's attorneys C. Lloyd Fischer and Egbert Rosecrans after visiting htm on his thirty seventh birthday, released a brief statement which they said had been written and signed by him. - Hauptmann denied that he had asked to see Condon, aa the latter has said several times recently. He reiterated that he had told everything he knew from the wit ness stand. NEW YORK, Nov. 26. (AP) The chief Investigator for Bruno Richard Hauptmann declared today that he had learned on "unlmpeachabte au thority" that Lindbergh ransom bills have turned up recently In Boston and Worcester. Mass. The department of Justice in New York said "we have no information on this matter." "I have been Informed," the Inves tigator said, "that almost 700 in Lindbergh ransom money has been received by the Boston federal reserve bank since Hauptmann's arrest. It Is continuing to show up. My authority Is unimpeachable, despite the denlsls of police." Letter Discovered The Investigator, ' who requested that hla name be withheld, aald he recently found & letter. In a house near Ashby, Mass., dated March 10. 1032, ten days after the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped. It read. In part: "Why don't you return that poor little Lindbergh baby? You have had It long enough." He aald the writer and recipient of the letter werei known and that he would soon have "a full accounting from them." In the same house, the investigator said, he found wood "similar" to that (Continued on Page Five-) REGISTRY SOUGHT NEW YORK. Nov. 28. (AP) The Securities fc Exchange commission to day filed a complaint In equity in federal court against Electrlo Bond St Share Co. and five of its Intermediate holding concerns, asking the court to direct them to register In compliance with the public utilities act of 1935. The 9. E. C. also asked the court to Issue subpoenaea directing Electric Bond St Share and the holding cor poratlons specif ted to answer the complaint In court and "for such other relief as the court may deem fit." In addition to Electric Bond St Share, the defendants in the case are tit American Gas Si Electric Co., the American Power St Light Co., the Electric Power St Light Corp., Nation al Power St Light Corp. and the Unit ed Gas Corp. OIL RATES AIRED PORTLAND. Nov. 2. (P) Ken competition between the Southern Pacific railroad and trucking Inter ests for business of firms denling in gasoline and other petroleum prod uct, was reflected today In a joint hearing before the interstate com merce commission and the Oregon public utilities commission. The hearing waa called for a dis cussion of proposed low rates pub lished a few months ago by the Southern Pacific to meet truck com petition In hauls from Portland to southern Omgon: from Mnrshfleld and North Bend to southern Oregon, and from California refineries to southern Oregon. United Front For Home Building Is Brain Trust Plea NEW YORK. Nov. 26. (API Raymond Moley. former ace brain truster, today called for a truce In the name-calling and mud-sllng-lng battle between business and politics. . During this cessation of hostil ities. Moley demanded, a united front toward a national home building campaign to provide shel ter for the 93 per cent of the peo ple whose family Incomes In 1933 were less than (3000 a year. ETHIOPIANS FORCE ITALIAN RETREAT 2 By the Associated Press, Sudden action In the erstwhile atattc southern Ethiopian front was reported today In communiques from Addis Ababa and Rome. The Ethiopian government said 1U forces under Ras Desta had forced the Italians out of Gorrahcl and Gerlogubl by an encircling movement originating at Dolo. The Italians were said to have left dead and trucks behind in the reported " retreat. One hundred Ethiopians, Including two provincial governors, were re ported killed today in an official communique Issued at Rome describ ing a battle north of Dolo on the southern front in Italy's campaign of occupation in Ethiopia. Italian losses were announced aa four native soldiers killed, five wounded and two missing. Rain over all fronts Impeded some what the preparations for new Ital ian advances, and provided a dreary dirge for LI J Yasu, deposed ruler who died In exile. The grandson of former Emperor Menellk, a cousin of the present Em peror Haile Selassie, died near Harar, the government annoineed. It waa LIJ Yasu the Italians were rumored to be seeking In an effort to establish a new government in Ethiopia. Italian advance patrol a atoahed through persistent downpours In pur suing enemy bands from the Tem blen and Gheralca regions west of Makale on the northern front. T fir the A or la ted Pre. The Chinese central government executive committee In Nanklnst formed a program to check the self government In north China. High points in the program were establishment of a Pel ping branch of the central government, abolition of the military council there and ap pointment of a military affairs com mission under Oeneral Chiang Kai Shek, military head of the central government, to take over the council's business. Appointment of Gen. Sung Chen Yuan, north China overlord, as pacifi cation commissioner In the area and the dismissal and arrest of Gen. Yin Ju-Keng, self appointed head of the new eastern Hopeh autonomous gov ernment, were other points of the decision. Meantime. Lt. Col. Tan Takahaahl. Japanese military attache said the eastern Hopeh state waa the begin ning of a widespread autonomous movement, which cannot be headed off by the Chinese central govern ment. 'And Sudden Death Fails To Impress VANCOUVER, Wash.. Nov. 28. (AP) A $5 fine and required reading of an article describing gruesome auto accidents were the police court pen alties meted to Ivan Mattson of Van couver yesterday morning for driving through a stop light. Last night Mattson waa arrested for driving while Intoxicated. Seven Navy Planes Held At Marshf'ield MARSHFtfXD. Ore.. Nov. 26. (AP) Lieutenant James Dyer, commander of a squadron of seven navy planes, scanned the skies and weather reports today and announced the planes would remain here again tonight. Wind and fog caused the filer to stop here late yesterday while enroute from Ban Diego to the Band Point, Wash., naval base. DEFIES LEADER IN RECRUITING DRIVE Group Headed by John L. Lewis Goes Ahead With Plan to Add Millions of Workers to Labor Move WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. yp) Dis satisfied with the leadership of Wil liam Green, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, a committee within the federation pressed a cam paign of its own today to bring mil lions of mass production workers into the organized labor movement. Headed by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, who last week resigned aa & federation vl prestdent, the committee went ahead despite a warning by Green that lta actimiea might lead to a cleavage In the parent organisation. Kavnr One tnlon. Contending all the workers In each mass production Industry should form one union. Instead of being organized by crafts, Lewis (and six other union presidents composing the committee sent this statement to federation af filiated throughout the country: "Such a great proportion of the workers are outside of the American Federation of Labor or outside of the organized labor movement entirely that a group -of leaders of labor, rep resenting over a million workers, al lied with the American Federation of Labor, thought that the best thing to do at the present time waa to place their experience at the service of the$c unorganized workers or those unaff 111 f.tcd with the American Federation of Labor, with the purpose of bringing them, where unorganized, info the federation, and where organized, do ing everything possible to further or ganization along lines that would best serve their interests aa workers. Would Aid Groups. "It Is the desire of this committee to further In every way the effort of groups of workers In eutos. alum inum, radio, and many other mass production lndustriea to find a place within the organtzed labor movement aa represented in the American Fed eration of Labor." Accompanying the statement were copies of Industrial union speeches delivered by Lewis and Charles P. Howard, president of the rypograph- 1 leal union, at the federation's recent I At:.mttc City convention. IS HURT IN JAIL FALL SATTLE, Wash., Nov. 2.(AP) Patrolman R. C. Me Wade, one of six discharged policemen held as suspects In a "bluecoat burglar" ring, broke his neck In a fall from a city Jail bunk early today, an X-ray examina tion showed. Nine men, seven of them policemen, are under arrest. , Inspector Walter Dench, who has worked with Police Chief Walter B. Klrtley In uncovering the ring and more than twenty recent burglaries here, said McWade had attempted sui cide. McWade said at the city hos pital the fall was accidental. Ho waa In a serious condition this afternoon. Wi H, Voltz, one of the discharged patrolmen, confessed additional bur glaries today, more than twenty In all, Police Chief Klrtley announced. Bones Of Gigantic Reptile Uncovered OLASOOW, Mont., Nov. S. (API Civil englneera at the Port Peck dam site, near here, uncovered the bonea of a huge prehistoric reptile, believed to be the monster killer of the Meso zoic, tyrannceaurus. O. H. Iehmann and V. Bray report ed finding the fairly well preserved skeleton. Fourteen teeth, one five Inches long and more than an Inch In diameter, are In place In one section of the Jawbone. Albany-Linfield Game Scheduled ALBANY. Ore., Nov. 2 (AP) The Albany college and Llnfleld college football teams will play their post poned football game here Thanksgiv ing day, lt was definitely decided to day. The game, to end bickering over clnlms of a forfeit for Llnfleld. will follow immediately the Albany hljh tndependence high school gsme which starts at 10:30 a. m. C v tGED WITH S'WS!' vr V --n ye vyw y. 7yiN jfff" m "s - .ass ' fek 1 Lillian F. Hartnett (left), pensioned Buffalo, N. Y., policewoman, appeared In superior court In Phoenix, Ariz., charged with slaying a close friend, Alice E. Rasp. (Associated Press Photo) HEALTH SEALS ON SALE IN COUNTY STARTING FRIDAY Mrs. Alex Sparrow, chairman of the committee In charge of the an nual sale of Christmas seals spon sored by the Jackson County Health association, which Is affiliated witn the Oregon Tuberculosis association and also with the national organi zation, announces that the seals are ready and will be placed In the mails tomorrow night. They will be available to the citizens of Jackson county Friday. . Activities of the health osaucla tlon for 1IW0 will, be largely deter mined by the proceeds of th'ia sale, which Is for the purpose of aiding the association in its fight against tuberculosis and in health work of all kinds. This year the seal portrays a girl of pre-Civll war days, wearing hooped skirts and mailing Christmas pack agea at one of the first mail boxes In the United States. Also appear ing on the seal la the two-armed cross In red, which Is the copy righted symbol of the National Tu berculosis association. These seals have been received after signed contracts covering the use of funds to be derived from the sale were exchanged between the county association and the Ore gon Tuberculosa association, of which the local unit la the official repre sentative. Housewives will be Interested in the announcement also made by Mrs. Sparrow, that children will not canvass houses this year as pre viously. Many women have reported that they were kept constantly answering the doorbell by a con tinual stream of school cnimren wun seals to sell. Children may buy them at school, but will not sell them. A pommlttee of workers under Mrs. Robert Hart have charge ot i outlying districts and schools. The sale starts Friday. November ! 21). and will continue until Christ : mas. PORTLAND TURKEY OFFERS 23-26 CT. PORTLAND, Nov. 26. F) Turkey buyers here were generally offorlng the country 23 to 24 cents a pound for best tome today, and from 24 to 28 cents for best dressed hens. One dealer was preparing a. oar for New York and expected to complete '.oadlng today. Another operator was reported to have fro7.en two carloads of large toms overnight. The Portland delivered price was from 17 to 10 cents for live birds, and from 23 to an extreme nominal top of 30 cents for small dressed hens and very small dressed toms. Ellsworth Plane. Remains Missing NEW YORK, Not. 20. ( AP) Tti whereabout of Lincoln Ellsworth and his pilot, Herbert Holllck-Ken-yon. who left Dundee Island early Saturday to fly across the Antarctic continent, remained a mystery to day. Their last wlrelewied report to their base ship, the Wyatt Earp, was at 10:4B a. m. (eastern standard time) Saturdsy. Income Shares Maryland Fund, bid 18.48; asked lflftfl. Quarterly Income Shares, bid 148; afked 1 2 SLAYING FRIEND POLICEMAN KILLED WHEN CRACKSMEN SURPRISED IN ACT SEATTLE, Nov. 26. ( AP ) Three safe-crackers, surprised in a beer parlor early today, shot their way to freedom, killing Patrolman Trent A. Sickles and sorlously wounding Pntrolman Theodore E. Stevens. Stevens waa taken to a hospital with a pistol wound In hla atomach. The patrolmen, answering a neigh bor's report that burglara had broken Into the tavern, were mot by gun fire as they entered. The neighbor, Fred Winkler, said ha belloved one of the robbers was wounded by the two ahota the offi cers fired. As the men ran towara their automobile, he said, one shouted: "My God, Mac. I'm hit! Help met Stevens snld at the hospital that as he and Sickles drove up to the tavern, an automobile was parked nearby. They found the front door had been Jimmied. As they stepped in, the men Inside fired. One of the patrolmen fired his ahotgun, shattering a wall clock, and the other fired his pistol, hit ting a table top. Sheriff William B. Severyns and Chief Criminal Deputy O. K. Bodla and other officers went to the scene Start on the construction of grandstand and bleachers at Med ford high school was still being de layed today pending registration of sufficient skilled labor to carry out the project, WPA headquarters an nouneed. Two other projects which were to have been launched this week have been put off to early December be cause of a lack of labor. Kenncir. S. Perry, senior WPA engineer, aald. The projects were the Prescott park road Job and the improvement of count; roads between Medford and Jacksonville. 1 Mr. Perry explained that work was being held up because there were not enough workers available who were on relief rolls between May I and October 81, the only ones eligible for WPA employment. When sea sonal employment ends, there will be enough labor, Mr. Perry said. CLIPPER LEAVES ON HOP TO GUAM WAKB ISLAND. Nov. 97. (Wednee day.) iffy (Via Pan-American Alr waya Communications.) The China Clipper seaplane, carrying the flrat trans-Pacific airmail, aklmmed away from here today for Ouam on the r.ext to last hop of her 8 ,000 -mile fllffht from Alameda, Cal., to Manila. The sliver-streamed sky liner, which Arrived here yesterday from Midway Island, took off at 6:04 a. m. (11:04 s m. Tuesday, Pacific standard time) on the 1.530-mlle trip to Ouam. jury stilXTondering FATE OF GEO. FIELDER PORTLAND. Nov. 28. () The Jury of seven men and five women trying George Leonard Fielder, 23, for the slaying of Deputy Sheriff Ernest IH. had not reached a verdict at 2:45 p. m. They took the case at 8:20 p. m. yesterday. HELD UNAWARE OF RADICAL DOCTRINE Supreme Court Divides, 4 to 3 Dirk De Jonge's Criminal Syndicalism 7 Year Conviction Upheld SALEM, Nov. 26. (AP) The Ore gon supreme court today affirmed the conviction of Dirk de Jonge of Port land on a charge of criminal syndical ism, but reversed the lower court in the case of Kyle Pugh on an appeal from Jackson county on a similar charge. The court waa divided on both opinions. In the former case, de Jonge was sentenced to seven years In the peni tentiary for presiding at and con ducting an assemblage of a meeting of communists and for distributing literature contrary to the laws of Oregon. He will be taken to the state penitentiary immediately, after hav ing been released on bond pending the appeal from Multnomah county. justice J. o. Bailey wrote the af firming opinion In which Chief Jus tice J. U. Campbell and Justices Kelly and Roasman concurred. Justice Henry J. Bean concurred In part stat ing the sentence was too severe and his opinion recommended a two year maximum term. 'Justice Harry Belt wrote the dissenting opinion In which Justice John R. Rand concurred. Court 4 to 3 In the appeal from Jackson county Pugh was sentenced to tlvo yeara for distributing communistic literature. The divided opinion of the court, 4 to 3, cleared him of the charges and the case waa dismissed. Justice John R. Rand wrote the prevailing opinion in this case revers ing Judge H. D. Norton. Justices Bean, Belt and Rosaman concurred. Justice Percy R. Kelly wrote the dis senting opinion In which Chief Jus tice Campbell and Justice Bailey con curred. Justice Bailey, In affirming the de Jonge case wrote an 18-page opinion in which ha held the "verdict was in (Continued on Page Five) KYLE PUGH FACES PORTLAND, Not. 36. (AP) Kyle Pugh , 40, whose Jackson coun tr conviction on a criminal syndicalism charge was set aside today by the Oregon supreme court, has been held here under $3000 ball since Novem ber 10 on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. The case waa to be presented to the Multnomah county grand Jury this week. Peter Stath of Portland accused Pugh of having beaten him over the head with a hand axe. Pugh, who held a transient relief card, ' for merly lived at the Stath residence. Stath told police he ordered Pugh out of the house after the accused man had tried to teach communism to Stath's children. Sliver NEW YORK, Nov. 26. (AP) Bar silver steady, unchanged at 68o. Oh Sv! i&A M 1UV UiTiUill fnv ID HOIDIN So much have been spoke about "The New Deal", that I seek to finding what those words are meaning from orig" inal translation. And here it are : A new deal are asked in a card playing game when a player are losing. But when he do getting a new deal, nothing about it are certain that he will get winning cards. Because no body can ever telling what cards are coming out it are all just luck if the DEALER are honest. Now it seem whoever are shuffling the cards in Washington are pretty expert becMise most of citizens are winning pretty good with pres ent cards. But who are chip ping in to making such big potst Are the dealer winking? I aje wondering.
