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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday; little chance In tem perature. Temperature: Highest yesterday 90 Lowest this morning M Help Problem Tour help problem will t quickly solved 1( you leave the task to Mall Tribune classified adi. Turn to the classified. If you do not find what you want advertise. Tribune EDFORD Full Associated Press F s nited Press Thirty-first Year .MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1936. No. 121. ifMJST JKUTE Ira M BEL By Paul Mallon Copyright, 1936, By Paul Mall on WASHINGTON , Aug. 17. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau explained to newsmen, there would be no more taxes because government rev enues are mount ing by leap and bounds, or, at any rate, leaps. He told how he had initiated the president's no tax Increase de cision by writing President Roose velt a letter pointing out how the money la rol ling In. Newsmen are villainous skep tics. They are always taking the joy out of official life. They cocked their collective eyes at the secretary and asked If he knew that- the Increase In government revenue so far this fiscal year was about $44,000,000, or just about one per cent of the four billion dollar relief fund. Mr. Morgenthau said that could not be right. Disputants called for the record. The figure was obtained from a newspaper at hand. The news men were correct. Incressed revenue for the first 41 days of the fiscal year (to August 11) amounted to exactly 944,332,031.55, roughly 10 per cent over last year, or one half of one per cent of expenditures. Disappointment was written un Mr. Morgenthau's face, but he let his letter to the president stand. Note Figuring the same rate of Increase through the fiscal year will give you a total expected Increase of $360,000,000 fit jp Jot the year. This, la probably a bad way to figure. ' No one has any estimate of what the Increase will be, Including the treas ury. Mr. Morganthau says no new treasury estimates have been made since last January. The official Inside story of the tax announcement Is that It was mado at this time to help Pat Harrison In his primary. Mississippi Democrats will go to the polls August 35. Mr. Harrison Is being hard pressed by an opposition which has not over looked the fact that he carried the administration tax burdens In the senate as chairman of the finance committee. In the highest of official quarters. It Is said that Mr. Roosevelt promised Fat last spring he would make thla announcement whenever the time was ripe. (Continued on Page Pour ) ST. PAUL, Aug. 17. APJ New lightning fires and unfavorable weather that permitted old blazes to flare up again, brought an estimated 10.000 fire fighters increased concern today. Predicted rain for the week-end failed to materialize with the result that the stubborn McOrath fire near MUte Lacs lake broke out afresh and the Tom lake, Belden, and Buxbury blazes became more difficult to keep within bounds. Settlers In the McOrath area were packed to flee should a northwest wind fan the blaze Into populated territory. -4 SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Harvey Field telling about the subway guard In New York who found out Harve was from Oregon and was so fascinated with a native from that distant heath that he nailed the local hero and made him describe the terrain piecemeal. Bob Newland, trne to all mailman Jokes, trudging around on his beat Saturday afternoon, getting his kick out of the task by the fact he was going in the opposite way that the gov't Insists on week days. Hubert DeHaas having to abandon his Ice cream cone to chop down a guy's whiskers, while Tod Porter and I .vie t.indley. all bobbers, sat by and devoured theirs lustily. Mr. Ernestine Whay frantically railing the city cop at 1 t. n. to announce that her seven-year-old son. Dean, had not yet come home from the movies, the cops going to tlie Rialto to see If he'd been locked In returning to the station to find Mr. Whalry had found the offspring locked tn the Roxy, where he'd been enjoying a brisk inooaa. tot T BY I STARTSREPRISAL Attacks Against Irun and San Sebastian Indicate Major Offensive Along Northern Spanish Seaboard Opened HENDAYE, Prance, Aug. 17. (AP) Rebel warships bombarded Irun and San Sebastian today and Spanish loyalists were reported executing fascist hostages In retaliation. Loyalists had served au ultlmatlum that the first shell from a rebel war ship would be the signal for massacre of the prisoners held aboard two steamers In the Bay of Biscay harbor and frontier reports said the execu tions had begun. The huge battleship Espana direct ed heavy fire against Fort Guadalupe but the government stronghold hsd not been hit after an hour and a half of bombardment. Major Offensive The attaclcs against Irun and San Scbnstlan began simultaneously In dicating a major offensive along the northern seaboard, i The mighty guns of Port auada lupe did not reply at once and were faced with the dilemma of submit ting to rebel fire or shelling the rebel warships at the rlelc of dropping pro jectiles on French territory across the Bay of Biscay. The fascist warships were believed to be purposely avoiding direct hits on the fort because they feared ex plosion of large munition stores would kill many of the rebels held prisoners there. There were about 1200 hostages held at Irun and 700 at San Sebis- Contlnued on Page Eight.) t ON NEW HIGH LEVELS CHICAOO, Aug. 17. (AP) Heat plogued many sections of the nation from the sun-seared western plains to the sultry Atlantic seaboard today. A wave of abnormally high temper atures, reaching a Sunday peak of 113. engulfed Kansas, Nebraska. Okla homa and Missouri. Missouri snd Kansas roported two now heat deaths and Oklahoma re corded one yesterday. Some maxi mum readings listed: Bartlesvllle. Okla., 113: Topeka. Kaa., 109: Springfield, Mo., and Grand Island. Neb., 10S: St. Joseph. Mo., and Omaha. 104; Oklahoma City 103. Corn soared to the highest lovel In a decade today leading the rise of sit Important farm commodities to new 1038 top prices In Chicago wholesale markets. Corn futures advanced the four cent limit allowed for one session, September hitting a peak of S1.13 a bushel, three cents higher than the previous 1036 top. Not since 11.16 was paid for September torn In May, 1H28, has this futures sold as high. Cash corn soared four cents. No. 9 white for Immediate delivery selling at 1.29, highest level since 1923. hen a top of 1.35 was paid. Hogs advanced 33 cents a hundred weight to a peak of 11.85, highest since last September and within 40 cents of the six year peak established Isst year. The sensational rise of corn values, as well as the general price advance which sent rye. barley, hogs,. lard and roy beans to new peaka waa ascribed largely to fresh price developments as a result of the drought. Business Income, Outlay Now on Prosperity Basis WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. f Commerce department officials today forecast a 1936 national Income close to 160.000 000.000, balancing business outlay for the first time since 1020. The department's estimates, con tingent upon a maintenance of pres ent trends, were based upon read ings of various business barometers for the first seven months of the year as compared with similar figures for 19.15. After dropping steadily from the 81.034 000 000 peak produced in 1920. the national Income hit a low of S30.M5.0OO.OOO In 1032. Since then It has pointed upward. Last year's Income was reported I52.9S9.0O0.0O0. Officials said they expected that In come produced and Income paid out would approximately balance. Ulnce 1020. Income paid out has exceeded Income produced. This excess was only 1628,000,000 last year compared Sterilization Dr. Tlllon J-;. Tlllmtin (left) ami Dr. Samuel ft. Huvd are shoivn In court at fcan 1 ronclsco ot their trial on nuivhrm charges In connection with a sterilization operation per formed on Ann Cooper Hewitt, heir ess to the Cooper Hewitt fortune. Hhortlv after the picture of the ac cusing lierless (left) was taken, as she sat on the witness stand, she collapsed from the strain or testify ing. ROLL FROM CITY Pear shipments from the Rogue River valley, for the first week of the harvest, ending Sunday night, totaled 203 cars 109 cars of packed pears and 08 cars of cannery pears, accord ing to the Southern Pacific freight office. The packed pears were dispatched to eastern markets, with the excep tion of half a dozen cars to Portland for export. Major poitton of the cannery ship ments went to Portland and Willam ette canneries with a few cars being sent to California plants. Tho shipments are about the same as for the first week of last year. Peak of the Bartlett picking and packing will como this week and picking of the Howell crop la sched uled to start next week. The Howell crop Is low this season. ICKES PROMISES EIGHT OVER ARREST OF SON YVASHINOTON, Aug. 17. (AP) Hitting again at the arrest In Massa chusetts, of his adopted son. Robert H. Irkes, on a charge of operating an automobile while under the Influence of liquor. Secretary Ickes said today "we'll meet the charges In court." The Interior secretary declined to comment directly on the denial by Police Sergeant Charles J. Harrold of his (Irkes) assertion that the arrest at Winchester,. Mass., last week was for "unfair political reasons." ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.. Aug. 17. (TPi Charged with the task of nam ing the largest ticket since state hood. New Mexico Republicans as sembled here today for the opening of their state nominating convention and the keynote speech of John D. M. Hamilton, the party's national chairman. with $8,817,000,000 figures for 1932. When Income paid out exceeds In come produced It means, In effect, that Industry and business are-operating "in the red" to the extent of the excess. Similarly, when Income produced tops that paid out, the ex cess Is regarded as savings. The biggest slice of Income paid out goes for compensation of employes, usually amounting to between 64 and 68 per rent. Next In line are dividends. Interest, and Income with drawals by the owners of the busi nesses. With the predicts rise In national Income this yesr. sn upturn In per capl'.a Income of employes also waa expected by commerce department officials. Prom the 1020 high of 1,466. tne per capita reached a low of 11.097 In 1033 and for 1035 wa $1,201 or 819 per cent of the 1020 level. Trial Figures PI NEW YORK, Aug. I,. (AP) Three men were convicted today of having extorted $1800 from Harry L. Ban nlcter, former husband of the actress. Ann Harding, In connection with the legal fight between the two over cus tody of their child. The three were Jerome A. Jacobs. 48, an attorney. New York; Raymond Derringer, 30. a motion picture ma chine operator, New York, and Harry Hcchheliner, 63, a salesman of Con cord. N. H. The Jury deliberated only a few minutes. The money was alleged by the State, In presenting evidence In court of general sessions, to have been ob tained . In November, 1034, from Bannister by threats of Imputing a bad character to him lo connection with his efforta to obtain custody of his daughter. Judge Morris Koenlg will . pro nounce sentence September 3. Derringer and Jacobs face from five to ten years' imprisonment, and Hechheimer, a former attorney with a previous conviction for arson, from ten to 20 years. The city, police dragnet snsgged eight men on drunk charges over the. week-end, with fines and ball total ing $7ft. John Smith, 31, Arkansas. Steve Kalosltok, 43, Michigan, and Wendel V. Oaks. 30, Oklahoma, were all fined $10 on their pleas of guilty In city court this morning. Joe J. 511 va. 24. California; Rich ard Dufian. 25, MM lord; Earl B. Thomas, transient and John C. Mann, transient, were all released on $10 ball. Herbert Bo!ic, 28, made $5 ball ad was released. Prosecution Disorganized by Startling Development in Trial of Two Physicians Accused of Sterilization SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17. AP) The defense startled a crowded court room today by refusing flatly to ques tion Ann Cooper Hewitt further in the mayhem trial of Drs., Til ton E. Tillman and Samuel G. Boyd, charged with performing a sterilisation ope ration on the young heiress. The prosecution attorney argued strongly that the court require cross cxamlnaton but Superior Judge Rag land Tut tie refused to order the In terrogation. Miss Hewitt, fashionably attired In a black moleskin Jacket and greyish dress, appeared composed during tho unusual turn of events. Scramble for Admittance. The audience, composed mostly of women who screamed for admittance when court convened, gaped as the opposing lawyers argued bitterly. August Fourtner, assistant district attorney. Jumped to his feet and in sisted upon cross-examination of Miss Hewitt. Fourtner referred to questioning Friday in which I. M. Golden, de fense attorney, oharged Miss Hewitt waa the "tool" of an "unholy con spiracy" against her mother. Fourtner then asked that all wit- Con tin ued od Pagt Eight ) Firs burned 16 acres of grass and underbrush two miles north of upper Table Rock Saturday, the state dis trict warden's office disclosed today. The fire.. the warden's orflcs aald, waa caused by a boy who attempted to smoke out a squirrel from Its hole. The boy's name waa not revealed nor was It disclosed what action, If any, would be taken agrlnst the young ster. Yesterday an acre of grass and brush waa burned about two miles west of Jacksonville, the fire starting from a blare on the city's garbage dump. Both fires were fought by state crews using pack pumps, tools and a truck pump. THREE AUTOS STOLEN: A wave of auto thefts, predicted by police aa a reauiv of a heavy influx of transient labor, materialized In Medford Saturday, night with the theft of three cars from the street. One, a 1027 ChryMer sedan belonging to William Stolle and stolen from Its parking place on South Front street, was recovered a ahort time later by state police where It was abandoned near the county fair grounds. Tho machine was out of gas. Two other cars, a 1020 convertible coupe belonging to Carl R. Smith, Calirornlan staying at Sunrise Auto Court here, and a 1028 Chevrolet sedan belonging, to Marguerite McKee of Phoenix, were stolen but had not yet been recovered this afternoon. YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY LACK OF AUTO LICENSE Gerald McOlnty, 20, of Jacksonville, arrested Saturday by city police on a charge of non-poscealon of a driver's permit, and who pleaded not guilty when the case came up In city court, changed his plea to guilty thla after noon, and was fined $3. McOlnty wan the driver of the wood truck which ran over Katherlne Oentner on West Main street Saturday morning. The minor traffic case received at tention when It was learned Satur day McOlnty had pleaded not ul)ty, while at the same time admitting he had no permit. He explained the dis crepancy by saying he "never pleaded guilty to anything." Income Shares Maryland Fund, hid, asked, 10.68. Quarterly Incouie, bid, 1,73; asked, ljc SQUIRREL HUNTER SETS BRUSH FIRE Sex-Mad Maniac Clubs Girls in Sleep One Dies Four Men Held by Pueblo Police for Questioning PUEBLO, Colo.. Aug. 17.t-(AP) A hatchet-killer was sought today In tho second fatal bludgeoning here within two weeks. The latest crime, Police Chief Arthur Grady said, was perpetrated by a "sex-mad maniac" who crept through an unlocked door and clubbed to death Dorothy Drain, 1ft. and beat her alstcr, Barbara, 12, into insensibility ear'y yesterday. Grady said the girls were blugeoncd about the head with a blunt hatchet. Mr. and Mra. Riley Drain, the girls' parents returned home at 8 a.m. from a dance and found the ifl.is lying on a blood -smeared bed. Dorothy apparently was killed al most Instantly. Barbara was uncon scious. Four men wero held here and one (Continued on Page Three ) DOCTOR'S REPORT OF IS ER Gl Katherlne Gentner, 16-year old Medford girl who waa seriously In jured Saturday morning when the blcyclo she waa riding caught In the old street car tracks on West Main street near Quince street and threw her under the wheels of a moving wood truck, was today pronounced "out of danger" by the attending physician, Dr. R. W, Stearns. The girl has been resting better, and Is showing rapid recovery, he stated. The wheel of the heavy truck, which waa loaded with wood at the time, passed completely over her body. Her condition has been too serious to warrant her being moved to take X-rays determining the extent of In juries, but It wss believed the pic tures could ba taken this afternoon. , Raymond Mann, (William Grimes and Orth Miller, treated at the Com munity hospital for Injuries received Saturday afternoon when the coach In which they were riding with four companions crashed Into an orchard truck, have all left the hospital, It was announced today. Other week-end accidents In Jack son county raised the toll of casual ties aa six auto wrecks were being checked today. Of the six wrecks, three of the cars were turned either completely over or onto their sides. Miss Doiothy Mitchell, Red Cross worker here, reported to city police that the Red Cross Plymouth sedan she was driving on the Crater Lake highway near the Shady Cove bridge got out of control Sunday and crash ed off the road, turning turtle. Miss Mitchell received minor Injuries, snd the car was badly damaged. She told (Oonttnued on Page Flvo-) SLACKS AND HALTER HORRIFY MINISTER BABYLON. N. Y., Aug. 17. (AP) The Rev. James A, Smith, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic church, told today how he had ejected from, the church a ai-year old woman a sum mer resident who appeared In slacks and halter. "The ladles must be cool but 1 don't propose to allow half -naked, unladylike morons to enter my church," he said. Post's Widow Will Fly To Mark Tragedy Spot FAIRBANKS, AlaskS, Aug 17. (AP) Wiley Posts widow commlttod herself today to a sorrowful Journey along the same sky path her aviator husband and Will Rogers pursued to their deaths on blesk Point Bsrrow a year ago. The "King of the Arctic." Charles Blower, wslted at the tiny settlement of Barrow for Mrs, Post to come by airplane with Pilot Joe Crosson and five others to plant two Iron crosses upon the bank of a tundra river where Poet's red monoplane crashed August 1. IMS. crosson's big transport ship resu-d here, resdy for a quick depsrture. while he scanned weather reports. Five hundred miles of flying north west across the Endlcott mountains to Alaska's northernmost tip lay ahead of Mra. Post's party and the Inst weather Information was doubt ful. U was doubUuli too, when Foot, First1 Feiv Years Of Married Life Not The Hardest SALEM, Aug. 17. (AP) Figures taken from the Marlon county divorce case records refuted the general belief that the first few years of married life are the hard cat at least In this vicinity. A survey of 100 divorces grant ed thus far In 1036 showed thst tho average length of marriages which failed waa ll.B years. Tho shortest ' marriage In the cases studied was three months, the longest 42 years. Three times ns many wives applied for divorce as husbands. Ti ARREST SOUGHT CLEVELAND, Aug. 17. (AP) Bon Baclmrow, attorney for th Al fred J. Wright, former director In the Townsend old-nee pension organiza tion, asked common pleas Judge George W. Kerr todny. to order the arrest of Dr. Francis E. Townsend and Ollmour Young for failure to appear at a deposition hearing hers. Dr. Townsend. founder of the pen sion plnn and Young, national secre tary, were scheduled to testify at the hearing In connection with Mr. Wright's suit asking the ouster ot Dr. Townsend and an accounting of funds of tha organtratlon. "I want a citation Issued for Dr. Townsend and I asX your honor to Me that Dr. Townsend be not en couraged to make mockery of tha courts of Juatlc." Sacharow said. He then asked for the arrest of Young. At national headquarters of Dr. Townsend In Chicago. It was said the aged founder of the pension plan (Continued on Psga Three.) DIE IN LUZON SLAND TYPHOON MANILA, P. I., Aug. 17. (AP) A. least eleven persons were killed by a typhoon which today left homeless natlvea of northern Luron Island threatened with famine. Pleas for government aid aald many more were believed to have been killed In the storm which swept In from the Pacific Saturday, destroy ing practically all natlvo housea and DO per cent of the crops In Cagayan river valley. As the storm atruc'i and passed on toward the China coast, three ships caught In lta grip sent distress cslls. One vessel has not been heard from since. North coast lighthouses ware levelled. The United States coast and geodetic survey ship Pathomer lay on a rock reef at Port San Vlncente, a victim of tha typhoon. The vessel's Filipino crew and American offlccra came off safely. Farmers To Vote On Price Fixing SALEM, Aug. 17. (AP) Oolon T. White, state director of agriculture, called conference for Aug. S4 at which farmers will express their views on the question ot putting In operation certain sections of the state msrketlng act passed by the 103S legislature. The meeting, to be held here, will probably bo the meana of determin ing whether prlce-flslng for various crops, permitted under the act, shall be undertaken. White said his re ports Indicated there was no demsnd for It at this time. ds.-'.ny globe-girdling airman, and Rogers, actor and humorist, set forth to visit Brower, got off their course and were killed 19 miles from their destination. - General A. D. McRaa of Vancouver, B. C and Mayor E. B. Collins of Fairbanks, both of whom were friends of Rogers and Post, sponsored tht memorial flight tor Mrs. Post and were accompanying her. Tha general's daughter. Mra. B. H. Baker, Vancou ver; Mrs. Joe crosson and Charles F. Cuin, Fairbanks, were the others' In the party, Rogers' cross bore the Inscription: "Here died August fifteen, nineteen-thirty-five Will Rogers, a man be loved by all." Upon Post's memorial was In scribed: "Here died August fifteen, n:netcen-thlrty-flve Wiley Post, aorld's sir pioneer." Each cross stood five feet anova lis bu tod welgtscd 2M pounds, F. R. INAODRESS Everything Goes Black As Radio Priest Lambasts President From Platform of N. U. S. J. Convention CLEVELAND, Aug. 17. (AP) The Rev. Charles E. Coughlln rested In seclustlon today after a sudden Ill ness brought an abrupt halt to an address yesterday in which ha re newed his attacks upon President Roosevelt, asserting that "those sur rounding him had mersmerlzed ate intellect." A policeman on guard outside his hotel room, Father Coughlln slept comfortably. He waa stricken by what Dr. oeorge P. O'Malley, Cleveland physician, described aa exhaustion and a nervoua disorder superinduced by tho Intense work ot planning and carrying out the first convention of his national union for social Justice, Preceding the radio priest In ad- Creasing tho concluding meeting ot the national union s convention, Wll. Horn Lcmke declared "Franklin D. Roosevelt la a bewildered Kerensky who doesn't know where he is going. Alt M. Landon la the dying shadow of a past olvlllzatton and doesn't know it." Endorse Lemke The North Dakota representative' waa officially endorsed by NUSJ del egates for president of the United 8tatea. Speaking of Mr. Roosevelt, tha. (Continued on Page Eight) 1 E CRATER LAKE, Aug. 17. (gpl.) Leonard Ouy, 36, Roseburg, Diamond lake - CCO camp enrollee. sustained serious Injuries Ssturday night on to rim road as the result ot an auto crash. He waa rushed to Sacred Heart hospital In Medford, where It was fesred today he waa suffering from a fractured akull and spina In addition to a broken shoulder and severe euta and bruises. He waa transferred today to Veterans hospital In Roseburg. duy waa riding with Kelly Pierian, Roseburg, In a Chevrolet coupe. driven by Noy Cox. Diamond lake CCO mechanic, en route to the Crater lalM rim area. Cox. hut senses Impaired by sleepiness, mistook a rim road parking area for the main road. Hm - (Continued from Paga Eight) P I SAYS REOPENING ' UP TO COMMUNITY SEATTLE. Aug. 17, (AP) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, closed now ' on the fifth day by an American Newspaper Guild strike, said In ft formal statement today that whethar ' It erer resumes publication Is "up ; to this community." "The Post-Intelligencer hss ceasad ' to regard this aa a person st fight," -the paper said. "Whether this news? pnper ever resumes publication or ' not is up to this community. The call to arms has been sounded." CEREMONY IS PLANNED " FOR HIGHWAY OPENING; 8ALEM. Aug. 17. P Offlclsl op ening of the Klamath Falls-Weed section of The Dalles-Callfornta high- , way will probably bs set for October fl or 7. R. H. Baldock, state nJgb- . way engineer, announced today, Tha new road la approximately 15 ' miles long and will be completed October 1. Opening ceremonies will be held tn Klamath Palls. . . i BASEBALL American . R. II. t. ; New York - S Washlniton 7 11 Oomer, V.'tekj and Jorgens; Whlte hlll, Cohen and Bolten. R. H. . Cleveland I 10 I Chicago 7 7 1 Allen. Lee and Becker, suiuvaa; Lyons and Sewell. National Brooklyn at. New York, postponed, 1 rain. (Doubleheader tomorrow). ,
