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Newspaper Page Text; i Mail Tribune Offers Subscription Bargain Days September 5-14 f The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Fri day; little change In temper ature. TEMPERATURE , Highest yesterday . 89 Lowest this morning 49 It Might Pay One yery good reason why clnnMNed ails produce good re sults Is Hint most all renders of newspapers seldom fnll to read the classified page, it might pay you to Invest. fRIBUNE EDFORD Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-First Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST .:, 193G. No. 130. M HETJW IF ny PAUL MALLON (Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mailon.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 27. About 70.000.000 persons were of voting age at the time of the last presidential election. Only 47.000,000 went to the trouble of registering au they could vote. and only 41,000.- 000 actually vot ed. This was 62 percent of the e 1 1 g 1 b 1 e s, tha highest percent. age of all time. (Only 50 percent voted In 1020). What these fig ure s emphasize to the practical politician Is the ne cessity of organization, political or ganizations get their votors register. ed and deliver them at the polls on election days. The non-organtzatlon voter may have had the croup on registration dsy or may develop something like that on election day, but tne or ganization voter wUl be at the polla. rain or ahlne. headache or not. In politics, organization counts. Chairman Farley has spent five years building what Is generally be lieved to be the best organization In the history of American politics. It reachea down Irom the White House to the policeman on the beat. Just as did the old Republican or ganizations, but'lt la better financed hsa more direct nnd Indirect bene- IlclBrles on the rolls. Chairman Hamilton took over. 60 days Bgo, a skeleton Republican or panlzatton, only partly rebuilt. His reorganized headquarters has been functioning only for about 30 days. During that time, the vastness of the problem of reorganization, and the Importance of It, are said to have Im pressed all who are working on his aide. While the Democratic headquarters expanded for the campaign only by taking on people at the bottom, Re publican expansion at the top has developed growing pslns. The result Is the Republicans have been hav ing a hectic time trying to catch up In technical routine. This tells the story of the current political situa tion better than any poll could. Note as an example of Democratic organization process, a certain fed eral official In Washington notified the national committee here the other day that ho had registered In his state and was preparing to vote. Two days later he received from the com mittee complete Instructions of where and how to vote, what the state lawa were, how long the polla were open, what trains to catch to get there, etc. The announcements Indicated that all President Roosevelt and Senator Glass did waa to exchange knock knocks, and that really waa about alt Afterward, the caustic Virginian flipped away from the question whether he would make any speeches for Mr. Roosevelt by saying the had not been asked. The answer Is. he won't be. Continued on Page Eight) a Kvervone here knows, there la not much Glass could say on the stump. Hla views vary from admin. Actress Louise Henry made 18 trip acrosa the Atlantic before ahe cross ed the united states, i SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS John "Izask Walton" Deever re tnrnini from a day of arduous fish ln. and exhibiting two magnificent trophies of the chase a brace of trout three ncnea long. Captain Lee Bown of the state sleuths wishing he were twins, so he could be In at least half of the placea he ahould be In the next three or four days. Cecil Schmorl. curly-headed dance V'nc. no hoarse from warbling re- ouest ditties that he could hardly croak out a refusal to any further JeopirdIM hla larynx with "Just one more number, please. John Peter standing forlornly Id the middle of the abandoned liquor tore, vacated for a new spot serosa the street, and gazing about like a portrait of the last Indian. Jean Orantham making weird facea at a scribe who reported her bung ing onions about in a grocery store, and the reporter promising to keep pt ntrne out after that. RECURRING COLDS AFTER INFLUENZA Oxygen Tent Fails to Pro long Life of Cabinet Mem ber Six of Family Are Present As Death Comes WASHINGTON, Aug. 37. (AP) George Henry Dern, aecretary of war In the Roosevelt cabinet, died in Walter Reed hospital here today from heart and other complications result ing from past influenza attacks. He was 64 years old. Sinking Into a coma after a pro longed Illness, Dern died at 10:55 a. m., eartern atandard time. St membera of his family were near him. Word Immediately was telegraphed to President Roosevelt, who at tho time was nearlng Bismarck, N. D., aboard his special train on a drought Inspection trip. Oxygen Tent Used. During the night. It waa disclosed, Dern had been placed under an oxy gen tent In an effort to prolong his life. Dern's death, friends said, followed a general physical breakdown origi nating In a severe attack of influenza when he was governor of Utah five yeara ago,, and from which he tever fully recovered. Since then e has Buffered from re current Influenza attacka and severe colds, which gradually weakened him and placed an extremely heavy atraln on hla heart. Dern twice governor or Utah be' for Maine, . the; cabinet entered Walter Reed, the big army hospital, here on July 13 for "rest, treatment and a . physical check", after he bo- came 111 during an inspection n Continued on Page Elgfcs.) GORES AGREE TO QUIT By stipulation between counsel. In the suit of the California Joint Stock and Land Bank against William H, Gore and Sophrlna Ish Gore, It was agreed yesterday that the oores wculd vacate tho house on the Gore ranch by September 0. The pioneer couple started moving today Irom the house where they had apent the major portion of their lives. The land bank came Into posses' sion of the farm by mortgage fore closure sale, and recently filed action for the eviction of the Gores. The land la leased and the lessees had no objection to the Gorc'a occupying It. It waa said. TRANSIENT CAMP SALE PONDERED BY COURTS County courts of Jackson and Jos ephine counties, following a visit yes terday afternoon to the former tran sient camp at Savage Rapids, where controversy has arisen over the contract to sell a portion of the site owned by the state, took under ad visement future action. State Sena tor James Chlnnock and the district attorneys of the two counties were also present. The state land board Issued a con tract to sell the land owned by the state- to a man by the name of Smiley, a Callfornlan, upon which Is located a number of buildings. The state land board. It Is asld, were not aware of this .condition and were under the Impression they were dis posing of unimproved property. Democrats Assured of Majority in Congress Dr Edward J. Duffy Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON. Aug. 27. (AP) Dissension and death have raised un certatntica In the senatorial situation It, several important states, but the Democrats nevertheless are fortifying the majority which is certain to be theirs in the next session. As It stood today, with the renoml ration of Pat Harrison In Mississippi and James F. Byrnes In South Caro lina, 5ft certain to alt In January are listed Democrats. A majority Is 49. Barring a break in the solid south, where most of the Democratic nomi nees are not even opposed, te mar gin will be larger. The Oeorrla primary, in unlcl. Governor Sugeae T&lmadge will pit Neglected Health it ? OEOROE. H. DERN SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 28. (AP) George Henry Dern, who said' hla only "military" preparation for aecre tary of war came as cornet player in a college military band, neglected his health for years when as governor of Utah he "never knew when to quit." This was recalled today as pou- tlclans, miners and businessmen learned of the death In Washington of the once rugged six-footer. They recalled how Dern, who fought his way up from a clerkship In the Mercur Gold Mining and Mill ing company In mountainous central Utah, brought to publlo office the same capacity for long hours and hard work he displayed in the mines. GATES WILL BE L W. A. a a tea will be the principal speaker at the state planning board luncheon to be held at 13:30 tomor row in the Hotel Medford. Mr. Gates will apeak on the agri cultural development of Jackson county as it relates to irrigation. He will be followed by Ormond R. Bean of Portland, chairman of the state planning board. ' Anyone interested la Irrigation, ag riculture or mining la invited to the luncheon. Reservations, it was i nounced, should be made immediately at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The state planning board will hold a regular business session In the Jack' son county courthouse beginning at 9:30 tomorrow morning. At 2 p. m. the board will hold i public meeting In the courthouse au dltorlum. Several talks will be given on Irrigation, farming and mining J, C. Moore, member of the resettle ment administration at Portland, will addreeathe meeting and arrange an exhibit on land use In Jackson, Jose phine and Curry counties. Three state planning board at taches arrived here this morning by motorcar. They were Herbert P. By- ram, research assistant, C. W. Reyn olds, executive assistant, and Qeorge H. Godfrey, special aaslstsnt. Mem bers of the board are schcdulued to arrive by train tomorrow morning, BASEBALL American - R. H. E. Detroit . 4 10 1 Boston 3 4 1 Bridges and Hayworth: Orove and R. PfiTell. his anti-New Deal strength against Senator Richard B. Russell Jr., comes September 9. In addition, the border states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma are among those now rep rerented by Democrats which will elect again In November. States besides Georgia which have yet to select nominees are Colorado. Massachusetts, New Hampshire. New Mexico and Rhode Island. In New Mexico, two seats are open. Of the 30 to be filled In all, one Is now farmer -labor, twelre Republican and the rent Democratic. The death of Oovemor Floyd B. Olson, who waa supporting Roosevelt vMle running for the senate on the f.irmer -labor ticket In Minnesota, left a tap which the leaders hare yet to fill. VAR I CHILDREN FACING HERITAGEOF DEBT 'Wasteful' New Deal Spend ing and 'Cockeyed' Tax Legislation Hit by G. 0. P. . Nominee On Journey a By O. A. MAKTIN Associated Tress Staff Writer ABOARD LANDON TRAIN EN ROUTE TO TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 37. (AP) Gov. Alf -M. Landon left be hind him a charge of "wasteful" New Deal spending and "cockeyed" tax legislation as he rode through till nola today on a achedule of 10 roar platform appearances and a visit to Abraham Llncoln'a tomb. The Republican nominee was speed lng toward Topeka on the return leg of hla first presidential campaign in vaslon of the east. In the last of three addresses, he told a Buffalo, N. Y., audience that American youth faced "a heritage of debts and mortgagee" through New Deal expenditures. Landon demanded the Immediate repeal of the law taxing corporations according to amounts of Income with held from distribution. This legis lation the Kansan described as 'cockeycd.'L He said the entire tax structure, federal and state, needed overhauling. The sponsors of this tax law may hava thought it waa a smart way to (Continued on Page Seven) Negotiations are being completed this week for the purchase of the Nichols and Aahpote building in the 200 block on East Main street by W. H. Fluhrer. Medford baker, who will completely remodel that building and the one adjoining to the west, on the corner of Main and Central (now occupied by the Medford Phar macy). Fluhrer purchased the corner building several months ago... The project will be one of the big gest In the past few years, according to the Charles A. Wing agency, agents In the transfer of the Nichols & Aah pole building to Fluhrer. The Econ omy meat market, now housed In the building, will be closed and the fix tures moved to make way for an unannounced tenant. The Medford Pharmacy will remain In the present location but the store will be com pletely remodelled. The Main street frontage of the two buildings is 60 feet, and the depth Is 140 feet. The two units will be combined Into one modern struc ture, with probably four shops In the rear part, extending the entire width of what is now the two buildings, and facing on Central street. The Larry Schade Jewelry store will prob ably remain In Its present location across the alley from the Craterlan theatre. The second floor of the corner building will be remodelled for of fices, and the Medford Badminton club will retain their playing quar ters on the second floor of the ad Joining structure. No flgurea have been released on construction costs or the purchase price of the two old buildings. Work has already begun In lowering the floor of the office formerly occupied by the Yellow Cab company at 15 South Central avenue. Mr. Fluhrer said today that the new development would open up new trading center, and add much to the buslneai activity of Central street. That street, south of Main street, has been an Increasingly im portant business district since con struct I on of the Montgomery Ward building several years ago. Tractor Driver's Skull Laid Open GRANTS PASS, Aug. 27. (AP) Hla skull cracked open, Ralph Kirk land, about 25 of Olendale clung to life at the Josephine general hospital here this morning. According to attendant. Klrkland waa following a tractor In woods near G lend ale yesterday afternoon. Tne moving machine bent a tree limb In passing which, released, struck Klrk land. Income Shares Msryland Fund: Bid, 19.64; aaked. $10.43. Uoirverlj Income: Bid. II 09; asktd II 8. LIEUT. MOFFETT By T OF Naval Aviator, Son of Late Rear Admiral Demoted in ; Promotion List for Loss of Confidential .Papers WASHINGTON. Aug. 37. (JP) Lieut. William A. Moffett, Jr., naval aviator and son of the late Rear Ad miral William Moffett, has been found guilty by a general court mar tial of carelessness in the loss of a confidential service publication. He waa sentenced to a loss of 50 numbers. This means, naval officers said, that he waa demoted to a rank below 50 officers formerly hla Junior and consequently It will afreet his prospecta of promotion. The findings of the court martial, held secretly in Washington laat May, waa approved today by Admiral Wil liam H. Stand ley, acting secretary of the navy. Standley's announcement did not specify what publication bad been lost, and added only that Moffett had been restored to duty. Previously, Moffett had declined to make a statement on the ground that the whole matter was "confidential. The officer drew the documents from navy flies to aid him In pre paring for examinations for promo tlon. Navy officials said It waa cus tomary for officers to be given per mission to use confidential files when studying for examinations. Tne mlsalng papers were entd to hare been placed In Mofett's auto mobile from where they disappeared in some manner not known either to authorities or to Moffett. The nature of the documenta was closely guarded secret although they were said to Include confiden tial publications used In signal work Ordinarily several months elapses between the conclusion of a court martial and the publication of the board's findings. Pear shipments to date, chiefly Bartletts, from the Rogue river val-1 ley total 369.400 boxes of packed pears, according to Kramer Deuel, sec retary of the Rogue River Traffic as-, soclatlon. Approximately half of this total la sold, .and tho balance la In. cold storage. The Southern Pacific railroad re ports pear shipment to date total 487 cars 257 cars packed pears, and 210 cars to canneries. Wednesday shipments totalled 41 cars, divided sa follows: seven cars to eastern marketa, via Ogden, Utah; five cars to Klamath Falls for storage; four cars to Portland for export; eight cars to Portland for storage, and 17 cars to the canneries. . Southern Pacific freight aides re ported the shipments were more di versified this year than last, when tho bulk of Bartlett shipments went to eastern points. The railroad has four switch en glnea In service In the local yards handling the fruit shipments. TWO ARRESTED IN JILL PART THEFT The continued theft of machlnsry, part and tools from sawmills in the Ashland area waa believed solved by state police today with the arrest of Roland Gustafson, ambulance driver for the Jftckon County Humane so clety, and fism Mackay, of Ashland and Medford. Both are held on $1000 ball, charged with grand larceny. Gufttafson waa scheduled to appear In Justice court here this afternoon to waive or demand preliminary hear In?. He waa arrested here by state police this morning. Mackay waa ar rested at Vreka by Sheriff w. O, Chandler, waived extradition, and was to be returned here this afternoon or evening. The two are charged with the theft of machine parts, axles, gear boxes, babbitt, toots and other articles el let?fdly taken from the mills near Afihland, and selling the articles to machinery houses. Investigation has been carried on over a period of six weeks, state police said. The theft of other articles is be ing investigated In the case, state of ficers stated. Townsend Attorney Loses " IP Skim ;,yOg tt I 'Sir ' lhSthh Ctillfiirnln Townseiullles sufferfil their greatest blow In Tuesdays pri mary election In the defeat ot Sheridan Downey (right), attorney for the pension movement for the Democratic nomination for congress In the Ihlrd California district. Hep. Frank II. Buck, who received tho nomina tion I. shown nt left, (A. P. Photo). GREETS ANNUAL SAVING OFFER . The most popular-reader event ol the year, Mall Tribune bargain days, has arrived again and aJready there lias been a rush to take advantage of the great savings made possible by substantial reductions In subscription rates. Bsrgaln days start officially on Sep. tembcr 5, but subscriptions under the,! reduced rates are being received now by mall or at the office. To avert the possibility of missing this un usual opportunity to save. It la urgea that subscriptions be entered or re newed without delay. The bargain day period enda positively on Sep tember 14. After that date the cus tomary subscription rates again be come effective. Bargain days have been a popular Mall Tribune event once a year for tho past decade. It Is the only time (Continued on Page Two.) Justice Campbell Facing Operation SALEM, Aug. 27 (AP) Chief Jui ttce Campbell of the state supreme ccurt entered a Salem hospital today to undergo a serious eye operation. Physicians said he would be In the hospital for several days, and prob ably would not be able to resumft his official duties for two or three weeks. A preliminary operation was per formed two weeks ago, after which Justice Campbell spent a few days at a beach resort recuperating. Buddy Ebsen, who believes his long, itiffled hair brliuta him good luck, r.as It cut about twice a year. Nations Desert Spain In Dire Hour' of Need Says Socialist Leader (Editor's Note: The following Interview with Indealeclo Prleto. strong man behind the Spanish socialist government, waa delayed eleven hours by censor. (Copyright, 10311, by the Associated Press) MADMD, Aug. 37. Spain Is the "Ethiopia of Kurope," deserted by those nations whose vital interest should compel them to be her active allies, Indealeclo Prleto, socialist "Iron chancellor," declared today, Prleto, former minister of public works, spoke these bitter words In the early hours of this morning at his apartment In the well-defended, sandbagged ministry of marine The stocky labor leader mado plain his disappointment with the manner In which the world'a democratic countries' have reacted to Madrid's defense against fascist rebellion. Iteliels (liven Aid "What help has Ftsnrs and Oreat Britain given us In our direst hour?" he asks. "None at all, while Ger many, Italy and Portugal are provid ing our rebel enemies with all the material they want." Prleto, who holds no offlclsl posi tion nut who a leader of the par liamentary socialist party la the most Importsnt man behind the govern ment, shifted Jerkily In his chair. "The diplomats of Europe sre very busy over tlictf plea lut ccnvcutloa CREW OF PICKERS T A craw of about 37 men yesterday noon walked away from the Job at Voorhles orchard, controlled by South ern Oregon Bales company, In a strike ior higher .wagea, Aooordlng to one of the members of the crew, who ask ed that hla name not be used, the men were striking for five cent per box for picking D'AnJous out of tall trees, after working the Bartlett crop at four centa and three and a half for atrlpplng, the spokesman said. The spokesman stated that they wero being paid four centa for pick ing D'AnJous and could not make a livable wago at that scale. He aald that the crew had agreed to return to the four cent acale for picking Bosos, because the trees wero smaller and the fruit heavier In that par ticular orchard. Ha added that the orchard officials refused to meet the demands. " Although a few of the pickers, the man aald, were from California, out-of-state labor could not hava made up more than six or eight membera. and the atrtke waa not called by out i.We agitators, but by local men. He himself stated that he had been Medford resident for 30 years. - 8. O. 8. officials denied this after non that tho strike waa of any con eequence, and that the crewa had rt- turned to work thla morning and the packing house waa running full blaat. It was stated that the pickers on the job were "well satisfied" and that the crews were filled. Rumors that other walkouts had occurred could not be traced to faots. C'hsrles A. Wing stated that there 1 ad been complete accord between hla crew and orchard foremen, and that they had been turning prospec tive pickers awav the past few days. of neutrality and non-intervention," he continued. "But what good la such a conven tion to us? ' None at altl" Bitterly he went on: "It will In fact damage our cause Obviously, Prance and Oreat Britain will sign It and keep their word while Oermany, Italy and Portugal will sign It and go on helping the rebola as before. He blurted out: France, llrltaln Illlnd "I cannot understand why Prance and Oreat Britain can be so blind to their own Intcrestsl "The establishment of a fascist re glm In. the west end ot Europe Is not contingency they csn envisage with pleasure. ' "Anyway, what will they aay If Franco (Oen. Francisco Franco), the rebel commander-in-chief I win and gives the Balearle lslanda to Italy or Oermar.y as reward for their aid7" (Tho Balearlca. off Spain's eastern coast, might affect the balance ot power In the Mediterranean if they fall Into the hands of a militant poveri. ConUaued, on fag four.J 0) IE LAKE F CONTINUES SPREAD IN WHEATREGION Second Dike Broken Com bine Harvesters Forced to Halt Emergency Ope rations On Cox Ranoh KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 87.- Tule lake sump water broke through a second dike yesterday afternoon, ran an emergency harvesting operation out ' of the grain field beyond, and found It way through" still another dike. opened for It purposely to remove th pressure from more Important ow ners. At mid-afternoon the water had. run through low dike separating Cox brothers' fields sufficiently far to force cessation of a four -combine harvesting operation In the second field. About half of thla aOO-aor field had been harvested when the water atopped all work there. Beyond thla piece ot land lies tha grain fields of Hasklna brother. A . the flood moved against a separating dike, Hasklna brothers but a breads to let the water through Into field that had already been harvested. Tha water (an harmlessly over the stubbl men turned their effort to strengthen other dike against pre- , euro thus temporarily relieved. ; Estimates ot damage still stand at about 100,000 but may rise U th;' water breaks through othor barrier. The Kandra lease on the north of Cox brothers flooded field la In the greatest danger. 1 E; DELZELL QUITS Announcement was mada today of tho appointment of Harold D. Qrey acting director of the southern Oregon district for the work pro gress administration. The district embracea Jackson, Joaephlne, Klam ath, Curry, Douglas, Lake and Coo counties. Mr, Orey succeeds Tom Delzell, who LOOD resigned, effective today, "for per- aonal reasons." Mr. Oelseli did not elaborate on Ms reasons for resign ing but it la known that he accepted . tha appointment originally for ft more or less temporary period. H left last week for Portland, when he aald he would remain for the Urn being. Mr, Orey waa advanced In the works prograsa administration from the position of supervisor or employ ment for this district. He ha re amed In Medford practically all his life. The position of supervisor of employment will not be filled for to present. Mr, Grey's appointment, wnion be came effective today, was announoad hero by J. C. Albright, deputy WPA administrator for Oregon, who cam from hi Portland headquarters this morning to notify Mr, Orey. "We regret the loss of Mr. Del sail from our orgsnltatlon because of hi loyal and efficient service." Mr. Al bright said. "We wish him well In his new endeavor whatever It might be. "Mr. Orey was selected for th po sition because of his thorough fa miliarity with the whole WPA pro gram and because of the excellent service he has rendered In his posi tion a supervisor of employment Ho Is familiar with the working of the whole administration and w were gratified that he was available aa Mr. Delzell'e aucoeasor." Mr. Delzell was appointed director when the WPA district we organ ised early In July, 103S. He held an executive position with the Califor nia Oregon Power company In Klam ath rails at the time he was drafted for the WPA post, receiving a leav of absence from the company. Mr. Orey was appointed supervisor of employment also at the time th district was organised. Ha has fre quently been commended by the ad ministration for hla discreet and ef ficient handling of difficult po sition. Speaking of WPA projects in gen eral, Mr. Albright said there would , be sufficient worth-while develop ments to take care of any relief load next winter. Projects already ap proved would be given preference, he added, thus Indicating Indirectly that the Medford airport develop ment would be continued thla fall. Mr. Albright waa to return to Port land by lrplao tula afternoon.