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K Mail Tribune Off ers Subscription Baffin Das September 5-14 The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Sat urday; cooler Saturday, TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday ..., 06 Lowest this morning to Thirty-First Year . By Paul Mallon Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon v WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 The house of seventy gables, which Is the state department, quivered as from an earthquake. . A New York morn ing paper was carrying a story that President Roosevelt, If re elected, might call an Interna tional peace con ference. And, to make matters worse, the paper was the eternally rail able Times, whose word Is accepted abroad as official gospel. By 8 a. m., an unidentified author ity In the department managed to let the world know anonymously that the Idea was "utterly fantastic." By 10 a. m., word fell from on high that State Secretary Hull had never suggested such a thing to the White House and vice' versa. By 1.18 p. m.. sufficient composure was established to permit an. official statement from Mr. Hull confirming the unofficial 10 a, m. denial. Now panics are nothing new In the state department. Diplomatic hearts are inherently fluttery. But they never give way to terror before break fust and only rarely before lunch. The cfrcktall hour Is usually reserved for emotional strain. ? Whal upset the schedule this time was the fact that everyone knew or suspected the unprintable fact that the "utterly fantaslc" idea came from no. less an authority than the presi dent himself, who was 'then riding west. , - ' . . . There are many good reasons for believing that the president, once, after dinner, within the past week, toyed out loud among friends with the post-election possibility of Initi ating a world peace move with Stalin, Hitler, -Mussolini et al. The only way to do It would be on a per sonal man-to-man appeal. He had reached no conclusion. He was mere ly considering, the possibility. He thought he might do It, If the situa tion six months from now developed encouraging prospects; .and then again he .might not. ' In the meantime, there was cer tainly no domestic hazard Involved In supposition. Like the prospect ot ro-tax-Increase, the possibility was Indefinite, but, nevertheless, all water on, the Roosevelt campaign wheel. . Internationally, however, It was different. Diplomatic frictions are such that the merest official sugges tion carries dire thoughts. ' In the light of current bickering, the Idea may be truly utterly fantastic. -- At least the tremulous diplomatic virtu osos thought so, and took the edge off another true romance. -- This drought trip upon which the president now Is embarked will cer N (Continueo n Page 9lij togging Cars Jump Track. BEND, Aug. 28. (API The Shev-Un-Hlxon lumber yards were the scene of a spectacular accident yes terday when 17 empty logging cars were derailed. No one was Injured In the accident, which occurred when the 40-car train Struck a split switch. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dick McElhose In the state cop stronghold on business, and his young son firing questions st "Hey. pop" In rapid succession, the old man having to admit he didn't know much about the machinations ot John Law. Mrs. Jno Johnson having to- stand on a chair to reach the second shelf in a Joolry store, she being too tiny to reach it tip-toeing. Ben "Jlme" Thomas' hat In the back end of Yancy Cravat Bullls' car after being hauled here from Salem by mistake, and Yancy regretting the fact the sky piece was only a size seven instead of seven anan.the. WHdon ColDOiiRh worTving for fesr soaie time when he's crossing the street and steps right behind a pass ing car he ll stick his foot Inside the tromper and get a pm yanked off. Earl Tichenor referring to hla abode as "over on North Riverside, or East Main, or someplace. Anyway, It's Just arrow the viaduct," meaning the Bare, Crick bridge. i , I . : I : M EDFORD Full Associated Press BLOODY BATTLE ! REDDENS SLOPE OF IMARCIAL Government Forces Pour Machine Gun Fire Into Ranks of 1000 Attackers in Last Stand Fighting WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES AT IRUN, SPAIN, Aug. 28. (AP) Span ish government defenders apparently beat off a violent attack tonight by 1000 rebels on k Mount Can Marclal. last defense of the city. After fierce lighting which turned the mountalu slope a mile from Irun Into a bloody battlefield, the battle subsided, leaving the region suddenly quiet. Sharp explosions of hand grenades and crude dynamite bombs were almost Incessant. From ' the ' government trenches, hundreds of rounds of machine gun bullets were poured down upon the attackers. To listeners In the city of Irun the sound of the fighting gave the Impression the battle whs vir tually in the town limits. ' Mount Can Marclal Is the last and most. Important. defense of Irun, about a mile from the city. (Continued on Page Three.) CATHOLICS FEAR (Copyright, 1030, by the Associated Press) BERLIN, Aug. 28. A solemn warn ing that Germany "may go the way of Spain" will be read from all Ro man CatWbllc pulpits In the Nazi' relch Sunday, It was learned tonight. The warning will be In the form of a pastoral letter adopted by Ger man bishops at their conference In Pulda last week-end. , This letter will condemn the Nazi Weltanschauung (world outlook) bas ed on blood, soil and "race. ; ' The bishops, recently reported con cerned over what they consider a tendency toward paganism and what they fear may be restrictions against Catholic education of the young, will make clear, however, they are anxious for peace between Catholicism and Nazism. In view of events In Spain, the bishops will say they "simply cannot understand why, In our fatherland too, the Influence of Christianity Is being limited and constantly re stricted to the church proper. '"We simply cannot grasp why our Catholic organizations stfll are hin dered In their beneficent work." The bishops will charge Catholic charities are being forcibly limited In Germany, that Catholic sisters are being crowded out of hospital and kindergarten work, and that youth has been brought under anti Christian Influences, ' Confessional schools are being Uni ted and the Catholic press muzzled, the churchmen will contend. Vivid Drpught Picture Obtained by Roosevelt BISMARCK, N. D., Aug. 28. ( President Roosevelt carried with him today a vivid mental picture of the drought's devastation. He saw the effects of the summer's wilting sun in an automobile trip late yesterday through the seared country side. He Jicard harried planters tell how meager moisture had ruined their harvest prospects. Driving to J. J. Boehm's 480-acrc farm, the president inquired: "Any water in the well?" ' "Very little," the red-faced farmer replied, as his wife and children edg ed close to the car, each .getting a handshake. "How many acres have you plow cd up?" "About 220." "Got any corn?" "Had some, but none grew up. Not a stalk." "Any wheat?" -Not a bit." "How about a garden?' "There's the garden right over there nothing but weeds." At Mike J. Hellman's 160 -a ere farm nearby, similar Information was elicited. "Got a well?" tnc lueaidec.l tt.sked "No, air," the farmer said. "I go Miss Oregon ' Sally Zavltx of Pendleton will rap resent Oregon at the pageant el states which will close the world's fair at San Diego Sept. 9. (Asso ciated Press Photo OF SHIP'S ENU OAKX1AN&, Cal., Aug. 28. (API District Attorney Earl Warren today declared a five-month -old waterfront killing mystery solved with the ar rest of four men, three of them of ficials of a maritime union. Warren, who attributed the deatti of George Alberts, engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, to difficulties with the union, declared: "It was a pnld killer's Job." The actual killers, he asserted, were George Wallace, alias White, a sea man arrested at Brownsville. " Texas, and Ben Sackowlta. or Sackowlch, member of the Marine Firemen. Oil ers, Water-tenders and Wipers asso elation, still being sought In Mcx ico. The union officials, arrested In San Francisco last night and placed In Jail here, are: - Earl King, secretary of the Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watcrtendera and Wipers association , branch of the International Seamen's Union; A. M. Murphy, assistant secretary, and E. H. Ramsey. Identified by Warren as a "patrolman" for the union. All three denied any connection with the killing. Alberts was found dead In his cabin of tho Swayne & Hoyt freighter last March shortly, before the vessel was to sail from a c'ock here for Grays Harbor, Wash. He had been stabbed five times. Honey Crop Normal CORVALLIS, Ore., Aug. 28. (AP) II A. Scullen, associate professor of ontomology at Oregon State college said today that the Oregon honey crop Is about normal for 1030, while various sections In eastern states re port yields below normal, mile and a half east for 160 gallons a day." "What do they charge a foot to Crlll a well?" "They charge 91.36 and they have to go from 100 to 350 feet for water." "Oot a garden?" "None at all." "What arc you going to do for feed for winter?" "Oh, I got about 20 tons left over from last year." "Well, hang onto those chickens and turkeys; they're a good asset." Mr. Roosevelt, In a light gray suit and Panama hat, made hla first 4top tt a WPA project near Mandan where t small dam la being constructed to form a 16 -acre reservoir. He appeared Impressed with esti mates that 95 percent of the cost was going Into relief wages The president's son, Frankllo Jr.. nlro chatted animatedly with the bronzed dsm-btillders. Just as the president's oar started away, Louis Gaske a dairyman ihouted; "Give us conservation of water and tirication and we'll get along" "You bei we will.'' the preniden frAid. "We are not going to abandon you." MEDFOBD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28,1936. IM1 J w BETTER LAND USE ION OF Roosevelt Says Government Will Work Out Long Range Planning System to Use Land for Best Purpose By O. HAROLD OLIVER Associated Press Staff Writer. JAMESTOWN, N. D Aug. 28. (API President Roosevelt concluded another motor drought tour here to day with a speech in which ho as serted the problem here could best be described in three words "Detter land use." Speaking from the rear platform of his train, Just before leaving for Aberdeen, S. D., the president noted tho rain, which greeted his arrival two hours earlier and said: - "This morning when I saw the rain I felt my luck had held good. Two years ago coming back east tnrougn the -drought areas rain followed me tho whole day." Sure of Solution. Tho president said he was "per fectly sure" that with co-operation between the federal, stato and local governments, a solution of the drought problem would be found. While emergency relief proceeds, he added, the government would be "trying to work out a long range sys tem of planning the use of land for the best purposes." '.Continued on Page Eleven) Miss Ella Gardner, national recrea tion specialist of Washington, D. 0., accompanied by Mra. Gertrude Skew Sanford. state specialist in recreation, will arrive In Medford Saturday after noon, according to Mabel c. Mack, county home demonstration agent. There will bo a apeclal meeting for recreation leaders Saturday evening, August 20 at 7:30 p. m. at the court house auditorium. ....... At this meeting Miss Gardner will discuss the national program In rec reation and will direct a ahort rec reational program. The recreation leaders are very fortunate In having Miss Gardner's assistance one evening. since she Is spending only three dsys In Oregon. All leaders are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served at the close of the program. As the result of an auto accident on tho Sams Valley highway during the early evening of Juno 27, iB3o John B. Oota and his wife, Josephine Cota, filed suit A damages In cir cuit court yesterday, against o. l. Llndley, orchard foreman for H. Van Hoovenberg, and Van Hoevenberg. who Is named as defendant, na Llndley's employer. - Mrs. Cota seeks i000 damagea for alleged Injuries received In ft crash between an auto driven by Llndley. and one driven by her husband, shortly after the Cota car emerged from their driveway. .The complaint alleges she received injuries to her head, chest, shoulder, hip, thigh and knee. Cota alleges that as a result of the collision he sustained a fractured left rib. nhvalcal nam and mental anguish and "was left sick, sore and lame." for which he asks 1600 damsges. Tor damage to the Cota auto I28 is sought. The complaint alleges that Llndley was driving the Van Hoevenberg auto at an excessive and reckless rat of speed In "excess of 4B miles per hour." and that It had "inaoequaic brakes." WANDER LUSTAGAIN GRIPS MEDFORD LAD John Boggis, Jr., 11 year old son of the car dealer of the same nsme. Is a lad of wandering tendencies. He has frequently ran away from borne during the past few months, at one time getting as far away as Crescent City, but returning of his own von tlon. Yesterday city police received a telephone call from Dunsmuir, Cali fornia, officers that they had the ycung man in cuat-My there, He told them he waa enroute south, but his destination waa extremely vague. His latoer drove south for him last Bight BASEBALL National First game; R. H. E. Brooklyn .... 8 15 a Cincinnati ' - 16 1 Prankhouse and Phelps; R. Davis. Stlne and Lombard!. ' . R. H. E. Boston .......................... 3 lo i Ohlcago - 18 31 0 Smith, Weir, Bablch, Rols and Lo pez, Mueller; Carlcton and Hartnett, O'Dea. American First game: R. H. E. Detroit fl 16 6 New York -....14 14 1 Wade, Phillips and Myatt; Ruffing and Dickey, jorgens. First game: R. H. E. St. Louis 8 15 0 Boston 16 2 Caldwell and Hemsley; Marcum, Russell, Bowers and R. Ferrcll, Berg. Second game: R. sH". E. St, Louis . 16 0 Boston . 3 . 8 0 Knott and Hemsley; Ogtermueller and R. Ferrcll. INTERN LEON TROTZKY FOR REFUSING PLEDGE TO CEASE ACTIVITIES . OSLO, Norway, Aug. 28. (AP) Norway, In an order Issued by the ministry of Justice, today ordered the Bolshevist exile Loon TrotrJcy and his wife Interned In their country and decreed expulsion for Trotsky's two mate secretaries. The Trotzkys, will be confined in their house at Hoenefoss until a new domicile can bo found for tlicln. It waa understood the reason for the action was Trotsky's refusal to accept conditions which the govern ment sought to Impose for hla con tinued stay in Norway, although !t was announced earlier in the week he had affixed hla signature to & pledge to absteln from any type of revolutionary activity. Earlier in the day Trotzky, pale and patently nervous, told a crowd ed court he had sent letters to col leagues In France and other coun tries, advising revolutionary activi ties. Ho was Testifying against f iVe Nazis accused of raiding hla home In an unsuccessful attempt to pb tain subversive documents. The Bolshevist exile disclosed the chief of the French TrotKky group was a German, but declined to tell his name. Trotzky was accused by the Soviet government ot heading a plot against the life and reglmo of Dictator Jos eph Stalin for which 16 persons were executed in Moscow this week. T WEIGHS ON POPE (Copyright, 1936 by Associated Press.) VATICAN CITY, Aug. 28. P) Prelates disclosed tonight that Pope Plus XI has become so weakened from worry over tho Spanish situation that he scarcely Is able to rise from his throne at the close of audiences. The Increasing heaviness of his limbs, the prelates said, might soon make It necessary for the 79-year-old Holy Father to be carried from one part of the apostolic palaces to an other. His brother, Fermo, suffered from the same malady and a- yoar before his death, several years ago, was un able to walk. FEHL INJUNCTION SALEM. ' Ore., Aug. 28. (UP) Tivln Goodman, Portland, attorney for Earl H. Fehl, former Jackson county Judge, said todfy he would appeal Fehl's penitentiary parole In junction case to the state supreme court immediately. Circuit Judge L. O. Lewelllng Mon day denied Fehl an Injunction to keep CJovernor Martin, Assistant Attorney-General Ralph E. Moody and the state parole board from enforcing the restrictions placed in Fehl con ditional parole from the prison, Fehl was paroled May 20, after serving two years, nine months of a fcur-year sentence tor ballot theft. His parole prevented him from re turning to Jackson county until Aug. 16, 1037, Full United Press IS) H SET BY HEARST Cabinet Member Describes Publisher As 'New G.O. P. Boss' Evidence in Court Action Is Claimed Proof WASHINGTON. Aug. 2B. pi Sec retary Ickea' campaign apeech In which he linked the names of Qov. Alt M. Landon and William Randolph Hearst, publisher, brought quick re action today from Republican quar- ters. The cabinet member. In a broad cast addreaa laat night, described Hearst as the "new Republican boas" who had cautioned Landon "against talking too much." evidence ho aald waa given In court last July by Qocrgo p, Harding, Re publican national committeeman for lllnols, was used by Ickea In dls- cusalng what he called "the relation ship existing between Dovornor Lan con and Mr. Hearst." (larding Responds. Harding waa quick to reapond when informed of the Ickea statemonta. He was with Landon as the Republican presidential nominee's train crossed :il!no!a. . ' "Don't make me laugh. My Up la cracked," said Harding. "I Just came (Continued on tags six) TULE LAKE LEASES KLAMATH PALLS, Ore., Aug. 28. (JP) Superintendent B. K. Hayden of the reclamation project here an nounced opening of competitive bid ding for the government's rich Tulo lake leaae grounds. Hot competition Is foreseen for land In tho fertile area, now In the midst of a devastating flood. With no pref erence rights existing on present leases, It la expected that present holders will bid strongly to retain .their holdings. ', When the present leases were made In 1931, 6(1. BOO acres were leaaed for a total of $69,900. The maximum bid per acre waa slightly under 19, far under the maximum expeoted thla yoar. -' ' Hayden disclosed that about S.9O0 acrca will be retired from production when the new leases aro made. Irri gation of land In the loppock bay region will slightly Increase actual farmed acreage on the lake, however. Kerby Residents Receive Injuries GRANTS PASS, Ore., Aug. S8. P) Two Kerby men were seriously In jured In accidenta yesterday. Laddie Preltaa, 31, waa critically hurt around the head and neck when struck by a slab while piling lumber at the Sugar Pine Lumber company. !Tank Walker received a fracture of the pelvis and other Injuries when ttruck by a falling tree. An Oriental waa found with a broken leg under the Louse creek bridge. He aald he had fallen on locks while walking in the dark. : SALEM, Aug. 28. (AP) Mrs. Fred Johnson of Canby waa taken to a hos pital at Oregon City late yesterday after her automobile crashed Into the rear of a truck near Aurora. State police Investigated. Britain and Egypt Sign Mutual Assistance Pact LONDON. Aug. 28. (AP) Great Britain and Egypt, sfter 50 yeara of strife, are bound to friendly mutual assistance under the new Anglo Egyptian treaty, the text of which was made publlo today. Under its provisions, British mili tary occupation of Egypt would be ended. Each country would be rep resented at the capital of the other by an ambassador and Egypt would apply for membership In the League of Nations under British auspices. The treaty, effective for 20 years, would come into force upon ratifica tion. It was believed hero that Brit ish parliamentary action probably would be effective In November. NEW YOHK, Aug. 27. (AP) Ths United S ci and 12 other nations enjoying extra-territorial rights In Egypt will be asked to give them up In order to cmplet ths tentative WW Football At Forty In 1818 William Loan West, Unl verslty of California football play er, left college to Join th army. To day at tho age of 40 he has reenter ed the university and la out for the team. Hera ha Is at Berkeley in headdress emblematic of hla one half Cherokee Indian blood. (Aeso- elated Preaa PhoM E BY TIENTSIN, Aug. 28. (AP) Au thor! tlea were balked by a Watery trail today In their investigation of the lateat daring coup ot sea bri gands who have plundered the China Soaa for centuries. The -pirates, employing a time-worn but effective ruse, Impersonated paa- ongors when they boarded the ferry Warner Llho before It sailed yester day from Tangku. While the snip waa on its way here aoroas the Bay of Ohlhil they held up and robbed 100 Chinese pas sengers, sclMd 32 of them as hostagea and eeoapod to sea In a waiting Junk. Vlcllma Stripped The brigands made off with all possessions of those aboard the steam er Including their clothes. 1 Panlo broke out among the vic tims, the ship's officers said, and the pirates threw two overboard and shot a third. Intimation that th ever-present menace to Chinese coastal shipping would strike again came August 14 (Continued on Page Five.) P-I Head Refuses Truce Conference SATTTLE, Waah. Aug. 28. AP) The Seattle Poat-lntelllgf ncer. through W. V. Tanner, resident publisher, flatly rejected a "truce meeting" of fer today by the Amerlcsn News paper Guild to end the 19-day atrlke. Publication of a new Seattle morn ing newspaper, with a "production for use, Democratic editorial policy," waa announced here today by Prof. Richard O. Tyler, University of Waah ington engineering inatructor, He aald It would start between 80 to 00 days. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28, (AP) State Market Newa service, pears: 90-lb. lugs Lake and Mendocino Co. BartletU, 81.391.80; Sonoma Co, 80-lb. lugs, OOcwSl.oO, few at 1,2H, Independence to be re-established In that ancient kingdom. Abolition of capitulations will mean that the 800 Americans in Egypt plus the annual winter In crease of tourists from here will no longer have the right of being tried only by an American consul for criminal charges. The Anglo-Egyptian treaty, after many yeara of political bickering and futile negotiation, haa arisen chiefly as a British desire to pacify at leaat one part of a troubled world. Italian aggression In Africa, Arab unreal In Palestine, Oermany's occupation of the Rhlneland and other disturbing factors speeded the sgroement. .The strange thing about this fact is that Britain did not fear ths Egypt! Vis as much as outside Influ ences In the Mediterranean area If she continued to withhold Independence. Closing Time Cor classified aiH to be properly classified In the Sunday A. M. edition must be In by 3:30 P. M. Saturday. Ads received later will be run "Too Late to Clarify." No. 131. STATE PLANNERS SEE HER Oregon Board Is Ready to Assist in This Section Gates Tells of Potential Farming Production Here The Omron atitt ni. - " f ..a.MMiie ooora has already, reoognlzed tha need for development of Irrigation and flood control projects In tho Rogue River valley and other sections of southern Oregon and it standi ready to offer every aid for such a program. It was declared todav u thm nin. . - J" 1 " KMUfll ol the state group, the Jackson coun- panning commission and othsr interested citizen here. Tho vast potential development ot this section of th it.. icslly outlined at a noon luncheon uumuug in me Hotel Medford by w. A, Gates who gave facta and figure to support tho valley's claim to needed Irrigation projects, A market for all the onions, tomatoes, poaches and other fruit and vegetables, as well as a number of other products that the region can produce, alreadf exists, he pointed out, and premium prices tempt tho growers of practl- muy ail Ol tnoso. World Por Market 1 The entire world nan hn mmntirf as a market for the onions grown hers and because of their excellent (Continued on Page Pout.) , v COPWllL ' JURIST LOS ANGELES. Aur. 2. I API TW Los Angeles detectives, guided by a bewhlskercd rlertert . nrnnM.lni u out today on a search through th rugKoo. wyamaco mountains for Joseph Crateri former New York su preme Oourt hmttr. vhn riliinuiMj outside a Manhattan night club all years ago. police expedition, headed by Cant. W. C. Allan ot the mMintr nAt. aons bureau, asked that a national guard airplane be dlapatched from here today to fly over the rocky area in which a man anawnrlnfl rntar general description was reported seen oy -i,ucKy" Biackint, Bearded gold hunter. 1 At hla incamnmint In Wtraw'i Hot Springs, historical point In th oan Diego county dbck country, cap tain Allen said Blacklet had con vinced him of the truth of his story, 10 ClTOEIS E Model Home tickets will be redeem ed At the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce from 7 to 0 o'clock next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. It was announced today. A staff ot four persons will be at the chamber to make cash refunds. A. H. Ban well, chamber manager, re quested that no one seek redemption during the day aa there will be no time to devote to the matter. The tickets, Mr. Banwoll explained, have been arranged In alphabetic; order to facilitate redemption. Stubs must be turned In, with, the name of ) the holder, at the time refunds are requested. ! ' It la planned, he said, to redeem first the ticket held locally. Later, he added, checks will be mailed to ticket holders residing ouUlde the city. Thousands Coming From Middle West HERMISTON, Aug. 28. W) Con versations with ramllles pouring into Oregon from the drought-stricken midwest led E. P. Dodd, real estate c.ealer here, td predict that ''thou sands more aro coming to the green hills" of the state. Dodd said he had talked to scores of mid-westerners as thoy passed through here, and that most ot them Lad small sums ot money ranging from I00 to 8800. . -i Income Shares , Ma7land Fund, bid 9.83; asked 10.83. quarterly Income, bid l."2; asked
