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Newspaper Page TextFalse Economy Some people word a classified ad like a telegram, then won der why they do not get re sults. This Is false economy. A house Is a house but there Is a vast difference In houses. Medford JBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-lrtrst Year jMEDFOKD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1936. No. 133. Ml The Weather Forecast; Fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler Tuesday. 'Temperature Highest yesterday 84 Lowest this morning . 46 Ml I IE DJEKf Ikmk 0) Cj) 117 1" 111 III 1 I Jliinll By PAUL MALLOX. (Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. There perns to be a split In the Union party. The great coalition is not coalescing. First noticeable signs developed when the origi nal1 Joint barn storming trip was quietly drop ped. The coadju tors, the Revs. and Drs. Cough lln Tft w n send. f I 313 Smith and their presiacnum dldate. & con- I gressnmn by the name or Lemno, were to have stormed the hin terlands trom the same soap box. Latest word from headquartera Is that they may meet on two speaking occasions during the campaign, but no more. And aome authorities around headquartera suspect that even these two occasions will never occur. The main trouble seems to be that there are too many trumpets In the band. Associates of Father Coughlln re fetm Kiirrkntlv runntns hla fin gers through his hair and wondering how he ever came to get tied up with the Rev. Gerald Smith. They picture the microphone maestro as a deeply serious and sincere man who doea not favor the methods of Huey Long's old organizer. Some of Gerald'a funny stories particularly offend the dignity of the economist assailant of the federal reserve bank. Gerald's pals, however, .say It may be only a matter of professional Jeal niiav. Bmith'a stories were enthu siastically received by; Coughlln fol lowers at hla convention, In fact, more enthusiastically than Coughlln a economic dissertations. Regardless of which explanation la right; the situation does not augur well for the unity of the unionists. Also for a time, recently, doubts were Increasing among unionist a to whether Dr. Townsend had been unionized. They think now that they have all that straightened out: that the real estate doctor Is working hand in glove with Imk and Smith. Tot some who are close to the situation ! (Continued on Page Pour.) Albert Burch On Engineer Board ' SALEM, Aug. 31. (P Albert Burch of Medford will succeed William W. Elmer of Portland on the state board of engineer examiners. Gover nor Martin announced. The governor also appointed Dr. Morris B. McKlnney of Bend to fill the unexpired term of William M. Peare of La Grande, who resigned aa a member of the state board of op tometry examiners. FINAL COAST BRIDGE . OPENING ON SUNDAY KAt.cM Auc 31. f API R. H. Bal dock, state highway engineer, said today that the last link In Orecon's new system of coast highway bridges will be opened at Newport next Sun day for regular traffic. Four other spans are In service. Three ferries pre viously used to move traffic will be discontinued. . Mshtiilng Fires Forest BAKER, Aug. 31. (AP) A storm that caused a fall of .07 of an Inch nt riin in Baker Sunday night start ed two lightning fires on the Whit man national forest. Both of the flies were smsll and were soon ex tlngulshed. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Jim Collins having pretty tough sledding selling some Insurance on a house until clanging fire engines arrived next door to extinguish a blare, Jlma victim calling up the next day and demanding full cov erage. State and city police, and firemen, getting watermelon on everything they touched for three days, after feasting on about a ton of the things donated by Saorty Morris. Arnold Bauman. who rode a bu all the way to Plalnvlew. Nebraska, and bark, moving about gingerly so aa not to interfere too much with muscles not yet recovered from the protrscted beattng. Tommy Culberteon modestly ai ' mining that Bud Cook la a good pilot, with the following little era: "Sure he's a good pilot. Why shouldn t he be? He's nad an hour and a half In the air, under my Instruction." SHOOT TO KILL IS Sheriff Warns Deputies to Take No Chances With Brite Brothers After Triple Murder in Siskiyou "Shoot to kill, and take no chances," was the order issued today by Sheriff Syd I. Brown to po sac men and deputy sheriffs en gaged in the hunt In the upper Applegate and Blue Ledge district for John Brite, 36, and Coke Turner Brite, 34, form er Jacksonville residents, sought for tho slaying of three men In the Horse creek section of Siskiyou coun ty Sunday morning. Sheriff Brown also drafted by tele phone, prospectors and residents of the Joe Bfuv district to guard roads and trails. Among these were Floyd (Big Rip) Rippey of the upper Ap plegate, crack shot and experienced guide. In the region where the Brltc brothers are hiding. Deputy Sheriffs William Gren brencr of Ashland, Deputy Sheriff Herb Moore and six state policemen have been sent to take charge of possemen on the Oregon side of the stat line. Expects Gun Day Sheriff Brown said:' "Whoever meets up with the Brltes will have to shoot It out with them unless they are taken by surprise." Advices from Yreka, Cal this morning stated a bloodhound had trailed the Brite brothers to the up per reaches of Ward creek; Sunday, whero a miner s c&btn was robbed of food. The bloodhound took a scent this morning that led towards the Blue Lodge mine district. The Brite brothers are familiar with the wild country, where they prospected and hunted for years.. - , l The region in which the hunt Is concentrating is full of hunters, ready for the opening of the deer season in California tomorrow, and prospectors. Sheriff Brown said the fugitives would have no difficulty In obtaining arms and food. Have Jacksonville Record Police records of Jackson county (Continued on Page Five.) (INGE AS YACHT HIIS SPAN ATHENS. Greece. Aug. 31. (AP) With King Edward on the deck, the yacht Kahlln smashed into a bridge today In the strait off Chalk Is, on the Aegean Island of Euboca. - The yacht, carrying the monarch on a care-free holiday In the Adriatic and Aegean seas, apparently was not seriously damaged. It proceeded on Its way after a brief Inspection. The king was not perturbed. He waved to a cheering crowd on the Che lk is bank after the collision. In which a motorboat on the yacht waa crushed and the bridge was slightly damaged. FOR- EVENTUALITIES PARIS, Aug. 31. (AP) Minister of Defense Edouard Daladler told Po land's army "strong man" today that France, by methodical reinforcement. would keep Its army "the solid buckler of the fatherland." Dsladler, speaking after Germany had doubled its term of military con script! on and after Premier Beni'.a Mussolini of Italy had proclaimed his potential J Ightlng strength to be 8,- 000,000 men. Informed Inspector-General Edward Rydz-Smlgly of Poland that France was building up Its own army. Duces Military Boast Holds Hint for Nations AVELLINO. Italy, Aug. 31. (AP) Premier Mussolini returned to Rome today after reviewing, with King Victor Emanuel, 60.000 of the 8.000.000 troops which he told the world were under his Instant com mand. The marching soldiers concluded the annual military maneuvers in which picked troops and the Italian high command participated. "We always. In the course of few hours and afw a simple order, can mobilize 8,000.000 men." he told cheering thousands who crowded the town square here yesterday. Diplomatic quarters Interpreted hi? declaration to be aimed against . racent actions by Adolf Hitlei In Germany and Joseph Stalin In Russia. U. S. Warship Guns Ready to Answer Spanish Father Advises Brites to Hide YREKA, Calif., Aug. 31. (AP) A. J. Brite, 65, father of John and Coke Brite. sought for the slaying of three men, said today he had advised his sons to hide out until possibility of their being lynched had died down. Brite said his sons told htm they thought they were being attacked when the otricers visited their camp to arrest them on assault charges. Pa, these people will mob us if we stay here'' he said Coke told him. Brite- and his wife, 65, are former Tennessee mountain eers. "It's been a bad year," the fathor said. "First Mamma got the fever In the spring, then the horse got the ringbone and couldn't plow, the pigs started cutting up and now my boys are In trouble "I am not upholding them. It they have done wrong they should pay, but I want my boys to have a fair chance. "The fellows will not give them a fair chance. I told them to go out In the woods until this thing died down and then give them selves up." TO FACE CHARGES Harold J. Foughty, 19, and Buff Marshall, 19, Longview, Washington youths hit pr ted at Redding Saturday for a "reign of terror" at Phoenix Friday night, were arraigned In Jus tice court this morning, waived pre liminary hearing, and were bound over to the grand Jury on $10,000 bond. Harold Faughty and Harvey (Buff) Marshall, nineteen-year-old Long v.ew, Wash., you t lis charged with In stigating a crlmo wave at Phoenix last Friday eveening In which three men were robbed and one severely beaten, and two autos stolen, were returned Ute yesterday from Redding. Calif., and lodged in the county Jail. The pair are charged. In complaints filed In Justice court, with assault with Intent to commit robbery; as- Continued on Page Eight ) PUTS ONE IN HOSPITAL SALEM, Aug. 31 (AP) A road house altercation near hero early Sunday sent one man to the bos. pltal, another to his home with a knife wound, and resulted In an aa asult complaint filed with the Jus tlce court here todsy. . Justice of the Peace Miller Hyden reported that H. Allen Early charged Roy Hunter with assault with dangerous - weapon. Early, he said, received a facial knife slssh and Hunter wss In the hospital with both eyes swollen shut from a beat' lng. Witnesses reported to Hayden and state police officers the fight waa caused by Jealousy over a WO' man. Teachers' Pay Boosted." NEW BERO, Aug. 31. (AP) Teachera aalarles here thla year will Increase about 7 per cent desplto a 13.000 slash In the city budget to 38,166, The reduction waa brought about by a marked decrease In out' standing warranta and consequent fl nanclng charges. The first, they declared, was the Reichsfuehrer's extension of the mil itary training period In Oermany from one to two years. The second was the Soviet dicta tor's statement the Russian armies must be prepared to march at moment's notice. Two additional Interpretations were read Into 11 Duces declaration by observers who viewed the Italian pollry as poaslbly resulting from the growth of socialistic and com munlstlc Influences In France and Spain. Further, these quartera believed, the statement was a reaffirmation of Mussolini's determination to de- fmd hit country Including the p. ;-'.! -acquired territory in East Af rica sgalnst whatever threat might artat- ICKES' FOSTER SON TAKES 01 LIFE T ILLNESS Found With Bullet Hole Through Temple in Home of" Stepfather Recently Pronounced Tubercular CHICAGO, Aug. 31. (AP) Wil marth Ickes, 37-year old foster son of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, was found shot to death today In his step-father's suburban Wlnnetka home on the first anni versay of the death of his mother, Mrs. Anna Wllmarth Ickes. Police Sergeant Harold Lewis of the suburb said "Unquestionably It Is suicide." The official said a .38 automatic pistol was on Ickes' chest. Found Tubercular Young Ickes recently learned he had tuberculosis, Interior department officials said in Washington. Win netka police also thought he might have brooded over the death of his motber near Velarde, N. M., when an automobile In which she was rid ing was overturned. Secretary Ickes immediately board ed a plane at Washington for Chi cago. Wllmarth Ickes' wife, the former Elizabeth Dahlman of Milwaukee, waa notified of the tragedy aa she returned to 'Chicago from a lake cruise. With her were their children. Donald, 12 and Anna, 10. and Bar bara, 0. Found By Gardener i The body waa found by Firlo Mag- nuson, gardoner and carotflker of the elder Ickes' estate. The cabinet member formally (Continued on Page Eight) I TULE LAKE FLOOD KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. 31. (AP) Twelve combine moved over Louis Kandra'a barley field on Tule lake today as a shaky dike held back flood waters that now have inundated most of the acreage on Has kins and Cox brothers leases. Although Kandra's grain was not yet fully matured. It was deemed wise to start emergency harvesting operations aa water moved against the dike that separates the Kandra and Hasklns leases. Hasklns gave up harvesting work at midnight Saturday, leaving about 500 acres of standing grain covered by water. OF GOV. BEN ROSS BOISE, Idaho. Aug. 31. (AP) Physical suffering has dimmed Oo ernor C. Ben Robs' thoughts of the campaign he had planned to strip the worn United states senatorial toga from the ahouldera of Republi can William K. Borah. For two weeks the body of the greying ex-cowboy, who has guided Idaho's atate government through six years of economic turbulence, haa been wracked with neuritis pain that has left deep lines on a haggard face "Right now all I'm thinking about la getting well." Ross told a newsman who waa permitted to spend a few minutes today at hla beside In St. Alphonsus hospital. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Aug. 31. (AP-U8DA) Pear auctions: 40 cars arrived; 28 California, 8 Oregon, 1 Washington unloaded; S3 on truck; California ar- rtved by boat; California Bartletts, i5.088 boxes 11.35-3.40, average 12.00; D'AnJous, 287 boxes, M 85-2 80. aver age 82 24; Oregon Bartletts. 608 box es extra fine. II 70-2-SS, average 82 00; 098 boxes fancy 81.60-3.10, average 1.B3; Washington Flemish, 370 boxes rxtra fancy, ai.TO-l-M, average I1M CHICAOO. Aug. 31. fAP-USDAJ eat auctions: 24 cars California, 2 Oregon, 2 Washington, 2 carload ar rived: 14 on track, 17 sold; California Bartletts, 8 610 boxes 81.60-2 80, aver age 82.25, Washington Bartletts, 1.- (80 boxes extra fancy 11 53-2 00. aver age 8177; 360 boxes lncy, 8165-1.85 jverage 11.76; Oregon Bartleiu, 720 toxet fDcy, 81 0Q-ift, aversge 81.92 Dignitaries The fine-draped casket of George If. Hern of I tan, lata secretary of war, Is shown being borne from the Mount Pleasant Congregational church In Washington. II, C. after rites attended hy many national digni taries, Im-lydlug Secretary of Htiite ('orde)l Mull and Mrs. Franklin l. Roosevelt. A second service will be held nl Htift Lake City, where burial will lake place, (AHhOelnleri Tress Photo). IT' BY BEER DISPENSER T( PENDLETON. Aug. 31 (AP) John McMann of Walla Walla was In the county Jail today awaiting an In quest on the death of Joe Maderes, Camp Mottct CCO enrol lee from Boston, who waa shot last night In a beer parlor near Camp Tollgate. Called to Camp Tollgate last night to Investigate the shooting were Sheriff Bob Goad, County Coroner Pat Folsom and District Attorney C. C. Proebstcl. Shortly before 10 o'clock last night Maderes with some friends entered the beer parlor which McMann was (Continued on Page Three ) 4 SEVERED BY GLASS Week-end traffic accidents In and around Medford resulted In the more or less serious Injury of seven persons, c:ty police records show today, With L W. Marshall, Junior high school teacher, Buffering the loss of the lit tle finger from his left hand In a crash with a taxi at Fourth and Fir streets yesterday morning. Marshall was driving a Ford sedan east on West Fourth, crossing Into the Fir street Intersection. A Yellow Csb taxi travelling north on Fir was said In police reports to have crashed Into tho side of the Marshall car, and flying glass severed the finger when the Jar broke the side window. Both cars were badly damaged. Marshall Is said by city police to have told them that he saw the cab too late, but swerved In an attempt to get by, The cab was dilven by Auner Cox. Mrs. Chester Oault was a passenger in the taxi. Saturday night a car diivsn by Wal do K. Morrison, Rosewood apsrtments, Medford, Is ahown in police reports to nave turned in front of a sedan driv en by Victor Van De Wegle of Hilt, Injuring Miss Alva Oeary (Mrs. Mor (Continued from Pag Eight) (! MEET, ELECT TUESDAY The Medford chapter of the Ore gon Republican club will elect offi cers tomorrow evening at a meettr.if In the Hotel Medford basement ban quet room. It was announced today by Don Newbury, present head of the organlrntlon, DICRst-s to the state convention to be held fn Corvallls September 16 and 17 will also be elected. Newbury said. Attend Dern's Funeral BASEBALL National . , , . ... . ... v R. H. E. Hew York ........... , 0 6.0 Chicago .4 1 12 1 Clabler, Cnstlcmnn nnd Mancuso; Wnrncke nnd Hnrtnctt Anicrlnin. R. H. E. 1 4 1 8 2 Bronca and Chicago ................ New York Dietrich and Dickey. E OALLUP, N. M., Aug. 81. Col. Roscoe Turner's first airplane crash In nineteen years of flying had knocked him out of the transconti nental Bendlx trophy race today. En route to New York for the event, tho holder of the east-west speed record, who has not missed this race since he first entered In 1028. was forced down on a little farm plot In tho heart of the Zunl Indian reser vation some 60 mile south of here early yesterday. The fast little golden, low-winged menoplone waa completely wrecked, the 'pilot was able to ride 18 miles by horseback to the town of Zunl, where an Indian service employe picked him up and brought him here by automobile. MODEL HOME TICKETS REDEEMABLE TONIGHT Redemption of Model Home tickets will be atarted at the Jackson Ooun ly Chamber of Commerce at 7 o'clock tonight. The tickets will be redeemed in cash tonight, tomorrow and Wed nesday night between 7 and 0 o'clock. After tlcketa sold locally have been refunded, chock, will be mailed to ticket holders outside the city, It was explained. Stuba must be presented when redemption Is sought. 4 Progs for breeding sell as high aa a.M5 each. New Deal Critics Target For Martin at Picnic PORTLAND, Aug. 81. (AP) A challenge to "anyone" to say suc cessfully that the Roosevelt admin istration was "foolish" In spending 87.490.000.000 to end the depression came from Oov. Charles Martin at a picnic rally Sunday of an esti mated 10.000 Democrat here. Attacking the "carping crltlca" of the spending program of the admin istration, the governor remarked: "It haa been said that figures never lie but that liars figure. I may add that Mara also make It a prac tice to deal In half truths, the bet ter to pursue their own course and hoodwink the public." Comparing the amount spent by the administration to the 82n,000, 000,000 expended la the World war, PLANS TO E PORTLAND, Aug. 81, (AP) Northwest pear growers Joined In a program today to expand their mar kets at home and abroad. Meeting over the .week-end with federal AAA rcprcBenUtivei, the Ore gon-Washington pear bureau trust ees, representing producers, agreed to a plan by which federal funds would be used 'to assist In the merchan dising of the fruit along lines already developed In California, Designed to relieve the industry from constriction of foreign markets and an accompanying limiting of sates outlets, the plan calls for sub sidies and Indemnities as yet unde- (Continued on Page Three.) SIDNEY, Neb., Aug. 8t-(AP) President Roosevelt said In a short Informal . address here today that summer fallowing In the western Nebraska panhandle had proved a beneficial, forward-looking step In meeting the drought. Leaving his special train for a tour of relief projects and farm houses In thla area, the president paused at a microphone beside his private car and spoke to several thousand persons from Nebraska and Colorado standing In a blaeing sun. The special train carrying the body of the late George H. Dern of Utah, secretary of war, passed through as the Roosevelt special arrived. The Roosevelt train will go to Salt Lake City aa the second section of the funeral train. A Connecticut town fined an auto- ist 819 for kissing his wife while drlr- Ing. he said that "Yet the carping critics deplore this expenditure," despite the fact It was made to save the Amer ican people from the "menaces and dangers, communism and fascism. "Who Is it who can successfully say that the American people are not worth that much and that the ex pendtture has not been construct ive?" he asked. "The answer Is: It la those who deal In political chicanery and In do lng so. try to prove their points with half truths that are lies." Among other apeakera were Claude McColloch, state party chairman, Howard Lntourette, national com mlttfeman. Representative Pierce and 7-mWy KUion, national - committee woman s Commanders of American Ships to Use Own Judg ment in Further Attacks Mistaken Identity Claimed WASHrNQTON, Aug. 81. NaT M officers, scanning reports of the at tempted bombing of the destroyer Kane, Indicated a belief today that. American war vessels In Spanish wat ers would answer with renewed gun fire any further attacks which might endanger them. Whether such action would be nee ewary remained to be seen. The Amer ican government, startled by yester day's attempt to sink the destroyer eff the Spanish coast, already haa made awlft and emphatlt protest to the Madrid regime and the rebels . calling, on. them to prevent another t,uch incident. Although manifestly hopeful that i:o new Incident of that character will occur, navy department attaches said a commanding officer's first consider ation waa the protection of hla ship snd crow, and that he had full dis ci etion to proceed In any manner he sees fit to Insure that protection. Authorized To Shoot Should the Judgment of any of tha commanding officers of the five ships row In Spanish waters be that use of the ship's guns la necessary In aa emergency he ban full authority ta resort to such procedure; -, Speculation was stirred In official rnd unofficial otrcles over the pos rtble attitude of the United State government hod the Kane been hit and damaged by one of the bombs, tut officials declined to comment publicly. 1 Thus far the embassy at Madrid r.as not reported concerning a strong (Continued on Pi Re Three.) f- FOR AUGUST SET RECORD FOR CITY Building permits for this month leaped to an all-time high for August, city records show, with a total of 963,040. The total was swelled by a 30,000 permit granted to the Church of the Nazarene for a new church building at 331 North First street, mar the Junior high school, and 30,000 permit for remodelling the Montgomery Ward building at ' the corner of Central and Eighth streets, Three new residences are being constructed, the record shows, Ralph B. Green, 407 West Jackson boulevard Is building one at a cost of 3000, Mrs. Georgia A. Strange will build one costing 2500 at 30 Ashland ave nue, and Lionel J. Cog will build on costing lOOO at 716 South Peach street. The total was divided Vto five divisions, the permits amounting to (Continued on Pagt Five.) 55 CARS PEARS PORTLAND, Aug. SI. (AP) A pear ahlpment described by fruit ex porters aa the largest ever booked from thla port will be loaded today on the Norwegian motorshlp, Wash ington Express, for delivery at Ham, Rotterdam. Liverpool and Glasgow. The ahlpment, which originated la Medford, waa brought here in 69 re frigerator can and while office ra of a fruit express line declined to state the alee of the cargo, it waa esti mated unofficially at 00,000 boxes. It will mark the first major ship ment of fresh fruit out of the north west thla year. Fruit men hen today aatd the Urge shipment waa made up from consignments dispatched from Med ford by a number of shippers. Income Shares Maryland Fund: Bid 9.84, asked 10.64. Quarterly Income: Bid 1.71; asked 1.90.