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Better Posted It li hard to rind a newsier pare In newspaper than the classified page. Read this page today and see If you are not better potted than before. r MEDFORD Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-tfirst Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936. No. 135. ' tt IN The Weather Forecast: Lnwttled and cool er tonight and Thursday, prob ably with showers. Highest yesterday IS Lowest this niornlng. 49 Precipitation last 24 hri .10 ilmf'i RIBUNE V- mer N -a El 1 . i I "ggs I RESIDENTS FLEE M Rgpfmnri rnny oiinnnn m - LTvffilM riUiyiOUDUIDIU r n mm aiii By PAUL MAI.LON j (Copyright, 1038, by Paul Mallon.) : WASHINGTON, Sept. a. The Lit erary Digest frequently takes a trial poll in advance of its regular poll, merely for Its own private use. Technicians call It a "pilot poll," because It Is sup posed to furnish a guide to what may be expected later from the larger public poll. Usually the re sult of this poll leak out unof ficially, but this year they nave been guarded more securely than tuual. One reason Is supposed to be that It showed a heavier percentage tor Landon than any of the other jolls now current; In fact, a gentleman of trustworthy veracity and exceptionally good eye sight saw the totals one day last week when they showed this unex pected line-up: Landon, 66 percent. Roosevelt, 37 percent. Lemke. 7 per cent. Note The pilot poll also hinted at a fairly strong Republican majority In Maine where the election will be held September 15. A technical explanation for the un expected Landon lead this early In the game la that the figures Included tew votes from strong Roosevelt ter ritory and many from pro-Landon strongholds In tho east. Pew returns were thon In from the south. Nevertheless, a debate has already started among the few top politicians . who have received the pilot tip. . The r question centers on whether the Di gest method will prove to be as ac curate this year a In the past, be cause of different technical factors involved. The Digest ordinarily In the past has collected names from directories, mainly city, automobile and tele phone. The Roosevelt vote this year is expected to draw heavily from classes which are not on the tele thons and auto lists and may not be in available city directories. The debate will probably wax warmer from now until November. The retirement of Uncle Sam's only woman diplomat was announced as a political move. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde asked to be relieved of her Denmark post to campaign for the president. Unmentloned was tho fact that lawyera and diplomat have been de bating Mrs. Owen's citizenship status since she became Mrs. Rohde. The official view unannounced waa that Mrs. Owen could legally -have remaln i ed as American minister despite an old treaty with Denmark which eeem fti to place her status In doubt. Law- iContlnueo on Page 8IX) Mrs. White Buys Washington Store The Washington store at 424 South Peach street Is now under the man agement of Mibel White, who re cently purchased the business from a. Huber, according to announce ment made today. A complete stock of groceries, vege tables, dulry products, fresh ano smoked meat, lunch goods and school supplies are featured at the Washington store. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPOETEK8 Eddie Simmons telling Tod Porler's wife that he was going to sue the old man for etatblng him with a pair of scissors, while Eddie was getting his hair hewn. Postmaster Prank DcSour. draping the phle of his office clock out of deference to Its no'.-to-reccnt demise, and so he won't be able to tell the vTong time anymore. Myrtle Blakeley reaching Into her pocket and absently drawing out a wooden doll with a disjointed head gazing blankly at It for a moment, and finally deciding some child must have left It there for a Joke. Coaches Bowerman and Aohcson looking about frantically for means of telling their Senior and Junior hlch footballen. they can get their equipment lomorrcw between IU and 13 at their respective schools, and this department r.obly offering Ite rervlces. Bob Spalding producing the fol lowing knock-knock: "Whoa there?" "H.'almer" (pronounced Halmcr. of cou?cj. "HJalmcr who?" "Hjalmer doin' hey! hey!" 1 Bloody Day-Long Struggle Gives Spanish Rebels Pos- t session of Last Govern ment Defense Outpost BEHOBIE. France, Sept. 2. (AP) Spanish government troops tonight fled across the Bldassoa river bridge Into this French ter ritory, which was swept by bul lets fired as Spanish rebels fought government defenders In the Spanish suburb. Behobla, near Irun. Bullets fired In Spain rlchoted off walls, trees and houses In this French city. Many Spanish government troops were shot down while attempting to Ford the pidassoft river. nimnmA' France. Sept. 3. ( AP) The advance guard of the rebels at tacking Irun tonight enierea ine streets of the city's suburb Behobla. After an all-day advance over the ia.fc government entrenchment out side Irun. the Insurgent forces final ly gained the outsklrta ot wnooia. Resident of the Spanish city Be hobla had fled across the bridge over the Bldassoa, river to the French city Behobla. Copyright, 1836. by Associated Press. BIBIATOU, Franco-Spanish Border. Sept. 3. An overpowering surge of Spanish rebels fought their way to night to the 'outskirts of Behobla. suburb of long-defended Irun, In a bloody, day-long struggle. ' Rebels advanced from the newly won redoubt to capture Mamelon trench the governments last post of defense outside the city of Irun. ' . Then the rebel, descended Jth other side of the hills to out off the customs house where IB government machine gunner remained at their post. ' ? Three Irun defenders escaped in a car along the road to Behobla but three others were blown up by hand grenadea hurled by advancing fascist rebel. The laat resident of Behobl creas ed the International bridge over the Bldassoa river Into Prance as the battle raged. E ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 3 (AP) Searching planes late today sighted Pilot Steve Mills' missing plane wrecked near Skllak lake, on the Kenal Peninsula, 60 miles south of here. The search plane parties said they circled over the wreckage and could see no signs of life and believed Mills and his four passenger, two of them women, may have started walking. ANCHORAGE. Alaka, Sept. 3. W Pilot Steve Mills and his wife and hla five airplane passenger failed to return from a short flight to the Rus sian river on the Kenal pcnlruul Sunday and today apprehension for their safety spread through the city. When the plan became two days overdue, Kenneth Neese, manager of the Star Air Service, searched the Kenal peninsula all day nd return ed last night without trace of the ship or It occupant. Bound for a day' fishing on the Russian river and an hour by !r from here, Mills and his pasenger. Mr. and Mrs. George Markle. Mr. and Mrs Lawrence David and Augustus lelk, all of Anchorage, took off Sun day morning, planning to return that night. The weather of Russian river was thick at the time the plan wa due In the vlelnlty. While the Mill ship wa missing, five airplanes carried on search north of Edmonton. Alta.. for Plight Lieut. Sheldon Coleman and J. forty, air craftsman, of the Royal Censdian air force. They disappeared seventeen day ago In a pontoon-equipped plane on a trip over wild country. PORTLAND, Sept. 3 UP) Lou Ann Markle, 10-year-old Anchorage, Alas ka, girl lay quietly In bed In the Shriner' hospital for crippled chil dren today, unaware of a search un derway In Alaska for en airplane which disappeared with a couple be lieved to be her parents aboard It. The child has been confined for (Continued on Page Two.) E-fena'or Dies. DES MOINES. la.. Sept. 3 (API Charles A. nswion Of Do Moines. 67. former United States senator from Iowa, died today. New Clues Spur. Hunt For Brite Brothers President and Republican Opponent Will Gather With Six Governors at Des Moines to Eye Needs WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. (AP) Precipitating a Roosevelt-Landon meeting on ground termed non polltlcal by both, a search for an swer to the "worst drought In cllmatologlcal history" again will center national Interest tomorrow. The great dry apell of 1936, offici ally labeled the "worst" by the weather bureau In August but since alleviated In some sections by rain, will bring the president, the Repub lican presidential' nominee and alx other governors to a Des Moines con ference table. A survey of the mag nitude of the present problem for which they seek an answer today ,showed: A total ot 1.093 countiea In 33 states on the federal emergency re lief. A sunburned corn crop, officially estimated at more than 800.000.000 bushels under that of last year! An army of farmers, reported at more than 116.000 by WPA. working on emergency relief project. An Initial expenditure ot around $18,000,000 by three drought relief agencies, with tens ot millions more Ui prospect. , ' None here today would even guess officially at tbe total-and final coat to the nation of the disruption brought about by too much of one element of life, heat from the sun. and too little of another, moisture. BASEBALL National, - .; R. H. E. Brooklyn ... 0 7 0 1 Chlcag6 .... 4 8 0 Butcher. Winston and 1helps, Oarleton and Hartnett. Philadelphia--at Pittsburgh post poned: rain. Boston at Cincinnati, postponed; rain; doublcheader tomorrow. American, R. H. E. St. Louis .13 18 0 Philadelphia ; 11 12 3 Knott and Hemsley; Ross, Rhodes, Li sen bee and Hayea. Chicago at Boston postponed; rain; doublcheader tomorrow. FOR PAVING STRIP ON HOLLY STREET The city council last night adopted an ordinance providing for the pav ing of South Holly street between the end of the present paving and the south line of lot 10, block 8 In South Park addition. . The paving was requested some time ago In a petition presented by property owners. Cost of the Im provement Is to be assessed against the adjacent property In proportion tt the benefit received thereby. The ordinance provided for a pub lic hearing on the project at the next regular meet'ng of the council, Sep tember 15. The ordinance called upon affected property owners to show cause. If any, at that time why the improvement should not be car ried out. Upon recommendation of H, 8. Douel as chairman of the land ap praisal committee the council ap proved the sale of three city-owned lota to L. Boyd. The property con stitutes lots 1, 2 and 3. block 2, Con-toy-Clancy addition, situated on the north side of Euclid avenue east of Academy Place. The second and third readings of a pending coning ordinance were de ferred until the next meeting of the council at the suggestion of Mayor Oeorge W. Porter to give the council men additional time In which to study the document and confer with W Bernard Roberts, chairman of the city planning commission. JACKSONVILLE SCHOOLS OPENING SEPTEMBER H JACKSONVILLE. Sept. 2. ffipl.) In order to permit many of the stu dents to continue work In the fruit harvest, the schools of this city will not open until Monday, September U. It t (wuriOftd ted? E WILL CUT DEFICIT Roosevelt Forecasts Two Bil'ion Required Above Re ceipts Bonus, Drought Cause Budget Revision By William S. Artlery Associated press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. (P) Pre dieting a new peak In the govern ment'a peacetime Income, President Roosevelt's revised budget summary today forecast a (2,007,000,001) deficit for the current fiscal year. Tills figure, fixed In a re-check of earlier budget estimate la to yester day, compared with (4,764,000,000 last year, 3 ,575,000,000 In 1935 and 3t 9B9.000.000 In ,1934. Drought Relief Factor rhe president's relief estimates had both favorable and unfavorable as pects. Although saying that unem ployed are steadily being absorbed Into Industry, he balanced this with assertions that "substantial" expendi tures would be necessary for drought relief and that It will be several months before it can be determined whether work relief rolls can be cut sufficiently to bring them within the limit of present available funds. Even should additional appropria tions be found necessary, however, Mr. Roosevelt' aald these would total less than $500,000,000. Estimating receipts at (5,665,839,000 for the year ending next June 30, the chief executive pointed out, this was , Viet Increase of (12,000,000 over his original budget estimate last Janu ary despite (668,000,000 of unexpect ed losses In revenue through Invali dation of - special taxes under the (Continued on Page Pour ) L E PORTLAND, Sept. 3. (AP) The state capltol reconstruction commis sion opened four bids today for ex cavation work for the projected capl tol, the lowest being (6410 by Roy L. Houck. Salem. The bid will be awarded af ter ex amination by C. C. Hockley, PWA administrator, probably within 24 hours. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 2. (AP) Initial work on Oregon's (2,500.000 statehouse drew a step nearer today as members of the capltol recon struction committee met to open blda after receiving assurance that the public works administration would pass on the offers within the next 24 hours. Bids on excavation work were scheduled to be opened at 2 p. m. State PWA Administrator C. O. Hock ley promised prompt action In de termining the winner. Work was expected to atart within a week. Fine Structure Promised Yesterday's session of the commis sion and architects saw settled many dec tails pertaining to the finished structure and brought a statement from Francis Keally, one of the win ners of the architectural contract, that the new statehouse would be on of the most "charming and beautiful" capltol buildings tin the nation. FORECAST TONIGHT After a day of chilling rains the weather wanned up somewhat today but the meteorological bureau pre dicted another dip in the mercury to night and tomorrow. Conditions would continue unsettled, the bureau The temperature reached a maxi mum of 72 degrees yesterday as con trasted with a top of 96 last week. Low this morning of 49 was four de grees under yesterday's minimum but by noon the thermometer stood at six degrees above yesterday's com parable reading. The weather bureau s new year got off to a good start so far as precipi tation was concerned. To 5 a. m. to day the bureau measured JO of an :nch of rain, .18 above norma for tbt onth to tiAte, Scenes and Figures in Yreka Slayings I :feM'W iill?' t WfK .? A l-4 ?( A 5"'wl5 it? "v hi I Lt&: tJ - -J A l3 1 ft i "A , i yU 1 w r ' A $h ' 'is v ! u , vaA i ' Jsfi h it. I Sheriff w. O. Chandler (renter. In (op picture) of Rink htm count v. (;nl.. on (he Irnll with one of the poe hands limiting John and ('tike Itrlle. inisiertlii hrnfhrr who killed three men near Vrekn. when officers sought to serve asanlt warranis on them. IWt center: A. J, llrlle, nnd Mrs. Martha llrlle, 01, pit rent of John and Coke. "For (tod's anfce mine home, to mother and dad." Mrs. Itrlte wrote In an appeal to her sons, "the sherlfr bas promised a square deal." Charles Raker, (renter left) a resident of the Horse Creek mountain country near Yreka, was the only survivor of a party of four men who tried to serve the unrrantH on the llrlle brothers. In I Hp battle which followed Baker escaped with his life, his companions being slain. Lower: District Attorney .lames Davis (left) of 81'klyou coun ty nnd E. II. .Matthews, chief criminal deputy, with the gun broken over the head of Deputy Kherirr .Martin Unp in tho battle with the llrltc brothers, (A. P. Photon) Pour youths, two sr res ted here and two arrested In northern California, are In the county jail today charged with the theft of autoa from Salem and Portland. Byron Swenson, 18, an escape from the state train I iv? school at Wood burn, and Robert Mathls, 19, admit tedly a former Inmate of the tr?n lng school, are charged with the theft of a pord coach, stolen In Port land on July 22. They were arrested here last night by state police when it was discovered they were driving a Ford equipped with II wise plates Issued to a Portland Studebakcr. They will be held for Multnomah county authorities. Pranklln E. Bragg, 20. and Arthur P. Johnson, 19, were arrested at Yrcka yesterday by Captain Oeorge B. Daily of the California highway pa trol. The two were In possession of a Chrysler roadster stolen In Salem. They waived extradition and were re turned here to await the arrival of Marlon county authorities. The two are subject to prosecution under the Dyer act, federal law against trcni porting stolen automobiles acroaa a aute la TRACT LET ON ILL CREEK JOB BALKM, Sept. 3. (AP) Tho state highway commission awarded rond projects amounting to about 400,000 today. The largest Job, grading and psv Ing 1.38 miles on the Ross Island Schiller street section of the East Portland-Oregon City highway, and construction of a viaduct and retain ing walls, went to Partcr-Schram company of Portland on a bid of 1243.418. Conr. uctlon of the Mllwaukle undercronsing on the same road pro ject was let to the Hoffman Construc tion company of Portland on Its bid Of M9.693. McNutt Brothers of Eugene were awarded the 1.68 miles grading of the Wall creek-Slsklyou section of tlte Pacific highway in Jackson county. The low bid was 193,790, A fandango Is a lively Spanish ' ALL PLAGES HERE CLOSE LABOR DAY Labor Day, Monday, September 7. will b observed as a holiday gener ally throughout Mcdtord. Tho federal building, county courthouse, city hall, banks and state liquor storo will be closed all day. All Mcdtord stores will be closed throughout the day, It wa announced by C. D. Bean, chairman of the re tall merchants' committee of the Jackson County Chamber ot Com merce. All city store are now ob serving 9 o'clock closing hour on Saturday nights, permission to close later on Baturdaya during the fruit season having been granted by the atat labor department. Th liquor store will remain open until II p.m. Saturday, as usual. Sliver NEW TOIIK. Sept. 3 (API Bar silver slcl wjd WKbangca tt lift. Three Recently Abandoned Camp Fires Found On Silver Creek May Be Jailed Here if Captured YREKA, Calif., Sept. 2. (AP) An offer of leniency from District At torney Jnmes Davis for John H. and Coke T. Brite, hunted as triple Killers, strengthened belief of offic ials here today the brothers will sur- ' render. Davis announced he does not In tend to prosecute the B rites for first degree murder and Indicated he honed they would send word they nre reiidy to aubmlt to legal justice. Three recently abandoned camp Jlrca on Sliver Pork creek, near Dutchman Peak, In the Blsklyous, spurred the hunt for John and Cok Turner Brite, sought as triple mur derers, and resulted In the return to posse duty of Jackson county deputy ' sheriffs, and state police, Sheriff Syd, I. Brown said today. State troopers were asatgned to pa trol duty In the Blsklyous, and deputy aherlffa have been atatloned at three potnta In the upper Applegate dlatrlct, Sheriff Brown said. Jackson county deputies and the state police were withdrawn Monday night. A telephone message from Sheriff W. 0. Chandler of Siskiyou county re quested tho patrol ot trolls and roads. Dogs On Trail. .wBUklynu -county-posse of picked, men 1 now following the lead of the three abandoned camp fires, with doga tracking In a southern dlreo- tlon, Sheriff Brown said. The sheriff stated It was the presumption the camp fires were built by the Brltes In their flight. The fires were con siderable distance apart, Sheriff Brown aald, "If the Brite , are captured by Jackson county poa semen, they will most certainly be , held In the county Jail here, pending delivery to California authorities." He concluded: "I do not know what Sheriff Chandler will do with the men, if he catches them. Any ar rangement for keeping them here would have to be made with Salem authorltlea, as a precaution against (Continued on Page Two.) SCHOOLS OF CITY T All publla schools of the dty will open, September 8th, 193. At the Junior and senior high school regis tration ot new pupils In these schools wilt be conducted Friday, September 4th and Tuesday, September 8th. Pupils who were registered last spring need not register again but will report tor classes Tuesdsy morning, A limit ed number of post graduate student In high school will be accommodated uaual where a genuine purpose for attending school I manifested. In de- partmenta which are crowded, how ever, preference Is always given to undergraduates. Post graduate stu dents may register after Thursday of the first week. The elementary school, grade l-, will register their pupil when they report Tuesday morning. (Bus pupil from the country need not report un til Tuesdsy morning. ) Working Pupils May Walt Tor pupils actually employed, pro vision will be made whereby they may remain out of eehoo! for a time and may register week or so lata, pupil not gainfully employed are eipected to be on hand at the opening of school. Teacher' organization meeting hvo been scheduled for Friday morn ing. The general teachers meeting with the superintendent will be at t a. m. Saturday, September i, at the Junior high school. Following this, there will be, at 10 a. m., meeting of the teacher with the prlnoiral at the several buildings. K J. an elementary teacher meeting will be held at the Lincoln school to plan the work for the first six weeks. The high school will open at I a. m. and close at 3:30 p. m. Pupil (Continued on Pag Three ) Income Shares Maryland Fund, bid t.lt: asked 10.58. Quarterly Income, bid 1.71; aiked 190,
