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Newspaper Page TextBargain The Weather Forecast: Shower Sunday and Monday. Continued cool. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday 62 Lowest yesterday .... 43 Thirty-First Year toy Paul .Ma I Ion Copyright, 1936, by Paul MaHon WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. Hitler demands a colonial African empire from Britain and France In a brist ling military speech at Nuremberg Soviets stage troop maneuvers on white Rus sian frontier Prance announ ces an f umpteen million franc plan for military expansion over the next four years Hull bluntly warns of war In speech to power congress These are the - flashy develop ments wit urn the span of two recent days. If they do not add up to a war Just around the next corner, then a lot of people must be fooling. The answer Is: Ballyhoo. Hitler was bragging to the annual Nazi party rally that he had accom plished, all his objectives. He had been 100 per cent successful. A lead er In Hitler's shoes without a pur pose must either arrange for a pair of slippers or another purpose. The colonial empire demand will save htm from going to the shoo store. However, he will wear through many another pair before he gets any worthwhile colonies out of France or Britain. They will stall him off with suggestions that he offer disarma ment In return. The negotiations will drag on Interminably. Thero will be no war about that: Both sides understand the game. Soviet troop maneuvers were like wise timed for the Nazi political con vention, and for domestic political effect. It showed the red peasant how alert his government la to the Nazi and other menaces, after having Just survived a supposed Trotzky revolution. If Hitler can beat his chest without coughing, so can the Russians. The French have secret budgets for their military expenditures. They announce what they choose. If It happens to be inaccurate, the world never knows the difference. This time, the French announcement neglected to say what they intended to use the new army appropriation for. purposely leaving the impression that a vast expansion of the army was planned The fact is her airplanes are obso lete. She waa the first nation to have an efficient air force. She had over 3000 planes the first of this year. But remsrkable strides have been made In aviation lately. She will use most of her new francs to keep up with the Germans. No war will come of that. There Is no reason to believe Mr. Hull had any private Information leading him to suspect war la nearer than the public generally suspect. He did not profess to have any. If he has. ha la keeping something from most of his advisers, Hts speech waa Intended only as a warning. And. incidentally, many a New Deal politico, consider the possibility of war within the next four years is another reason why President Roose velt should be elected. No war will come of this warning no peace either. Some votes may. The authorities here who know as much about war prospect aa anyone else have not recently changed their stre-up of the situation. They think the odds are 10 to 1 acalnst war In the next year, but enly about 2 to I against an out break In 1938. There la also a fair chance that the International dis armament movement will be revived before then and some agreement reached which will delay war even further. Most of -the nations are getting what they want, and will have to ease up on . expenditures or fight.. Their hunch la that the spot where ar la most likely to break la not the one upon which the eyes of the world now are focused, but on the fr eastern frontier, where Russia and Japan are glaring at each other The navy and state departments are becoming more and more involv ed in their "mistaken Identity" theory of the bombing of the Kane. The seriousness of the incident is over, but not the discomfiture of the officials. Their first story sounded a little weak, but now It Is near ex haustion. The original official Interpretation vas that the plane was low enough to disclose that It was a tnree-motored ship, but too far up to see two LMliilj wmmmmmiASamm continued on Pa ftix. Day Subscription Offer MEDFGRD Full Associated Press WAR HELD FRUIT OF WORLD TREND G.O.P. Nominee In Fighting Speech Challenges F. D. Rs To Admit Errors 'In Plain Language.' PORTLAND. Me.. Sept. 12. (AP pledging himself "to save our system of free enterprise," Gov. Alf M. Lan don said tonight the New Deal would be leading the nation toward a "cen tralized government of unlimited power" during a world trend from democracy "that means but one thing war." Bareheaded on a Hag-draped plat form in the municipal stadium, the Republican presidential nominee fac ed Maine voters, crowding a wet field in a fog that blurred bright floodlight. Lewis O. Barrows. Re publican candidate for governor, es timated the throng at from 12.000 to 15.000. "I doubt If civilisation can with- I stand 'another war." Landon empha- I aized into microphones that carried his .voice Into all corners of the field I as well as throughout the nation. Applaxise burst forth when the I candidate predicted a Republican victory In Maine Monday which "will i start a victory pamde that will span the nation." Landon's address on "Government and Business" climaxed his first cam paign tour of New England Industrial centers. A parade from the 'station where hts special train stopped, through the. heart of Portland to the munici pal field preceded hie address. The governor took off an overcoat before stepping forward to present his "solution" "to free the forces of competition to stamp out unfair trade practices and monopoly." His delivery waa much the same as that of other addresses; he kept hts hands on his manuscript, using nods of his heed for emphasis. "Planned Kroiiomy" Hit Contending that "planned economy la Incompatible with the democartlc form of government," Landon told applauding listeners thnt "the con sequences of government domination over economic life" abroad provided "one reason why the Republican par ty stands squarely across the road down- which we are being driven by the present administration." "The Republican party opposed un limited executive power for another reason." he said, as more fog drifted from the Atlantic across the field. This reason Is that the world-wide trend away from democracy here means but one thing that one 'thing Is war. Any weakening of democracy means the final route of democracy everywhere. "The trend against democracy must be stopped at once If the world Is to escape a major catastrophe. I doubt If civilization can survive another war." Landon frequently was Interrupted by bursts of applause, sometimes from the front reserved sats. some times from the grandstand behind, and frequently from the audience In general. One of the loudest shouts of ac clamation waa accorded the nominee's statement that the "Republican party rejects" a policy of unlimited execu tive power. Another cheer greeted (Continued on pge Ten.) E PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept. 12 (AP) A third Portland Industry was af fected today as Industrial warfare spread to a new front. The Crown mllla shut down law yesterday when 200 cereal workers walked out, leaving a picket lino and a cloud of conflicting union and company statements behind them. Meanwhile, the iron mouldera' strike situation waa further compli cated by refusal of union teamsters to paw through picket lines to make deliveries to machine shops at other wise closed foundries. Developments remained at a stand still in the drug teamsters' strike with unions permitting common car riers to transport shipments from the picketed firms. Blumauer-Frank company and McKevon-Paclf 1c com pany. Bert Shelton. business agent of the Weighers', Warehousemen and Cereal Workers' union, aald the Crown strike waa an outgrowth of repudiation t7 compary MiMolnls of an agreement to negotiate with the union for changes in hours, wages and working condi tion. CONE Highlights of Landon Speech PORTLAND. Me.. Sept. 13. (AP) Highlights from the address of Gov. Alf. M. Landon of Kansas tonight: "What the NRA really undertook to do in this country was to terminate our system of free competition, and to substitute for it a system of government-created and government protected monopolies." "The National Recovery act Is dead, thanks to the courage and Integrity of the supreme court." "But the spirit of the NRA lives on. It lives on in recently enacted laws. It lives on in the efforts of this ad ministration to get around the de cisions of the supreme court. It lives on In this administration's 1936 plat form, t lives on In the recent public utterances of the President and his spokesmen. "But above all, It lives on In the spirit of the President who has con fessed no error who has let It be clearly known that he considered It would be a catastrophe If the Ameri can farmer should 'once more become a lord on his own farm,' "If this does not mean that the present administration wants to es tablish government domination of In dustry and agriculture, what does It mean? If the President has changed his mind and recognizes his errors, let him say bo. Let him say so In plain language. Until we have such an admission of error, the choice be fore us Is clear. "We are being taken down the road that leads to a centralized govern ment of unlimited power. The Repub lican party rejects this policy." "Planned economy Is incompatible with the democratic form of govern ment." "There Is no greater, no more Im portant responsibility resting upon government today, than the present, tlon of peace." "The temper of the American pub lic Is no longer complacent." "It has definitely set Its face against monopoly and unfair trade practices." FUSS TO COURTS OHJCAOO. Sept. 12. (ff) The Union Ridge school "hug and kiss" controversy, was headed toward the courts today following dlsmiaaal of the principal and three women teach ers. Two of the teachers. Miss Clirlbel Lindsay, of De Kalb, and Miss Laur inda Cleary, announced through an attorney that they will challenge In the courts the legality of the dis charge order. They, along with Principal Caarlea O'Hcarn and Mrs. Mary Hammond, Chicago, Inst their Jobs after a con ference between member of the board of the suburban school and Cook county (Chicago) Superintend en. No ble J. Puffer. An Investigation followed reccpt of "poison pen letters accusing O' Hesrn, 38 yesr old bachelor, of carea sing the women. The ensuing con troversy delayed opening of school for a week. RISH FILM STAR SANTA MONICA, Cat., Sept. 13. (UP) Maureen O'Smllran, Itlah screen actress and her film writer husband, John Farrow, were honey mooning tonight In Mexico following their marriage at a nuptial high mass In Saint Monica's church here. The Australian playwright and his Irish bride entrained for San Diego shortly after the ceremony and plan ned to drive by automobile to En- senda. In Lower California, and stay until Tuesday. Later, when their current film work la finished, they will visit Ireland. Washington and Oregon: Showers Sunday and Monday; continued cool: moderate south to west wind off the coast, u ! The weekly outlook for far west ;ern states Is for unsettled with tm i peratures blow normal at beginning of week followed by fair weather and rising temperatures toward close. Wheat Unchanged PORTLAND, Sept. .2.-There was no change in the local a heat price Saturday both futures and pota sere unchsnged. MEDFORD, OREGON, Jvllll E GAMPAI G. 0. P. Nomfhee And Bour bon Governor In Final Bid For Votes Monday. PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 12. (AP) A personal appeal to the voters by the Republican presidential nominee and a fighting answer by the Democratic governor of Maine brought to a dra matic close tonight Maine's most In tense political campaign. Climaxing an unprecedented pro gram of oratory which has gone up and down the state for the past two months, Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas told a Republican rally that his party would win a "great victory" In Monday's state election, looked upon by many as a "barometer" of the national election. ' A half hour lator Governor Louis J. Brann, candidate for United States senator, made his own final bid for votes over a state-wide radio network from the atatehouse at AugAista. Tonight's speeches left only scat terlng windup rallies tomorrow night on a campaign program that has been waged around the New Deal, the con stitution, federal expenditures and state and federal administration. Maine on Monday votes for U. 8. senator, governor, three representa tives In congress, legislature and county offices. The Democratic chftf oxecutlve bore the brunt of his party's oratory to night, although Harry Woodring, as sistant secretary of war, and John J. Cudahy, - ambissPdor to Poland, mounted platform in Wttervllle and Lewlaton respectively. Most of the Republican candidates gathered with party leaders at the Portland rally. Townsendlte endorsement to Brann was given today by John W. Carabine, who said he was sent to Maine by national headquarters of the pension ptannera to "Investigate" Townaend activities. Carabine aald Brann should "re ceive the whole-hearted support or the Townaend mcmbere' for his ef forts "In securing the enactment of old age pensions." WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. pr President Roosevelt cut short hia work on official business todny to make a leisurely wevk-end cruise down the Potomac . river to Chesa peake bsy. Accompanying him on the yacht Potomac were Attorney General Cum mlngs and Mrs. Cummlngs; Secretary tckes: and two peraonal secretaries, Miss Marguerite Lehand and Miss Grace Tully. The chief executive planned to re turn tomorrow evening. RETURN FLIGHT LIVERPOOL. Eng., Bept. 12. Harry Rlchman. the Broadway croon er, tonight again postponed his pro Jected return flight to New York with pilot Dick Merrill. Thla time RUhman aald they might or might not take off Monday with the dawn PETE KNIGHT IS PENDLETON, Ore., Sept. 12. (API Pete Knight, sun-tanned veteran of the big-time rodeo circuit, won the grand championship of the Pendleton round-up as the 27th annual edition of the great western show drew to Its close tonight. Knight rode to his victory on the back of a wild-eyed, rearing hor, his spectacular performance in the world's burking championship giving him the needed points. It waa the first time Knight had won the championship and with It the Sam Jackson trophy, which must be taken three times for permanent poMrwlon. Left on the sidelines to day were Bob Crosby and Jake Me dure, each to-lme winners, and Everett Bowmen 1935 King. Closes SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, ADMITS STABBING HUSBAND Mrs. Edna Smith, 38, found seated In her automobile with her fatally wounded husband, Clarence, 40, Is shown In a Chicago police station eell after admitting stabbing her husband In the throat when ha ittempted to drag her from their car toward Lake Michigan. (Aaso elated Press Photo. 1935 BEST SINCE IESSII WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. (P) A gross Income to farm operations of 98,508,000,000 during 1035 was report ed today by the agricultural depart ment which said H waa the highest total In 0 yeara. Although thla was mors than S3, 000.000.000 short of the 11.041,000, 000 gross Income of 1920, the depart ment said It represented a "real farm Income" of two per cent more than during that year. The "real" income was figured by "allowing for the dif ference In the level of prices paid by farmers for commodities purchased for the family's living." The tabulation was announced af ter months of work on 78 different cropa snd 13 livestocks products with all the variable factors of prices snd supplies. The gross farm Income was rated 17 per cent higher than the 7.276, 000.000 of 1034 snd SS per cent above the 1032 low point of 5,337,000,000. But last year's Income waa still f,ir below the total of more than eleven billions from 1023 through 1920. It was slightly more than half the peak reached In 1910 when groaa farm in come was 16,935,000,000. Last year's huge total Included 6,- 703,000,000 cash .income from sales of crops and livestock, U70.00O.OOO estimated value of products that were raised and consumed on firms, and 498,000,000 cash received from various federal farm benefit pro- grame. U. fl. S. NORTH STAR, tla Barrow, Alaska. Sept. 12. 0P This bureau of Indian affairs motorshlp battled a northwest wind today forging slow. )y southeastward and stll! lu danger of being caught in ma seasons, ice pack before escaping to the Bering sea, en route home to Seattle, Last to lesve the Arctic region be fore the annual Impact of winter, Capt. 8. L. WhH.am headed for Walnrlght at 4 a. m, today after dl charging 450 tons of freight at Bar row, much of It emergency itores for natives reported starving to the eastward. In the Barter Island coun try. The food and medical supplies were loaded aboard the motorboat Vabutt and aturted esstward by OP.lv Mor ris, trader. Captain Whltlam estimated today that the North Star will be In dan ger of being marooned in the mov ing ice pack until after ahe rounds Icy cape. The pack today was a mile off Sea Horse shoals. Relief itost Coming SALEM, Sept. 13. yp, Harry L. Hopkins, national works progress ad ministrator, will Include the Mt. An gel flax plant as one of his stops on his visit to Oregon next Tuesday, E. 3. Griffith, state administrator, In formed the local office. Monday Full United 1936 E ON NATION DEBT LAKE WAWA8EE. Ind., Sept. 12. (AP) John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee, charged In an address here today that the "highest officials" or the Democratic administration had "dn- llberately Juggled figures In order to give a false Impression of the true1 state of government finances." j To hta criticism of the adminis tration's fiscal policies, Hamilton,' speaking at a meeting sponsored by the Indiana Republican Editorial as sociation, challenged the "non-political" nature of President Roosevelt'a recent toura and said tho latter "may decide It Is time to go political" after the Maine primary election re turns are In. Hamilton termed "unusual" Pres ident nooapvelt'a pretense of hand ling a political rsmpalgn "In a non polltlcal manner" and said It waa "something more than unusual" when the president handles noa polltlcsl matters "In a highly polit ical way." "I charge. Franklin D. Roosevelt and hla secretary of treasury, Henry Morgenthau." said Hamilton, ''with deliberately misleading tho American people aa to the state of govern ment finance and with doing this solely for their own political ad vantage." The speaker contended that unless relief expenditures are drastically rn duced, the federnl government will spend during the current year "ap proximately 1.170.000,000 more than the president or the secretary of the treasury admitted In their report to the public." KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. Sept. 12 (AP) Senator Charles MrNary will avoid home territory of his Demo cratic opponent. Willis Mahoney, Tuesday when ho la scheduled to speak before the Klamath Falla Lions club. McNary sent word that his visit woil be nonpolltlcal. BULLETIN Mailt flame (13 Innlne.) R. H. B. o in l Seattle Portland - 1 H Campbell, Lucas, Barrett and Bpln del; Llska, French, Caater and Cronln. At Sacramento: R. H. E. Oakland 7 14 9 Sacramento 3 7 3 OnenU and Hnrtje; rorler and Orllk. Night At 9:30 BUNE Press SPAIN LOYALISTS E San Sebastian Fall Held Turning Point Of Civil War Fascists Gain. (Copyright, 1936, by United Preas) MADRID. 8pt. 13. (UP) The government announced early today that loyallat militiamen, having re pulsed the Inaurgent drive on Mad rid along the Tilavera front, are en gnged In a aharp counter offensive. (My the Associated Pres) The city of Ban Sebastian, goal of a northern Insurgent offensive for tho last week, tell Satvirday night beforo the Bpanlah fascist army of den. Rmlllo Mola. Foreign consular officers In the city said they believed lta capture marked a turning point In the civil war. now eight weeks old, and one South American consul declared "The Madrid government la lost." Tho fascist, by seising San Se bastian, gained the upper hand In that region along tha Bay of Biscay and the adjacent section of the French border. South of Madrid, In Toledo pro vince, the government forcea strug gled to beat back an advance from the west, fighting centered around Talsvera de la Relna and Santa Olalla. In the northwest, the government declared, the raaclsta made an un successful attempt to break through the government ring around Ovledo. Aa the bitter struggle went on, the Madrid administration announced parliament would meet October 1 "to legislate a fresh coda of laws to give the Spanish workers a new place in the aun. L ON COAST WAITS SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 12. (AP) AVaterfront employers and long shoremen, deadlocked over terms of a new working agreement, looked to day to a national district meeting of the International Longshoremen's as sociation for moves affecting the Pa cific coast. Harry Bridges, District I. L- A., prealdent, prepared to leave for New York where Joseph P. Ryan, I. L, A. president, has called a conference of district heads for Thursdsy. "We'll adopt a national policy at that time," ssld Bridges, who will represent the coast. Other officials are expected from the Atlantic coast, the great lakes, and gulf ports. Coast longshoremen voted mean while on the question of arbitrating baalc Issues In a dispute over termin ation of the 1034 strike award Sep tember 30. Thomas a. Plant, head of the coast employera committee, expressed hope the longshoremen would favor the shippers' proposal of arbitration, but Brldgea was doubtful. F IS VIENNA. Sept. U (AP) King Ed ward has a favorite aong and It deala with the rustlo love lite of Aus trian peasants. Hla Majesty heard the aong aung In a night club and demanded three en- corea after which he tipped the per former 1,000 ahllllnga (about ,188.501 . "That's my favorite song." ha said The aong. In dialect, refer, to the lower Austrian village of Ungenlola near Vienna. Coplea displayed In muslo utall win dows and labelled "the King's favor Ite" were almost sold out tonight. A large shipment waa planned for England. Form Law-order Unit CHEHALIS, Waah., Sept. 12. (AP) A law and order league waa organ hied here yesterday by a group of about 3ft merchants, farmers and manufacturers. The group appointed a committee to draw up a atatement of purposes to be submitted at a maas meeting. Hallway xurvey Hue WALDPORT, Ore., Sept. 12. (AP) State highway aurveyora are ex pected here In the near future to lay out properly recently given the state h'rt'nway commission by w. r. Keady of Waldport. Let People Know If It li (or sale, for rent, or for exchange let the people know through the clnsalried colnmni or (he Mall Trlhune. These little ads are widely read and get quick action at a small cost. No. 113. 1 I, EYES RICH L 'Fuehrer' Opens Verbal War On Bolshevikism And Praises Nazi Efficiency. (Copyright 1036, by United Press) NUREMBERC1, Germany, Sept. 12, (UP) Fuehrer Adolf Hitler boast ed today that if Nazi Germany pos sessed the vast natural resources of Soviet Russia the Reich "would ba swimming In plenty" whereas "Bol shevism cannot feed Its people." Ho made the Insidious comparison of nazl efficiency, to what he called Soviet blundering In an address ts 48.000 "Hitler youth" and fi.ooo "Hit ler maidens." Ho boasted of Germany's accomp lishments, despite limited resources In comparison with the achievement of Russia and said, "I am not afraid and when the decision comes It will find mo strong." Violent opposition to Bolshevism and Russia, as its exponent has bee the keynote of the nazt congress here. Observers predicted the nazl verbal war on Russia would cause a break in relations between Moscow snd Berlin. Neither side however, offic ially Indicated such a step. Hitler Indicated Germany was able to cope with the communists, say Ing: "They will carry the soviet sign, but we will be victorious under our banners." ' 1 ' This was greeted by frantic p plauoe and the fuehrer continued. "I am not afraid. When tha de 0 I si on comes It will find ma strong and you will be with me, holding the banner aloft." Turning to Russia, hla favorite tar get, he said: "Life In Russia la fin for tb buroaucrats, but not for the workers 1 believe that a system Is good only If It gives people bread. Otherwise it has no purpose. "While Russia has IS times as much territory as we, bolshevlsm caa not feed its people. "What flops they ar. "We have to struggle for every acre of ground by reclaiming It from the swamps or the sea. If I had ths Ural mountains with their Incalcul able store of raw materials, Siberia with its mountain forests ... or ths Ukrlan with Its tremendous wheat fields, Germany, under national soc ialism would bo swimming In plenty." Germany hs described as a haves, of peace and order, and this con trasted, he said, with the turmoil outslae. This happy oondltlon, as added, was not due to s gift from others, but "to the power and brU llanco of our will." . VALOR MEDAL TO E. 12 WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, (AP) Po "thinking and acting fast" In eavlng tha lives of two playmates, Kathryn Van Horn, a 12-yenr-old lass of WbIM Cottage, Ohio, received a medal of valor and a toy Mickey Mouse front President Roosevelt today. The medal waa tha first youth ward or the Army and Navy Legion of valor for the "moat heroic an) during the year." It went to Kathryn for aavlng Oerald Nixon and Ray. mond Kelly last February S by throw ing hsrself In their path and over, turning their sled aa they coasted down an Icy hill toward an approach ing train. The Mickey Mouse was a present given to the president month, ago and kept since then on hla desk. . iSU RAKED BY FLAME PARIS, Sept. 13. (Sunday) JV A violent fire ravaged the old Pari opera house for nearly two noun early today before it waa brought un der control. Flames wrecked the office and back of the famous landmark, famil iar to American tourists, but to theater hall waa Intact. Fire official, on the basis of preliminary Investigation, blamed tha bias's on an electrio ahort-olrcuii. Tho sky above Parts waa bright with rAMM'tlnn frnm tha ftpe Iwbilo smoke streamed out of tfc structure, built la 1862.