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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1936.
No. 157.
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Copyright, 1036, By Paul Ma Hon
WASHINGTON, . Sept. 28. The
money arrangement between Wash
ington, Londoa and Paris was adver
tised, at XI rat, as a stabilization pact.
It has since been
called a Demo
cratic monetary
entente. It la
neither.
What It
amounts to la
gentlemen a un
derstanding that
the three big
money players
will not cut each
other's throats In
the Internation
al poker game
while one of
them, Prance, Is revaluing her chips.
This sensible arrangement Is guarded
further by an If. They will do It If
does not cost them too much.
.. Nearly everyone Is now settled
down to asserting that it Is the first
step towaTrd currency stabilization,
and It Is, In the same degree that
putting on your hat Is the first nor
mal step toward going for a walk,
but putting on your hat has nothing
to do with determining the direction
you may follow after you get out the
door.
In other words, the big money pow
ers have adopted a truce, but have
reserved broad freedom for future
action, while Prance Is removing the
largest obstacle to serious stabiliza
tion discussions.
Stabilisation may and should come
of It, but no one now knows when
or how.
The plain fact is the truce was
over-ball yhooed for political purpos
es, not altogether domestic, but most
ly French,
' As everyone knows, French govern
ments have been having a difficult
time selling the devaluation theory
to their thrifty farmer gold hoard
ers. But it could no longer maintain
Its unreasonable gold position In the
ftoe of continued foreign withdraw
als, it bad to face the end of a losing
fight, which should have been faced
months ago.
In view of this precarious domestic
French political situation, It wa. ad
visable to rate the International
angle of the move as high as pos
sible "a, boon to uvlllzatlon. "a
great step toward peace." "the big
gest thing that has happened to the
world In manv a yenr."
This was right down the line of
Mr. Morgan thnu's recent thoughts at
(Continued on Page Ten.)
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 20. (AP)
Fdwin 8. Smith, national labor board
examiner, adjourned the American
Newspaper Guild and strike-closed
Post-Intelligencer hearing today after
both sides rested their evidence con
cerntng protested discharges of two
long-time employes of the 00-year-old
Seattle morning paper.
He reserved a ruling on the Hearst
Interests' renewed motion that they
be dismissed as respondents In the
guild's complaint charging violation
of the Wagner-Conncry labor rela
tions act.
Income Shares
Maryland Fund, bid 0.84; sked
I0.M.
Quarterly Income, Sid 11.79; asked
1.P2.
SIDE GLANCES
by X
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
City Police Judge Allen D. Curry
wheeling his bicycle out for a ride
home and finding a big I.andon-Knox
sticker on the saddle, and the good
Judge promptly accusing Roy Mc
Conochle of the deed, saying he'd
know Roy's type of horse play any
where. , , , ,
Mis. Monty OUhnun In town to
buy feme fish books with which to
glom the elusive trout, and not being
able to find her car when she came
out of the sporting good store, say
ing "By gosh, I'm lost in my own
home town "
Vera VsnDyke claiming the shotgun
wound In the floor of Lamport's was
put there purposely so the carpenter
who Is to repair the floor will have
cod spot to start trom.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS
TURN ATTENTION
TO
All Coast Towns Reported
Out of Danger As Wet
Blanket Moves in From
Sea Curb Fires to South
(By the Associated Press.)
The fire situation on the Oregon
const was vastly Improved today.
The great fire of southwestern Ore
gon In Coos and Curry counties was
retreating before a dense fog. Marsh -fteld,
Myrtle Point, North Bend, Co
qullle and Langlols were out of
danger.
Northern California's destructive
blazes were pretty generally under
control. Crews continued to fight
flames In the Santa Crux mountains
on the San Francisco peninsula. In
the state park areas of Humboldt and
Del Norte counties, and In the W hit
more section of Shasta county,
Various public officials In south
western Oregon planned a long-range
rehabilitation program as the fire
menace gave way.
By Wendell Webb
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
MARSH FIELD, Ore, Sept. 29.
(AP) The disastrous fires of south
western Oregon, deserted by their
pertner-ln-crime, high winds, and
attacked by a dense fog, retreated
today, bringing optimistic predictions
from officials that the remaining
towns in, this natural wonderland
wete safe.
Reports that Yachats, in the central
Oregon coastal region, was menaced
were declared false this afternoon.
There was a fire about half a mile
away, but It was under control.
Earlier Mrs. Harold Waldron, a store
keeper, told the Associated Press that
reports reaching the town Mid a fire,
believed to have subsided, was being
whipped up by wind and was "Just
over the hill about a half-mile away
from the town.'
She said people In the town of
600 "wero all packing Just in case
the wind gets worse." "All of the
men folk are out at the fire and
we won't know for a little time Just
what we are up against," she said.
Yachats Is directly on the coast
and In a somewhat similar portion
to Bandon, logging town and seaport
south of here which was destroyed
(Continued on Page Two)
Most of the smoke In the cloud-like
pall that overhung the valley today
was blown In from the Inferno of
blazing forests on the coast. It was
believed by the state forest fire patrol.
About 6 o'clock last evening the first
heavy billows of grey started rolling
in over the mountain range toward
the west, and by midnight the sky
had taken on a definite cast.
Valley residents arose this morn
ing to find the sun almost completely
hidden. Some of the smoke was from
three brush at)d timber, fires still
burning In southern Oregon, the fire
patrol stated. One fire started yes
terday a few miles west of the extin
guished blaze on Blrdseye creek, and
was burning on the Blrdseye slope
of the Savage-Blrdseye divide. A crew
of men was fighting the fire and ex
pected to have It completely under
control by early afternoon today.-
The other two fires, still burning
but under control, are on Paris creek,
in the Applegat district, and on
Sardine creek near Gold Hill, About
300 acres were blackened by the latter
fire.
Shortage of Farm Labor
x First for Several Years
CHICAGO, Sept. 29. (AP) Farm
ers In widely scattered sections of the
country have another problem, one
they have not experienced for six or
seven yeare a farm labor shortage.
A survey shows thousands of farm
Jobs available In Mississippi, where
the labor problem In the cotton har
vest Is described as acute. Arleona,
New York. Michigan, Indians. Penn
svlvanla. South Carolina, Illinois,
' Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
Connecticut.
A majority of the Jobs are tempo
rary during the harvest season, taut
there are reports rA need for good
"hired hands" in some sections out
side the drought area.
Wages paid for farm labor have In
creased 20 per cent in the last two
years, according to the V. 8. depart
ment of agriculture. During this pe
, 086 Arrested
1,500 Left Homeless By Bandon Blaze
ifktth V&r2r ill :fP'.l I
fggg YfWt iJ
.M&i n black legionnaires
Charred, broken ruins of tiullfllngs (ii)mer scene) In biislnrns section
of Bandon, Ore., eonstnl town destroyed by fire Satunlny and Sinuliij,
when nine were killed and 1500 made lionipJris. tawer right: family of
refugees from the Bandon fire, pictured by the side or a liljthHny with
the few belongings they were able to save In t heir flight. Lower left:
Fred W. Coernre, caught In his hotel room by the fire, shows vivid evi
dence of hU battle for life and safety. (Amrlnletl Press Plintn).
FIRE CONTROLLED
KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 29. ( AP)
After breaking through fire lines
last night, a brush fire along til's
Klamath river canyon on the Oregon
California border was reported again
today without appreciable further
damage.
Rich timber stands whloh were
Imperiled when the blaze first broke
loose Sunday afternoon, were believed
out of danger today.
Other minor fires In scattered sec
tions of Klamath county were also
in check.
Yosemite National park has eight
waterfalls more than 300 feet high,
the greatest being Ribbon falls, 1,013
feet hleh.
riod the situation has changed from
about two Jobs for every three farm
laborers to a shortage In some states,
balanced supply and demand In
others, excepting California, where
a surplus was reported.
Mississippi cotton planter are In
need of 10.000 cotton pickers Imme
diately to harvest a bumper crop.
Samuel Hopkins, a leading planter,
said afU?r a trip through th d!ta
country. WPA offtci& released some
men to aid In the cotton harvest.
Cotton planters in Arizona will em-
play between 15,000 and 18.000 picker
during October, November and I
cemtvr. WPA proJ(jt fn some Rtats. In-
eluding MMWhuMtts, Connecticut j
and Indiana have provided work fori
some men who ordinarily would be
employed on farms, the survey dls-!
closed j
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ALL FOR HUSBAND
WASHINOTON, Sept. 20, (AP) A
description of Mrs. Wsllis ("Wally")
Simpson, frequent companion of
King Edward of Englnnd, as a woman
of Irresistible "glow" and "magnet
Ism," was given today by a cousin
of the former Baltimore beauty.
At the same time, the cousin, Mrs.
Anne Suydham, scouted reports that
Ernest Simpson, London broker and
husband of Mrs. Simpson, might start
a divorce suit.
"Ernest is the only man Wally
ever loved," Mrs, Suydham told a
Washington Post reporter. "Her
whole heart and soul are his and
when they are together they ere the
picture of adoration.
"Simpson Is proud of his wife,
trusts her and has no suspicion,"
Mrs. Suyram said. 'They understand
each other, and that's what counts.'
The king, Mrs, Suydham said, ad
mires Mrs. Simpson for her wit, her
looks, her Intelligence, "and don't
forget she Is a marvelous dancer and
the king loves to dance."
PAIR CHARGED WITH
STEALING GASOLINE
Norman E. Peterson, 20, of Aber
deen, Wash:, and William D. Hmton,
1 0, also of Aberdeen, arrcnted last
nl;ht by city police on charges of
stetvlliift gasoline from a parked iruck,
will appear in Justice court th aft
ernoon to face the charges,
The complaint against the two ac
cuses them of siphoning five K'Unii
of fuel from the Ingoing truck be
longing to P. R. Bteman.
Politics On Radio
President Roosevelt wi'.l speak at
8 p. m. (M'dford tlmej today, over
both broadcasting chains, from th
Democratic state convention meeting
at Syracuse,
In Nation- Wide
GUILTY OF 'EXECUTION1
IS VERDICT OF
DETROIT, Sept. 29. p) Eleven of
the 12 men charged with plotting the
Black Legion "execution" of Charles
A. Poole last May 12 were convicted
today In circuit court.
Of the 11 convicted, all but four
were convicted of first degree mur
der. The Jury of nine men and tlin-e
women held two of the others guilty
of second degree murder, and Judge
Joseph A. Moynlhan returned a sec
ond degree murder conviction against
the two defendants who had waived
a Jury trial.
: The Jury, which had listened to
the prolonged testimony since Sep
tember 10, took one hour and 25
minutes to reach Its decision. .
Mrs, Rebecca Poole, young widow
of the man the 11 were convicted of
luring to his death In "punishment"
for false rumors that he had mis
treated her, was In the courtroom
when the verdict was returned.
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DENVER, Sept, 20. (AP) Eleven
deaths were attributed dlreetly or in
directly today to Colorado's worst
September snow storm. Damage was
estimated In millions of dollars
Dead as a direct result of the storm
were Pilot C. H. Chldlaw of El Paso,
Tex., and Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. Kilt Ins
of San Francisco. Their plane crash
ed on Rattleannke Butte In southern
Colorado, near Walsenburg, In a sud
den snow flurry.
Thousand of workers started the
task today of erasing the unsightly
wreckage of the storm, virtually con
fined to trees and shrubbery In Den
ver, Pueblo and Colorndo Springs, All
are tourist cities proud of their aum-mr-tlme
appearance,
In Tnver, alone, park officials esti
mated the damage to the parks at
i 1.000 ,000 and aald a conservative
summary of the loss to private prop
erty owners would be $8,000,000.
For blocks, gltrkntlc trea that had
grown for more than 60 years and
were the pride of pioneer residents
of the ctty, were biiured to the
gT'ntnd.
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IN TOLEDO, CLAIM
Leftist Terror Reign Pre
ceded Fall of City As
sault With Poison Gas
Added to Horrors of Seige
Ate Horses, Mules
Copyright, 1936, by the Associated
Press
TOLEDO. Spain, Sept. 20. Fas
cist sympathizers, besieged In the
Alcarar for more than two months,
ate 07 horses and 27 in u lea. sur
vivors reported today.
The livestock supplies Inside
the bombarded fortress had been
reduced to one horso and five
mules when insurgent columns
occupied Toledo, they said.
By Itlrhnrd G. Mosnock
Copyright, 1030, by the Associated
Press
TALAVERA IE LA REIN A, Spain,
Sept. 29. daunt prisoners of the Al
carar came out of Toledo today to
tell epic stories of wholesale death
and "prophetic" birth.
They said virtually alt the priests
In the city numbering (J0O were
slain In a reign of leftist terror that
preceded the fall of Toledo to the
Insurgent armies.
They told how, within the Alca
rar's ruins, the birth of two babies
was regarded as an omen of their de
liverance.,, .'
i.lven On Horse Meat
Starved, strangely waxen, emacia
ted, they related how they lived on
black bread, on horse meat, on hope.
They declared that to the other
horrors of their 72-day alego was
added an assault by poison gas.
The Fascist survivors confirmed of
ficial Insurgent figures which stated
enly about 80 of their number were
slain and fiOO wounded. These figures
placed the total In tho Alcazar at
(Continued on page fourteen)
ASHLAND C. OF C.
PLAN TO COUNCIL
A projected plan to move the Ash
land chamber of commerce Into the
city hall where with th co-operation
of the city police a 24-bour tourist
service bureau would be maintained
was to come before a meeting of the
chamber of directors and the city
council at ft o'clock this afternoon.
The proposal was made at a meeting
of the directors yesterday, at which
time It was also decided definitely
not to affiliate with the Jackson
county chamber of commerce at the
present time.
Principal efforts of the directors
this fall will be directed toward re
trenchment and placing of the cham
ber on a sound financial basis. It
was expected that the combination
with the police office would meet
with the approval of the city council
and result In considerable reorganlwi
tlon of the chamber.
WALLA WALLA, Sept. 29. (Jp,
Vance Holcomb. state. traffle Inspec
tor,, announced the arrest today of
Jim Jefferson, negro, of LaOrande,
Ore., on two charges, one of driving
while drunk and the other of taking
a motor vehicle without the owner's
permission.
GAUNT
French Deputies Approve
Franc Devaluation Plan
(Copyright, 1930, by the Associated
Press)
PARIS, Sept. 29. Adjustment of
the French franc with the British
pound and United mates dollar was
approved today by a weary chamber
of deputies after a 20-hour session.
Tho vote on the government-sponsored
proposal was 3ft0 to 221.
The devaluation measure, which re
duces the gold content of the franc
between one-quarter and one-third,
was sent Immediately to the senate.
There the plan hit Its flrnt snag.
Radical sort alls t senators, In cau
cus, rejected the government's de
valuation text Then the radicals,
majority party In the upper house,
Instructed the finance committee to
draw a new text minus the clause
Drive On
Bandon Refugees
Suffer Colds As
Exposure Result
COQUTLLE. Sept. 20. AP)
The health of refugees from the
fire zones brought concern to Red
Cross workers today following an
epidemic of colds In the Bandon
area.
Alice Maxwell, who Is In charge
of Red Cross nursing at Bandon,
said colda were so serious there
was fear they might develop Into
pneumonia and bronchitis.
She said many persona had suf
fered from exposure because they
remained on the beach Instead of
going to shelters erected by the
CCC.
Eighteen persons from Bandon
are In one Coqullle hospital suf
fering from bronchitis and other
illness resulting from exposure,
W. L. Dawson of Portland report
ed. Dawson Is In charge of first
aid from the Red Cross.
MARSHALL GIVEN
20 YEARS IN PEN
Buff Marslia.il, 20, of Lorurrlew,
Wadh., whoa companion, Harold
Foughty, 20, was wounded In a sen
sational attempt to escape from the
county Jail last Saturday was sen
tenced on three charges to a total
of 20 years in sUte prison by Cir
cuit Judge H D. Norton this morn
insf. . "
Marshall entered pleas of tullty
and was scut-: need to not to exceed
flrw years, for assault with Intent
to rob; not to exceed five yeaia for
grand larceny and the minimum un
der Oregon law of ten years for as
aault with Intent to rob with a
dangerous weipoit, The court rules
tha-, the sentences run consecutively.
Foughty, alto of Long view, Wash.,
now in the Sacred Heart hospital,
with possibilities of paralysis of the
lower limbs, wtll be sentenced, when
and If, he recovers sufficiently to
appear In court.
Marshall, In a statement admitted
participating In a crime flurry at
Phoenix, Ore., on the night of Au
gust 38 with Foughty when J. O.
Berrang, aged wayside lunch counter
keeper was roobod and beaten, and
the holdup o Bax Berman, deeper
of the Highway Market, and the
forced seizure of the auto of J. O.
(Continued on pafe fourteen)
CITY FIRE PATROL TO
L
With fire danger In the cur atlll
at a critical atage, Fire Chief Roy
Elliott leaned a bulletin today warn
ing against the etartlng of any bruah,
leaves, mbblah or flree of any aort
In the district. All pormlta for tlrea
have been rovoked and none will be
Issued until the danger point la
passed, probably following the first
general rain, '
Chief Elliott announced that a pa
trol would cruise the city all day
every day aa ft protective measure.
HpnnlHli Pretender ll
VIENNA. Bept. 2d. (AP) Prince
Al'onso Carlos of Bourbon, who once
attempted unsuccessfully to eel the
throne of Spain, died today after
being atruck by an automobile last
night. For many years he muntnlned
a ahabby royal establishment In
Vienna to aupport hla claim
Calist pretender to the non-ex-atent
Bpantsh kingship.
which gives the premier a free hand
to right price rises.
The radical socialists explained they
were not opposed to devaluation, but
objected to the plan to give the
government dictatorial powers to
fight a rising cost of living, without
a parliamentary check.
Co-operation of the United Stales
and Grest Britain In establishing a
"monetary equilibrium" agreement
mas cited by Premier Leon Blum In
a final appeal to the tired deputies.
He ssserted the devaluating bill was
one Item In the Fre.ich social reform
program, which he compared to re
covery leglsletlon In the United
States.
"President Roosevelt multiplied hla
trials until he found an efficacious
method," the premier declared In up
holding his legislative proposal.
c!Vil
Crime
NARCOTICS, LIQUOR
SEIZED BY AGENTS
IN VASTJUNDUP
U. S. Customs Agents Seize
Property Valued at Over
$152,000 Eight Are
Taken in Oregon Dragnet
WASHINGTON. Sept. 39. (ft
Treasury agents, participating In a
nationwide drive on crime, today
counted more than 1,000 arrests and
property seizures running to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
Harold N. Graves, who directed the
coast-to-coast push against narcotle,
liquor and customs violators and -counterfeiters,
said 1,060 arrests re
ported soon after noon were prelim
inary figures and that hundreds mora
might be added before final reports
were In.
He said customs agents aloha
seised property valued at $152,000,
against which penalties totaling
$200,000 would be assessed, Largs
quantities of narcotics, llrtuor and
apparatus were taken by agents oa
other fronts.
Texas with 149 led all states to
narcotle arrests. The Atlanta, Ga.,
dtstrlct, embracing Alabama. Georgia
and Florida, reported Q7 taken on
liquor charges. Thirteen counter
feiters were arrested In 1111 noils.
(Continued on Psge Two)
F. R. WILL
E Wl
ATG.0.P.
HYDE PARK, N. T., Sept, 20. tfff)
President Roosevelt stepped out to
day to deliver what Intimates termed
'straight from the shoulder" blow
at the oposltlon, officially opening
his bid for re-election.
His Initial campaign speech, before
the Democratic state convention at
Syracuse tonight at 9 o'clock, will be
broadcast over nationwide radio net
works. The president's special train was
equipped for the five-hour trip with
(Continued on Page Ten.)
OF
0OLU8A, Calif.. Sept. 28. (API-
Thomas Wardrlp, 35, of Medford. Ore.,
died In flames which destroyed ft
freht truck In which ho was .ldlng
today near Maxwell.
Rudolph Wright, 2, of Redding.
driver for the Oregon-California Fast
Ft ight company of Medford. wys se
verely burned. He waa driving the
truck.
Wardrlp, who had driven the truck
during the night, waa aaleep In the
freight compartment and was trap
ped by the flames which Investigator
said possibly started from friction
from a rear wheel. The fire ipread
rapidly after a gasoline explosion.
The dead man, with his wife. Mr.
Maxlne A. Wirdrlp. had been a real
dent of Medford for the past six
years, making their nome at 8M
Bast Ninth atreet. He had been em
ployed by the Ortyon-Callfornla Paat
rri'ight service tor the paat seven
years. He waa riding to San Franclaco
where he had been transferred u ft
driver on the San Pranclaco.Rcno
run.
Details of the accident were vague
here today. It waa understood that
the truck was parked at Maxwell,
a regular atop on '.he run where
drlvera usually eat. Wardrlp waa
asleep In the enclosed van of the
heavy-duty truck when by-ata.-.der
noticed smoke Issuing from the edge
of til closed doors and the ven
tllntora. When the doora were Jerked
opon the Inside was ft mass of flantee)
It waa learned. It was aseumed that
Wright, the regular driver of the)
truck between Redding and San
Francisco, was burned In ft futue
atunpt to ve wardrlp.
The body will be forwarded to th
Pe-i funeral home here for b'jraaL
.Me waa born at Mt. Ayr, low. B
sldes hla wife he leaves hla morhei.
Mr,. Sarah B. E. Smith of BlUhe
dale. Mo. A complete obituary will
b printed later. ,