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f A Cnmmiiriiti i Choof CnnfrihiifnvQ in "C!ii)p nt I Prist Dn& Dnn'o Pstn" The Weather Use Mail Tribune Classified For Quick Results Forecast: Fair tonight and rhurs.; slightly cooler Thurs. Temperature: Highest yesterday. 91 Lowest till morning 41 MEDFORD 17.IBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-First Sear MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936. No. 164. .HljR IMBflBEP W W Tl SUM Ns I KURT BJORKVALL Bodies of Ten Mine Disaster Victims Reach Surface ROOSEVELT'S SON PACIFIC POWERS JBH UNSEEN 32 HOURS ni'" : ?Tr DENIES CHARGE OF WARNED AGAINST ISBW AFTERTAKEOFF h. , r''7-.J.iBM AIRPLM MAKER By PAUL MALLON (Copyright, 1936. by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. It certain ly looks Ilka the mlllenium has ar rived In Europe If you do not look too close. Headlines r shouting: "Parxs cuts tariff 16 to 20 percent." Pub lished opinion Is r a spondlng: 'Most Important step any great nation has taken since the world e c o nomlc crisis started"; "c o m plete reversal ot French economic policy of s e 1 f containment"; "World Trade. Revival Seen." Unfortunately, descriptive adjec 1 tlve oftn add up to more Imposing conclusions than cold figures. If you will set your pencil to the French action and perform a simple arithmetic upon It, you aie likely to conclude the mlllenium may be still around the corner. The tariff de creases turn out In reality to be In creases. The additional tariff pro tection automatically granted by dt- Taluatic n more than offsets the rate decreases. The realities of the situation be come aparent If you put your pencil to the problem of a dollar watch be ing exported from the United States to France. Before French devalua tion, the watch would cost the French importer 16 francs plus the tariff. For the purposes of simplic ity, assume the tariff was 2fl percent. The watch would then have cost the Frenchman 20 francs. (Continued on Page Six.) TWO AlrOSlTOlEN FROM OTYSTREETS Two automobiles were reported stol en from Modford lt night. Ben J. Trowbridge reported that hla black rord V-8 coach had been stolen some time between 7 and 10 p. m. yesterday from Ita parking place in front of the People' Electric store, and Arthur I Schati reported his 1833 Chevrolet coupe as having been stolen from Main street between 8:30 and 8 o' clock laat evening. A 1923 Ehcx touring car stolen from In front of 7U Oak street early Sunday morning, has not yet been recovered, according to city police. The ear belonged to' Robert Hanford of Gold Hill. UNFILLED STEEL ORDERS NOW HIGHEST SINCE 1929 NEW YORK. Oct. 7. (AP) Steel companies enter the final quarter of the vear with the larRest unfilled order's since 1029. "Iron Age" said to day In Its weekly review of the In dustry. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS vim fallen declaring that the lAn- don-Knox sticker that Judge Allen Curry accused Roy McConochle of sticking on his bicycle eaddle was itnlly Intended for the seat of Vern Cannon's velocipede. In retaliation for the political speeches Vern Is eternally making In the halls of the city administration building. And Judge Curry Inquiring around m to the prospects of buying a good spirited horse, ponaibly In the con tented knowledge nobody would try to post political propaganda on the tall of a wild mustang without bodily injury. Al Stewart, turkey tycoon of the colored world, sadly remarking that tha bottom has fallen out of the tvlght club business, because you can't make money unleaa there are leople around to spend It, hence the turkeys, of which he has 4000. A csr load of Medford Craters en rout to Klamath rails, snd creating considerable consternation along the highway as motorlsu mistook for the real article the wooden guns lashed on astern. Ned Wold, former Medford lumin ary, at the rrapple matches In K T. last night snd hurling peanuts at the behemoths with all bit old lime v,jof. X J 4 1 ; MdUi False Report Creats Mo- -JJ I t . 1 , v'N h r Never Agreed to Sell M1I1- mentary Excitement for rrfvy l"--&tt& V tary Planes to Any Gov- Watchers in Stockholm ' . I id ' J ----- ,wwia, :s C fj ernment Is Disclaimer All Sweden Is Anxious I ,'t. --It? l rli.,,m - 0 " - fECiii $U&L Contract Is Explained BELFAST, Ireland. Oct, 7. .V&t fJOl J J JT-ffli , (AF)-Civic guards In Tralee. W&Kj-l V8 IHVJT I . Wfi county Terry, tonlgh retired WT$h ifi f? IL&F Ht2h i aft T KlCf . &f1i.SrW3 a mcw.se trcm civic guards at W(k t fM XWNVl S V " Vi fTTC Vl1! NCfW Cahlrclveen saying an aviator waa ' TffZ ? ft !J AT t fl 5 A ff! 1 ' V! V- V7- 4K ' picked up 100 miles northwest of J j. , & I JP f M. I t ' f J rf VV Z&mJ djt S5S NEW YORK, Oct. 7. (AP) Kurt EJorkvall, 31-year old Swedish flier, who is making a solo flight from New York to Stockholm, was unre ported at 3:35 p. m. (eastern Stan. dard time) today. 32 hcura after his takeoff from Brooklyn. A report from Stockholm at 11:1ft a. m. (E.S.T.) that a ptane was sight ed off the southern coast of Norway, caused momentary excitement among watchers at Stockholm, but It waa quickly established the ahlp was not Bjorkvall'e. While all Sweden anxiously awaited news of BJorkvall'a progress, Maud Dickson. 18-year old daughter of the Baroness Inger Dickson, wealthy Stockholm society leader, said the port she was engaged to the filer was exaggerated. "If course I know Kurt, but I have rot heard of any ongagementa." said the girl. Hla craft, the Pacemaker, carried only a radio receiving set and there waa.no possibility of receiving word of his progress except from ships aj he swung over the sea. BJorkvall'a friends here expressed little apprehension for hla safety since the Bellanca piano, driven by a ao-noracpower motor, had a cruising speed of only 120 miles an hour and he was not expected to make full speed because of the headwinds pre dicted near the Irish coast. They said his supply of gasoline waa ample. FIRE PREVENTION CLAIMS INTEREST "This 1 the best Fire Prevention week we have ever had." Fire Chief Roy Elliott stated today in announc ing that Medford townspeople are taking advantage of the open house now being held at the fire hall to in spect city fire fighting equipment. Medford schools, particularly the senior and Junior high schools have taken great Interest in the depart ment, and have sent several delega tlons to the hall on inspection tours. Yesterday afternoon a group from the Junior high waa In the hail when an alarm came in from the Medford building, where an awning had been fired, presumably by a cigarette thrown from an upper window. El llott said. The student had an op portunity to see with what speed the firemen answer calif. The awning was destroyed with a small loss. It was on the Sixth atroet side of the building. Last month the fire department ans wered 23 alarms stalling only 9316 loss, a surprisingly small sum con sidering the low humidity which pre vailed through September, Chief El liott pointed out. He stated that the ban on trash, leaves and rubbish fires in the city was atlU in effect and would remain so until all danger of spreading flames was past. For the past 10 days the depart ment bos had tw men patrolling the city to check against fires, in the fear that even a small grans fire might spread into & serious conflagra tion, Chief Elliott stated. JONES PLEADS GUILTY TO RECKLESS DRIVING Edward T. Jonea, lfl, 810 Jeanette street, the driver of the car which Monday night srurk Chester Parker at the intersection of Main and Bart lett streets, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving be fore City Judge Allen D. Curry. Sentence was postponed until Wed nesday of next week, October .14, to determine the 111 effects. If any, suf fered by Psrker In the crash. The at tending physician stated tht Parker r.ad been shaken up by the impart, but that no broken bones or IntertiR) iflj &i4 fct fuuad o tar. aiwj'.n,M Miiiiiri iTiTr--ijimr; n iimiwm bimh buj.ii ii Vyl ' -c i. I it f " ui it' i X t " SOVIET THREATENS MOSCOW, Oct. 7. -(AP) A Soviet ultimatum tonight announced Rus sia would abandon the Spanish non intervention pact unlesa "assistance to the rebels cease forthwith." The ultimatum, announced in Mos cow, was sent to other members of the neutrality committee in London. "The Soviet government." a com munique said, "declares that if villa tlons of the agreement are not stop ped immediately, it would conilder itself fred from the obligations con tained in the agreement." TIGER BOY'S VICTIM HAS CHANCE TO LIVE BELLINOHAM. Waah.. Oct. 7 (AP) Doctors today gave 22-months-oId Roland Smith better than an even chance to live, while his seven-year-old aw&llant was in Seattle for ex- !minU"n by. psychiatrists Who mil! k to determine why he beat the baby's tkull lest Friday in an ailey jcva$ near their boros. Politics On Radio Tonight (Wednesday) Republican -CBS, William Hare comment period; WJZZ-NBC, both speakers at 0, Jamea A. Ree-t on "Jef fersonlan Democracy In Danger" to basic and southeast sUtlons, and Col. Frank A. Knox from Philadelphia to mountain and Pacific coast stations. Democratic WJZ - NBC, 0-30 Frances Perkins from New York; WJZ-NBC, Cordell Hull from Minne apolis. Progressive WABC-CBS. 10 30. "Roosevelt Progress." Thursday; Dem ocratic WJZ -NBC, 12.16 p. m. "Wo men of 3.w Republican WEAF-NBC. 4:80 Lan don radio elubs, Mrs Frederick Na than. News Reel Man Is Wounded In Spain LONDON, Oct. 7. f AP) A Reu ter (British) news sgeny dlspstch from Ban Martin d Valdrtglenlaa. Spain, todsy said Artbur Menken. American photographer, had been wounded In the fighting at the vil lage of Adrara, west of San Martin. Menken, 30. son of 8. Stanwcod Menken, socially prominent New Yorker, has been working In Spain for an Amsrlcan news rel cornpen.v for some weeks. He U a Harvard WORK INSURANCE BALEM, Oct. 7. (AP) Ralph Campbell, attorney for the state un employment insurance commission, will be at Medford tomorrow to repre sent the state In the restraining order sought by the Pinnacle Tacking com pany and other packing firms against enforcement of the unemployment In surance act. Judge O. F. Sklpworth of Eugene set the case for hearing tomorrow. The packing firms attack the law on two counts; first, that they would be exempt under the law because they deal with agricultural products and agriculture was eliminated In the In suranre classifications; and second that If they are not exempt, the en tire law Is unconstitutional, Organised labor, supporters of the unemployment Insurance law, will in tervene for the state. Auto Thief (ifts Yeor. ROflEBURO, Oct, 7. (AP) BUjVO McOlnnis, transient, arrested Sunday charged with the theft of an automo bile belonging to Charles Noble of I'.onebiirg. was sentenced todsy to a term of ote year ro the atste pe.pl- Six hours after a cable snapped, dropping a Morning mine eteuitor IMtO feet to the bottom of a shnft, the bodies of ten ml tiers who met death In the acrhlent Tuesday, were extri cated and brought to the surface. The upper photo shuns a group f fellow workers, some of them rclntlvcs of the victims, crowded around the ore trains which brought the bodies outside the shiift bonne. One of the hearsctt that took the bodies to Wal lace and Kellogg, Idnliu, nearby Iowuh, Ii seen at the left of the building. Just above, the heads of the miner. The lower photo shows the emerg ency cof r I us, each containing a body, being hauled from the shaft building to hearses' uniting outside, (Associ ated Press Photos Ity Airmail to Mall Tribune.) DEATH OF TEN IN MINE IDENT WALLACE, Idaho. Oct. 7. (AP) A coroner's Jury returned a verdict to day that the plunge of an elevator 'cage which crushed to death 10 men yesterday in tho Morning mine near Mullnn, was "an unavoidable acci dent." The alx-man Jury made Its finding after testimony by 11 w I mesne. They Included mine officials snd employes. Dr. H. C. Mowery, coroner of Sho shone county, presided, while State Mine Inspector Arthur Campbell questioned the witnesses. J. E. Berg, general superintendent of the Federal Mining and Smelting rompsny, operator of the MnrAlng mine, testlfkd that the cable, which snapped, and dropped the 10 men to their deaths In a msss of wreckage, waa carrying only one-twelfth of the weight It waa supposed to be capable of holding. The weight wn 11,700 pounds at the time of the tragedy, he paid, and the cable strength waa listed at 72.8 tons. CITY HEADS THURSDAY PHOENIX. Oct. 7. (Spl.) Notice hsa been given that there will be a msss meeting at the Phoenix city hall library of the legal voters of the town of Phoenix at 7:30 p. m., Thursday for the purpose of nominating off i cers for the town to be voted upon at the general election to be held November 3. The following are the offices to be filled: Mayor, treasurer, recorder, 7 councllmen for the first ward, a councllmen for the second ward, 3 councllmen for the third ward. MANAGING EDITOR OF i LEGION MONTHLY DIES NEW rtOCHELI.E, N. T.. Oct. 7. (AP)-Phlllp Von Blow. 47. of Pel ham, N. V.. managing editor of the American Legion Monthly, died to day. WARD SALES VOLUME BREAKS ALL RECORDS CHICAGO. Oct. 7. I API Mont gomery Ward Co. 'tods reported sales volume during Sep'.cnib?r to break all prevloua record to the WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (AP) Chairman Nye (R., NT) said today he released the senate munitions com m It tee deposition concerning an un fulfilled contract between Elliott Roosevelt, son ot the president, and Anthony II. J. Fokker, European plane manufacturer, to sell planes to Rus sia, "In the Interest of fair play to all concerned." The affidavit attributed to Fokker said he had agreed to P? young Roosevelt a commission of asoo.000 for the sale of 50 military planes to the Soviet. Roosevelt Immediately dented he had ever agreed to sell mill tary planes to any government, adding the contract waa for the aale of commercial planes to private for eign corporations. s.tOO.Oon Never Mentioned. Young Roosevelt also denied In a telephone interview with the Fort Worth, Tex., Star Telegram that sucn a figure as $500,000 for a commission ever had been mentioned. At an informal press conference soon after he reached Washington this morning, Nye tojd newsmen the Fokker -Roosevelt agreement had been given "a great deal of consideration by tha committee, but had not been made the subject of public hearings because "it would have resulted only In smearing of the pT"ldent, which waa a thing no member of the com mlttee wanted to do." Nye aald It waa apparent to the committee that "If there had been a contract It had never been fulfilled and no business done." Nye said Senatora Vandenberg of (Continued on Pag Two) speciaTTraWiury FOR FEDERAL COURT TO CONVENE F1 A special federal grand Jury, be lieved to be the flrat ever cal'ed for the aouthem Oregon district of the federal court, waa ordered drawn late yesterday by Federal Judge Jamea A, Pee. The apeclat'urand Jury will con vene Friday morning at ten o'clock United Slates Attorney carl a Donaugh aald the special grand Jury would consider a don cases, all on glnatlng In Klamath county, and that a number of them were liquor to Indian cases. The cases were originally Intended to be presented to the federal grand Jury at Portland late tnia montn. A federal grand jury consuls oi no grand Jurors, but can function with 19 members, fedenl officials said to day. (Continued on Page Tan.) PRIAULKOiGFOR Arthur W, Prlaulx. chairman of the Republican state central committee will arrive in Medford Thursday mor nlng to confer with Jackson county Republican precinct committeemen. it was announced today. Prlaulx will remain In the city to attend the night meeting which will see Past National Commander Edward r. Hayes of the American Legion de liver the main address to Jackson county votera at the senior high r.crtool auditorium Thursday evening st S o'clock. BALEM. Oct. 7. (fl) Fir Insur. ancs companies paid mora than 1700.000 Insurance to Bandon citi zens as tha result of the disastrous fire there ten days ago, Hugh H. Earle, stats Insurance commissioner, report ed to Governor Martin today. The Insurance payments were made Immediately ufter adjustmcnta could nr made after the fire, he said. About AO.ooo mors remains to bs paid on autoinoblla buryfl. fpor4, RACEJOFORTIFY Secretary Swanson Says U. S. Prepared to Match Building Activity of Any Other Country in Area WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (API- Warning Indirectly against disturb ance of the present status of fortifi cations In the Pacific after expiratlo of the Washington naval treaty, Sec- ictary Swanson Indicated today tha united States waa prepared to match the building activity of any other power in that area,. Swanson discussed at hla preaa con ference London's proposal that Japan, the United States and Qreat Britain agree to extend trlat portion of the treaty which expires Dec. 31, provid ing for no new construction of fortl flcatlona or naval bases In the Pa cific. Fortifications", he aald, "are In tended to answer fortifications. On menace must be met by another menace." He declined to be more specific. Both the secretary and Admiral William H, standley, chief cf naval operations, who sat at the cabinet member's aide during the conference, emphaaliod that formulation of American policy toward fortification of 1U Paclflo possessions must await expiration of the treaty unless some (Continued on Page Two.) SO. HOLLY STREET TRACT Tha O. A. Hartley construction com pany of thla city waa lavt night awarded the contract for grading. curbing and paTtng south Holly street from the end of the present pavement to the south Inle of lot 10. block 9, South Park addition, at the regular meeting of the city council. Hartley waa low of two bidder with 4.147. The only other company ta make a bid waa the R. I Stuart and Son company with a bid of t4.709.71. The contract awarded Hartley call for the start of construction work within lp days, and completion of the project In 00 days. At the earns council meottng M. If. Hogan waa appointed to fill the un-. expired term of J. P. Pllegel as coun cilman from wnrd one. Pllegel re signed at the laat meeting. Hogan will serve by appointment until January 1, 1037, when he will take offloa for a two year term by election, hla nam being uncontested on the coming bal lot. A group of 30, undertakcra. ceme tery officials, florists and ministers presented a petition to the council asking that an ordinaries be pa Med prohibiting the holding of funerals on Sunday, signera were John A. Perl, Frank Perl, H. W. Conger. J. A. Walk er. L. O. Miles. L. O. Howard. A. M. Clark, A. Uchoepen, P. W Meyer. Thomaa Judge, L. O. Morthland, capt. O. R. Durham of the Salvation Army, and the following ministers: Rev. S. L. Divine, Rev. wm. R. Balrd. Rev. K. S. Bartlam. Rev. Oscar a Gibson. Rev. Joseph Knotts, Rev. Wolford M. Dawes, Rev. P. M. Weatherford and Rev. V. M. Abbott, The petition was referred to commutes for further ac tion, The sale of eight city lota to five purchasera waa recommended by the tend appraisal committee. The fol lowing salea will be mads: To David Tale, one lot In Siskiyou Heights ex tension for $339; to Bruce Bauer, on lot In Siskiyou Heights extension for 300: two lota in th Conroy-Clancy addition for 350; and two lota In the Riverside subdivision to the Prlnos Auto Blectrlo company for 1000. The rest of the council meeting was taken up by routine reports. Income Shares Maryland Fund: Bid 10.19: asked 10.88. Quarterly Income: Bid 180; asked 1.98. . f - ' Vote Hlrlke Off PORTLAND. OC. 7. (AP) Plv hundred employes voted to accept an Increase In pay and return to work t the Portland Woolen Mills, W. b. Anderson, business agent of tha Tex tile Union, aald. Th new weekly minimum for men waa sat at 111, 0
