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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.
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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