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"Be A Good Neighbor" Again Slogan Of Community Chest Campaign Mail Tribune Classified Ads. For Quick Results MEDFORD Tribtjne Full Associated Press Full Unite is Thirty-First Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936. No. 168. M !lvL M M The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer for Tuesday. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday ?g Lowest this morning .. 41 AIM By PAUL MAI.LON (Copyright, 1936. by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, Oct. 1J. Til Lit erary Digest has become as secretive bout Its final poll figures ss th supreme court is about Its deci sions, and rightly so. It does not want anyone publishing 1 t s conclusions In ad vance. At the same time, the me chanics of maga azlne publication are such that the figures must be collected con siderably In ad- ' vance of publication. The upper strata of political leaders must know about such things and there Is prac tically nothing that a political loeder osnnot find out If he sets his mind to It. Consequently, the word Is out In thoroughly reliable form In the political stratosphere that Oovernor Landon'a present published Digest poll strength of 66.9 per cent will work down to a tentatively final fig ure of 54.6. Allowing 10 per cent error (the general working percentage of Digest errors), this would still leave Mr. Landon with more than 49 per cent of the Digest straws and seem to forecast a close Landon vic tory, as Lemke will draw from Mr. , Roosevelt's total. : Needless to say, the Democrats do not share this oonoLuslon. Their latest Inside-figures on the popular wb rnnt. fnr nilhllcltv mimoses. but for their own private headquarters Information) shows an expected ma jority of 3.500.000 for Mr. Roosevelt. Their exnoctatlons on the electoral . vote run up over 400 for Roosevelt (Continued on Page Four.) Japanese Protest Clash On Border TOKYO, Oct. 13, (AP) Two new clashes between Russia and Man choukuoen troops on the northern Korean border brought a Japanese protest from the Tokyo government today. Foreign Minister Hachlro Arlta In structed the Japanese embassy In Mn-cnu, tt tirntMt the InCldfntS. The clashes were reported to have occurred near Chiento yeswroay re sulting In the death of four Man ehoukuoan soldiers and Injury to five others. SLEEPER SUFFOCATED WHEN FAG FIRES BED LONOVIEW, Wash.. Oct. 12. W Going to bed with a lighted cigarette was believed here today to be the cause of Fred L. Johanson's death from suffocation. Johanson. 31. wss dead when found In his two-room knma Riiffnrateri bv smoke from a smoldering mattress. The body was found feet first, near the door, wnere Johanson had crawled In an attempt to escape, before he was overcome. THn Hurt in Crash. BAKER. Oct. 12. (API Mr. and . Mrs. ft. P. Barnhart of union and ir ' Man niittnn nl Goldendale. Washing ton. are recovering In a local hos pital from Injuries suaisinea ohvuj day when an automobile In which thv r.r rirflntr overturned on the Old Oreson Trail two miles west of North Powder. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mary Conner displaying the unusual faculty of being able to dash off. free hand, and came or word upside down and backward, so that a mirror must be used to read It. Ouy Davis sitting In the press box at the Rosebeurg football game get ting so excited In telling Kenneth Scott Wood what to say over the pub lic address system that Wood had to turn him off so the croxd could hear the loudspeaker. Loren Tuttle. Grant Pass coach, telling 8111 Bowerman he wants to sit on the Mdford bnch when the local? tangle with Klamath rails. Just tn hopes the Tipm defeat the Pelt eana and he ll be close enough to en joy it. Chester Parker, mho earned Iron man rating r'nm he bounced off a car and l,,ed to tell the tale, threat ening to demonstrate Jus: how tough he is when he catrhes up with the re porter WroTOt tke itorjl E DELAY DECISION MfD APT Justices Refuse to Recon sider Municipal Bank ruptcy Act Decision; Take , Actidn in Many Cases Ht JAMES W. DOUTHAT WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. (AP) As part of a series of significant actions, the supreme court today stuck by It earlier decision that New York's min imum wage Jaw for women was un constitutional, and, simultaneously, agreed to review an attack on a simi lar Washington statute. Fashioning part of the-docket for Its current term, during which de cisions will be forthcoming on much New Deal and other legislation, the high tribunal either agreed to review or refused to consider scores of caws brought to Its bar. Delay Wagner Act The court left until latr a deci sion aa to whether It will decide on the constitutionality of the Wagner' labor relations act. It refused today to pass on a case attacking It, after hearing a government contention that In this particular case the con stitutionality of the statute was not involved. Six other appeals Involv ing the act are on file at thc.court. At the same time, however, the Jis tlces agreed to review an attack by the Virgin,! Railway company on the provisions of the railway labor act authorizing collective bargaining be tween representative of employes and railroads. In some of the other more import ant appeals before it, , the tribunal acted as follows: Refused to consider Its decision (Continued on Page Fire.) I ROOSEVELT RACEWAY, LONG ISLAND, .N. Y Oct. 12. (AP) Set ting the pace for all but one of the 75 laps, Tafcio Nuvolari, 40-year-old Italian daredevil, whirled to victory today In the $60,000 auto race for the George Vanderbllt cup before a crowd estimated at nearly 60,000. The Italian lapped the entire field and won $7400 In lap prizes In addi tion to first money of $20,000. His time for the 300 miles around the pretzel -like four-mile course was 4 hours, 32 minutes, 44.04 seconds. Average speed was 65.908 miles an hour. Second place and $10,000 In prize money went to the Frenchman. Jean Wlmllle, as the European drivers de cjslvely outdrove their American ri vals. Nuvolarl's countryman. Count An tonio Brlvlo. finished third and Ray mond Bom me r, French entry, took fourth place. Two Meet Death On Railroad Crossing RAINIER, Ore.. Oct. 12. 0P Two men are dead and a thi'd seriously Injured as the result of a train-truck accident at a railroad crossing In West RalntH today. The men were riding a rjiavel truck which waa hit by the Portland bound Seattle. Portland and Spokane pas senger train. Arne Brummala, 83. Astoria. Wallace Terway, 25. Astoria. ' The third man, Victor Zimmerdab'. Rainier, waa rushed to a Long view hospital, where attaches raid he ws? burned from head to foot and was not expected to live. Columbus Path Recharted For Journey Through Sky By the Associated Press At 3 o'clock In the morning just 444 yean a?o today a sailor named Rodrlgo de Triana. standing watch In the bow of a little boat called the "Nina." yelled to his shipmates "land!" Christopher, the eldest son of Do menico Colombo and Suranne Pnn tannrosM, ran to the bow of the Santa Maria, one of the two ttater ships of the Nina, and turned bis cjes westward. It was. Indeed, land. Columbus had come upon the new world after .- voyage of 70 days from continental Europe. Today, the anajversary of the date Typhoon Spreads Death Puce Grooms Son-In-Law , &. .. .rr.,i.illil Mjl!!lin.iii.ii.i,J Munv oh servers at Rome believe Oallenr.ro Clano (left) son-in-law or Ilrnlto Mussolini (right), may he Italy's next leader ns II Duces rholce. These plelures show a strong resemblance between the two. (Associated Pretts I'hntos). ' BY FEDERAL COURT IN CASE OF ROLAND HICKS Bonds for Roland Hicks, charged in federal court with assault with a deadiy weapon, assertedly committed Lpon the Klamath Indian reservation wqre Increased this morning from $2,500 to $10,000, by Federal Judge James Alger Fee. United States Attorney Carl G. Don a ugh advised the court, the vic tim of the assault waa In a pre carious condition and that intima tions had been received Hicks might depart. The government prosecutor recommended bail be fixed at $5,000. Ted Captain, Klamath Indian (Continued on page Five.) PICKETS PICKETED BY' SEATTLE HOUSEWIVES SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 13. (AP) Union labor, engaged In picketing several Seattle businesesscs. found It self picketed today when a score of women suddenly started an unher alded picket line around the labor mple. They carried flags and wore sand wich signs demanding the reopenlna of the strlko-closed Poet-Intelllgencer, Hearst morning paper closed by American Newspaper Oulld picket August 13. The women declined to state their names, disclaimed any .organization sponsorship, and said they were "Just plain Seattle housewives end good Americans." ton which Columbus named his dls I covery "San Salvador," la celebrated ar Columbus day. The "Ran Salvador" of that day as the Bahamas, about 1.250 miles south of Long Island. . Columbus re quired 36 days to salt from the Canary Islands to the n-w world. The othT day a Germsn flying boat, mapping a propovd transatlantic commercial airplane route from Eur ope to America, flew from the Azores. 1.000 milea northwest of the Canaries to Port Washington Long Island In 18 houis and SO minutes. Columbus day is observed as a public or lenl holiday tn 35 ststes I of the union. DOE TO INCENDIARISM PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (AP) As rising humidity, lowered tempera tures and favorable wind conditions gave a more assuring outlook to the Oregon fire situation, reporta of In cendiarism Increased. At lesst four fires in Curry county were caused by firebugs, federal for estry officials reported Inst night. The fires were discovered shortly after being set. A man, and woman were held yes terday at Port Orford for Investiga tion after another Incendiary fire rear Carpenterville In southern Curry had burned over 70 acres. Cooler weather was aald to be holding flames In check at Sandy (Continued on Page Eight.) Knights Pythias Open Conference PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (p) Thre hundred delrgatea started business sessions of the annual conference of the Knights of Pythias lodjes of Ore gon here today, with Jnmea Salem, grand chancellor of California, at tending, and John L. Foot. St. Helens, grand chancellor of Oregon, presid ing. AUTOIST IS HIT WHILE TRYING CRANK MACHINE A peculiar accident on the Jack sonville highway one mile west of the city limits early Sunday morning put E R. Goodwin. 445 South Front street, in a MM ford hospital. He told the state police, who Investigat ed the accident, that his car had stalled on the highway and he had climbed out to crank It. While he was cranking the machine another auto, driven by Clarence rammed hia car from behind, knock rammed his car fro mbehlnd, knock ing him unconscious. Oeer told of- ficers Ooodwln's tall light waa not burning, but Ooodwln maintained trat tt was. There was no arrest. Goodwin left the hospital this morn ing. MRS. MOODY AND BUDGE TAKE TENNIS LAURELS BETTKEt,E7. Caltf . Ot. 12 fAP) Mrs. Hn Wills Moody, paired wlh red-haired Donald Budg. won the Parlfle coast mixed doubles cham pionship today with a 6-4, third t victory ovr Heln Hull Jacoba. Wim bledon champion, and Henry Culiey of Santa Barbara. The game score was knotted at ft-7, 10-. u dark&eia h sated play fester day. U.S. ROOSEVELT AVERS American Monetary System Safest in World Gov ernment Relief Costs Are Dropping, is Declaration DENVER, Colo., Oct. 13. lAP) President Roosevelt stood In the great Rockies today and coupled a declaration that "we are around the corner" with a statement that Amer ica's monetary system "is the sofest In the world today," He asserted, too, government relief and costs were coming down wltb an increase in private employment and pledged the New Deal to "more ac tion, sound -action to save the constitutional representative form of government tn which we rejoice." Facing a great crowd on the west terrace of the state capltol, the chief executive addressed his first far-west campaign speech to citizens of the great metal mining regions. The ra dio carried hta worda across the na tion. . Declaring local cltlnens suggested work projecta approved In Washing' ton, he said It waa a "pitiful spec tacle to see Republican leaders call this great program waste and extrav agance for they are the same leaders who, when their own state or city or county waa Involved, wars the first to run to Washington pleading for federal aid. ' " . . The president said water conserva tion waa a part of the administra tion's own program and that the stock raising Industry must be pre served. He spoke also of mining revival (Continued on Page Three.) ; THREE LOSE LIVES PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13. (AP) A series of week-end accident here claimed three lives but elsewbero over the state motorists Involved In accidents escaped with injuries. The dead: Mrs. Ella Morris, about 75, Port land. Miss Anne Freltag, 33, St. Helens, James Moore, Troutdsle. Mrs. Morris died at a hospltai after a hesd-on collision between a passen ger automobile and an ambufance sent five other persons to doctors for treatment of Injuries. Moore died tn a hospital from In juries suffered when his automobile collided with another machine. Five others were hurt In the wreck. A collision between a switch en gine and sn automobile oost Miss Pre! tag's life and Injured three oth ers. Anderson Leader Of Redwood Assn. CRESCENT CITY. Calif., Oct. 12. (AP) George P. Anderson of Uklah was re-elected unanimously to servo a second term as president of tha Redwood Empire association at the organization's 10th annus) cn vent ion here. Other officers chosen were M. O. Ooldman, Petaluma, junior past president; Frank P. Doyle, Santa Rosa, treasurer, and Elliot M. E pa teen, San Francisco, attorney. Cannery Workers Refuse To Strike VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct. 13. (AP) Workers were at their jobs In the two canneries here today after the cannery workers' union had Toted a second time within three weeks not to strike. The union Is made up of some 50 of the 1400 Vancouver can nery employes. The decision against going on strike was reached Saturday night. Vancouver canneries have been facing problems similar to those In the cannery companies of Yakima and Olympla. WESTERN NEW YORK HAS EARLY SNOWFALL BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct, 12. W, Roofs throughout much of western New York were white wl'h snow this morning, the eoldeat October since 1870. The temperature feu to 31. Football Iftult At Boston Temple 14; Boston Col leg & and Ruin In Philippines OF NEARJ.AST STAGE Modernizing of Unit Between . Canyonviile . and Grants Pass Will Be Next, After . Present Projects Complete y CLAYTON V. UliltNIIAKIt AMtoeluted Press Staff Writer SALEM, Ore.. Oct. 12. ( AP) Ore- gon'a program of realignment of the Pacific highway from Salem south to the California line, attacked op five fronts, was fast nearlng completion and the way paved for the proposed final modernisation unit between Canyonviile and Grants Pass Involv ing construction over fovir summits, State Highway Engineer R. H. Bal dook reported to the Associated Press today. The present projects Involve expen diture of nearly five and a half mil lion dollars, of which more than 3, 000,000 work has either been com pleted or under contract, including some of the heaviest work yet done in the state. Unanimously frged After Its completion the toctlon over the Wolf Creek, Stage Road pass, Canyonviile summit and the Sexton Mountain summits Is contemplated at an estimated cost of 910,000,000. Bil dock aald. All the work In the two programs has been unanl mously urged by all cities and com munltlea on the Pacific highway from the Washington to the California atate line. The five fronts upon which the 'commission has directed Its atten tion, and the progress upon eacn were cited by Baldock as follows, tha stretches being listed north from the California line: i, Tha Siskiyou Mountain region, including tha heaviest construction attempted, but all of which will be completed Into a modern system looking to long usage In the near future. From the atate line to th (Continued on Puge Four.) Woman Is Slain By . Demented Husband WORCESTER, Mass.. Oct. 13. & A childhood romance was at an end here today with Mrs. Mary Ellis Crosbte, 49, dead and her husband, Thomas J., 64. shell shocked war vet eran and an Insane hospital patient, held for her murder. Crosble, Police Inspector James F. Sheahan said, hacked his wife to death with an axe a few hours after, with tearful pleading, she Induced a young Interne to grant him a day of liberty from Worcester state hospital yesterday. Miners Of Utah Tie Up Industry SALT LAKE CITY, Oct, 13. Jf Utah's Important metal mining Indus try came to a virtual halt today aa workers In every major district Join ed a strike for higher wages and more strict hour regulations. Union officials aald more than 3000 men were affected. Owners said no attempt would be made to operate strike-affected work Ings. BAKER, Oct. 12. (AP Arthur L. Murray, 47, Baker, was fatally injured Sunday when he fell from a tree he waa trimming at his home here. He died in n hospital early this morning Townsend Divides Favor Between Landon, Lemke CHICAGO, Oct. U. (AP) Dr. Prancla E. Townsend, titular head of the recovery plan-old age pension or cenlratlon bearing his name, .pllt his support In the presidential race today between Oot. Alt M. Landon and Rep, William Lemke with the declaration that defeat of President Hoosevelt was "Imperative'' to bring tnaotment of Townsend legislation "during the next administration " He urged hla followers. In a formal statement Issued hare yestcrdsy, to vote for Oot. Landon, the Republican standard bearer. In all atatea where Lemke, chief of the union party, had been unable to place his name on tha bsllot. Lemke already haa been named to the bsl'.vts of 33 states but his stip poira conceded recently hi name Vacuum Sweeper Rids Courthouse Of Yellowjackets VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 13. (AP) Bob Nelson, court house Janitor here, has an original meth od of catching yellowjackets Driven by smoke from forest fires, the Insects Invaded .the county clerk's office. The occupants were In near panic until Nelson opened a counter attack with a vacuum sweeper and succeeded In captur ing most of the aerial offendera. Getting the "Jackets" out of the cleaner was a far more ticklish task, Nelson revesled somewhat ruefully. AT CRESCENT CITY GRANTS PASS, Oct. 13. (VP) A hearing on the Oregocent Ctty harbor project will bo hold In the California ctty Novomber 10 by the army board of engineer., L, Q, Westfall, crescent City chnmber of cpmmcrce secretary, hna announced. Harbor Improvement la a vital (no- tor In propoeed mldpaclfllo coast do velopment which Includei construc tion of a railroad from Clrnnta Fasa to the coast. The project has beon before the engineer, many tlmea, and their rec. ommeadatlona In the pait have rani,. ed from unfavorable to nthuslaatto In tone providing the railroad oe built to supply tonnage. The Del Norto Triplicate announc ed that P. S. Combs, lot Angelne monorail engineer, Tuesday entered Into publlo record, a 90-year leas on the harbor. Combs la obliged to spend not leaa than 1500,000 on the harbor In the lease signed last November. ' Thorn n. B. PoacocK, harbor com mission chairman, declared however that the lease waa Invalid, tha Trip licate aald. O. H. Demaray of Grants Pass, re ceiver of the California and Oregou coast railroad which may be extend ed to Crescent City, aald today that Combs had approached him to aecuio an option on the railroad but had taken none. BY GRASS FIRES KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 13. UP A heavy smoke pall hung over Klamath palla today aa firelighters sought to put out the last aparks of grass flrrs which nearly ringed tho city last nlKht. One blaM, reportedly started when an abandoned car blew up. burned down to the very edge of the residen tial district on the east aide ot the city and threatened to destroy a num. bor of hlllsldo homes be.'ore It waa controlled by backfiring. Forest Protective aseociatlon men were called out to battle a tecomt fire, which burned tip both sldea .if a hogback to the south and destroy ed a big acreag of grazing land youthful campers were tald to have b-n responsible for the blare. Thousanda of Klamath Falls resi dent, turned out to see the spectscu lar night-time display, which redden ed the sky to the south, east and north. would not appear on those of Florida. Kansas, Maryland, Nevada, New Jer sey, North Carolina. Oklahoma. Wast Virginia and California, and might not be placed on the ballots of three ether atates. "Mr. Roosevelt." Dr. Townsend's ststemrnt said, "haa given silent as. sent to the political campaigns raged against our organisation un der the guise of 'Investigators' by the New Deal administration. "Mr. Roosevelt la against the Townsend national recovery plan Therefore Mr. Roosevelt must .be de tested." Describing Lemke as "100 per cent" for the Townsend plan, the statement continued: "therefore Mr. Lemke has my endorsement as a candidate for tie pieldECjr, KLAMATH RINGED 310 KNOWN DEAD, SCORES OF BODIES BUR1EDJNDEBRIS Storm Vents Fury On Isa- bela Province Today Hundreds Miles Whipped by Wind and High Seas MANILA, Oct. 13. (AP) One 0 the worst typhoons ever to strike the Philippines had caused at least 310 deatlia and left hundreds unaccount ed for as It spread destruction Into additional arena tonight. - - The latest compilation of dead by th Manila Tribune, showed moat of the 310 known dead In Nuevs B;IJe province. But reports were far from complete In four other provinces of Luzon Island where the fury of th storm was greatest, north of Manila. Streams carried out of banks by devastating wind and rain, Held scores of bodies In the debris of flimsy native huts, and the total number of dend will not be known until floods subside and communica tion la restored. The typhoon tore Into Isabels pro vince today after lashing other pro vinces. The province was Isolated as wlrea wore torn down and toada flooded out. Hundreds of miles south, tha cen- , (Continued on page Five.),.. E PEACE PARLEYS HALTED SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13. (AP) Meetlnga between shipowners and employers for today were called off. while Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McOrady and Internation al Longshoremen's association offi cials expressed hope tha newly-creat ed maritime commission would coma here from Washington to view th situation. , Tha ls-day truce, agreed upon after present contracts expired Sept. 30. ends Oct. 10. The maritime commis sion at Washington, however, an nounced It was not considering a trip here. A spokesman said tha commlHloa, waa holding almost dally conference but felt "little more could be accom plished by a visit to the coast. Freight Wrecked Near Chiloquin KLAMATH FALLS. Oct, 13. (AP) A hot box and burned out axle de railed 13 enra of a aouthbound South ern Pacific freight train directly south of Chiloquin early Sunday morning and through service waa dis rupted for nearly 13 hours aa a re-' ault. According to railroad reports, no one waa injured In the accident. Pas senger and mall were transported to and from Klamath Falls by buses until the line was cleared at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. POPE PIUS SUFFERS FROM SLIGHT COLD VATICAN OITY, Oct. 13. (pj Pope Plus wss suffering fiom ft cold today, but Vatican sou reus said no great concern was felt for the health of the ageing prelate. He continued In robust plrlt. thy declared, despite worrq of the civil war !n Spain. Politics On Radio (Time la eastern Standard Tonight (Monday): Republican CBS, Wm. Hnrd and Prof. Edwin Lee Hoi ton: WEAF NBC 9, Oov. Landon from Cleveland. Progressive W ABC-CBS 10:30, "Roosevelt Progress." John Cudahy. Communist WEAF, WSYn, WBEW, WHAM, WABY U, Grace Hutchlna. Tuesday: Democratic WJZ-NBO 13:15 p. m "Women of 39". Republican WEAF-NBC 4:30, Lan don radio cluba. Senator George W. Morris will spesk over a national hookup from Shenandoah, Ia at S p. m. tomorrow night In reply to New Deal criticisms of former Governor Frank O. Lowdea of Illnola and former Senator James 4. fteed at MUeOWk o
