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I Dollar Day Bargains Featured By Merchants iere Beginning Friday The Weather Forecast: Unsettled with oc easlonsl light rains tonight and Friday : little chance In tem perature. Highest yesterday U Lowest this morning 26 Precipitation last 24 hrs. Trace Let Mail Tribune Classified Ads Solve Your Problems. Small Cost! r, t MEDFORD IRIBUNE Full Associated Pi;ess FuU United Press Thirty First Year Twenty Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936. No. 189. M A I fo fan In I By PAUL MALLON (Copyright, 1930, by Paul Mallon.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. They talk of a new party. After every election, the experts always say. In the first flush of exciting post-election re turna, that a thorough realign ment of the old schools Is In or der. Pour years ago. the Repub lican party was 1 .talked Into the A grave. Eight, 12 and 16 years ago, the tons of speculative words burled both par ties. Now, the avalanche Is conjuring the idea that both parties are dead. The Jtooseveltltea are saying1 that, the president, encouraged by his re-election, will go forward with a sweep ing program. They say that NRA, AAA and all the other alphabetical agencies are child's play, as compared with what he Intends to do. The best Judgment Is President Rooscvlt will not disturb any vital policy. Ho may annoy the disciples of private and public ultlllty holding companies, and a few others, but the self -generative forces of business Im provement, they say, will override any specific reforms that he has in mind. The president's best friends have been saying the first thing he would do would be to balance the budget, not probably this year, but next year, or In the following years of his term. They say he could curtail expendi tures far better than Landon could and that the ultimate effect of his policy would be far more compre hensive than those of bis antagonists. In fact, his closest friends Insist that hla policy, while verbally antag onistic, will be cooperative along the lines which tho electorate dictated. Mr. Roosevelt Is not a new party, but an amazing personality. He has been able to get and hold the sup port of many divergent elements, (conservatives, progressives, radicals, bankers and Idealists), but he has not been able to weld them together. They are held together behind him, not behind hi party, solely by the presence and portion of Mr. Roose velt If there were anyone else In bis (Continued on Page rwelve) UP ' WELCOME FOR VICTOR WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. JP) City officials went Into a hurried bundle today to plan for handling thou sands expected to turn out tomor row morning for President Rooae velfa triumphal re-entry Into the national capital. The district official, at Id there would be no official reception com mittee and no organized parade, but nevertheless, they expected big spontaneous demonstration. The president arrives at Union sta tion at 8:30 a. m. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPOBTERS Mayor Porter passing out El Punkoa freely to all at a council meeting In anticipation of election congrata which were quickly forthcoming and continued even after some of the seegnra were smoked. Barnacle Bill Allen relating the thrills of his recent voyage and speci fying the age at which travelers could get the greatest benefit from auch a trip. Danny Hayes hearing reports that the stock markets were going up all along the line and he figuring that he would be a wealthy man If he had Just put some money on the right stocks a few months ago, except that he had no dough a few months ago. Wally Rickert, with 14 football plavers clinging to hla car, wonder ing what the funny noise was back by the rear wheel, finally .discovering it Has the fender rubbing against the tire. Don Krous disregarding the temper a rare reading and voraciously devour ing n If cream cone, with much define of chop and many grin of AY KIWI UNIONS ENDEAVOR SPREAD BLOCKADE ON WATERFRONTS McGrady Learns Operators Telegraphing President Perishables to Be Moved Is San Francisco Promise SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5. P The possibility of President Roosevelt intervening to settle the spreading maritime strike was seen today by strikers and employers after Assist ant Secretary of Labor Edward P. Mc Grady conferred with Washington by telephone, McGrady talked with hla secretary and learned the White House has re ceived numerous telecrama from shlD j m Asters and from Alaska operators regarding the ship blockade. These telegrams will be transmit ted to McOrady, who will take the matter up with , the maritime uulons at once, N If his efforts fall to bring about a settlement, then both aides saw tho possible Intervention of the president. By the Associated Press Striking maritime workers endeav ored to extend the widespread ship blockade today. . In New York, plans were made to Continued on Page rwelve) SMITH SAYS ARREST ON ELECTION EVE TO E CRI1 NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6 (& Ger ald L. K. Smith said today his arrest election eve foreshadowed revenge to be levied on critics by what he called 'the Parley dictatorship." Smith, former organiser of share-our-wealth clubs for the late Huey Long, received a suspended sentence of 910 or ten, days earlier today. He was convicted of disturbing the peace, reviling police and using obscene lan guage. Four - companions arrested with him were similarly sentenced. "This arrest and Incarceration la Just a forerunner of the reprisals which we may expect all over Amer ica as the Parley dictatorship seeks revenge on those who have been crit ical of Its regime. he said. Smith blamed Mayor Robert 8. Maestri, "dispenser of patronage In Louisiana," for James A. Parley, chair man of the Democratic national com mittee, for his arrest. FATAL FOR SHEEP PULLMAN, Nov. 6. F-Sheepmen received a warning today from Wash ington State colege veterinarians against allowing their flocks to graze in sprayed orchards. The warning followed the report of Drs. H. A. Smith and Ernest C. Mcculloch of the college, that lead arsenate from the sprayed fruit trees killed the 850 sheep of the Knox Sbeep company In Douglas county ten days ago. The carcasses were burned under a sheriff's order when the deaths were attributed to anthrax, most dreaded of sheep maladies. The Washington State veterinarians re ported each of the carcasses studied had enough lead arsenate to poison a dozen animals. They began dropping dead after grazing In an orchard near Orondo. The Chinee government carries mail matter over 500.000 kilometers of postal routes. American Working Girls Are Lauded F or Beauty, Poise HOLLYWOOD, Calif.. Nov. 8. (AP) America's working girls can take a bow. Anton Walbrook, widely -traveled Viennese actor, said today: "Your clerks and waitresses and uaL-ir-ettes are more beautiful and more gentle' than many of the women in the upper claw of Europe." Walbrook came to Hollywood erexal days ago to appar in the Clip, version of the Russian novel. Mirhal etroffoff." 2000 Die In Bombardment of Madrid From Air Grandmother Gains Seat In Congress Mrs. Nanny Wood Honeyman, who was a bridesmaid at tha wadding of President and Mra. Roosevelt, won a seat In congress from Oregon by an upset victory over Rep- William Ekwall, Republican Incumbent. She Is tho wife of a wealthy Portland bualneas man and It a grandmother, (Ataoolated Press Photo) E TO SAVE BY SALES EVEN! Medford merchant were today com pleting arrangement for the annual fall city-wide Dollar Days, to be cele brated tomorrow and Saturday, with practically all stores preparing to of fer record-breaking values, R. M. Marti, chairman of the committee, re ported that indications are that this will be one of the biggest sales events to date. Dollar Days banners have been sup plted to all local business firms through the efforts of the Portland Chamber of Commerce In cc-opera-tlon with the Jackson County Cham- Continued on Page Pour.) T TO PARIS. Nov. . V Official con gratulations on his election victory were sent to President Rootevelt to day by the Wench chamber of dep uties. The members approved a motion proposed by Ynon Del bos, foreign minister. Speaker Edouard Herrlot and Rene Richard, one of the prin cipal supports of Herriot'a suggest ion to pay the war debts In 1933. The chamber Socialist group, head ed by Premier Leon Blum, also sent a congratulatory message to tbe pres ident. ASK COUNTY PLANNERS LIST VACATION AREAS PORTLAND, Ore., Nov 5. (AP A request for all county planning commissions to Inventory the recrea tional resources of their areas, for the purpose of acquainting tourists with facilities and to work out fur ther conservation and recreation pro grams, went out from the state plan ring board today. Ormond Bean, state planning com ml&rlon chairman, said data received will be used in state-wide Inven tory. STEIWER'S CONDITION HOLDING UNCHANGED DENVER, Colo., Nov. 6, (AP Tbe condition of Senator Frederick Steiwer, Oregon Republican, who be came 111 last Sunday and removed from a train to a hospital here, waa rpporV'd by hospital attaches as un changed todey. The senator, who Is suffering from trail bladder disturbance. ws feellotf hr yefVrday, his ourw said, add ing h had held tn4 nla. I (laiisawwwwwiw.!, "J ""-(( " ' in Jl LATE TABULATIONS PUT F. R. PLURALITY NEAR TENjyilLLION Democratic Grip On Both Houses of Congress Tight ened New Deal Leaders Formulate New Program By the Associated Tress. , Still -accumulating election returns today pushed President Roosevelt's popular plurality toward ten millions while. In and out of official ufe, Washington turned to mapping sug gested paths for tbe New Deal to tread. Tardy tabulations from hard-fought election districts showed that at least 333 Democrats would alt In the new house, as compared with 321 elected i two years ago, and that the senate 1 would Include at least 73 Democrats where the party's membership In tbe laat session was 09. I Iowa May Name Pemos. . . 1 Beyond that, Democrat were lead ing as Iowa tellers neared tha com pletion of their task of counting votes cast In two contest for senate seats In that state, holding out the prob ability the Democratic senate strength would be . 70. Two - house- contest remained undecided. r ' A vast, low-cost housing plan, an "ever normal granary" for the farm lands, crop insurance, a drive to con vert farm tenants into, farm owners, an A. P. of L. effort to obtain new regulation of wages and working hoursall them bulked large In the thoughts of powerful groups among tihe president's followera. , ; Mr. Roosevelt, himself, however, gave no intimation of how he felt as to details of the various proposals, though he has declared "there are a thousand and one things to do." Wbat he would choose f reoommend to the new congrees convening Janu- (Oontlnued on Page Thiee.) M'NARY RETAINS SAFETYJV1ARGIN PORTLAND. Ore., NOT. . P Charles L. MoNary, Oregon' senior senator, led the Democratic candi date Wlllla Mahoney by 7.036 votes today with but 18 preclncta unre ported out of Oregon's 15 precincts. The totals: Mahoney lto,J7J, Me- Nary 187.M3. ' PORTLAND, Ore.. Not. 8 (JPr Tabulations In the (won election this morning gava the following: Pot president, 1481 out of 163A preclnc-te: Landon lOA.o&O. Roosevelt 331,410. Thonuu Lemke 10.533. Aiken 447. Ken. Bulow Rallies SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Not. (IP) After trilling his Republican op ponent In early returns, TJ. 6. Senator W. J. Bulow, Democratic nominee, von re-election today on tha baste of the count from all but 130 pre cincts. The rote was: Bulow 135.808; J. Chandler Gurnet, Republican, 130,-507. German Evildoers Face . Drastic Penal Program BERLIN, Nov. 6 (JPr A drastic, aweeping penal code for Nazi Oenr.any j was disclosed to tbe press for the! first time today by Minister of Jus-! tlce Franz OueTtner and other Naz: 1 .eal experta, Notable features are: 1. The dth -penalty for murder and extraordinary kidnaping. 3. Prison sentence for "publicity inciting the limitation of the num ber of offspring"; concerning the market, making Insulting remarks about Adolf Hitler. Monetary fines or Jail sentences for resurrecting the pasta of person who have since proved worthy citizens, causing or ordering strike or lock outs, vod disclosing industrial se crets to foreign countries. The spirit of the code la iummd up in It preface, which mv in part: "The bealthv feMlng of the people for rht and wrong determine the nnntent and application of the pen, cod. $125 RENTAL SET BY CITY COUNCIL Present Figure Is Continued for. 5 Years, Company to Provide Public Supplies 'Engineer Is' Employed United 'Air Lines airport rental of 8125 a month for the next five years of a ten-year contract waa approved by the city council laat night upon recommendation of the aviation com mittee of which Pred Heath, Jr.. ta chairman. In addition, tha company will pay 15 monthly toward heating coata. Tbla la the same arrangement that has been In force during tbe first five yeara of the original tan-year contract. For the next five years, however, the company baa agreed to furnish paper towela and other pub llo supplies, these having been pro vided by the city to date. . The original contract specified that at the end of five yeara both parties would get together to tlx tho rental for the second five years of tbe less,. . . ; : Engineer Employed ; Upon, recommendation of W. W. Allen aa chairman of tha health com mittee, tha council approved tha em ployment 6f John A. Olarfc aa engi neer In charge of the new sewage disposal plant. Mr. Allen said the committee had made a thorough In vestigation of applicants, had found Mr. Clark qualified and had received a report from Greeley & Hansen, Chl- ( Continued on Page Three.) TABULATION GIVEN BAN FFANCISCO, NOT. 8. (API The final Associated Press tabulation of the California vote tor president gave todsy the following totals for 11.398 at 11.718 precinct.' Minor candidate totals are for fewer pre clncta: Roosevelt. 1,884,396, or 87.1 per cent of total vote. ' Landon. 804,113, or 33.0 per cent tf total vote. Colvln, 8.989, or tour-tenths of one percent of total. Browder, 7,851, or three-tenths of one percent of total. Thomas. 8,756, or two-tentha of one percent of total. Total vote for prealdent, 3.613,134. FLYING CROSS AWARDED FOR SAVING AIRPLANE WASHINGTON, Not. 8. UP) Award of tha 'distinguished flying cross to Captain Prank O. Ixrin of Oreeneaatle, Ind., and John S. Grif fith. Seattle, both of the army air corps, for herolem while making a flight from Wright field, O.. to In dianapolis, Ind., last July was an nounced today by tho war depart ment. The of tlcere. stationed at Wright field, were cited for extinguishing a fire which enveloped the engine of their plane while they were making a test flight at an altitude of 2.000 feet. "Atonement for wrong, the protec tion of our people as a whole determine It meaning and purpose. "tta task U to safeguard honor and fidelity, rare heredity, defensive pow er of labor, discipline and order. "Jts motto la 'the common weal take precedence over private advan tage'." The new code la bad on tbe Nasi principle that protection of the na tion, rather than protection of the Individual, 1 the paramount conaid eratlon In Jurisprudence. Bealde punching murder and manelaughter strictly, the new code even makes the acquisition of Instru ment for killing punishable If In tent to kill can be proved. Attempt at suicide, howewr, will ga unpunished. Anyone speaking ' contemptuously of marriage or motherhood in public will be peo.lJfn Abortion la considered a crime. llvuM LANDONS SMILE IN DEFEAT Although an avalanche of vote, piled up throughout tha nation for President Roosevelt, Qov. Alf M, Landon, Republican nominee, and Mra. Landon displayed these smllea at tha executive mansion at To peka, Kas. The picture was made shortly before tho governor conceded lefeat and sent a congratulatory telegram to tha President, (Also lated Press Photo) STEPHENSON TOPS LEGISLATIVE VOTE Ralph O. ' Stephenson. Medford. Demomratlc candidate for tbe legis lature, tops the legislative ticket In this county, with a total of 0,630 votes, according to unofficial figures complied by tho county clerk's office this morning. Stephenson leads Olenn O. Taylor by 289 votes, and Attorney, William McAllister by 222 votes. The vote stands: Stephenson 8,636 McAllister 6.414 Taylor ......... ....... 6.347 Stevens w ............. 6,167 Pomeroy 1,336 Based on the vote for presidential (Continued on Page Pour.) L LEAST IN YEARS WASHINGTON, Nov. . The agricultural department predicted to day that carry-over stocks of raw wool In this country for the new aesson starting next April would be smaller than for the current year. In a survey of wool prospects, the department said stocks of apparel wool held by dealers and manufac turers on September 36, totaled 136, f00,000 pounds, scoured baals, a de cline pt 30 percent uompnred to the same date last year. Domestic mill consumption the final quarter of this year will be smaller than the same months last, It was said, but consumption for the entire year will be "well above the average of recent years." Salem Jockey Is Ruled Off Track SAN PRANCISCO. Nov. 6WP) One jockey was suspended and two others received fine today by the presiding steward, Floyd McKceney of Tan for an track for Infractions of the rules In race yesterday. Billy Neal, apprentice from Salem, Ore., was grounded for the balance of the meeting for using "unfair tac tics." Jocklea Noel RlchardaVn of PocRtllo, Idaho, and Donald McCtine of Cheyenne each were fined $126 for striking other riders with their whips. Punted Football Drops Pheasant DO LAND, S. D., Nov, 8. W Do land high school's football team got the ;blrd" but It wasn't the Bronx variety. A halfback flushed three pheaNvnt whm retrieving a ball from a field of fltubbl during a punting drill. At the same time Dale Voungrpn punt ed, ball bitting one of the pheasants and dropping it to the ground with a broken neck. Ul BY 484 The unofficial count for Jackson county completed this afternoon by the county clerk's office on the sena torial contest gives Senator Charles !.. McNary, a majority of 306 over Mahoney. The complete unofficial count for senator la: McNary ........ ..6,779 Mahoney w..,........ 6,483 Senator Charles L. McNary, veteran He publican senate leader, carried Jackson county by a majority of 484 votes over Willis Mahoney, Democrat, on the face of complete unofficial returns from 69 Jackson county pre cincts, one missing. The vote waa: President Roosevelt carried Jackson county by 3,676 votes over Governor landon, Lnmke, Independent candi date, polled 1.304 . in this county. Lemke heaviest vote waa In Rogue River precinct, where he polled 111. two leas than given the prealdent with 113 votes. Tha presidential vote. (Continued on Page Pour.) .P. FATAL TO AUTOIST GRANTS PASS, Not. . (API Chest and back Injurlea received by W. It. Roblah, 81. of Seattle, when hla car went over tha grade near the Paclflo hlghway-Glendale road Junc tion north of Grants Pass early Wednesday proved fatal yesterday afternoon. He died at the Josephine General hospital at 1:1)0 p. m. Mr. Roblah, who bad been im hla way to San rranclsco, waa so badly Injured that he could hardly talk alter arriving at tha hospital. Dr. Fawcotte of olendale. who brought the Injured man here, said there waa no other car Involved, but aald Koblsh had told him he "Juat drove eft the road." He waa alone. Cox Makes Shifts For Ashland Game MONMOUTH, Not. A) The annual football battle botween the Southern Oregon and Oregon Normal sehoola will aee Coach Al Cox battle for victory against a traditional rival. Tho game will be played Saturday at Southern Orrgon'a gridiron. In Ash land. Cox haa ordered numerous changes In hla squad to Improve It after the loosely played contest against the Al bany Pirates, although tha Wolves won 7 to 0. McNary d.636 Mahoney 8,161 Rudder (Ind.) 68 Strelff (Ind.) - 71 Haaa (Soc.) - 60 RESIDENTS' WATCH THRILLING COMBAT BETWEENPLANES Wail of Air Raid Sirens Sounds Continuously In Capital Roar of Cannon ading Shakes Suburbs LISBON, Portugal. Nov. iiPi Unconfirmed reports from In-. urgent Unca outside Madrid to day said 2,000 persons had been killed In an aerial borabordmenft of Madrid's suburbs. Dispatches from Madrid today mentioned no casualties aa a re suit of the latest bombardment.) MADRID, Nov. 8.. (P) Heavy aerial and artillery bombardmenta ahook tba outskirts of Madrid today aa fascist Insurgents started the deckuva bat tle" for possession of t'ie Spantab capital. Two Insurgent fighting ships, which chased off a government bombing plane, were shot down during a apeo taoular aky battle over the eastern section of .tha city. Thousands of Madrid resldenta, watching tha fight from rooftops, ' shouted wildly at the socialist vie tory In the first air engagement ova-' Madrid. Rebel Craft Afire. As tha fascist combat planea dove onto a squadron of government bombers, pilots In the socialist ships opened fire and one of the Insurgent craft burst Into flames. A second (Continued on Page Twelve) s- APPROVE WALLIS LONDON, Rng.. Nov. 5 (AP) Th lone communist member of the hous of commons, William Gallacher, to day asserted no workers' representa tive In parliament would object "If the king want to marry Mrs. Simp son." Th British worklngman, ha said, approve of the king's friendship with the former wallls Wart lei d of Baltimore. Gallacher, the first person in par llament to comment so far on Mrs. Simpson, aald tbe British aria toe racy does not like her because ah 1 not a member of th "charmed circle." FOREST SURVEYOR FINED FOR BLAZE Frank Barney of Coqullle. member of a forest survey crew operating In the Trall-Umpqua divide country charged with unlawfully permitting a foreat fire to spread, waa fined IM and coata by Justice of tha Peace William R. Coleman yesterdsy. Tha complaint waa algned by State Fir Warden J. V. DeWltt. It was revealed that Barney and members of the surrey crew had bulls a small fire to warm and cook lunch and had left tha fire Improperly ex tinguish, it waa discovered shortly afterward. Albert Varner, charged with bur glary not In a dwelling, waived pre liminary hearing and was held for tha grand Jury. Varner allegedly en tered the Southern Pacific freight da pot. Cheater W. Donald waa assessed J and coata for failure to atop at a highway Intersection. Luck Follows Grants Pass Man In Balht Defeat O RANTS PASS, NOT. 8 (AP) W. O. Lucore early today lost hla home and entire contents by fire. Not even full olothtng waa saved. Mrs. Lucore being driven from tha house while partially dressed. Oonly a sack of potatoes and a doen egga were aalvaged. Lucore lost both hla glass eye and falso teeth In the flames. Yesterday Lucore lost his race for Joeephlne county commis sioner. '
