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The Weather Forecast: increasing cloudiness tonight and T net flay; slightly warmer tonight. Temperature: Highest yesterday ........ 64 Lowest this morning 86 Let Mail Tribune Classified Ads Solve Your Problems. Small Cost I MEDFORD BUNE Fall Associated Press : 'ull United Press Thirty i irst Year MEDFORD, OKEGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1936. No. 192. ST? A "TTm warn- is SIRE mm By PAUL MALLON. (Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. Some of these current cabinet resignations can be traced down to sources which are not entirely dispassionate. That Is, one official has been known to believe W . .51 and pass on the i -esBr ky a ..,., -i that another official may have his head lopped off, especially It the party of the first part happens to have a personal dislike for the party of the sec ond part, or wants ih Job for hlm eelf or a friend. In this way. stories set uround and are frequently emphasised by repe tition, although none of the parties of any part really knows what the president thinks. . The funniest part of it Is the effect these rumors have on the cabinet members affected. Two of them, at least, have been worked Into a mental state of resignation simply because they keep reading about It In the newspapers. They do not know any more about what the president has In mind than you do. But they keep noting that their resignation is ex pected until they begin to believe that perhaps the president himself has tipped someone who is spreading the word, One such official, for Instance, told a good friend a month ago that he would definitely retire within the first six months of President Roose velt's second term. He knew from what a high source the rumors con cerning his resignation emanated. - But after the post-election cabinet Mtlniv t.hN other dav. ha told the same friend that If the president wanted him to remain, ne wouia o. The cabineteer had fully recover ed from his earlier fright. Am a matter of fact, a wholesale re organization of the cabinet Is not and never has been seriously considered. The cabinet is generally regarded by Mr. Roosevelt's good friends, who are not personally biased, as far from the best the country ever had. No more than three or four were of sny great benefit to the president In the cam paign. A gradual reorganization will take place within the next two years, due (Continued on Page Pour.) ON LEGION POST LIST legionnaires will make final plans at their post meeting tomorrow even ing for the Armistice Day celebration on Wednesday. It Is requested by Commander J. F. Pllegel that all be present to gain lat-mlnut Instruc tions. Commander Pllegel also urged that all ex-service men Join in the pa rade Wednesday, starting at It a. m The World War veterans will march In a group, instead of In separate orgsnlrntions, Pllegel stated. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Lee Ackley holding a plump duck ha sent to the never-never land Bun clay, and proudly admitting he'd bumped it off with a SO-gauge scatter ,nn end put 11 pellets clear througn he bird. Ployd "Bake" Baker letting his de .ire to keen warm overcome his ear orlai scruples anjl appearing this 'a. n. In a bright scarlet jacxet wiuj hood on It, a la Red Riding Hood. Hairy Hansen around drumming up :ustomers for the J'ville-C. Point football scuffle Wednesday morning, Hairy claiming It was to be the grset- jt holocaust since the burning of i?oms. H. C. Obye admitting he'd been uck hunting all by his lonesome .ver the week-end. and when askel f he weren't alrald of being ahot or a goo. Karl Jenouch answered :t him with the Information Obye d k.pt his neck In. O. B. Morrow running off and lesv- .( the lights burning on bis parked .r. ar.d a scribe finally turning :n off despite the warning of by .andere that he'd get his nose -.inched for sticking it in other peo- rtiej ns?. i..t.. v- : .ir..ites the earth gains tieht tbcut a pound an hour from eoooUng sura. FRANZ R. CULVER SENDS BULLET THROUGH HEART Spring Street Station Man Believed Despondent Be cause of III Health Heavy Revolver Is Used Franz R. Culver, 39, owner of the Spring Street service station on the Crater Lake highway at the Medford city limits, this momlng took his own life, apparently because of de spondency, ehootlng himself through the heart with a heavy .41 calibre icvolver. He had not been in good health for tome time and this morning was too ill to work. Mllo E. Lamb, Associated Oil company salesman, volunteered to run the station through the day and waa making coffee for the 111 man when he heard him walking about on the second floor of the general store end service station. Culver said he was looking for keys to the gasoline pump, and a few moments later Lamb heard him go outside. Found With Revolver When he bad not returned 'In five minutes Lamb started a search for hlra, and found him slumped on the giound Just outside the men's real room at the station. Thinking . he had collapsed because of his illness. Lamb called to him and attempted to help him to his feet before noticing the revolver In his hand. Lamb ran to the telephone and notified the coroner's office and state police. Dr. James C. Hayes was also summoned and found Culver shot through the heart but etltl breatMng. He was taken to the Sacred Heart hospital but was dead shortly after arrival. The body was removed to the county morgue, ...... Lamb said that ha heard no shot, and that Culver had given no lnten- t Continued on Page Sight.) BAKER. Nov. 9. (fl) Frederick C. Schafer of Baker, former deputy col lector of Internal revenue, committed suicide In the Elks club rooms Sun day evening by firing a .38 calibre bullet from a pistol Into hla mouth. Friends believe poor health prompted his act. Schafer, who was born in Missouri, was graduated from the University of Missouri law school. He was employed in Bend when he received his ap pointment as United States deputy collector. Be served in that capacity for 13 years during Republican ad ministrations and left the service soon after the election of President Roosevelt In 1932, Mr. Schafer, who was never married, leavea no relatives In this community. Soil Conservation Changes Planned WASHINGTON. Nov. 0. (API A definite decision by administration farm leaders to seek some changes at the next session of congress in the present AAA soli conservation pro gram was disclosed ' today by AAA spokesmen. Although a farm group called here Saturday to discuss- the proposed federal crop Insurance program, asked for revival of the old AAA control program voided by the supreme mttrt spokesmen said administration leaders hsd not decided to go that far. Labor Arbller Head WILKK3-BARRE. PS, Nov. . (AP Monslgnor J. J. Curran. who took a leading part In negotiating settle ment of anthracite strikes, died Sat- urdev. He wee 17. Greater Armed Strength Aim For Army and Navy WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (AP) Moves for stronger military defenses and for new legislation Intended to keep the United States out of foreign wars were afoot In the capital today as another Annlstlrc day approached. The army'a chief of staff. Gen. Ma im Craig, sougnt establishment or a lsrge new renrre of fighting men, resdy to augment g modernlfd regu lar army in time of danger. A naval chieftain. Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, chief of the bu reau of navigation, warned that the fleet la under-manned, more In offi cers than In men. He asked full war complements for eah of the nary' vessels. Some law-maker .oolud u . ; coming congress for move to lU-ttgUicn neutrality law. to prevent Two Lose Right Legs in Scores A 'First' Mrs. Revs Beck Bosons (above), wife, mother, lawyer and legislator, became Utah's first woman Judgt by .election to tha Salt Lake City court. But she said her husband and llx-year-old daughter would coma before her career If necessary. 8h didn't think her sympathy would I run away with her better Judgment en tha bench. (Associated Press pnotoi OF BY ABSENCE OF RAIN Au unfavorable delay In the plant ing of spring grain crops la the moot serious effect being noted aa south ern Oregon experiences the driest fall season since the beginning of official weather record In 1911. A check-up of records at the wea ther bureau baa revealed that the period from Sept. 1 to midnight yes terday was almost totally lacking In precipitation, the deficiency standing at 3.01 Inches this morning. This la compared with the previous record of 1.48 in 1917 which was almost equalled In 1031, when statistics show a deficiency of 1.47. R. Q. Fowler, county agent, stated today that farmers are unable to be- (Continued on Page Bight.) SERIOUS OPERATION DENVER, Nor. 9. (AP) Senator Frederick Stelwer, Oregon Republican, was operated on at St. Joseph hos pital here today for a gall bladder disturbance. Hospital attaches said the senator came through the operation In "good condition." The operating surgeon said the sen ator came through the operation In "fine condition" and waa resting com fortably aa he regained consciousness. The doctor said the senator had "a bad gall bladder" with adhesions. He added there were no other complica tions. Yeggmen Dynamite Safe Of Sheriff BEKD, Ore., Not. B. (AP) The safe in the office of Sheriff Claude McCauley at the Deschutes county courthouse yielded approximately 100 In checks, .currency and silver early today to safe blowers. Boy Lewis, assistant Janitor, told officers two men found him In the bseement, bound hlra with rope and used sis charges to wreck the vault. Iwl freed himself and notified po lice. Americana from mixing up In civil war abroad aa well aa wars between nations, and, through taxes, to "pay-as-you-go" for future wars. Meantime diplomats bound for Bue nos Aires studied their plans for pre senting to an Inter-American confer ence President Roosevelt's desire to give "hope to the war-wpary pv-plea of the world by demonstrating to tnem uiat the srourge of armed con flict can and will be eliminated from the western hemisphere." Satisfied with the army's progress toward modernization, General Craig In his annual report disclosed plana for creating a trained civilian army !!'rrvj?h a flve-vfur fVstment system u ;h regular army. Tnl would em brace three years of active service vad two yean aC reeem duty. PENDLETON YOUTH TAXI CHAUEFEUR 14-Year-0ld Schoolboy Says Wanted Auto to Drive to New York First Degree Murder Charge Faced . PENDLETON. Ore., Nov. . (AP) A 14-year-old boy, Ervln Enbysk. said by District Attorney C. C. Proebstel to have signed a statement confessing the slaying of Howard Gwln, 38, taxi driver, remained In the Umatilla county Jail today awaiting tha return of Circuit Juage Calvin Sweek for a preliminary hearing. The bearing was expected to be held tomorrow. The district attorney said the boy admitted shooting Gwln In the head early yesterday on a lonely road 10 miles south of Pendleton. Stat po lice quoted the youth ae saying he did not, contemplate killing Gwln until the taxi had driven out of the city. Then, he was quoted as saying, he fired at O win's bark while the car was traveling about 80 miles an hour. State patrolmen said the boy told them he wanted the taxi for a trip to New York.. . A Pendleton hunter stumbled over Qwtn's body a few hours after his death. The discovery led to the flnd- Continued on Page Eight., PLEAD NOT GUILTY TREKA. Calif., Nov. 8 (AP) Tha Brlte brothers, John and Coke, plead ed Innocent today when arraigned In superior court on a charge of mur dering two peace officers and a vaca tionist at their Horse Creek camp August 30 There waa no demonstration when the men were brought Into the court room, after their Journey .from Pol aom prison, where they were held for safe keeping after their surrender October 7. Judge C. J. Luttrell set November 30 aa the date for their final hearing, but later withdrew the date when Forest Frye of Sacramento, defense attorney, presented a motion for a change of venue. The court stated a hearing on the motion would be conducted tomorrow. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 9. ( AP) The Oregon milk control board's or der raising the price of milk in the Portland area became effective today, and with It came varying versions of the results. t Some grocers reported an unusual demand for canned milk. One dairy reported several cancellations. Some producers were quoted as saying the Increase waa all that kept them In the Portland market. The Increase, ranging from 1 to 3 cente a quart, was to have become effective October 14 but was restrain ed under a temporary Injunction granted Thomas W. Sweeney end B. A. Kennedy, describing themselves as Portland consumers. DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT NEW TORK. Nov. (AP) W. Forbes Morgan, treasurer of the Democratic national committee,' to day estimated the total cost of the Democratic national campaign at around $3,300,000 and said the deficit would approximate 500,000. Morgan Mid he felt satisfied the present deficit would by wiped out "very shortly." LOW AUTO NUMBERS TO BE DRAWN NOV. 20 SALEM, Nov. Q. (AP) The secre tary of state announced drawings for low 1937 automobile license numbers would be held at his office November 20. All own ra desiring low number were urged to get their application for ..ceases In a( once.. BRITES ARRAIGNED Townspeople See Colorful, Noisy Gypsy Nuptials WOODBURN, Ore., Nov. 0, ( AP) While goggle-eyed white vlsltots looked on with amazement, 300 gypsies from all parte of the wast participated in a colorful and noisy weddtng ceremony here yes terday, Least enthusiastic- of the eating, drinking and singing throng were the bride and groom, Anna Marks. 18, and her cousin. Miller, 14. Only after considerable weeping did Anna, who had been sold to her groom's father, go through with her part of the ceremony, which consisted of entering thi bridegroom's empty tent. He, In the mesntlme, watched the whole affair aloofly and from a distance. STARTS OPERATION TE GRANTS PASS, Noy. 9. (P) A $130,000 gold dredge Sunday began a "tlesurely" day and night cruise along Coyote creek channel which may last for eight years. A mlno syndicate headed by Louis D. Carlson aud John Sandburg, both Catlfornlana, started aotual operation after a test run Saturdsy. Unllko other dredges In Oregon, which csrry all the machinery to scrape away the earth and rocks in front of them, to sort out the gold, and to ' deposit the talUnga behind, this floating dredge's hopper la filled from the bank. Carlson and Sandburg said they plan a similar dredge for Wolf creek, near the town of the asms name, and seversl in Jackson and Siskiyou counties, Hesdqusrters of the company are In Medford. . PARIS. Not. 9. (AP) The news paper U Matin traced the ancestry of President Roosevelt today to the little northern French town of Lan coy. WASHINGTON. Hot. 7. (API White House officials said today they had no information that might tend to rerlfy reports published by the Parle newapaper Le Matin that Presi dent Roosevelt is descended through bis mother from a family In northern France. They said that to all Inquiries about his sncestry Mr. Roosevelt had to reply that he never had had time or inclination to try to establish his family line on the other side of the ceean before they came to the United States nearly 300 years ago. TO ENTER RACES All entrant in the American Le gion Armistice Day roller skating races were requested today to report prior to 10:30 Wednesday morning at Main street and Oak dale avenue, The races are to atart promptly at 10:30. The course extends from Main and Oakdale along Main street to the Western Union office. Cash prizes and ticket to the armory rotle- skat- tr.g rink are to be awarded. Com petitors must furnish their own skates, officials said. Boys and girls ten years of ape or more are Invited to enter the contest by the American Legion and Arthur F. Relnklna-, operator of the roller skating rink. Mahoney Opposes Recount Of Votes KLAMATH PALLS, Nov, 9. fAP) Willis Mahoney, unsuccessful candi date for U. S. Senator Charles L Mc Nary's post, declared today he defin itely would not request a recount. "I have received numeroua letters and messages auggestlng there ought to be a recount," said the Klamath Falls mayor. "Under no considera tion will X ask for or approve re count, t have complete confidence In Oregon election officials ani in cur election mechlnery. That Is all there U to If FRENCH ANCESTRY GIVEN ROOSEVELT SKATERS INVITED Motorcycle-Auto Crash HIGH COURT HEARS E Justice Stone Too III to Participate in Decisions and' Orders Twenty De cisions Are Announced WASHINGTON, Nov, 0. (AP) In Its first opinion day of the new fall term, the supreme court today hand ed down twenty decisions and then began hearing argumenta arising from the New Deal's public utility holding company law. Chief Justice Hughes announced from the bench that Justice Stone, who has been 111 at hla home for sev eral weeks, took no part In the de c'slons and orders given out today In one case, the Justices split 6 to 9 In holding a section of Iowa's chain store tax law unconstitutional. The law waa designed to Impose a gradu ated levy on gross receipts, The dis senters were Justices Brandels and Cardoso. Among other decisions handed cown, the court barred reorganisation of the Tennessee Publishing com pany. publishers of the Momlng and Afternoon Nashville Tennessean, un der section 77-B of the federal bink ruptcy act. It also upheld a lower court ruling that three Neldecker brothers b. Coles, George W. and Aubrey could not be extradited to France to face lLxceny charges In connection with il,e closing of their bank la Parts. ,. In . addition, to these .action,, the . (Continued from Page sight) PLANES, CANNON STRAFE MADRID MADRID, Nov. 0 (AP) Pasclat aerial fleet spilled great bombs on the city limit fortifications of Madrid in four vicious wares today while In surge nt shells ripped business streets and buildings. Determined grimly to open a path for the Moors, Legionnaires and fascist regulars atopped by the last ditch defense of the capital, five bl- motored bombing planea and a half dozen pursuit ahlps flew low over the new line of fortifications, Just Inside Che city limit shortly before 8 p. m It was the fourth tune the capital's new fortification had been bleated within the last 34 hours. Red Cross data available Imme diately after the bombing said at least 39 were killed and many wounded In the newest assault. These casualties were added to 30 wounded in morn ing bombardment and between 100 and 300 killed or wounded Sunday by shells and air bombs. MARION BUDGET $368 OVER PREVIOUS YEAR SALEM. Ore, Not. . (AP) With the recommendation a new court house proposal be placed before the voters at the next election, the coun ty budget board completed He work here by the approval of a 72fl.tlU budget for 1037, The amount Is ei0S higher than for the peat year. rb Trice L'p nBEOSPORT. Ore., Not. , (AP) Becsuse of a shortage of flan In the Umpqua and other coastal streams open to commercial fishermen, prices hare Increased to S cents, a lump of a half cent. Barry more, Miss Barrie Wed in Yuma Elopement HOLLYWOOD. Calif.. NOT. . P John Barrymore brought hla bride home to Hollywood today and de clared : "I didn't know my getting married waa so Important. It seems I chased the king off the front psge today." The S5.year-old actor appeared ner vous aa he faced a little group of newspapermen and photographers at the railroad station. The a 1 -year-old Mrs. Barrymore, the former Elaine Barrie. waa radiant. They were married at midnight at Yuma. Arte. They flew there from Hollywood but returned by train. Barrymore's fourth msrrlsge csme as a romsntlc hock to Hollywood. Ttw hesrt Interrst, which dated from their flrnt meeting In his New York hospital room in 103S, and Peace Delegate Mrs. Elala Musa.rof Salt Lake Cltv, only woman member of the United Ststea delegation to the Inter-American Conference on the Maintenance of Peace, shown on arrival at Wash. Ington to confer with other mem bers of tha group, which Includes secretary or state Hull. (Asoscl- ated Press Photo POUR LOSE LIVES T( PORTLAND. Ore, ! Nov. 0 AP) Four lives wrt-anuffed out la auto mobile accidents In Oregon over the week end. Two of the victims were killed In Portland, two In the Eugene region. . Adah Clark, 68, died at a Portland hosptll after being struck by an automobile driven by Andy J. Rand, Portland. Police said the woman walked into the aide of Rand's oar. Tony Attlch, 43. received fatal In juries when the car In which he was riding, driven by Louis Velago, col lided with one driven by Noel Davis. All lived In Portland. Jess Kenney, Blachly, was killed Inatantly near Deerhorn when his ear crashed Into a parked truck. Donald J. McKy, 18, Eugene, died Sunday afternoon from Injuries re celved when his car struck one driven by Glen . Byrnes. McKy was at tempting to avoid hitting a dead-end street barricade. The accident oc curred In Eugene KLAMATH FALLS, Not, 9.--AP) Accidents brought death to two In Klamath county Sunday. Charles Walker, b7, of Beatty died of Injuries Buffered Saturday night when he waa struck down by a car cn the La kevlew highway east of here, : The badly mangled body of Leslie Hood, 38, Chlloquln, was found by trainmen Sunday night along the Southern Pacific tracks near the Deschutes county line Hood had evidently fallen under the wheels of sn earlier train. Plays Genial.Host And Goes To Jail PORTLAND. Nov. 9 (AP) Satur day night George Mason, 33, was the gotllMl host to a dinner party of eight st a Portland hotel. Today he Is the guest of a less genial host the city of Portland, When It came time to pay the bill for his party, Mason declared he had been robbed. Detectives Claude Say lor and William Browne did a little Investigating, found Mason was be hind In his room rent, and arrested him on charges of vagrancy and de frauding an lnnkeper. bridged their amusing cross-country lore derby, was believed by all tha film colony to have died this sum' mer when Elslns announced: "Recent events have ahown con' cluslvely that It would be Impossible for us to plsn a happy married life together." And Barrymore added in a gruff aside: "A man can't get along with a gal like that." Last night, however, the profiled actor let the public know for the first tlms that wedding bells would peal for "Caliban" and "Ariel." "I'm so happy, so happy, so well you wouldn't be able to print It, fni so happy," he confided aa he march' ed to a chartered plane at a nearby airport with Miss Barrie and Prtf. IN FIGHT TO SAVE LIVES ONNJURED Walter E. Van Rhem, 23, of Eagle Point and Glenn Brown, 38, Klamath Falls, Victims of Sunday Mishap Amputation waa resorted to this momlng In a desperate effort to aava the Uvea of Walter B. Van Rhem, 33, of Eagle Point, and Glenn Brown. 98, Klamath Palls, both of whom suffer ed crushed right legs after their mo torcycle and a oar driven by Mrs. Lovlcka Waymaok, county Jail ma tron, had collided on the Clngcada hill, a mile and a half this aide of Eagle Point on the Crater Lake high way. - The accident happened at 4 o'clock yaaterday afternoon. With the partici pants all In poor condition to talk, reconstruction of whst actually hap pened was difficult today. According to the best facta available Mrs. Way mack waa driving toward Eagle Point In a sew Bulck coupe. A model-T Ford was coming toward Medford and the two men on the motorcycle were following tho Ford on the upgrade, Apparently, according to officers, the two on tha motorcycle awung amund to pass the Ford, meeting the oncoming Waymack oar In doing as. It la believed Mra. Waymack'a ear struck the Ford In attempting to avoid a collision, and the motor cycle crashed Into the Bulck from aa angle, striking the rear ot the coupe and upsetting, crushing the right legs of the two riders. Mrs. Waymack sent her esr oft the highway to the right Id avoid the pile-up, and suffered serious chest Injuries when the Im pact of stopping against the bank sent her crashing Into the steering wheel. The Perl ambulance waa summoned from this city, and the two men, their (Continued on Page Bight.) ADDED TO STRIKE BAN FRANCISCO, Not. () Members of It crafts went on strike In three bay region shipyards of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation today. A. T. Wynn. secretary of the Bey Counties Metal Trade Council, sail 6.000 man were out. Shipyard offi cials said 1.600 men were cm strike. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 0, (API Hearing of a federal fact-finding commission wse postponed Indefi nitely today by Admiral Harry a. Hamlet of the United States maritime commission to permit ship owners and striking maritime workers to re sume negotiations for a settlement of the widespread maritime strike. HAS LARGEST OCTOBER CHICAOO. Nor. Officials of Montgomery Ward and Company pointed today to an October gross sales volume of MS.4S9.404 as the largest ever recorded by the malt order firm In single month. Volume was up 30 per cent, com pared with October. 1PM, the com pany announced today. And for the first nine m on the of the fiscal year gross sales totaled $285,008,051, largest ever recorded for a comparable period and an Increase of 99 per cent cam pared with the same period of last year. ROOSEVELT CONFERS ON BUDGET ESTIMATES WASHINGTON, Not. . (AP Con tinuing work on estimates for the 1037-'3 federal budget. President Roosevelt todsy called In for Whits House conferences officials of the re lief and veterans' agenciea. After a S-mlnute meeting with Daniel W. Bell, acting budget direc tor, the chief executive held a half hour conference with Harry L. Hop kins, works progreu administrator. Income Shares Msrylsnd Tund, bid 10.79; asked U.T3. Quarterly Income, bid 1.S7; uked i M.
