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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday; little change In tem perature. Temperature Highest yesterday ; Gl Lowest this morning .. 23 Lots of Time Dont tnlti having a Clarified Ad In the Sunday morning edition of the Mall Tribune of you harp something to aell, trade, or rent. People have lots of time to read on Sunday. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty . .ist Year (Twenty Pages Two Sections) MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1936. No. 196. SET am 7u Ml U ZJ u esae" tiu?rnniw- ass' 11 lay) 1 By Pnul Mallon (Copyright, 1936. by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON. Nov. 13. Cltlzena, particularly bualnesa men, would do "Well to get out their ear mtfffa. A blizzard of Wash ington rumors la on. It la heavier and thicker than four year ago, and probably will prove just aa vet In the end. You hear on colossal author ity, for Instance, that President Roosevelt Is go ing to revive the old AAA, that he favors the John son plan of NRA, that he favors the Rich berg plan of NRA, that be favors a constitutional amendment for both NRA and AAA, that he Is going to throw out the cabinet, that he Is going to rejlgger hla old commodity dollar theory, and ao on. The simple fact behind these ru mors is that, while Mr. Roosevelt has been delivered from bis enemlea by the election, be la yet to be rescued from his friends. Out of the 25,000,000 people who voted for Mr. Roosevelt, about 34, 999,999 apparently cdnslder the elec tion result aa a personal vindication and a mandate for some pet method erf reform they have In mind. And each of the thousands of poll tic tana who worked for hla election will whisper to you In private that Mr. Roosevelt la going to do whatever they happen to want him to do. The warning which the president Rave in a prees conference the other day wae not a cuatomary evasion. Hla advice against predicting the ruture course or government was ap parently sincere, for the obvious reason that he haa not made up hla 4und what he la going to do. That tm, bis purposes regarding NRA, AAA, etc., are well known,, but his meth ods have not been selected, even In general outlines. The snow makers, of course, . are merely attempting to Influence his decision. The prealdent's working technique now Is the same as during the early days of his administration. He ac cepts recommendations and orders studies by half a dozen dlfcrent ad visers on the same topic. ror example, on NRA. everyone knows ho wants to accomplish 11ml- ( Continued on page fourteen CAR HEATER BLAMED FOR LOSS OF A TOE PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 13. (AP) J. C. McNulty of Eugene, alleging he becifme numb from exhaust gas and subsequently received a burned foot on a car heater and lost a toe. filed suit In federal court here for (75.000 ts an aftermath of an auto ride wltb Hans Zlngler, Singer sewing machine representative at Eigene. The Singe company was named as defendant. 4 SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Admiral Ernie West poohpoohlng this Friday the 13th stuff, saying It's one of the lurklest days on tap In the navy, but Issuing a warning against ever going aboard a ship that hd a cock-eyed cook or one which had been built without sticking s coin under the mast. Jos Gagnon. nawinUl tycoon and upstanding Frenchman, bristling no ticeably when John Peter told him his signature looked like that of a Dutchman, even If It couldn't be read. Ben Gotxihall, landscape architect at Camp Proscott, stalking about with a worried u.irea&lon trying to find a Spanish Instructor so he can take lessons and catch up with the lingo tossed by newcomers at the camp. Tom Glnn starting in with a placid sir to clean a big plate glass window, and finding that as he went along the window got dirtier and dirtier, he finally giving up the project in disgust. Larry Duff demurring at putting one of the new St. Mary'a high wind shield stickers on his car until after he gets back from the Santa Clara St. Mary's game, he being a Santa Clara man and not wanting to come back with a thick ear. Mark McCoy, linotype operator at the M. T., doing a trick that rivaled the mystic east In effect, with smoke coming out of his pants leg. his pocket and hi trouwr aeat. McCoy saying the trick is easy to leam, and is done br igniting a handful of matches in the po;kct. EXPULSION EXCHANGE LOOMS Shares of Atlas Tack Corpo" ration Boosted From $9.50 to $30.23 Through Manipulation, Is Claim WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (AP) The securities , commission today charged the Now York stock exchange firm of W. E. Hutton and Co., Its 11 members and H. H. Mlchels with ma nipulating stock, and ordered them to appear December 7 to show cause why they should not be expelled from 14 stock exchanges. The firm, as well as Mlchels. was accused of manipulating stock of the Atlas Tack corporation, which re sulted In boosting the stock from $9.50 to 930.25 per share. Partners named in the order were James M. Huttou, James M. Hutton, Jr., John Christie Duncan, Charles N. Poster, Joseph A. Hall. Carroll V. Geran, George C. RUcy. W. E. Hutton. 2nd, C. Kenneth Smith, and Joseph A. W. Iglehart. Mlchels is a partner of the firm of William Cavalier and Co., which 1a now a member of the New York Stock Exchange, the New York Curb Ex change, and other exchanges. The firm wae not mentioned In the order. SINCLAIR SLATED FOR ASSASSIN IF ELECTED, CLAIM BAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 18r (API Upton Sinclair disclosed today that President Roosevelt assigned Los An geles secret service men to Los An geles to protect him because of an assasslnatlr n threat when he was the Democrat I o nominee for governor In 1034. - - Here for a Congress of Western Writers, Sinclair said Information hi received Indicated he would have been assassinated within a few min utes after election returns were in had he defeated Gov. Frank Mer rlam, the Republican candidate. I was to have been shot down In the radio studio where I was to have made my speech of acceptance and thank the voters," Sinclair said. "The actual killing was to have been done by a wealthy California business man." Sinclair said. "This man had made his will and settled all his worldly affairs In preparation for the deed." Sinclair said he was not disturbed by the threat. He said a second plot to break up J the EPIC movement was revealed to him by New York friends who ap- ! pealed to President Roosevelt to aid in checking It. "The president notified secret ser vice men who put the Chicago and New York gangsters on a train and sent them east. "X was to be crucified made tho Pascal lamb in sacrifice to those who oposed the EPIC (End Poverty In California) and the production for use movements," Sinclair stated. "But If the EPIC is revived, even though 1 am now through wltb politics, 1 again will lead It if requested." ROOSEVELT INSPECTS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON. Nov. 13. (AP) A trip by President Roosevelt todsy to look over a 90,000,000 suburban housing development at nearby Oreenbclt, Md.. was Interpreted here aa more than a mere routine tnspec-. tion Journey. j Informed sources believed it might j help determine the status of such j projects in future unemployment re- j lief programs. BABY'S BODY DISCOVERED IN DEAD LETTER OFFICE &AN FANClfiCO, Not. 13. ( AP The body of a baby believed to be about a week old was found in a package opened by clerks of the San Francisco dead letter office today. The package was addressed to "Frances Munger. St. Mercle Hos pital, San Frisco" and the return address was given as '274S Maiden, Oakland. Calif." There Is no $uh an address, and there Is no St. Mercle hospital nere. The postofflce department first de livered the package to the St. Mary's hospital here November 11 but It was sent to the dead letter office when It was learned there was no "Pran ks Muner" at the hospital. PosU; -tli-rli no tied an odor and ipened the psckuge today. As Greatest Bridge Placed In Use PHI ill f t'Av (4 r " 5 Ufa xs m ?s WM$::m t n : skj iff s There was a doulile ceremony of cuttlnr chain barrlem when the "7,ono,onn San Frnnrlco-Oakland Itay hrldfic, the world's largest, wa opnned for truffle jctenlny. At tp I tlmwn ioernor I'rnnk F. Met riant of California cutting the chain on the Sim Frnnclco side with a tnrrh. WtU the governor are, lert to right, Ctiarles II. riircell, chief bridge- engineer; former President llerliert Hooter, Mnjnr William 4. Mrfrarken of Oakland, (lov. Merrlam, C. B. HendiTMtn, a director of the RFC, and fen. William o. leAdoo. Helow Is hnwn I lie first nnh of Irnffle ns the grrat hrldpe was opened to use. Thousand" lraered Its eight and a niMrlrr miles of. length In autoi and others walked part of the way, although ordinarily pedestrians will not he per mitted on H. M- I'. Photos by nlr mall tn Mali TrllttHie.) INA CLAIRE AWARDED MEDAL FOR DICTION CHICAOO. Nov. 13 .(AP) Ine Claire's fhort upper Hp curled into a smile at Its own expense today. That was because the blonde ac tress, sfter 24 years In the theater, possessed the annual gold medal for good diction on the stage, awarded by the American Academy erf Arts md Letters yesterday. Tho Chinese wapost of Pukhol was opnfd to roreiirn trad In 1870. Frank flpenoe, poaUl inspector as signed to the case, turned the pack age over to the police department. Dr. Sherman Leland, autopsy surgeon for the coroner's office .said he would conduct an autopsy. The body; the sex of which had not been determined because of Its con dition, was wrapped In clothes and tied In paper. Liter. Dr. Leland Mid the body , A-na that of a boy. He sa!d an a'jtopay I probably would detrmln whether I th baby was dead at birth. I Pos'al Inspectors put the blurred i return address undr a magnifying ' a'9 and said the address was not i Oukland. Calif., but that the package .-ooably originated somewhere in j UUm. FOR ALL IN FLEE! PORTLAND, Eng.. Nov. 1J. (p) Amid lusty cheers, King Edward to day finished hts Inspection of the British home fleet by ordering the signal: "Splice the main brace I" I It meant: r "Serve a tot of rum to all hands." The King had royal weather for his final day of visiting tho huge grey i watchdogs of the sea, massed here In Portland harbor. j LONDON. Nov. 13. fl'i Chpron i ed by "Aunt Dsle," Mrs. D, B. Mer i ryman of Washington, Mrs. -Walils j Simpson settled down tonight at her ; Cumberland Terrace hmne for the six , months period of her divorce decree ; nisi from Ernest Aldrlch Simpson. Mrs. Merrymsn, It was learned to . day, reached Southampton November ! 10, aboard the Queen Mary. 1 Her niece, the glamorous friend of ; King Edward, went to Waterloo sta tion, accompanied only by hr pt son.il mntd, to m-t the boat train, i TORrLAN D, Nov. 13. VrW rvd j rites will be held today for Mrs. Sadie E. McCullocb. 78. resident of Eugene for IS years prior to coming to Port ; '.and 30 years ago. She died Wednes day. A daughter and three sons sur t vlve. w LOCAL LIME TRUCK I A gleaming new motor truck and tralter, one of the Oregon -California Fast Freight units operating between thin city and Han Francisco, was the first commercial unit, of Its kind to pass over the new Ban Pranclsoo Oaklad bridge that opened to traffic vesterdav. it was learned here last night. ' I Miss Mildred Orttsch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franx Oiitch of 335 South Ivy ttreet, telephoned from San Francisco last night to tell her fa m fly about the un usual honor. Miss Orltech works In the Aan Fran cisco office of the firm snd her! father Is the Medfr-rd manager. j The truck was a brand new one.) as was the trailer, the two units j having been delivered from the east-! em factory Just In time for the open- i !nr ceremonies. The truck was driven j by Frank Bishop of flan Francisco. Miss Orttsch sold that all day yes-! terday cars were going over the I bridge at the rate of 300 a minute. 4 Tnn kmn Injured IIEPPNER. Ore., Nov. 13. (AP) Ovnrt timing of a gravel truck near Hermlston sent Joseph Keefe and Robert Hitler to the hospital at Walts Walla for treatment of injuries, Both received broken lea. The boys were from the CCC camp n?ar here. By HEW LEGAL SETUP State Boards Will Administer Laws of Land Under New System Guilds to Ren- . der Monetary Decisions By Andruc Herding ROME, Nov. 13. (AP) Premier Mussolini has decided to abolish existing Italian courts of law. sub stituting state committees and soc; lalteing tho legal profession, official sources disclosed today. Attorneys described tho project as "one of the most Important changes In 30th century Jurisprudence." A committee of eminent lawyers and otflclals from the ministry of Justice Is working out the details to replace the courts with the state boards, authoritative quarters as serted. Tho committee's report is expected to be finished soon, when It will be handed to the ministry of Justice for action. . Abolition la also planned for the special tribunal for defense of the state. Tills court was established ten years ago after an 18-year old youth attempted to assasalnato the It All an premier at Bologna In 1028. It was first Instituted for five years and then renewed for another five. The court, created to protect the life of XI Duco and government of ficials, condemned half a dozen men to death on charges of conspiracy (Continued on pafe fourteen) SIX FASCIST PINES FALL iN 'DOG FIGHT' STAGED OVER MADRID fly the Associated Press. Six fascist war planes were shot down today In a spectacular aerial dog fight over Madrid, and Qen. Jose Mlaja, chler of the socialist defense Junta, said the Spanish capital was "prepared to withstand years of siege." Undaunted by the lost battle, how over, other fascist planes returned during the afternoon to bomb a Madrid barracks and a long line of fortifications. Simultaneously, French communist demands for last-minute Intervention In Spain to succor the embattled ao clallnt defenders of Madrid led to new threats of a rift In Premier Leon Blum's government. Moderate supporters of Blum's popular front regime warned they would bolt if he yielded to the com munists' demands, , On two other fronts, the Involved situation took on a darker hue. In Vienna, a blunt trl-power state ment of Austro-Hungarian "right to rearm ." au pportrd by I tal y, atlrred uneasiness In Rumania. An Impression grew In diplomatic clrelea that Italy and Germany, In the newly-reached Italo-Oerman ac cord, had resolved to divide south eastern Europe Into spheres of in fliieneo for economic and some politi cal exploitation. In London, a fierce verbal duel be tween Dlno Orandl. Italian ambas sador, and Molseyevltch Ksgan, Rus sian delegate to the International neutrality committee, atlrred belief a rupture of Italo-Sovlet diplomatic relation was Imminent. SOURDOUGH SEEKS MATE BUT SKIPS FRIDAY 13TH Frtdny th 13thl To soma It hold, terror,, to om It forebode, bad luck, to ftomo It Indicates happy event,. To Bob EdmondA, 60-yenr old Alankn MurdougU It men, bad lfkk and nothing else. On Friday the lath ha ' oke a knee-cap. On another PTltr.y the 13th, ha had a linger chopped off, )iur he didn't aay. And now, agnln on Friday tho 13th, ho la atranded In Medford, pnytlcally bmka and unable to find the man he', looking for to return with him to Wraruiell laland to apend tho winter fishing. "I want a man about 40, good health, no wife or klda. Ile'a gotta have aoma money enough to get ua both back to Wrangell, buy material nnd build a boat for fl.hlng. Yo l can make from 50 to 300 bucka a week finning up there and the fishing WMon la nine moiitna long. H warmer there than It l here In Mrd ford,' 'he addd. burkllug hla over coat a bit more tightly around him self. Hjb wanta a man to go with nun. one who la not afraid of work and can finance the trip, but he'll take a v.oman If he haa to, he at'iiitr-d A woman about to, with no fain Boy Who Serves i4a Alarm Clock Not Appreciated WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (AP) Reuben Darby, who furnishes a deluxe awakening service to fellow students at the University of Mary land, admits he has yet to find a satisfied customer. Reuben goes to bed at 7 p. m.. and gets up at 3 a. m. After a cou ple of hours of studying, he makes the rounds, closing hla customers' windows, and turning on the steam heat. "At seven o'clock comes the tough Job, though," he says. "They don't like to be waked up, I usually have to wrestle with them.' Reuben goes around later and makes the beds. Hla rates are "10 cents per week per room." Reuben Is a freshman from Baltimore. E OF MOTORCYCLIST The sheriff and district attorney's office are todsy seeking the driver of an auto, believed to be a Chevrolet coupe peering an Oregon license, as an Important witness In the auto motorcycle accident last Sunday af ternoon which resulted In fatal In Jury to Walter E. Van Rheen of Eagle Point and, serious Injuries to Olenn Brown, driver of the motorcycle on which Van Rheen was a psasanger. Both underwent amputation of their right legs. The men were Injured when they crashed Into the rear fender of an auto driven by Mrs. Lovtcka Way inack, county Jail matron, on Clng code hill near Eagle Point on the Crater Lake highway. '. The dr)ver sought was In one of the two autoe passed by Mrs. Way- mack near the brow of Cingcade hill (Continued on Page Five.) COUNTY AGENT CLAIMS The Jackson county farm Income Is 30 per cent higher than last year and will total approximately 0,000, 000 this year, according to the an nual estimate of County Agent Rob ert O. Fowler, on the basts of present prices. t His report ahowi fruit and dairy yivUucta as leading revenue produc ers. The fruit Income, principally pears, Is placed at 4,820,000, which (Continued on Page Flve.l FRENCH DEPUTIES SWING FISTS DURING SESSION PARIS. Nov. 13 ( AP) Swinging flats of lertlsta and rightist deputies stopped a stormy session of the chamber of deputies today. The trouble began during a debate over the world war record of Minister of the Interior Roger Balengro. When the aesslon was resumed to night, the chamber voted 437 to 103 to condemn the campaign . against Selengro, It was one of the bluest majorities ever given the Blum gov ernment In the chamber. tly and a Utile caah, la Juat what he'a looking for. He'll even niarry her to get her Into Alaeka, he aald, and all her expenditures will be cred ited to her, to be paid back out of the fund, from the fishing activities aftr the boat la finished. Perhaps, he thinks, ho will hao several fair applicants eager to anap up the offer. "Tell m I'm not particular about looks," the sourdough told a reporter. "Tell m their money will he safe. I guarantee to make all my promises good or I go to McNeils laland." Edmonds will be at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and ogaln at 2:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The flrat man or woman who haa the necessary cash will promptly get a partner, he declared. He said he would meet hla new partner today, only, onatlng an ap prehensive orb at the calendar, he re-checked that Friday the 13th busi ness, "I don't Hie Friday the 13th." he said, snd let It go at that. Indicating that If ha la goUig to take on any new partners he'll do It on some day not fraught with such risk svalnst th, oceult. Will Ask Federation of Labor to Oust Ten Rebel Unions Boycott On Goods Pro duced by Rebels, , Aim TAMPA, Fla., Nor. u.;p) The American Federation of ba hor'a metal trades department In structed the president, John P. Frey, today to Introduce a reso lution In the federation's con vention net week calling for ex. pulsion of John L. Iewls' ten rebel unions. liy a second resolution, the department directed Frey to In troduce a general convention res olution nru week rolling for an A. F. of L. boycott on all goods produced by the rebel unions.' TAMPA, Pla., Nov. IS. JPj Wil liam Oreen, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, forecast to day complete failure of John L. Lewis' drive to bring all workers In each big Industry into one big union. Addressing the federation's building trades department convention, Oreen anld: "We're going to organize the unor ganized of America and we're going to organize them Into the American Federation of Labor. '. "When experiments motivated by vaporous Idealism are completed by some who have Invaded the field In dependently when they admit they're through the A. P. of L. will step In and do the Job." Green's only prediction aa to what &ie federation's general convention would do about the Lewis rebellion against the traditional craft form of orgsnlzatton, w,as that the world will. . know where we stand wh.n w get through." , A member of Lewis' United Mine Workers, oreen said be knew the miners "deep In their hearts lovs ths American Federation of Labor." "However," he added, "we're going to deal with this Issue not by emo tion but by the Judgment of our hard heads." Oreen was applauded when ha said the Knights of Labor, the Debs move ment and the International Work ers of the World, esch In turn, had tried to destroy the A. F. of L. with out success. i 1 Suit for M30 damages, MM gen eral snd Hit exemplary, was filed late yesterday In circuit court by D. K. MKIard against Ford Potter for an alleged rock throwing episode st ths Millard home at Shady Core October 47 last. Millard alleges that Potter malic iously threw rocks through four win dows of the living room, "demolish ing'' a 1376 violin, damaging a marimba-phone to the extent of too snd requiring It to be sent to the factory for, repairs, "nicking" the finish of (Continued on Page Five.) -v- POPE TALKS FOR HOUR TO MISSIONARY UNION VATICAN CITY, Nov. IS. (API Pope Plus XI spoke for a solid hour today to 3000 representatives of the Prteata' Missionary union, disponing rumors that the stste of his health la serious. Witnesses asld the holy father made the speech with but slight and nat ural evidences of weariness toward ths close, and that there was no change In. his tread In walking into and sway from the benedlotton hall. First Taxi Makes Trip on New Span Through Mistake SAN FRANCISCO. Nor. 13. (AP) Uwrence McDermld of San Fran cisco yesterday unwillingly, and unintentionally became the first person to drive a taxlcab serosa the transbay bridge. McDermld took a passenger to an address near the San Francisco bridge approach. He found him self In the midst of thousanda of bridge-bound automobtlea. Polios and highway patrol offlcera would not let him turn out of the line. He was required to drive over the bridge, after paying a ea-cent toll, and then, after paying another 63 cent toll, made the return trip. His taxi stand was only sue blocks from ths address to which hi delivered hla fare.
