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The Weather Forecast: Increasing cloudiness becoming unsettled tonight and Tuesday; normal temper ature. TEMPERATURE Richest yestcrduy ..... 67 Lowest this morning .. 87 Into Cash Would 70a like to turn torn of your belongings Into cashf Do you know the quickest and most satisfactory way la to use Mall Tribune classified ad ft? It in the Inexpenslre way, too. Tribune EDFGRD Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty First Year . BEDFORD, OREGON, 1 ON DAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1936 No. 19S. SffBI TIT 15)15) IMl M V.VWM M (ru By Paul Mnllon Copyright, 1936, by Paul Mallon. -WASHINGTON. Nov. 16. Behind President Roosevelt's promise to do something about foreign money roll Ing Into this country for In vestment la a current situation which few people know about. Everyone s e o m a to be assuming that the amount of gold coming here from abroad la the true mea sure of foreign Investment. These gold Im ports have not been extra large lately. Their aggre gate total for the past year or so has not reached an Immediate danger point. Consequently, there haa been tendency to look for political or other motives behind the president's move. A leading financial . insider, bow ever, has made an Investigation which Indicates the situation Is not all gold. About a month ago, he be came Impressed by Indications that brokers with whom he was In con tact were not doing their usual share of the stock market business. He thought the trouble might be with the brokers, so he made a personal Investigation and discovered that all the large commission houses out In the country were In the same quan dary. The business was coming from somewhere else. Only one deduction was possible. An unusually large proportion of the buying which haa sent the stock market up during the last thirty days ri i-vims trrtm nVtmnri fmm f wnn Amsterdam and Paris. It will not show In the gold figures for a long time. If ever. : The study which Mr. Roosevelt Is directing will not have to proceed Tory far to find a method of stopping (Continued on Page Four.) GREEN ASKS LEWIS REBELS TO RETURN TAMPA, Fla.. Nov. 16. (API William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, today urged John I. Lewis rebel unions to "come back and take their Boats" ' In the federation's annual conven tion. "I ask them to recognize the prin ciples of democracy," Green said In his opening talk to the delegates. "I ask them to come back and take their seats with us and fight out our differences in manly fashion on the conventions of the American Federation of Labor. Green previously had Insisted, how tver, that the Lewis rebels, suspended two months ago for "Insurrection." would have to give up their commu te for Industrial organization before peace could be made. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Roy "I-hate-trallers" Craft deliver ing a long and windy dissertation on the feebleness of that form of auto life, and then being dumfounded the next day when confronted with an ad In a trailer magazine lauding the advsntagea of the "Roycraft" land yacht. . Elizabeth Crlssell. art super for Medford schools, beaming her pleas ure on account of the eye-dazzling speed with which she recovered a purs containing 50 Ylsh which she had mislaid. Postmaster DeBouze giving dreamy and highly laudatory review of the cinema Ramona. admitting his good Impression was gained by being born and raised In the locale, with the added attraction that he la per sons! friend to three of the main characters. Harvey Young, supervisor of light and heat at the Junior high building, remarking that the teachers had giv en him three boxes of stogies last Christmas. Hsrve being under the lm presslon they did so because they didn't like the aroma of the ded ones he'd been relighting. Plaster seeping down from con struction into the new showwln'dows of Relnhsrt and Barker, landing on th shoulders of one of the suits, and a wiseacre remarking that what wouldn't modern science think of next, when It could furnish suits al ready equlped with dendrulfl Hyl 'j INHALATOR FAILS 10 RESUSCITATE JOHN EBLACK, 2 Boy Rushed To Medford From Coleman Creek Home In Effort To Revive Girl Finds Tragedy. The frantic us of an automatic ta bulator by the Mecuord fire depart ment for an hour yesterday afternoon fatled to save the life of John Maupln Black. Jr., two year old son of .Mr. and Mrs. John M. Black of Forest creek In the Applegate, after the baby had fallen Into a spring on the Law reuco w. Hill home on the Coleman creek road. The mother of the lad has been 111 for some time and the Hill's were car ing for him. According to word tele phoned to the state police, a little girl whose name could not be learned, found the little boy, floating In the four feet deep spring. According to the Information supplied officers the girl rushed to the house and the baby was retrieved and rushed to the firs department here. The lnhalator was applied and the treatment waa continued after nearly all hope of resuscitation had been abandoned. Firemen etalmated the body had been in the water about 33 minutes, and believed about 10 min utes had elapsed from when the body waa recovered until It arrived here. The distance from the Hill home to the fire hall Is about seven miles.. Besides the parents, one brother, Noel Hammond, and one sister. Holly Helen Black, survive Also surviving are two grandparents, Margaret Wat son of Medford and Lee Black of For est creek. Funeral services are in charge of the conger funeral parlors, with ar rangements to be i. announced tomor row. MAYORS FROM COAST FOR ENDING Slit (By the Assomlated Press) While Pacific coast mayors con ferred In Washington today relative to niethoda of ending the far-flung maritime strike developments through out the nation Included a shutdown of a dairy plant In Mt. Vernon. Wash, an Influx of Texaa rangers Into Houston. Texas, and contlnua ttlons of efforts by federal conciliators at 8sn Francisco to end the tleup of shipping. At Washington. Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco met with Secretary of Labor Perkins. Later he announc ed We had called a conference of Pa cific coast mayors, here for a na tional conference. A score of Texas rangers and high way patrolmen moved Into Houston under the leadership of Col. H. H. Carmlchsel, chief of the Texaa safety department. The situation there was quiet and the officers declined to comment on their mission. In San Francisco. Edward F. Mc Qrady, assistant labor secretsry. can celled a meeting with ahlpownera he had called for this morning and waa In conference with representa tives of striking unions. CRESCENT CITT, Cal., Not. 18. fini A tat frame 'rrln WAS held without ball In the county Jail today while autnorltles inve6Ugawa aei-twio of the death of Oeorge Thomas, 43 am pmivnt ntv duck hunter. W. C. Blewett waa Jailed on a charge of murder sworn to yesterday by Clifford C. Wells. Thomas' hunt ing compsnlon. Tv, t officer said he shot in self-defense after Thomas covered him with his shotgun Saturday. Blewett was searching for game law violators at Like Earl and waa at tempting to arrest Thomas, officers Wells contradicted this story, say ing Thomss did not threaten Blew ett. While' District Attorney John H. Child, said he would vigorously prorecutc. Blewett' superior officer indicated he would ask for state st-toin-v to defend the warden. e Income Shares Man-land Fund, bid 10.41): sed i 1.49. Quarterly Income, bid no; axed no. COP ACCUSED OF SLAYING HUNTER Will Wed President's Son t. f ' ' Was I Alfa 1 Miss Ethel DuPont, dsugHter or Mr, and Mrs. . F.usene Pnl'ont. will tied Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.. son of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. In June, 1037. It was announced when their engagement was revealed. Miss DuPont, an enthusiastic sports woman, is pictured above at a recent VYIItnltieJon, Pel., horse show with "Jack Frost," a winner In the hunt ers class. Mr, Roosevelt is shown be low. (A. P. Photos). UNITE ETHEL DUPONT- GREENVILLE, Del., Nov. 18 (AP) It's to be a "small wedding" the ceremony that Jolna two of the na tlon'a best known famine, the Roose velts and the DuPonts. Miss Ethel DuPont, blonde and 31, made that plain today aa she re ceived "best wishes" on her engage ment to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., 23-year old son of the president. While the daughter of Mr; and Mrs. Eugene DuPont said she didn't know when the wedding would take place, friends indicated It probably would be next June. The ceremony will take plsce In Christ Episcopal church at Christiana hundred, . . . Christiana hundred "hundred" Is the old English equivalent of town ship Is a subdivision of New Csstle county, the site of sll the DuPont homes when the family, emigrated from France, to build a fortune In explosives and chemlcala, . Miss DuPont, whose engagement was announced while young Roose velt, a Harvard eenlor, wsa spending the week-end as the guest of her parenta said: "I haven't any Idea where we will live after the wedding." as the three white dlamonda of her engagement ring flashed against their platinum setting. Roosevelt remarked, "I haven't de cided what I will do after I gradu ate." "I can tell you one thing, though. I positively will not go Into polltlca." PEGGY JOYCE PACING LONDON. Nov. 18. OT Peggy Hopklna Joyce haa been made co-respondent In a divorce suit filed by Mrs. Vivian Jackson, wife of a Lon don university professor, it wsa lesrn ed today. Lsst week the four-tlmea-msrrled Peggy announced she and Jvkson would be married aa soon as J:rkson could become divorced. Jackson la a professor of astrophyelc at London university and a gentleman Jockey. TO BE GIVEN MOTHER COV1NOTON. La., Nov. leWAP) Judge Robert D. Jon ordered wel fare workers today to return Moms. thf mystery baby of the Pearl river backwoods, to his mother despite the "misguided and errant" circum stances of the child's birth. The baby at present it In New Orleans Charity hospital suffering from a told. Judge Jones said hla de-ree .should be carried out "as soon as physical conditions will ptrmjt. - tr a sr "3tM III V&l 1 Funeral services for Oeorge James Dyslnger, 73, who died suddenly from a heart attack In the yard of hla home near Applegate Thursday, were held from the Perl Funeral Home this afternoon, with Rev. D. K Mil lard officiating. The body waa bur led In the Brownsboro cemetery. Mr. Dyslnger waa discovered miss ing Thursday morning when he fail ed to come for hla milk at the Elmo 'Throckmorton farm, as was hla morning custom. A search headed by a state police officer, waa Instigated and the body waa found 60 feet from the rear door of his house. He had been living alone, and was apaprent- ly on his way to do some mining when he died, from heart failure, according to a report from Deputy Coroner Herbert Brown. He waa born at Defiance, Ohio, March 13, 1063, and followed the blacksmlthtng trade for many years. He lived alone In his Applegate cabin for tho past six years. Four aons and two daughters sur viva. They are Leland L-, of Browns boro; Clinton A., of Blackley. Ore.; Blaln B., of Mt. Vernon, Ore.; Harold O., of Prairie City, Ore.: Mrs. Lulla L. Daly of Oswego, Ore., and Mrs Blanche B. Park of Portland. Four grandchildren and five ete-p -children also survive. FALL FATAL FOR EUOENE, Ore., Nov. 16. (AP) Mlsa Mary Elizabeth McCornack, 76, gradual of the University of Oregon In 1B83 and one of the odlest living alumni of the institution, died at midnight at a local hospital following a fall Sunday afternoon which caus ed Injuries to her head. Mlsa Mi Cornack sepnt part of Sun day afternoon In the Murray Warner museum on the campus and whlli descending a flight of sUIrs turn to speak to a frlnd. She missed her footing and fell, striking hr head. She was rushed to a hospital but nver regained consciousness. The daughter of Andrew and Maria McCornack, pioneers 'of 1863, Miss McCornack was born nesr Eugene April 11, 1641, and spent her entire Uf In this pin of tha stave. GILL RE-ELECTED Oregon Master To Serve Three Years More On Ex ecutive Group Crop In surance Will Be Sought. COLUMBUS. O.. Nov. 16. (AP) After Indicating Insistence on crop Insurance as a national policy, dele gates of the 70th annual National Orange convention re -elected Ray W. GDI of Portland, Ore., to the na tional executive committee today, and heard an Invitation to hold the nex. Orange convention in Texaa. QUI, master of the Oregon Orange, waa named without opposition to serre for three yeara on the executive committee. His election, said leaders, was the only one to come before the convention. Ralph Moore, master of the Texaa Orange, urged the convention to se lect a Texaa city for the 1037 con vention. Delegates postponed until Thursday their choice of a convention city. Demand for farm land la at the highest level In eight years aa a ro suit of rising agricultural commodity (Continued on Page Three.) OIL TRUCK FIRE DELAYS TRAFFIC A heavy Shell Oil company truck and setnl-traller loaded with petro leum products Saturday about 8 p. m. got out of control on the neVth grade of the Siskiyou mountains on the Pacific highway, was ditched on the bsnk by the drlveT who then leaped for hla life, and the oil products caught on fire. Searing flames from tho 36 druma of oil, 18 drums of solvent, and 78 cases of grease threat ened timber In the vicinity, burning oil and grease flowed down ontJ the pavement, and traffic waa halted for two houra as motorists, residents of the district, and state police aided In preventing the spread of fire. Horace- B. Fortney of Martlnee, Calif., told state police Investigators that he was driving the truck down hill In a oompound low gear, at a very slow pace.. He said he heard something snap In the rear nf the truck, applied hla brakes, but could not halt the momentum of the heavy lead so swung the truck and Its trailer onto a rising bank on the left of the highway. He aald the drums of highly Inflammable solvent and oil Immediately burst Into flames and he ran to warn approaching motor ista and to call for help. The truck and trailer were a total loss as waa the load, with the excep tion of 18 drums of oil. The highway where the flaming oil flowed across it wsa badly damaged, but traffic waa allowed to move over It two 1 ou'ra after the craah. All during the uns watchmen were atatloned on cither aide of the danger rone to atop autoe. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 16. yp Fire In the three -story recreation building filth and Alder) near Port land's main business section brought injuries to five women today and caused considerable damage. The blare waa confined to the third floor, occupied by a cloak and suit company where 35 women were at work. H, M. Klrahner, owner, said he had an investment of about si 00 ,000 In equipment and materials. Firemen es timated roughly that the loss would comprise 60 per cent. Records at the police emergency hospital showed the five women treat ed for minor Injuries Including burns and bruises wore Fanny Rosenberg, Helene Kldd. Marlon Toungman, and Angelo and Bernioe Macclo. DEAF DRIVER KILLED CROSSING RAILROAD SALEM, Nov. 16, (API O. K. Sebo. 70, was almost Instantly killed In the north city limits of Turner this morning when struck by an ex tra freight train going north. Sebo, who neighbors report aa ex 'remely deaf, apparently never saw the train until his light coupe ws struck and knocked nearly 76 feet, nearly demolishing th, vehicle. 5 UN INJURED IN PORTLAND FIRE FA jISTS PIERCE MADRID DEFENSE IN FIERCE FIGHT Attacking Party Reaches Paseo de Rosales Eleven-Day Bombardment Does Appalling Damage. By the Associated Press Fascist shock troops and the de fenders of Madrid fought bitterly to day for a corner of tho Spanish capi tal Itaelf. General Jose Mlaja, chief of the de fense Junta, did not deny tho Insur gent Moors and foreign legionnaires had penetrated University City, northwestern section within Madrid's limits. Unconfirmed reports reaching cor respondents with the besieging rmy aald an attacking party had reached the Paseo de Rosales, farther Inside tho capital, and were menacing the north railway station. Official Insur gent reports asserted the Moors and legionnaires were holding a building in University City. Furious fighWng raged at close quarters near what was left of the Frenchman's Bridge," crossing the Manzanarea river In the northwest. Fascist artillerymen crashed 300- pound shells Into Madrid's streets.. Already, the damage from eleven days of bombardment from the land and air waa appalling. Fascist airmen today bombed the northern worklngman'a quarter of Cuatro Camlnos. One of the planes, hit by anti-aircraft fire, fell In flames aa men of the quarter threw up street barricades. Oeneral Mlaja and other members of the defense council protested to the diplomatic corps and members of the foreign press against what they described as Insurgent ,,baxbarlty,, In dropping the mangled, boxed remains of a government pilot In a parachute over the city. The pilot waa believed to .be one who wsa forced to ball out over In surgent Unea last week. First of the Msdrld besiegers to cross the Manranares, the Moors and leglannatres In University City gain ed their objective after heavy fight ing which began early Sunday. An aerial bombardment of the uni versity center on the west side of Ma drid prepared the way for the attack. BIG BLAZE IS RAGING TWO HIT ROGUE AREA A 1800-acre timber fire waa being fought today on Williams creek about ten mllea southwest of Provolt in Josephine county. The fire was at tributed by the state district war den's office to a clean-up' blaze that got out of contro.. , One hundred and seventy-rive men were on the fire lines. All the CCO enrollees from Camp Wlmer and 60 from Camp Prescott and two state crews of six men each aro fighting the blaze. It la estimated that close to 3,000 acres would be Involved be fore the blssa could be controlled. Because of low visibility the fire wsa not discovered until it had had a two-day beadatart. Dwlght Pblpps, district flro warden, who hsa been to the eoene several times, waa to re turn again this afternoon to direct operations. Crews today wars mopping up two small fires In the Roguo river national forest. Both fires were at trlbuted to hunters who carelessly tossed away lighted matches or ci gar or cigarette stubs. One blaM covered about two acree of timber land on Pine ridge north of nocky Point. The other burned about an acre of snsga on Elk creek northesst of Trail. JAPANESE PLANES PEIPINO. Nov. 16WP) Eight Jap anese fighting planes bombed provin cial fortifications In eastern Sutyan province in an attack near Taoltn. Chinese sources reported today. Threo thousand Infantry troops, composed of Msnchoukuosns snd Mongol, Irregiilsrs, assisted in the as sault against Rulyan defenders, the reporte declsred. The attack was reported to have oc curred yesterday at the Sulyan city 13J miles northwest of Kalgan. Meager accounts which reached Kwelsul said the attackers launched six sepsrste drives, combining in fantry, aviation, heavy artillery and tanks. Probes Dock Strike Rear Adm. Harry Q. Hamlet, repre sentative of the new federal mari time commission! pictured at ha arrived for a session of the fact, finding hearings ha waa conducting at San Francisco In the walkout of 37,000 Paclfle Coast marina work art. (Aatociated Press Photo) EMPLOYERS ASKED TO HEAR EXPERT ON SECURITY ACT Employers msy procure Informa tion on the administration snd op eration of the federal soolsl security act at a meeting In the Medford post- office building court room at 0.00 o'clock tomorrow morning, it was announced . today ; . by ' Postmaster Prsnk DeSouaa...'..- 8. H. Morse, postoffloe department Inspoctor, will conduet the meeting snd answer any questions the em ployee may care to ask regarding the act, Mr. DeSouea said. Postmasters and other postal em ployea of Jackson and Josephine counties will attend the meeting to receive Instruction from Mr, Morse regarding their part In the adminis tration of the social security meas ure. Employers In Orsnts Paaa and Aahland also havo been Invited to attend. " The conference was Intended pri marily for the tnatructlon of Mia postmasters snd key men or ineir staffs but Mr, DeSout asked per mission of Mr. Morse to Invito em ployers who are served by postofflces (Continued on Page Three.) 8AJ FRANCISCO, Nov. IS. (AP) San Francisco's newly-opened bay bridge led "to home" for the last of thousands of week-end visitors today aa the city settled down after four uays of celebrating. The concentration of automobiles, c-eclsred by Police Captain Charles Ooff to be the greatest In California's history, taxed the capacity of the brldite late yesterday. rerryboeta, which had been put on tedticed schedule with the opening of the bridge Thursday, were celled back for "rush" service to handle motor ists weary of waiting at bridge ap proaches: Bridge officials estimated that 336.000 vehicles, carrying 1,000.000 persons, crossed the 8 -mile span up to lsst midnight. This would orlne; the tots! toll receipts, from which the cost of the 877,000.000 structure will be repsld, to I80,000 for.the first threo snd a half days. Captain Ooff reported few acci dents desplto the heavy trafflo over the weekend. TEMPLE PUTS SKIDS LOB ANOEI.E8, Nov. 10. (AP) Rheha Crawrord, evangelist known ss the "Angel of Broadway," waa notified by letter today that her 1100 monthly contract as associate pastor of Angnlua temple haa been cancelled. She haa long been at odda with Aimer Bemple McPhereon, founder snd pastor of the temple. Mrs. McPherson declined - to dis cuss the letter. 1 : Dr. J. 7f. Coffer of Webster Springs. W. Vs., aided In the delivery of four sets of twins within 83 dsys recently. (ewsMi t ON 0-CPAYINT All Payments Donations In Gratitude And Not Be cause Of Contract Is Con tention Of Defendants. Jackson county today filed anewer ln circuit court to the suit of WU- llsm H. Gore, for approximately 888.000 for services assertcdly ren dered In behalf of the Oregon-Cali fornia land grant tax refund bill, passed by congress In 1S38. Three contentions in opposition to the Gore suit, aa set forth in the an swer, are: That the "statute of limitations" operates against all O.-O. refund pay- menu before the year 1938; That, all -payments to Gore Isy Jackson county, by Itself, and 17 other western Oregon counties, were not msde under a contract, but were "donations In gratitude"; And, that Oore acted as an alleged 'lobbyist" for the paassge of the O.-C. bill during the months of April, May, ,1unt and July 1038, and further holda "lobbying Is contrary to public policy, and therefore illegal." The county asks that all O.-O. pay ment! from 1018 to 1038, and from 1038 to 1838 be strlcksn from the suit. This Includes the first payment to Jackson county amounting to 81.181.883. Tho county alto denies the exist ence of any contract between Oore and the 1838 county court. Oore claims there was a verbal agreement between himself and tha county court for payment of "a reasonable percentege" of the funds secured In tha event of the passage of tha O.-O. tin; - - -:- ;. ,- The answer also sets forth that at the request of former Senator Robert N, Stan field, who prepared tha O.-O. kill, Oore and six other men, repre senting western Oregon counties, of fered to appear at Washington, D. 0 In behalf of the measure, with tha understanding there would be no payment for services. The expenses, approximating 810,000 over a period of montha, are classed aa "donations of gratitude." ' Jackson county admits that on December 8, 1937, It paid Oore SBOO0 "aa a donation, and not under any contract." Tha same condition ap plied to three other payments to Qora In April, June, and July of 1038, amounting to 84,800, by Jackson county and other western Oregon counties. Trial of tha suit hsa been tenta tively set on the circuit court calen dar for December IS . Oore it represented by Attorneys Oeorge M. Roberta and William M. McAllister, Jackson county by Dis trict Attorney Oeorge A. Codding. LA. FIRE COVERED F LOS ANGELES, Nor. 18. (API Arson and homicide wera twin pcsel billtles raised, today by an invest), gatlon which attempted to link the death of a negro foreman with the 81,000,000 fire In a cotton oil ware house Sunday. The warehouse, owned by the Cal ifornia Cotton Oil company, was swept by flames that quickly spread It entire length. Racing to see the spectacular blase. Henry Matrnngo, IS, fell under a freight train and was killed. That the fire might have been In cendiary to destroy evidence relating to the death of David Davie, plant foreman, a week ago, waa hinted by the company'a private detectives, who said they would report on their Investigation to the district attorney today. 30 DIE IN FRENCH MARSEILLE, Nov, 18. (3P) Po. der storehouses In a government fac tory at Saint Chamaa exploded to day, killing at least 30 persona and Injuring more than 300. Saint Chamss Is 34 miles north west of Marseille, Plre brlgsdes and ambulances speeded to the factory. The deafening explosion, at 4:46 p. m.. waa heard for miles. Residents of nearby towns saw a column of flame and smoks shoot up from the grounds of the plant, on the outskirts of Saint Chamaa. names quickly spresd to the fac tory from the powder storehouse,. A
