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. BEDFORD, OREGON, 1 ON DAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1936
No. 19S.
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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.
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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