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WhatWhen Where People who make a practice of reading- the For Sale ads are potrd on what, alien and whrre to buj. It li Is jour advantage to follow these ads diillr. The Weather Forecast: Show en tonight and Turt day. Not much change In temperature. TF.MPER4TLHR Highest jefcterdir 82 Lonest this morning 42 Medford Tribune Full Associated Freit Full United Press Thirtv-Second Year MEDFORH, ORF.GOX. MONDAY. APRIL, -(. 1!):?7 No. no. mm to i i Ad t Avs I DECISION DELAYED . y V . MAM.ON (Copyright. J037, by Haul Mill Ion) WASHINGTON. April 26. Finan cial elite are handing about what Is supposed to be an official British 'T&'SiimiSl government docu- ment stating the American gold policy Is Just swell for Britain. It is said to have been published In London as a re jgfctaws "tfj commercial coun TV lsellor of the Brit V. I lsh embassy here, r i nK itJ and reads In part: Paul Muiion -Mucn grcwi price advantages have accrued to the United Kingdom. ... It Is Impos sible to estimate the Indirect profits and stimulation to trade and Indus try which the United States gold policy has brought to other coun tries. It is certain that . . . the bal ance of advantage has heavily favored all British countries. The high price placed on gold end unlimited pur chases by the U. S. A. are largely responsible for the remarkable pros perity of the Union of South Africa and consequently for the trade share which the United Kingdom invest ments in exports to South America have had In that prosperity. Similar triangular effects are traceable In the case of Australia, Canada and In dia ..." The quotations are authentic. Tha document was composed by H. O. Chalaiey, C. M. O., C. B. E., British counsellor here. It says all this and more. In fact, . he concludes, the early British fears that the U. 8. would get any trade advantage over her, from gold devaluation, "have been disproved by the results." 1 The Chalkloy report Is ated lest December, but was made public In London only a few weeks ago. A British commentator surmises It might have been better If the U. K. department of overseas trade had de layed publication for a couple of years more. He shudders to think what will happen when American congressmen get hold of It. The official reply which will be made here Is that, of course, Ameri can monetary policies have helped South Africa, where much of our Inflowing gold has been coming from, but the U. S. has been helped also. Our trade with South Africa ex panded 33 per cent In 103&, - a- large part of the Increase being In eutos, steel, oil, extllea and tobacco. Also our exports to the whole United Kingdom were 13 per cent greater In vslue In 1936. Nevertheless, Mr. Chalkley has pre sented the question of who Is get ting the most out of It. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau is buying South African gold by Issuing bonds and Increasing the federal debt. This creates South African bank balances here which are being used for. the purchase of American products to some extent. This (Federal Reserve Chairman Eccles has said) swells our gold stocks too much, encourages dangerous Inflation, etc. , - - 4.1. The way It - Is going now, appar ently, the American taxpayer loses, and the American manufacturer gains, while Messrs. Eccles and Mor genthau worry and pay. But for South Africa, It's Just ducky. She has found a new kind, (Continued on Page Pour.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Harold Larscn, chief of the Rogue Snowmen, limping around town with customary Monday stiffness after a Sunday of skiing. Lucille Wymore commenting that If the big old bear didn't drink the creek dry In the meantime her dad's new Bear Creek Sand to Gravel com pany would be ready for operation In another week. Heinle Fluhrer holding fellow-badminton enthusiasts enthralled with an explanation of his own highly sci entific counter-clockwise method of play and no one but himself being able to get the point of the whole thing.. W. O. Webster being the unhappy object of raucous and ul-manneied mirth from customers who witnessed his tussle with an electric milk-sinker which flung a generous portion of the whirling beverage Into the Web ster proboscis, the whole effect being heightened by the brilliant pink rvl or of the potion. Chuck Reum admitting a frank dis like of a friendly young pooch-a bout town, he being the only one able to resist wtlea of the friendly Scott ie who returns his animosity with enthusiasm ON OTHER PHASES OP INSURANCE ACT Conviction Of Negro Com munist Organizer Is Set Aside By Highest Court Georgia Statute Fails. WASHINGTON, April 26. (AP) The supreme court agreed today to review a test case to determine me constitutionality of the old age pen sion provisions of the federal social security act. It postponed a final decision t least until next Monday on validity of the unemployment Insurance pro visions of the federal act and 01 supplementary legislation passed by states. Some Bupreme court observers ex pressed the opinion that the tri bunal might hold up its decision on the unemployment Insurance case until after argument on the old age pension litigation so both could be decided at the same time. Fifteen Opinions Fifteen opinions were read today by the Justices in a two hour ses sion. One of them, a 6 to 4 decision. set aside the conviction of Angelo Herndon, Cincinnati negro commu nist organizer, under a Georgia anti-Insurrection statute. In the old-age pension case, the court consented to pass on an ap peal filed by the government from a decision by the federal circuit court at Boston holding unconsti tutional that section of the major administration legislation. Litigation to determine the valid ity of the unemployment compen sation section' of the act already has been argued and is awaiting decision. It waa filed by the Chas. C. .Steward Machine company of Alabama. . " Stockholder's Suit The old-age . pension' case was started by a suit by George P. Davis, a stockholder to enjoin the Edison Electric Illuminating company of Boston from paying . the taxes Im posed under the act to provide an nuities for employes. Both sides to the litigation asked the supreme court for a prompt ruling. In the government's petition, Sol icitor . General Stanley Reed said 36.000,000 persons had "registered for prospective benefits" and that taxes were being collected from 2o 000,000 employes and 3,700,000 em ployers. . 1 - The levies range from one percent of wages for 1037, 1038 and 1039 to three percent after 1048. The em ployer and employe pay the same amount. JOHNSTOWN FLOOD L JOHNSTOWN, Pa., April 26.t-(;P Floed waters from two rivers lnun-, dated homes and business buildings In low-lying sections of Johnstown today and then reached a stationary point, temporarily relieving fears of a major flood. Waters coursed to a depth of two feet up the lower end of Main strret the principal thoroughfare In this city and the scene of two disastrous floods In the past half century. A heavy 48-hour rainfall stopped at noon. Two hours later, weather observers reported the Stony Creek river had receded four Inches and was dropping slowly. Hundreds, warned by the twlitly rlslng waters after an all-night rain, moved to higher ground. Merchants in the downtown area, some of whom suffered heavy damage In the big 1D36 St. Patrick's day flood, mov ed their stocks to higher floors. CANYONVILLE COUPLE HELD TO GRAND JURY ROSEBURG, Ore., April 28. (AP) Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hopkins of Canyonvllle, charged with Involun tary manslaughter In connection with the death of the former's 4-year-old daughter. Barbara Irene. April 17, were this afternoon ordered held to the grand Jury. Justice of the Peace R. W. Masters Increased the ball of each from 12500 to 15000. following a preliminary examination attended by a crowd that filled the circuit court room to' capacity. Income Shares Maryland Fund, bid 19.90; asked lost. Quarterly Income, bid 17 -85; ask ed ,19.53. Grants Construction, Remodeling Medford Business Places At Highest Mark in Years Work Contracted and Plans Announced Near 1929 Boom Year Is Word of , City Building Inspector Rogers With four commercial building, remodeling and moving projects defin itely planned for the near future, Medford and Immediate vicinity is on the threshold of Its lustiest construe ton and improvement period In the past seven years, according to City Building Inspector Frank Rogers. "The outlook as evidenced by busi ness contracted and changes and new construction anticipated, should bring the total close to the 1039 fig ure one of the best building years In the city," Rogers stated. Major business changes and build ing programs contemplated are as follows: 1. Complete remodeling and mod ernization of the Medford branch of the First National bank at a cost of 15,000. The work will start in about one week, it Is planned, and will In clude installation of new fixtures In the Interior, doubling of the present lobby space. Increase In the number of tellers' cages, and the construction of artistic tile flooring. 3. Transfer of the M. M. depart ment store from its present location to the combined space of the Eliza beth Fluhrer building at 220-232 East Main street and the Clarence Meeker building at 218 East Main street, re cently purchased from Mrs. Maitha Roberts. Interior of the two build ings will be entirely remodeled and beautified. Definite date for the move has not been announced, nor has the sum of money to be expended. The F.W. woolwofth company will move from Its present location Into the building vacated by the M. M. depart ment store at Sixth street and Cen tral avenue after extensive remodel ing. Considerable money will be spent on the program. 3. Construction of a beautiful building 60 feet deep and 350 feet long by the Rosenberg brothers, David and Harry, at their Bear Creek Orchards packing plant two miles south of Medford. Actual construc tion will get under way In about one week. No building cost has been an nounced; 4. Construction of a modern garage by Walter W. Abbey, Incorporated to house farm implements in addition to a show room that Is planned to be one of the most up-to-date In Orogon. No definite date has been set for actual construction to get under way. No cost has been announced. In addition to the above major pro jects definitely on the building and Improvement program, there are sev eral others which for reasons known (Continued on Page Eight.) Tear Gas and Shotgun Blasts Rout Strike Pickets m'. t " - ; ; " - " . ?' -.. j ' I rjAi fjC-. r ' siC - . r - J t ..s. ' Rhotgun blant. and trnr tra shell wry rfixnrd th'lr plnnt. More than how. the crowd Katterlnf tinder a Pass Man s Body Sought FATHER SEEKS LIBERTY William O. Marshall, serving five years In state prison from Jackson county for a statutory offense in volving his 16-year old daughter has applied for executive clemency, and agreed to submit to a surgical op eration, according to advices receiv ed by the district attorney and sher iff from the state parole officer. The state parole officer sought the views of county authorities In a letter signed by the sheriff and dis trict attorney. It Is set forth Jack son couny has no objection to the proposed operation but opposes the return of Marshall here. , The letter states 'Marshall should be - Injected- wrWi some- energyr so he win not be a relief parasite when releasd." It is further set forth that "Ma rali all la too lazy to work, and he was a defendant in the most sordid case In the history 01 the county. He was on the relief rolls during his year's residence here. Local authorities hold Marshall Is a legal resident of Texas and could be prosecuted there on a criminal charge according to hla own admis sions. Attention of the parole officer Is also directed to the detention of Marshall's 17-year old son In the state training school, his 16-year old daughter In a Portland institution, and a five year old daughter In the feeble minded home. MAINLINER SETS NEW COAST AIRWAY RECORD PORTLAND, Ore.. April 38. (AP) The United Air Line's big "Main liner" established a speed record be tween Oakland, Calif., and Portland yesterday when the ship swooped to a landing here after a dash of two hours and 39 minutes. wm firm Into a ihoutlnir rrowrf nf frkta at ntorhtnn, Calif, today when 50 prrpon. inrlndlng an undetermined number of women, were Injured, at barrage of tear (aa. ACIS TO I STRIKE NT LI Emergency Board Named In Attempt To Settle Union Rivalry Auto Workers Return To Employment. (By the Associated Press) President Roosevelt acted today to halt a threes tened walkout of 35,000 railroad and shipping employes In metropolitan New York as thousands of automobllo workers In the United States and Canada returned to their Jobs ending strikes. The president appointed an emer gency board of three to attempt set tlement of a dispute between rival nlons seeking to represent the rail and shipping employes. The International Longshoremen's association has disputed the brother hood's desire to represent the 26,000 workers. The b rot ne mood had de manded also a 20-cent an hour In crease In wages. At Oshawa, Out., 3700 men and workers, their pay raised and hours shortened, returned to their tasks at a General Motors corporation plant, marking the end of a 16-day strike, automobile assembly workers em ployed in the tor a Motor company plant at Richmond, Calif., were scheduled to return also after a short sit-down strike which closed the plant Friday. At Detroit, Mich., police prepared to evict sit-down strikers who closed the plant .of Parko Davis to Co., large pharmaceutical firm. H '-'VVX'? Confronting the Westlnghouse (Continued on Page Five.) . STEPIN FETCHIT HURT NEW YORK, April 26. (AP) Stepln Fetch it, the droll negro stage and screen comic, was In a serious condi tion in Harlem hospital today as the result of a Sunday automobile acci dent. Stepln Fetch It, In private life Lin coln Perry, 40, lost control of his automobile when a tire blew out and the machine crashed Into an ele vated railway pillar on Eighth ave nue In Harlem. The "lazybones" comedian, who lives In New York when not In Hol lywood, was alone In the car. A pa trolman took him to the hospital in a taxlcb. He had a possible frac tured skull snd other Injuries. EQUIPMENT LACK DELAYS GREATER Schedules To Be Increased As Traffic Demands And Ships Become Available, United President States. Medford schedules will be Increased as Boeing airplanes are released for immediate service and as traffic de mands W. A. Patterson, president of the United Air Lines told the Mall Tribune today. The dally schedules were reduced from four to two on April 15 when the company's new 31 -place Douglas planes were placed In operation on the coast division. At that time the pes toff ice department said there would be a resumption of the previ ous service on or before May 10 but Mr. Patterson stated there would be a delay because of a shortago. of equipment. "As the new Douglas planes are put Into service, the Boeings wilt be re leased for intermediate schedules," Mr. Patterson slated. "Just now we are actually short of equipment. The ricent strike at the Douglas plant has delayed matters. Twelve planes due fot delivery on May 1 will not be delivered until June 4." Notes Public Service The company at present does not contemplate bringing the big Douglas planes In at the MedforU airport, Mr. Patterson said. Ho explained they are designed for long , raiigo fUghU and that their landings and take-offs are costly and unwarranted unless there is sufficient patronage to make them -profitable. t. "In addition to making dollar pro fits, however, the company Is Inter ested In maintaining a public sorvlce Mr. Patterson continued. "We owe tills community service. Medford has constructed and maintained an ex cellent airport and for that we are grateful. We do not contemplate bringing the new Douglas . planes In her but the Boeings will give Just a? good service and we plan to In- (Continued on Pago Eight.) STATE SUPREME COURT TO PENDLETON MAY 1 SALEM, April 28. (AP) Members of the state supreme court will go to Pendleton May 1 to hold the spring term of court In eastern Ore gon May 3 and 4. Chief Justice Henry J. Bean and Justices George Roesman, p. R. Kel ly, J. O. Bailey and John L. Rana will hear arguments on five appeals. operator, of a atrlae-hound ran leant five aerlouHly. This picture in Rogue River Obtains Divorce Elaine Barrio, 21, the "Ariel" ol the famed "Ariel and Caliban" romance is shown as she made brief appearance In a Los An geles court to win a divorce from John Barrymore of stage and screen fame. Neither Barrymore nor his counsel was present Id court for the hearing. WINDSOR INS FIGHT 0F.CIICnL.V0W LONDON. April 36. ) The Duke of Windsor won from his Austrian place of aclf-exllo today a fight to have a British book about him taken out of circulation. The publishers of "Coronation Com mentary," it was disclosed, not only took the fast-selling volume from English bookshops but wrote the duke a note of apology. That waa upon the demand of the former monarch's attorney, who threatened legal action unless amends wore made by today, ( ' The action by the publishers can Just on the eve of tomorrow's ex piration of the six months' "proba tion period" neonssary to make the divorce of Wall is Warfleld Simpson final under English law. Her attorneys, within the next two weeks, will take the necessary legal steps to make the decree final. Then Mrs. Simpson will be completely free to marry the duke probably In June, after the coronation fanfare for King Qeorge VI has died down. NEW YORK. April a. (p) Dis regarding threats by the Duke of Windsor to sue for libel, Dodd, Mead to company, publishers, decided to day to release the American edit! in of "Coronation Commentary." Eugene Milk Price Due For Cent Rise EUGENE, Ore, April 36. (AP) An Increase of 1 cent per quart In milk prices In tha Eugene area was anticipated here fallowing hearing held by the Oregon milk control board late Saturday, Milk now sella for 11 cents a quart. When the price will be advanced and what proportion of the boost would be returned to the producer were the two Items which caused some dis cussion at the hearing which waa atended by producers, distributors, producer-distributors and some con sumers. The board reserved decision on these matters. Oakland Family Gets Rogue Pear Gift From Paris Rogue valley pears are so out standing In quality that they merit two trips across the Amer ican continent and the Atlantic ocean, It la Indicated by a gift received by Mrs. Qeorge Alex ander of Oakland, Cal. Mrs. Alexander visited here last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thorns K, Flynn of Ultf North Oakdale avenue. She told Mrs. Flynn that friends In Parts had written to her frequently about the lusclousnest of pears that were appearing on the French market. Finally a box oi the pears arrived from Paris. Mrs. Alexander opened the box eagerly only lo find they were Rogue valley pears, grown only ft few hundred mile from her home. The pears, Mrs. Alexander said, were In perfect condition and Just as delectable as ner Parisian friends hsd stated. DR. LUCAS DROWNS WHEN M0T0RB0AT UPSETS IN RAPIDS Sandy Westergren, Com panion On Fishing Trip, Has Narrow Escape Fishermen See Tragedy. GRANTS PASS. April 26. (AP) Dr O. R. Lucaa waa drownMl nri hla companion, E. O. (Sandy) Westergren, unrrowiy escaped Sunday wnen their mctorboat overturnH at Pl.pa riffl on the Rogue river and they clung to the overturned craxt on a perilous nae over raplda and swift water. Grapplera BtlU aearohed few th. ohlropractor'e body tola morning. ur. bucas was carried two miles down the Rogue and waa swept from tnc ooat in the ohurnlng waters at the old Ament dam. He sank In view oi salmon fishermen. Westergren grasped willows along the water at the base of the Greens creek rapids and the golf courso be fore reaching the dam and with diffi culty was pulled up a vertical cliff bank by a rope let, down by Robert Hudson, greens caretaker. Lucas was president of the local Izaak Walton league. He la survived by his widow and two small children end a sister, Mrs. WUUalm Aklns of Orants Pass. Westergren, who narrowly escapoa death by drowning In the Rogue river yesterday, la a former real dent of this city. Mrs. Westergren was formerly - Miss "Betty ardwell,' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bardwell of Medford. Only a few hours after Wester gren was pulled from tha river whloh took tho Ufa of his compsn Ion, a new member of tho family arrived at a Orants Pu m.tjirnitv hospital. The baby, born this morn- iug, is a ooy and weighed 7 pounds at birth. The infant has been named Craig Bardwell. Westergren is now associated with the Crane Plumbing company . In Grants Pass. Both he and Mrs. Westenrren are well-known in f h. city and valley. He Is reported to nave oeen uninjured In yesterdays traglo accident except for bruises and shock. Ho was In the water for about two hours before rescuers wers able to pull him ashore. autoisTmeetTdeath while speeding wife TO PORTLAND, Ore., April aa, (AP) Howard Charles Hinckley, 80, Port land, died last night four hours sfter his automobile hurtled over the bsnk on Barbur boulevard while rushing his wife to s hospital to be treated for a wound Inflicted by cat. Mrs. Hlnkley suffered minor Injuries In the accident. The car came to rest about ISO feet below Barbur boulevard after turn Ing end over end several times. Mrs. Hlnkley wss thrown clear of the wreckage. Two Portland women were Injured when an automobile In which they were riding collided with another ear, Jumped the curbing and crashed Into a telephone pole. Those hurt were Mrs w. Spransen, cuts and bruises, and Anna Warwlch, fractured right knee and bruised shoulder. .Cliff Ralsh. 30. and his wife, Pau line, Centralis, suffered body bruises snd lacerations when s motorcycle they were riding crashed Into s truck operated by Ray Thurston, Orchards, Wash. BASEBALL National Pittsburgh at St. Louis, Cincin nati at Chicago, postponed, rain and cold. R. H. Boston . 9 U . S 19 Brooklvn Pette, R. Smith and Lopez: Hamlin, Birkofer, Jeffcoat snd Phelps. American Philadelphia New Tor It R. H. . lis 7 13 1 Kelley, Ross and Hayes; and Dickey. Olenn. Brosca St. Louis at Detroit, Chicago at Cleveland, postponed, rain and cold. More than 110.000 big gam ani mals were counted In Wyoming dur ing a came census taken In ivtt. A
