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The Weather Forecast: Probable shoitrrs to night and Wednesday; little chance In temperature. TEMPERATURE Mlcheftt yesterday 51 Lowest this morning .. 36 Least Effort To accomplish hnt you want with the leat effort use the Classified Column of this nef paper. These Utile adi prod me well and they are not expensive. MEDFORD Trtbune Full Associated Press i .11 United Press Thirty-Second Year MED FOR D, OKEOON. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 19:17. No. 31. AGAIN 1 L ft EL m 1 - i mm VgVs I ! REQUESTS SENATE MRP N0T TO CONSIDER -ggj TYDINGS MEASURE " By PAI L MAI.LON (CoprlRht. IBS", by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, April 27. The heir apparent, Mr. Wallace, furnished the only official cabinet reaction to Pres- ir ldent Roosevelt's W hnlrl-down budeet warning. He said dolefully the gov ernment might have to scrap its whole farm legis lation program farm tenacy, crop Insurance and ever-normal gran ary. Mr. Wallace .should have put t'uui .uauon me accent on the "might." It Is an old political custom for official In doubt to advertise their troubles and then sit down and wait for the echo. Usually, when it Is officially hinted that any such large organized group as the farmers are going to lose anything, the echo comes rolling back like political thunderation. Thla time, the nymph of the flfflda seems to have a cold or something. It may be that the western farmers do not care much about farm ten ancy, that the crop Insurance and granary proposals are largely Wal lace Ideas which the farm congress men and farm organisations con sider to be good but not urgent, or a dozen other things. At any rate, the program has not been ditched. The best guess Is that the 50.000,000 farm tenant bin will be cut drastically end passed. (A lot of Democratic congressmen pledged themselves to do It In the last cam paign, and are up for re-election next year). The Insurance and granary plan will rest Indefinitely in the house agriculture committee unless the echo gets much louder than It hej been. IC&nsexvatlve Administra tion forces are trying to kill It, and House Chairman Jonea does not care much for it). Much of the legislative program Is In the same fix particularly taxes. Ordinarily the President's ptiblic debt edict against tax revision until next session would be conclusive evidence that there will not be any this ses sion. That Is by no means certain now. A minor bill will be passed con tinuing excise taxes which are ex piring. This bill la open to any and all amendments. If the treasury happens to change Its mind around Juno 15, It could shoot up some tax (Continued on Page Eight.) Hill-Billy B6ys Find New World By Joining CCC KLAMATH FALLS, April 37. (AP) Life at Camp Klamath, near Merrill, ha a opened a new wonderland for a detachment ot CCC youths recently posted there. Many of the young tree troopers had never before seen a movie, and few had previously had op portunity to see and hear a sound picture. To thla group, even automobiles were comparative rarities. Several have questioned officers on the possibility of learning to read and write. The youngsters are from the KenMmkv hill country". SILVERTON. April 27. (AP) Roy Davenport, city mall carrier, checked his route after 15 years to learn he had walked a distance equal to twice around the world, carrying an average weight of 128 pounds at the start of each daily trip. Davenport has a pos sible 500 stops dally. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Pill Dispenser Fred Heath receiv ing a pleasant surprise by getting the right telephone number when he told the operator he wanted "six bits." Maury Spats wildly spending about 20 In telegrams from New York to establish the falsity of a report that his new airplane had gone up In smoke with the Medford hangar, the whole thing being a hoax perpetrated by Bob Norria and Max Peirce In re turn for a neat practical Joke played on them by Maury. Jack Boyl being seen round ind about in old haunt after a visit to the southern movie metropolis. Oarly Tengwsld Inviting acquain tances to SAk him what the A8 meant on a big button in hit lapel so he could tell them thst 88persons got hurt or laid up by sickness every j minute, tht beine accident and t helth Insurance week. President Against Legaliz ing Contracts to Main tain Prices in Commerce On Trademarked Goods WASHINGTON. April 27 (AP) President Itooeetelt broadened hi warning against stork specu lation by government employes today to Include the public at large. WASHINGTON-. April, 27. (API- President Roosevelt warned against "undue advances In prices" today in a letter to Vice-President Garner ask ing the senate not to consider the Tydings price maintenance bill. "The present hazard of undue ad vances In prices, with resultant rise In the coat of living." the president wrote, "makes It most untimely to legalize any competitive, or market ing, practice calculated to facilitate increases in the cost of numerous and Important articles which Ameri can householders and consumers gen erally buy." He was commenting on the bill by Senator Tydtngs (D., Md.) to permit contracts to maintain prices In In terstate commerce on trademarkea goods. "Since we seem to be in a period of rising retail prices, thla bill should not, in my Judgment, receive the consideration of the congress until the whole matter can be more fully explored," the president said. (Mr. Roosevelt recently said prices In some of the heavy goods Indus tries such as steel and copper were too high. He said government buying would be shifted to consumer goods.) A report on the bill by W. A. Ayres, federal trade chairman, which the president, .attached, (to his . message, said:' "Many state laws and the Tydings Miller bill are directly and Irreconcil ably In conflict with the present fed eral law on resale price maintenance. "Public policy since the passage of the Sherman anti-trust act In 1800 has been opposed to resale price maintenance." He added that enactment of the measure would "In its practical effect void" many decrees and orders issued against prloe-fixlng and "constitute a reversal of what has been public policy for many years." Ayres noted laws governing resale prices vary In various states. He said this would result In modifying the anti-trust laws "in differing degrees in different state." LONDON, April 37.-AP)-Jack Doyle of Ireland outpointed the American heavyweight, King Levlnsky, of Chi cago, In a 13 round bout at Wem bley stadium tonight. Big Salmon Take On Opening Day ASTORIA, April 27. ( AP) The best opening day In years was in prospect today as fishermen dumped tons of Royal Chinook salmon on the floors of packing houses. The season opened at noon yester day and fishermen were returning today with individual catches run ning In many instances more than a ton. John Ennin. Astoria, looked like the high boat with a catch of 2986 pounds. One large packing company, employing most of the fishermen, said no delivery had been under 200 pound?. Rum Commission Selects Law Enforcement Chief PORTLAND. Ore., April 37. (AP) The state liquor commission. In a me to build up its law enforcement division, selected Walter W. Winters, of the state pollre. as supervisor of the department today. Winters, a member of the state police force for five years and rec ommended to the commission by Superintendent Charles P. Proy be caiine of his exceptional record, will supervise the l n vest Ign ion of appli cations for licenses, license delin quencies and violations of the state liquor control act. In announcing his appointment the commission said: "The personnel of this department will be directly responsible to Mr. Winters in the performance of their duti and the selertton of the per sonnel will be personally supervised by him. The commission believe Mr. winter, with the force of men under hi Miperviiion now rontem- plated, will be cample tent to perform I Howard Will Become Head La CHILD BRIDE . . . ' "V "..' I VG V Geneva Hamby Peels, 11-year old bride of Homer Peels, 32-vear-old mountaineer of Tellico Plains, Tenn., Is shown here visiting her mother, Annie Hamby. Mrs. Hamby disapproved of her voting daughter's marriage and Peels was arrested. Geneva, however, said she "won't go back" to ber mother. IN ANTI-TRUST LAWS WASHINGTON. April 27. (AP) Attorney General Cummlngs reported to President Roosevelt today the time had come for a revision of the anti trust laws to prevent monopolistic practices. The report, read by President Roosevelt at a press conference, also aald the Justice department's Investi gation of complaints of alleged col lusion In bidding on government steel contracts had produced insufficient evidence to warrant action by that department. Instead, the report raised the ques tion of whether the matter should not be bandied at this juncture through cease and desist orders by the federal trade commission. The report said Identical steel bids, complained of about a year ago by Secretary Ickes In connection with public works contracts, were produc ed In part by the basing point sys tem of price determination. Shasta Delayed By Failure In Signals GRANTS PASS, April 27, ( AP) A mechanical defect In the block sig nal semaphore syatem was blamed for making the No. 8 northbound Shasta an hour late hero this morn ing. The train was repeatedly stopped between Central Point and Rogue River, about ten miles, by the taiae alarm signals. The brakeman had to walk ahead much of the distance to see that all was clear. WOODBURN. Ore., April 27. (API Fire that started In an equipment shed at the Oregon state training school early this morning did dam age estimated at between 2000 and 13000. About 300 baby chirks, the equipment shed and a number of farm Implements were destroyed. the duties of that division to the en tire satisfaction of the pubhe. Winters will take over the division May 1 and will be assisted by Capt. H. G. Matson of the state police In setting up an information and record system. The commission, carrying out Its, ultimatum t; wholesalers to divorce themselves from retail outfits, mode a conditional suspension of the li cence of the Pa bet Brewing company. Milwaukee, Wis., its Portland distrlb. utor. the Pacific Prult St Produce Co.. and two retailers for a 30-day period. The commission ruled, however, that If the alleged violations were correetHl. the suspensions would be rescinded. The action was taken when letters were presented from May E. Cain and My Butcher, proprietors of sep arate establishments, tr.at the con cerns installed beer colla for them without cost. AND MOTHER BY FACULTY AT OSC COFIVALLIS. April 27. (VP) The faculty club of Oregon State college paid Joint tribute to the agricultural experiment station on Its SOth anni versary, and to B. F. Irvine, Port land, who Is retiring from the stale board of higher education after 30 years as a member. C. A. Sprague described the experi ment station as "taking progress out of the realm of chance.' and declared that Its work Is reflected In the whole character of Oregon agriculture. "The future of Oregon agriculture, lies largely In the future of the spe cialty crops Introduced by the sta tion, he said. 'These crops have multiplied the problems to be solved The discoveries of the paat and pres ent present a challenge to the rcl- cntista, of the future." Dr. W. J. Kerr, chancellor emeritus, lauded Irvln. with whom ht said he had worked for 30 years, aa hav ing always supported education, both public and private and as "the friend to all institutions and the opponent of none." Irvine said his retirement did not mean the end of his interest In edu cation, but that he would continue to "fight for it advancement, strong er than ever." He was voted an honorary mem bcrshlp in the faculty club. Members of the state board of higher education, here for regular meeting today, attended the meetliig. New Deal Delays Industry Program WASHINGTON, April 7. (AP) The administration la delaying it Industrial and labor program, leg is In torn said today until it decides whether to use state or federal pow ers aa the basis for new laws. Some portions may be postponed until nxt year. President Roosevelt x studying the primary phase of the program wage and hour standards which may be his only other ma Jor recommendations to this session of congress. Missing Airplane Located, All Safe CARACAS, Venezuela, April 37. (APi The airmail plane "Venebo- lana" was reported found today with Its five occupant safe. Details wpre not Immediately avail able. The plane had been mlfcalng In the Brazilian border Jungle lands with a crew of three and two Americans. William Armstrong Perry, newspaper man, and Frederick Orabb, commer cial attache of the United Statea legation at Caracas. CONTINUE HUNT FOR ROGUE VICTIM'S BODY O RANTS PARS. April 27. fp, Orapplers today resumed warch for the hodv of Dr. C. R. Lucas, drown ed Sunday In the Rogut river. PEACE AGREED IN CANNERY STRIKE; Recognition, Cannery Work ers' Union Provided in Settlement of Stockton Strife, Says Governor (Ily the Associated Press) Settlement of the California can nery strike and the arrest by federal agents of 18 Bit-downers In a Detroit dispute held the spotlight on today's labor front. Gov. Frank Merrlam announced complete agreement of the Stockton, Calif., cannery strike which broke out In bloody rioting last Friday. The peace pact provided for recognition of the cannery workers' union as bar gaining agent. The strike, called over ten days ago In demands for higher wages, shorter hours and union recognition affect ed isod workers. The 18 persons under arrest In De troit may be charged with violating the federal narcotic laws. They were seized when police forced 2S0 strikers out of the Parke, Davla At Co. plant. I' so Hose On Police The government agents stepped In when the men barricaded themselves In the narcotic department and used a fire hose on police. Ralph H. Oy ler, district chief of the U. S. bureau of narcotics, said If any supplies were missing from the department he would place the matter In the hands of District Attorney John C. Lehr. The administration's Industrial and labor progrnm Is being watched close ly toy Washington legislators. - Congressional leaders predicted postponement of some portions of the program until It is decided whether to use state or federal powers as the basis for new laws. The primary phase of the program wage and hour standards Is being studied by Presi dent Roosevelt. Call Labor Leaders At Madison. Wis., Gov. Philip La Foltetto summoned labor leaders to a (Continued on Page rwelvej L MAKE INVENT OF MEDFORD STREETS An Inventory of Medford streets will be made by five men employed by the state highway department be ginning next Tuesday. Arrangements for the Inventory were made here today by T. H Wil son, department representative, with Fred W. Scheffel, city superintend ent, The crew will make their head quarters at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and will be here about three weeks, during the period also making Inventories In Ashland. Jacksonville, Central Point and Grants Pass. A record will be made of the present condition of the streets, age, type and tick n ess of the pavement and other iactoi that will give the highway department a complete pic ture of the current situation, Mr, Scheffel aald. The Inventory la an outgrowth of the campaign conducted by the League of Oregon cittea for sharing part of gasoline tax revenues with cities for the repair of atreete. The highway commlMlon, opposing the revenue division, contended that be fore anything was done a complete Inventory of city streets should be made. - - Klamath Turns On Irrigation Water KLAMATH FALLS. April 27. (AP) Water has been turned into the principal canals of the Klamath rec lamation project and will be avail able to farmers aa soon as there l demand, superintendent B. F. Hayden said today, fiome deliveries have already been made, Hayden said, but the regular irrigation is not expected to begin for several days yet, due to the late planting season. HOUSEHOLDERisSUED IN SHOOTING ROBBER PORTLAND. April 27. ( AP) A father sought nearly 910.000 damages today for the death of his son. Stephen Pleslk. 17, shot and killed last January by B. C. Jaggar. Authorities absolved Jaggar of crlm inal responsibility on tbe grounds ne waa protecting his home against rob ber s. The father, D. Pieatfc. filed suit in circuit court for 10900 damages and 1250 funeral coata. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT DRY ROOSEVELT JAKES CHARGE OP RELIEF IN FLOOD REGION Thousands of Homeless in Area Affecting Six States Death Toll Now 15-5 Persons On Missing List By the Associated Press President Roosevelt took charge of relief for flood sufferers today a&i thousands of homeless In a wide spread flood area affecting six states waited for swollen rivers and streams to subside. The death toll had climbed to 15, with five persons missing. Receding waters In many parts of the afflicted area brought hope to flood sufferers that the worst of the danger had passed but the exception was the mighty Ohio, which contin ued to rise. A crest of 41 feet waa reached at Wellsburg, submerging the town and paralyzing Its Industry. It waa ex pected the Ohio at thla point would go to 40 feet before subsiding. Pittsburgh safe The menace to Pittsburgh's down town district seemed definitely lifted as the three rivers In the city's wat ershed began receding after having reached a crest of 35.1, more than ten feet above flood stage. The Thames river, the rising of which carried flood suffering Into (Continued on Page rrreive) STATE INSURANCE HEAD SALEM, April 37. Hugh H. Carle, state Insurance commissioner, denied today the renewal license of the Rodgers-Hart-Banks company of Portland, a 40-year-old .general In surance firm, for violation of the law prohibiting placing policies In non-admitted companies. The decision of the commissioner followed a aerlea of hearings and Earle said the firm admitted having placed Insurance with companies not licensed to do business In the state, chief among them being London Lloyds. The Portland company has t'jn days in which to appeal from the decision of the commission, and fall ing to do so It must cense operating at the end of that period. Earlc said If an appeal la taken In the circuit court of Marlon county the company may continue business pending a decree. An appeal was expected, "Under the Oregon statute," Esrle said, "a license cannot be Issued to agencies which place policies with companies not admitted to do busi ness In Oregon. The statute pro hibits licensing London Lloyds be cause It la not a company but groups of Individuals. Evidence haa be in procured that the Portland firm had violated the statute." It's the Climb It GRANTS PASS, April 27.j( AP) O. B. Cox bought a Jersey heifer and lovked her securely In hia barn. This morning she waa missing. Cox look ed everywhere with no success until he went to hia hayloft. She had climbed the steep stairs and waa con tented ly munching hay. Cox used block and tackle to take her down. Duke of Windsor Files Damage Suit Over Book UOK-aon. Enu., April 37 (AP) Th Duk of Windsor tody filed n action for allfgfd libel dmge nd n Injunction .n.ln.t the author and publlKhera of "Coronation Commen tary," a bet aeller, dealing with hl relirn end abdication a Edward VIII. The writ waa filed through the duke a London oIlcttor, dcplt the fact that both author and publlaher had proffered an apology and the publlaher had announced the book waa being withdrawn. On advice of counael. It waa, learn ed, the duke decided to proceed with hia threatened ault for damages and for an Injunction agalnat further publication. The action la directed agalnat Oeoffrey Oennla. author, and Wil liam Helnemann. publl.her. The book purported among other thing, to deacrlb Edward a "muddling, fud Grande G-Man's Romance Suffers Setback; No Reasons Given SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. April 27 iAP) The marriage of Melvln Purvis former G-man who trap ped John Dllllnger to Mts Jan ice Jarratt, America's most photo graphed girl, originally set lor Thursday night, waa "indefinitely postponed" today. Tersely, and in clipped sentences, A. J, R u m m e 1, Miss Jsrratt's brother in - law, made the an nouncement. Miss Jarratt left the city in an automobile with two women friends, reportedly headed for a ranch near Victoria. Texas. Purvis, who flew here from San Francisco a week ago, was still registered at a hotel here, but did not answer the door or tele phone. TACTICS OF LOGGERS PORTLAND, Ore., April 37. (AP) With logging operations closed down and a log shortage facing sawmills, timber operations in the Columbia river district approached a virtual standstill today. Fulfilling their threat made last Saturday to close unless sympathy strikes and alleged "slow down' tac tics of union men were not termi nated by Monday night, operators of the Columbia Rtvor Loggers' associa tion sent some 6000 men hbme for an indefinite period Inst night. Meanwhile sawmill operators an nounced form nti on of an organization simitar o that of the logging firms' and demanded that sympathy strikes be called off in the Oregon American company plant at Vernon ia and the Clark At Wilson mills at Linn ton and Preacott. With the operators definitely tak ing the offensive In the current con troversy over wage Increases and working agreements, the Columbia River district council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union brought charges of unfair practice against five logging companies which closed op erations last week In a complaint filed with the labor relations board. The 1938 fruit crop of the Rogue River valley haa been sold, with ex ception of 36,537 boxes, of Winter Nellls, and an estimated 20.000 boxes of Newtown apples, according to a re port today, by F. Kramer Deuel, sec retary of the Rogue River Traffic as sociation. In carload lot figures there are 23 cars of Winter Nellie pears, and 15 cars of apples remaining In local storage plants. Secretary Deuel predicted the next ten days would see the remainder sold. Favorable conditions for the on coming pear crop now prevail, with polllnlzatlon well along In the Bart lett and D'AnJoua varieties, and prog ressing In other species, according to County Horticulturist C. B. Cordy. Warm weather Is needed to develop the buds, and aid orchard lata In spraying. There has been no frost damage to date, and only light smudging, none general. BAKKR8FIF.LD, Calif., April 37. (AP The Edison district shipped 20 rare of potatoes to Oregon and Washington yesterday, .L, A. Burtcn. county agricultural commissioner, said tOrlRV. dling and meddling" while king. LONDON, Eng.. April 37. (AP) Mra. -Wallla Warfleld Slmpaon com. plcied today the required six months of "good behavior" In her dlroree action and became all but free to marry the former king of England Only legal technicalities were nec csaary before her divorce, from Erneat Aldrtch Slmpaon became final and theae, It was expected, would be ful filled within a fortnight. The Duke of Windsor, who has not seen Mrs. Blmpaon alnce ahe fled from London at the height of the ab dication crliia, will be legally privi leged to marry "the woman I love." Mrs, Blmpaon'a attorneys ahe re mained In seclusion st Chateau de, Candt near Moots, Prance expected the drcree would ot mads absolute ilther May or May 10. 1936 FRUIT CROP PRACTICALLY SOLD Normal TAKES NEW POST. Governor to Appoint Suc cessor Later Leadership Cited by Dr. Hunter at - Education Board Meeting SALEM. April 27. (AP) Charle. A. Howard, .state auperlntendent of schools, announced todsy he would resign his elective office effective September I. HI, successor will be appointed by Oovernor Martin. Howard graduated from Baker uni versity In Kansas In 1007 and received his master degree at tho University of Oregon. Prior to his election as school auperlntendent In 1036 ha waa head of the public school systems In Klamath Falls, Coqullle, Eugene, and Marahfleld. Virtually all hia school experience has been In Oregon. OORVALLIS. April 37, (API Dr. Charles A. Howard, atats superinten dent of pubtlo Instruction, was ap pointed president of the Eastern Ore gon Normal school, effective Septem ber 1, succeeding H. E. Inlow, by the state board of higher education at a meeting today. Prof. Inlow will be transferred to tho general exten sion service as a full professor in history and head of the department of normal school extension. Chancellor Frederic Hunter, in recommending the action to the board, , aald Prof. Inlow had asked relief for administrative duties. . Distinguished Kecorit '-After-a, canvass of available can didates, Dr. Hunter said Howard was selected because of his distinguished reoord in Oregon education. Howard has been superintendent since 1030, being re-elected In 1030 end 1034. His present term would not (Continued on Page rwelve) E BUG BILABO HENDAYB, Franco -Spanish Border, April 37. (AP) Insurgent officials at Irun reported tonight that Gen eral Emlllo Mola'a Insurgent forcea driving toward Bilbao had swept through Durango, 18 miles south east of the Basque capital, and con tinued several miles along the broad highway toward that city. The main body or General Mola'a army was reported to be within 14 miles of Bilbao. " , Insurgents also claimed another wing of General Mola'a command had . smashed through Lequietlo, on the coast-northeast of Bilbao, and veered then to the southwest. ,i (Irun, source of these reports, la Just across tho border from Hendaye.) WPA Approves Aid 7 Salem Water Plant 8ALEM. Aprli 27. AP) The city of Salem received word today of WPA approval for an 1840,830 project cor. erlng reconstruction of the distri bution system of the Salem water works. The federal grant la 348.368 for labor and the city's share 483 564. The city haa the right to atop the work if shortage of funds threat ens. The main Immediate construc tion Job will be the laying of an arterial main along 13th street tne entire length of tha city 4fom north , to south. ' Greatest Thrill ' GRANTS PASS, April 37. ( AP) The greatest thrill ot a round-the-world tour highlighted by fire which destroyed his ship and Malaya who stole hia trousers waa a physician's freedom fromt'''nsperlng telephone calls at any hourof the day or night. Dr. Bryon G Be-! ley said on hia re turn here. ,.F BASEBALL - National. Boston at Brooklyn, New Tork at Philadelphia, Cincinnati at Chicago, postponed! rain and cold. American. Philadelphia at New York, po poned: rain. Income Shares Maryland fund bid l.0: asked ai03. Quarterly Income bid 17.aa. asked 118.87. , .
