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The Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight and Saturday. Not much change In temperature. TEMI'r RATl RE Highest yesterday gi Lowest this morning ... .. 51 Try Sunday For your convenience the Mall Tribune business office will accept want ada until 8 o'clock Saturday night for the Sunday morning edition. Try Sunday for satisfactory result. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press - ited Press Thirty-Second Year Eighteen Pages Two Sections MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 28. 1937. No. 5S. km c3 j j rifnll ITilf? II v r Vvs I PAGEANTRY MARKS 'MSr1 FORMAL OPENING PbBBbpJ of' mighty span By PALL MALLON (Copyright, 1937. by Paul Mallon.) Relaxation. WASHINGTON, May 28. TWO ex actly opposite Ideas are being gleaned from what President Roosevelt has been saying about continuing his supreme court tussle. He has said half a dozen new order cases are to be decided by the court m J he distant fu ture, and indi cated he lacks confidence that the court will uphold all his legal viewpoints Some say this Paul Mallon. means, he will continue his drive; others say It sugests he will wait to see. " What he has done lately, however, Is subject to but one conclusion. Example One The White House has flooded congress with Important new legislative subjects, (wages and hours, farm control, SEC strength ening, and hydro-electric power con servation Is yet to come), but, at the outMt of this court argument, the announced program was to keep the Court subject before congress to the exclusion of all other buslnes, until final action was forced. - Example Two Senators noticed the relaxation, of Inside White House pressure Immediately after the bill waa defeated, 10 to 8, by the senate Judiciary committee. Wise congressional authorities be lieve the legislation will be kept sus pended In midair as long, as possible, and, If possible, permanently. j Note A change Is noticeable also "in MrTRooscvelt'a' personal demeanor. Be no longer pounds his desk, shoot ing darted words at compromise sug gestions, but appears affable and pleased with the world. His wages and hours message was worded as mildly as any message he ever sent to congress. Disturbance. Eminent officials have their fin gers In their ears, awaiting- an ex plosion within the radio commission. Charges and counter charges, involv ing personalities mostly, are going (Continued on page Nine.) FEHL CAN APPEAR 10 DEFEND SUIT SALEM, Ore., May 28. (AP) At torneys advised the governor's office today Earl Fehl, ballot theft parolee, cannot be prevented from returning to Medford to defend a civil suit brought against htm. The terms of the ex-Judge's parole ban him from the southern Oregon county. Although Fehl has written Gov ernor Martin asking permission to defend the action, nothing will be done until the executive returns from San Francifico. Fear Land .Speculation WASHINGTON, May 28. (AP) Senator Sch we lien bach said today President Roosevelt hod signed a bill designed to discourage land specula tion on the 1.200.000 acres eventually to be Irrigated by Columbia river watera stored behind Grand Coulee dam In central Washington. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Noble Vincent and C. O. Lovejov tracing odd noises In the Vincent home to the soot box of the kitchen r.inge wherein they discovered a baby robin that apparently had come down Ine chimney, said bird, upon libera tion, proceeding to decorate the kitchen walls with ml spots, finally flitting to the yard where adult robins brought It nourishment, gave l a bath and restored It to good standing In the community. Bill Grenbemer dUplaylng an add looking gadget he said was a clock he won for a dime, the contraption bearing a tag that proclaimed It to be a $5 timepiece. Oertrude Butler taking such an sudlble and abysmal Inhalation or the fragrance of a bouquet of roses aa to cause all her associates In the county clerk's office to stop work and look up. Cliff Cordy decllntn; to speculate na the ;r of pear crop,, he being an unspecuistlra man of aclenca. President Presses Button Liberating Auto Traffic Bombs Burst as Gov ernor Cuts Golden Chain WASHINGTON, May 2S. (API President Roosevelt pressed a button at 3 p. m. (E. S. T.) In the White House today opening the $35,000,000 Golden Gate .Bridge at San Francisco to vehicular traffic. SAN FRANCISCO. May 28. (AP) The Golden. Gate bridge, stretching majestically across the harbor en trance, waa dedicated amid pageantry today while hundreds of navy planes roared overhead and mighty w.irshlps steamed toward San Francisco. President Roosevelt was to press a button at Washington to throw open the giant $35,000,000 span to the first automobllo' traffic. Bombs burst In the blue sunlit sky as three chains of gold, silver and copper were cut with acetylene torches by aovernor Frank F. Mer rlam. and other officials. Governor Merrlam declared "this great accomplishment Is the result of obstacles overcome and the appli cation of science." "The accomplishments of today Justify the belief that no dream, no vision. Is unattainable," he said. "No challenger will discourage or dampen the ardor of the adventurous and courageous planners and builders. "The opening of the Golden Gale bridge removed the last water bnr rler on the highway along the Pa cific ,coast in California and com pletes another link In the far flung ribbon of cement, asphalt, and steel connecting Canada and Mexico. "It brings nearer to realisation the vision of a great roadway from nor thern Canada and Alaska to south ernmost South America." Among the scores of officials at the ceremony was 67-year-old Joseph B. Strauss, the poet who conceived the gigantic span 19 years ago and completed It In the face of over whelming odds. "Its history Is the history of a romantic 'adventure Into the un known, filled to the brim with the thrill of conflict and of conquest," Strauss declared. "I hereby deliver It to you, Mr. Fllmer, to hold In trust for the peo ple of the district who built It. and who own It. My duty as chief engineer now ceases." William P. Fllmer. president of the Ooldcn- Gate Bridge and High way district, accepted the structure. "Standing uporf It here today, we dedicate the Golden Gate Bridge to public service, and to the millions of people who will use Its facilities In the years to come," Fllmer said. "Its opening to traffic marks the final (Continued on Page Eleven) A LADY, HEARD BY WIFE, SAYS COMIC NEW YORK, May 28. ( AP) That was no lady with Roscoe Ails, the dancing comedian. That was his pho nograph record. Thus did Roscoe seek In state su preme court today to disprove the contention of his wife. Shirley, that he misconducted himself last Feb ruary 6 with his partner. Betty Lc wis. Mrs. Alls, her brother and two aunts, heard his voice and Mirs Lewis' when they stood outside his hotel room, they said, but Roscoe brought the record and a phonograph into court today. The record, he explained, was made to get perfect timing for an act they were trying to sell. Roscoe put It on. round and round It went and here's a sample of what came out: Roscoe Your kisses burn. Betty You're not Ice. Roscoe Lie in my arms. Look at me with the good eye. Tell me. do you love me. Betty Yeah, man I Roscoe Oh. darling, since I met you I can't eat, I can't sleep and J can't drink. Betty Why? Rocoe I got no money. Betty What's that on your shoul der? Roscoe A freckle. Betty Well. It's walking. Roscoe denied Miss Lewis was in the room. . - . Ifi.lQ Fair Fund Bill WASHINGTON. May 2. (API The senate passed and sent to the bouse today a bill authorizing an ap propriation of tV)00O for United i States participation In the Ssn Fran- j Cisco world lair to be held In 1939. Thousands Throng The S35.OO0.OO0 Golden GaU suspension bridge for a day was one great pathway for pedestrians - crossing; from San Francisco to Marin county. Although pedestrian traffic will be permitted on the V bridge, only on that one day did the walkers have it all to themselves. Here are shown some of the thousand who were on hand at dawn of the opening day. They are shown on the San Francisco - aide of the bride- SENIOR CLASS TO BE HELD TONIGHT Willamette University Head to ' Deliver Address to 176 Graduates at Senior High School Auditorium Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, president of Willamette university, will address 176 graduates of Medford senior high school at the 44th annual commence ment exercises to be held tonight at B o'clock in the school auditorium. The class Is the largest In the school's history. Rev. James M. Hamilton will give the Invocation and N. H. Franklin, chairman of the school board, will (.-resent diplomas. ' Awards to be presented by C. O. Smith, principal, at tonight's exer cises Include: Scholastic, Edith Whll lock. valedictory and Helen Chlrgwln. salutatory: Torch Honor, Helen Chlr gwln. Ruth Hedges. Robert Thayer. Caroline Cook. Mabel O'Neill and Edith Whillock. The principal will also "announce the outstanding senior girl and boy. the names being withheld until to riaht. Other awards to be given are: P.EO., Mabel O'Neill;, Zonta club. Betty Phillips; D.A.R. good citizen ship, Delia Mse Dale: college scholar ships, to be announced: drum solo j Oregon first prize, Robert Morris; and honorary science award. Edward Car ter. ! Flowers will be accepted at the j lileh school from B to 7:30 o'clock, j Smith announced. ' Friends and par ents are requested to present gift at some place other than the school, w they will not be delivered there snd the school takes no responsibility for safekeeping. Admission is by cards given to t seniors who present them to pa-ents and friends. The eomplet program follows: Selection from Maytlme Romberg High school orchestra Invocation.. .. Rev. Jamea M. Hamilton Nocturn Olrls vocal ensemble Address Dr. Bruce R. Baxter Awards - C, O. Smith Diplomas. N. H. Franklin At the End of the Cobblestone Road Boys vt Auld Lang Srne Vocal ensemble Benediction . Rev. Jamea M. Hamilton Maryland Fund, bid 19 70: asked 1072. Q jartrrly Income, bid 117. W; Mk ltd 119 35. J Golden Gate Bridge E RULE SAN PEDRO AFTER Mob Defies Police Authority, Demand Prosecution of Officer Who Slew Long shoreman in Altercation SAN PEDRO, Cat., May 38. (A1) An angry army of 4,000 marine work ers, enraged over what they called the unjustifiable slaying of a long shoreman, by a police officer, took over tVls harbor city today. The situation was tense for a time as the men defied extra police de tails to atop them. Virtually every business house in the waterfront area was closed and street-car service Interrupted. At the climactic point the pro test ants mov ed over to Wilmington Bowl for a mass meeting. They demanded the prosecution on murder charges of Policeman William H. Redding for the shooting of Nor man Gregg longshoreman. Redding shot Gregg during an al ter catTon yesterday In a San Pedro pub Police officials, after a pre liminary Investigation, said the of ficer acted rn self-defense. BASEBALL Amcrlmn R. H E. Washington 0 6 'l Boston m 7 10 0 Kewsom, LI nice, and Gray; Marcum and DeSautles, First game; St Louis Detroit R. H. E. 5 10 1 0 U 1 Caldwell, Knott. Thomm and Hemsley; Auker and Tebbet. (10 innings) R H. E. Chlrsco 3 9 0 Cleveland 3 8 0 Kennedy and Srwell; Oalrhouse and Pytlak. (Second game) R. H. E. St. Louis 3 10 3 Detroit 7 11 0 Hlldebrand. Koupal and Hemsley; Lavson and Hayworth. National. R. H. E. Cincinnati 18 1 Chicago 13 14 0 Moore. Brennan. Hallahan, Hoi Hnvi'orth and V. DvU, Root and Odta. on Opening Day , 1 A ! -. ' i s GOVERNOR FLAYS COAST AGITATO! FOR HATE TALKS Bridges "Class Warfare" Teachings Draw Martin's Fire at Meeting of West ern Governors Last Night SAN FRANCISCO. May 28. (F) Oregon's Governor Charles H. Martin, host to western executives attending the Golden Gate bridge fiesta, lashed out at Harry Bridges, coast longshore union president, last night. "I cannot understand this p reach -Ins of 'class warfare", the governor said. "The greed and selfishness and meanness of the Wall street crowd sent us Into one tallsptn. Now we are puiling out. Are we going Into another tallspln created by the rack cteeres?" "Laboring men are all right," he continued, "but they are being mis led by their leaders, who know Just what they want. , "Our great leader along the coast Bridges openly boasted the other night that his great ambition la to destroy the employers. "That means only Russia. "These leaders ought to be teach - lng harmony and unity." The Oregon governor sat with Gov- , ernor Merrlam of California In the reviewing stand at yesterday's parade. ! The Royal Roaarlans of Portland, the ' OVants Pass Cavemen and the Klam ath Falls American Legion drum corps, state champions, made a color ful section. I State Senator Jamea Best of Pen dleton. Representative Henry Semon of Klamath Falls and State Secretary Earl Bnell were prominent witnesses Oregon's governor will participate In the formal opening of the great, graceful' span to all traffic today. roLiiytusK AHEAD FOR PLUM PORTLAND, May . 38. (AP) C.aude McColloeh of Klamath Falls, state democratic chairman, and Judge Hall 8. Lusk of Portland have gained chief consideration at the de partment of Justice for the Oregon federal Judgeship, a special dispatch to the Oresonisn said today. IN REBEL RAIDS Dawn Attack Upon Tem porary Spanish Loyalist 'Capital Takes Lives of 200 While City Sleeps VALENCIA. Spain. May 28. Five insurgent planes, described by competent observers aa Italian Cap- ronls, carried out a terrific bombard ment of Valencia before dawn today 1 and killed an estimated 300 persons. ! Droning In from the sea and down on this temporary capital of thu Spanish government an hour before daybreak, the planes dropped 50 300- pound bombs. By noon 76 of the dead had been Identified. The American consul, Mtlton K. Wefis. was caught In a rain of debris, but waa unhurt. Several Americans, Including Norman Thomas, the United states socialist, and his wife were housed a few hundred feet from where three bombs fell. The build ing housing the American embassy was damaged, but not the embassy itself. No American was reported hmt. An English boat, the Cadln, an chored in the harbor, was reported sunk, with seven crew members kill ed and eight Injured. Other reports said a bomb also fell on the English steamer plnron, but that no serious damage resulted. Sleeping men, women and children were blown from their beds to a ter rible death. Some of them were pitched Into the street from upper stories. At least 50 buildings were wrecked. Bombs falling Into the streets ripped steel shutters from windows. ,. Sonjc of them demolished only the front walla of houses. . Thousands of win dows were shattered. : Many were Injured and many were unaccounted for, with rescue workers finding more bodies hourly as they cleared away debris. SEEK INJUNCTION AGAINST A.F.L IN PORTLAND TANGLE PORTLAND, Ore., May 38. (AP) The dispute between forces of the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Or ganization reached a new peak here today when the International Long shoreman association's warehousmen'a affiliate filed suit In circuit court to enjoin William Green, A. F. L. president, and the central labor council from Interfering with par ticipation of the I. L. A. warehouse men In the council's affairs. Presiding Judge Jacob KanrJer or dered the defendants to appear in court next Friday to show cause why a temporary Injunction should not be granted pending trial of the case. The complaint charged unlawful and unauthorized acts of Phil J. Brady, council presidqnt; C. O. Hunt er, vice-president, and Gust Ander son, secretary treasurer, brought about the unseating of the I.L.A. warehousemen's union at the coun cil meeting Monday night. Filing of the suit arose out of a Jurisdictional dispute between teams ters and the I. L. A the latter group seeking Jurisdiction over Inland ware housemen. The I. L. A. warehousemen have been picketing the big Meier and Frank department store In connec tion with the bitter dispute, which Is widespread along the coast. The A, r. L. has awarded teamsters Jurisdiction over Inland warehouse men. The . L, A. Is sympathetic with the C, X. O., while teamsters are strong supporters of the A. F. L. Both national labor organizations will send representatives here with in a few days to take part In the dispute. BULLETIN PITTSBURGH FIELD CLUB, AS PINWALL, Pa, May W. (AP) Tall Denny Bhute of Bos tot. moved nearer another Professional Golfers' associa tion crown today by wi lpplng husky Jimmy Hlnes, Garden City, N. Y-, 4 and 3, In the quarter-final round. Tony Manero, Peabody. Mass.. came from behind to overhaul Harry Cooper, Chicago, Just as he did a year ago In the national open thamplon shlp. Four down at the three-qiTarter mark, the swarthy Monera won four of the first five holes of the home stretch to catch Harry and then elnched the match by holding a 13 foot putt for a blrdte three at the a&tb. Hli margin woe on up. Hubby Spanked Wife, Found Guilty Of Battery Charge ST. HELENS. Ore.. May 38. F) When a man spanks his wife, that's assault and battery. Justice of the Peace W. J. Fullerton. a single man, ruled. Mrs. Marvin Olson swore to a complaint charging her husband with spanking her because she called him a name. Olson pleaded guilty, although he said he thought the assault and battery charge was a bit severe. Justice Fulletron gave Olson a 30-day suspended sentence, fin ing him $3.50 costs. He said he suspended the sen tence on condition the Olsons be come reconciled, to which they agreed. NEW DEAL BUREAU RULE HELD MOST 'WASTEFUL' OF ALL Senator mond Byrd Tells Rich University Class Rights Menaced by Mngen ious Idealistic Theorists' RICHMOND, Va., May 38. (AP) Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia I told University of Richmond students today that "There exists at Washing ton the most wasteful and bureau cratic form of government that has ever been known In our history." Byrd, speaking at the university convocation, said that "With the extended operations of the federal government, some of which may to beneficent and desirable, the cost of these numerous bureaucratic: ma chines of duplicated activities la too great to be borne." "They are rapidly becoming Frank -enstelns the contrivances of ingen ious idealistic .theorists that may grow so powerful aa to destroy the right of citluus to liberty, life and happiness; he said. "This is probable because the great bureaucratic machines, once estab lshed and made operative, can rarely be dismantled." Byrd, chairman of a senate com mittee on governmental reorganiza tion, said he made hta statements after "Investigating for months the operations of the federal govern ment." "Government must operate its af fairs with machinery of administra tion as simple cud effective as pri vate business would provide," Byrd said, recommending protection of the nation's credit through curbing ex penditures and reduction of the pub Ho debt, and expressing conviction that definite steps can be token to place the federal government on a strictly pay-as-you-go basis beginning the first of next July, and then we should begin to pay off our In debtedness." "The federal "government can coo tlnue the activities that are desir able and necessary." he said. "Hun dreds of millions of dollars can be saved by retrenchment and consoli dations of departments and agencies The relief should be locally admin istered and the federal government should not contribute more than one- half the total expense." HIGH STATE COPS SALEM, Mr 38 (Pi When Al- UUnt George Alexander and capUIn Charles H. McCleea of the state police saw a man run through an alley. carrying a new traveling bag, dodge Into a basement doorway and Im mediately reappear without the bag, they became suspicious. McCleea Intercepted the man In the alley, made him get the bag, and took both to headquartera. About two minutes later a call came Irom a local shop that a man had Just stolen a bag from the place. J. D. Osley said two men entered hla store, and while one of them engaged him In conversation at the rear the other got away with the bag The former was not caught. The captured man gave hla name as Roy Anderson, transient. . He was held at the city jail. TH DALLES, May 38. ( AP) Two thousand Invitations to attend the annual Oregon Cattle and Horse Raisers' association convention in Prlnevllle June 4 and S have been sent to stockmen In this district. SALEM, May 38. (API Industrial accldenta In Oregon coat the llvsa of three workmen during the past week the state Industrial accident commission reported today. E TAX EVADERS TO FACE FRAUD SUIT President Roosevelt to Urge Curb Special Treasury Survey Reveals Discrep ancies in Tax Returns WASHINGTON, May 28. (AP) President Roosevelt said today he would ask for legislation this session to check what he termed both evas ion and avoidance of Income taxes running Into millions of dollars by a small group of wealthy persons. He told a press conference be had received reports from the treasury of glaring evasions and avoidances which had raised an important mors 1 Issue and that there waa no question there would have to be additional legislation to plug loopholes. Earlier today treasury officials dis closed they were mapping legal ac tion against scores of large taxpayers. In some cases, they said, civil pro ceedings will be undertaken. In others, fraud prosecutions wlU be recommended to the Justice de partment. Every day, the president said, new types of cases are being revealed. He emphasized that a great major ity of taxpayers were making ethical returns and that the evasion by the small group was not only hurting themselves but hitting other tax payers. The actions planned by the treas ury will be based on findings con tained In a special treasury survey ordered by Secretary Morgenthau af ter March Income tax collections fell 17 percent below estimates. , Results of the study, made by Un dersecretary Roswell MagUi, were pre sented to President Roosevelt yester day by Morgenthau. . Morrison Shafroth, chief counsel of the internal revenue brueau, anld he could not estimate exactly how many legal proceedings would be under taken. Other officials said there prob ably would be numerous suits Officials said one plan of tax evas ion which has been carefully Investi gated Involve the formation of cor porations in foreign countries by large taxpayers. . Some of these taxpayers, they seld, transfer funds to the corporations to escape taxes. In recent speech, Shafroth outline this method of evasion and said that "It Is our settled policy to resist to the utmost all schemes wherein the taxpayer seeks apparently to wipe out his Income and avoid a tax by merely going through a lot of motions and formalities." Senator Wheeler (D Mont.) veter an senate Investigator, said today he would favor a congressional :nqulry into tax evasions under the new rev enue laws. He added, however, that an Invest igation by the treasury would be preferable .since it Is much more familiar with the facts than a con gressional committee could be. Internal revenue authorities already should be at work, he suggested, to plug loopholes in the tax laws and start prosecutions where fraud la sus pected. EXTEND CCC LIFE TO THREE YEARS WASHINGTON, May 38 (AP) Senate and house conferees agreed today on a compromise proposal to extend the civilian conservation corps for three years. The house had voted to limit the life of the agency to two years, tnlt the senate adopted President Roose velt's recommendation that It be made permanent. ' Senate conferee Insisted that ad ministrative employes be under civil service rules, and It was agreed to take the Issue back to the house for another vote. In line with a senate amendment, the conferees altered the legislation to provide enrol lees should be "youth ful citizens of the United States who are unemployed and In need of em ployment." The senate had ' objected to the word "needy." Chairman Black (D.. Ala ) of the senate education and labor commit tee told reporters the house confer ees accepted six months and two years as the minimum and maximum terms of enrollment, and ft provision per mitting the director to allow enrol lees to break their terms of service to attend educational Institutions THE DALLES. May 38 (AP) Har vest of the 300 -acre pea crop waa under way today, two weeks later than usual
