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Ms The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Wednesday; tirnin tonight; cooler Wednesday. Temperature: lllghett vestrday 17 Lowest thli morning.. 41 Satisfactory How would yon find a buyer. tenant, help or tradef The quickest, and moit satisfactory wa.r Is to use Mali Tribune Classified Ads. Thene adi cost no little and they do bring re mits. Tribune EDFORD Full Associated Press Full Unitf est Thirtv-Seeond Year M EDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 1. 1937. No. 61. iyj Wlflft 1I1MS Avvs I ORDER WARSHIPS BMmd ITO HALT RUSSIAN SEMIS f , :lklK lly Mul .Million (Copyright, 1937, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, June 1. The long period of Mr. Roosevelt's ' Vomplete dominance over congress la breaking Sup so quietly now to be almost j invisible to the g naked eye. The 1 changing situation at the top of the I government Is be I lng handled so I smoothly ea to g conceal the real I force of Its vital I effect. Take the "relief Paul Mallon. compromise" now being widely advertised as having been effected between the house majority and the White House. To the ear It sounds like a minor con cession of an Insignificant point, but It actually represents the first time the president has ever bowed to the lower branch of the legislature. . At the same time, the set-backs to the president's court packing pro gram In the senate are being handled so casually that the outside world Is not yet aware that the legislation haa already been defeated. This also marks the first time the president baa failed to have his way with the upper, but not necessarily loftier, branch of congress. What It means, aa all legislative students know. Is that the rule of thumb appears to be Just about over. When legislators once find out there U no bogeyman, they rarely forget it. A period of more normal relations between the capltol and the White House seems to be In prospect, with both sides taking and giving, as the constitution decreed they should. The smoothness with which the relief compromise negotiations were handled Is due largely to house floor leader, Rayburn. His associate; lead ers thought he made a mistake when ha faced the house with an appeal for delaying the fight until today. They told him so. outside. They judged the mood of the rebels to be Implacable and suggested, he would only be sticking his nose out for the blow If he tried to handle them. Mr. Rayburn thought be would get licked anyway and might as well take It while trying rather than running. This Is the first opportunity he has had to show leadership since the session began. Nothing but his pacific personality put it over. More and more' of that quality will be needed from now on. The good neighbor policy seems to be working all right internationally. (A more accurate way to describe it might be that it is not working to any appreciable extent and there fore la all right). But some deep trouble is developing In Mr. Roose velt's own forty-eight spartment building which may cause the land lord to try a good neighbor policy on the state tenants at home. The twenty-first amendment Is doing it. That prohibition repealer provided that states which desire to remain dry may act to do so. The (Continued on Page Six.) PEEVEDBOYSAYS HE F SPOKANE. Wash.. June I. (AP) A 13-year-old boy confeesed that he set a H00.000 fire In hi school house. Chief of Police Ira Martin said today, because "I was mad at my teacher." Police withheld the boys name. He admitted, the chief said, that n started another fire In the public grade achool building 48 hour, be fore the one that destroyed the second floor and the roof of the building last Wednesday. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS . A. S. Rosenbaum coming home from San Francisco with, a peeve at the Bay City lor rioting all barber shops on the holiday and he bavins to re main unshaven during hla stay there Mr, Oeorge Howard regaling fellow ftarUng enthusiasts wltb tales of the e;;iilpment and technique necessary .. to land a big one that didn't get sway. Berne Thompson retaining her usual calm and coolness In the face of a rapidly rlaing temperature aa case, were heard In Justice court with all ventilation closed. Sherf 8yd Brown breathing a !h of deep relief upon depositing the escaping Elmer Haab safely sehlnd bar at the state pen- tnc nn ' Sh ine, "now be', their responsibility." SUPPLYVESSELS Duce Threatens Reprisals U. S. Urges Restraint by Spain, Germany in Crisis ROME, June I. (JPj Italian war ships have been ordered to prevent Russian vessels from supplying wax materials to the Spanish glvernment. authoritative sources disclosed to night. Italian ships in Spanish waters al ready have been withdrawn, by Pre mier Mussolini, from the Internation al neutrality fleet, following Spanish government aerial attacks on Italian and Qerman warships. Germany has shelled Almerla In reprisal. II Duce and Marshal Werner Von Blomberg, German war minister, meanwhile, flew here for conferences over the grave Spanish situation. Authoritative fascist quarters said that complete withdrawal of Italy's fighting ships from Spanish waters because of Mussolini's decision to quit the 27-natlon "hands off Spain" com mittee would make it "too easy" for the Spanish government. Warnings also were sounded that the next time an Italian warship is attacked there will be reprisals. WASHINGTON, June l.(P) Sec retary Hull has expressed to both the German and Spanish ambassadors In Washington this government's earnest hope that their nations will be able to adjust amicably their differences In the Spanish civil strife. Invoking the good offices of this government in an attempt to ward off a serious crista In Europe aa result of the German bombardment yesterday of the Spanish government port of Almerla, Hull conveyed hts message In personol conversation with the envoys. He first summoned German Ambas sador Hans Dleckhoff to the privacy of bis apartment yesterday and told the envoy informally of this govern ment's urgent hope for a peaceful settlement of the Almorla Incident. The Spanish ambassador, Per nan do De Los Rlos, called at the state department today to express to the secretary of state his government's emphatic protest over what he term ed Germany's violation of the non Intervention agreement and of inter national law In firing on Almeria. In reply, Hull repeated to him vir tually the same message he conveyed yesterday to Dleckhoff. Meanwhile, the ranking Republican on the house foreign affairs commit tee Representative Fish of New York, said the Spanish attack on the Ger man battleship Deutschland was "Jus tifiable" the German bombardment In reprisal against Almerla, Spain, was "an outrage against humanity. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad," he said In a state ment. "Mussolini and Hitler appar ently are madmen who would not hesitate to start another Worid war and bring on the senseless slaughter of millions of peaceful people for their own aggrandizement." Hull's unusual action mirrored the anxiety felt by high officials here over the International crista precipi tated by the Almeria bombardment. He acted only after studying at length official reports from abroad. The action became known today shortly after Spanish Ambassador Per nando Le Los Rlos protested to Sec retary Hull that the German bom bard me rU of Almeria was "in direct violation of the principles o.f Inter national law." Meanwhile, Senator Ny, (R.- N.D.), a leading member of the congreaslon- (Continued oft Page Two.) IDFlOTEOPLE ESCAPE DROWNING Five Medford resident were today suffering no serious effects from a close brush wltb death when their boat capsized at Diamond lake Sat urday afternoon. Occupants of the boat were Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Simpson and small son. Miss Georgia Edwards and P. G. Wilder, local office manager of the Standard Oil company. The group, all clad In heavy out ing clothes, were fishing from a small boat several hundred feet from shore. When the vessel upset. Mrs. 8lmpson and Miss Edwards were able to swim to shore, although greatly hampered by wtr..oggvl clothing. The two men and the Simpson son, however, were unable to free themselves of entagilng fishing tackle and remained clinging to the over turned boat until their cries attract ed the attention of other lake vis itors Names of the Klamath Fall and Los, Anne lea resident who re cud the Medford party are no, known- Erma Fraley Killed in EXPERTS PREDICT 1937 SETS PEAK FARM PROSPERITY Prices and Demand Higher With Fewer to Share It Four Trends Shown WASHINGTON, June 1. (AP) Government expert who keep an eye on the farmer's purs and Its buying power, predicted today that 1037 may set a new peak in agri cultural recovery. The economists based their fore cast on these trends: 1. Cash Income of farmers the first part of this year haa been the largest since 1930 and may approach $4,000,000 for the first six months. 2. The ratio of prices received by farmers to prices which they must pay has been most favorable since 1925. 3. Demand for farm products has kept step with the advancing pace of business and Industry. 4. There probably are fewer persona on farms to share these advances. Experts on agriculture and popu lation pointed out the number ol persons on farm decreases when times are good and Increases during a depression. More farm boys and girls leave for Jobs in towns and cities when urban employment in creases, they explained. Census tables enow farm popula tion declined from about 32,000.000 In 1910 to 30.000,000 in 1930. Prom 1930 to 1038, however, the farm population increased more than 1.500.000. : - v . - : ' Gains In dollar volume of farm In comes are reported by monthly tabu lations of the bureau of agricultural economics. It said cash farm Income the first four months of 1937 at 2 .604 .000,000 was 27 per cent, or 554,000.000. above- last year and was the highest since 1930. LEADS TD LETTER CLUES TO LOST AIR LINER ALPINE. Utah. June 1. (fl) A dream led to discovery of letters which may lead to a western Air Express transport lost five months. It was discovered today. The letters were found high In the mountains near here by Frank Bate man and Fred Healy, natives of this northern Utah hamlet, and close friends. Today, as they sought the plane, believed to be nearby, lured by a 41,000 reward offered by the airline, Bateman's wife dried her bands on a tea towel and said: "My husband dreamed about where the plane would be found for sev eral nights In succession. Didn't be. Mrs. Healy?" She glanced at the smiling neigh bor who nodded vehement confirma tion. "Yes, air, my husband finally had dreamed about it so much that he got Fred Healy and they wont up In the mountains to that place X can't say exactly where, "The very first day, right where my husband dreamed the plsne would be. be found the letters." , (In Salt Lake City, 35 miles north. It was confirmed that five letter definitely Identified as part of the lost plane's cargo, had been found. Names of the finders were withheld there.) "After they found the letters they looked for three days, but finally decided the plane was covered up In the deep snow and give up snd camo down." BASEBALL Score: R. H. E Brooklyn - 3 10 0 New York 5 10 I Hrushaw. Elsenstat and Spencer. pv:.'p; Schumacher and Mancuso. American Score: R. H. E. St. Louli 0 0 3 Chicago 8 10 t Hctett, Vanetta and Hemsley; Dietrich, and Bewail. Score: Detroit .. C'eveland R. H. Z. .4 10 t Auk-.r and Teobfftta: Galehouse. Wy ut Brown. Harder and Pyt.ak. Only games scheduled. . I Scenes of Memorial Day Outing Tragedy at Photographs showing the recovery of the body of Erma Fraley, K-year-old Medrord high school girl who lost her life In a fall down the wall of Crater lake yesterday afternoon, Vpper right shows the derrick used In lowering the boat and sled and In bringing the body of the victim to the lake rim. Lower left, sled with the body being hnulrd up the difficult ascent. Lower right, rescue crew In the distance bringing the body to the rim, photographer In foreground. Miss Fraley was plung ed 1.000 feet down the steep mount alnMde, her body coming to rest on a ledge 80 feet above the edge of the take. -(Photos by courtesy of J. R. AHendorf of .San Francisco, special sales representative of Eastman Kodak company.) I ' V l" "VI VX II - sts 1 : ; JZy . - ;.. A PHONE OPERATOR SALVATION ARMY, FV10RAT0R1UNI UPON STRIKE VIOLENCE CRITICALLY HURT VOICES PLEA FOR MINE ASSESSMENT MAIN ISSUE NOW IN AUTO MISHAP Sabrlna J. Thatcher, 31, of 633!4 North Central avenue, lies critically Injured In Sacred Heart hospital to day following an automobile accident 33 miles south of Ashland on the Pacific highway at 3 a. m. Monday. According to the attending phy sician, Miss Thatcher Is suffering from at least two fractures of the lower jaw, a badly fractured right forearm, severe cuts and brulsee, shock, and a possible skull fracture. X-ray pictures were being taken to day to determine whether or not her skull was fractured. The physician stated she was In a "critical condi tion." Three other occupants of the car suffered shock and bruises, and were released from Community hospital in Ashland yesterday where they were taken by a passing motorist following the accident. They were June Hough ton of Medford. and Raymond Fuller and J eon Vaughn of Klamath Falls. Fuller was the most polnfully In jured, suffering a lacerated ear, bruises and an Injured back. Miss Thather was brought to Sac red Heart hospital this morning from Ashland. She has been employed by the telephone company here for over a year. Local state police could furnish no details of the accident, other than that the car was driven by Vaughn, who apparently fell asleep at the wheel, and that the party was re turning from northern California. The car was reported badly dam aged. It was towed into Yreka, state police mid. BULLETIN CHICAGO, June 1. CAP) All available South Bide police were summoned to the Hyde Park station today on recurrent reporta of a con templated new assault on the Repub lic Steel corporation's plant, where bloody Memorial day rioting In the steel strike cost five lives and Injur ies to more than 100. Officers at Hyde Park station said they had anonymous Information tha; strike sympathisers would mm at the plant either late this after noon or early tonight. Police Commissioner James P. All man reiterated statements that "orderly picketing" would be aiVwed but "we ll permit no violstion of the law. JMutly Road Re-Routlng SALEM, June 1 . cyp) Following the regular meeting of the state highway commission at Portland June 3 the state highway com mis ton will hold a heart n. j at Albany "elnttve to tht rc-routliig of the Paclfie hghway through that city IT aT"" If irl ,.YJ 'i w,5 '..V-vl ff 1 b a it i j a BEREFT PARENTS Seek Funds for Return of Body of Son, Killed in Hit and Run Accident Captain G. R. Durham of the Sal vation Army voiced a plea today for the assistance of local citizens In con nection with the return to this city of the body of Frank Bradbury, 18, local youth who was killed by a hit and run automobile driver in Brod erlck, Calif., last Saturday. The body Is now held by funeral directors In Sacramento, who are awaiting word from the parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G Bradbury of 402 Clark street, as to whether they can afford to have the body returned here. It was learned that Mr. Bradbury is a WPA worker, earning 44 per month and that ihere are eight In the family Captain Durham stated that 930 is due the Sacramento funeral directors for embalming charges and that about $20 will be needed for express charges, making a total coat of $50. The Salvation Army has given tlO and asks that other organizations, or In dividuals, who are interested In as sisting this needy family at this crit ics 11 time, contact Captain Durham, phone 356. or Frank Perl, county cor oner, phone 47. HOUSE OVERRIDES PRESIDENT'S VETO OF VET AID BILL WASHINGTON, June 1. (AP) The house voted today to override President Roosevelt's veto of a bill to extend the time In which World war veterans may renew their war risk term insurance policies. Chalrmnn Rankin (D., Miss.), of the World war veterans' committee, declared failure to pass the measure would force more than 20.000 veter ans to drop their insurance. "These men are financially unable to convert these short term policies into more permanent forms of m sii rs nee " he said. The chief executive In a veto mes sage Friday, stated he did not believe tha extension which would be the fourth since the policies were issued during the war waa "warranted, or ultimately will prove profitable to the Individuals concerned." House leaders said It was the ftrt time the house had voted to 'paw a t:!'.l :.:r.T p;? '.'.)'.:? OhJ"f'.ioa 1 .-3 It eve:: ode Mr. io-,i.2velt on the bonus- bill over a year ago. Fall From Crater Rim ij "; '! 1 WORK IN SENATE WASHINGTON, June 1. (AP) A sennte mines and mining subcommit tee prepared today for early action on a bill waiving the annual 9100 assessment work requirement for the current fiscal year on mining claims held by location. Chairman WlllUim J. Bulow (D., S. D.) anld the subcommittee, which held hearings last week, probably would report to the full committee tomorrow or Thursday, but declined to predict what Its recommendation would be. . He said "some considerable senti ment" had developed In favor of the legislation despite interior depart ment objections to a moratorium. Senator James Murray (D., Mont.), author of the bill, said he believed the measure should be reported fav orably. He itald the bill must peas both branches of congress and be signed by the president by June 30 If the legislation Is to accomplish its objective. GRAFT QUIZ JURY FOREMAN TARGET SAN FRANCISCO. June 1. (UP) Marshall Dill, foreman of the grand Jury Investigating Edwin Atherton'a sensational charges of an annual $1,000,000 tie-up between police" snd graft, has received telephoned and written threats since the Inquiry be gan, It was learned today. aa . result arrangements were made to provide a police escort for the foreman, an Importer in private life, and to keep officers close to hla home. Telephone calls to Dill, advising rum to -lay orr- the inquiry, became so frequent he Installed an unlisted telephone In his home. The letters he hsA received Included many .nit rate missives of the type usually written by cranks and some neaViy and intcingihiy produced. it also was considered posst .e ts)nt an accident, In which DtU's yaofct was rammed In the Sacramento river recently, might have been part of , campaign of intimidation Inatituteo by foes of the investigation. Arter recessing for the period cov ered by the Oolden Gate bridge fiesta, the jury resumed its Inquiry tonight. Pioneer Landmark Raxed. JOHN DAY, June 1, (AP) John Day's old grfet mill, a landmark since IBM, will ha razed to provide rosm iOr 1-ao new houses, P, A lUtrum cl C,-.n:on City, who re cently purchased tha property, said PHONED THREATS Crater Lake MAIN ISSUE ON LABOR F Three Score Held for Sun day's Steel Plant Riot Both Sides Hold Firm (D.v the Auoclatrd rreM) Contentious questions arising from strike violence pushed the primary dispute over collective bargaining Into the background on the labor front today. In the steel and motor Industries civil authorities sought to shift the blame for clashes' Incident to the committee for Industrial organisa tion's drive for tha right to represent workers. At Chtcago an Inquest was ordered Into the deaths of five men fatally hurt In a clash between police and a crowd which, surged toward the Reublto Steel corporation's South Chicago plant. Meanwhile, A7 men accused by Po lice Capt. Thomas Kllroy of partlcl Mtlng In Sunday's carnage were held In custody for arraignment on conspiracy to commit an Illegal act. Van A. Blttner, regional director of tha steel workers orgsntztng commit tee which called the steel strike, re affirmed the union's determination to picket plants of the Republic snd Inland Steel corporations and the Youngatown Sheet and Tubs com pany. A 'clash at ths Republic's Warren, Ohio, plane also provoked conflicting charges for unionist and ths man agement. Republic chsrged "gunmen" among the pickets fired on planes delivering food to workers at tha mill. Reports thst firearms also were discharged within the plsnt grounds brought denials from the company. Republic stated It would continue to operate plants at Warren. Can ton snd Nlles, Ohio, .ud at Chlcsgo and Buffalo "becjiss thousands of men In those Dianta wsnt to con tlnue at the;i"'jobs." O'-iden fiale Span Pays. 8AV FRANCISCO, June I. (AP) ".is Oolden Oate bridge earned uearly $100,000 In the first three snd a half dsys of Its trofflo ser vice Roy West, sudltor of the Oolden Oat., Bridge and Highway district, snnounced todsy. flu. Crash Hurts 14. SAN DIEOO. Csllf.. Juna 1. (AP) On navy man waa killed, eight were seriously Injured and 14 others were cut and bruised early today When a Pacific Greyhound bus col ided with an oil truck on the high ay south of Del Mar. The driver of tha truck also was seriously hurt. WA8HINOTON, Juna 1. UP) Secretary Ickes waa a patient In Naval hospital today for what associates term?d an "examination of a stomach ailment and t rest," GIRL SLIPS FROM DEEP SNOW WHILE TAKING SH0RT CUT Body Falls 1000 Feet, Re trieved With Difficulty Outing Ends Tragically Erma Fraley, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. ... 5'xsley of Route 1, was killed In si fall down tha preci pice of Crater lake yesterday after noon. Her body was badly battered as It struck protruding boulders on a series of ledges In ths long and steep descent from the lake rim. Crater Lake national park rangers said the girl evidently slipped on the deep snow as she tried to reach her broth er Richard and a companion by cut ting across a small area Inside the rim. It took houra to recover the body which came to rest 80 feet from the edge of the lake. A boat, a sled, thousands of foet of oable and ropa and hoisting machinery had to d used In retrieving tha body. Miss Fraley a brother, Pranola Olen Fraley, was killed In an accident here two years ago. He was struck by an .automobile as he was riding a bi cycle. He waa 13 years old. With bar parente, brothers and sisters and friends, Erma Fraley went on a picnic to Crater lake yesterday morning. About 1 o'clock she and her brother Richard and Helen Smith. also of Medford, engaged In a snow ball fight near the rlm, It waa stated by David K. Canfteld, park super intendent. . L . The friendly tussle over, Erma started out to rejoin her two com batants, who were a short dtstanca away. Instead of staying above tha rlm, however, she attempted to take shorter route below the rlm, Mr Canfleld explained. Tha snow at tha rlm Is still pscked deep and It Is Mr. Canfleld's theory that tha girl slipped and was hurtled down ths treacheroua and preclplt oua wall of the lake. Richard Fraley ran to the lodge and Helen Smith to the cafeteria to call for help. Park headquarters were notified from the lodge and rangers hsstened Immediately to the scene of the accident. Wners the girl fell was too pre cipitous to lower rangers. A boat waa lowered at a less dangerous point by cables and ropes operated by automotive machinery, Down the steep descent went J. Carlisle Crouch, chief ranger; Breyn ton R. Finch, ranger, and five CCO nrolleea, Harold Freeman, M. T. Hill. B. F. Hanaway, J. B. Cates and Sam Dennis. The boat was rowed to a point be low the body and from there tha 80 foot aaoent waa made. Tha girl was dead when, about 4 o'clock, tha ran gers reached the spot where the body had come to rest, Tha body waa lowered to tha boat. The rangers rowed bsck to the point when, tha cables had been lowered and the long ascent waa begun. W. D. Brltton. R. D. Dava, Bernla Hughes. A. L. Russell, LeRoy OrlazcU and V. L. Edwards, all CCO enrollees, were stationed at various points on the lsk wsll to assist in getting the body, placed on a sled, to the tof. At the rlm Martin Palmer anal Clarence Hedgpeth, park employes, operated tha hoisting machinery. Al bert Long, ranger from the Lava Beds, operated tha cables. WUI&rd Ward, deputy coroner of KlKmath county, conducted a brief Inquiry when tha body reached tb rlm. The recovery work was directed by Mr. Canfleld after he had reached the scene late In th afternoon. It waa about 8 o'clock when tha diffi cult ascent from tha lake had been completed. Zrma Fraley had Just completed her Junior yesr at Medford senior high school. Her brother Richard waa graduated last year. Ha was a prominent football player. Miss Fraley Is survived by ber par enta, five brothers and four slaters. Funeral services are to be held lu the Conger chapel at 3 o'clock Thurs day afternoon. Tha girl's body w brought to the funeral parlors last night. ' First Lady Gives Forth Views Upon Supreme Justices WASHINGTON, Juns 1. Wr Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt expressed belief today that fitness, not stx. should be considered. In appoint ment or supreme court Justices.
