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The Weather forecast: Probably showers tonight and Thursday; little chance In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday 74 Lowest thla mornlnf IX Write Today Yoo may depend on Mall Tribune Classified Ada for quick and satisfactory reenlti. The coit la email compared to results. Write your ad today -for tomorrow's paper. Tpibune Medford Full Associated Press Full United Presi Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1937. No. 68. um T PUIS i an WW 4 By PALL MALL ON (Copyright, 1937, by Paul Mallon.) Warmer. WASHINGTON. Jun Everything jets hot In Washington after June 1, and this doe not mean only the weather. Humidity of legislation ln- xjs creaaei as tne m temperature rises. It is an o ! d political custom for the directors of affairs to hold back their warm est bills until the legislators become slightly groggy from the summer heat. BBBVaaaT(TXPHlt WTal i-uu. Aianon. congress la leas Inclined to be meticulous when the thermometer Is 90 In the shade. That Is the time when lobbyists, official and private, get In their best work Thus, the season's beat record for legislation has been established In the new Mansfield power bill. Intro duced a few days ago as an administ ration measure. The bill was writ ten downtown by unknown authors who seem to know a thing or two about stoking a legal furnace In June. Among the feverish provisions they proposed In the bill are these two following propositions: Oaths. No person can be appointed as director, administrator or member of the proposed new regional TVA's "un less he professes belief In the wisdom and feasibility' 'of this proposed Uw. In other words, officials of this new government agency will be required presumably to take an oath that they think the law Is wise and workable sirclrR-:proTislon' law has never been thought of In any of the thou sands of laws which have been pass ed, Including prohibition. AU other government officials of all other de partments are required only to per form their duties and to uphold the constitution, but the new regional planning agents must guarantee per sonally that the writers of the law were wise and efficient. Suits. However, that Is only a- cool gust compared with the provision designed to prevent lawsuits such as those by which the TV A has been tied up. The unknown authors decree that no one can sue unless he furnishes bond to pay all damages, loss of time through delay, etc., which might be suffered by the government or any one else under an injunction Issued by the courts. And they say that these damages for all losses and ex penses to the government must be (Continued on Page Nine.) AS BABE BEATER R05EBUFG. June 9. (p) Leonard Hopkins. Canyonville barber, will ap pear in circuit court Thursday to re ceive sentence following his convic tion late yesterday on a charge of awault and battery upon his 4-year-ola daughter, Barbara Irene The child died April 17 from injur ies doctors said she suffered in a beat ing. Her step-mother pleaded guilty to Involuntary manslaughter and re ceived a 12-year-term In the itate prison. The father said he punished the child with hi open hand for not washing her hands and face before lunch. He testified that the blowa were not "unduly severe." SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS rn Johnson arriving at court all out of breath, half an hour late for jury duty, he having been delayed by motor trouble between his Oold Hill home and Medford. 8herf Brown having scouts out to look for him. Owney patton forgetting to rap hia ff.vai noon opening of court, he be- ing beset by numerous other dutlea at the moment. t... lhuin hiiKrtfrur .round town in old cords, a v.vld black and or arue sweater, a rope necktie and a orand new moustache, and announc ing postponement of tonight's soft call (tame after league officiate bad dolefully observed the wry damp at mosphere prevailing In the city. Albert C Burch. mining tycoon.' " "r t-ainearai. Bonn. !,sf nobly concealing his impatience tit a of 227.009 squsre feet, by htvlng to repeat a name several times I tar the greatest among the world s to telephone Inquira- churches 2 ARMY AVIATORS, GAS SUPPLY GONE, LOST, UTAH DESERT Huge Air Search Launched Rock-Laden Snowslides . Cover Bodies in Wrecked ' Skyliner. SALT LAKE CITY, June (AP) Snowslides drove searchers for bodies of seven December air crash victims off the mountain slope be low the tragedy scene today. The sltdea threatened to bury the bodies themselves beyond all hope of early recovery. An . avalanche of rock-laden snow roared down late yesterday. Boulders were strewn for 300 yards. Scores of searchers had been at the slide scene a short while before. Airline officials and others en gaged in the somber search 36 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, where the plane wreckage was found Sun day, confessed temporary defeat in that region. SALT LAKE CITY," June (AP) Two army filers from Boston were lost In the great salt desert west of here yesterday, and today army planes sought for the easterners' plane. Major Clarence Hodge, . 43. com mander of the 26th division air ser vice of the Massachusetts national guard, radioed the Elko, Nev., air port, 200 miles west of here at 12:45 p. m. yesterday he was lost. That was the last heard from the Boston-bound ship. Not until early today did It be come known Major Hodge had a pas senger. Lieutenant Joseph L. McNeil. 37, Boston, airplane observer In Hodge's division. Before dawn four army planes were trundled out.. Army -crafjt from Pa-, clflo coast bases were expected to join the search. "There are mountains and rocks and canyons, but for the most part the country In which the plane evi dently was forced down Is salty, sandy desert where a landing would not be difficult." one army flier re marked before the searching party's takeoff. Captain Goodrich said the filer left Oakland, Calif., Sunday, for Reno. Departing from Reno yester day at 10 a.m.. the plane was due in Salt Lake City about 3 p.m. But nearly three hours after leav ing Reno the pilot reported to the Elko airport: "Flying at 14,000 feetcan't make out position lost." Oakland authorities said they were Informed the message added "out of gas." The plane had not yet reached Elko. The sunburned hamlet of Beo wawe, 00 miles west of Elko, was said last to have heard it. Both were experienced aviators. It was Hodge's fourth cross country flight and was regular training rou tine. The plane left Boston May 30, and was scheduled to return to Boston next Sunday. SPLIT AUTHORITY FOR BONNEVILLE COMMITTEE PLAN WASHINGTON, Juno B. p The Louse rivers and harbors committee tentatively agreed today to place dis tribution and sale of Bonneville dam power under an administrator, respon sible to Secretary Ickes, with opera tion of the dam, locks and generat ing equipment to be under the war department. Chairman Mansfield (D.-Tex.) said the committee voted unanimously In favor of dividing authority at the switchboard. Representative Charles J. Colden (D.-Ca)lf.) said the action followed the defeat, on a 13 to 8 vote, of a motion by Representative Parsons (D.-lll.) to place the entire project, Including sale and distribution of power, under the war department Mansfield emphasized that the com- m.ttee action was "only tentative He said the committee would meet again this afternoon and attempt to agree on other features of the olli. 1 ncludlng a proposed rider amending me tsouiaer canyon project act. Colden said one proposal still pend- s :ng as the committee recessed was a motion by Representative Persona to waive repayment of $14 000,000 of the 125.000.000 portion of the Bou.der woject cost allocated to flood con trol, and to defer repayment of the 10,000.000 balance until amortiza tion of the remainder of the govern ment's Investment. Plane Wreckage Found These bits of metal nnd fahrle held by three searchers were once part of a proud airliner the Western Atr Kxprrss transport which disappear ed In a blinding snowstorm last Dec. in. The .vrrrkngc of the plane was found on Lone Peak, near Alpine, Utah, after several months of search uijt over central Utah mountains. The wreckage was strewn over a quarter mile area on the mountainside. HOLLYWOOD BIDS . - HARLOW FAREWELL AT SIMPLE" RITES Services Last Twenty Min utesCasket Rests Mid Favorite Flowers 250 Present. OLENDALE, Cat., June 9. (VP) Brief, Impressive and comparatively simple funeral services were held to day for Jean Harlow, the platinum- tressed glamour girl of the screen who died at the peak of fame. Through the misty dawn the br.nze casket, inlaid with silver, sped the ten miles from Los Angeles to the Memorial park here, escorted by po lice motorcycles. Three hours later, at 9 o'clock, a thousand persons gathered In bush ed silence outside the high Iron fence of Forest Lawn. A thousand yards from the gate, in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, wan the casket. It rest ed in breath-taking banks of flow ers. It was blanketed with 1300 lllles-of-the-valley, and 600 gardenias, which the actress' mother, Mrs. Ma rino Bello, and her sweetheart, Wil liam Powell, provided. Gardenias were her favorit flow?. A silver platj on the casket bore an engraving of the signature of the 26-year-old glamor girl of the films, cut down at the very height of her career by uremic poisoning. One of the first to appear at the little chapel of f Are wells was Warner Baxter. Soon cfter him came Carole Lombard, then Clark Oable. leading man In her unfinished picture. Next was Nelson Ec:dy, whose tribute In the simple cervices was the aiming of "Ah, Sweet Siysteiy of Life." With Eddy was his companion, Jean t to MacDonald, In sad but rich voice saying her farewell in Jean Har.owt favorite song. Indian Love Call." Soon the 260 close friends had pass ed through the gate. That was oil the police permitted within the Me morial park. E DAKAR, French Senegal, June 9. (AP) Amelia Earhart atudted maps of Africa's wild expanses today while waiting the favorable weather report that would eend her on the next stsge of her Just-for-fun flight sround the world. Mis. Earhart hoped to take oil In her silvery, twin-motored mono plane some time today. Bound for Khartoum. In the Anglo Egyptlsn Sudan. Miss Earhart chart ed a route to Niamey, principal city In the French Niger colony. ' Last Klamath U. A. ft. Passes. KLAMATH FALLS. June 9 (API Henr7 Kagermann. 92. believed to 'iftv been tli test surviving O A. R. i vetersn In Klamath county, died I her today after a lO-mouth lllseas. NEW INST ENABLES DADS TO OUTGUESSJTORK 'Symbollophone' Can Deter Mine Exact Location of Sounds in Body Like Plane Detector. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. June 9. (tfi Expectant fathers can be warned In the future to prepare themselves for one, two or five children, two University of California physicians said today, by use of a new Instru ment similar to tho sound detectors used by the army to locate enemy airplanes. The instrument is a stethoscope, called a "symballophone" by Its In ventors, Dr. William J. Kerr and Dr. A. M. Basset. With it the physician for the first time can determine the exact location of sounds inside the human body. They demonstrated the device today before the American Medical association. The physician can also use the In strument to make more specific studies of heart troubles, Including the timing and pitch of heart sounas, of diseases of the lungs and respira tory tract and friction within the lungs; of troubles in the vocal cords of opera and other singers; and the various "engine knocks" of the hu man body. Former stethoscopes have had two earpieces and a single "pick up" mic rophone. The new Instrument pro vides two microphones, one for each ear. In a demonstration, a newspaper reporter who did not know a heart murmur from the sound of the ocean wavea diagnosed accurately the di rection of a heart leak. Dr, Basset explained that the new Instrument uses the basic principle, also used in the airplane detectors and soon to be used In motion pic ture sound recording, that normal human beings determine the location of sounds to the right or left, de pending on which ear the sound reaches first, Dr. Basset explained. REPEAL NIP-TUCK ATLANTA. June 9 (API Heavy anti-repeal voting In rural counties today took the lesd swsy from the repeallata In yesterdays prohibition referendum In Oeorgls. A tabulation at 1:3 eastern stand ard time, showed: For repeal. 8I.1S9; against repeal. 82M1. Thla tabulation, based on returns from 1298 of approximately 1700 pre cincts In the etate. gave atl-re-peelists a lead of 1715 votes. Msrylsnd fund: Bid 99.47; ssked I10S8. Qusrterly Income: Bid 917.71: asked 19 40 F.D.R. FAVORS TAX EXEMPTION CUTS TO GAIN REVENUE States Must Join in Reci procal Program Public Workers May Pay With Rest. WASHINGTON, June 9 Treasury officials said today states would have to join the federal gov ernment In a reciprocal tax program If millions in revenue now tost 1 through exemptions aro to be chan neled Into public- treasuries. President Roosevelt told his press conference he always had favored re moving Income tax exemptions which are granted federal and state em ployes. . Two other developments helped make taxation a major topic of cap ital discussion: 1. The house approved a resolution for an Inquiry Into tax dodging, but voted to restrict publicity. The sen ate must agree to tho limitations or setlc a compromise. 3. The Units. & States Chamber of Commerce officials predicted business spokesmen would seek modification of the new undistributed profts tax. The president, discussing the re moval of exemptions, said a consti tutional amendment probably would be necessary. Treasury officials reported the gov ernment could make Its future se curity Issues taxable by enactment of a law. They added, however, that unless all states and political aubdl visions took similar action, Interest rates on federal obligations would rise to exorbitant levels, Commerce department figures show ed about $58 000,000,000 of exempt or partly exempt securities are outstand ing.. If. .these, yielded an. averogo of 4 per cent, removal of all present ex emptions would subject about 93,320, 000,000 to Income taxation. Less revenue would be realised, treasury officials said, from removal of tax exemptions on state and fed eral employes because most aro In the lower brackets where low tax rates prevail. One authority estimated re ceipt at less than 9100,000,000. (Federal employes now pay only federal Income taxes and state em ployee pay only state taxes ) The house resolution, passed with out a record vote, would require the special committee of six senators and six representatives to give approval before confidential information on tax returns could be made public. Almost unrestricted authority to publish Income tax returns was voted by the senate last week. The two versions must be reconciled be tors the Inquiry can start. CONTINUE PROBE INTO BfS DEATH The coroners Inquest Into the drowning of nine-year-old Rand nil Howard Cadwal'ader at the Nataco rtum last Saturday afternoon will be continued tomorrow morning, the coroner's office reported today. The jury heard testimony from several wltneves yesterday afternoon and this afternoon. The Inquest is expected to be concluded tomorrow. Young Cadwallsder lost his life wblle swimming In the tank with many other youngsters, being dis covered on the bottom of the unk by Rodney Stead a Junior lifeguard at the pool. There was apparently no eye-wltneai to the actual drowning. National Score: K. H. E. Chicago ....... 8 8 3 Brooklyn 4 12 9 French, Bryant and Hartnett; Ham lin, Chervlnko, Blrkofer and Phelps. Pittsburgh ....... I 8 1 Philadelphia 8 11 0 Tobln, Hoyt, Brown, Weaver and Todd; Passeau and Grace. (First gsme) R. H. E. c-.nclnnstl 2 8 3 Bcston 8 9 0 Holilngsworth, Schott, L. Moure and V Davis; Turner and Lopez. (Snd gsme) . R. H. E. Cincinnati 0 8 0 Boston 8 11 0 R. Davis. Brennan and Lombard!; Fette and Lopez. American. R. H. I .... 8 11 1 12 14 0 Beaton Clf vpltnd Oatennueller. Olson. McKsin and Desautels, Berg: Hsrder and Sulli van. All others postponed; rata. BASEBALL I HUBBELL BESTED BY DIZ DEAN IN IT GAME Southpaw Routed by 13 Hits, While Dean Turns Giants Back With Three Safeties. NEW YORK, June 9 ffO Diary Dan outpltched his southpaw rival, Carl Hubbell, by a wide margin aa the St. Louis Cardinals handed the .eague-lcadlng New York Olanta an 8 to 1 trouncing. Dean allowed only three hlte and fanned six. Two alants' errors gave the Cards a single run In the opening inning, out thereafter thoy scored on their batting mcrlta. All told, they wallop ed Hubbell for 13 hits, Including Ducky Mcdwlcka tenth home run of the season. They picked up two more hits and a alngle run In the ninth off Dick Coffman. Dean ahould havo had a shut -out. A two-baso wild throw by Leo Du rucher of a grounder by Lou Chlozza put the batter on second from whore he scored on Qeorge Davis' single. Davis got two of the three hlta Dean allowed, the other going to Jimmy Rlpplo. A crowd of 90.000 saw the battle, first gamo of a double bill. Tho victory enabled Dean to square account, for tho season with Hub bell. The alants' ace earned a 4-1 decision over the Cardinals' right handcr In a rlotoua game at St. Louis May 19. It waa Hubbell'a second de feat of tho campaign against eight victories. Dean also haa won eight gamea, but haa been beaten four times. It was Dean's first victory over Hubbell since Sept. 12, 1939 Hub tell had won four atralght from Dizzy Id between that date and today. The score of their ' "life-time" National league aerlee now Is five victories for Hubbell to tour for Dean. (First game) R. H. . St. LOUls - - 8 15 I New York - 1 9 3 J. Dean and Ogrodowskl; Hubbell, Coffman and Dannlng. (2nd game) R. H. E. St. Loula 2 5 U New York 3 4 2 Wellsnd and Ogrodowskl; Castle man, Melton and Mancuso, HAS AUTO SEIZED IN STRIKE MIX-UP CLEVELAND, June 9. (UP) Two major development Impended In the steel strike tonight while Msyor Har old H. Burton of Cleveland received a sample of strike violence when his automobile was selsrd snd nearly up set by strike pickets. First wss the proposed reopening of a plant of the Newton Steel company, a Republic subsidiary, at Monroe Mich., where 8 3per cent of the work s's have voted to return to their jobs. First scheduled for 8 a. m. to morrow, then changed to 4 p. m. It later was delsyed pending a confer ence tomorrow In Lsnslng, Mich, be tween Oov, Frank Murphy and lead ers of capital and labor. The second wss a conference be tween managements and unlonleta, called for Friday by Oov, Martin L. Davey of Ohio. Union leaders im mediately announced they would at tend the meeting. Officials of Repub lic also agreed to attend. REVOLT AVERTED PENDLETON, June 9. !) "It U quite possible" that the American Le glon saved the United State from revolution similar to thst which has appeared In many foreign countries since the World war, Harry w. Col trery, Topeka, Kansas, national com mender of the American Legion, told large audience here last night. Uovcrnor lo Re hhow SALEM. June 9. (AP) The ex ecutlve office will be closed Friday when Oovemor Martin will attend the rose festival at Portland. He stated he would close the office for the entire day. No P. V. C. License, Fined Burdette Johnson, 27, of 841 Pine street wss fined 910 and 94 90 costs by Judge willlsm R. Colemsn In us tlco of the peace court this morning foi operating a truck without a PUC license. He pleaded guilty. Becoming A Father No Excuse To Get Out Of Jury Duty TACOMA. Wash., June 9. J, The prospocttva father, whom some authorities claim suffers as much or more than the expectant mother, found no sympathy In county couit today. Judge w. O. Chapman, after a member of the Jury panel, asked to be excused because his wife was going to have a baby, said: "nequest refused. The excuse would be valid only If the Juror wore going t have the baby." GRANGERS REJECT TO ADDRESS THEM Invitation Is Voted Down Hear Talk by Portland Labor Chief at State Meet. THE DALLES, June 9. (IP) The tilate Orango voted down a proposal today to Invito Oov. Charlea H. Mar tin to address the convention which will closo Friday. The organisation elooted Qlenn L. Adams, Polk county, secretary over Charles Harth of The Dalles. Thla waa the only office voted upon to day. Ben T. Osborne, secretary of the slate federation of labor, addressed the convention and aald the state federation had no dealre to organise (arm labor on a union basis. He de clared all reports to the contrary ware entirely without foundation. Klamath Falls waa selected for the 1938 convention. The convention will act tomorrow on the reaolutlon to organize farm labor on a union basis and Oaborne's address waa timed to Inform the dele gates of the fcderatlon'a view point on thla important question. Another importsnt resolution on tomorrow's program will be that of Bonneville power. Three resolutions were acted upon today. Tho organization opposed any attempt to abolish the radio station at the Oregon Stalo college, KOAC; orposed abolition of the Oregon milk control law, and favored marketing (.greemenU baaed on majority con trol of those engaged In the Indus try; and voted down a resolution from Jackson county to ban placer mining opeiatlona where mud pol luted tho atreams. Lewis J, Tabsr, national Orange master, Is scheduled to address the convention tomorrow. SOCIAL SECURITY i - i TTO WASHINGTON. June 9. (P) The social security board announced to- day approval of federal grants total ing 914.0411.909 for public asslstsnce In 37 states. All but four of the granta win go for old age assistance, which totaled 13.899.947. One grant of 910.980, to New Mexico, waa for dependent chil dren. The board also approved state pub. lie assistance plans for aid to de pendent children in Oregon. It aald this brought to 28 states and the District of Columbia the number of participants in the three publlo assistance provisions of the social security act. Addition of the Individuals cov ered in the newly-approved programs was said to have brought to 1429,700 the number of persona covered by asslstsnce plana In 43 states taking part in one or more of the pro grams. Moat of the old age grant covered the period up to the close of the fiscal year on June 30. ' The old age granta Included: California, 808.883: Oregon. 938, 362: Washington, 9418.138, and Idaho 103,950. AutolH Exonerated. LA ORANDE. Ore., June 9 P Chadwlck Pratt, 22, Imbler, today stood acquitted of a charge of failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death. A circuit court Jury here returned a verdict of not guilty lata last night after five and a half hours of deliberation. Prune Prospects Promising. WASHINGTON, June 9. (AP) The sgrlculture department today predicted demand for American prunsa In European market sliould be much Improved during be 1937- 38 export season. FIELDS ON STAND; TELLS OF THREAT BEFORESHOOTING Testifies Mow Warned Often to Stay Away From Mrs. Fields Son's Testimony Refuted. William J. Fields took the witness stand in his own defense today a his second degree murder trial for tbs slaying of Marvin M. Mow con tinued In district court before Judge H D. Norton and a Jury of eight men and four women. Field declared that Mow sprang at him with a threat to "break every bone in your body" Just before he whipped out his revolver and killed Mow with the one cartridge ths pistol contained. The slaying occurred In the Jacksonville home of Fields' wife last February 9. Testifying that he and "mom" wrote to each other periodically, ."Melds told of receiving a letter from hla wife on February 8 while he was at the home of a daughter at Apple gate. The latter, admitted as evidence nnd read to the Jury by Ous Newbury of defense counsel, told of the state of illness being suffered by Mre, Fields and various of the Fields' chll dren. Some of the children were get ting wet feet In going to school every day because they had only Oxfords to mar, relief agencies were unable' to provide other footwear and so It wss up to "pop" to do something, the loiter said. The note was dated Feb ruary 9 and the envelop was post marked at Medford February 4, two days before the fatal shooting. Fields testified that upon receiving toe letter he told hi daughter he was going to Jacksonville and pawn Irs revolver and watch to get money for shoe for ths children. -" The next day, Fields continued, he went to the Jacksonville bom, not knowing Mow. wss there. He aald he waa greeted at the front door By Mrs. Fields whom he quoted aa say ing: "Hello, Pop, come on In." - . Fields stated that he entered the house and that Mow, sitting In the room, greeted mm By saying: "so you're back again . . ." ending with a vile epithet. Fields said he paid no attention to Mow but went through the house to tne back porch where he talked to his four son who were piling wood. After talking with the boys Fields testified he went back Into the house to talk with his wife. He aald he atiked her what sh wanted where upon Mow asserted some one was stealing the family wood and blamed Clyde Smith, next-door neighbor. "Anyone who aaya It is Clyde smith la a liar," Field testified hs replied. Mow Threatens Mow Jumped out of hi chair and started for Field, aaylng: "You old , I'll break every bone In your body," the defendant testified - Fields ssld be men drew hla gun, pointed It at Mow and pulled the trigger. He stood up on the witness stand to Illustrate how he acted and how Mow staggsred and tried to brace himself after he had been ahot. Field said he then tried to give the revolver to hi wife, asking her to take It, He declared he knew It contained only the one cartridge as he had only one shell after he nad recovered the gun from the police to whom Mow had delivered It scms time before. He said that after the last cartridge had been fired the trig ger could not be clicked. On of the sons who testified against hla father aald Fields pointed the gun at Mrs. Fields and clicked the trigger several tlmss. Fields ssld the only ones in ths (Continued on Fsge Three.) 01 LABOR ACT WASHINGTON, June P) " ator Wagner (D.-N. Y.) author of the labor relations act, expressed the 19. lief today peaceful settlement of la bor disputes have greatly exceeded the number of strikes. "Some figure may show a larger number of strikes than a year ago," br said, "but they don't present a pr-.per picture. Many agreement have not been generally heard of " The labor relation act ha 14 to "some of the current difficulties be tween msnagement and labor." Wag. ner said, but he predicted the law would prove t loni tun cure for la bor trouble. H described it "quibbling" refusal of employers to lgn written contract with a legally-constituted majority of their workero. "An agreement haa got to be l writing to be effective," be said. . .
