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The Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight and Tuesdar; probably with showers: little change In tem perature. Temperature fl Insert vrsterdav 17 Lowest this morning 63 Better Check Sunday's Classified pan of this newipaper gaTt soma Terr 1b tertitlng Information. Ara you aura too did not overlook something? Better check now and make lure. It might pay you. - . Medford Tribune full Associated Press Full United Press Thirtv-Secoml Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 14. 1937. No. 72. mm m mm E mm ran a d iryy 't By r.UI. MAI.LON. (Copyright, 1937, by Paul Msllon) WASHINGTON. June 13. Where the c. I. O. la going la again a mat er ot speculative concern to all In official life here. Jflctat life here. 'Congressmen In Hhe cloak room ia nd offlclala I around the cock 1 tall .hakera talk of little else these gdays. The talk can be Ibotled down now I to collective agree ment, but a lew things seem clear I'aul Mallon. to all on both aidea of the fence; namely; . The C. I. O. can win elections In ted steel plants and In most of Etp"rj",,d Industries. These elec tions pr-.Tj'J wm e iron within the next ali-'P!nth"- ""l -tabllsh domlnat'lC" bj C. I. O. and accelerate the momentum of John Lewis aa the political man on horse back. tt will not lead to the extinction of A. P. of L. craft unions, but merely relegate them temporarily to the shade. Pew believe now that the railroad brotherhoods, the building trades, etc., will go out of exist ence. Levis la taking labor Into politics for the first time In American his tory. His movement la superficially social, but essentially political. Until ha threw his leg Into the stirrup, the A. F. of L. was labor in this country. It was divided in political allegiance, and thoroughly individ ualistic and democratic. Thus. Lewis is doing what labor In Europe has done within this generation. He la taking It out of' the social sphere " into the "political sphere. A national labor party is, there fore, Inevitable In the course of time. For the present, Lewis is using the Democratic party for his purposes. But It will be only a matter of some few years until he absorbs tho party (most authorities believe this is wholly Improbable), or the party (Continued on Page Pour.) KLAMATH FALLS. June 14. vD A freak hailstorm Sunday night cli maxed Klamath county's week of rain, and at its center, damaged resi dences and catuK-d serious losses In crops and flowers. Quests at the Carl Tucker home en Summers lane south of the city were amazed when water began to stream Into the living room. Outside they found four Inches of hall on the roof and deep holes torn In the roofing. Hailstone as large as marbles were reported In some sections, and even as late as this morning furrows in the Summers lane district were filled with hall and level ground was cov ered with a white glue of Ice. Leaves were stripped from nearly all trees and birds were found dead under the trees. The Sunday storm brought an ad dltlonal .14 Inch precipitation. (rain Mart Pull PORTLAND. June 14. Tj Dull ness marked tradirw In Pacific north vest grain markets In the past week. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Deppity Sherf Herb Moore being a fanny man and- saying dollies were things children played with when as everyone knowa they are contraptions fj. transporting telegraph poles, Five-year-old Pat Banwell taking her third airplane spin over the val ;y and bawling out her old man for telling Pilot Tommy Culbertson to make the ride short, she turning ber nrost engratlatlng charm upon Tam my and saying she hoped he'd tske ; rer up soon again and for a longer .light, too. j Little Jimmy Murray nearly break ing up a cinema audience with run ning comment on his first movie. 1 Papa Jim finally being embarrassed Irto leaving, making up for the ore mature exit by treating the preco cious film critic to bis first haircut. rn operatln that was enjoyed no end Mabel Mack regretting she didn't r.are sometruTig more uncommon fian a mere appendectomy so thai sit might do a llttl. surgical brag-in. I .41 ".i NEEDLESS, FUTILE COMMITTEE SAYS Senate Judiciary Committee Urges Emphatic Rejection to Prevent Repetition by Another Executive. WASHINGTON, June 14. (AP) The senate Judiciary committee rec ommended rejection of the Roosevelt court bill in blistering language to day, branding It "a needless, futile, and utterly dangerous abandonment of constitutional principle." "It should be so emphatically re Jested that Its parallel will never a&aln be presented to the free repre sentatives of the free people of Amer ica," sal'i the report, signed by seven Democrats and three Republicans It said the bill would not accom plish Its purpose, would destroy the Independence of the Judiciary, and would make the government "one of men rather than one of law'' "It contains," the majority said, "she germ of a system of centralized administration of law that would en able an executive so minded to send p. Judges into every Judicial district in the land to sit in Judgment on controversies between the government and the citizen." As the controversial measure finally reached the senate after more than four montha of nationwide debate, administration senators said they virtually had abandoned Its proposal for adding five new Judges to the srpreme court at once,- No Compromise They were trying Instead to work out a compromise whereby elderly Justices could be augmented or re placed at the rate of one a year. Opponents, however, declared fhey would filibuster against any modlfted proposal. Submission of the committee's re port made it possible to call up the bill for debate at any time, but lead ers gave no Indication when they mht do so. They were expected to wait at least until the senate passes the relief bill. The eight members of the Judiciary committee who voted for the bill did not submit a minority report. Never before has a Roosevelt bill come from committee with such a denunciation as the committee's re port. It was prepared chiefly by three Democrats Senators King of Utah. McCarran of Nevada, and O'Mahoney of Wyoming. Primary Reasons They recommended rejection of the bill for these "primary reasons": - "The bill doea not accomplish any one of the objectives for which it was originally offered. "It applies force to the Judiciary and In its initial and ultimate effect would undermine the Independence of the courts. "It violates all precedents In the history of our government and would (Continued on page Eight) TO OPPOSE MOTT SALEM, June 4. (AP) W. L. Oossitn, secretary of Gov. Martin, may be advanced by democratic leao ers in the first congressional district aa party choice to oppose Rep. Jamea Mott. Republican, at the May, 1P38. primaries. Sheriff A. C. Burke. Marlon county democratic lender said today that he believes "Ooeslln la Just the man the Democrats of this district need to beat Jim Mott next year." Burke said he had discussed the matter with the governor and "he expressed it as his opinion that his young secretary wouM mske a creditable representa tive for this district In congress." ASKED IN SENATE WASHINOTON. June 14 (API The senate approved today a pro- ?red nationwide atudy of unemploy- I ment tnd relief by a commission to tv appointed by the president. The action, taken without a record .etc. came shortly after the appro priations committee recommended to the senate that a greater share of the administration', 1.500 000 000 relief program for the next fiscal year be shifted to local communities. The atudy would be In addition to Inquiry by a committee of five cnators. which was suthorlred last T-eek. The proposal now foes to the house Monroe Strikers Retreat Before Tear Gas Attack Two . hundred special policemen, Newton steel plant nt Monroe. Mich., general yiew the strikers have started PIERCE REPORTS . NO GREAT HURRY TO SELECT JUDGE Evan Reames Listed Among Probabilities With Nine Other Oregonians. WASHINGTON. June 14. (API Representative Walter M. Pierce of La Grande, Ore., aald today the attor ney general's office advised him no Immediate action would be taken to fill a vacancy on the federal bench In Oregon. "The department said there was no purtlcular need for speed and that It wanted to give careful consideration to all candidates," the congressman sold. Among those prominently mention ed for the post are: Claude McColloch. Klamath Falls; Hall Link. John Hess Elton Watktns and Judge W. I Dixon all of Portland; Judge O. 8. Skip worth of Eugene; Evan Reames of Medford; Judge Hewitt of Salem: Judge T. E. J. Duffy ot Bend, and Mark Weatherford of Albany. Representative 'Nanny Wood Honey man of Portland said recently she had been advised the field had nar rowed to McColloch and Lusk. The appointee will succeed the late Judge John McNary. F MASSAWA. Eritrea. June 14 (14) Amelia Earhart. who la flying around t ie world "Just for fun," hopped off at 7:30 a. m., (11:30 p. m ZB.T Cunday night) for Assab, Eritrea, en reute to Aden, tt the southwestern t:p of Arabia. Before aha lifted her sliver mono plane off the runway of otumlo air port, Just outside the capita! of this 1-allan colony, she aald ahe would ettempt to fly non-stop to Karachi, India. If weather conditions were good. lloter Killed JOIlANNESBURO. South Africa. June 14. (AP) Cecil (Kid) Como. American featherweight, was killed today In a mining accident waen a cane dropped five levela In a vertkel shaft. Coma temporarily retired frum boxing was planning a return to tne United Bute, ihta year. Allow .Mall Carrier's Claim WASHINGTON. June 14. (API President Roosevelt has signed a bill waiving the federal employea' com pensation set limitations to permit John W. Bolln of Salem, Ore., to l.le a claim for 0; obility wr.ile ha a mall carrier In August. 1924. Steel Plant Opens; Vigilantes using tear gas bombs, rocks, and clubs, dispersed a picket line at the and allowed 800 non striking employees to return to work. In this retreating before advancing tear gas lmiris shown In the background. BULLETIN The decomposed body of a baby was reported discovered In Ashland this afternoon. Assistant District Attorney George W. Nells on and Sheriff Syd I. Brown were to leave for Ashland to conduct an Investigation. Meantime Police Chief Charlea P. Talent of Ashland waa Investigating. The body waa reported found In a cardboard box In a closet in a Com munity hospital room. The baby had been dead about three weeks, the authorltlea stated. The hospital superintendent, Ard ath kosher, reported to Prank Van Eyke, city attorney, that a peculiar ouor waa emanating from the closet Van Dyke and Chief Talent made the discovery. DEATH FROM AIR E CITY BILBAO, Spain, June M. fAPi Low-flying insurgent war planes from the besieging armlea that have press ed Into Bilbao's edges raided the cen ter of this Basque capital In mid morning today, spitting machine-gun fire. The people of this "Pittsburgh of Spain " besieged almost since the start of the insurgent northern of fensive early In April, fled for shelter as the planes dived and circled. Defense anti-aircraft guns pumped shells into the sky. ' Heavy bombing operations over this tightly hemmed In area insur gents reported they already had taken some houses In Bllbso's actual outskirts) made evacuation of the wounded a grave problem. The road northwest to Santandtr was under heavy attack from the air, with 23 persona reported killed In one sector. This was virtually the only land artery of escape for the Bilbao population. On the whole, however. Bilbao waa stoical in the face of the constant attacka from the sky. Crouched In mskeahlft refuges, much of the civil population heard bullets spatter against walls and In streete determined to hold out to the lsst. The Basque government of Presi dent Jose Antonio Agulrre. steadfart altf of the central Spanish govern ment, flatly denied reports that some of Its members had fled to Sun Un der. No surrender is contemplated, the Basque officii la said. Prom the battlefront at the edi(e of the city there were Basque report of a 'tiff counter-attack that resutwd In Bat que capture of a mountain near Pica. Tat li about five miles northeast of Bilbao, at a point where tnsuraente had cracked the iron ring of outer defenses of the regional cap ital. PORTLAND. June 14 (API Mayor Joseph K. Carson will not Insist that tie 9.300 Invited gurti st his wed ding ceremonies next Saturday night wear formal attire ITALY DEFAULTS UPON DEBT WITH 'POLITEJGRETS' Slim Hope for Settlement France and Britain Talk, But No Payment. WASHINGTON, June 14. ZD- Italy defaulted aaln today on its semi-annual war debt payment to the. United Btatea amounting to 101, 987.163. Ambassador Pluvlo Suvlch trans mitted to the state department a note grom his government expressing "po lite regret" over Its continued Inabil ity to meet the wartime obligation. I The note said Italy waa unable at thta time to advance any proposal looking toward a possible future set tlement. The war debt Installments from Eu ropean countries fall due tomorrow. They will total $1,500,000,000. Besides Italy, Latvia and Yugosla via already have defaulted. Only Finland, owing 4163,143, has announced its Intention of paying promptly as usual. All the other countries have been In default since 1033. Recent expressions In Prance and Great Britain the largest debtors of hope that sometthlng might be done about a possible settlement of the war debt problem have not been followed as yet by any official ac tion. The United Btatea ha voiced Us willingness to consider any refunding proposals. Of tomorrow's total bill, 205,33B. 754 Is the regular semi-annual In stallment and 1.314.831.109 repre sents paymenta In arrears. It will amount to 132.000,000.000 with accumulated Interest and prin cipal at the end of the 62 -year period of paymenta established In the orig inal funding agreements. DEMOCRATIC PAIR PORTLAND, June 14. (AP) From oemocratlc ranks came two namea to day aa possible candidates for the poet of atate committeeman If Claude McColloch, Klamath Palls, is otferrfl j me Tscsncy on tne reoerai courr. in i uregon. Jack Caufield. Tillamook county I and U. 8. Burt, Corvallla educator tnd uusucceasful candidate for itate reasurer at the 103" elections, were being mentioned among party leadera as likely choices. Willie Mahoney, former Klamath Pails mayor, returning over the week rid from Washington, asserted tnat 'II ranking democratic leadera there" tewed McColloch SPECIAL SESSION TO PROVIDE AGE AID FUND, HINTED Education Board Request Denied Governor Warns Against Emergency Fund Inroads. PORTLAND, June 14. P Report here today said Senator Rex Ellis, Pendleton, ha started circulation of petitions among certain members of the legislature urging a special ses sion to desl with the problem ot fin ancing old age assistance payments. The petition assert that Oregon should pay the maximum permitted, 130 a month, and that the state has failed to match the counties' old ago budgets, threatening financial chaos when the age limit for recipient 1 cut from 70 to 66 yeara next January. Ellis's petition outlined no financ ing plan which a apeclal session might consider. Only the governor may call a session outside the tegular assembly, which does not occur again until 1939. SALEM. June 14. ff; The state emergency board cut down requests of 152,713 for various departments and appropriated $2,000 at its Initial aesslon here today which went through the noon hour. . The only appropriation, outside 1300 for expenses, went to the agri cultural experiment station to com bat the Infestation of the large mor mon cricket In eastern Oregon. A delegation from Baker and Wallowa counties appeared before the board to make the request for 62,000 to purchase poison and materials. The board appropriated 11,600. Following a long discussion during which Oovernor Martin warned against making Inroada on the emerg ency fund at thla time because of ''unsettled and serious condition which may arise," the board by a vote of 4 to 3, rejected the request of the board of higher education for n appropriation of $36,713, which had been Intended taken from the gen eral fund but the legislative act fail ed to make the divergence. E. C. Sammon for the board of higher education, stating an attor ney general's opinion ruled the legis lature failed to provide for the sum from the general fund, aa It had in tended. The money therefore remain ed in the general fund and under the act can not be used for higher education. The legislative budget had Included the sum for the Institutions of higher learning. The only action to remedy the sit uation, it waa pointed out, would be a direct appropriation from tha $100.- 000 set aside In the emergency fund. The governor eat In on the meeting and warned members that should the state face an emergency, such as riots, strikes or fire, the emergency fund would be small, If 636,000 were taken out at the first meeting. MrMINNVIIXB, June 14. (AP) Dr. Roy Reynolds, Bend, Decs me com mander of the Oregon chapter of the Disabled American Veterans of tne World War, succeeding Roy Bhlres, Newberg, at the annual convention here. Other officers chosen were Prank J. Hoi brook. Medford. eenior vice commander; Bert Paul, Port I unci. Junior vice-commander; Llle Dallry, Portland, treasurer; Rev, 8. f. Os borne. McMlnnvllle; chaplain, John M. Cummtskey, Portia n a; ecrgeaut-t-rni,-Mra. Venn Oatrander, Salem; commander of the auxiliary, Mrs. Ar thur Yarbrough, Oranta Pass; senlou vice-commander, Mr. Prnk Hol-j brook, Medford; conductress, Mrs William Blevlns, Balem, musician. SELECT JURY IN ALTURAS, Calif., June 14 UP, Selectlou of a Jury to try Harry French for murder started here today aa the 30-year-old alleged newspaper feud alayer aat calmly with his moth er, father, wife and two sisters. French, accused of fstally shooting Clsudo L. Mccracken. 4s, last March 2S, appeared unconcerned as attor neya questioned the prospective Jurors ALTURAS1RDER New Road Menace H its Motorcyclist, Then Thumps Him PORTLAND, June 14. (AP) A new motoring menace, the "hit, beat and run" driver was reported to police by William P. Ansen berger. Ansenberger said the unidenti fied driver not only damaged his motorcycle in a collision, but stopped long enough to beat him up with the aid of a companion. ANOTHER APPEAL TO RETURN WIFE Mystery Deepens As Abduc tion and Murder Theories Weighed Search Started STONY BROOK, N. Y June 14. (AP) Tha mystery ot the disappear ance of Mra. AUca McDonell Parsons, Long Island acolety matron and heiress, deepened today aa law forcea weighed murder and kidnap theories and the grieved husband, William H. Paraons, lasued a second appeal to supposed abductors. If federal, state, or local Inveatl gatora had made any real progreia alnce a 125,000 ransom note waa round Wednesday night, they were keeping It secret. A force ot 100 sesrehers mobilised to beat the brush In the vicinity ot the' Faraona home. - "The present state of the Investi gation Justifies tha search." Karl J. Connelly, the federal agent In charge of the government', inquiry, said In announcing the hunt. He added, "It will be continued until we are satisfied wa have made a thorough search In an effort to gain the objectives wa have In mind." The area to be sesrehed was ce acrlbed aa "fairly wild," dotted with a few cultivated flelda but abound ing with woods and tangled under growth. Beginning early In the afternoon, the aearchera, Including fedeial agents, atate troopera. local police from Brookhaven townahlp, Investi gator, from the district attorney's office of Suffolk county and Boy Scouts, were directed to spread out fan-shape from the Persona houae. Paraons aald In his appeals "Thla Is the fifth day ilnce the disappearance of my wife, Alice, I am worried and distraught. The strain haa been very great, not know ing whether she la safe and well cared for. We, of course, are at the mercy of the person or persons re sponsible tor her disappearance. "I again wleh to aaaure thta per aon or persona that I atand reaoy to comply with the Inatructlona they may Rive. Whatever Is humanly poe slbla will be done by me to see that anything they may request will be compiled with In secrecy. I request the person or persona to Immediately communicate with me In order to expedite the return of Mrs. paraons." Howard McDonnel ssld aa he left Los Angelea by airplane for New fork tonight he hoped to act aa contact man with tha kidnapers of bis slater. FIRST LADY SAYS SHE PAYS IN FULL WASHINGTON, June 14. (AP) Mra. Franklin Roosevelt aald today that "on every penny of Income which I have received I have paid my tax." She made the remark to her press conference, when advlaed that a col umnist had questioned the com pleteness of her return. The only exemption ahe la permit ted, she said, Is the IS per cent for glfta to organized charity, since she haa no dependents. STRANGE FATE OF AN ENGLISH BOY STOKE-ON-TRENT, Eng. June M '(All The body of four-year-old j Joacpl. Bailey was found today In j the outhouse where he atarved to death only oo yarda from nis noma while his parents and police searched frantically for s week. t The door alammed behind the isd when he went Into the outhouse to play. The door catch, four and half feet from the ground, waa loo died, hie cries for Del unheard. Ready PICKETING UNDER NEW REGULATIONS MAY BE ALLOWED Special Police On Guard, and Barricades Built Thousands Quit Mines MONROE, Mich., June 14. (AP) Mayor Daniel A. Knsggs assured "ra aponslbla members" of the striking steel workers' union today that peaceful picketing under proper and reasonable rules nd regulations" will be permitted. The mayor'a announcement fol lowed closely a almllar one made by Oot. Frank Murphy of Michigan la Detroit. Smashing the picket line at the truck Newton Steel company plant here last week precipitated a violent clash which led to cltlrens' arming themselves to preserve peace. it waa understood that a picket line might be permitted In the gen eral vicinity of the original line wnicn now bristles with guns In the hands of 100 apeclal policemen. No maae meetings, aald the mavor. will be permitted at any time on tne picket Unea or In the vlolnlty except under police authorisation. The strike-troubled plant resumed operations unmoleated. No pickets were on hand. Monroe offlclala, however, after a tumultous mass meeting yeMerday marked by ' an assertion by Van A, Blttner, Chi cago C. I. O, organizer, that pickets would return, took no chsnces. Elaborate barricade systems were established around the Newton plant, a subsidiary of Republic steel cor." poratlon. The trouble at Newton In volve! demands for a signed Isbor eontrsct, refused by Republic. The city Itself waa quiet, A squad of national guardsmen, all that remained on duty, guarded equipment In the armory overnight. Vigilantes, eober-faced cltlnns of Monroe, resdy on call to preserve or der In the city of 30,000 whose mayor, Daniel A, Knagga, vowa to protect the right of men to work or not to work. Yesterday the vigilantes not B0O0, but enough rested cooly about the city hall. Borne wore knives strapped to their aldea. Others had holatered sldearmi. Several . merely crammed their weapons through their belts or Into hip pocket. Strikes at Olanre. (By the Associated Frees.) JOHNSTOWN. Pa. Thousands Of miners quit coal pita of Independent steel companies after John L. Lewis directed strike order against mines (Continued on Page Three.) TAXPAYERS FOR COURTHOUSE ALBANY, June 14. (AP) At t public hearing attended by more than 400 persons, Sam H. Osrland, Leban on, presented petitions bearing tha namea of 800 taxpayer to the county court today demanding the eounty submit to voters th matter of erect ing a new courthouse with surplus funds on hand. Garland said the only Issue was whether the matter should be sub mitted to the voters at apeclal or s general election. The ' petitions, he declared, forced the election and he advocated the matter be acted upon at a general election tc avoid expense, Arthur K. McMahan asked the court to call special election, point ing out that the H47.0O0 now avail able In the general fund must be dis posed of by the budget committee this year and may not be available for s courthouse If the decision la delayed. He added that PWA assis tance might not be available. Oppo nent were accused of trying to thwart th project by delays. The court aald It would probably announce Its decision tomorrow. fleece Wools Stlfren BOSTON, June 14. (AP-USDA.) Asking prices on fleec wools In Bos ton were Inclined to stiffen today though users showed reluctance to buy freely at recent quotations. Income Shares ' Maryland Fund bid (.19, asked to.oa. Quarterly Income bid 1111, asked II 7.
