Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1937)
The Weather Forecast: Showera tonight tnd Wednesday. So much change In temperature. TEMPER AT IRK Highest yrsterday .. 7ft Lonest this morning ft" Try Them Out Tou may safely trust aU your wants to Mall Tribune Class ified Ads. That adi gat results promptly and they cost so lit tle. tVhr not try them out to morrow? The cost Is small com pared with results. Medford Tfibune Full Associated Fresi Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1937. No. 73. mm M m mm h By PAUL MALL ON (Copyright, 1937, by Paul Mallon.) Ooln' Flshln. ! WASHINGTON. June 14. With- ! drawal of Vice-President Garner from the Washington scene waa variously portraved as a society departure, a vacation trip and a dust bowl ex cursion. It was really the last retreat ol conservatism from the court of the new order. The truth la this: The vice president waa the presidents legis lative leader. Garner, more .Paul Mallon. nyone else, handled the bust- . of getting legislation through. rd he handled It well, even up to antf-.,lncludlng the eu preme court packing plan. But two matters developed upon whlch he waa In strong conscientious disagree ment with the policy followed by the White House. One la the alt down strike. The other la economy, government spending, balancing the budget, or whatever you choose to call It. Mr. Garner la a forthright kind of man who says what he thinks, even when it la something hla boss may sot like to bear. No hard worda were spoken. No strong action was taken, but a friendly misunderstand ing developed. There waa nothing left for the vice-president to do ex oept to go fl&hlng. And, unless the moon outshines the gun, and atara fall on Texas, Mr. Garner will keep on fishing until specifically recalled to Washington by the president for a specific pur- pose. ' "" -" ...... Inside. The reason Mr. Garner waa moved ao deeply about the spending and alt-down situations la not hard to find. Only once In his life has he been In debt. Only once In bis life, alnce he was married, did he have less on any January 1 than he had en the preceding January 1. He lived his life on the basis of pay-as-you-go. And he lived It on a basis of reapect for law and authority, be cause he can remember the yeara when he carried a six-shooter, not for advertising, but for protection. His legislative experience waa all along that line, too. He spent the greater part of hla career fighting against Republican administrations, against Coolldge, Hoover nad particu larly against their treasury secre taries, Mellon and Mills. It was therefore easy for him to fit in with the social reforms of the new order, up to the time when alt-downs went unchallenged and apendlng continued as recovery Increased. Aa hla delegates nominated Presi dent Roosevelt at Chicago, they be came good friends. Mr. R. hand no one at hand with the congressional background of Gamer. The V.-P. eat In with the cabinet, counseled on matters of policy, and, like other ad visers, won and lost tor hla view point. He was the main conserva- (Continued on Page Six.) Lane Workers Eje CIO. EUGENE. June 15. API An an nouncement that the Willamette valley sawmill and timber workers union will vote tomorrow ntght on the question of affiliating with the committee for Industrial organisa tion waa made today. Some 800 men will cast ballots. State Park Victors SALEM, June 15.- ( AP) A total of 80.694 people visited the stite parka during the week ending June ft. including 10000 at Depo Bay on the coast and 7600 at Silver Creek. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS .Ta.rv .i.rnma declaring he didn't cr how much mavhtm was com mitted Inalde the rasslln' arena out he dldnt line to see homieioea com mltted outside. Oene Rlebe being unable to set anything out of his oar radio excrp' by atsndlng on the ground and hold, lng an aerial In his mitts. Clyde Flchtner. the Beau Brummel of the police department, gallantly helping a ldy by cranking her oor on ft downtown street. Frank R-cprs proudly demonstrat ing his car sadcet fiat llchfs a eiRtrett without driving on It, Frank pointing out Mwit most ding bats don't give ?ya light even when you puff i ,d huff. 0.tffe M. O -en. AsMsnd publish- er. peering at Mel Hasan's Trans Lux. i irker tn p. q:ot t ton board si.d c tiler bi town Wall Bueet dingusset. mm HiiiSgJ VIOLENCE FLARES IN STEEL STRIKE; PEACE HOPE SLIM New Auto Strife Feared Hate Boils As Rival Unions Battle at Mills COLUMBUS. Ohio. June 15. (AP) Gov. Martin L. Daveya conference attempting to bring peace to the j striKe-Desei sieei inausiry Drone up today without any agreement being reached Armed citizens bent on preserving order patrolled the streets as peace efforts of Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio collapsed In Columbus. 8 tee I company officials left the Da vey conference In the Ohio capltol saying briefly that their opposition to sitned contracts with the strel workers' organizing committee was unchanged. JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. June IB. (AP) The CIO siege of steel. Involving 80.050 strike-idle men In seven states of the Great Lakes region, gathered j momentum today with renewed skull- fresh strife In the Detroit automo bile field. Internecine union violence broke out at Ambrldge. Pa., as .600 CIO pickets assaulted 50 members of the rival AFL seeking to return to work at the National Electric Products company. Violence injured nine at Bethlehem Steel's Cambria works. A move for peace went forward at Columbus, O., where Governor Martin I). Davey sought to bring steel and C. I. O. leaders together In agree ment. But the pre -conference atmos phere was gloomy. End of Chanting. At Ambrldge, nearly a score of AFL men were beaten with clubs as they marched towards the company gates, chanting: We're going to work I" Police fired tear-gas shells, but the AFL back-to-work movement failed. The men did not get Into the plant. . In Detroit, Homer Martin, head of the United Automobile Workers of America, conferred with repre sentatives of 17 locals throughout the country. Speculation Immediately arose concerning new demands the UAW will present to General Motors corporation on expiration of a "truce' agreement on August 1. The demsnds under consideration reportedly Include: A blanket wage Increase of 10 cents an hour, which would add $50.- 000.000 to the corporation's annual pavroll; a 7-hour day and 8-day week and sole collective bargaining rights for the UAW in all General Motors plants. At Warren, Ohio, steel movea from the Republic steel plant for the first time In three weeks. Under the guard of railroad police. 35 carloads of raw materials were shunted into the mill, and 35 carloads of steel went out. No effort waa made at the picket ed gates to restrain movements. Later, however, the Pennsylvania rail road said that an hour after the removal of the cars. 80 feet of track on the Ashtabula-Niles branch ol the railroad waa dynamited. Meanwhile, here In historic Cone- maugh valley scene of the great flood of 1889 hate and fear boiled to the top as hard-fisted ateel work ers and strikers battled over the right to return to work. From Buttermilk Falls, at the east end of the valley, where flood waters swept around the bend to destroy Johnstown long ago. down seven and one-half miles to the point where the flood bulged against a hug stone brldtre. eltlnens eathered today in sullen groups. (Oontluned on Page Seven.) BRITAIN DEFAULTS ON DEBT PAYMENT WASHINGTON , Juns 15. APl Great Britain added Ita name again today to the list of defaulters on their war debt to the United Stales. In Mingusge almost Identical w.th previous communications on the sub ject, 5lr Ronald Lindsay, the British ambassador, notified Secretary Hull i that bis government's installment of 85.670.765 due today would not be met. He added that as yet Great Britain had no proposal to offer looking toward a settlement of The account now in default since 1933. Su other war debtors previously not t MM this tro-.ernment of thtr in ability to meet the reanilar semi anniiAl payment, the total of which, including installment already In ar rears, amcunta to 1. 520. 189 .863. Finland was the only country mt its temlsnnul payment 1163 143. of WonJ Mart Quiet. BOSTON. June 15. AP-USDAt Fleece and territory wools were q-Jlc in today's msrkpt. Buyers mad a few inquiries but were not keen to I buy . . May Enjoin Elaine LOS ANGELES. June 18. (API Elaln; Barrio Barrymore has been or dered to appear In auperlor court next Monday to show cause why she ahouid not be enjoined from appear ing In a movie. "How to Undress in Front of Your Husband." E. K. Nadel, who also named Duane Esper, film producer, In the petition filed yesterday, claimed Sherrlll C. Cohen had copyrighted the title and had given him the exclusive right to Its use In thla country. Miss Barrle, divorced wife of Jocn Barrymore. la using the name Elaine Barrymore In personal appearances at theaters. COURT PACK PLAN DEBATE TIME- UP TO WASHINGTON. Juns 15. (AP) Administration forces left It up to Majority Leader Robinson (D., Ark.) today to decide when to begin senate debate on the Roosevelt court bill. The heavy-set Arksnaan, boomed by many of his colleagues for a place on the supreme court, kept his own counsel. He took no formal notice of reports that efforts to devise jn acceptable compromise were proceed ing In private. The court bill was put on the cal endar yesterday after ten members of the Judiciary committee submit ted a fiery report opposing Its en actment. Any member may ask at any time that the measure be considered. If anyone objected, , motion to force consideration could be made. A leading opposition senator, who asked not to be quoted by name, said a motion to take up the court bill might come from the foes unless Robinson takes the Initiative within two weeks. Another opponent, however, said his group expected to discuss strat egy Inter this week before deciding whether to hasten the debate. Once It does begin, they said, argu ments on the bill adding up to six Justices to the supreme court unless Justices over 70 retire may lest more than six weeks. "Unless the 'packing plan' and a propoMl for 'roving Justices' are dropped." said Senator Wheeler (D.. Montj. "this session won't be over by October. Senator Mlnto (D Ind.), support ing the president, said the adminis tration group waa willing to stick it out until a vote was reached. "Will move beds Into the senile and stay as long as necessary," he added. Compromise suggestions by Sens tors Hatch (D N. M.) and Andrews (D., Fla.) received renewed study by some of the 20 or more uncommitted senators. Hatch, who proposed adding one Justice a year unless those over 70 retire, said he would rote affslnst any usically different compromise, BULLETIN WASHINGTON. June 15. ( AP) William P. Connery, Jr., a Democratic representative from Massachusetts died today at a hospital here. He was 48 yeara old. Schulmerich, Banker, State Leader, Passes HILLSBORO. June IS. An i'!ivM of several weeks ended last nurht In the death of Edward Scbul merich, 74, president of the Com mercial National bank and former 'nte lecrlalstor. He played part In flcvlnpmfnt it th present tate s ',-ttem of hittivr education as a mem bet ol the lef lalaturt. LABOR WRANGLING TRIES PATIENCE OF PUBLIC, CLAIM Chairman General poods Report On Union Finances and Peace Needed. BOSTON, Mass., June 15. -(API Colby M. Chester, chairman of the National Association of Manufactur ers, told the Boston Chamber of Com merce today that "modern, enlight ened" business management believes "It Is economic suicide to advocate the psylng of unfairly low wages." Chester, chairman of the General Foods corporation, asserted In a pre pared address, that "enlightened management, and by that I mean honest management, wants and de sires to function harmoniously with labor; but It takes two to shake hands, and the sooner that Is real ized the sooner will the public's pa tience be restored. As a matter of fact, I believe the majority of em ployes are realizing It as well as t.ie majority of employers. "Business enterprises submit au dited financial reports to their stock holders. Some unions with reputedly more stockholders than any Indus trial corporation do not submit fiti anctal reports to their rank and file membership, and the public is be ginning to wonder why. Tbst cer tainly Is the businesslike thing to do; moreover. It Is the honest thing to do. Perhsps lsbor membership will do It voluntarily rather than await legal requirement. "Off Ice ra and agents of business concerns accept legal responsibilities for their acts. It seems only reason able that officers and agents of la bor organisations should accept simi lar responsibility. - . "Strikes today dominate tbV head lines, certainly management does not deny labor's right to strike. Bufc It does ask, and In this I believe it has public support, that a strike should only be sanctioned when It Is approved by a majority of lsbor members, acting after sober discus sion and secret ballot. "I am definitely of the opinion thst a general strike, causing hard ship to countless Innocent bystand ers and great financial loss to every one, does not meet with public ap prevsil. And certainly there Is' no support whatever for the Illegal oe. cupatlon of property belonging to others the public is In the mood for good tlmea and harmony. It is' ssyln?. In effect, 'Cut out all tue wrangling and let's get down to busi ness There'st plenty of room for all and plenty for all in this abundant land so let s go.' " F, MAIL DELAY SUIT WASHINGTON, June 15. (API The Republic Steel corporation filed suit In federal district court today to compel me pos tor rice department to aeuver packages to Its strike be sieged plants at Warren and Nlles, on io. The mandamus sctlon demsnded that the postoffice department with. draw "an unofficial promulgation In respect or irregular mail." The petition, signed by R. J, Wy- sor, president of the steel company, named Postmaster General James A, Farley ss defendant, and demanded that he show cause by June 23 why the department should not accept any matter mailed to the plants that complies with postal laws and regu latlons. Wysor contended that mailing of foodstuffs Into the planta was legal and did not violate any postal law or legal regulation. HALT FARM BILL AT THIS SESSION WASHINGTON. June 15. (AP) Congressional leaders decided today at a conference with Secretary Wei lace, to abandon their efforts to pass the administration farm bill at this session of con (tress. They persusded Wallace that rhe complex legislation combining toll conservation, price adjustments snd production control should not be enacted because the measure wo'jid seriously delay balancing of the bud get, since It calls for an expenditure of about II 00 .000 .000 in addition to the ftoo.000 000 already appropriated ; for soil conservation. Commentator fades MOSCOW. June Ifl. ( AP I. Uut halaki, commentator on American po lltical affairs In the official govern nent newspaper, ft vest la. haa dlM?) prd from his apartment in ,ht , LnltM States embassy Dunning, it I waa disclosed today. High Geared Facts Taunt Mad Lady Held for Speeding CHICAGO. Juns 15. (AP) Ac cused of speeding 38 miles an hour, Dorothy Bradshaw told the court her car wouldn't go 35 miles an hour and that she'd give It to anyone who could drive It 40. Police Officer Harry Witt climb ed behind the wheel and took Misse Bradshaw for a ride at 43 miles an hour. Motorcycle Officer Wesley Brown Jr.. who trailed the car and clocked it at 46. has put In the first bid to buy Witt's new auto mobile when ttie owner fulfills her promise. SPANISH REBELS T E CAPI Bilboa Defenders Fall Back and Women and Children: Depart. . ! H END A YE, Franco-Spanish Fron tier, June 15. (JP) Grim Basque militiamen hurriedly threw up street barricades today for a last stand de fense against Insurgents fighting their way Into Bilbao. Insurgent rifle ballets fell In the streets. Houses near the outskirts of the ancient capital were turned Into ma chine gun and rifle nests. Expert snipers picked advantageous spots from which to harry the Invaders. While the "last stand" prepara tions wen being . rushed, the rifle bullets from the outskirts, pinging Into the cobblestone streets, brought home to defenders how close modern fighting has drawn to a city ..which has been Invincible for centuries. Border advices said the defenders were facing the onslaught calmly. During the night, government ar tillery Inside the city started a heavy bombardment of insurgent positions. While the shelling wss at Its height, long lines of automobiles sped out of Bilbao and along the Biscay coast, carrying refugees toward Santander. Many women, old men and wound ed fled from the city which they bad refused to leave when Insurg ents first started their drive against Basque allies of the Spanish republic early In April. Thousands of children have been evacuated by sea. An Insurgent communique, whloh estimated Basque casualties during the last four days as about 6,000, said the attackers were descending to the capital along a - line that stretched from Oaldacano to the sea on the west side of Bilbao. Their aim was to surround the city completely before launching a final drive Into the streets. By extending their lines across 'the Nervlon near Galdcano, south of Bilbao, Insurgents could halt communication to gov ernment Santander, to the eaat, and command the west side of Bilbao as well as the east. BASEBALL American R. H. e. Chicago ... - I 7 0 Boaton B 13 1 Kennedy, Cain and fiewell; Grove and r6autela:. R. H. E. St. txHils a 10 0 Phllaoelphia 1 1 Hrrett and Huffman; Caater, Nel son and Brucker. Hayea. R. H. E. Cleveland 0 4 1 New York a 7 1 Harder. Brovn, Hevlng and Pytlak; Ruffing and Dickey. . National. r. n. e. Boaton 4 1 Chicago , t 110 Buah and Lopez; Carleton, Bryant and Hartnatt, R. H. E. Brooklyn S 4 1 Cincinnati 4 0 Hoyt and Phelpa; Vandermeer, Hoi llngaworth and Lombardl. PARIS. June 1. (AP) Premier Leon fllum'e government faced the prospect of overthrow tonight a the communist, important element of hla people, front, refused to sup port his appeal for full powere to oHe the financial criala by de cree. P. E. O. Met Open, PRINEV1I.LE. June 1. -i.A't -Some 20. delegatea MaemDled here today ( r tbe annual convention of the p. C O. Sisterhood. BLUM MINISTRY FACES OVERTHROW SENATE DEBATES SHIFTING RELIEF COSTS TO CITIES I F. D. R.'s Program May Encounter Senate Revolt Debates Start Today xf k bmtn fiTrtN .luna 18. (AP. Senate administration leaders, fight ing to keep Intact President Roose velt's 1. 800.000.000 relief program, centered criticism today on tne Byrnes proposal to place a greater share of the federal burden on lowil communities. Some senstors said the measure might encounter opposition rivaling the house revolt settled only after appeals to the White House. Debate begin this afternoon. Seven members filed a minority re port denouncing as unfair and un wise the recommendation of the ap propriation committee that local governmenta were unable to bear 40 per cent of the cost of WPA projects. Thuy slso criticized a recommen dation that congress reru&e to te spproprlat prospective balances from previous relief funds. This would mean, they contended, curtailing the relief program by about $100,000,000 and taking 130.000 additional persons from WPA rolls. Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.) put forward a proposal that figured In the 1936 presidential campaign that the relief problem be "returned to the states," with the federal gov ernment providing assistance through grsntc The appropriations committee mi nority, headed by Acting Chairman McKeilar (D., Tenn.), said the states, cities and counties would be unable to meet the 40 per cent matching requirement, with the result they would have to take an "unfair pau per's oath' or suffering would re sult. '; The 11,500.000,000 asked by Mr. Roosevelt for the next fiscal year, they ssld. represents a reduction of about a third from last year's relief outlay, WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins they added, has promised not to ask a deficiency appropriation later. ' The house, which approved the re lief bill after a coalition lost a fight to "earmark" funda for special pur poses, received a senate -approved res olution for an Investigation of un employment and relief. It would authorize President Roose velt to appoint from five to fifteen qualified cltluns to mske recom mend talons to congress after a ns tlonal survey. AUGUSTA POLICE HEAD A 'SCOFFLAW AUGUSTA, Ga,, June 16. OP) Col. E. L. Chambers, Sr., director of Augusta'a police department, defied demands for enforcement of Georgia's bone dry laws and declared licensed whiskey will be sold here "as long as I hare anything to do with It." Chambers' stand thrust to the fore the question of municipal "home rule" on the liquor Issue. The drys won a state -wide repeal referendum last week by a majority of more than 8,200 votes, but Augusta went wet, 4.608 to 837, or better than five to one. Chambers spoke In answer to de mands for strict enforcement from church leaders who havo asked Im peachment of officers who do not back the state's 33-year-old prohibi tion law. ALTURAS, Cel., June (Pj Fixed opinions and objections to cap ital punishment hampered efforts to select a Jury today to Xry Harry French, 30, charged with the murder of Claude c. Mccracken, 46. In a newspaper feud. Although seven persona were ex cused for cause, neither prosecution nor defense had exercised a peremp tory challenge when court adjourn ed at noon for the day. Defense attorneys atresaed efforts to obtain Jurora willing to acquit on Insanity grounds. Although there vse some exceptions, talesmen gen erally replied they would acquit In auch clrcumstaneea "If the evidence was sufficient and If the court's In structions ao permitted." ' Ak rhakepeerr Ran. BOSTON. June 1. &t A sugges tion that Shakejpeare'a "The Mer chant of Venice" he banned In Boa- ' ton public school, hss been placed ; bcrare the echoftl department's board lot superintendents. - ALTURAS MURDER JURY SLOW WORK Missing Heiress . ;i I $WaW&!l Mrs. Alice McDonell Parsons (above) la mlMliig from her long Island es tate and her husband, William II. 1'arr.on. Jr., "ana reported prepared to negotiate with authora of a crude note which demanded U2.1.000 lor her return to her Slony Brook, N. V home. STONY BROOK, N. T.. June 15. (API Two earbage collectors told federal agents today that last Wed nesday, the day Mra. Alice McDonell Parsons, society matron, vanlahed, they were not allowed to enter the Parwna Long Island home when they called. It waa the flret time aucn a thing had happened In four yeara, they aald. The collectors, Arthur Chsdwlck. 31, and hla negro helper, George Wlnfleld, told their atory to Earl Connelley, Inspector of the federal bureau of Investigation, and Asalat ant Dlatrlct Attorney Lindsay Henry of Suffolk county. It waa their cuatom to enter ' the house, they said, descend to the basement and collect the garbage but that on Wednesday they were met by Mra. Anna "upryanova, Rue. alan housekeeper and companion to Mra. Parsons, who pointed to a large package tied with cord, and told them: "That'a all." Thoy also told Connelley the Par aona' automobile, which Mrs. Kup ryanova had said stood outside the house all day, waa In the garage when they called. "Thla atory may b extremely Im portant," Assistant District Attorney Henry said. "A number of very aua plcloua aapecta of thla case have developed, but I cannot discuss them now. AT KARACHI SAFE AFTER LONG HOP KARACHI, India. June IS. (AP) Amelia Earhart arrived here to night at 7:0 p.m. (0:08 a.m., E.8.T.) completing a long and Interrupted hop from Maasawa, Eritrea, on her "Juat for fun" aerial flight around the world. She had been unreported for more than 38 houra on a leg of her flight that lay over Arabian desert and mountains and for about 1000 miles across the Arabian sea. Mlsa Earhart said she flew from Assab, Eritrea, on the African coast of the Red Sea Just north of the Quit of Aden, to Karachi, on the Indian coast of the Arabian aea. In one hop. Th airline dlatance' la ap proximately 1400 miles. Mlsa Earhart aald aha would stay here probably a day but that her tentative plans to take off Thursday depended on the weather. Her Itinerary on the globe-glrdllng flight, as close as practicable to the Equator, calls for stops at Darwin. Australia, then across the Pacific to Oakland, Calif., by way of the Paclflo (aland route of Pan-American airways. DUE TO HYSTERIA IJLI.E, France. June 10. (API Seventy girl workers collapsed to day In two eerie mass falntlngs at a little sugar refinery. Thirty fell to the floor, awoonlng this morning, and 40 more fainted thla afternoon. When some 400 employes collapsed last Thursdsy while at work, the em ployers first thought they must have been overcome hv gas. But blood tnti failed to reveal any trace of gas or other poison. Then the phyaiclant blamed the prostrations to heat. Now the doctors are Inveatlgatlng l!,o pots'.'illlty that maas hysteria Indued by auto-suggestion, over came them. T'S REI SENT NORTH FOR EXPERTANALYSIS Authorities Seek to Deter mine if Baby Found Dead in Ashland Hospital Born Alive. The district attorney'a office, sher iff's stsff and Ashland and state po lice were today conducting an In vestigation of the death of a new born baby whose decomposed body wea found yesterday afternoon in a nurae'a room In the Ashland Com munity hospital. The Infant's remains were to ba aent today to Portland for a micro acoplo examination by Dr. Frank Menne. pathologist of the medical department of the Dnlveretty of Ore gon who Is considered an outstanding authority on criminology. Dr. Menne Is to be asked by law enforcement authorities to determine If possible whether the baby waa alive when born. The body waa so decom posed that authorities said It could nut be established by ordinary pro cesses whether or not the Infant was alive at birth. It la understood that whether the commission of a crime can be estab lished depends In large measure on whether It can be determined that the baby waa born alive. Dr. Harvey A. Woods, Ashland cltv health officer, was quoted by author ities aa estimating that the baby had been dead three to four months when the body waa dtacovered. The body was found wrapped and tied In paper Inside a woman's tray- el.ng case. The luggage case waa found In a clothes closet In a hos pital basement room that had been occupied by a nurse who left for the enst on a month's vacation June 1, ' the dlatrlct attorneys office said. Bad odors emanated from the room soma time ago and the smell was called to the nurse's attention, the, ' Investigating authorttlea aald they hed been Informed. Tbe nurse, they atated. suggested that perhaps the oaors were caused by a' dead rat. Af ter that, they asserted, the nurse burned lsrga amounts of Incense la the room. City Attorney Frank J. Van Dyke waa told about the odors yesterday by Miss Ardath Losher when aha con sulted him regarding aub-leaslng tba hospital which la elty-owned. Mr. Van Dyke Immediately started an In vestigation. Mr.. Van Dyke and Police Chief Cuarlea P. Talent entered tha room and found the body In the suitcase, tje authorlttea said. Dr. Woods and Will Dodge, deputy county coroner, were called immedia tely and a thorough Inquiry was be gun. Assistant Dlatrlct Attorney Ocorge W. Nellaon and Sheriff 8yd I. Brown went to Ashland to take charge of the Inveatlgatlon. ' The body was moved to the 3. T. Dodge mortuary and later prepared for shipment to Dr. Menne. There . waa a depreaaton on one aide of the head but that could be caused by the body's lying on Its side, Dr. Voods was quoted as saying. There were no skull fractures, tbe district attorney's office said. It waa believed the baby had reached full er nearly full normal growth before delivery tccsuse the fingernails were welt de- va'oped. The district attorney's office aald a coroner's Inquest would probably bu deferred until a report ts received from Dr. Menne. The nurse In whose room the body waa found waa expected to return the latter part of this month. Her per sonal belongings were In the room, she having taken only the usual as- soitment of vacation clothes, tha au thorities stated. I CROP PERCENT UP PORTLAND, Ore.. June 18. (AP) An unusually backward aprlng baa held growing condition! throughout the northwest below average and the June I condition of all crops la "con siderably below" the 10-year average, the U. 8. department of agriculture said today. The Inclement weather Injured fruit proapecta, the departments av e rages showing that the apple crop waa 74 per cent of normal, compared to the 1923.'3a average of II per cent; the peach crop 84 per cent against 80 per cent for the l2S-'3a average; the pear crop 78 pe' cent, or per cent above the 10-year average; the prune crop 38 per cent, or 20 l-er cent llow the 10-year average; wmle the cherry crop at 84 per cent waa per aent below last year. A 10-year average waa unavailable. itatesman'et Widow Passet NEW ORLEANS, La- June I (AP) Mra. Champ Clark, widow of the former Democratic spesker C the bouse, died today. .... .v . . rnrnt NORTHWEST PEAR i
