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The Weather Forecast: Showers tonlf ht and Tuesday; little change in temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday .:.., Lowest this morning 61 Daily Habit Reading the ciaatlfled Ad to a dally hiblt vlth nun; peo ple. It U for thia reason then little Ads produce each good results. Prepare your Ad now for tomorrow'l paper. MEDFORD Tjhbune Full Associated Press Full United Preta Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 21. 1937. No. 78. M Nl VI j ejWJKTByew ej"S ssaaaajaatw tt 0EW ML ffl By H. R. BALK1MUE (Copyright, 1837, by the North Amer ican Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) WASHINGTON, June 21. There Is a little chart In the department ol agriculture with two lines on It that are almost parallel. They represent wages paid to labor and the Income of the dairy farmer. Generally speaking, farm Income and wages march side by side, too. But when you try to chart the lines along which agriculture and labor are marching these days toward ft mutually abundant life, they are anything but parallel. Canvassing the leading farm or ga&tattons In Washington, three thlngsTnoy the farmer aa he looks t the labor .situation: 1, The fact tbt sdmlnlatratlon roses have all beenplnned on la bor's hat recently. 9. The fear that more strikes will moan less butter and eggs and other farm products purchased. . - S. The farmer (at least some of them) has acquired a little pros perity, which has, In some esses, created a labor problem for htm. The result of these "annoyance" is that the national grange (which alt at the extreme right of the farm organizations) has urged upon con gress that It leave the wages and hours bill to another session. If any. to be voted upon. The Grangers are Impelled by the fear that It will drive up wages, hence prices of farm Implements and other products- which the farmer consumes. i Carrying on their campatgn to postpone action by tying up the measure with the unpopular court bill, which they have done from the first, the grange Invited Senator Wheeler of Montana to speak on the subject on Its hour on the radio. 5 But the folks who are said to be getting further away from the propo sition for regulating wages and hours are the ones who are nearest the wage-earners on the depsrtment of agriculture's chart the dairy farm ers. There are more than two mil lion of them, and each gets a let ter every week that he never throws Into the waste basket. It contains a check from the creamery company (Continued on Page pour.) . BLUMlFFfie PLACE OWN GROUP IS OUSTED PARIS, June 31. (AP) Camilla Chautemps, radical socialist ex-pre-mler who Is attempting to form a new people's front cabinet, todsy offered a portfolio to Leon Blum, the out going prime minister. The socialist Blum, whose govern ment fell early today, withheld his decision. It was Indicated It would bo delayed until a meeting of the toclallst national council tomorrow Truckloads of mobile guards rum bled through the streets aa Chau tempa sounded out leaders of various factions, particularly the soclallsta. Their participation In the cabinet seemed to depend on agreement on a financial program. Steel-helmeted guards deployed In front of the eenat to prevent any demonstration against the body thst overthrew Blum and hla people'a front government yesterday by refus ing to grant decree powers to deal with the financial crisis. Acting with stgnlflcsnt speed. President Albert Lebrun summoned Chautemps to the Elysee palsce be fore dawn and designated him to form a new government. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS rd Heath. Jr.. averrtna he bd direct word from Seattle ssylng the Russian filers didn't land here on ac count of the communistic activities of Ah Bsnwell. Wsrd McReynolds tossing a waste basket of flsmlng pspers out a top floor window of city hall, the burn ing comet missing Frank Roers head by a foot. Cnrl Hay. Lions conclave official1. rr.amainirg an admirable calm while trying to talk to a arrib. Hstn to a speech and rat lunch all at the name time. Forester Paul Brinaon relating how be drove for miles and miles in tbe Fish lake country without mting a wheel that had dropped off. It being brought out under eroM-exsmination that it was the apart wheel. STRIKERS DECLARE PLANT REOPENING MEAN FIGHT 'Little Steel' Plants to Re sume at 7 A. M.f Tues day General Strike in Warren, Ohio, Threatened CLEVELAND, June 31 P) "Little Steel" Issued deflsnt "bsck-to-work" marching orders today. With the zero hour set by steel ex ecutives for 7 a. m., tomorrow, Involv. Ing about 24,000 men In the strike ravaged Youngstown area, federal mediators strove desperately In Cleve land to effect a settlement. The back-to-work challenge, an nounced Jointly by Frank Purnell. president of the Toungstown Sheet and Tube, and by Republic Steel, drew a swift counter-challenge. Trouble Threatened "As soon ss somebody goes In those plsnts." said John Mayo. Youngstown director of the steel workers organic lng committee "the SOS will go out and there will be trouble. "There will be so many men (strlk. ers) down there they won't go in. We can bring In outside men. you know." Simultaneously, the threat of a general strike of 10.000 members of organized labor rumbled In Warren, U miles from Youngstown. The threat developed Immediately after Judge Lynn B. Griffith. In a courtroom crowded with grim strik ers, granted the Republic Steel corp. an Injunction restraining the activi ties of strike pickets. "If a general strike la called, It (Continued on Page Plre ) F PLANNED TO GAIN SCIENTIFIC DATA VANCOUVER, Wash., June SI MP) The successful flight of three Russian airmen across the top of the world to North America from Moscow Is only the forerunner of future experiments, scientific flights which the Soviet Republle will spon sor. Ambassador A. A. Troyanovsky said today. Speaking from the front porch of the home of General George Mar shall, commandant of the army poet here, where the fllera ended their 6300-mile nonstop flight yesterday, the ambassador sketched briefly the aeronautical hopes of his country He revealed Incidentally thst the filers probably would remain in the United Ststes a month before re turning to Moscow. "Our flers want to see something of this country." said the ambassa dor. 'They desire to look at plants snd American facilities. I think they will remain In the United states about one month. . "From San Francisco they will go es.it to Washington. "It Is the desire of our govern ment to have many flight of tnls nature but I do not know when they will take ploce. This flight demon stratee such trips are practical. This trip la the first of It kind and will be used as a basis for further exper iments. "These fliers are among our most outstanding aviators and are familiar with non-stop trips of this nature, baring made particularly long flights to the eastern section of our country. They hold the official title of hercee of t!i Soviet Union. "The ship probably will be reas sembled at Moscow and used again. "The flight Is Important for scien tific purpoie snd the condition of the plsne will ahow what must be overc .me in the Arctic. Of course, this will not be determined until a thorough Inspection of the equip ment. Thst la one reason why ine piane must not be flown farther. The annuel school board election for this district Is being held today In the senior high school building with the polls opn from 9 until 7 p. m. The only candidate up for elertlon la C. C. temmirn. present Incumbent. He was the only one nominated to the board which consist of five di rector and cirr.es three-year term. All legal voters residing within this i-hool district are urged to east their rotea. Maryland Fund, bid 01. suited 7 Quarterly Income, bid 1B, asked. 1897. Russians eU&i3sjast& A.yif. . .4 . 5 e v- wiavw !&m&m&& !aaa n laaaaaaaaai -CTygai mi l,"" ' " ; "N' " ' -" t iissmmssssssssssBssmssssesmmsss I I I J i 1 lip . (' Srr - . ' - m BOBS UP AT CONCLAVE MARSHFTELD. June 31. fAP Mrst sign of the threatne, atruggl between the American Fpretion of Labor and the Committee for Indus trial orftanlzation at the atate Federa tion of Labor convention appeared to day at the opening aewlon when, i resolution was offered to authorize tbe executive committer to set aide funds lo hire organizers to gvner A F. of L. membership. This resolution led the firnt of tnone brouKht before the committee, just ahead of a resolution asking Oovernor Martin to mil A aperlal ss lon of the legislature to provide addition! old age pension funds. Ooiernor Lows Eye. BALTIMORE. June'21 ( AP Got. Harry W. Nice's light eye wa re moved todsy In an .operation per formed by Dr. J. L Gcldnarh In the Wllmer cllmc of th Johns Hop mm boapltal. Land At Fight Servlre A running dcacrlptton of the Braddock-Loul fight will be given over the Mall Tribune's public ad. dress syMem In front of the new psper office on North Fir street Tuesday evening. United Press bul letins received by direct leased wire will aUo be posted In the Mail Tribune windows. The public Is Invited to enjoy the service which will start about 7 p. m. Mfflforrl time. Crescent Strikers Return To Labors GRANTS PASS. June 21. (AP) A weOt-long atrike which began with two teamsters' union delivery men and halted operation at the Hobos Wall Lumber company, ended with the unloading of merchandise at Crescent City, Cal. Two hundred and fifty men were thrown out of wrk at the com pany's mill snd yard alon. The mill Is ex(,eted to reopen today. Ships had been proven ted, from handling com piny freight. Vancouver, Wash. STAGE PISTOL DUEL KLAMATH FALLS. June 31. (API Two Mexicans were wounded and I one vaa undtr arrest today aa tne i result of an Alleged gun duel at Hsrkimore. Cal., lent night. Vlcentl Alvarez, 2S. a section hand, wss taken Into custody at Chllofjun this morning by Sheriff John Sharp of Modoc county and Klamath offi cers. Sharp Mid Alvsres shot Con ceptk.n Diaz through the liver with a -32 revolver and that Diaz shot Alvarez In the shoulder with a 22. Aft-r the ahootirw. Alvarez teft Hsckmore In his automobile, the California officer said. donaughn6mTnation has committee okeh WASHINOTON. June 21. (API Ths senate judiciary committee ap proved today the nomination of Carl C. Dona ugh, to be U. 8. attorney for Oregon. After spanning approximately 5,100 miles of land, nnter and Ire In ft flight across the North Pole from Moscow, ltiiln, the lilg. red-winged monoplane (top) was forced by wea ther ( ondltlona (o land Sunday tti 8:22 a. m., nt Vancouver, Wash., 502 flying miles short of Oakland, Calif., Its destination. The tired hut cheer ful trio of Soviet nlnnen (center) sought hnili and bed soon after landing. Left to right: Alexander Del takoff, navlgntor; Veri Chekaloff, chief pilot, nnd Oeorgl Balbukoff, cn-pllot. Left to right below are R. Mr.Mrniimln, Vnldlmlr niignov, mil itary attache of the Itiisftlau embassy In Waishlugtmt, Stnntslave Hhumovs ky, Russian HinhnsMidor; A. A. Try anovsky, nnd Htewardess Lillian Ul aen who flew from Han Francisco by chartered plane to greet the Russian airmen. (A. P. flint rn) FECHNER DELAYED AT SITKA, ALASKA PORTLAND, Ore., June aiHffV The CCC officers here cleared the mystery today of the failure of Rob ert M. Fechner, national CCO direc tor, to arrive in Seattle on the boat with the rest of the party returning from, Alaska. Fechner Is safe In Sitka, held up by poor flying weather. Expecting to beat the boat into Seattle by coming with the flying naval patrol, Fecn ncr waited for the planes. Poor weath er held them at Sitka. Because of the 1om of time entailed by hla delay in Alaska, Mr. Fener will not Inspect the Medford 0CC district, headquarters were Informed this morning. Banquets for Mr. Fechner at Oranta Pass and the Oregon Caves were can celled today. Many of the Medford CCO here had planned to attend the gathering for Mr. Fechner In Oranta Roosevelt Suffers From Cold In Nose WASHINOTON. June 21. (AP) President Roosevelt remained In tha living quarters of tha White House today Buffering from what official described aa cold In the noae. Captain Rosa T. Mclntlre., White House physician, suggested the presl dnt take it eay because of a strtnu ou week ahead. Trail Blazing Plane Will Be Dismantled For Shipment Home VANCOt'YER, Wash., June 31. (AP) Three men of Iron from far-off ft tint a laid upon the new world's doomtep today their claim to arlatlon Immortalttj and their challenge to the flying genluaea of the world's great nations by piloting a red-winged monoplane nearly 0,300 mllea non-stop from Moscow actoss the top of the world to this American army post on the bank of the Columbia river. SNELL TO ADDRESS Secretary of State to Make Principal Talk at Masonic Hall Meeting Prescott Memorial Is Dedicated Lion from all porta of tha- atata yesterday and today converged on Medford to participate In the Mth annual convention of district 38, Lions International. Tha atata of Ore gon comprises the district. Registration by noon today totaled 220 and additional numbers were expected to arrive this afternoon and evening. . . Today's program opened with the first Joint breakfast of Lions and their ladles ever to feature a con vention of tha organization, 104 be ing present at the Hotel Medfotd, J,. Verne Bhangls, prealdent. of the Medford club, presided. The convention proper opened at 10 a. m. today at the Rialto theatre, with District Oovernor Ralph H. Klatslng of Salem, delivering . the principal . address. . A message from th- International- organization was brought to the assembly by Richard J. Otenbaugh of Denver. Colo., im mediate past president of Lions In ternational. Oovernor Kletzlng named new committees during the seaaion. At Joint Luncheon Delegate met for luncheon at the Masonic hall . with the Oranta Pua club aa hoeta. The afternoon was spent In recreation, golf matches, fishing and sightseeing being arrang ed aa entertainment for the visitors. Earl Snell, secretary of atate, Is slated to address the group at the banquet tonight honoring Oovernor K letting st the Masonic hall. Ap proximately 400 Llona and their t am ines are expected to attend tonight's banquet. Following dinner, delegates will at tend the wrestling matches at the armory, presented by Promoter Mutk Li Hard in cooperation with the local club. A block of 200 seaU hss been taken by the club for vlalting mom be rs. Following the matches, dele gates will gather at the Governors ball at Dreamland hall, ' Principal business sessions will be held tomorrow morning, when haw officers will be elected. The carnival scheduled for tomorrow night at the armory will climax the three-day conclave. - Auxiliary Meeting - The auxiliary la holding conven tion emslons corresponding to those of tho Lions. Yesterday's program opened with a band concert at 3:30 p. m after which members adjourned to Pres- (Contlnued on Pg Three.) MEDFORD MAN IS KILLED IN WRECK NEAR FRESNO Death claimed Its sacond Medford Tletlm on California highway, over tha weekend Saturday mornlni, word reaching here ye.terday thst Floyd Lemuel Newman. 38. until rrlday manager of tha Medford Pipe and Machinery company at 3 South Fir ,treet, lost hla life when his car crashed Into a tree near Selm., Cal.. 30 mllea south of Fresno. Zarller the same day, Mrs, Haul Johnston. well-Xnown Medford wo man, waa killed 30 mile, north of Redding when her car hit concrete bridge pillar. According to Ralph Stephenson of this city, brother-in-law of the acci dent tletlm, Newman had picked up a hitch-hiker These leg was ao badly crushed In the smash-up that It had to be amputated. Newman, Bte phenson ssid after receiving word from eVlma police, had apparently gone to sleep at tha wheel. Death was probably cheated out of two mora Tletlms when It waa r. realed by Stephenson that Newman", wife and three-year-old son left Med ford with him Friday at 11 a.m. Mrs. Newman and the youngit-r. bo waver, (topped at Sacramento to Weary of trying to punch their way through the fog and rain blanket of the verdant Paclflo northweat they took a bearing on tha airport of Van couver barracks and slid down through the dripping weather to ' a clean-cut landing at 8:22 a. m. Pacific standard time Sunday, Just 03 hours and 17 minutes after they left tha capital of Soviet Ruaala at 3:05 p. m. Paclflo standard time Thursday. Few See Landing The conquerors of one of tha moat hazardous flights In aviation history fell some 592 miles short of their glial San Francisco and tha only vitneaaea to the end of their Journey other than themselves were some smazed soldiers of the barrack and three University R.O.T.C. student. - Tha men who made Into reality a five-year-old dream of Soviet Russia' air forces was a tousled, headed, swar thy pilot, Valerl Chekaloff, who never relinquished tha controls In mora than two and one-half daya of flying, his co-pllot, Oeorgl Balbukoff, and Alexander Bellakoff, whose navigation In a wilderness of north pole mag netic Interferences brought tha ship unerringly to the United States. At 0:30 a. m., tha filers mat with an army and civilian board headed by Major Paul Burrows, commandant of Pearson Field, end of the flight, and Harry K. Coffey, Portland, Ore., repre sentative of tha National Aeronautic zMoclatlon. . . , Remove Barographs - They procecded.'to the plana, where Chekaloff directed tha removal of two .. aerographs, which hold a sealed rec ord of the course of the flight, alti tude maintained and take-off and landing. ; The board Inspected the gasoline tanka and found the seals Intact. They will be drained end the gasoline remaining measured , aa a further flight record.: Astounded at the acclaim which hero-worshipping mob of citizens quickly bestowed upon them once word of their unscheduled landing spread, the husky Russian btrdman smiled 'wanly, waved confusedly and then lh the shelter of the home of General Oeorge Marshall, barracks commander, shared hla breakfaat with him end Mrs. Marshall, went to sleep snd arose late In the day to say that they would not go on that the plane would be dismantled here end In e chartered plane they would fly late today to San Francisco In the com lainy of the Russian ambassador, Alrxander A. Troyanovsky, who flew here to greet them. - Hear Russian "Hello" Good as the landing looked to the fliers after sleepless, nerve -straining hours at one point of which the polar air froze even their drinking water, aven more over-Joyed were they when among a group of Americans whose English left them stumped they heard a young man shout: "Sdractrachll" ("hello" In Russian.) It was the first word they under stood In a strange land end thereafter until General Marshall, just sitting down to bacon and eggs when the distinguished visitors gilded serosa tne army port, threw a protecting guard of soldiers about them, Oeorge Kozmetsky was their shield. (Continued on Pae Three.) tlslt her parent. Stephenson plained. A resident of Medford for about 10 jeers, Newman had owned tha Medford Pipe and Machinery com pany since the flrat of tha year. Me closed his business Friday and the family started for San Diego when Newman was to work for his brother, Wayne W. Prlckett. who recently moved from Medford to th Cali fornia city. Actual details of the mishap bay not been learned. Stephenson and Selma police told him tha crash oc curred at t a m. Saturday, and he also stated that Newman had prob ably been drlylng all Friday night. . Beeldes hla wife and email son, Newman leasee his mother. Mr.. Oeorge Kllrdge. of rout 9. Medford, three alstera, Mr,. Ralph Stephenaon of 4ia Arcadia court. Medford. Mrs. Neva Wallace and Mrs. Floyd Dun gan. both of Fllmore, Calif., and on brother, Wayne W. .Prltchatt of Ban Diego. The body will be .hipped to Mad. ford by train Wednesday It wa. an nounced bv Perl'a Funeral Home, which will be in charge arrangement. 1
