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The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday; slightly cooler Tuesday. Temperature: Highest yesterday .: 100 Lowest thU morning ., . S? Make It One The wide variety of opportuni ties offered on the classified page make it one of the most attractive and Interesting paces In the paper. You should use and read this page. Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1937. No, 84. o) nr?p jl IfHlnl U UuUlNJ MedfordTkibune Full Associated Press , T-cy ? ?; Full United Press 1 r vnn n nllllLlL I n I I "III isuiawru- By H. R. Baukhage (Copyright, 1937, by the North Amer- - lean Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) WASHINGTON, June 28. This Is the season for fishing expeditions. Before the now famous one on Jef ferson Island was over, another, quite as significant but fax less talk ed about hardly mentioned In fact waa well under way. Three Important officials are tak ing part In this one. They left sep arately last week for Seattle where they will board a department of i Mjiimirarii hciglfrir Alaskan waters. -elsft meiVlcpf the bureau of 0 ' fisheries these trlpswsre nothing to him. Another Is a member of the navy intelligence division. That sounds quite natural a naval man should be Interested In the deep and Its denizens. The third Is a member of the state department. Like many fishing trips little fish ing will be done In the literal sense.' The Japanese are attending to that in the littoral sense, the Alaskan littoral, to be specific. Officially, the navy and the bur eau of fisheries are Just Interested In routine matters, charts and shoals, and perhaps, our semi-official seals that live no happily with the mem bers of the coast guard on- the Prlbllof Islands. Officially, the navy will not be In terested in the copy of a telegram which It hasn't received yet, but will, which states that natives have Just found again tents and other things with Japanese marking on one of our islands. The navy will not even be surprised. It has heard that surveyors stakes with Japanese marks have also been found on our islands. But then lt'. eh Id tiiat Japanese fishermen are versatile and some of them have taken up surveying as a hobby. They are such enthusiastic surveyors that they sometimes indulge In It on foreign soil without even think-, lng of getting a passport. The presence of the state depart ment official on the expedition Is simple to explain. (Continued on Page Pour.) T HALF TITLE ROSEBURG. Ore., June 28. (AP Crescent City became undisputed w.nner of the title for the first half cf the spilt season of the Sou 'hern Oregon Baseball league by defeating Itoseburg, 7 to 4. at Crescent Citv Sunday. R. K. B Zfieburg A 10 S Crescent City 7 11 a Kohl and Malllnverno; Farthering. Birr and Goff. Ashland Artillery . Rolling Homeward SALEM. June 28. (AP) Army trucks rolled down the Pacific high way today, carrying men of the itoOtb toast artillery of the Oregon National Guard from Camp Stevens to their homes In Klamath Palls and Ashland The first unit, which left today crter 15 days of firing practice with and ten-inch disappearing nlles and 12-Inch mortars at the mouth of tbe Columbia river, will camp tonight ai Junction City. About 90 trucks are being used In the convoy of the entire regiment. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Gt 1st rap going all the way to the McKenrle river for some super deluxe fishing and landing only 5 peeweoa in the whole week he angled. And BUI Hanson. Bob's Eugene frtfnd. coming to MedfoTd with a fine bush of chin whiskers, startled citizens not knowing he waa merely advertising Old Oregon Trail daya. Promoter Mack Llllard blossoming right out In the open with a natty pair of suf ponders to hold up his sea breeze flannels, he declaring this waa the latest mode for r&ssltn lmpr?s jarlos. Mrgret Boardmst. cramming ten nU. cycling, swimming, hiking. hon Mci riding and dancing Into one Sabbath holiday, she spending today tn lamenting her lolly. Sam Goldstein wandering forlorn ly about, supposedly enjoying a ca tloo nd he averrtn? he thought h 7uld go back to work as inacttvitj HOUSE APPROVAL WILL COMPLETE ACTION (IN Mill IIVIIVII VII Wlbbl 1 Conferees Eliminate Provis ion Requiring WPA to Make Public Names, Sal aries of Higher Personnel WASHINGTON. June 28. (AP) The senate accepted today a confer ence agreement on the administra tion's 1,500.000.000 relief bill. House approval will complete con gressional action. By eliminating an item for unspeci fied "miscellaneous projects" the conferees cut the PWA funds from $67,000,000 to 9359 000,000. Pew other Important changes were made In the bill. Congressional chief tains said they expected to place the treasure before both houses for final approval today. The conference committee elimi nated a provision which would have if quired the works progress adminis tration to make public the names. positions, and salaries of all Adminis trative officers. It had been written Into the bill at tne request of Senator pavls (R-Pa). who contended It would stop use of WPA Jobs of "political purposes." The national resources committee, a planning board which has operated largely with relief funds, was exempt ed from a clause which limits admin istrative costs of all agencies using relief money to five per cent. A number of other agencies were exempted In the original bill. WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP) 1 he senate gave tentative approval ttday to a 41,566,600 appropriation to. continuing construction of west ern reclamation projects during the 138 fiscal year. The total was $3,335,000 more than approved by the house, the Increase oelng largely accounted for by restor ation of a $1,250,000 item for Ari zona's Gila project and addition of a $900,000 Initial appropriation for a tiansmountaln water diversion pro ject in Colorado. INOLEWOOD, CM.. June 28. (AP) Police officer H. A. Chambers announced this afternoon the body of a young girl had been found in the Baldwin hills, near here, and attempts were being made to deter mine whether she was one of the three who have been missing since last Saturday noon. Three Boy Scouts, Wlnslow Smith, Bob Brown and Frank For tun?, brought word of the discovery of the body to Inglewood police. Another scout was left with the body, the boys reported. Simultaneously with the discovery. Capt. William Penprase of the sher iff's bureau of Investigation sent a statewide broadcast by teletype, read ing: . "Wanted on suspicion of kidnaping three Inglewood girls June 28: Othel Leroy Strong, 42. 135 pounds, 5 feet, 9VJ Inches tall, medium brown hair, brown eyes." The statewide message fa id the man probably was driving a 1929 or 1930 (Pord) roadster, minus running boards, fenders and top. Inglewood police reported at 2:45 p. m. that only one body had been found, but that searchers said they expected to find the other two in the vicinity. Complaints were filed with the sheriff's office today, that cherry growers In some sections of the val ley were shooting at birds in cherry trees with small calibre rifles and In some Instances missing the birds and hitting neighboring houses. The sheriff said he had detailed a deputy to advise the shooters the practice would have to stop. A complaint made by a woman In the Orchard Home district "tated her house had been bit three tim?s the part week by wild shots. The cherries are ripening fast and are a dellcary for birds of all kinds which flock to the laden trees 'n droves. Some cherry growers hare tied rlMh cat In the tree as a means of frightening the oird aaay. It u reported tals scarecrow version work. FIND GIRL'S BODY NEAR 1NGLEW00D Scullery Girl Spots Slayer; To Receive $1000 Reward i Henrietta Kosrlanskl, 10-vpar old kltrhni girl (lower), Identified a bar boy In a Cleveland lintel as Robert Irwin, acruard of the slaving of Veronlra Cledenn, New York model, her mother, and Frank It) rues, a roomer. Irwin Is shown (renter) in tipper photo. In custody of officer. AT FOREST POSTS Tfte whole protective force' of the Rogue River national forest took to their summer posts today as humid ity dropped and fire hazards In creased. This Is the latest date In tho year that the staff has been assigned to duty since the protective system was Inaugurated on the forest here In 1910. Late rain delayed the need of assigning the staff to the forest posts. The protective staff comprises 62 men and ft women. The women are telephone operators. Beginning July 1 permits will be required for all camp fires excepting at certain Improved camps, forest headquarters said. The camps where no permits are needed are so posted. At the others guards will be on hand to issue the permits and other wise help campers, headquarters stated. OLTMPIA, Jum. 28 (API Sunday sale of beer and wine was given knockout blow today by the MJprrme court, which held the 1909 Sunday closing law had not been repealed. The court revervd a superior court Judgment, that the Sunday closing law had been repealed by implica tion, and dlrecd the trial court to overrule the demurrer of ft. B. Thornbury, Olrmpla cafe operator who wm charged with selling beer and wine on Sunday. Whether the rase will be pressed agnlni-t Thornbury depend upon prfjweutor Smith Troy, who said It wan merely a t: caw and he hd not yet determ.nd whether the actios would be continued. SUNDAY BEER AND WINE GIVEN KNOCKOUT BLOW IRWIN HELD WITHOUT BAIL 111 BEEKMAU HILL MURDERS NEW YORK, June 28. (AP) Robert Irwin, debonair onc-tlma divinity - student -tutned' sculptor, was held 1lim"agftln8-the, triple shying on 1 BY KEEN EYES OF KITCHEN HELPER By Pale Harrison CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 28. TAP) The scullery girl came out of the kitchen today and followed ft bewild ering rainbow to Its New York pot of gold. Murder painted the rainbow that arched Henrietta Kosclanskl's Jour ney. The blood of Ronnie Oedcon, of her mother and of the luckless Prank Byrnes painted It, But It waa the scullery girl's sharp eyes that saw It there. Bright newspapermen from New York, where everyone la very smart and clever, had leaned against that hotel bar and looked upon the bar boy. They were the reporters who had come to Cleveland to write of the steel strike. - They could not see that the bar boy, lugging In the clean glasses and toting away the "empties." was Rob ert Irwin, wanted for ahocklng mur der: Robert Irwin the "madman." Henrietta Kosclanskl saw; and to night she will be In New York, richer because of It. ' There was a reservation for her (Continued on Page Three ) T T The damage suit of Mrs. Josephine Cots against O. L. Llndley and Henry Van Hoevenberg for personal injuries allegedly Incurred In an auto accident on the Sams Valley road, about 0:30 a. m., June 27, 1936, started in circuit court this morn ing. Mrs. Cota asks 14000. alleging that as a result of Injuries she suffers "severe aches and pains, nervousness, sleeplessness and dizziness." The accident occurred near the CoUi driveway. It Is asserted that Llndley. an employe of Van Hoeven berg. drove tbe orchard auto In a negligent manner In exceas of 45 miles per hour. i In a similar suit, filed by her i husband, the Jury awarded him a ! verdict for S226. Anneal In th mm Is pending. EUGENE DENTIST NEW ASSOCIATION LEADER PORTLAND, June 28.- APt The Oregon Dental association elected Dr. I M. C. Harris of Eugene president ! Saturday at the final business ses 1 slnn of the annual convention. I Dr. O. J. Johnson of Klamath Palls I will be an aiWnate delegate to the national conclave at Atlantic City 1 next moatb without. baltodfty In, (-two. ferlt-f Beekman hill- Enster-Sunday, Samuel Lelbowltz, who has defend cd 133 persona In first degree mur ; dcr trials without a client going to the electric chair, announced the eccentric young man had retained him as counsel and Immediately won a postponement of arraignment until June. 30. Irwin, held for the "manual stran-1 gulstlon" of beautiful Veronica Oed eon, artist's model, and her mother and the tco pick slaying of a roomer in the Gedeon home, was before magistrate Brought In homicide court barely half a mlnut?, - A Bhort while previously, he had appeared in police lineup outward ly calm appearing for only a min ute. - The law acted swiftly. A minute and half In lineup to homicide court and the 30-yeor old artist was rushed to the tombs to await the next scene In the drama begun when he fell violently In love with tho sister of "Ronnie." It was because of this love, which paradoxically engendered hate. Irwin said, that he was forced to kill "acci dentally" the two women and the man that Sunday three months ago. Irwin waa quoted as saying he went to the apartment Intending to kill the model's sister. Mrs. Ethel Kudner, and no one else. Mrs. Kudner- did not show up that night. In magistrate's court, the man who had wandered, unidentified through .half a dozen or more slates while the whole country searched for him, waived reading of the affidavit charging him with suspicion of hom icide. - Yesterday, Lelbowits said, Irwin sent htm two telegrams from Chicago asking the lawyer to become bis counsel. It was In Chicago that Irwin sur rendered to the Herald and Exam iner after fleeing Cleveland when a kitchen maid In a hotel where he worked as bus boy, recognize him I os the man hunted far and wide for I Mia Miron ilnvtnna D...j..an, Doctor A. H. O'Connor of the Rockland suit hospital for the In sane, where Irwin was once a pat lent, appeared In magistrate's court today end talked with Lelbowltr. Afterword, the doctor said "Irwin la going down fast mentally. He is breaking under tbe strain." A soaring thermometer yesterday recorded a maximum temperature of 100 degrees here, high for the sea son. Today's mercury waa expected to continue In the higher brackets Observations this morning showed the mark to be 4 degrees higher than at the same time yesterday. Weathermen looked for a change tonight, however, forecasting partly cloudy weather tonight and Tuesday and slightly cooler Tusdajr. Previous high for the season was 04 degrees, registered twice this month. Yesterdays heat found valley resi dents seeking comfort In the hlgntr altitudes, lake and mountain resorts attracting Urge crowd' RE-ENTER PLANTS AT Back to Work Movement's Launched Along Whole! Ohio-Pennsylvania Front; C. I. 0. Discounts Claims QOUSOSTOWS, O., June 58. (AP) Re-opening of Chicago plants or the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company, act for 8 a. m. tomorrow, has been postponed until further ifbtlce, company of ficial announced here late to day. YOUNOSTOWN, O.. June 28. (AP) Major General Bllson D. Light of the Ohio National Ouard. said today approximately 16,500 men were back at work in the strike-sieged steel plants In Youngstown. Approx imately 20,000 men are normally em ployed In the affected Youngstown mills. As the strike against four Inde pendent steel companies entered 'Its 33rd day, back-to-work movements were launched all along Us Ohio Pennsylvania front. Call Out C.I.O. Men The steel .workers' organizing com mittee, C.I.O. affiliate, called out workers of Republic Steel corporation, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Beth lehem Steel's Cambria plant at Johnston, Pa., and the Inland Steel company, after the concerns had re fused to sign labor contracts with the 8WOC. CJ.O. leaders, commenting on claims of employers as to the num ber of men returning, declared the figure should be "discounted 50 per cent" and added "We have Juat be gun to fight." ' ' . Plana were undo way .to attempt to re-open plants In the Calumet area of Chicago, whore 22,000 work era have been affected by the strike. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of In diana said he would refuse requests for National Guardsmen to aid the mills to reopen. New Plan PromlHed . However, he said he would propose a plan today which he believed (Continued on Page Three) MOTHER ON STAND IN SON'S BEHALF ALTORAS, Calif., June 28 (AP) fhe woman editor of the Alturas Plolndealer. Mrs (Icrtrude French took the stand today for her third day of testimony to save her son Harry 30, from a murder charge In tho newspaper-feud slaying of Clauds L. Mccracken.' A. Luke Howe, defense attorney, paused In the examining of Mrs Kiench to try to offer In evidence excerpts from the Modoc Mall. The wiltlngs, he ssld, were "msllclous at tacks" penned by Mccracken agalnut tne French family. Howe has sought to prove that French was goaded by the 48-yeat-otd editor of the rival paper Into a homi cidal frenzy, last March. . WAR ISOLATION HOPE CLOUDED BY HITLER By the Associated Tress. Itelchsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's decla ration of two Oerman policies In Spain today clouded a new optimism that the Spanish civil war might be Isolated from the rest of Europe. Der Fuehrer told a party rally of 200,000 nazts that the third reich "would welcome1 an Insurgent Span ish regime as an aid to solving Oer- many's sent raw material shortage, F. R. Home From Picnic; Solohs Face Long Siege -WASHINGTON, June SB (PI President Roosevelt returned to the White House todsy after an ovtrnlg.it cruise from Jefferson Island In Chesa peake bay whero he conferred with congressional Democrats and cabinet membera over the week-end. Tho president will remain here only two and a hair days twfore leaving with members of Ms family lor the wedding late Wednesday of his son. Franklin, to Miss Ethel Du Pont Jt Oreenvllie. Del. From there the president will ro to his mother's estate at Hyde Park, N. T., to remain over the Fourth or July. White House officials, commenting on capital reports a nomlnstlon to fill the supreme court vscsncy was Dam Rate Experts Rapped by Martin In Salem Address SALEM, June 28. (AP) Gover nor Martin told the chamber of commerce today that "damn fools are running around yelling about postage stamp rates for Bonneville power when they don't know what they mean." Speaking at the chamber's final meeting, the governor. In a Jovial mood, said the advocates of a blanket rate for Bonneville p.wer are attempting to make the far mers believe they are "getting even with the city feller." "I am charged with being h:ok ed up with the Portland chamber of commerce and the power com panies. To hell with Portland. The development, through low barge rates, will be of greater value to The Dalles and Vancou ver, Wash., than Portland. Build up Industry, through low power rates, then Portland will cease to be a dumping market but a pri mary one." OF FOR THREE YEARS BY F. R. WASHINGTON, June 28, (AP) President Roosevelt signed a bill to day extending the life of the civilian conservation corps for three years. He also transmitted to the house a supplemental budget estimate for 350,000,000 to finance the CCC dur ing the fiscal year beginning July 1. CCO officials said that sum would provide for 316.000 corps members. Including war veterans, and 35,000 administrative personnel. The pres ent strengths are 850,000 and 60, 000. ... r. . , ' .-. : - . The extension measure ' changes the ago limits for regular members of tho corps from the present 17 to 28, to 17 to 23. A total Of 25,000 veterans of tho World war will be exempted from the 17-23 provisions. As projects are completed, corps officials said, the present number of camps, 1,849, will be reduced to ap proximately 1,000, due to tho reduc tion in the size of the corps. E FALLS IN EUGENE EUGENE, June 28. (p) Two pas sengers wero shaken slightly and Pilot Harold fiander received a super flclal cut on the knee when their plane crashed Just north of the Eu gene airport Sunday afternoon after the motor failed during a takeoff, No reason for the motor failure had been determined, Pilot Bander said today. This ship had Just left the field, taking off at about 4:46 o'clock flying passengera, when the motor "conked." The ship waa about 100 feet off the ground and nosed down, crashing Just north of Eleventh street, a few blocks north of the airport. The front end of the plane waa badly smashed but the extent of the damage had not been determined. Passengers were two men, Lane and Porter, their first names not being learned. They were not hurt and fin lahed their ride with the pilot In an other ship. CHILOQUIN FIREWORKS IN PRE 4TH DISPLAY 1HILOQMN. June 28. (AP) Chlloquln youngsters were treated to an unexpected foretaste of the Fourth of July when Alldo de Bor toll, who was running a fireworks stand at the city limits, lighted a firecracker too close to his place of business. De Bor toll's clothes caught trie and the stand burned to the ground amid a gorgeous display of skyrockets, Ro man candles, pin -wheels and assort- rd nolw-makcrs. Imminent, ssld none wsa In sight for some time. They also said the president Is not planning to make a radio speech on the labor sltusllon They said Mr. Roosevelt probably would send to the senate and house agriculture committee chairman to morrow's letter urging action at this session on the ever normal granary farm bill. Democrats In congress settled down to the task of enacting a heavy ad ministration legislative program that may keep them at work until fall They said a series or week-end pic nics with President Roosevelt hsd strengthened aentiment tor holding congress In session until It acta on major bills. VICTIMS OF WRECK ON OREGON TRAIL Nine Persons Taken to Hos pital When Speeding Car Hurtles Into Group Await ing Arrival of Ambulance BAKER, Jun 38. PI With 111 jron already Injured and lying along the Old Oregon trail between Baker and Htlnai In anticipation of the arrival or an ambulanoe, an au tomobile driven by Harland Jeffords of Baker roared upon the acene about 13:30 Sunday morning to climax the most devastating and extensive aerlea of automobile accldcnta ever occur rlns In Baker countv. Nine persons, at least two of them sorlously Injured, were taken to a lo cal noapuai xor treatment. Fourteen uthor persons were reported to have been Injured when Jeffords automo bile waa driven upon the acene. . Machine Rebounds Karl Garland Of Baker. rirlvlni. - south on the Old Oregon trail, swung nis macnine around an automobile operated by Oeorgo Balch of Baker and then back onto the west or right hand side of the hlffhwsv. Th. n.. land car clipped the right rear fen der or an automobllo In front of the saicn car and then crashed Into the borrow-olt. Arter hittinv th em bankment, the machine bounded back onio me snouiner or the highway. Mrs. cornena Brown Mitchell of Baker, who was bleeding from the muui.n, was apparently injured In ternally and ts still In a critical con dition today. The other five occu. pants of the automobile were not ' seriously Injured. They were given urn am troaimeni ana laid on blank ets on the north aide of the Garland car. Falls to Halt As Jerfords anoroaehed from th south, flagmen attempted to stop him, . but he continued his course. The machine struck an automobile parked south of tho Oarland car and then hit tho Oarland antnmnHll. The Oarland car was overturned by the impsct and fell onto Mrs. Mitchell. Aaeue mwis or North Powder and Lorln Cassldv ot Bates, ownep at the oar driven by Jeffords, were cut and uruiaea. ... Bctte Baxa and Helen Minrr nr Baker, who were among the specta- (Contlnued on Paga rtirea ) BE FOREST LAND WASHINGTON, June 38 (AP) The senate approved todsy a bill, by Senator Charles L. McNsry of Ore gon, which would transfer 300 seres of revested Oregon and California railroad grant lands In western Ore gon to the Rogue River national for est for recreational purposes. Of the 300 acres. So are In the Dead Indian Boda springs area and 130 In the McAllister Boda Springs district, Karl L. Janouch. forest su pervisor said. Transfer of the land for recrea tional purposes waa first sought by tha Jackson County Chsmber of Commerce, Dr. L. D. Inskeep Initiat ing the campaign about three years ago as chstrmsn of a committee named by the chamber. The areas have many beautiful sites for recre ational centers. 5-YEAR SENTENCE FOR K. F. SLAYER KLAMATH FALLS, June 28. (AP) Jack Roesner, 31, wss sentenced to five yesrs In stste prison todsy em a manslaughter conviction. Roesner shot and killed Jeass Imert in a family row April 38. Circuit Judge Edward B. Aahurst sharply admonished Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roesner, parents of young Roes ner. Ha blamed them for starting the fight which led to (mart's desth snd ssld they were lucky that they too were not Indicted. PORTLAND MERCURY IN UPPER BRACKETS PORTLAND, June 38. (AP) The temperature tied Sunday's 81 -degree mark at p. m. today, surged up ward and probably will reach M degreea before the day la over, aald the United States weather bureau. Todays minimum stood at 81 de grees. Variable winds probably will bring clouds snd cooler weather tonight r Tuesday 4
