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Cloe At 8 P. M. It U tint, to begin thinking about writing that classified ad for th Sunday morning edition. Ada In by 3: JO Satur day afternoon trill ba properly classified. 1-ater adi ran Too l.ate to Classlfly. Closing time S p. m. The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Sat. but with torn cloudiness; not much changt In tempera ture. Hlthet yesterday ..g; Lowest this mornlng.. M Tribune MEDFORD full Associated Press P aited Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 2. 1937. No. 88. an act Ml it USE s I CROWDED STORE i i UMfd AT NAMPA, IDAHO Sgjlffi INFERNOSCENE By H. R. BA UK II AGE (Copyright, 1937, by the North Amer ican Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) WASHINGTON, July 2. When a lady correspondent who knows how to put a double meaning Into her P voice asked the president tf they "caught any fish" on Jefferson isl and, nobody missed the point, and nobody got the answer. But If you can believe a political fisherman's story with any leas effort than you can swallow one of the Ica&k Walton variety, here's the catch or what was left of It when the trading on Capitol H1U was over: 1. A compromise court bill. - a. Government reorganization. 3. Farm bill (ever-normal granary et al.) . For the court compromise without a filibuster, there was offered one of the constitutional amendments tha oppositionist have asked for. Whether the above la fish, flesh, fowl and not Just another good, redolent herring, time will tell. But the. miraculous adventures of the farm bill and the reorganization bill , may as well be told now. Why did the administration, after backing the farm (ever-normal gran ary et al) bill, drop it and then, with apparently no reason, suddenly attempt to bring It back to life? Well, In the first place, the ad ministration, or at least the secre tary of agriculture, dropped It only In the sense that a juggler drops a ball once In a while Just to keep up your Interest. Then old Dame Nature took a hand, recorded by a department of agri culture release of June 29:' "A 4-point drop In the Index of prices received by farmers. "Decline was attributed to Improv ed crop prospect and partial ad justment of prlcea to a new crop basis" To tha farmers, of course, the bul letin was old stuff Just confirma tion of what they already knew by the twinges of their left elbows. The price situation was a wonder ful break because It meant more kindly consideration of any stabilis ation scheme. But Secretary Wallace didn't depend on that alone he (Continued on Page fwelve) CCC FINANCE BILL SIGNED BY F.D.R. WASHINGTON. July 2. (AP) President Roosevelt signed today two major appropriations bills army's and one for special purposes per ml t ting the spending of $864,030,000 during the fiscal year that started yesterday. The war department bill, which provides only for military functions, appropriates $415,000,000. The $247.- 000,000 non-military army supply bill, which Includes flood control funds, was passed yesterday by the senate and was sent to a senate-house com ml t tee conference for adjustment ot senate amendments. The special appropriation bill pro- Tides $449,930,000 for the civilian corps, the railroad retirement board and other agencies not Included In the regular supply bills. ChlneM Bilker PORTLAND, July 2. (AP) Detec tives said that which they thought would never happen has come to pass Chinese, Henry Gee, claimed two Filipinos bilked him out of ll.fiOO In a poker game. Detectives said they bin heard of many other persons los ing money by bunco gambling but never a Chinese. SIDE GLANCES TRIBDKE REPORTERS Claude Stevens being the centei of a tack of the numerous persons con stantly In search of first one and then Mother of the air carnival generalis simos who nd a peculiar genius for disappearing when most urgently needed. Fred Heath. Jr.. having a keen weather eve to business and arrang ing s concession for colored spectacles at the sun-dazrled airport. Jim Collins bein? wary of this pillar of playfulness whn he was caught a I'ping s cool milkshake in his ililrt rlfctes, he fearing his flouting of dress conventions would be cited nereJn. Harrey Caw-man complaining v.ut tert?r's drafts that hw skv let ters out of i'nspe as sr; a B--nvl;n' m hid made them In mid -air. More Than 15 Injured ; Children Playing With Drug Store Fireworks Dis play Blamed for Tragedy NAMPA, Idaho. July 3. (AP)- pre-hollday fire worts explosion that turned a combination drug store and beauty parlor into an Inferno -of pyrotechnics claimed two more lives today, bringing the toll to five. More than 15 were Injured, one of whom may die. Mrs. Ernest Miller, 26, and Mrs. i George LeDelle, 38, died this morn-1 Ing. Mrs. T. C. Daniels, 29, her dress ariame, succumbed yesterday after-! noon and a few hours later Kath erine Miller, 3, daughter of Mrs. Miller, and Adryce Paver, 12, died of burns. . Fire Chief L. T. Lesslnger said children playing with fireworks In the shop touched off the spark that caused tho tragedy. Of the Injured, Miss Maria George Is In the most serious condition, and hospital attendants said she Is "sink ing fast." Many of the injured were attend ing a beauty school operated on the mcz7Anlno of the drugstore. All available physicians and nurs?s were pressed Into aervlre. Children Blamed Said Fire Chief Lesslnger: "What happened was this: There was a very considerable display or fireworks In the drugstore window and apparently somo of the- children playing around there Inadvertently or accidentally set off something which quickly Ignited the entire display. It exploded and set lira to the store. 'It happened so damnably fast. In less than 16 minutes from the time the call was received at the station, our main equipment was back In the flrehouae." Jack Jcnnes. managing editor of the Nampa Leader-Herald and one of the first on the scene, said "It was the wildest panic I ever saw." (Continued on Page five.) E WASHINGTON. July 2. (AP) Sen ator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana accused Indian Commissioner John Collier today of "playing with the lumber companies of the northwest and approving fraudulent contracts In connection with timber sales on Indian lands. The senator told Collier at a sena Indian affairs committee hearing "The lumber companies bribed the Indians to get them to sign contracts for timber and It was as wrong mor ally for the department to approve these contracts as for the Indians to take the bribe. It was a shameful piece of business on the part of the Indian bureau.' The senator's charge came during testimony before the committee of Wade Crawford, former superintend ent of the Klamath reservation in Oregon, who was dismissed by the Indian commissioner recently. Craw ford appeared before the committee and presented charges against Collier and sought vindication for hla re moval. 23 Miners Killed LONDON, July 2. (AP) Twenty .wo persons were reported killed to ds; In two explosions and a fire at rhe Brymbo coal mine at Chesterton Stoke-on-Kent. Five bodies were re covered. Seventeen men still tombed were feared dead. Aid for Tenant Farmers Has Approval of Senate WASHINGTON. July . (API The senate approved today the Bank head bill authorizing 186.000 000 In federal expendlturea during the next three years to help tenante and share croppers become farm ownera. The senate substituted the pro- 1 D.n.l. B.nVt.-.. m .1. . . J , , V ' " to set up a federal land buying and selling agency for the t85.0O0.0O0 dl rect loan measure which the house passed Tuesday. The Bankhead bill calls for a $10 nooooo appropriation this year. S2S. 000. 000 in 1939. and S.Vl.OOOOOO in low to flnsnre oneratlons of Farmers Home corporation. The Alabama senator expresaed confidence a satlsfartory com pro - mtse would be worked out with the hour, which .otd f-r lant direct to tnants to finance purchase of farm Ashland Youth Russia to mm raws OF STRIKERSBY COPS 120 Patrolmen in Clubbing, Shooting of Strike Pa Vaders in Chicago Eyed by Investigating Committee WASHINGTON, uly 2. (AP) Th senate civil liberties committee view ed today the first motion picture evidence ever Introduced into a con gressional investigation a newsreel of the Memorial day battle between steel strikers and Chicago police. In which ten persons were killed and many wounded. The film showed approximately 120 uniformed police shooting and club bing a crowd of shirt-sleeved parad ers, among them a number of women. Cameraman Orlando Llppert told the committee there was a break of I "not more than seven seconds" In his film. Missiles Start Action During this intervals, he said, some missiles flew toward the police from the rear ranks of the crowd, and "20 or 30" demonstrators were pushed Into the police- Una by persona hur rying up from behind. "This apparently was the fire that Ignited the situation." Llppert ex plained. ' The film showed police clubbing fleeing women, striking men on the ground, and firing point-blank Into the crowd. Twice the film showed resistance by the demonstrators. Once a run ning man paused to hurl a rock at his pursuers, and a moment later a denim-clad marcher struck at police with a stick. Close ups showed police placing the wounded in patrol wagons. The stretchers with which the wagons were said to be equipped were not used. Leader Testifies Before the film was shown, John Rlffe. a strike leader, testified that the Memorial day marchers did not intend to enter the Republic steel plant when they staged their demon stration. Rlffe testified the marchers "didn't (Continued on Page Five).) TO FOLLOW PETS NTW ORLEANS, La.. July 2. (AP) The 21 artillery horses First Ser geant Henry Brunlg loved were led out and shot this week, condemned aa too old for service. Sergeant Brunlg was found dead last night, a bullet wound In his head, hla revolver by bis side, "The only explanation I can think of,'' aald his uncle. H. I. Brunlg, "is that Henry was grieving over the horses." Dr. O. Grenes Cole, coroner, said the death was a suicide. Henry Brunlg bad been a member of the Louisiana national guard 21 years. He was wounded In France. The horses were sorted out as old or unfit and executed after the mo- tori ration of Brunlg's unit, the 141st I field artillery, had been ordered by ' the wsr department. The bill went through after adop tlon of several amendmenta dealing with appointments to tha proposed new administrative agency and with its powera. The senate rejected a proposal by Senator O'Mahoney (D Wyo.) to put (.officials and employes under the civil , . .,. serrlce. It had voted down yesterday an .amendment by Senator Connally (D.. Tex.) to authorize three annual 15.000.000 appropriations. The senate voted to entitle the legislation the "Bankhead-Jonca farm I tenancy at," referring also to Cbalr- man Jones (D.. Tex.) of the house agriculture committee, 1 Senator McNary f R., Ore.) the ; minority leader, commented this was ! t.;e flr.t ueh official detonation Dy , names of members of congress in I history Recall Amur Force new emm TO SAYS JAP ENVOY MOSCOW, July 3. AV-The Jap anese ambassador to Moscow, - Ma moru Shlgemitsu, announced tonight that the Russian government had agreed to withdraw Its troops and gunboats from the disputed Amur river Islands. - Shlgemitsu said the agreement for evacuation called for ' withdrawal of 20 gunboats assembled near the Isl ands. The promise to Immediately give the withdrawal order was given after Shlgemitsu officially Informed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Utvlnoff that no Manchoukoan gunboats were concentrated there. The envoy added "It remains to be seen if the order will be carried out.4' Japan protested to the Soviet gov ernment and demanded withdrawal of forces after a clash on Wednesday In the Amur river Islands between a Soviet gungoat and Japanese-Man- choukoan forces. Shlgemitsu aald If the evacuation la "effected, Japan will consider the Incident closed satisfactorily." The Soviet government announced a communique would be Issued later. E CONCEALMENT OF STILLBORN BABY Mlas Irene Simons, 23, sought for questioning In the Ashland Commun ity hospital crsad baby oase, has re turned from Richardson. N. D., and yesterday afternoon made a state ment, according to Deputy District Attorney George W. Nellaon, In which she clarified - all circumstances In connection with the finding of the Infant's body in a closet of a room formerly occupied by her as a nurse on June 14. The statement, the deputy district attorney aald, declared the Infant was "still-born." that her actions were due to distraction and a desire to have It burled In accordance with the rites of her faith. She declined to give the name of the father, the authorities said. The deputy district attorney said there was no crime committed, and no charge could be filed except tor failure to report a birth a mlade mcanor. The Infant was found in a carton In the hospital where Miss Simons was employed as a nurse, and two weeks after she left on a month's vacation trip to visit relatives in North Dakota. - - ....... She returned this week to Ash land. and reported direct to the district at torney's office. Ashland city police sought her In Klamath Falls yester day while she was reporting to the district attorney. REELECT HEAD AS BOY SCOUT CHIEF WASHINGTON. July 3. (AP) The national council of the Boy Scouts of America re-elected Walter B. Head, of St. Louis, today as president for a three-year term. The council also re-elected James B. West chief scout executive, along with a do?n other national officers. Two new directors were chosen for three-year terms. They mere former Senator W. W. Barbour of New Jer sey, and Raymond P. Lowe of Omaha. Neb, executive director of the Scout Jamhoree'a 000 -Boy Sea Scout con tingent. FIRECRACKERS CAUSE $5000 BRIDGE LOSS SALEM. July (APt Careless use of firecrackers was believed by County Engineer Hubba to have caused fire that destroyed a bridge on Bllverton highway early today Hubba aald he found In the ruins the remains of a -flower pot." a de vice for spectacular fireworks. The lose was estimated at about 5000. Suicides RATES CUT $103,500 YEARLY BY NEGOTIATIONS Public Utilities Commis '. sioner Announces Reduc tions in Domestic and Commercial Light Rates BA1.EM, July a. (AP) Tha 51,810 customers - of the Csllfornla Oregon Power company received rata reduc tions totaling 103.500 annually to day, the result of negotiations be tween the- company and Public Utili ties Commissioner N. a. Wallace. . The company reduced Its rstcs 38.000 annually last October 1, and a total of $41)00 In ordera last Jsnu ary and April, the total reductions since October being $146,000. The built of today's reductions were In the domestic and commercial lighting schedules, 12,380 reslden. I users each receiving $f annual re ductions and 3090 commercial light ing usera obtaining savings of $8.60. By Negotiation. "This may be considered a net benefit to the users as theso reduc tions were effected entirely through negotiation, obviating tedious ana expensive formal proceedings," Wal- isc Mm, .v.-. -i .. ' He said negotiations 'vera being conducted to effect reductlona in other classes of service. New ratea in the commercial light ing classification, effecting an an n 1 saving of $36,000 for 3030 cus tomers, are six cents a kilowatt for tba first 250 kilowatt hours and five cents for tha next 3S0. The old rate waa eight cents for tha first 29. seven cents for tha next '139, ana five cents for the next 360. The old ratea ot three cents for the next 1000, two cents for the next additional 1000, and 1.5 cents for excess remain effective. New Residence Rales. New residential lighting ratea, also aupersedlng the residential combi nation lighting and cooking ratea. are: Six centa for the first 40 kwn. three centa for the next 60, two cents for the next 126, and 1.26 cent for excess. The old residential lighting rate waa eight centa tor the first 60 kwh, and five centa for excess. The old residential combination rate waa 6.6 centa for tha first kwn, three cents for the next 60, two centa for the next 160, and 1.26 centa for excess. The 6400 users of tha residential combination acrvice will aave $3200 a year, and tha 13.360 residential lighting customers will save $74,300. Both residential classifications will ba grouped In the same class, with sll reductlona effective with tha July billing. 24 NAVY PLANES REACH SEATTLE SEATTLE, July i. (UP) Thalr stiver hulls flaablng In sunlight, li hug U. 8. nary flying boats drop ped lightly on calm Laxe Washington st Sand Point naval air station late Thursday, completing a 1.100-mile non-stop flight from San Dlrgo. Cat The tTln-motcred shjps winged orer tbe long dletsnce In fast time for their type of craft, Ueut.-Com-mander Robert Puller, commanding the three squadrons. VP-S. VP-12 and VP-7, said. They carried a total or 144 officers and men. and will engage In a month and a half of maneuvera In the Puget Sound and Alaska areas. 3 Years In Prison For Divine's Aide LOS AJCOELE8. July a. (API Three yesrs In federal prison waa the sentence meted out today to John Wuest Hunt, associate of tha Harlem cult leader rather Divine, on con viction of charges of bringing 17 yesr old Delight Jewctt from Den ver to Beverly Hills In violation of the Mann act. U. S. District Judge Leon R. Tank wlch denied tha motion for a new trial by the portly sell-slyled "John the Rvelator" from the verdict ol the Jury. LIMA, Peru. July 2 ( AP) Dis paiehs received from ArequJpa today said 23 persons were killed when a ne I -rope suspension bridge acroM he fnambarl river In a remote section of Peru broke under excessive weight in Hay field Near Home 5000 SPECTATORS JAM AIRPORT FOR SKY SHOW THRILLS Sky Writing and Parachute Jump by Women Fliers Starts Program Torn 'Chute Brings Suspense Dance Is Finale Finale of tha aircraft exposition and sky show will bo a dance in the spacious airport hangar to night. Dancing will begin at 0 and continue until 3. Visiting pilots tnd airplane ownera are expected to attend. Lea Price's orchestra will provldo music. The publlo Is in vited. An estimated throng ot at least fi.ooo persons crammed into the Med ford municipal airport this afternoon to witness the sky show of the Ore gon air tour which opened Its ten city visit here this morning. Early In the afternoon more than 1 .000 cars were parked around the field. Well Into mid-afternoon scores of machines crawled along the ap proach highways, traffic moving at a anatl'a pace as the cars were bunch ed at points where tickets had to be procured. National guardsmen supervised parking of cars and city and state police circulated among tho crowd to lend assistance andmaintain order. A loud-speaker system kept the spec tators Informed of what was hap pening In the air and on the field. At 9 o'clock Bernadlne Lewis Kin;, ace of women stunt pilots, took to the air to do somo sky-writing. Parachute Tears. A few minutes later Dorothy Bar dent famed Jumper, was taken aloft by Pilot Ken Kleaver for her Bpoc tacular parachute leap at 6,000 feet, When the plane was high over the field Mlas Burden let go. She sailed majestically toward earth. Suddenly the crowd gasped. Miss Bardcn s parachute had ripped wide open. Tl; j slim figure hurtled toward eartn. Quickly ah ripped the cord of ner emergency parachute. It unfurled perfectly and the llttlo miss gilded safely to earth as a great ovation came from the throng. v Watting their turn to thrill the great throng were pllota primed to demonstrate the maneuverability of modern aircraft. Also waiting their turn were such celebrated stunt pilots as Tex Rankin, world's champion; Beinadlne Lewis King, woman cham pion upside-down flier; Al Lary, the arlela clown, and George Cooke. Hol lywood parachuto Jumper who was to give the famous break -a way leap. I Continued on Page Pour) BULLETIN HONOLCLU, July 2. fP) Amelia far hart and her tunica -tor. Freed Noonan. were belleted forced down at sea near Hon land Island as their fuel gave out on a flight of S.970 mllrs from Lae, New Oulana. Word from them at 2:13 p. m., E.HT., stating they had only a half-hour sutply of fuel and that no land was In slrlit was believed to Indicate they had overshot the tiny coral Inland on the long journey. Roosevelt Has Day Free From Parade of Callers HYDE PARK, N. T., July 3. (AP) President Roosevelt, who felicitat ed Canada laat night on the con fed e rat ion's seventieth birthday, faced today one of those rare occasions In the life of a presldent-a day with not a single caller on his engage ment calendar. Aa members of the family who came east for the Roosevelt-Du Pont wedding began to scatter, ho plan ned to stay clo to his mother's Duchess county entate except for s possible motor ride around the coun tryside. Mr. and Mrs. John Boetttger. son-in-law and daughter, left early to catch a plane for Beat tie. The president capped the nrat ot fire daya he Intends to spend here with a radio addreae last night con - IwdciQHi III fit iflllM Otis Unit (nhove). CIO leader, na mimed In elinrges as (he muster mind In a rampulgn In the Warren, ()., steel district concerning violence. A aar- innt backed by statements by fellow unionist charged him with hmlng plotted the dynamiting or bridges, railway (racks and mills and destruc tion of homes nf non-strikers. MAKE TAX SAVING WASHINGTON. July 2. A Ros well MsgUI, treasury under-secretary, told congressional tax Investigators today the government's revenues could be Increased approximately $183,000,000 annually If husbands and wlvea throughout the country were required to pay a single tax on their Joint Incomes, Discussing the question of com munity property, Maglll said eight states permitted a husbnnd and wife each to report one-half of a family Income for tax purposes although the Income may have been earned by only one of them. This division placed their incomes In lower brack ets and thus reduced their taxes, lie said. The so-called community property states are California. Texas, Louisi ana, Kentucky, Arizona. New Mexico, Idaho and Nevada. Maglll said If husbands and wives In these states alone had been required to pay in come taxes on their total Income, In 1936 the government would have re ceived an additional 34,000.000. 'Continued on Page .Thirteen ) WPA TOll "124,000 OFF PAYROLLS SOON WASHINGTON, July 2. (AP) Harry L. Hopkins, WPA administra tor, announced today WPA will cut off more than 134.000 workers on the rolls to 1.605.477 by July lfi. The number of persons working on June 26 by states Included: Idaho. 4.700: Oregon, 13,204. Reductions were shown for all states, except Delaware. BONNKRS PERRY, Idaho, July 3 (A) Officers reported today the dis covery of the body of MUo Hanson, 37. who disappeared a week ago, in Smith creek below the forest camp whra he worked. gratulatlng Canada on the 70th an niversary of her confederation. "Ours is an enviable record of friendship and amity." he said in ex changing greetings with Lord Tweeds- mulr, Canada's governor general, as witness an unfortified boundary of more than 3 000 miles as the out ward and visible token of mutual confidence and good will. "This friendship between our two peoples la secure from every hazard of destruction or misunderstanding because It Is based upon a common aspiration to maintain, to defend, and to perpetuate the democratic form of constitutional, representative govern ment. laord Bweedsmulr, In reply, satd the two nations were marching "In the same direction towsrda tha aame 1 gosl." PAUL K. LOW, 17, FIRES 22 SHOT THROUGH HEART Body Found by Farm Hand Deed Follows Tangle With Law Boy Moody, Dissatisfied Says Father Paul K. Low, 17, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar D. Low of the East Main street road, Ashland, oon m it ted suicide some time Thursday night by firing a bullet from a M calibre single shell rifle through bis heart. His body waa discovered at 8:15 a. m. today In the gateway of a hayfleld less than a mile from bis homo by Buck Reed, farm hand of Mr. Low. Deputy Coroner Will M. Dodge, Sheriff Syd I. Brown and Deputy Dis trict Attorney George Netlson, who investigated the tragedy, stated there would be no Inquest. It was an un questioned case of suicide, they said. There was apparently no reason for the suicide, It was said, although tbe youth had been drinking Thursday night and had had a alight alterca tion with his foster father. Paul, according to Mr. Low, had approach ed the house at about 9:30 p, m. Thursday with the rifle In his hand, and the two scuffled " momentarily before Paul dropped tha gun and ran Into a hayfleld. Paul had also been In Ashland city jail Wednesday night on a disorderly' conduct charge after" he had shot off firecrackers in tha business district. His foster father paid hts fine at noon Thursday, and. took him back to the ranch where Paul worked In the hayfleld the rest ot the day. Woman Reports Threats At 9:43 p. m. Thursday, an uni dentified Ashland woman reported to (Continued on Page Thirteen) HARRY FRENCH GUILTY FIRST DEGREE MURDER ALTURAS, Calif., July 2. (AP) A Jury today convicted Harry Preneh of first degree murder for the slaying of Claude L. McCracken, 48, In a "newspaper feud." The Jury made no recommendation and a death ver dict wilt be mandatory unless It finds htm Insane. The Jury of ten men and two wom en, after deliberating five hours, re turned Ita verdict aa court convened this morning. "We find the defendant guilty of flrat degree murder aa charged." Foreman B. C. McConnaughy told Superior Judge P. M. Jamison. Judge Jamison then Instructed tha Jurors to report Wednesday to hear (Continued on Page Fire.) TRANSAMERICA BOOSTS DIVIDEND TO 50 CENTS SAN FRAhXISCO, July S. (AP) Transamerlca corporation boosted lta dividend rata to 60 centa a share annually today from 40 eenta by declaration of a semi-annual divi dend of 29 cents a share. That dividend poea to about .ao. 000 stockholders, tha majority of whom live In California. It amounts to tt.7S9.3M on tha 33.181,90a out standing ahares. BASEBALL American. K. H. . Philadelphia - 4 11 i Boston 8 10 0 Caater, Nelson and Brucker; Mar cum, McKaln, Oumpert and Berg. Detroit cold. Cleveland, postponed, National. Brooklyn Philadelphia 7 0 Hamlin and Phelpai Mulcahy. Jor gens and Oraca. R. H. R. Boaton 7 0 New York - 13 ' MacPayden. Hutchinson and Lo pes: Hubbell and Mancuso. . It. H. . Plttaburgh . 7 I Chicago H ' Lucas. 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