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The Weather Forecast: hlr tonight and WednesdsT. warmer Wednea . dir. TEMPr.RATl'RE Highest etcnla 15 Lowest Ihli morning 4 Why Waste Time may cost you nothing bat why waits effort? Mali Tribunt claislfleds nil! fet you what you want In short order and these ad are run at small cost. Medford RIBUNE Full Associated Press full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1937 No. 91. loiftfllQIfil 0) I w'Hwimi'Wa ""jN XfetataaW wiu m nM fyy ,'viui "aW 0 Mls I NIPPOHFSt CI AIM By H. R. BALK MAGE (Copyright, 193", by the North Amer ican Newspaper A HI an re. Inc.) WASHINGTON. July 6. Over the holiday, Washington watched John L. Lewis, wondered If he were really out on a limb, with some of his cohorts busy with saw, hammer and maybe sickle trying to cut htm off from his C. I, O. Suddenly somebody thought to In quire: "Who started this Industrial union business anyhow?" The answer came with a shock, for memories are short. If we are to believe the testimony of his own United Mine. Workers of America, aa embodied In senate doc ument number 14 of the 88th con gress, first session, Mr. Lewis lifted whole chunks of his C. I. O. program right out of the alleged attempt by communists to seize the American la bor movement. ((Thls la the title of workers' ex pose, which la a bitter attack on communists and thler methods). Much of the material contained In didn't happen, reads like one of those mystery plots by Oppenhelm. But pertinent paragraphs stand out, Turn to page 2, for instance, third paragraph down: "The major points In this revolu tionary program of the communists aa aimed against the United Mine Workera of America and other legitt ( mate trade unions and the people of the United States and Canada are , .' Let's skip the first seven points since they proved false alarms. But look at number 8: "Conversion of all craft trade-union Into atngle units of workera within an industry known as 'Industrial un ions. " Now Jump to page 6, paragraph S, discussing the Trade Union Educa tional 4 ;ague, headed by William Z. Foster and "cultivated and promoted by the organisers and agents of the communist and other workers par ties." This paragraph reads: "Through thia organization the revolutionary leaders In America are making a nation-wide attempt to ob tain control of the American Federa tion of Labor, reorganize the craft unions on the basis of "one big un ion In an Industry" and so on. The United Mine Workers were, of course, at the time, January, 1024, extremely loyal to the American Fed- (Continued on page Six.) MIGHTY FLYING SHIPS (By the Associated Press.) Two mighty flying "ships that pass In the night" successfully charted a route for regular commercial flights between North America and Europe today. The Pan American Clipper III land ed at Foynes, Ireland, after a 1.080 mtle survey hop from Botwood, New foundlsnd. making the ocean Jump In 12 hours and 40 minutes. The Brit If h Imperial Airways fly ing boat Caledonia completed the westward hop of 1.000 miles from Foynes to Botwood in 16 hours and nine minutes. Neither carried passengers nor mail. (Continued on Page Four.) WASHINGTON. July 8. (APSec retary Ickes. prevented by recent Ill ness from making dally 20-mlle trips between the city and his fsrm home, set up temporary living quarters to day In his office suite in the Interior department. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS John B. Griffin, the famed b'sr hunter, taking his rtrst airplane spin and declaring It to be more thrill ing than talking the county's big gest bruin to death. Richard Calder averring he en Joyed a safe and sane 4th of July by staying at home. Betty Vilm clearly explaining the difference between a camper and a picnicker by saving a camper is one who sleeps while s picnicker is one who eats. Admiral Ernie West pertuadlng Walt 8hpnrd. vwitlns Oklahoma gob. to remain here long enough to see how limit of trout are caught. B. O. Harding hopping down tne stairs for an informal pow-wow with Glenn O. Taylor on the fleet below. DEFEAT OF URGE FORCE IN SIBERIA Manchoukuo Makes Strong Protest To Moscow On Renewed Outbreak Sov iet Aggressor, Claim. HSINKINO, Manchoukuo. July 6. (AP) The Japaneae army declar ed today It had defeated a sizeable detachment of Russian troops In a day-long battle on the disputed eastern frontier of Manchoukuo and Siberia. , The Japanese -inspired government of Manchoukuo Immediately made strong representations to Moscow over the renewed outbreak of hos tilities. Soviet troops, the army charged. launched two attacks against com bined Japanese-Manchoukuoan bor der guards Monday morning near the little frontier town of Chlen shan. An army communique declar ed the Russians opened fire and wounded one Japanese soldier be fore the sasaults were repulsed. Attack In Force Throughout the day the army as serted, the Soviet troops brought up heavy artillery and in the evening started a bombardment of the Man choukuoan shore with heavy can non. At the same time, the army spokesman said, an attack In force was made by a detachment of 160 Soviet soldiers. The Japanese and Manchoukuoan troops were said to have advanced to meet the assault, driving back the alleged Invaders with a rigorous counter attack. Two Soviet soldiers were reported to have been killed In the engage ment and many more wounded. Serious Outbreak The latest outbreak of open' waiv fare was considered here to be ser ious, coming as It does so soon af ter the serious break between Rus- (Continued on Page SU.) 2SS5 Visit Caves In 3-Day Holiday OREGON CAVES, July 6. ( AP) Fourth of July visitors broke all at tendance records at the national monument here, with 2555 exploring the caverns, 871 more than during the same three days last year. The Fourth was peak day, with 1143 be ing conducted through the caves. Despite the rainy June, visitors this year are 16 per cent more than last, the first five days In July show ing more than 38 per cent gain. DETROIT, Mich., July 8. (AP) Chrysler corporation's Dodge truck plant here suspended operations to day after some members of the United Automobile Workers of Amer lea went on strike against a non union worker. About 2,100 employes were made Idle. 564 Meet Violent Death In Two-Day Celebration; Only 4 Due to Fireworks BY THE AHSOCIATElTpRF.SS A total of M4 men, women and children met violent death In the two day celebration of the nation's 161st birthday. The toll -was believed the highest In the history of America's observance of Independence Day. Only four deaths were attributed . directly to fireworks. Traffic acci dents constituted the biggest single cause. A total of 310 persons were in jured fatally on streets and highways. There were 142 drownings Sunday and Monday. The four fireworks deaths compar ed wtth 11 lsst year. This yesr's vic tims were three children and a man Geraldlne Mulvey. 8. Woonsocket, R. I., and Julia Frless. 0, Baltimore, I Md., suffered fatal burna when their ; dresses were ignited by sparklers ' Elol&e Hope Burton, 4, bought a pen ny box of matches to Ignite fire works at Price. Utah. Neighbors found her fatally burned In her yard. How ard C. Marsh. 48. Roxboro. Mass., was injured fatally while tamping powder into home-made cannon. Although few died In handling fireworks hundreds Buffered burns and minor Injuries, The total In metro politan New York alone was 845. Chi cago listed 115. Am on the states New York had the largest number of fatalities from all causes 39. Michigan wa next with 38 snd California third wtth 34. Pennsylvania had 24. Ohio 25 Texas and Missouri 21 each. Vermont I ir low with only one death from violence. Ideal weather in most sections of the nation drew motorists to the highways by tens of thousands. The toll of 310 traffic deaths was the lsrsr t In more than a de'-arfe. crmpar- (Continued oo Page Sis ) Ships of Three Admits Triple Slaying PORTLAND STORK BUSY ON INDEPENDENCE DAY PORTLAND, Ore.. July 6. (AP) The stork set a new Fourth of July record here, delivering 16 new "pa triots" on the anniversary of the signing of the declaration of inde pendence. 31 LIS! OF DEATHS (By the Auorlatfrt PreM) The northwest's "glorious fourth ended on a solemn note today with at least 31 deaths contributed to the stunning national toll of ap proximately 564. Automobiles and trains, the chief mode of travel for thousands of rrcrpstlonlsts. and drowning on the Pacific beaches rind the atrenms and laks of the evergreen country top t ped the list of destruction. An even dozen died In Oregon, tn of them from accidental causes. Fourteen Washington cltlwns will never see another Independence day celebration. Idaho's desth count reached five. Auiomoblls battered life from five Orgmians. three drowned, one died from injuries auffired In an arrififntal fall, a train killed nne. one person met dth In a homi cide. snd'snothT dtM with a wound from sn accidentally discharged (run In Washington eight were kilieo bv automobiles, three drowned, two I died In a fire and a train killed r-, irtaho ro'.inrt "'-' f34 In an ., , ; :-:! ; ,10011 rr'i. : I and one by other causes. Albert Dyer (above), a street crosi lng guard, has confessed, according to Detective Lieutenant Leroy Sander son of Im Angeies, the brutal slay ing of three little Inglewood, Cal.. girls, nyer Is shown as he appeared lit custody of the district attorney's office art his purported confession. His wife (below) Is held as a material witness. Mrs. Dyer said she believed her husband Innocent. (A. P. Photos.) HANGING PENALTY TO BE SOUGHT FOR CONFESSED FIEND LOS ANGELES, July 6, (AP) Declaring he would demand that Albert Dyer, 32. hang for the alay Ing of three little Inglewood girls. District Attorney Buron Fltts sought j evidence today to support Dyer's I recorded confession. Two persons have been found, ha 1 said, who aaw the three girls, Jean ette Stephens, 9, and the Everett sisters, Madeline, 7, and Melba, 0, following Dyer toward the Baldwin i hills where they thought they were j to hunt rabbits, but instead were gsrroted and ravished. , Fltts said he had refused an offer j by the WPA school crossing guara , to plead guilty to the fiendish crime.! if he were promised a life sentence. "I will ask the grand Jury Wed nesday for a first degree murder indictment," said the district attor ney. "Then we will seek a quick trial and demand the death pen alty." Fltts and Sheriff Eugene Blscallus gave Dyer an opportunity to repud iate his confession of Sunday night to the triple killings last June 28, but they ssld he lifted his right hand snd declared: "Before my God. I a wear I killed those three little girls and attacked them." Until last night Mr and Mrs Merle Everett, parents of two of the victims, hsd voiced strong doubt about the confession. (Contluned on Page Seven ) COUNCILTOVOTE STREET BOND SALE At Its regulsr semi-monthly meet ing tonight the city council Is ex pected to adopt an ordinance auth orizing sale of $.10,000 In bonds fur the repair and reconstruction of pav ed Mrcct. The bond Issue was ap proved at the recent fpeclsl election. Next step in the oropoivd street i-rpftlr program will ly to advert) for bids on the bornls after the roun- rU has authorized the sale. It mns explained by Frank P. Farrell, city attorney. About three we-ka will be required to cover the legal provisions pertaining to the advertising, he said. Th council will meet as usual in I ,i,:.ir.h-r on the tm floor of citj I bel at 1:30. Nations FIGHT TO CHANGE IE I Judges Over 75 Years Usu ally In Mental- Physical Decline Is Declaration Of Democratic Leader. PHILADELPHIA. July 8. fcT) The Phladelphla Bulletin In a copy right dispatch from a staff correspond ent at Simpsonvllle. Md., today quot ed former Justice Willis VanDevauter as saying that "the supreme court has weathered storms before and I am sure It will weather the present one." "And when the court has weath ered this crisis," he added, "the coun try will proceed In the prosperous way It did before." WASHINGTON, July 6 (Dem ocratic Leader Robinson, opening the fight for the administration's Judicial reorganization bill, told the senate today that Judges more than 75 years of age usually are In a state of men tal and physical decline." As he spoke. Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.), leader of .the opposition to judiciary r e o r ganleatlon, emerged from a long White House conference and said he waa still opposed to any compromise which would add any Justices to the supreme court. Talk to President Wheeler and Senator Bone (D., Wash.) talked with the president for an hour and ft half soon after the latter returned from a five-day stay ut Hyde Park, N. Y." ' The Montanan declined to go Into details, but did say the court bill was discussed. He added, however, the parliamentary situation In the senate, would not be affected by the talk. Robinson began the senate debate after that chamber bad agreed with out a, record vote to take the judi ciary legislation up for consideration. The Democratic leader next moved to substitute for the original bill sub mitted by , President Roosevelt, tho compromise Informally Introduced last week. The substitute would pro vide for the appointment of new Jus tices at the rate of one a year to sup plement those past 75- years of age. Will Force Vote Before making this motion, the Arkanssn had served notice he would use every means available to break any filibuster and to force a vote. Without waiting for a vote on his motion to substitute the compromise bill, Robinson explained the measure to the senate. He said he and others participating In the drafting of the compromise, "had in mind the criticism directed In public addresses and news magazine articles against the original bill." He acknowledged there had been "a great diversity or opinion" not only among opponents of any court legislation, but among those who felt (Continued on Page rhree ) Flying kites In the city limits of Milledgeville, Ga la prohibited bj ordinance. Naval Ships KONG .oTjoT . ..... 1 J ' . a SOW 0 VSTI r! ll""WIS P A C i F I C,r,Kr,n. 'o C B A N ; ii222 """" AUSTRALIA Shlps'wpre pllnf "nder forced draft today toward Howland l.land, liy sand spit In the Pacific, to Join In the errli for Amelia Rarhart and her naitistor. fred Noons n. The map ahoe ho, the arl- ' 011. .hin. the IJ. . sirrrait rarrlrr and the area In uhlch the filers Seek Amelias Airplane REPUBLIC PLANTS ! Company Estimates 3000 Back At Work Are Dis puted By CIO Leaders All Quiet Cleveland Front. CLEVHLAND. O., July . (P) National guard bayonets and ma-ohlne-guns protected the back- to- i work movement of an estimated 3.000 j steel workers at three plants of the Republic Steel corporation here to day. Company officials gave the follow ing figures for returning day-shift employee after the 7 a. m. "reto hour" for the reopeninga passed with out a single reported esse of vio lence; Corrlgan McKlnney works 1 ,600 men returned out of a normal two shift total of 3700. Upson Nut and Bolt division 850 men returned out of normal two shift total of 1.700. Truscon Steey 600 men returned out of normsl two-shift total of 750. Disputed by C.I.O. - C.X.O. strike leaders disputed the company's figures and asserted tha,t many of the men were office workers and clerks not steel mskers. They also charged that the com pany waa Importing "strike-breakers," alleging that some of them came from aa far away as Alabama. The national guardsmen, 1.000 strong, reported "all quiet" through out the Cleveland area, and with the men safely Inside the plants resum ing operations after 41 days of Idle- (Continued on Page Five.) ABLE TO RETURN HOME 0!x-year-6ld Janta Qrlgaby, con fined In Community hospital' tinea Friday nUtlit vlth a akull fracture aa a result of being struck by an auto mobile, waa taken to her home on South Central avenue last night. In a greatly Improved condition. Her at tending phyalclan atated today the llttlo.glrl vaa well on ber way, to re covery. Janice received the serious hesd In Jury early Friday evening when she rsn out from between two parked cars on fiouth Central avenue and was hit by a machine driven by Mrs. Margaret Ruth Oaughert; of Ashland. She lay In a critical condition for two days, but become so Improved yester day that It was believed aafe to re move her to her home. Gold lllll Olrf To" Wed RENO, Nev., July 0. (UP) Mar riage licenses: Harold E. Oost, 33. Westwood. Cel.. and Cells K. Edler, 211, Oold Hill, Ore.; Oeorge P. Boone, 50. and Marie B. Smith, 49, both Lekevlew. Ore. Speeding to Aid of Fliers l.p.lneton. hearlne M plane,: the art hellered doen. (. P. Photo. ) Short Rope Balks Effort to Rescue Yosemite Visitor YOSEMITE, Calif., July 6. (AP) Forest rangers, wriggling from shelf to shelf down a 600 foot grsnlte cliff today, were forc ed temporarily to abandon their efforts to rescue Edward Fleischer. 16, of Berkeley, who was stranded overnight on a ledge high above Yosemite valley. The rangers climbed to safety and sent to Glacier Point for more rope. They hoped to reach the youth later, haul him aloft and deliver him to his waiting father before nightfall. Veteran rangers were at a loss to explain how young Fleischer reached the craggy trap, which has twice balked rescue attempts. Despite heavy automobile traffic on all Jackson county htghwaya over the two-day Fourth of July holiday, motoring accidents were at a mini mum, state police reported today. Not one aerloua auto mishap occur red aa cara Jammed the Pacific high way. - the streets of Ashland, and roada to lakes and mountain resorts. Medford city police received re ports of several minor auto crashes, but damage amounted to nothing more than dented fenders or broken bumpers. 1 ',;. .' Blx holiday celebranta languished In the city Jail this morning on charges no mora serious than drunkenness. In fsct, city police said, It waa the most peaceful July 4 holiday In many years. Charles Robinson, 40, Indiana, Al fred Harlln, 36, Texas, Thomas E Smith, 87, Colorado, Tom Cary, 68 were all celebrating on wine last night on the Southern Paclflo lot at Eighth and Front atreets, accord ing to city police. Charles Jeaslmsn, 43, of Missouri was arretted on the atreet for In toxication and louls Larson, 80, was taken from a pool hall and booked on the same charge. All were to appear In city court today, police said. - Wallis Ex-Husband On 3rd Honeymoon LOS ANGELES, July 8. (AP) Commsnder Esrl Wlnfleld Spencer, U. S. navy, first husband of the Duchess of Windsor, sped north on a Canadian honeymoon today witn his third bride. Mrs. Norma Reese Johnson, widow of a Detroit man ufacturer. The 48-year old officer and the 44-year old society matron were married here yesterday at Mrs. John son's home in a double ceremony which also - united her daughter, Betty, song-wrltlng actress, to a 37-year old musician, Bailie Peyton Legate, Jr. Twenty yeara ago the naval offi cer married Wsllla Warfleld. They were dlvorred In 1037. UNITED STATES V.B. 8. Colorado ana rour iieirojer, light of meteor IS MISTAKEN FOR DISTRESSES Oakland Radio Amateur Claims Message Picked Up From Aviatrix This A.M. Order Investigation HONOLULU. July 6. (AP) Vessels from three nations Joined the widen ing search today for Amelia Earhart, after a meteor waa mistaken for flares from her mlsalng plane. Another radio amateur at Oakland, Calir., reported he picked up a mes- ' ssge from the aviatrix at 0:35 a. m. (P. S. T.) despite the fact authorities agreed she could not broadcast bad her plane lighted on the water. The amateur, Charles Miguel, said the message read: "381 miles north Howland. Cannot hold out much longer. Drifting southwest. We abore water, Motor sinking In water. Very wet." Investigate Report Coaat guard officials at San Fran cisco and George Palmer Putnam, husband of Miss Earhart, began an Investigation of Miguel's report. At 8:40 a. m. (p. B. T.) coast guard headquarters at Washington had not heard directly from the cutter Itasca since 9:40 a. m. (P. 8. T.) when the rescue ship announced meteors had been mistaken for distress flares. Japanese and British vessels were to aid American ships In the widen ing search, spurred after hope was buoyed by the report of the flares. The navy mine sweeper fiwan ar rived to Join the Itasca In searching . the Howland Island area. The Itasca waa ordered to remain in the vicinity today and planned to contact the (Continued on Page Three.) BY FALLING REDWOOD IN BIG BASIN CAMP SANTA CRUZ Calif., July 6. (UP) A giant redwood tree fell on tent In which four children slept la the Santa Crus mountains yesterday, fatally Injured one and Injured three others. Bsrbara Pinto, 8, Oakland, died of a eruihed skull a short time later at the Santa Crus community hospital, where ahe was taken after the a eel- ' dent. David McBrlen, 6, Oakland, suffer ed baaal skull fracture but is ex pected to live. The other Injured children were Renee McBrlen, 10, fractured ctaTlete, collarbone .and Injuries, and Filbert Pinto, 14. slight bruises. The children went to the camp at Big Basin for a Fourth of July out ing. They pitched their tent at the base of the gtant tree. In Its fall, the redwood awept everything In lta path, destroyed three automobiles and threw the camp of several hundred vacationists Into temporary hysteria. Many camp structures were de stroyed. Several other campers were treated for minor Injuries. IS SHOWN HERE A gain of 100 telephones was made In Medford from January 1 to July 1, It was stated today by R. B. Ham mond, manager of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company, fol lowing distribution of the company'! new directory. The city has shown a steady increase of about 300 tele phones ft year since 1034, Mr. Ham mond sstd, the totsl on July 1 being 3.W0. In the first six months of the year Ashland showed a gain of IS tele phones and Orants Pass 4ft. The new telephone directories cover Jackson and Josephine counties. They are bound under three covers, for Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass. To be used for ten months, the direc tories were printed by the Medford Prtnlng company, 8.300 copies being required for dlatrlbutlon. BITE OMOClTwiDOW . PUTS MAN IN HOSPITAL EUOENK, Ore.. Jul; fly (AP) Lea ter Phillips. 3s, Eugene, entered the Oood Samaritan hospital her Mon ds; suffering from he bite of a black widow spider. .Attendant de scribed his condition as fair.
