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The Weather Forecast: Fatr Sunday and Monday; no change la temper tare. Temperature Highest yesterday 91 Lowest vesterday -... 52 I ime To Turn Right now. while you are thinking about It would ba tht logical time to turn to elaj.l f led adf. The very thing you want may be advertised. It la worth your time. Medford Tribune full Associated Press Tj ited Press 1 Thirtv-Second Year MEDFOTiD. OREGON. SUNDAY, JULY 11. 1937 No. 95. CM IB! E IKK Ml SgATUD Sjjjhd By H, R. Baukhage Copyright. 1937, by the North Amer ican Newspaper Alliance, Inc. WASHINGTON. July 11. If the old ship of state Is talcing a tack to the right, as some say, the broad-beamed bark thst carries the American Fed eration of Labor may be within hail ing distance again'. On the bridge Is the squat figure of a brown-eyed, ruddy-faced gentle man. His name Is William Green and for awhile It looked as If he were doubling for that half -forgotten per sonage, the forgotten man. But right now he Is being remem bered. And that's apropos, because memories are what Mr. Green Is fond of invoking. , For Instance, his memories of what happened to the Knights of Labor, who, like old soldiers, didn't die but Juat sort of faded away. He believes that the CI O. and Mr. John L. Lewis will do the same. He haa seen John Lewis go up like a rocket several times. He's Just diplomatically wait ing until he "comes down" again like the stick. Like John Lewis, William Green has Welsh blood. Like him, his early memories are harsh ones. They are a long way back, for the A. F. of L. has moved placidly along Its way until recently, and Its head has been compensated for some of his early sufferings. Among them hunger, a hunger not for bread alone but for those human and spiritual values mention of which occur so frequently in the public utterances of his later years. . As a boy. he regretfully left the one-room school house In hts teens to go down Into the mines. Those days etched deep Into his consciousness the belief that the workers, those who are drawn together by common ties and a common purpose, should be al lowed to share the good things of the earth. Mr. Green has been called labor's diplomat. He Is of the sit-tight school and at - present he's sitting. But not just the way that sounds. Eighteen to twenty hours at his desk, his ssslstants tell you. Why? Be cause the battle is at Its height. Whether he likes It or not, he'll have to hand It to his erstwhile colleague. Mr. Lewis, who stimulated the Joining game. It Isn't hard to recognize In the blood and eary environment of this first generation American the sinews that formed bis career. His father was an English miner who come with his cheerful Welsh wife to America end found out thst the land of un limited possibilities had Ita limita tions. William, the one boy born in the family of six sisters, opened his eves on the ramshackle village of Coshocton In Ohio's soft-coal district in 1S73. The Greens were poor; they knew physical discomfort, cold end hunger. They wanted better things, among them education. When young William said goodbye to hts schooling and trudged off to the shaft with his father, the ercd of discontent was In him. Re had hoped, he said, to become a minis ter he is a Baptist: but what he saw sbout him and what he Buffered him self turned him to what irrevocably became hts calling. He will tell you that economics was then and Is today his only hobby. He read avidly all he could get on this subject and tried to translate Its Abstract ions into conditions about Mm. The union, one of those Institu tions born out of the needs of society and established by those who are drawn together by common ties and a common purpose, aa he puts it. was the concrete thing which he turned to naturally, as a result of hts natural Inclination and his reading Here at the . meetings he could practice debate and public speaking. Soon practice turned to performance. The calling that he had deserted had not entirely deserted htm. To day he says that he was inspired with something of the real that a rellglou crusader feels when he decides to dedicate his life to the faith. H Is progress was natural, s tead y . undramatlc. at the age of 27 he was elected to his first Important post aub-dlstrlct president of the United Mine Workers, the organization which has now all but moved on: from under him. By this time he was married. S:i yesrs later, he was made presi dent of the Ohio district. Then he went Into politics, was elected state senator. One of his earliest contribu tions to the constituency which elect ed him was a labor law. the screen law. some called It the Oreen law which considerably improved the lot of the coal miners. Tnday he takes particular pride In his latest achievement- the active part he and his or ganization placed in ir curing t.-.e (Continued on page tig at.) M'CARRAN PAINTS PASSAGE AS STEP TO Organized Labor Urged To Join 'Crusade To Save Constitution' Nevadan Flays Farley. WASHINGTON. July 10. (AP) Senator McCarran D.. Nev.) told the senate today the administration's court bill might prove "the entering wedge" for a dictatorship like those which he said had wiped out the right of labor in Germany and Italy. Speaking against the advice of his physician, the liberal Nevadan ap pealed to organized labor to Join quickly in the "crusade" to prevent enlargement of the supreme court "because it might be too late tomor row. He carried on the assault against the compromise Judiciary bill before galleries packed to the doors with perspiring, linen-clad spectators. The debate, called by many sena tors the greatest In two docades, was free from the parliaments. wran gles of the previous three days. McCarran, hts stonc-grey curls damp with perspiration, talked for three hours with few interruptions save those from his fellow Democrats who oppose the bill. Defies Physician He told his associates doctors had warned him against strenuous de bate, but that he believed "the cause in which I have enlisted Is worthy of any man's life." "We have constituted a battalion j of death to the end that the const!- ! tutlon may prevail." he said. As he left the chamber late In the afternoon, he told friends that Sena tors Bailey (T N. C.) and O'Mahoney (D., Wyo., would "carry on the fight" with prepared addresses next week. McCarran long a pillar of the Now Deal said President Roosevelt "has no intention of becoming a dictator." He argued, however, that passage of the court bill would set a prece dent which some later president might use to "destroy" both the Ju dicial and legislative arms of the government. Pointing to the growths of dicta torships abroad, he declared that the people of many nations are "praying. Imploring that this republic will hold itself steady." Opposes Changes "We should not by one jot or tittle change the fundamental organization of our government at this time," he said. "The time is coming when you and I will be called upon to say whether the seeds of destruction being sowed In this government today from afar will take root and bloom to the frui tion that will pioson the atmosphere of the whole world." McCarran blamed congress for the fact that some New Deal measures had been Invalidated by the court, arguing that "If 72 lawyers In the senate can't write a constitutional law, how do you expect nine old men to find It constitutional?" rongrrss Scored Instead of changing the court, he contended , congress should "do Its own work." "We could write a new NRA within the spirit and letter of the constitu tion. And the court of last appeal would sustain It." he asserted. McCarran said that the court pro posal did not come from the presi dent. 'It couldn't have emanated from him." he declared. "He's too big. too grand, too splendid to ever have a bill of this kind emanate from him. This grows out of a rampant philosophy," Senator Wheeler interrupted to say that when Republicans asserted in the last campaign that the president Intended to add Justices to the su preme court. Democrats quoted Mr. Roosevelt's own words to refute the allegation. A November Deal McCarran replied by expressing the (Continued on Page rwo FAMED COMPOSER HAS BRAIN TUMOR . HOLLYWOOD. July 10. (UP) A statement l&jued by physicians at tending George Gershwin tonight dts clotvd the famous compoeer was suf fering from a brain tumor. The statement said: "Mr. Oerahwln is here for observa tion for a brain tumor. Hts condi tion remains critical." The statement mas Usued by lie Gabriel Segal), attending physlctun, who reported the diagnosis waa made after consultation mlth Drs. Carl j Rand and Eugene 7.lkind. j Gershwin was rushed to Cedars of Lebanon hospital tart night In a comatose condition ahlrh followed a recent nervous breakdown. Earhart CITY IS HOST TO VETERANS OF '98 Delegates Arrive For Four Day Session Memorial Services This Evening. The city of Medford was rapidly being turned over to the United Spanish War Veterans yesterday as delegates from all parts of Oregon began arriving for the 30th annual state encampment, the 21st annual convention of the department of Ore gon Auxiliary, and the 18th annual convocation of the Military Order of the Serpent. With Colonel Sargent camp and auxiliary of Medford the host, dele gates and visitors were being received and registered at the Hotel Medford. The encampment will end Wednes day. Until 1 o'clock tonight, the ex pected 500 delegates and visitors wlh be welcomed to the city. Housing for the hundreds will be done from the Hotel Medford. department headquarters, where all delegates and visitors are asked to register. Feature of today's program will be the memorial services at the First Presbyterian church on South Holly street, with the memorial address be ing given by Department Chaplain 1. O, Shaw. It will start at 8 o'clock tonight. Following the opening pray er by the Rev. Sherman L. Divine, Edna. Elfert will , sing "No Night There."- other features of the ser vice will be .Introductory remarks by Department Commander Hugh Rog ers and Department President Millie Hall, reading the names of deceased comrades by Department Registrar Thomas C. Bodlcy, reading of names (Continued on Page Eight) Two men and a woman were serl ouly hurt in an automobile collision late last night on. Riverside avenue at Thirteenth street. They were tak en to Community hospital where the full extent of their injuries had not been diagnosed at midnight. They were passengers in a car driven, police said, by Ivan Beach, 24. of Talent. The Beach machine collided with a car operated by P. F. Boone of 1134 Court street. Beach, uninjured, was held by police on an open charge. Police quoted Boone as saying ne was traveling south on Riverside when his car waa struck by the Beach machine. Beach, traveling north, pulled out to the wrong side of the highway to pass a car. Boone told the police. The Injured : Elizabeth Steven, Central Point, possible broken ribs: Dayton Cooper, Talent, bruises and possible fracturerd elbow; and Earn Waterland, Talent, compound broken right arm. The Perl amublance, driven by Herb Brown, took them to the hospital. BULLETIN PORTLAND, July 10. (JP) A savage five-hit onslaught In the sec ond Inning off Ernie Bon ham, hero of a 'seven-lnnlng no-hit no-run game against Seattle last week, prov ed the principal factor tonight In giving the Portland Beavers theli fourth consecutive win over Oakland The five hits were good for four runs, and In the next inning the Beavers added two more, the final count being 6 to 4 In Portland's favor. Johnny Frederick and Moose Cla baugh. each with a double and a sin gle, sparked the Portland attack. Hobo Carson held Oakland to scat tered hits which netted single runs in the first, second, fourth and eighth innings. Score (night game): R. H. E. Oakland .. 4 10 0 Portland ...,. - 0 0 1 Bonham, Miller and Baker; Carson and Treah. Score (night game): R. H, E. Sacramento ..... 7 0 0 Seattle 1 5 I Newsom and Cooper; Barrett Thomas and Splndel, Fernandes. Htaple Removed PORTLAND, Ore., July 10. (API I Raleigh Stark, aged 8. was recovering , today from en operation for the re monl of a large galvanlged staple from his stomach. Searchers Assemble for First Lady Hopes Husband Doesn't Seek Third Term HYDE PARK! N. Y., July 10. (AP) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "hopes" her husband will not seek a third term aa president' of the United States. So she told the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home Town club, which she addressed here. HEAT WAVE OVER MOST OF NATION No Relief In Sight Chicago Water Pressure Ebbs Peak Marks Hit For Season. (By the Associated. Press) Thousands of Americans fled to beaches, mountains and woods Sat urday to escape the scourge of op pressive heat. Perspiring forecasters spurred the heglra by predicting the hot pall that has covered most of the nation for four days would hold sway through the woek end. Newly reported fatalities Increased the death total to 150. ". Wilted weather fans In New York city watched the mercury rise. again to .-the season's record mark. 05.1 de grees, but slightly cooler- conditions were promised the up-state sector. Storms left two dead in the Detroit area, but the temperature resumed its rise after reaching 7 at noon. . Newark suffered 98-degree heat. A reading of 04 at Marinette, Wis.,. was the highest of the year. The sum mer peak of 07 was equalled at Wi nona, Minn. Nashville's 01; was the top for the week. . Officials estimated 150,000 Chicago ana sought respite on Lake Michi gan's shore. The maximum there was 80 but the relative humidity. 70. was 16 points higher than the July average. Many householders com palnted of the lack of adequate pres sure In the water system duo to an Increase In withdrawal of approxi mately 26.000.000 gallons a day. A freak squall doused Chicago's south side with rain and hall. Water ran curb deep In the streets. Five deaths were attributed to the heat there during the day. - A tempera ture of 104 was registered In ubur ban Willow Springs. . Temperatures Approached the 100 degree level in Iowa, ranged between 03 and 00 In Maryland, and held around the 00 mark in most of Ohio. Missouri and Kansas. Overnight rains cooled eastern Oklahoma. STRIKE IN PARIS PARIS, July .10. Outbreak of violence tonight accompanied the spread of a strike by hotel, resturant and cafe workers demanding an un conditional five-day week. A dozen of tho largest Paris hotels and more than a hundred cafes and restaurants were strike-bound when committees of three affiliated unions called out their workers except In establishments already on a 40-hout five-day week. One big boulevard hotel said mo-t of Its guests left when the strike was declared. Its American guests, however, preferred to stay even though they had to prepare their own meals and make up their own rooms. Kitchens were turned ov?r to them and the hotel managerial staff left fresh linen at their doors. One big Champs Elysee cafe kept running despite the strike, staffed by Its manager and hat check girls. Power Bond Vote KLAMATH FALLS. July 10. (AP The Enterprise Irrigation district will vote August 0 on a 840.000 bond issue to finance construction of a diatr let-owned power plant, southeast of Klamath Falls. A 128,000 PWA grant Is contem plated. Flm Spuds Shipped ONTARIO. July 10. (AP) This week saw V-a first potato shipments of the season from here, growers receiving 80 cents a hundred pound Four csrs left the White Rlrer pack ing plant Friday. Ti Rankin Thrills MARfH FIELD, July 10. (AP) Residents of Coot Bay thrilled at the exhibition of Tex limit in nd the troup of touring air acrobats. F PEAR WEEK PLAN 200,000 Stores To Feature Fresh And Canned Pears Each November W. A. Gates Fosters Program. Fruit Interests here were enthusi astic yesterday over the prospect of a national pear week tq be held an nually throughout the United States beginning next fall. A woek featur ing pears will add tremendously to the consumption of the fruit. It was declared by Raymond R. Reter, man ager of the Plnacle Packing company. News of national pear week was announced at a luncheon of the ex ecutive committoo of the Oregon Washington Pear Bureau in the Ho tel Medford Friday by William A. Gates, co-owner of the Groceteria suptr-food stores. Through Mr. Gates' efforts national pear week was approved by the Na tional Retail Grocers' association at Its recent convention In Boston. National pear week will be held each year during the seven-day pe riod preceding Thanksgiving week In accordance with the schedule adopt ed by the grocers' association, said air. Gates, who attended the Boston convention and proposed that a week be set aside annually for the featur ing of winter pears. Intensive Campaign Mr. Gates gave a brief talk at the luncheon on merchandising methods and described what could be accom plished for the pear Industry through the co-operation of the 300.000 stores throughout the country which win participate In the program fea turing the fruit.. The widespread campaign will Include both freah and canned pears so that every commun ity in the country will participate, Mr. Gates Bald. Bale of canned pears la of great Importance to Bartlett growers and shippers, it was pointed out. The National Retail Grocers' bbso- clatlon and its affiliated state asso ciations will shoulder the major part of the responsibility for conducting (Continued an Pai:. rwelvei IS LEGALLY SANE LOS ANGELES, July 10. (UP) Five alienists have found Albert Dyer, sex-slayer of three Inglewood girls, legally sane, Deputy District Attorney Eugene Williams said to day. He said tho decided tht 32-year old WPA crossing guard la a sadist and sub-pervert with an intelli gence quotient of 65, Williams refused to make public the five psychiatrists' reports but remarked: "They all say he la sane. "They say he is a sadist and sub-pervert that hla Intelligence quotient Ls between 60 and 65. "He Is thoroughly orlcnated and haa no delusions or hallucinations and there la no evidence of any psychosis, or mental disease." The alienists whose reports have been filed are Doctors Samuel M Mftcrua. J. Paul De River, Aaron Rosanoff, Gustavo Goehme, ana Benjamin Blank, Dyer became hysterical In his cell for the first time since his arrest. when another psychiatrists. Dr. Ed son 8. Steele, f p pointed by Judge Thomas L. Ambrose, examined him Jaf guards reported that, after Dr. Steele left the cell Dyer dropped to his knees, praying and crying and beating hla head against his Jail cot. It was reported that Dyer, con fenfted strangler and ravlsher of Melba and Madelalne Everett and Jeanette Stephens, might be plan ning to repudiate his confession. He kept muttering: "I dtdnV do It.' rUtd Air Show Pays ONTARIO, July 10. (AP The performance of the touring r r cir cus here this week netted HOC above expenaea. to be used In improving trie local airport, R. E. Scrlbner, chairman of the local committee. reported. rruler Departs PORTLAND, July 10. (AP) Port land bade farewell to the cruiser Cincinnati and her convoy of four destroyers as the ships sailed down the Columbia bound for the open sea. Search For These three iinnl pilots Lieutenants L. C. Fox. W. R. Short, Jr., and J. n. Ijimhreiht (left to right) are searching the shHrk-lnfented Pacific ocean ahout Howland Island for Fred Noonan and Amelia Earhart, the lost world filers. Launched by the Colorado's catapult, they search until their fuel la exhausted or until night falls. BAR HEAD HOLDS LIBERTIES FADE HATE GAINS MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 10. (A) Frederick H. Stinchfleld of Min neapolis, president of the, American Bar .association, told the Indiana Bar association here today that "Indi vidual liberties seem to have flown" from the world. "Localities and their self-rule no longer flourish." he said. "Democ racy Is on trial, and, If of a proph etic Inclination, one may be Inclined to say that the verdict seems to be going against democracy. Wo were told 10 years ago that we should make the world safe for democracy. If the world tried, the attempt failed. We see the burden of taxes growing unbearable. We sec the money, moreover, being used far too extensively for valueless purposes wasted. Aa money and property are dissipated In increasing quan tities, tho world seems to grow, not better, but worse. "With all of the redistribution, poverty remains, nay increases, the world over. Unhapplness grows apace. In our country we find, in a land where they little existed be fore, the growth of classes; and as they grow, wo see hate grow, per haps an Inevitable consequence." WHEELING SWEPT BY RAINS WHEELING, W. Va., July 10. (AP) Torrential rains and high winds struck tho Wheeling area late today, wrecked homes, flooded busi ness districts, paralyzed traffic and marooned hundreds. More than BOO automobiles were abandoned on U. 8. route 40 east of Elm Grove, it waa reported. Tho highway was under from four to six feet of water. A tourist camp, on the highway Juat east of Elm Grove, waa com pletely washed out. In the same sector more than' 100 yards of Baltimore Ac Ohio railroad track were washed out. A railroad bridge and a highway bridge were reported swept away by the surging, rain-swollen Wheeling creek. 2 IRE SOVIET POLE HOPS, PLAN MOSCOW, July 10. (API Two more Soviet polar flights to the United States have been planned, one ; to begin na ebon aa weather Is favorable and the second to fol low probably within a month. It wa. dlsclaeed today. The aucceas of last month's hop to Vancouver. Wash., Inspired com pleted plana for the additional flights. The famou, Soviet long distance filer, Mikhail Oromoff and two com panions, will comprise the first crew. Slglsmund Levanevaky. who res cued James Msttern from the Si berian wastes when he cracked up on a world girdling hop several yeara ago. disposed tl'at he would make the following flight, probably before the month Is up. "Last Chance Lost Fliers STAND GOVERNOR ON LABOR ISSUES SALBM. July 10. (API Oovernor Charles H. Martin expressed himself today aa highly elated over the recent abatement of President Roosevelt that strikes and collective bargaining In? volvlng federal employes could not b tolerated. "This statement on the part of President Roosevelt affirms the posi tion I assumed several weeks ago," Oovernor Martin declared. "At that time I Issued a public statement that the state of Oregon could not or would not tolerate collective bargain ing on tho part of Its employes." Oovernor Martin said the state fed eration of labor aubsequently adopted a resolution denouncing him for his stand on the unionization of state workers. - "Neither the president or myself have any objection to the organisa tion of federal or stste workers." Oov ernor Martin declared. Oovernor Martin said the only trou ble with President Roosevelt's state ment waa that It came several weeks late. "The elate of Oregon la getting along very well," Oovernor Martin eontlnued, "and aa far aa I know there haa been little labor trouble this summer." The governor said state and federal workera were In the aame category and that President Roosevelt'a state ment referred to state employes as well as those employed b; the fed eral government. OF FEDERAL LOAN WASHINGTON, .'uly 10. (API Mayor Oolbert E. Gable of Port Or fcrd, Ore., rehabilitation commission er for tho neighboring community of Bandon, Ore., announced tonight that tho reconstruction finance corpora tion has given a commitment for a 9200.000 loan for Bandon's rehabili tation. The city as destroyed by a forest fire September 36. "It appears that there la now some hope of building the proposed 'dream city In Bandon's place," Oable said. He aald the commitment was In the form of a letter from the RFC to Its Oregon agent, . P. Blade of Portland, authorising the loan. Oable ssld he had a copy of the letter. He added the "dream city" plan ners hoped to get 1117,000 addition al from another federal agency. WEEK'S FORECAST Oregon: Pair Sunday but occas ional fogs on coast; continued warm in interior; freshly northerly wind off coast. Outlook far western states for the period July U-17. Inclusive: Pair and local thunderatorma oyer mountains latter part of week and extreme southern mountains first of week: temperaturea above norma! In inierlor. becoming normal after middle of week. BANDON ASSURED ft LEXINGTON WITH 62 PLANES JOINS No Clues And Little Hope For Missing Aviators Thorough Survey Plan ned Of South Seas. (Mr the Associated Press) HONOLULU, July 10. Planes and ships went doggedly on with their hunt for Amelia Earhart today pend ing arrival of the aircraft carrier Lexington with 300 naval fliers for a "last chance" aurvey of the South Sea area In which she dlsaoDeared eight daya ago. Without clues and virtually with, out hope, aviators of the battleship Colorado pointed their three catapult planea toward the main group of the Phoenix Islands. Oeorga Palmer Putnam, husband of the missing avlatrlx, made plans to quit his long vigil beside coast guard and naval radio operators In San Francisco and leave for hla North Hollywood home. Putnam aald he had given up hope that Misa Earhart and her naviga tor, Frederick J. Noonan, would ba found. "It'a Just that I feel there Is noth ing more that I can do hte:' he aald. "Miss Earhart's mother (Mrs. Amy Earhart) la at my home." he added "and I thought I should ba with her.' He arranged Trlth Lieut.- Frank- Johnson, coast guard communications . officer In San Francisco, to continue receiving reports of the searoh at his southern California home. The Colorado'e aviators, empty- handed after three days of flying over the Island group designated as the most likely place to search, undertook broad survey of four or five small dots of reefenclrcled land southeast of Howland Island. Miss Earhart and Noonan were fly ing from New Guinea toward How land, the American outpost In the. equatorial Pacific, when' definitely last heard from by radio. The great hunt first embraced 104. 000 square miles of sea north and west of Howland but twitched to the Phoenix area on the belief of naval authorities that wind conditions and unidentified radio signals pointed to the south and east of Howland. With the Colorado'e planes detail ed to survey Enderbury, Phoenix, Blr nle and 8ydney Islands of the Phoe nix group, ahore patrola of the mine aweeper Swan, headed for Canton Island, largest of the archipelago. Backing up these combined efforts, the powerful Lexington moved swiftly southward for the lsst and most dra matic phase of unprecedented search. The Lexington planned to reach the search area by Monday morning and naval authorities said she might un leash her entire brood of 03 fighting plsnea at once. Capable of covering 60,000 square miles dsily, this giant air armada waa expected to bring the bunt to awtft end. Naval authorities aald they had reached no conclusion aa to bow long the Lexington would atay, although Rear Adm. O. O. Murfln. directing the hunt from here, blocked out a 26s 000-square mile area to be covered. Theoretically, the Lexington's planea could scan tucb an area In about 4V, daya. MYSTERY ATTACK '-, V NEW HAVEN, Conn.. July 10 (AP) The battered body of EaWilt Feinberg, 16, an orphan and a Junior at the New Haven high school, waa found late today In an attlo room of her home here which aba occu pied wit Mrs. Beasle Moran, an aged grandmother. The body .waa discovered by Mr. Moran In a bedroom used by Joseph Dumorad, 30, an employe of the Winchester Repeating Arms com pany. who waa adopted by th wo man 18 yeara ago. Officer Irving Le vi ne of the New Haven police aald. The officer said police sought Du morad to question htm. The young man left home earlier In the day after announcing he planned to take a awlm at a friends cottage on Lake Zoar. Lavlne aald h found the girl's body lying on the floor, with gaan on the left temple. On a bed In the room waa a shirt covering carpen ter's hammer, the bead of whlcB waa aulMd, he aald. i
