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The Weather Forecast: Cloudy today and tomorrow ; cooler today. Temperature Highest yesterday I X) west thli morning , .... Want and Need Just for curlotlty'i sake take todi.r. You may not went thing that you know of etlll look it the classified page find something jon dually do want and need. Medford TRIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirtv-Secoiid Yea:' MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY, .JULY IS, 1fl:S7 No. 101. Ml h aim Ltq mm i i BAKE By H. R. Batik hage Copyright. 1937, by the Horth American Newspaper. Alliance, Inc. WASHINGTON. July 17. "I never vis a candidate. But I always had one." That answer made by Senator Alben William Bnrkley, when some rv".e asked blm about his political ailvltles back In college days, aa aumea new significance. He has been a candidate since, fre quently and successfully. Now he stands on the threshold of a new job and a hard one, for In all likelihood he will be chosen to fill the shoes of the late Senator Joe Robinson as senate majority leader. But right now that "office" Is no sinecure. The way the land lies to day, a man has to "have a candidate" If he accepts It, has to be willing to put aside hts own personal wishes, has to take a lot of the kick and miss a lot of the glory. If the new deal Is carrying the torch of the new freedom, then It U logical enough to chqose the Ken tucklan as one of Its torch bearers. For the day Wood row wifeon was Inaugurated, Senator Barklry began his career In congress. He has consistently fought for the typical "liberal" measures, the Adamson eight-hour act. the trans portation act, and. finally, after long battling, the Howell -Bark ley act which ended the disastrous railroad strikes which had preceded Its paw age. In the struggle for this latter leg islation there Is a parallel to the battle over the court bill. The first) time, the bill was defeated by fill- j buster. In the following session of i December (1925), It passed. During the summer, Senator Bark- j ley and his colleagues had worked'. with both sides effecting a compro mise. " The bill was discharged from committee by petition the first time this parliamentary step had been used. A similar situation may be faced In the house with regard to the court bill. There Is nothing Inconsistent In the senator's attitude toward an "Inelastic" Judiciary. The abuse of "stare decisis," the lawyer's anchor to precedent, was a matter that he had often pondered. He was undoubtedly Influenced In his thought by a liberal professor in the University of Virginia where he got his law degree. Later It was brought sharply before him again In a remark made by Woodrow Wilson which he often quotes. A delegation called on President Wilson to urge a candidate for the auprcme benrh. The president asked them one ques tion: "Does your candidate believe the law la a thing that grows, or some thing that la finished?" If a body's mind Is as receptive as they say it Is. perhaps some of the senator's earliest experiences turned him toward politics. He of tan heard his father speak of Adlal Stevenson, rice-president under Cleveland,' who was a first cousin. Once the boy went to Cairo, Illi nois, to hear his Illustrious relative tpeak. That was In the campaign of 1892. but he hasn't forgotten it. He was fifteen then, a school boy in Graves county, Kentucky. At 30 he had graduated from Mar Tin college at Clinton. That sounda simple but It wasn't. He worked his way waiting on table and at any other Job that he could find. He borrowed books that he couldn't afford to buy and he can remember t.-day the long tramps he took re turning them at night he couldn't take time off during the day, and .so lonely Journeys were no fun But fun has never been the first consideration with Alben William Bsrkley. though he loves a good Joke even when it's on himself. By the time ha had his diploma from the academy he was ready for anything, and off be went to Emory college In Georgia where he graduat ed. Then he turned to the Mecca of the future lawyers of his day the University of Virginia. Fortunately for the poor but ambitious student of those days. Thomas Jefferson hadn't included central -besting in the building plans and there were plenty of fires to build, enough to pay the board of a young man who wasn't afraid ta get up at dawn to work. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Alben was back In Ken tucky, was admitted to the bar and began practicing In :he town of I psducali which has been his home ever since, although he snd hts fam I My are pretty much Washlngtonlans by this time. He married immediately and began reading law under Judee William Bishop, that blue grass Jurist made famous by Irvin Cobb as "Judge Priest," Soon he tru c'tri of '.he (Continued on Page l;bt.) JAPAN MOBILIZES AT TIENSTIN FOR Gen. Sung Irks Tokyo- No Ultimatum, But Yield ing By Chinese Demanded In Far East Crisis. Far Eastern Situation TIENTSIN Japanese army. 16,000 strong, and growing, threatens dras tlce action unless China speedily ac cepts Its demands not made public; Tientsin rapidly becoming powerful Japanese base. TOKYO Government announces decision to speed negotiations for north China settlement according Japan's desires; makca available funds for expedition already moving toward north China trouble none. NANKING -Japanese army warns Nanking government It "will not tol erate" movements of Nanking's army or aircraft Into Hopen province. PEI PING Evacuation of foreign tourists and Japanese civilians from interior of China continues. WASHINGTON President Roose velt and Secretary Hull study Far Eastern crisis: Hull assures President developments thus far do not war rant or make necessary specific de cisions on policy by the United States. TIENTSIN. July 17. (JD The Jap. anese army threatened drastic use of Its rapidly increasing power In north China tonight unless the Chinese yielded soon to Its demands. Grimly, the Japanese rushed war like preparations which were turning Tientsin into an Important military base from which large scale opera tions could be launched at any time If the ten-day-old north China situ, atlon did not develop to their liking They had an estimated 16.000 men in the Pelptns-Tlentaln trouble zone and other thousands were arriving or on the way from Manchuria, Ko rea and Japan. Japanese officers, although deny ing an ultimatum had been present ed, expressed growing irritation at the Chinese tactics of delay. Thfiy were especially incensed with Gen. Sung Cheh-Ypan of the Hopeh Chahar council and commander of the 29th army, who has remained outside week-long peace negotiations of subordinates at Tientsin. "The sooner Sung decides (to ac cept Japan's demands) the better It will be for him," said a Japanese army spokesman. (In Tokyo, the government an nounced Japan had decided "to ac celerate negotiations" In the north China crisis. Japan's demands havr not been announced. Japanese say they provide for a local settlement of the conflict which began July 7 with a clash of Chinese and JapancfC troops west of Peiplng. Chinese say they arc tantamount to .severance of the north from the rest of China.) ' Japan's north China army, with headquarters here, staked out two airports, increased the Japanese army communication system and took over the last of Tientsin's three railway stations. Japanese mills and warehouses de signed for military stores and troop occupation were circled with barbed wire barricades. Chinese Immigration authorities at Nanking suspended issuance of visas to foreign tourists wishing to enter the north China trouble zone. Most American tourists already have left Petplng. Japanese civilian evac uation of the interior continued. In Nanking, a representative of the Japanese army informed the Chinese government that Japanese would not tolerate movement of any Nanking troops or air forces Into Hopeh. Such movements, he declared . would violate the Ho-Umczu agree ment of 1935, which, according to the Japanese, bars central government troops from entering Hopeh. Th! Japanes earmy. Its agent said, "Is prepared to take firm measures against any violation of the Ho Umezu agreement." LEADERS OUSTED ASTORIA. July 17. (AP) All was serene at the Warren ton CCO camp today, after a "strike" by tome 30 members Friday cQded with the dis honorable discharge of 12 leaders Lieutenant Marvin Cone, com mander, said he believed the trou ble was Inspired by the desire on the part of some of the enroliees to be dlsmland prior to the ex piration of their enrol Jmrnt in September, to "avoid the rush" in obtaining private employment. Although the stst police nd Clatsop county sheriff wre ea.led to help preserve order, there was no violence. The lieutenant said the '.r'Kera merely Jtfied tiiclr off on snd refused to return to work altei lunch. CCC STRIKE ENDS, Far -Flung Earhart Search Will End Tonight E Home Set Ablaze, Fire Department Fooled And Lady Bather Is Made Panicky. PORTLAND. July 17. The electric storm which struck this ar;a tonight destroyed one home and por tion of another near Vancouver, Wash., when a bolt hit the 66.000 volt main power line from White Salmon. The northern part of Clark county. Including moit of Vancouver, was in darkness for 45 minutes. Fires resulting from the power lino flash razed the home of Bert Ander sons, on the Mill Plain road and Frank Natta owned the one partially damaged. Total loss was estimated at $3500. The storm played freakish tricks In Portland. Charles Eastman reported a single bolt burned his radio out completely and set fire to the front room curtains. Another bolt shattered a tree at Jantzen Beach, frightening a-young woman swimmer eo much she be came panicky and dashed Into the men's shower rooms, crowded with United States navy swimmers. All downtown fire equipment 33 pieces in all rushed pell mell about business fitrccVi tonight In answer to a three-box alarm when a boU struck trolley . wires and caused a short circuit. , TACOMA, July 17. fTt A brilliant electrical storm that skirted this city entertained watchers for more than two hours tonight. Radio station KVI reported It transmitter at Point Hyer, Vashon Island, out of commission shortly be fore 10 o'clock and that It probably would be out an hour, after the power supply from the Puget Sound Light and Power company's Whito river plant was disrupted by th storm. FOR AGED URGED WASHINGTON, July 17 (UP) A bloc of 100 bouse members prepared tonight for a drive to appropriate an additional (133.000.000 to Increase old age pensions for 1,000.000 men and women. The legislation doubling present federal aid to states for pensions for the "needy aged" was backed by members of all political affiliations. Under the plan the federal gov ernment would give 2 for every $1 contributed by a state for old age as sistance. At present federal aid Is limited to a 60-50 matching basis, with maximum federal assistance limited to 15 a month a person. A petition to force a house vote on the bill has been signed by ap proximately 06 members. Rep. Har old Knutson. R., Minn., said. FOE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., July 17. (UP) Gov. M. Clifford Townsendteft tonight for a two weeks vacation. still unrelenting In his decision to throw his powerful state Democratic machine against the renomlnatlon of Senator Frederick VanNuya at the 1938 state convention. The governor appeared undisturbed by reports from Washington that 30 prominent Democratic senators plan ned to stump the state for VanNuya next spring In an effort to break ths "Townsend dictatorship. They blamed the governor's deci sion on Van Nuys opposition to presi dent Roosevelt's supreme court re form proposal. Townsend has gone on record three times as favoring the court reform plan. BULLETIN MR hi Game Los Angeles , 2 7 0 fjv-.cramento 4 4 0 Thomas and Collins; KItnger and Franks. PENSION BOOSTS Scene of Latest Far East 1 -aaaaM,,alaw HSlP?WMEN fifJttS n.i ifL k II j ( MNANYUAN II . I HEAVY FIRING "N. p ' I I REPORTED MERE ! ft-1 to ( v j T'to l VTIENTSIN I HANKOW A J 1 - i JJ; V -RAILROADS 0 S 10 V I . f 0A0S ' ' ' 1 MILES ' 'b This Associated Press map gnipnimlly hov, the Hmilrr of war In FARLEY STRIVES TO END RIFT IN J Aboard Robinson : Funeral Train. New Court Com promise Offered To Bring Peace. ABOARD ROBINSON FUNERAL TRAIN, July 17. (An Three unof ficial emissaries of the White House worked today to reunite their party ranks, left leaderless and confused by the unexpected death of Senator Rob inson (D.-Ark.), Democratic chief In the senate. James A. Farley, postmaster general and Democratic national chairman, held a score of quiet conferences with senators and representatives aboard the special train carrying Robinson's body to his Little Rock, Ark., homo for burial Sunday, He was aided by tww trusted New Deal officials, Charles West, under secretary of the Interior department, and Asst. Atty. Gen. Joseph B. Kaan an. Several senators said Keenan had discussed a new compromise on the court Issue, under which present mat ters of the court would be exempted from provisions of the Judiciary re organization bill. The compromise measure now be fore the senate would authorize the president to appoint one new justice annually to supplement members of the supreme court who fall to retire at the age of 76. Keens n's suggestion, which he made without committing the administra tion, has been favorably discussed In recent weeks by many foes of the present bill. Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.), one of the opposition leaders. Indicated on the senate floor that might accept such a compromise. A number of legislators on both sides of the controversy said private ly they believed the present deadlock could be quickly dissolved if the pres ident could agree to Kcenan's pro posal. WASHINGTON. July 17. ( UP The first billion-dollar wheat crop In 10 years poured into mid western mar kets tonight at the highest price per bushel since 1030. Marketing of wheat from Texas to Nebraska, where the harvest la Just jetting underway. Is at a record high since 1011, the department of agrl ; culture reported. MADISON. Wis.. July 17. Distressed debtors of the low Income class In Wisconsin henceforth miy p7 t.-.olr oblifftton In Installments their creditors' objections notwithstanding. N EXPERIMENTAL BALLOON FLIGHT ROCHESTER. Minn., July 18. (Sun day) (AP) The "Plfliades." lifted by eighty-four foot white rubber bal loons bore Dr. Jean Plccard Into the air from Soldiers Field on an ex perimental flight at 13:08 am. to day. Sharp detonations signalized the breaking of the ropes to release the craft. Dr. Plccard set oft TNT bombs around the ropes electrically from within the open gondolas. He hoped to rise two to three miles to learn whether a multi-balloon craft can carry him later Into the stratosphere. An estimated crowd of more than 6000 persons circling the field, which until the moment of the takeoff had been brilliantly lighted, cheered hs the craft rose. Lights on the field, except for three searchlights, were turned off as Dr. Plccard rose. He hoped to remain aloft about seven hours. Indications were he would drift from 100 to 200 miles or more. (fly AMH-lated Press) Spain rounds out a full year of civil war today with an explosive world warding off sparks. The war la a draw so far, but the decision may come soon. Spain, three -fourths the sire of Texas, la fairly evenly divided be tween the forces of the Madrid-Valencia government and those of Gen eral Francisco Franco's Insurgents. Franco holds the western half ex cept a strip 35 by 60 miles from Ovledo to Santandcr on the north west coast. Madrid Is the price. If h takes It, as the twice promised to do "In ten days." Franco predicts he will sweep M&tward and conqusr all Spain. The government army today cut at Vr.t rear guard of Madrid's insurgent besicrgera. Detachments drove for ward In two sectors, one 18 miles west and one 26 miles south of. the capital. Surrounding a part of the Insur gent radio station broadcast that from 16.000 to 26.000 Italian volun teers serving with insurgents were at Valladolld, 100 miles north wont of Madrid, reedy to proceed to the cen tral point. In renewed fighting on the Aragon front In northeastern Spain Insur gents were said to have repulsed a government attack near Huesca. BAN FRANCISCO. Julv if. Sales of Safeway stores for the four 1 wvk ending July 10 totaled 130, 192,723, compared tth 636.041 ,336 or an Increa&e of 13 07 percent. War Threat Mir Mr MM. LAST HOMAGE OF ROBINSON TODAY Senate Leader To Receive Greatest Home-coming In Death Veiled Fight Over Successor. LITTLE ROCK. Ark., July 17. (AP) The state of Arkansas, which gave Sen. Joseph T. Robinson every tribute at her command In hla life time, arranged to pay him even greater homage tomorrow In death. Authorities expected upwards of 35.000 for "Joe T.'s" greatest home coming. Representatives of all walks of life were here In advance of the funeral train arriving at 7:30 a. m. tomorrow. The body will remain at the Rob inson residence until 10:30 a. m when a military guard of state troops will bear It to the capltol to lie in state for three hours, A horse-drawn caisson will carry the casket to the fashionable first Methodist church for services at 4 p. m. The pastor, the Rer. H. Bas com Watts, will deliver the sermon. The Rev, James Thomas, friend of tho Robinson family, will assist in the 49-mlnute rites. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial park. Tho church seats only about 1,600 and will be reserved for the family, the congressional delegation and the press. Some 76 senators and representa tives will attend the funeral, Tney are locked In a veiled struggle over who wilt succeed Robinson as Dem ocratic majority leader. Vice-president John Garner, rep resenting the president, will arrive from his Uvalde, Texas, home to morrow. Political lines formed In the state on the Issue of a successor to Rob inson. Gov. Carl B, Bailey, mention ed as a potential candlate In a . special election to be held within 1 120 days, remained silent. Former J. M. Put re 11 advocated the selection of Mrs. Robinson, CRAVES LIBERTY ANSDOWN. Pa July 17. (UP) Albert R. Knight, 60-year-old choir linger, prepared tonight for a nearlng Monday on a habeas corpus petition to release him from Delaware county Jail, where he was Imprisoned two days ago on charges of attempting to destroy his three daughters by fire and collect 6130.000 Insurance on their lives. He It accused of setting fire to his suburban home May 28 while hla three daughters and a son slept in second floor bedrooms. QUANTTCO, Va July 17. (AP) A collision of an automobile wltn an oil laden truck today burned three men to death and fatally injured a woman. E COURT IURIST IS CALLED BY DEATH Judge James U. Campbell Dies Of Heart Attack In Salem Funeral Monday. SALEM, July 17. (AP) Funeral services for State Supreme Court Justice James U. Campbell, who died Friday night after seven years on the supremo bench Including a term as chief Justice, will be held tn the Elks temple at Oregon City Monday at 3 p. m. The Oregon department, Spanish war veterans, will direct the serv ices. Justice Campbell soldiered in the Philippine Islands with Gover nor Martin, then an army officer, who said today- "Oregon has lost one of Its foremost cltlsens.' Honorary pallbearers are Governor Martin. Secretary of State Earl Snell, State Treasurer Rufua O. Hol man: Supreme Court Justices Henry J, Bean, George R. Rossman, John U Rand, Harry H. Belt, Percy Kelly, and J. O. Bailey, and members of the Oregon bar and bench. Judge Campbell died In a local hospital following a heart attack suffered 1Q days ago after an auto trip to southern Oregon. He had previously undergone two eyo oper ations resulting in his absence from the bench for the past month. Born August 20. '866, on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and a grad uate of the Prince of Wales college there, he came to Oregon City in 1888 where he studied law and was admitted to (he, bar In 1803. His career as a publio official be gan In 1000, when he waa appointed deputy district attorney of Clack amas county, serving until 1004. He served two terms In the state legislature, beginning in 1007, and In 1900 he waa named circuit Judge of the fifth Judicial district, Clack amas . county, r Governor Frank Benson. He held the post until 1033 when he became supreme court Jus tice. He waa a member of the Oregon National Guard for two years, and waa twice promoted while serving In the Philippine islands as a member of the second Oregon volunteers. He was a delegate to the Repub lican national party convention In Chicago In 1004, In Oregon City. August 4, 1001. ha married Anna C. Paulding1, who sur vives, with a daughter, Mrs. Mary Petrie of Portland. THIRD JOHN DAY PORTLAND, Ore., July 17. AP) Pedtral and atat orflcers arrested Lloyd H. Barkdoll. 3D, aought aa the third of the trio or gunman who rob. bed the Orant county bank at John Day July la, at the Portland atage terminal late today. Carl c. Donaugh, VS. dlatrlot at torney, aald Barkdoll confessed hla part In the 13600 bank robbery. In which Oscar Hoveraon, aaalatant cash ier, was beaten and another man hot In the toot, Barkdoll, known by Pat Buahman and Cheater Crum ( alias Lloyd Rua aell), hla two companions brought here from Pendleton today where they had been held since their ar rest Thursday at Blckleton, Wash, aa Jack Davis, waa reported to have been left dead or dying near John Day after the fugitives overturned their car, Barkdoll aald he waa from Marsh, field. Or., where hla wife and 4-yer-old twin sons reside. Donougti charged the trio with robbery of a government-protected bank, a federal offense. Bond waa set at 28,0O0 esch. VILDTO, Austria, July IT. (AP) The Duke of Windsor, wearing leath er ahorta, the aeoepted peaaant garb In thta region, danced with bla wife today at a public featlval which M a feature of the Woerteraea water pro gram. The Duchess wore a light dresH which waa a modification of popu lar peaaant costume. LEXINGTON FAILS FIND ANY CLUES OF LOST FLYERS Legislation To Prevent Use Of Navy To Find Stunt Aviators In Future Urged. WASHINGTON. Julv IT 7aai Islatlon to prevent use of the navy and other rovemmenfc costly searches for "publicity stunt" hm auttgestea toaay aa a by product of the hunt for Amelia Ear hart. Representative Scott m -ni - member of the house naval commit tee, asked for com?!-te Information from the navy and coast guard con cerning the search fnt uiu and her navigator, Fred Noonsn. in cluding the cost and extent to which it had Interfered with tlie "regularly yicaviiuca routine" Of both services. The Callfornlan also asked the commerce department about tho basis on whloh It granted permission for the flight. He aald he olanned tn nr.ju,nf n. data to the naval commlttco to aub- aiantiate hla demand for corrective legislation. HONOLULU, July 17. m The) navy announced today It probably would end tomorrow night Its far flung search through the mld-Paclfls for Amelia Earhart. Officers In charge said a dwindling fuel supply would force the aircraft oarrlcr Lexington to head directly for San Diego after two more days of searching, Including today. Forty-two of the Lexington's planes took off as usual for a morning aur vey but returned three houra later without a clue They had covered an area 880 miles west of the Internation al date line and SO miles north of the equator. Search leadera here aald the threat destroyer, accompanying the earners would return to the Paclflo by way of Pearl harbor. The futile search of the Phoenix arid Otlbert Island areas strengthen ed the belief of experts that Mlas Earhart'a world-circling plane plung ed Into the tea in Its futile attempt to fly 3.970 miles from New Qulnes, to Howland Island last July 3. Authorltlea said tho coast guard cutter Itasca and the mine sweeper Swon had established definitely Miss carnarva plane was not In the Oil be rt Island district, 800 miles west of Howland. With three catapult planes, the battleship Colorado previously search ed the Phoenix Island group, cen tering 280 miles southeast of How land, the only other land area within the range of possibilities. Released from the hunt which It began a few minutes after Miss Ear hart and her navigator. Frederick J, Noonan, were last heard from by ra dio, the Itasca headed toward How-, land Island and the minesweeper Swan got under way for Honolulu, Search officials hers aald the Lex ington's planee would make their last scouting flights over the south teas area tomorrow, weather permitting. Up to noon yesterday the Lexing ton's planes had flown approximately 73.000 mllea and covered 00,000 square miles of area. Sixty planes were used In the first day of operations last Tuesday, but the operating number was cut later to 43 dally. UNSETTLED, THEN Northern California: Fair Sunday and Monday but cloudy on the coast night and morning; normal temperature and moderate northwest wind off the coast. Oregon: Fair east and generally cloudy west portion Sunday and Monday; probably scattered tbund eratorms Sunday over eastern moun tains; cooler In the Interior Sunday; moderate northwest wind off the coast. Outlook for period July 13-34, far western states: Oenerall fair but preceded by unsettled conditions beginning of week In the north pacific atatea: temperature above normal beginning of week and above normal towards the close, except along coast where cool weather and fogs will prevail. Horror Evlill.lt Plan MUNICH, Germany, July 17; (AP) Germany la to have a "side show of horrible examples" of paint ing and architecture to remind natia of the "Jew Is M.'rxlal- influ ence tn the days before RelcHa fuehrer Hitler.
