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The Weather Fair tontght and Tueadayi wanner Tuetday. Temperaturt Highest eterday S3 Lowest this morning . ....... M They Seek You Seek your prospective buyers where they seek you throufh the clautfltd columni of this newspaper. The cost of classi fied ids Is to small compared tilth results. Why wait longerf Medford TBIBUNE Full Associated Press ull United Press Thirty-Second Year M KDFORD, OKKliOX, MONDAY, JULY 19. 1937. No. 102 v US u Vi By II. R. B.UKHAliE. (Copyright. 1037, by North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) WASHINGTON, July 19. The In come tax collectors aren't the only merabera of the treasury department who are worried about "loopholea." The men who have to garner social security taxes are finding that there are old dogs who have learned new tricks In this field, too. It Isn't admitted officially and no figures are available, but here la one dodge that la being used. A man who always thought he , had been a salesman, vi&a treated as such, suddenly awoke one morning and discovered that he was a dealer. A dealer, of course, wouldn't be In the employe category and therefore his company would not have to pav taxes on him under the old age pen sion and unemployment Insurance provisions of the social security act. But It Jan't evasion that's worry ing the social security tax collectors so much as delinquency. At least, so they say. Right now collections are $58,000. 000 short of estimates made a year ago and covering what it waa hoped would roll Into the treasury in the first six months after the law became effective.' The Internal revenue bureau isn't getting ready to sharpen Its knives for these delinquents. ?t knows hu man nature and It thinks It knows why the people have been ,alow to pay. First, these are brand new taxes to a lot of people who never paid a federal tax before. They are Just putting off doing anything about them until they get a little Jolt. Second, corporations delayed re mitting until the supreme court be latedly decided that they had to by upholding the social security law. Large bodies move slowly. WHolfUW accounting systems have to be de vised, new departments organized. General Motors alone. It la report ed, Is spending $5,000,000 annually to meet the requirements of the law. quite aside from the tax Itself. As Washington awaits the first volley In the new court bill fight. It la beginning to hear rumblings from the business world over the efforts of the Johnstown citizens' committee to build a national or ganlzatlon on the back - to - work movement. While it was expected that this attempt, backed by one of the Urge professional money-raising firms ol New York, would awaken the shouts of fascism on the left, the aloofness (Continued on Page Bight ) PORTLAND. July 19. ( API Chas H. Oram, state Inbor commissioner, announced new regulations under the welfare commission today reduc ing work In hours for women from 48 to 44 a week and boosting the minimum wsge scale from 27fc cent to 30 cents an hour. The changes are effective on Octo ber 1. Oram said a large number of In dustries will not be affected because they are already paying more than the minimum and working 44 hour a week or less. The regulations Include women and minors employed In manufacturing, needlecraf t. mercantile establishments offices, hotels, restaurants, personal service and telephone and telegraph companies. SIDE GLANCES bjr TRIBUNE REPORTERS Vlo Tens aid being mistaken over the phone for brother Carl and aver ring they look much alike except that Vie baa more hair than Carl. Hnchel Obye puritanically resist ing the temptation to allp into a re freshing swimming hole, he stoutly maintaining It would be very unbe coming of a forest officer to be caught au natural in a sylvan pool. t. Harrison Thomas describing the carefree Joys of a vacation he spent entirety at home. Taroda Meyers dashing In to town from her Sardine Creek abode for poison oak relief, het face having puffed up like a carnival balloon. BUI Walker regntfully anticipating a return to work after a vacation Ttilt with old friends here. Bob Young winning the "battle of the century" from a big salmon which grabbed his light tackle near Dodgf bridge Sunday. 'CEASE FIRING' IS i GRIM EDICT GIVEN Fighting Renewed in Zone West of Peiping Tues day Is Deadline for Ac ceptance of Ultimatum TOKYO. July 19. (AP) A Domel ( Japanese) news agency dispatch from Tientsin tonight said the Japa nese army command there had served a virtual ultimatum on the Chinese military, declaring it would "take In dependent action" unless all Chinese firing against Japanese ceased Imme diately. His threat followed a renewal of fighting in the zone west of Pelplng. where Japanese and Chinese troops have been In Intermittent conflict since July 7. Jap Captain lilt Japanese military reports said Chi nese soldiers making a concrete pill box near Lukouchlao. on the Yung ting river 10 miles west or Peiping. fired on a Japanese detachment, gravely wounding Captain Mlsayoshl Yamazlkl. The attitude of the Japanese com mand was described tn dispatches as the most determined it has yet as sumed in the north China crisis. Its grim notice to the Chinese was said to declare that unless al) Chi nese firing ceased the Japanese would begin action Tuesday, presum aoly any time after midnight (11 a. m. Monday, EJ3.T ) (Another Japanese version was that the deadline was set at noon Tuesday (11 p. m. Monday, EJ5.T.) Grave Situation Japanese army leaders wcro . report? ed to regard the situation as extreme ly grave and to consider the new clash violated the local, oral settle ment reached by military leaders of the two sides at Tientsin Sunday. j It Is near Lukouchao that the first Slno-Japsnese clash of the present ' crisis occurred 12 days ago. I The Chinese government vigorously i protested to Japan today that Japa nese scouting planes had machine j gunned Chinese troops and supply i trains In Hopeh province, violating j China's territorial sovereignty. The Chinese counter-charge came soon after the Japanese government ! officially had accused China of ag- ' gravatlng the tense north China crisis by a direct aggression against Japanese Interests. EDUCATION BOARD WILL FEAST AT MARSHFIELD MARSHPIELD, July 10. ( AP ) -Civic and service clubs of the two Coos bay cities will fete the members of the state board of higher educa tion at a banquet when the board holds Its summer meeting here July 26 and 27. CHINESE MILITARY eacner enies qckuuis i Equality With Airmen Amelia s Major Goal; Played for Big Stakes "I have tried to play for a large stake. If I succeed, all will be well. If I don't. I shall be only too bappy to bop off In the midRt or such an adventure." Amelia Earhart In a "farewell" letter preceding her 1928 Atlantic flight. SAN FRANCISCO. July 18. (API In nine years of playing lor "a large stake," Amelia Earhart seem ingly was urged on by two major considerations an Insatiable desire for new aerial achievements and a longing to see women on an equal footing with men. She wanted no consideration for her sex. She couldn't endure being told she could not do something be cause she was a woman. Little incidents between her num erous aviation 'feats strongly reflected these principles. After her first flight across the Atlantic as a "passenger with Wll mer Stults and Louis Gordon she was asked why she did It. "When one Is offered such a tre mendous adventure." she replied. "It would be too Inartistic to refuse It. I knew the moment the chance came to me that If I turned It down I never would forgive myself' There was no such exhuberatton at the end of her most spectacular flight the 2.400-mile hope alone across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland. Cal In 1935. She merely climbed out of the plsne. turned to onlookers who hsd worried over her tardiness and long radio silence and said: Im tired. With the completion of that flight Mlsa Earhart was one up on the men In her field. No one else has flown that eatery stretch alone. Three months later she was away on a projected non-stop flUt ol 2,500 miles from Los Angeles to Mex John A. r 1! ii T" l rv $ in i - 1 W K' M' L ML hil ,rT , m Pretty Isabcllc Halllh.ts shown above arriving with her counsel, Daniel Canning (left) nncl her father, C. Fred llnllln. ' to attend n "public hearing" arranged by her friends In Saugus, Mas.., to enable her to answer "malicious rumors" fhe served cocktail to IiIrIi school students. The school hoard denied Mf llnllln a public hearing and "Invited" the teacher to rrlpn. E NEAR BEAGLE; PATROL SAVES - OUTBUILDINGS: Mre yesterday afternoon totally destroyed the Blanche Sweet resi dence and storage house on the Meadows road about a mile south of Beagle. Other outbuildings and stacks of hay were saved by a state forest fire patrol sent from headquortcrs on (Continued on Pae Hires ) ico City but was frustrated by a tiny bug which got Into her rye and forced her to land at Nopalo! Hidalgo, barely 60 miles from her goal. "Catty things" which men say about women did their share toward spurring her Into the trans-Atlantic solo flight In 1032. " "When there is a traffic Jam on fifth avenue.' she said later by way of Illustrating, "men always com ment, 'Oh, It's woman driving I' I have gone up with a mechanic who didn't know the compoAs from the altimeter, and when I've come down heard people say he probably did moat of the flying. 8o I determined to show them.' The trans-Atlantic solo flight grat ified her In one respect but shortly thereafter she dropped a hint In dicating she wanted to do still more Important things. "Outside of demonstrating that a moman can fly the Atlantic alone, I don't see that I have added any thing to avrttlon, science or any thing else." she remarked. But something homey and conven tional In her nature manifested Itself when she stepped out of her plane at Culmore, Ireland. In 1932. "I've done It!' she almost shouted. Then the first thing she did was to hurry toward a telephone to call up her husband, Ocorge Palmer Put nam, In New York. "After a flight I always check In like a good girl." she explained. Shortly thereafter she flew non stop and alone from the Mexican capital to Nw fork City another new achievement la the Held. Butler ROBERT BOYL HURT WHEN WHEELUOCK ON SISKIYOUS ROUTE Robert Boyl, 24, well-known former Medford man, Is confined In Com munlty hospital with a fractured shoulder as a result of an automobile accident occurring a short distance north of the California state quaran tlno station on thu Pacific highway late Saturday night. Boy), who has been employed In Yreka, Cal., by the California Orcgou Power company for tho past two or three years, was coming to Medford to visit his aunts, Mrs. Sue Hazel rlgg and Eleanor McQulston of 1404 East Main street. A sudden ap plication of the brakes aa he tried to avoid an on com I rw? car apparently made them lock, and the machine turned over. Boyl was picked up by a passing motorist and taken to the quarantine station where he was placed on a northbound stage and brought to Medford. His car was towed back t" Yreka. Although living In Yreka, Boyl spends much of his time in Medford where he has many friends. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boyl of Eu gene and Medford. E Fire this afternoon gutted the warehouse of the Rogue River Valley Canning company on South Pront street at 13th str-et and badl aam erd the Joe Rhultt residence in the roar at 530 South Central avenue. The Shults garage anl an adjacent garage were destroyed. For a time the entire neighborhood was endangered. The big two-story wooden warehou3 burned like tender. The fire had gj)4 statt before 1 was discovered by some children. Or igin was not immediately ictermlned. A chemical crew was called at 8:27 and a few minutes later a general alarm waa sounded. Every piece of equipment excepting one truck was sent to the fire. The blaze was brought under control In about 20 minutes. 4 ' The biggest shark ever caught with rod and reel near Australia recently was landed by Dr. Erlck Pi:her. a Danish consul. It weighed ,049 pounds. Victim of Green Springs Crackup T FOR AMELIA IN SOUTH PACIFIC Weary Searchers Start; Homeward After Greatest Ocean Hunt Ever Made 250,000 Miles Combed HONOLULU, July 10. () The mystery of Amelia Earhart's fato was left unsolved today In the south Pa cific vastnesa where she and her nav igator disappeared July 2 as weary scared ire gave the pair up for dead and started homeward. ' Four naval vessels, manned by mors than 1.500 , heat-plagued men, sailed away empty handed from the torrid equator where they completed tho greatest ocan hunt ever launched. More than 250.000 square miles of ocean, reefs and Islands was scoured by ships and planes In desperate ef forts to find Miss Earhart and her companion Frederick J. Noon an. Somewhere near the equatorial dot which Is Howland bland, the pulcky avlatrlx and her companion dropped from the skies In their fuel less land plane on a 2,570-mllo flight from Lac. New Oulnea to the mld-Paclflc sand- spit. The tousle -headed. 30 -year -old flier, known the world over for her avia tion exploits, was circling tho earth (Continued on Page Eight) 4 RETENTION CHANCE FOR 0. AND C. FUND IS EUGENE. July 19. (AP) The 18 land grant counties of the state, fighting to retain federal funds In lieu of taxes on land grant lands, are In an excellent position at pres ent, according to Ouy Cordon, Rose burg, attorney for the counties, who was in Eugene today conferring with County Judge Krcd Plsk. There Is a possibility that con gress may adjourn this summer with out acting on the bill now pending. Cordon said, this being possible In view of the battle over the president's court bill. "However, we are reasonably sure the bill will be enacted as one of tho first orders of business when congress meets next fall," Cordon declared, "and In any .event the counties will not lose If the meas ure Is held up till next session." Cordon, explained that In the bill now pending, the 18 land grant coun ties of the state stand to receive from 60 to 80 percent of tt:e tax claims which, under provisions of the act. would be paid direct to county treasurers. This latter pro vision was regarded as a victory by the counties as the bill first pro vided the money be paid to the state treasurer thence distributed to the counties. Leaders of the fight believed this would make the fund a political football, with the counties standing to lose some of the money. LIGHTNING FIRES PUT IN CONTROL PORTLAND. July 19. (AP) The fire control division of the United States forestry service reported all week-end blazes started by lightning either out or under control today. Normal fire weather conditions prevailed although only light rain fall occurred In most of the forest regions. Thre were many "strikes'' tn the Mt. Hood area but only 10 danger ous fires. Foresters, aided by mois ture, had these wiped out and were picking up previously unreported but minor blazes. About 60 serious strikes wre cov ered on the Washington aide of the Columbia river. Except on the upper Cowlitz, there was virtually, no rain The forest service said the fire west of Outer swept about 10 acres of green timber and old burn. Headquarters reported that tight nlng "undoubtedly struck" in other Oregon and Washington forests but apparently none waa serious. , PORTLAND. July 19. (API Port land's 47th tratflo victim of the po lice year attll lay unidentified in the morgue today. An automobile struck the 60-year old woman at she at tempted to walk across an Intersec tion yesterday. BATTLE 0 IF SPANISH WAR Insurgent and Government Planes, Artillery Strafe Opposing Lines West of Madrid Heavy Losses MADRID, July 19. (AP) The heaviest battle of the Spanish civil war thus far raged west of Madrid today as Insurgents launched a fierce drive to hurl government troops back to the capital. Insurgent and government planes and artillery crashed bombs and shells Into opposing lines near Bru- nete, newly-won government position 12 miles west of Madrid. In the air, an estimated 160 planes fought for supremacy, with govern ment forces gradually - gaining a slight advantage. The Insurgent air force renewed a smashing bombardment of govern ment front lines and communica tion routes. A duel between big guns ranging In size from 3 to 10 lncbes echoed all day tn the capital. Besides tho Brunete spearhead Into insurgent lines, government forces kept chipping at Insurgent positions closer to Madrid. Government guns shelled a mili tary camp near upper Carabanchel. outside the southern limits of the city. Government aircraft followed un with a heavy bombardment of tiy camp, where Insurgents have concentrated a reserve contingent In former alrforco barracks. Tho Cuatrovtentes airfield south of Madrid also came under, heavy government fire. The fighting brought heavy losses to both sides, but government of ficers declared Insurgents suffered heaviest casualties through exposing their forces In the counter attack. Recapture of Brunete was regarded aa vital for Insurgent forces because government artillery, from' new em placements. Is shelling Insurgent positions near Madrid from both me front and rear, PL ANOTHER ASCENT ROCHESTER. Minn., July 19. (AP)-Or. Jean Plccard announced today he expects to make a stratos phero flight In a new type aircraft, made up of many small balloons, which hie ascension yesterday was declared to have proven la practical. Plccard returned here today after he made a tree-top landing at Lan sing. Iowa, six hours after his "Pleiades' soared 11.000 feet into tho air. The 'trial flight was made with OA four-foot sounding balloons, such as are used In weather observations. Plccard ssld he was looking for sponsors for a flight tn a similar craft, made up of two cluster! of the thin rubber balloons, which would be made one year after finan cial help was assured. "We have learned many things," he said, "but there-are some changes to oc maae," He said he did not consider the fire, which broke out In the gondola as he landed In a deep valley in northeastern Iowa, destroying the duralumlnum shell and damaging the equipment, a serious matter. Court Change Foes Plan Early Senate Showdown ABOARD SPECIAL CONGRES SIONAL TRAIN. July IB. (AP) Op pom ts of the president' court bill snnotsced today they would seek a senate Vote on thst bitterly-fought Issue eally this week. Senst.- Burke ID-Neb), a leader of the opposition, said a motion to send the supreme court reorganization measure back to committee for fur ther study probably would be made tomorrow, and added: "we are confident we can carry the motion by a comfortable mar gin." Ending the political truce declared Immediately after the death of sona tor Robinson (D-Ark) Democratic senate leader, last Wednesday, Burke's atatement Indicated the five month struggle over the Judlilary legislation waa nearlng it end. If the motion to recommit the BUI Is carried. It would bury the measure for tlx rest of this session. It de Admits Slaying i)wm- - sa m iH. I i Morril Juliiiftou, btulea utturncy at rittsrleld. III. announced the Rev. C. R. Newton. Al (above), admitted lie struck Mrs. Dennis Kelly 4.1, Paris, Mo., on the head with a ham mer and tossed her body Into the Mlmlulppl river. TO BE NAMED IN GRANTS PASS, July 19. (AP) Curry county will fllo- Injunction BUlU against . a . number ot largo placer mln. operations In Jackson county aa soon as sufficient Informa tion can . bt : gathered, trie Curry county, reporter, weekly Gold Beacn newspaper, announces In Its latest Issue. Sixteen major 'operators In Jose phine county wcro named last week with the plaintiff taking a perma nent Injunction . against defendants dumping mining talllnga Into the Rogue river or ..It tributaries or along thai banks. Contracts, have, been made wltn ownera of property along the atream and a "sizeable fund" raised for the purposes of paying the expenses of action, the reporter said. The ault Is filed In the name of the state of Oregon by the district attorney of Curry county, the re porter said. The complaint, . aays the report, charges damagos to the Rogue from the standpoint ot navigation, use for domestic and livestock raising purposes, fish life and fishing, rec reational attractions, change of chan nel, destroying property In time of floods, and other Items, FRUIT RATE BOOST Ti HOOD RIVER. July 10. (AP)-If appeals to shipowners? fall, the Hood River Tratflo association said It was prepared to carry a proteat to the federal maritime commission agslnst a proposed rat Increase on apple and near exports to the European market. - The association will ask the sup port of other fruit traffic organisa tions at Medford, Yakima and Wen atchce. Shippers and producers aald exist ing raws are too high and another Increase will be more then the In dustry can beer. feat many senators agreed, might bring a apeedy collapse ot the opposi tion, which expects to muster lit greatest strength on the recommittal motion. Burke's challenge quickly ws ac cepted by Senator Mlnton (D-Indl, one of the court Bill's most vigorous defenders, who declared: "W are ready to vote any Mme. and 1 know that we can win." roes of the BUI scheduled a club car caucus for this evening, when they will work out final detail, ot their strategy. It will be attended by Burke, Senator Wheeler ID Mont), auahoney (D-Wyo), Clark ID-Mo) and halt dozen others who have been most active In the fight. Vice-President. Garner, who Joined the party at Little Rock, told sena tors he would take no part Id the court controversy, nor In he equally close drawn atruggl for the senate leadership. CAR PLUNGES OFF 130-FOOT BANK IN ROUNDING CURVE Auto Salesmen of Klamath Receives Fatal Injuries En Route to Visit Family Here Rites Wednesday John Asher Butler, 37, of 833 South Sixth street, Klamath Falls, died In Ashland Community hospital at tM a. m. Sunday from Injuries received when his automobile left the Green-, sprlnga highway one-quarter of a. mile south of the summit at about 7:80 Saturday evening and tumoled down a 130-foot embankment. It was the eighth Jackson county auto-, moblle-aocldent fatality since the first of the year. Butler, a salesman for the Chevro let Motor Co. In Klamath Falls, died from a crushed cheat and seven scalp lacerations. He waa 'alone In tho .car, a 1930 Chevrolet aedan, ex cept for hta tiny bulldog puppy. which wss killed Instantly. Rounding Curve According to reports, Butler was traveling to Medford to visit his wife, Mrs. Ruth Butler, and three children, Pauline, Joan and Billy. Coming around a sharp left curve at a fairly taat rate of speed, the car slipped on the road's soft ahoulder and plunged down a aheer cliff to the old high way below..JButler was, thrown clear of the spinning machine after about 60 feet. Two men, whose names 'were not learned, were In a car directly behind -that driven by Butler, and brought the Injured man back up to the highway. They then sent word to 0. B. Howard at the Summit ranch, who in turn telephoned to Ashland for the C. M. Utwlller ambulance. Butler waa rushed to the Commu nity hospital In Aahland, where he regained consciousness only a few ttmea before hla death. i Auto Demolished The auto waa totally demolished. , In addition to bis wife and three ohltdren, Butler la survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. c Butler ot Eagle Point; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Kllgore of Klamath Palls and . Mrs. Nellie Savage of Halsey, Ore., and one brother, James P. Butler of Aubora, Cal. ' Servlcea will be held from the J, P. Dodge and Bon funeral home In Ashland Wednesday at 11 a. m the Rev. D. E. Nourse of the Neighbor hood Congregational church officiat ing. Interment Is tentatively set for Mountain View cemetery. John Asher Butler waa burn ln Aahland August 10, 1899, and lived, there with his parent a number of years during his youth. His wife and family reside tn Medford. Junior C. of C. To Quit PENDLETON. July 19. (AP) The Pendleton Junior Chamber of Com merce, organized nere iour years ago. . has decided to disband, according to Its president, Ray Mitchell. Reason .' given was that members believed combining with the senior chamber ot the city, resulting In one organiza tion, preferable to continuing the two. ' i BASEBALL National R. H. E. St. Louis ass New York 3 S 1 Johnson and Owen: Oumbert Coffman and Dannlng. R. M. E. ' Pittsburgh .. 14 1 Philadelphia t IS 1 Bowman, Brown, Weaver, Brandt and Todd; Walters, and Grace. 7" R. H. . Chicago Brooklyn - 9 13 0 OS. Carleton and Odea; Hamlin and Phelps, spencer. American. R. H. E. Wsshlngton .44 Detroit .. .. . 13 0 AoDlston. Chase and Millies: Pof- fenberger and Hayworth. R. H. Ooston - 41 Chlcsgo 10 0 Mareum. Thomas. Walbere and De- sautels; Kennedy, Rlgney. and Sew- II. ... " R. R. t. ' Trtrt. : t it o Cleveland - 10 Oomee, and Dicxey; Hudlin, wyaw , and Pytlak.
