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L The Weather rorecait: Fair tonight mad Wednesday; continued warm. Temperature Hifheftt yesterday WMW 99 Lowest till morning a.... M To Thousands It It Interesting la know that null. Inexpensive classified sda In this newspaper have old articles ranging In price from a fear cents to thousands of dollars. It pajs to advertise. TRIBUNE FORD Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937. No. 103. Ml lolfiWB) ululrlrUUul rWum Med mm I i r By H. R. I1AI KI1AGE (Copyright. 1037, by The North Amer ican Newspaper Alliance, In a.) WASHINGTON, July 20. Some dart ahead of his schedule. Vice-President Garner returns to the Washington scene to knit the administration's' raveled sleeve of care, as this column aald he would. Mr. Garner would have come back under his own pcwer within a fort night even If the situation arising I out of Senator Robinson's death hari not developed. He had already be gun to receive the barrage of letters lrom Washington, a part of the di-rect-by-r.iall campaign which - was mentioned along with the same ad vice that predicted his return. Long before he reached the banks of ' the Potomac, the vice-president learned the painful details of the situation on. Pennsylvania avenuo (both ends) first hand from the president's personal representatives, postmaster - General Parley, Under Secretary of the Interior West and the assistant to the attorney-general, Keenan. When he talked to this carefully selected trio at Little Rock, he was told two things: That It would be nice If Senator Barkley, closely associated with the White House in the court fight, were elected majority leader of the senate, but that this desire was not to be (Continued on Page Eight.) AIRWAYS RADIO T WASHINGTON, July 20. (ff) The bureau of air commerce announced today a $5,000,000 program of air ways construction. The bureau said Its program is de signed primarily to Improve the ex isting system of air navigation aids by modernizing present aids and pro vldlng new facilities to fill In gaps In the present system. Medium -powered stations equipped for simultaneous transmission of radio range signals and voice com munications from a five-tower ver tical radiator system will be estab lished at the following places: Baker, Ore.; Che balls, Wash.; Du bois, Idaho; Eugene, Ore.; Great Fallb Mont.; Malad, Idaho; Roseburg, Ore. Pull-powered stations now equip ped with lo;p antennas at the follow- lng points will be converted into the simultaneous transmission type with vertical antennas: Boise, Idaho; Bur. ley, Idaho; Spokane, Wash. Stations at Medford and Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash., will be mov ed to new sites in the same locality, The medium -powered loop antenna station Idaho Falls, Idaho, will aUo be converted to the simultaneous type. Bureau of air commerce employe here said they had heard nothing about plans to change the site of the Medford radio station, now situated south of town with remoto control . at the airport. ROUTINE BUSINESS ON CITY COUNCIL PROGRAM Only routine business Is on the formal agenda to be considered by the city council at Its regular semi monthly meeting in the city hall to night. The .session will convene at 7:30 and anyone having business to transact with the council la asked to be present at that time. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUKE REPORTERS John Endera limping about town after a Shrine party Sunday on Rogur river, he stoutly refusing to dtvulg; the cause of his Injury. Ben Harder seriously questioning whether a ptnball machine In a local hotel would pay satisfactory return. on a few nlcklea invested. George Jail dodging his demonstra tive pals while suffering from i se vere case of sunourn Si Perry dashing about ton n say ing farewell to friends before leaving for Portland to assume new WPA post. Unn Mills describing rasalln In the days he was a rasaler. before the sport was speeded up with newfangled tat ties and more con'.inclng grunts and grimaces. SEIZURE INSURES LANDING SPOT FOR 35,000 jOLDIERS Four Troop Transports Ex pected Thursday Exten sive' New Japanese Troop Movements Are Reported TIENTSIN. July 20. AP) The Japanese army set ted control today of the entire waterfront at Tangku, Including wharves. Chinese customs offices, and foretgn shipping compa nies in preparation for the expected arrival of 35,000 troops from Japan. Tangku is the port for Tientsin, connected by rait and water with this city .In the center of the north China conflict. Reports of the Imminent arrival of Japanese reinforcements indicated four transports were expected Thurs day. . The Kalian wharf was not imme diately affected and the British war- ablp Grimsby, which arrived this af ternoon, moored alongside it. Heavily loaded trains were expected at Tientsin after midnight, further increasing Japanese concentrations here. Extensive new Japanese troop movements by railroad were re ported. Alarmed Chinese streamed from Tientsin Into the foreign concessions with the first reports of today's new fighting near Peiping. SHANGHAI, July 30. (API The Chinese arsenal and barracks at Wangplnghslen burst Into flames, the Domel (Japanese) news agency re ported tonight, under punitive shell ing by Japanese artillery. Fighting broke out at Wangplngh sten and other positions Just to the (Continued on Page Five.) a . FRENCH SENTENCE SET FOR AUGUST 6 ALTURAS, Cal.. July 30. (VP) Sentencing of Harry French, 30, for his first-degree murder conviction !n the "newspaper feud' shooting March 25 of Claude McCracken, 36, was de ferred today until August 6. The postponement was ordered by the court after defense attorneys submitted a motion for a new triai. Superior Judge Ferdinand ' Jamison said he would rule on the motion August 0, and pronounce judgment the same day. Two Jurors, Charles Atkinson, Lak. City rancher, and Ed McConnaughy. Ft. Bldwell rancher, submitted affi davits today denying allegations In an affidavit filed by Royal Payne, an uncle of the defendant. Payne claimed the Jurors, after the first trial July 2, In which French was convicted of the murder of Mc Cracken, publisher of a rival Altura? newspaper, carried on a conversation about the trial contrary to the court': Instructions. NEW CANDIDATE LIST WASHINGTON, July 30. iTP) The department of Justice may call for a new list of candidates for the federal Judge vacancy In Oregon, Congress man Walter Pierce said today. Pierce said he received this Im pression in a conversation with Attorney-General Cummngs. The new list would eliminate candidates men tioned since the first of the year, The congressman discussed the! name of Miss Celta Gavin, The Dalles. I with the attorney general but made no recommendations. Broun Terms Wm. Green Main Obstacle of Labor NEW YORK. July 20. -VP, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, waa described here by Heywood Broun, president of the American Newspaper Guild, as the "greatest single oostacle In the path of the labor movement." The New tork newspaper column ist made the statement yesterday In a counter attack against the federa tion head, who had asserted Broun was a ' communist stooge" in a verbal volley he fired at the gulldi switch from the federation to the C. 1. O Broun said he favored an immedi ate referendum vote of the "rank and file membership of the guild on whether the organization should re- lf to the C. I. O. I The switch to tfce C. I. O was voted Shooting. In Strike Riot Held Justified Homicide Armed Forces O KILLS SALEM IAN SALEM, July 20. (P) Hia car smashing head-on Into another auto mobile, Hugh D. Smith, Salem Insur ance agent, was killed here early to day. . Smith was- crashed against the steering-wheel by the force of the Impact when his car struck one driven by Ben P. Hutchlns. Jr., Portland. Junior at Oregon , State college. Hutchlns received only cuts and bruises on his knee, chin and hands. Joe Nixon, Portland, only witness told police Smith's car, going south on the Pacific highway, failed to make a turn and was on the wrong side of the road, Smith was dead when he arrived at a hospital at-1 20 a. m. Both cars were virtually destroyed. by delegates at the national guild con vention In St, Louis recently. The convention also endorsed the Spanish loyalist cause. , Broun expreiied personal approval of the Spanish resolution because 1 "1 feel that trade unionists cannot) afford to remain Indifferent to the! rate of trade unionists In other parts of the world." "However." the statement added - we must rememoer our main oojeciive, and that la to stay In the C. I. O." Replying to Oreen'a accusation that he was selling newspapermen "down the river." the portly columnist said: "X would like to thank him (Oreeni fcr clarifying the questions on which the Amerl-an nrweporer s;illd Is about to vole. He ha i'ael liie Issue cor- j recti j- -It Va Oreen or the guild. 1 of Japan at Peiping Gates Pouring through China's Great Wall. Japanese troops, tanks and arm ored cars hastened to bolster heavy garrison, maintained In rrlplng area to Insure Japenese outlet to the sea. While diplomats sought to heal the breach between the two nations, General Oen Suglyama (be low), Japanese minister of war, acted. (A. P. rhotos.) LYNCH TWO NEGROES ACCUSED OF KNIFING FLORIDA POLICEMAN, TALLAHASSEE, Pla,, July 30. (API Two young negroes accused of ' stabbing a Tallahassee policeman were taken from- the county Jail located two blocks from the state capltol early today and shot to death by a small mob of masked men. Five small- placards, one of them saying, "Warning, this is what will happen to all negroes that harm white people," were found at the scene of the lynching, three mil: from the capital and within sight of the heavily-traveled Tallahassee -Jacksonville highway. Persons living near the scene said they heard allots about 4 a. m. ' - Awakened by cries for help from the cell block of the Jail, County Jailer Robert Malge said he found Hary Fairbanks, city police desk ser geant, locked inside the cell block. Fairbanks told him, Malge said. .that a band of men entered police head quarters and forced him at gun point to go to the county Jail and deliver the negroes to them. Fairbanks was off duty when the negroes' bodies were found and could not be located. Authorities yesterday charged the two negroes, listed aa Richard Haw kins and Ernest Ponder, each about with stabbing Patrolman V. F. Kelly. Sunday. ' ' Police said both confessed, each accusing the other of the actual subbing. The patrolman Is in seri ous condition. 'SUICIDE' CRAFT T - CRESCENT CITY. Calif, July SO (TV After having tried to go to sea on a lot raft equipped with a sail. Perry Statighton was back In Cres cent city today. ' WASHINOTON. July ao.(;p) Con- StaUKhton left Sunday on his loose- gressman Walter M. Pierce of U ly-knlt craft, bound for San Diego, j Grande. Ore., demanded elimination Heavy winds and adverse currents; of "petty Jcalousloe between states" buffeted him back and forth for aer-; today In the consideration of candl eral miles offshore, between Point et jdstes for administrator at Bonneville George and Trinidad heads. I dam. Passing fishing ioata supplied him tom o, goT(!rnor, now with provisions, but he refused offer,- prMenuu of tn0 KeoIvi ,,,,,. of rescue by the deep sea craft. He , al,trlrt , npoTU from was at sea for 40 hours. . tnlt f,TOrKl ,Ppointment Staughton said today he would L, j , D. noM of e,, prompte, hlm mate the attempt again. I to make the statement. . . my, j u n I He received a telegram from Claude rind Hitman HoneS Kemp of the Oregon Jackson club r fUot-n CnUtin i "which state do you represent, 11 lnelCO lauinii0rrf(an OP Washington?" Tho con- ORANTS PASS. July 30. (At Re- j gressman remarked that although he parts that bones believed to be those j of a person were discovered In the ( ashes of a caoin in curry county sent a state ponce orncer 10 investigate ux'J- three Portland men C. C. Hockley. A forest service trail crew working ,ut! rwA administrator and engtn In the Chetco district found the,er. ,t a. Robinson, engineer, and burned cabin Sunday, according to,Tom r,. formerly of the Oregon Paul rattlg at the Redwood ranger c.litotBi, Power ,d Light company station. Cave JuncUon. a, K,math rails and Medford. The csbln apparently hsd burned , bout a month ago and there waa no', Tin tiffel toarr ot Paris weighs known oocupant. ' more than 1ft millions pounds. HURLER OF BOTTLE ON PLEA OF GUILTY Harvey E. Snider. 35, taxlcab driver, who threw an empty whiskey flask at the wrestling match last - night. Injuring three spectators, entered plea of guilty to assault with a deadly weapon, In circuit court this morning. Passing of sentence was deferred by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton, pend ing outcome of Injuries sustained by Mrs. Ray Love, struck In the tem ple by the flying missile. X-ray ex amination this morning revealed no concussion us first feared, physicians, said. Robert Nellson. wearing spectacles, sustained a severe cut over one eye. and Tony Dally, seated nearby was hit In the head. The Injured were Seated at ringside. Snider, who admitted hurling the flask, was a gallery patron, ana hurled the missile, when he became Incensed at the rulings of the ref eree. Sammy Kohen, during the x hlbttlon between Frank le Clemens and Jack LaRue. The bottle, hurled a distance of 100 feet .on a down hill slant, struck with terrific force Snider was arrested by Chlefa of Police McCrcdle, who was In the gallery, Accompanied by his wife, and In fant child. Snider was led from the grandstand, and was soon surrounded by angry fans, who were qui ted by the police. Sntder was taken Into Justice court this morning, and wslved preliminary hearing, and was taken into cir cuit court on a district attorney's information, TOMlZELlIN F felt Ross waa well-qualified he had j made no commitments. . Mr, Honeyman said she had re ,vtd mn ot le,rl ,Upportln NEW COMPROMISE BE FOR COURT BILL Administration Spokesman Says Plan in Wind to Win Support of Foes of Pres ent Measure in Senate WASHINGTON, July 30. (AP) An administration spokesman said today that a new compromise oourt bill possibly would be offered to win the support of opponents of the I measure now before the senate. The official, who would not be quoted by name, said there was very decided belief all around that the bitter contest over court reor ganization In the senate would "work out surprisingly satisfactory to all concerned." He expressed these opinions after Vice-President Garner had spent more than an hour at the White House with President Roosevelt. (Showdown Delayed, Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill senate court bill opponents abandoned their plan for an Immediate showdown on the court bill. After an hour's conference with a score of leaders of the opposition. Senator Wheeler (D Mont.) an nounced It had been decided that when the bill comes up In the senate again "we are going to continue to discuss the measure.1 The developments at the White House and the capltol came almost simultaneously when administration and opposition leaders returned to work after their journey to the fu neral of the late Majority Leader Robinson In Arkansas. They returned here last night. Yesterday, some of the opposition leaders had said there was strong likelihood that they would move when the senate convened today, to send the court bill back to the Judiciary committee. Administration chieftains, however, (Continued on Page Five ) JUNE EARHARTiS KIN TO Miss June Earhart, anaesthetist and member of a pioneer family of thtt city and county. Is related to Amelia Earhart Putnam, famed avlatrlx of ficially recorded as lost In the south sess. the local woman revealed today. Miss June Earhart's father and Amelia Earhart's grandfather were brothers. The former does not know what the relationship la. The two women never met. Heart Paralysis Ends Career Of Marconi In Midst Of Experiments ROME, July 30. (p) Tha Marquis duglltlmo Marconi, who Invented wireless telegraphy when he waa only .31 years old, died unespoctedly at 3:49 a. m., today (3:4a p. m., Monday EST) at the ancient palace In down town Rome where he lived and worked. The 63-year-old conqueror of the . ether died quietly of heart paralysis. His widow, the Countess Crlstlna Brzzl-Scala, waa at his- bedside. She had been called back from the sea- j side resort of Vlaregglo when he be gan 10 ICCI ill yofttcraay morning. Their daughter, Elettra Elena, whose godmother la Queen Elena of Italy, will return to Rome for the state fu neral. Today la her eighth birthday. Condolence from Docfl ' Premier Mussolini, whose ardent supporter Marconi had been, waa no tified of the death Immediately.- He dlipstched a telegram of condolences and later went to Marconi's home In the Via Condottl and paid his respects beside the body. II Duce approached the bed. which was lighted at the four corners by tall candles. He paused, then bent down and kissed the dead man on the forehead. The first Intlmstlen thst Marconi waa not feeling well came yesterday afternoon when he waa forced to can cel an appointment with 11 Duce. Pope Plus XI, with whom the In ventor bad had a long audience Sat urday concerning the new rsdlo sta tion be waa bunding for the Vatican was notified by telephone at his sum mer residence at Caste! Oondolfo. He sent a special bleating to the Inven tor. Close to Pope Msrcom had been closely associated BASEBALL National. R. H. E. . g 10 3 .1(0 Bush and St. Louts . Boston Wetland and Owen; Mueller. (10 Innings) R. H. B Cluolnnatl . 8 J New York 10 0 Derringer, R. Davla, Orlssom and Lombardl; Melton and Dannlng. . (10 Innings) Pittsburgh Brooklyn . . Blanton and Todd; vlnko and Spencer. R. H. 1. 1 8 4 a a Butcher, Chor- American. (First game 10 innings) R. New York ............... .......... ft St. Louis Pearson, Makosky and Dickey; Ml- debrand and Hemaley. (10 Innings) R. H. E. Washington - 3 10 1 Chicago 4 10 3 W. Ferrell and R. Ferren; Lee and Sewell. Philadelphia v -- 1 Cleveland Caster and Brucker; Whltehlll, An drews. Hevlng, Brown and Pytlak. Y IN JUSTICE RACE SALEM, Ore., July 30. (AP) Can didates for the supreme court post vacated by the death of Justice James U. Campbell have snowed Governor Martin under with applications, the governor said today. He did not reveal who any cf the applicants were, but seven were men tioned prominently. . Leading candidates were believed to be Ralph E. Moody, assistant attorney general; Circuit Judges Hall S. Lusk of Portland, O. F, Sklpworth of Eu gene and Earl Latourette of Oregon City; Oscar Hayter. Dalles attorney; Evan Reames, Medford, and John Beckman, Portland, who served as the governor's legal adviser during the last legislature, i - . All are Democrats except Moody, whom Republicans are believed to be sponsoring with the argument that the governor could gain Republican support by appointing him. Lusk Is also a candidate for tJ. S. district Judge In Portland and doubt waa expressed that he would accept the supreme court position. - Justice Campbell's successor would serve until the November, 1838, gen eral election. .4 Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of Britain's former prime minister, says faulty nutrition has a great deal to do with the deaths of mothers. GUGLIELMO MARCONI with the pontiff. He Installed the first radio station at the Vatican and when It waa Inaugurated In 1031 It waa Marconi who Introduced Plus. the first pope ever to apeak over the radio. Despite hie Illness yesterday. Mar- (Contlnued on Pag. flee.) " !. 1 1 1 ARE EXONERATED BY Memorial Day Victims Were Marching With Large Body of Armed Persons Attempt at Force Cited CHICAGO. July 30. (P A cor oner's Jury returned a verdict of Justifiable homicide today In report lng on the deaths of 10 persons slain in the Memorial Day steel strike In South Chicago. The Jury, comprising six unem ployed members of the American Le gion, deliberated allghtly less than an hour. Presentation of evidence required six days. 1 In each of the 10 fatalities the Jurors found the "deceaser came to his death from bullet wounds In fllctcd by an unknown police of ficer."' "We believe that the death of (name) was Justifiable homicide," the Jury announced in each case. . Group Armed The Jurors said they found thai the victims came to their death while marching with a large body of 'well armed" persona attempting to force their way" through police linos to reach the plant of the Re- publlo Steel corporation. During the Inquest several police- . men testified to having been club bed and struck by stones, and other witnesses testified the first shot waa fired from the marchers' ranks. Four attorneys represented the steel workers' organizing committee during- the inquest conduqted by Coroner Prank J. Walsh with Assist ' ant State's Attorney Mai Coghlan and Chief Deputy Coroner James Whalen questioning most of the wit nesses. Neither the union attorneys' nor the prosecutor made any immediate comment on the verdict. The inquest had been adjourned since shortly af. ter the battle until the last session began July 14. , Pictures s Feature The ten killed In the battle In which more than 100 were injured were Bam Popovlch, Earl Handley, Otis Jones, Joseph Rothmund, Ken neth Reed, Anthony Tagllerl,- Leo Francisco, Leo Tlsdale, H lid lng An derson and Albert Kausey. Officials said the adjournments were taken so the Inquest sessions would not conflict with the investi gation oonducted In Washington by the La Follette liberties committee and the state's attorney here. A high point In both the inquest and the senate committee hearings was the showing of a Paramount newareel of the battle, the only pro fessional motion pictures obtained. DETROIT, Mich.. July 30 (API Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Uddy today ordered eljht individuals and the Ford Motor company aa a corpo- ration, held for trial In the Wayne county circuit court, on an assault warrant based on the riot at the Ford plant gates May 30. Tbe formal charge waa assault with Intent to do great bodily harm lest than the orlme of murder, In con nection with the beating of United Automobile Workers members at tempting to dltv.lbute union litera ture near Pord'st River Rouge plant in suDurnan Dearborn. Judge Llddy acted after hearing evidence that William Merrlweather, on whose Injuries the warrant waa based, suffsred two broken vertebrae. He said he found "probable cause" haa been established against all of the defendanta. Individuals held for trial In the court's September term are Everett Moore of the ford service department which polices company property: Wil fred Comment. Samuel Taylor. Wor ahon Sarklslsn. Chsrlea Ooodman, Oscar Jones and Theodore Circle, all Ford employes; and Russell J. Edlck, former newspaper circulation em ploye. A ninth defendant, Angelo Caruso, haa disappeared. 445 NOW EMPLOYED BY MEDFORD CORPORATION Payroll of the Medford Corporation (Owen-Orrgon Lumber company) to day contained t names of 44ft em ployes, In alt departments. This is not aa high aa at one period before the depression, but the highest since that event. Today was payday. The mill la now suspending oper ations one day per week. In accord ance with a recent ruling of pine mills to cut down production. COUNTY SCHOOL HEADS DISCUSS RECENT LAWS Salzm. July 30. yp) Count school superintendents from all parti of the state held the concluding ses sion of their two-day conference by discussing new school law. ' ' " r
