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Thirty-Second Year
MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937.
No. 103.
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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
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AIRWAYS RADIO
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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- 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
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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,
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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.
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St. Louts .
Boston
Wetland
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New York 10 0
Derringer, R. Davla, Orlssom and
Lombardl; Melton and Dannlng. .
(10 Innings)
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn .
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vlnko and Spencer.
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Butcher, Chor-
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Pearson, Makosky and Dickey; Ml-
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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