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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather roreaut: Fair tonight and Tuesday ; slightly warmer. Temperature: Highest yesterday II Lowest this morning m-- 4tt Quickest Way There Is market for most everything one has for sale. The qulrkest way to find this market Is by advertising In tha classified columns of this newspaper. The cost ts smaH. Medford fall AMoeiaUd Press Tltirty-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 19P.7. No. 114. ,.. ,., i , i .-. .. i mbt- f .S jaHsmSCBBSKBaHBsnBMSaSHHMSBnsnn SI 18 By H. R. BACK II AGE (Copyright, 1937, by the North Amer- j lean Newspaper Alliance, Inc. WASHINGTON. Aug. 3. WhUe the old-line political leaders on both aides of the lenco are wringing their hands over party apllts, certain other gentle men are doing something about the . situation. And If they finish what they are starting, there Is a chance that they'll do It up brown the "It" being a real Neo-New Deal move ment and no mistake. A campaign, Involving the cooper ation of two separate and Independ ent groups, has been drawn up quiet ly right under the noses of the old liners. . The Neo-New Dealers have Issued orders for an advance of these groups In double column. The shock troops will be: Right flank, the good neigh bor league; left flank, labor's non partisan league. That's the beginning of the strat egy, not perfected In detail as yet, for the right flank ts only assembling lt3 troops, but definitely Incorporated In the general orders. i As foreshadowed In this column last week, the good neighbors are going to do a lot more than Just chat acrors the back fence. Labor's non-partisan-era have already started their work, virtually taking over the "legislative activities" (polite word for looby lng) of the OJ.O. The next step the non-partlsaners will take Is to write Gown the unfin ished business of congress (and the finished business, too, for that mat ter) and rigidly measure tip every congressman against the measures tn which the league Is Interested. And as one of the members put It. "we'll be there at election time." Actual vote-getting Is of course, no new departure for the non-partisan league. It did plenty In the last elec tion. But what Isn't known, because the neighbors haven't admitted It . publicity as yet, la the fact that they are going to "cooperate" with the other organization In some baro handed electioneering, too. This is the way it will work out: -As organizations for each group are completed In each state, the re spective leaders will "confer and agree on candidates.' HIT BROKEN RAIL Negro Porter Scalded As Diner Skitters Over Ties 300 Feet of Track Torn Up Trains Are Rerouted Road Surveyor Plunges From Crater Lake Rim Cops Beat Back Strikers KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 3. (AP) Eighteen persona were injured today when two diners and four Pullmans of a special 11 -car train bound from California to Portland with 140 pas sengers Jumped the main line South ern Pacific tracks near Tanuay, about 70 miles north of here at 7:15 a. m. , Only one person, a negro porter, was reported seriously hurt. Boiling water from a container In one of the dining coaches spilled over him as the cars went teetering crazlly along the road bed. J, C. Leonard of the nearby Pelican Bay Lumber camp said the accident ripped up nearly 300 feet of track- Cars Stay Upright The cars did not tip over and damage was limited chiefly to bro ken windows. Observers gave a broken rail as the reason for. the derailment. The passengers, many of them from the east and midwest on an American Express tour special travel ing behind the regular Cascade Lim ited, continued north on the front five cars remaining on the track. One other porter and a woman pas senger needed first aid but their hurts were not sufficiently serious to require hospitalization. Several nurses and doctors rushed north from here by ambulance and special cars stayed aboard to administer first aid. ' Reroute Trains Relief . crews immediately began clearing the tracks and making re pairs to get main line travel back to normal. The regular morning south bound train had to swing through the Rogue River valley.- J. A. Ormandy, general passenger agent, said the passengers will reach Strange as It may seem, congress has had a chance to give an Impor tant Job to somebody and hasn't done It. . It Is the directorship of the United States botanic garden, and It hasn't been filled since 1034. This year no appropriation was made for the place, At present, David Lynn, capitol ar chitect, who knows his quoins and ashlars, but who doesn't pretend to know a cow slip from a cowbell, 1c acting director at no salary at all. This garden, one of the show placet (Continued on Page Pour.) IS Three young Medford persona re ceived painful Injuries nd two oth er, were uninjured sbout 3 a. Sunday when the Ford sedan In which they were passengers failed to nenotlste a turn on the Crater Lake highway a mile and a half south of Prosoect and turned over several tlmea after leaving the highway. The Injured, all of whom are con fined In Community hospital were Bill Goodman, of 1139 West Main atreet. Isabelle Crouch, and Mary Wilson, of Orchard Home drive. None are seriously hurt. Ooodman re ceived bruises. Ireland Miller and Bob Archer, two other occupants of the auto, escaped uninjured except for minor bruise,. 1 (Continued on page Three.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS CENT ON LARGE LOAF By STATE BOARD RULE One and one-half pound loaves of bread were advanced one cent to IS cents today in the Medford district which embraces Jackson and Jose phine counties. The pound loaf will sell for ten cents. Heretofore It has cost ten cents when sliced. 9 cents unsllced Under the price adjustment effective today there will hereafter be no dif ferential between sliced and unsllced bread. The new retail scale was ordered by the state bakery board with bak erles In the district concurring. Some bakeries which were producing loaves slightly In excess of the standard weights were Instructed to reduce the loaves to v the pound and pound-and- a-hslf weights. It was understood. A baker who preferred to remain anonymous said the Increase could be ascribed to higher - labor costs caused by unionisation of workers in other parts of the state, especially Portland. Foreseeing spread of union ization, the state board ordered the increase to adjust prices to a com mon level throughout Oregon, he de clared. There will probably be no increase In other bakery products, he stated. PORTLAND HOTEL MAN DIES OF BROKEN NECK PORTLAND. Aug. 3 L. B. Be get, 37. manager of the Sovereign ho tel, died today from broken neck suffered yesterday when his car crash ed Into a power line and overturned. L tPf'-s I FOREIGNERS HELD JUSTICE NAMING WITHIN PEIPING BY FOR SENATE OKEH Vandenberg Offers Resolu tion Urging Action Only When Upper House Can Pass on Presidents Choice A crowd of strikers stormed police line, outside the Robin. Drydock and Repair company In New York when a caravan of non-strikers began leaving the plant. After s brisk melee, police arrested seven men,, re stored order and picketing was resumed. ON GUILTY PLEA FROM BRITISHERS VANDERBILT YACHT S SECOND HEAT Harvey Earl Snider, 35, taxlcab driver, who plead guilty to assault with a deadly weapon. In which three patrona of an open air wres tling match were Injured one seri ously waa sentenced to an Inde terminate term not to exceed two vesrs In state prison by Circuit Judge H. O. Norton this morning. A penitentiary term was recommended by the district attorney. On the night of Monday, July i. Snider and his wife and Infant child were grandstand spectators at the wrestling show. Snider had been drinking from a pint flask, it was shown. In a bout between Jack La Rue and Frankle Clemons. Snider be came Incensed at the decisions of Referee Sammy Kohen and hurled the empty flask. The missile, traveling with bullet speed on a downhill angle, struck Mrs. Ray Love, surgical nurse of Sacred Heart hospital, In the forhead and glancing off caused head wounds to Robert Nellson wearing glasses, and Tony Daly, seated In nearby ringside seats. Mrs. Love waa released from the hospital last week, and according to her husband, who appeared In court this morning, "she will suffer from headaches, off and on" the rest ot her lift, as a result of the Injury. DeDUtv District Attorney George Neilwwi Informed the court that oromnt action by Sheriff 6yd I Brown and Chief of Police Clateoua (Continued on Fig Two.) Prank Thompson holding down tha revamped WPA offices In city hall, and feeling kind of lonely with most of his old colleaguea gone. Ale Hamilton tossing a couple ol pennies about with wild abandon, showing a characteristic juvenile con tempt for coin of the realm. Bill Jonea remaining at home on forest fire duty for the entire week end and not receiving a single call for his pains, the timber land being peculiarly free of blares. BOARD COAST GUARD CUTTER ARGO, OFT NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 3, (AP) Overtaking her rival within an hour of the start, Harold 8. Van- derbllt'a anub-nosed, white-hulled sloop Ranger today scored her second successive triumph over the 16th British challenger, T. O. M. Sopwlth's Endeavour II. Ranger rounded the final marker of the 30-mlle triangular course with two and a halt mtles to spare, and won aa easily as In Satur days Inaugural. Ranger crossed tha finish line at 3:31 p. m. (E. 8. T.l, unofficially, with Endeavour trailing ao far be hind ahe had been deserted entirely by the spectator fleet. Ranger's official finishing time was 3:21 p. m. (E. 8. T.) The record for a 30-mlle triangular course. 3 hours 3 minutes I second, wea set by Sopwlth's first challenger. Endeavour I. In her second victory over Rainbow, also aklppered by Van- derbtlt, September 18. 1934. Ranger, crossing the starting line today second after the signal waa hoisted at 11:40 a. m., aalled the dlatance In 3 houra 41 mlnutea 33 seconds. Aa Endeavour finished. Sopwlth spoke to the committee boat which broke out code flags indicating that there would be no race tomorrow. Apparently the challenger asked the Interruption In the four-out-of-seven race aerlea. Endeavour crossed the line at 3:40:06 p. m. (E. 8. T.), official tim ing. The race committee said Sopwlth asked for a one-day postponement, to which he la entitled under the cup racing rulea and which waa granted although the reason waa not atated. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (AP) Sen ator Vandenberg (R.. Mich.) offered a resolution today asserting it was "the sense of the senate" that au preme court appointments should be made only when the senate could act before nomlneea began service. He acted after It became apparent that President Roosevelt might not appoint a successor to Justice Van Devanter, retired, until congress ad journed. Thus, the senate would have no chance to pass on the appointment until next January, The appointee could sit on the bench from the be ginning of the early fall session until that time. The question of when the appoint ment would be made came to the fore today when tha White House i nounced Attorney General Cummlngs had given -an informal opinion that the president could fill the vacant seat at any time, regardless of wheth er congress waa In session. Chairman Ashurst (D Aria.) of the Judiciary committee and Democratic Leader Berkley of Kentucky both In sisted the resolution should so to committee. Vandenberg. however, left the reso lution on the vice-presidents desk.-" Senator Burke (D Neb.), one of the leading court bill foes, said that If an appointee to the supreme court took hla seat before being confirmed by the senate he (Burke) would con sider It "sufficient grounds to vote against confirmation" of the Justice, 1 think it Is a very serious mis take to let thta session adjourn sine die .without filling the vacancy,1 Burke said. "I'm not at all sure that the attorney general's opinion Is cor rect. I am making a thorough atudy of the question myself." TAMING OF THE SHREW CLOSING OF GATES Japanese Planes Blast Path for Thrust Deep Into China Chinese Forces Mass On Southern Edge PEIPING. Aug. a.(AP) Japan ese, now completely tn control or China's ancient dragon oapltal, clos ed the gates of Pelplng today, virtu ally Imprisoning Americans and other foreigners within the fall as squad rons of Japanese war planes blasted e, path for a thrust deep Into China. Japanese authorities said their planes had been bombing Chinese army concentrations at Poatlngfu, capital of Hopeh province, 85 miles to the southwest, for the last 84 hours. Japanese scouting planes were ranging as far south as Tslnan In Shantung province, some 176 miles below Tientsin. (Authoritative reports to Nanking from northern Shantung province corroborated a belief that the Chi nese central government was massing men on the southern edge of the hostilities sone. They said troops were moving north by railroad, evi dently toward the Hopeh border. (Native newspapers m Shanghai also reported the central government "Increasingly preparing for war con' tlngenclea" at Hsuchow, an Import ant railroad Junction In Klangsu pro vince). Although Japanese asserted the COUNTY HEALTH POST The county board of health has re ceived the resignation of Dr. C. T. Drummond as county health officer. It was announced today The resignation will take effect rV pt mbr 1. Revision Of Church Rules Talked ForNon -Attenders FESTIVAL THIS EVENING The third Annual Oregon Shakes pearean festival will open In Ash land's outdoor theatre tonight, with "Taming of the Shrew" one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, as the opening attraction. Although the curtain will rise at 8:80 o'clock, a formal ceremony mark ing the debut of the Oregon Shakes pearean .festival association, newly formed sponsoring group, will be held at 8 o'clock. Prank Van Dyke, Ashland attorney and president of the Ashland cham ber of commerce, will act as master of ceremonies and Introduce Ashland and Medford dignitaries as well as representatives of the literary and drama world. Judge Earl B. Day of Jackson county, president of the festival group, will be Introduced, as will Ole Aiinsplger, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and (Continued on Page Four.) TULELMlAIN LAND INUNDATED KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 3. (AP) Water poured through an 80-foot break In the Tule lake sump dike this morning, spreading out over rich grain lands In the government leases there. The break occurred at approxl mately the site of previous breaks on the west side of the lake. Water Immediately began an ad vance across grain fields on the Clif ford Shuck lease, formerly leased by Cox brothers. CCO troopers from surrounding camps and farmers were working feverishly In the hope of stopping the flood. FIVE YEARS FOR Lightning Boli Returns Hearing To Deaf Dobbin CONDON. Ore, Aug. S (AP) Bar specialists take note. A lightning bolt which struck an old horse on tha John F. Crane ranch here, knocked tha animal over. After a few mlnutea the horse atruggled to It feet, shook Ita head. Deaf for many years, the animal now has Ita hearing aa normal aa when It waa a colt. Crane attrib utes the cure to the lightning. FALLING WORKER T JOIN IN EFFORTS TO CUT SURPLUS Oregon tomato grower today Joined other western farmers seeking chain store aid la meeting a surplus crop crisis. Earl T. Newbry, Medford, was named to head a seven-man growers' stabil ization committee organized In this district. Tha committee appealed to the Western States Chain Grocers aasoclt tlon, whose members have thousands of retail outlets In 11 western states, "to Inaugurate a, special sale canned tomatoes." . "The growers of canning tomatoes In the extreme west are faced with a aerloua situation sVnoe there la at nresent about twice the normal car ry-over of oannned tomatoes In the hands of cannera and distributors, aald Newbry. Newbry pointed out that the aur nlua of Oregon tomatoes waa not (Continued on Pag Bight.) FlUHRflilEAD IN BOAT RACE VAN IS HELD BY ROCK ON STEEP SLOPE Misstep Sends Douglas Huff Over Side Avalanche of Rocks Partially Covers Body Injuries Serious KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. 3. (API Douglas Huff, Portland, fell from the crater wall at Crater Lake about 8 :30 m. today, near Kerr Notch on the east aide of the lake. He suffered head Injuries and possible Internal Injuries, according to the park doctor. who attended him until an ambu lance from Medford could reach tha scene ot tha accident. Huff Is a senior rodman. surveyor with the United States buraeu of public roads, working on the Sam Ortno contract, the new portion of the rim road. Witnesses said his foot slipped, resulting In the fall. After falling 40 feet down the clltf toward the lake. Huff became lodged against a rock. Rocks and stones dislodged by his fall avalanched down the aide of the crater, partially covering him. It was some time be fore helpers could lift him from be neath the rocks and draw him back; to the rim. Hla Injuries were ray ported to be of serious nature. eOLlGFUlFOR (Continued on Pag rb.ro.) Holly Beach aubmerglng hie curi osity In his desire for sleep and re fusing to moo to look over a car that had tried to climb a bank on a hlgliwa; curve around tn wltCh- PENDLETON. Aug. 3. (AP) Rev. Wesley P. Dlsaette. Baptist pastor, believes It might be necessary to revise age-old church rulea In con sideration of non-churcn -attending citizens. Remember the Sabbath day to keep It Jolly," he suggested. His Sunday sermon announcement read: "Blue Mountain version of Exodus 30:8-11. adapted to week xneed Corlstlsns." It went along something like this: -8U 07 sbalt tbou labor, sad de al! thy work: but the Sabbath la the weekend property of thy lodge and club. In It thou ahalt not do an; worshipping, thou, nor they son nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy meldervant. nor thy sponger who drops In for Sunday dinner. "For in sis days the Lord made heaven and earth, the aea and all that Is In them. On the Sabbath then cam Sunday ball games, family reunions, picnics, golf tournaments nd movlea: wherefore, the Lord blasted the Ssbosln day and mad a toUdti o( It," 3 HURT AS AUTO HOPS OVER BANK CRATER LAKE. Aug. 3. fSpU- Three persons sustained Injuries In csr crash here yesterday afternoon two miles above park headquarter nesr the Critter lake rim village. RusmII Berkley, Gertie Barkley and Cells Jefferson. Indians of Sprae river on the Klamath reservation, suffered numerous cuts and bruise. Their roadster toppled over a 40-foot bank, rolling over twice and coming to a rest on Its wheels. Miss Berkley, Ulster of Russell Bark ley, driver of the car, was the most seriously Injured. She was re moved oy stretcher to the park hos pital from which a Klamath Falls ambulance removed her late In the afternoon. Believed the only a-oman motor cycle racer and auto mechanU; In Texas. MLs Virginia Cars Din, 23 ot Port Arlbuv, has driven 600,000 miles bx motorccl T DROWNS IN AUTO KLAMATH PALS. Aug. 3. (API Theodore Thexton, 11 months old. lost hla life Sunday when an auto mobile carrying his parents and two- year-old alster plunged Into the gov ernment Irrigation canal. The father, Roy Thexton, broke through s rear window and reached safety wltb the little girl as water poured Into the car. The mother got through another window, carrying a blanket she believed held the Infant. A wrecker pulled the machine onto the bank and rescuers found tb baby's body in the Interior. Thexton said the car akldded on loose gravel, leaped a high bank and dropped Into the canal. The sedan waa submerged In 13 feet of water. LOS ANOELES. Aug. J. (AP) Mrs. June Bates, Oakland, Calif., 88-year-old mother of four children, today waa sentenced by Pederal Judge Leon Yenkwlch to five years In the wom en's reformatory at Alderaon. W. Va for attempting to extort SBOO from Actor John Boles. She pleaded guilty, asking for pro bation with the plea that ahe meant no harm when ahe sent a letter to Bolea threatening to link htm with dope ring. "Tf I had Intended to extort." ah told the court, "I would have asked for noon." DEVILS LAKE, Ore., Aug. (OT) Drivers from Oregon, Washington and California took the TO0 In prizes offered at the fourth annus! Devils Lake regatta her Sunday, the largest outboard racing boat meet tn the history of tn nortnwea. Winners by class follow! P-Hydro: H. Pluhrer of Medford (both heats), F-Runabout: Bapy JI. Hall. Los Angeles, and Jack Oolcock, Seattle. A-Hydroi Wee Loback, Seattle, and Ethel Blue, Portland. O-Hydro: Colcock and J. O. Har lan. Seattle. C-8ervlos: Hsrlan and Colcock. C-Hydro: W. Mulrhead, Medford, Ore., and M. J. McKellheer. Yakima, Wash. Over 80 pilots competed. Entries were so heavy that all events had to be run In two heats. I Trawlers Blamed ' In Death of Crabs ASTORIA. Aug. a, (AP) Fisher men hsve found no new evidence of destruction to crsbs off the Colum bia river. Thousands of dead crabs were washed up on th beaches to the south and many persons believed a mvaterinus disesse threatened the Industry. Crab fishermen blame the lose on trawling operations because when the trawlers shifted operations to Coos Bay no more dead crusta ceans appeared. IS APPROVED BY SENATE WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (AP) Th senate Indian committee approved today a bill by Senator Btelwer (R. Or.) authorizing the establishment of an 8380,000 revolving fund for th benefit of the Klamath Indiana. It also approved a house bill au thorlslng per diem payments of as to members of th Klamath business committee when engaged on official business In Washington Th house passed and sent to tb senate legislation to permit payment from tribal funds of 81800 to each enrolled member of th Klamath Io nian tribes In Oregon, Instead of glv. lng them lend allotments. The tribal members who would benefit are those born since tb clos ing of tb land allotment rolls In 1010. Th house also approved and sent to the senate a blU to create a ospl tal reserve fund snd a revolving loan fund out of tribal funds for th Klamath Indians. Tb measure would allow tribal members to obtain loans for business enterprises that would help them become self-supporting. The revolving fund eventually would approximate 8300,000. Roosevelt, LeBrun Join In Pleas For Friendship Mill Honrs Cut ST. HELENS. Aug. 3. fl, The C. R. McCormlck Lumber company be gan operating on four-day week to day for both It dsy and night shifts Th shorter working hours, effective until the end of the month will ( lect 360 men snd set production at toafica boaid lost a MONTPAUCON, Prance, Aug. (API The presidents of the United States snd France united In appeal, for peace and friendship st th Sun day dedication of America's greatest war memorial In France, rising above the Lorraine battlefield. From his yacht on th Potomac river President Roosevelt spoke by radio to the 8.000 Americans and Frenchmen gathered for the dedlca- tory exercises and pledged the United States to continued fsltb In democ racy. President Albert LeBrun, speaking Just after the American executive, said "Franc bar today publicly re news her gratitude to America on the site of her great victory." Today represontatlvea of France and the United State dedicated at Montaee a memorial to tha American oUsDsly Sept. 13, 18 IS. (lUca brok the German salient at Saint Mlhlel. Brls. Oen. Bernard W. Kearney, of OloveravUte. N. Y-, national comman der of the Veterans of Foreign War, delivered the dedicatory address In the first of ten ceremonies following the Montfsucon dedication Th Montfaucon monument, rising Ilka lighthouse of white fanlte, commemorates the Meuse-Argonne offensive In which more then 1,000, 000 Americans took part during the closing days of ths world war. ft was designed by John Russell Pop of New York. Genera! John J. Pershing, com mander of the American expedition ary forces, and Marshal Henri Fetaln. France's wsrtlms leader on th west ern front, both made pleas for pre- AID TO CRESCENT ROSEBURO. Or., Aug. 3. (AP) Two Pirate errors In the first Inning, which brought in three runs, resulted ultimately In sn 8-to-7 defeat for Roeeburg at Crescent City yesterday and dropped them still farther be hind In th Southern Oregon league baseball pennant race. Tb Pirate bit Koll, crescent City burler, for seven safeties, on a homer, by Shlnn; but errors st crttK cal moments accounted for more Chi nook runa than the locals could over come. Barr, Pirate burler, waa rapped for 11 hits and struck out rive. 8ummsry: H. H. B. Crescent City 8 11 T Roeeburg T 7 9 Koll, Oeo and Arvedl; Barr and Ooff. Columbia Salmon Production Wanes ASTORIA, Aug. 3. (AP) The ssl mon production on the Columbia river will fall 30 per cent below nor mal for July, packers estimated to day. Catches have been tow sine 1st In June. Pscklng operations are brisk her engaged In canning ocean caught (Ian brought her from Coos Bsy snd points further south. Ocean flsbermen are working northward snd report good catches off Newport. Th average United states citizen last vear used 860 pounds of pig Iron. ventloo of snother war that might 1 830 pounds of steel. 8.8 Bounds of repeat th tragedy of th last great lead. 9 9 pounds of copper, and 8 JS oosfllet, barrels at ell.