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Newspaper Page TextMs The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight md to morrow; little change In temperature. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday . 90 Lowest thli morning ....... 67 The Short Cut There U & marlui for practic ally everything yra hare to tell. The short cut to this mar ket U through the Cisilftr4 columns of thli newspaper. Splendid result! obtainable at small cost. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirtv-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY. AUGUST 10 in J 1937. f No. 121. wa'am STAB alii wire Attr I DEFENDERS CLAIIVI, aeJtnd HAD nrTAPUBMT ?S llMSEslAIN AT NANXflW II CW"k. 1 B 1 1 1 1 1 Bsxnm H i By M. 11. BALKHAGE (Copyright, 1937, by North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. While the prediction for Tuesday night la strictly fair weather when the good fellows get together at the. Demo-, cratic harmony dinner to honor Sen ate Majority Leader Barkley, It will be Impossible to convince the cynics that a number of guests aren't wear ing daggers in their garters. Maybe they are. But, strange a it may seem, the denial that political stilettos are de rlgeur comes quite as emphatically from some of the anti-court reform ers as from administration leaders. Behind it all lies a story of two strong men standing face to face, as Kipling put It. On the train coming back from Senator Robinson's funeral there were some who looked on Postmaster General Farley with a fearful and some with a baleful eye. Senator Champ Clark was one ol the latter, and he minced no words on that subject now so carefully avoided, namely, reprisals. "Remember," said the Missouri Senator, or words to that effect, "my family and I have bulwarked the Democratic party longer than you. general, and If you attempt to read me out of It, I'll be there first." The warning was voiced then that Senators Clark and Wheeler and others of the bitter anti-courters. if their heads were threatened, would take to the hustings vigorously against the so-called "weak" sen ators who had supported the court bill. It has been reliably stated that, when two strong men face to face, though they come from the east and the went, they ran sometimes achieve peace without bloodshed. On the basis of this authority, all good Democrats are declaring now. In unison, as the sound of studs slipping Into shirt bosoms Is heard: "What a world of happiness their harmony foretells. Through the balmy air of night. How they ring out their delight!" Even the friends of Senator Van Nuys, who had about given up hope that the Democratic party would support him In Indiana In 1638 after the recent visit of Governor Town send to Mie White House, are perk ing up. Mr. Townsend was quoted then as saying that the Democratic organi zation in the hooaier state "couldn't renominate Senator Van Nuys If It wanted to." Now the senator's friends are say ing that all things are working to gether for his good. (Continued on Page Pour.) AMERICAN BOY SCOUTS PERFORM FOR ROYALTY VOGELENZANO, The Netherlands. Aug. 10. (UP) The international Boy Scout Jamboree ended last night with an American performance of the famous "Eagle" Indian dance before Princess Juliana, her consort. Prince Bernhard, and 28.000 scouts. The royal couple appjauded and cheered with the others. Spanish Insurgents In Second Big Push MADRID, Aug. 10. (AP) Madrid's western front rumbled Into- new life today In wba. appeared to be the start of a second big insurgent push to hammer a government wedge out of Insurgent rearguard territory. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Infantrymen, based In shell-ripped villages and on the sun-broiled plflins west of this besieged city, renewed their attack on Vtl.aneuva de la Canada, the point of Gen. Jose Mlaja's spearhead. , -inr pi aupre uiul. uLniiuutj by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Harold Johnson being left alone with a bevy of girls In the United States forest service office, all tue other gentlemen having taken to their heels for the wide open spaces. Charley Furnas lamenting the up and downs of the auto servicing bi. N preferring a steady, though ousy. jMre he can idequaMy prepare for, Frank Ox-tor looking for a helty nd duraelc umpire to conduct tne tpo picnic bb gme at Diamond lake Sunday. George Hilton betr.g unable to (.top tnlktng about his Grants Pass lv.? evrn t the t.rMin rlo'e. hf thu niit.-ir.n the fine points of legal -tzvd mayhem. Force of. 5000 Reported Moving Against Gateway to Capital of Chahar Shanghai Tension Eased By the Associated Press, Chinese defenders of the ancient great wall of China took a bloody stand today .at Nankow Pass, 30 ml lea northwest of Pel ping, in a desperate attempt to stem the tide of Japanese troops rolling toward the yet-unconquered provinces of Cha har and Sulyuan. Chinese 'sources reported a Jap anese detachment had been wiped out. A force of 5000 Japanese troops was reported moving against the pass, gateway to Kalgan, capital of Chahar, and the broad tablelands westward to Mongolia. Tension eased In Shanghai, far to the south, where tho killing of a Japanese naval officer and seaman had brought grave apprehension for the preservation of peace. Officials agreed to settle by diplo matic means the Incident. The Jap anese and a Chinese gendarme were shot down in a clash yesterday at Hungjao military airdrome west of Shanghai. Chinese and Japanese versions ol the incident differed as to which side first opened fire. No explana tion was offered by Japan as to why the Japanese officer was in a restricted Chinese military cone. A thousand new Japane blue Jackets came to Shanghai. Dispatches to Nanking indicated Japan was tightening her hold on Tientsin's civilian administration with the announcement that military cen sors would be Installed In the Brit ish and French concession post of fices to watch all but foreign con sular mall. The two nations affected were understood to have made vig orous protests. In Tokyo Emperor Hlrohito sum moned his war minister, General Suglyama, to discuss the north China situation In the light of the killing of the two Japanese in Shanghai. Indications were that the incident would be handled prudently. The Japanese cabinet extended emergency war taxes to Include the empire's colonies. TIENTSIN, China (by radio to Manila and New York), Aug. 10. (AP) The Japanese authorities who control Tientsin plastered the city today with posters proclaiming that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kal Shek "will never fight Japan and is now only deceiving the northern Chinese" with promises of help. "The Japanese army Is the world's best and strongest," said the posters and handbills. This was an effort to placate umnese in tiopen province and alienate them from the central government In Nanking. A similarly disseminated state ment that "the north China people must build their own country on a firm foundation" was believed to mean the establishment of a new north China state like Manchoukuo under complete Japanese domina tion. Mass Job Hunt To Impress Governor SALEM. Aug. 10. (AP) Delega tions of Portland and Sa'em WPA workers who have been forced off re lief by the government's retrench ment policy, will march to Governor Martin's office tomorrow morning on a "man Job hunt." the governor's office was Informed today. Governor Martin did not disclose what action he would take. The parade will start In downtown Salem At 0 a. m. F. D. R. Reluctantly Signs Interior Department Bill WASHINGTON, Aug, 10. (AP) President Roosevelt said today he had signed "with much reluctance" the 132.733.000 Interior department supply bill which provide for recla mation, education and many other activities. The chief executive objected par ticularly to a 10,000.000 increase id the vocational education fund and said he would "carry out what ob viously is the intent of congress" bv using only such portion "as can properly and usefully" be spent. As approved, the itm wa 14.43.0u0. He blamed activity behind the In crease on "a single. Interested source" which he did not name. The president said the advisory committee on education, which be appointed iwt Sep tem be r to study v.r expr.riT- under the misting I federal aid program, vu uninimouf Japanese Troops March Into Tientsin A contingent of Japanese troops Is shown swinging Into Tientsin, where sonic or the lilttcrc.ot fighting between Japanese and Chinese forces In the North China crisis has occurred. These same soldiers later en gaged Chinese troops In battle. IS FIVE IN F, TILLAMOOK, Aug. 10 (fl The Tillamook Bsjr coast guard static gave up hope today for the safety of a man and a woman and three chil dren lost In the Pacllic ocean off the Oregon coast. The five did not return from a crab fishing expedition Sunday and their overturned skltf was found bob bing on the waves yesterday near Three Arch rock not far from Ocean side. W. M. Hogart of the coast guard station said a fog obscured the eea today. A light rain fell but the eea not rough. A coast guard ship searched the area until late yesterday atternoon. Hobert did not know If the craft would go out again today. The missing are Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hnrbko of Portland, their two eons, John. 9, and Wade, 7, and a niece, Barbara Johnson, 10, of Scappoose. INDEPENDENCE. Aug. 10. (Pi The Willamette river claimed two lives here Monday when Richard Lee Wheeler, 15, plunged Into the water to save his sister Dorothy. 17. who waa stricken with cramps, and both drowned. Their mother and other members of the family witnessed the accident. The family came here from Perkins, Okla., to pick hops. CRATER PARK STU0I0 t F WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. 7P, A bill authorizing purchnse by the gov ernment of Klser Scenic Photo shop and furnishings In Crater lake na tional park, at a, price not to exceed 1 .000. had the approval today of the house public lands committee. Representative James Moti of Sa lem. Ore., said the building was need ed for park ptirpoaea. in recommending uncurtailed con tlnuance of the program. It was not in favor, however, the president said, of enlarging federal support until consideration was given the whole subject of federal rela tlons to state and local conduct of education of all types. "In view nf the above, It Is clear Chat I would be subject, to censure If any of the 14.4R3.000 appropriated in this act for vocational training were spent Inefficiently or Inad visedly," Mr. RoosevH said in a formal statement. He added much of the apparent demand for Immediate extension of the program "appears to have been stimulated by an active looby of vocational teachers, supervisors and administrative officers In the tieio of vocational edtiratlon. who arr In terrs'wj in the emolument paid In part fluid federal fund.' BASEBALL National CHICAGO. Aug 10. (API Jim (Hipper) Collins, the National league leading Chicago Cubs- first baseman, suffered a fracture of his left ankle In the first Inning of today's game with the Pittsburgh Pirates and probably will bo out of action for a month or more. ' "' Collins' mishap occurred when he attempted to score In the opening session. He slid attempting to beat a throw from Inflelder BUI Brubaker to Catcher Al Todd and caught his spikes In the plate. He rolled over several times, twisting his left leg. R. H. E. Boston 8 10 I New York 1 6 3 MacPayden and Mueller; Schu macher, Coffman and Dannlng. R. H. 7 14 S Brooklyn Philadelphia Henahaw, and Bpencer: Walters, Jorgens, Crawford and Atwood. R. H. B. Pittsburgh '.. 6 13 3 Chicago 6 7 0 'Blanton, Brown and Todd; French, Shoun, Davis and Hartnett. American. First game: R. H. E. Philadelphia 7 10 3 Washington IB 12 4 Caster, Turbevillo and Brucker, Conroy; Weaver and Millies. R. H. E. Chicago Detroit 6 12 0 4 10 2 Lee, Brown and Sewcll; Auker, Gill, Coffman and York. CONFEREES AGREE I BILL WASHINGTON. Aug. 10-nVPh A senate-house conference committee agreed today on lower court reorgan ization after a six-month congress ional contest over the Judlrlary. The conferees reached a complete agreement on the terms of the bill changing procedure in the lower courts. This measure was substituted for the Roosevelt court bill and 1U supreme court enlargement proposal. Chairman McCarran fD.-Nev.), of the senate conferees, said he would call up the report for final action In the senate later today. Chairman Asburst (D.-Arls.) of the Judiciary committee simultaneously nnmiTi'tvi the nnnolntment of a seven-man committee to make a study already ordered by the senate Into all Judicial questions raised by the president's court bill. STATE TOURIST TRADE SALEM. Ore., Aug. 10. (UP) The Oregon tourist traffic, generally heavy at this time of year, in falling olf heavily and Gov Charles h. Martin blames strike unrest as the causer "People are hanging unto their money. They don't know what's com ing next," the governor said today. Tourist traffic la slightly heavier than during the same period Inst year, hut ih not as tievy eHr!y enivon prospects Indicated it should ROOSEVELT TOO BUSY FOR ATTENDANCE AT BOURBON LOVE FEAST WASIirNGTON. Aug. 10. (ypi The White House said today the "pressure of other things' would prevent Pres ident Roosevelt from Attending the senate Democratic dinner tonight In honor of majority leader Barkley of Kentucky. Instead of being present In person when the senators assemble at a big banquet, Mr. Roosevelt will send an expression of regret to Vtce President Garner to be reed to the diners. Ste phen T. Early, press secretary, said the president's letter also would con tain a greeting to Barkley. Participant have nailer It as a "harmony" affair to ahow that the party splits over the court bill and the senate leadership have healed. Republican national commltteewo men are gathering for a conference tomorrow at which they will con- alder hiring a director to revive the women's division of the party. It is the first formal preparation for next year's elections by a nation wide group in .cither major party. There was talk in the cepital. too. of presidential elections. Senator Copeland (D.-N. Y.) proposed a con stitutional amendment restricting any president from serving more than two terms. PICK CAVE JUNCTION S JUBILEE GRANTS PASS. Aug. 10 (APj Cave Junction has been chosen as the site for the Illinois valley miner' Jubilee September 4, 6 and 6 to de pict the early mining history of southern Oregon. Rock drilling and gold panning contests, a rodeo, and a parade are planned. The "gambling street" will be named Bailors Dlgglns after the district where deserting sailors found gold 75 years ago. Cave Junction Is 30 ml Irs from Grants Pass on the Redwood high way. It Lb three milea from Kerby, former mining center founded around a billiard table stranded there when a mule collapsed under the heavy load. Quints Irritable Account Illness CALLANDER. Out., Aug. (Cana dian Press) The Dloiine quintuplets, famed for their coltish htfth spirits, were described today by helr physi cian. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, as "irrit able and nervous." They are Indisposed with alight colds not serious, but sufficiently distressing to keep their pranks and laughter at a minimum. Dr. Dafoe announced the quintup lets needed further rest before they could resume public apparaw. Un til Friday, he said, they will bo In seclusion. - Favor luncan Refund WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (AP) A Mil providing that a 1500 fine paid by Robert Gordon Duncan, self-styled "Oregon Wildcat." on charges of vio lating the ridio act of 1027 be re lur.drd rvd t senate and was sent to thi nous. FOUR KILLED AS L E Power Line Strung Near Airport During Night Without Notice to Port Manager Accident Cause DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Aug. 10. (AP) A 14-passenger Eastern Air ! lines plane crashed Into a newly-: constructed power line near the air port here early today, tore Into a ; thicket and was wrecked, killing four 1 persons. Pete Dygert, airport mannger, said the power line was strung at 11 p. m. last night and that ho had not been notified. It was not there last night when another E-AX. plane took off for Miami at 10:20 p. m. Eastern Standard Time, Dygert said Killed In the crash wej ' Captain Stuart Diets of Baltimore, chief pilot. Robert Reed, co-pilot. J. F. Phil pots. Kingston. Jamaica, passenger. W. G. Marian. Mexico City. The big Douglas airliner, en route from Chicago to Miami, struck the power line pole at 4:40 a. m. after making a scheduled stop here. It wan Eastern Airline's first fatal acci dent. Dicta was killed Instantly crushed In tho wreckage. Co-pllot Reed and J. F. Phil pots died at a hospital. Hospital attaches sold all those not killed were suffering sevaro shock and back and head injuries. Dygert said the overhead line was put up by tho Florida Power and tight- company aa a temporary meas ure because of power failure In an underground cable. The plane bad risen about 40 feet when ft hit the line. The liner flut tered crazlly for more than 100 yards, then struck the earth. It plowed up the ground for another 160 feet be fore coming to rest against a small tree. FATHER-IN-LAW URGES NINE-YEAR-OLD BRIDE TO FORGET SPANKING 8NEEDVJLLE. Tenn.. Aug. 10. ( AP) Mr. Eunice Wlnatead Johns. Tennessee's nine-year old bride, would not talk today about her father-in-law's advice that she over look a spanking at the hands of a school teacher and return to her first grade cloves. The little blonde girl, vho married mountaineer Charlie Johns. 22, last January, quit school last week rfter teacher Wade ftrguson had switched her for "general mlschlevousneas." Husband Charlie protested to Fer guson that he couldn't chastise an other man's wife. "Oh, yea, X can whip another man's wife," retorted Ferguson, "if another man sends hla wife to school to me." Charlie's father, Nick Johns, told his son, a tall, black-haired tobacco fanner, that his wife should be "put right back tn school where she be longs." At Nashville, Commissioner of Ed ucation W. A. Bass manifested a complete lack of Interest. "We will not take any action to compel a married child to attend school," he said. The state law re quires that Tennesssee children be tween the ages of seven and 16 at tend school until they have com pleted eight grades. New Comet May Be Seen Over Top of Big Dipper NEW YORK, Aug. 10. (AP) To night and tomorrow night the whole world has grandstand seat for seeing the new Flnsler comet. They are vir tually the only nights when there la ft good chance for the layman to spot this celestial bbject. The comet, discovered by the Swiss astronomer Flnsler a month ago, Is now at Its brightest, but even ao la unlikely to be seen unices the watch er knows the exact apot. On these two nights It Is passing along the only constellation which every person In the world knows the Big Dipper. It la Just above the dipper, passing toward the handle. Above means over the aide which would be the top If the dipper were full of water. Look at the ,tr which JpIiw the I handle to the bowl ' the dipper. Iron Lung Fails To Keep Life In Paralyzed Youth HOT SPRINOS. N. M.. Aug. 10 (API Charles Hunt of Los An gelee died last night in a buge mechanical device that replaced hla lungs, but not hit heart. Infantile paralysis that attack ed the 24-year-old automobile plant worker last week crept into the muscles of his heart and brought sudden death after be waa believed saved by the res pirator at the Incomplete Carrie Tlngley hospital for crippled chil dren here. During the day he smiled for photographers and talked of Im provements he planned on the respirator In which he waa placed last Friday at the point of death. A restlessness and slight fever were noted, attendants said and suddenly he lapsed Into a coma and died. GASTON OPENED C. 1. 0. BALEM. Aug. 10. (AP) The Btlm son mill at Gaston, near Forest Grove. scene of a bitter dispute between the committee for Industrial organi sation and the American Federation of Labor, was reopened yesterday af ter being cloned for 10 weeks, Gov ernor Martin said today. The governor said there waa no violence and that state police, sent there to protect the A.F.L. faction which returned to work, acted only aa observers. The C.I.O. pickets Jeer ed aa the men marched Into the mill "The men who wanted to earn their living by the sweat of their brows' marched Into the plant and atartod the saws going," the gover nor said. "I waa nleaaed to see that the C.I.O. rowdies saw the Jig waa up and let the men go to work. There is some picketing now, but to heil with the pickets." He gave full credit of opening the mill to Bute Labor Commissioner Charles H. Gram, who said all of the 300 employes at the mill are affili ated with the A.F.L. He charged that the C.I.O. pickets, seeking to force the workers Into the C.I.O.. belong to another local. VETERAN AID BILL WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (AP) The senate passed and aent to the White House late Monday loglalatlon "llberallr.ln" rules governing pay ment of service-connected benefits to World war veterans and their dependent. The measure would Increase the amounts paid to widows and orphans and would bring new beneficiaries under the scope of existing law. Proponents of the legislation said It would Increase the total of vete rans benefits the first year by an estimated (7,916,000. An Increase In the rate of compensation for widows and dependent parents of war vete rans would account for H Ml, 000. G. Pass Shooting Up to Grand Jury GRANTS PASS, Aug. 10, (AP) Fred W. Berger waived preliminary hearing In Justice court yesterday on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon and waa bound over to the grand Jury under ball of 5.000. Oeorge Bryan, plumber, who Ber ger Is accused of shooting Friday morning 4a slowly Impovlng tn a hospital ward. The comet tonight, according to the diagrams In popular astronomy, la right above thl star. It la exactly the same distance above thla handle Joint star as the space from this star to the one below marking the Dov torn of the dipper. It la In a dead straight line, sometime tonight, msde by these two atara. Tomorrow night will be even easier to fix the comet's position. Look for the outermost star In the dipper's handle Count one star Inward along the handle. Thla Is the star, Mlcar. very distinct, where the bandle make Its familiar downward bend. Sometime during the sight, ratber late, the comet will pass directly un der Mlzar. It will cut the dipper's handle about one-third the distance between Mlrar and the next "handle" star, 'he third one. counting the out ermost handle star aa on. JACKSON COUNTY PINBALL DEADLINE SET FOR AUG. 25 Five Days Grace Added Medford Will Lose Large Amount in License Fees Punch Boards Also Out Written notloa by regi-rteTed mail will be served by the sheriff's office tomorrow upon four distributors and a dozen private owners of pin-ball and marble game machines In Jack son county to remove the macninea by Wednesday, August 25, or th contraptions will be confiscated an the distributors and. operators prose cuted for violation of the Oregon gambling laws. The action la taken in accordance with a ruling by the attorney-general, based upon a re cent decision of the supreme court. The district attorney's office re ports that the ruling also appllea to punch boards. First announcement of the dis trict attorney and sheriff, allowing 10 days for the removal of the ma chines, was later extended to 1$ days. The City of Medford, which H- censea the machine, will lose be tween 1000 and 1200 In revenue for the last quarter of the year, by the abolishment of the games. The city has so far thla year collected t)3868. In the first quarter elfiOT waa collected, In the second quarter 1110, and In the third quarter 1242. In Medford operator! pay an an nual license fee of 100, being limit ed to a maximum of 25 machine. In addition a license fee of ! quarterly la charged for one-ball ma chines, $3 quarterly for ten-ball de- vices. Most are one-ball machine. Early this year, at- the request of counsel for the pin-ball Interest, the council changed the payment of fees for machine licenses from an annual to a quarterly baaU, at the same time Increasing the tax (Continued on Page Five.) EUGENE TO DELAY ETJGENB, Ore., Aug. 10. (AP) Sidestepping any decisive action, the Eugene city council voted lat night to retain lta pin ball licensing ordi nance until expiration of third-quarter fees next month. Representative of the ministerial association end the united worker presented petitions for repeal of the ordinance. 8, M. Calkins, city at torney, informed the council that there waa no obstruction In the way of repeal If the council desired to take this step. Mayor Ellaha Large urged that the council use "fair play" with phiball operators, declaring that the? had paid license fees in "good faith." U L. Ray, district attorney, who la now on a vacation. Indicated that he may start proceedings against pin ball operators on his return M'COLLOCH FOES TO GET HEARING WASHINGTON, Aug. t0. (AP) A senate Judiciary aub-commlttee will haer protests Wednesday on the se lection of Claude McCollocn, Klam ath Falls, sa federal Judge tor the Oregon district. "Some people have requested to b. heard," was the comment from th. chairman, Senator McOlll, Kansas Democrat. Other members of the group ar Senators Hatch of Mew Mexico. CMs honey of Wyoming and Burke of Ne braska. Democrats: and Borah of Idaho, Republican. Senator Stetwar. Oregon Republican, wa luted but assea so De xousea. Btelwer and Senator McNery said yesterday they had received no com munication! concerning McColloch's nomination by President Roosevelt or the request for ft bearing. Doctor Delivers 14 For One Family BAKER, Aug. 10. (AP) With the assistance of the John Oolton fain lly of Keating, Dr. T. J. Hlgglna of Baker baa certainly set some kind of ft record. Mr. and Mr. Cotton' IStb child, a girl, waa born recently. Doctor HlgKlns waa the attending physician when 14 of the eight girl and asvea boys were born. He wa serving Is. the United States army In 1018 whra one of the youngster wa born. T.t physician also attended when five) babies were born to sons and daugh ters of Mr. and Mr. Oolton.