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Saturday at 3:30 P. M. U closing tlma for elaut tied ads. If yon wlh to ban them properly classified on the regular classified page. Ads. received 'til t P. M. for Too Ijite to Classify. The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Sat urdmr; slightly cooler Satur day. TEMPERA TURB Highest yesterday 05 Lowest this morning 57 Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United P Thirtv-Second Year Tweuty Pages Two Sections JtEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13. 1937. No. 124. M WujuJiyJu mi E EMI ByH R. BAl'K HAGE (Copyright, 7P37, by the North Amer - lean Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. TV A Is about to step out In front agatn, and not as a yardstick tills time, either. At least this Is In the cards If an exceedingly earnest little group , of westerners, under the leadership of Senator Pope of Idaho, has Its Tfay. While air Is filled with the cotton farmer's presen ttroublea. this group vedy quietly and very methodically la starting out to solve what la now generally admitted to be America's greatest agricultural problem the great phosphate robbery. American production of this vital element of the soil fell off more than 500.000 tons In 1036. as against 1930, but the exportation has not appreciably diminished.' The. eartlVs supply 1b limited. We are sending out of the country nearly a third of what we produce, most of It to Ger many and Japan. The experts tell us that phosphorus (provided by phosphate) la ' a ne cessity In animal life, human and plant nutrition." They say further that a large proportion of our soil Is deficient In this element, causing low yields and low quality of crops and pasture In the United States, 80 per cent of the deposits lie In the west In Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and some ad Joining states, although the nation relies almost wholly on the small de posits In Tennessee and Florida for Its present supply. Senator Pope and others are alarm ed over the present si tuatton, but they are still more worried about the future. The Idahoan says that for eign agents are now In the United States seeking control of the deposits and processes for , manufacturing phosphates. Therefore, he believes three things to be essential. 1. Manufacture and sale of phos phates by TV A as originally author ised. 3. Development by TV A (also said to be covered In the original act) of new plants on tre scene of the west ern deposits. 3. Restricting manufacture to phos phate for home consumption only. Many peole have forgotten that the chief argument for tHe government purchase of Muscle Shoals after the war was to obtain nitrate for mili tary use and fertilizer Now It Is recognized that nitrates, which can be replaced by planting legumes, aren't as important as phos phatea. But the term "fertilizer" in the law creattlng TV A covers both. Once plants and animals are ship ped out of the country, the phos phates they have absorbed go with them. The nitrate plant at Wilson dam has been standing by while elec- ( Continued on Page Ten.) BOM HURLER HELD ON CHARGE OF FELONY LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13. () Accused of hurling a liquor bottle at a priro fight and Injuring movie comedian Chlco Marx and his wife. Theodore Watts. 27, Negro, was held In default of 1500 ball today pend ing his preliminary hearing next Monday. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Marx was cut on one hand and his wife on one eye by the flying glass. Al Jolson and his wife. Ruby Keelcr, sat next to the Marxes, but escaped Injury. For More Beer PORTLAND. Aug. 13. (API More beer for Portland was sought today by Mayor Joseph Carson, who said he would ask for repeal of a city council ban against additional beer parlors on the grounds It was injurious to legitimate restaurant owners who had been unable to get licenses. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Vera Nlnlnger listening with pati ent sympathy to a friend bent upon reciting details of an operation. J. Farrelt Ha-va thinking up a gfm for this pillar of playfulness and then forgetting It. C:ty Attorney and Chamber Presi dent Frank Van Dyke blng blamed by visitors for th lark of aler In Llthla park drinking fountains. Kerb Orey rushing hit work in preparation for a vacation Jaunt to the northward. Cttj Cop Clyde F.chtnr (hlnlng his xu lor duty at the band con ceit WiiitiU CREATE HAVOC IK Artillery Duel Sets Scores of Fires Major Holocaust Feared U. S. Asiatic Fleet Ordered to Scene By MORRIS J. HARRIS SHANGHAI. Aug. 14. (Saturday) (A3) Shell fire and flames left this city of 3.500,000 seemingly Irretriev ably doomed today to the principal role in 1937'a bloody chapter of Slno Japanese tragedy. Hostilities between Japan's blue Jackets and China's army regulars flared from Shanghai proper all along the ten-mile, way to the Woosung forts, where the clty'a busy Wrang poo river flows into the mighty Yangtze. Casualties, though yet Indefinite, were believed low. Japanese news men said they saw two Japanese blue jackets wounded by shrapnel. Giant Wharf Shelled. On the Whangpoo. warships of the Japanese navy shelled Shanghai's giant municipal wharves so the Jap anese said, to drive from them Chi nese soldiery who fired on a Japanese man-o'-war as she steamed toward Shanghai proper, The Chinese fought back with can non and machlno gun. The United States, her 1,050 ma rines on day and night patrol of Shanghai's International settlement, sent the flagship of her Asiatic fleet at forced draft from Tslngtao, to the north. The heavy crnlser U. 8. S. Augusta, the flagship, will help protect the 4,000 Americans here most of them in the International areas Just south of the scenes of battle. Chinese field pieces and mountain guns smashed at the Japanese posi tions in the Hongkew area north of the international settlement. Machine gun and rifle fire crackled all day Friday. Fire Fanned by Wind. Fires roared through buildings in the northern Chine; areas of Chapel and Klangwan, fanned by a strong wind that threatened another holo caust like that of the Slno-Japanese hostilities of 1933. Flames engulfed the municipal (Continued on Page Three.) RICE IS COMING FOR EGAN RUES Grantland Rice, nationally known sports author and feature writer, will attend -the H. Chandler Egan Mem orial golf exhibition to be held here Sunday, August 32, at the Rogue River golf club. Rice will be accompanied by Bobby Jones, Jr., ' former national golf champion. Jones will make the mem orial dedication. Both Jones and Rice were long-time acquaintances of Egan. Jones and Rice will arrive Satur day, August 31. Lawson Little, Hor ton Smith. Johnny Dawson and Jimmy Thompson, famous golfers who will give exhibitions, will arrive the same day. SERVES SENTENCE FOR ASSASSINATION SCARE LONDON. Aug. IS. (fJT Oeorge McMahon, who caused an assassina tion scare In July. 1936, when he threw down a pistol as the then King Edward VIII passed him In a pro cession on Constitution Hill, was released from prison lant night. Half Year Relief Cost In Oregon Is $3,449,005 SALEM. Aug. 13. p. Relief ac tivities In Oregon cost S3.449.006 dur ing the first half of this year, the state relief committee reported today to Governor Martin. Public assistance cost ll.724.B38. the state and counties sharing the costs equally, while old age assistance coat 1.653,895, with the federal govern ment paying half and. the state and counties a quarter each. Blind as- slstance cost ,M,392, the government was $20.89. paying half and the state and coun- j Aver aye monthly blind pensions of tlea a quarter each, while aid to de- j I2S.06 have been psld to 406 persons pendent children cost (19 980. the this year, of which 199 are In Mult government, state and counties eacb nomah county. In the last eight paying a third. months of last year $37,968 was &pent Under the $1.724 383 public assist- for blind pensio u. compared with tne Item were $1,227,797 for care of; $54,992 during the first half of this the poor, $138 433 for mothers' aid. year.. $64,833 for soldiers and sailors. $124.- a to til of 1.327 dependent children 972 for poor farm, and $16 840 for rrlved average payment of $11.74 ho pitni treatment. , a mouth, or a lotU of $15,480 during Our g all of 1838, 3,tx6.7U -UuiU months period. Subcommittee Approves Nineteen Die in Collapsing The collapse of three frame dwelling! on Htnten Island. New York, Pollre and firemen ore shown search Inc the ruins. Heavy rains were said MOJER URGES LAW, TO PROTECT YOUNG EUOEN-E, Aug. 13. (AP) Mrs. Gertrude Dawson, Springfield, whose 12-year-old daughter, was the victim of an attack by a dog early thu ween, dispatched a letter to Governor Charles H. Martin today, urging passage of a legislative bill for the disposal of "vicious animals, namely dogs." 'In behalf of the children of Ore gon. I would like to bring to your attention for Immediate enactment of a bill relative to disposal of vicious animals, namely dogs," the letter declared. Mrs. Dawson assured the executive that "you will receive the heartfelt gratitude of all persons In all com munities for your early attention to passage of such a bill.' This letter followed the arrest of R, E. Burns, owner of the dog which allegedly attacked Marilyn Dawson. A number of neighbors signed the statements and affidavits, only to find that there was no state or local regulations governing the disposal of dogs. 4 Kenneth G. Harlan, Rate Expert, Dies TACOMA, Aug 13. (API Kenneth O. Harlan. 47. public utilities rate expert whose reports have been widely used In various llttgsllona In Portland. Seattle and Tacoma In the past several years, died todsy at his Gravelly Lake home nesr here. Harlan had been In poor health for some time, but his death was unexpected. Hsrlan's work had received wide publicity during municipal versus private ownership power discussions In varloiw northwest communities. spen. for these activities, the state and counties theji sharing the costA equally. The atat paid average old age pen slona of t'21.38 a month during the, Detroit 7 f.rat hslt of this year to 13.500 per- HllderbraniT and Hemsley: vona. During the last nine months oill and York, of 1936, 1. 999.761 was spent for pensions, the number of cases rising' R from 6.617 In April to 11.994 In De- j Boston 0 cember. when the average pension J - TV IWr 1 I. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (UP) While squads of rescue workers today sifted through the rain-soaked wreckage of a tenement building which collapsed during a storm Wednesday night, carrying at least 10 persons to their death, police and other city officials launched five separate Investigations Into the disaster. Nineteen bodies had been dragged from the sodden debris and two others a man and a woman, be lieved to have been In the building when It crumpled and sank Into ts foundations were missing. Five others, are in a hospital, crit ically Injured. Mayor Florello LaGuardla took per sonal charge of. an Investigation to determine whether the rickety brick building, an abandoned factory con verted into a two-family tenement but actually harboring eight families, had been properly Inspected. 4 BASEBALL National. R. H. E. Brooklyn 3 6 3 Boston . 8 9 0 Hoyt and Chervlnko; Fette and Mueller. R. 0 E. 0 0 and Philadelphia New York 6 Lamaster, Jorgens, Kelleher Wilson; Hubbell and Dannlng. R. 6 33 Cincinnati Chicago Derringer, Hsllahan. Cascarella. Mooty and Lombard 1; Parmelee, Root and Odea. American R. H. E New York , 8 3 0 Philadelphia 4 8 3 Gomez, Malone and Dickey; Rosa, Smith and Brueker. R. H. B. Chicago 3 8 3 Cleveland - 7 10 1 Kennedy and Rensa; Herder and Sullivan. R. H. B. S I 13 1 Wade, St. Louis H. E. 8 0 S 0 i v.aniniun s Marcum, Ostermileller. Walberg and DeSautela; Appleton ahd R. Pcrrllt. GIFFORD PINCHOT WILL WEEK-END ON McKENZIE tUOENB, Au. 13. (AP) Forest service officials said Olfford Plnrhot. former governor of Pennsylvania and lorestr and conr.s.natlon leader. would Apend II..' vek-rnd on tie MeKenzle WW Wtth ft number 01 guest. Tenements brought death to at lcat 1H persons. to have been the rnnw of niHupsc. CALIFORNIA BREWERS PORTLAND, Aug. 13. (AP) A suit filed In federal court here by I the California State Brewers Instl-1 tute, naming officials and locals of the Teamsters' Union as defendants, j asked 91,800,000 damages for the re-1 fusal of the teamsters to distribute "Red Label" beer In Oregon. The plaintiffs! claiming to repre sent 1 1 brewers In California and one In the east, assert that their business has "almost entirely ceased" In the state as a result of the block ade. Actual loss Is placed at 9600.000 and triple damages are claimed un der the provisions of the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws. Defendants are David Beck. Seattle, international vice-president of the Teamsters' Union; Dnnicl Tobln, New York, president; Al Rcscr, secretary of the Portland local, and the Port land, Eugene. Astoria and Marlon county locals. The complaint sets forth that the plaintiff breweries employ members of the Brewery Workers' Union on all Jobs Including delivery, and that their employes would strike if tne plants acceded to the demand of the teamsters that only Teamsters' Union members handle the product The complaint charges that the blockade was made "In order to de stroy competition by the plaintiff's asAlnors with the teamster brewcriea in the state." Quints To Resume Public Exhibition CALLANDER, Ont., Au. 13. (UP) Ceclie Dionno sat up In bed today nnrt studied her homework "The Btory of the Tlirco Beers" while re covering from a cold snd sore throat which afflicted all the famed quin tuplet sisters early this week. Her four sisters Emllle, Yvonne Annette and Marie have recovered sufficiently to be allowed out In the nursery grounds. Tomorrow their dally public ap pearances will bs resumed, with only Cccllo remaining indoors. Bhe will not be allowed outMde the nurnery until Monday. Dr. Allan Roy Dnfoe, the quint' physician, announced. German Seaplane Lands In Azores KORTA, THE AZORES. Aug. 13. (APt The German seaplsne Nord meer reached here today to end the second leg of her maiden trana r.tlnntic survey flight from Lucbeck. Cermany to New York The huge ship arrived al 4;30 p. m. 111:30 a. m. Eii T.) Approximately six snd one-half hours after the Inkeoff from Lisbon. Portugal. Prom Horta. the Nordmeer will hop to Port Usthlngton. N. Y. PORTLANDr ""Aug. 13. (UPI Emma Van Al&tlne. 69, who had neon 1 Oernondrnt over the death of her :.- ,tand In March, followed him to , the grave i-.-tf nlay L; i oJlc..li.:( ti.-1 'inicctant, tbe ournoxe reported tudy.) Nomination of RUSSIAN FLIERS; IS SILENT Flight Representative As serts Lack of Word Not Construed As Meaning Poie-Hoppers in Trouble SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 13. (AP) After long silence, A. Vartanlan. Rus sian flight representative, wild at 13:13 p. m. (P. 8. T.) today that he expected Russia's third trans-Polar plane to land at the Fairbanks air port within the hour. It was recalled that when the plane hopped from Moscow at 6:13 p. m. Wednesday (7:13 a. m. Thursday, P. S. T.), the pilot estimated the flight would require 30 hours or a ached- i uled arrival at Fairbanks of 1:13 p. m. (P. 8. T.) today. Signal corps officers here estimated the tllght distance from Moscow to Fairbanks at 4100 miles. Vartanlan said the flight pilots would decide their course southward from Fairbanks after arriving there. When the hour passed, Vartanlan stopped pacing the floor nervously and went Into a closed conference with signal corps officers. He had said the plane's continued silence was not construed as meaning she was In trouble, and It was recalled the pro gress of the recent trans-Polar non stop flight from Moscow to San Ja cincUo, Calif., also was unreported for long periods. PEACIRS- 10 MEET MONDAY, Meeting of all Jackson county peach growers In the courthouse auditorium here at 7:30 Monday night was called today by H. A. Thlerolf, chairman of the local chamber of commerce agriculture committee. The meeting was ar ranged by the chamber and the county agent's office. Data on this year's crop, prevail ing prices and other pertinent mat ters will be presented to the meeting and the feasibility of forming an as sociation of peach growers will be discussed, Mr. Thlerolf said. To direct attention to the meeting the chamber of commerce last night mailed letters to 160 peach growers "The meeting Is of vital Impor tance to all county peach growers oven If they have only four trees," Mr. Thlerolf stated. MOTORCYCLE RIDERS FORM ORGANIZATION GRANTS PASS Aug. 13. (AP) The Southern Oregon motorcycle club organized hero last night with 13 members from Grants Pass. Medford, Central Point and Grave creek. Mem bers voted to sign safe riding and driving pledges. Meetings will be held at the local airport on alternate Thursdaya with officers to be elected August 36. LAKE COUNTY RELIEF NOT FOR ABLE-BODIED EUGENE. Aug. 13. (AP) The Lano county relief committee passed a resolution barring able-bodied men and their families from receiving slstance during the seasonal employ ment period. The August relief budget was re dured ftl.ftoo from the July figure. Changes in Wagner Act Seen as Labor Benefit PORTLAND. Aug. 13. (AP) Rac- keteerlng under the Wagner act or mifhlr, partisan decisions by the na tional labor relations board pave the surest way to kill the law. Causing H. Peck, Portland lawyer, told the regional trust conference today. Labor unions should be among the first to work for amendment of the act and by insisting upon fairness to forestall loss of public confidence, he asserted. "If union representatives over reach and make a racket of their occupations and Institutions, the public will revolt, will repeal the act and will give continuing effect to the principal of equality In labor o raining by the establishment of public units with trained negotiators who will conduct an laoor oargain- iiw." he declared. Feck said ftiUCUOincuU needed In- Big Waterfowl Crop Predicted For Sportsmen WINNIPEG. Man.. Aug. 13. (ff) Plenty of waterfowl for American n im rods to soot at this fall was forecast today by observers In Can ada's far flung duck and goose Incubator. Game guardians, woodsmen and other observers reported that water fowl crop probably would be fully as big as In 1036 when It exceeded that of the previous year by an estimated SO percent. Canadians generally attributed maintenance of production to a game protection campaign, string ent shooting regulations and ex pansion of the game sanctuary movement. A. B. Howell, provincial game guardian here, said Manitoba, fav ored by migration of ducks from drought - stricken Saskatchewan, will likely show an Increase this year. BARTLETT PICKING t Harvesting of the Bartlett pear crop of tho Rogue River valley will start next Monday In some orch ards and will be general by the mid dte of the following week. Under the warm sun of the past fortnight, the pears have sized at a greater rate than at any other time this season according to the county agent's or floe. Somo of the growers are holding back the start of picking operations for the gain In sice. Tho Pinnacle1 Packing company's No. 1 plant will open Wednesday at one o'clock and the No. 2 and No. 3 plants will open Friday. Other (Continued on Page Nina.) WPA DELEGATION WILL SEE MARTIN SALEM, Aug. 18. (AP) A delega tion of Portland and Salem WPA workers who have been forced off federal relief by the government's retrenchment policy will confer with Oovornor Martin at 4 p. m. today about getting Jobs In private in dustry. The governor will give them a list of 9,604 Jobs, paying between $2 and $7 a day. About 2,000 have . been forced off the WPA rolls In Oregon, with 10.400 still receiving federal assistance. Governor Martin left this morning to inspect the proposed Canby Irri gation project, which may bo ap proved this fall by the federal bureau of reclamation. It alreadya has re ceived war department approval. He aald ho would be back In time to meet the WPA delegation. Tomorrow he will go to Mount Angel to attend the second annual flax festival. Plead Not Guilty In Game Law Case Through an error It was stated yesterday that Goorge Avgerla and Gust Avgerls, Siskiyou sawmill op era tors, had pleaded guilty to pos session of untagged deer hides. They entered pleas of not guilty and hearing was scheduled for thla aft ernoon In Justice court. ( elude the rlgh-, of the employor to tell his employes his opinions of un Ion membership, prevention of eco nomic pressure or Intimidation by unions, reserve the right of lockout to the same extent that the right of strike Is reserved, prohibit slow down or sit-down strikes, require the labor board to support Its findings by tho greater weight of evidence and not by any evidence such as hearsay, and provide that courts la reviewing board proceedings may disregard hearsay evidence. H. M. Bnrdt. trust officer or the Bank of America. Los Angeles, said that "not only are taxes becoming exceedingly burdensome but tax problems and confusing laws, regula tlotia and cumbersome tax collecting machinery are adding enormously to both liabilities and costs for corpor at fiduciary oi)gaakatlous.M - Black CUMMINGS RULES IS LEGAL Senate Judiciary Group Re jects Move to Hold Up Supreme Court Appoint ment for Legality Study WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. (AP) A senate Judiciary subcommittee swiftly approved today the nomination of Senator Black (D., Ala.) to the su preme court. J It acted only minutes after Presi dent Roosevelt told a press confer ence Attorney General Cummlnga had Informed him that It was per fectly legal and constitutional to appoint Black of Alabama to the supreme court. The Judiciary subcommittee of wAx members voted to report Black's nomination favorably, after reject ing a move by Senator Austin (R- Vt.) to hold up action pending study of legal questions In vol v. 4. Austin Disapproves. All members of the subcommittee except Austin voted, for approval of the nomination and rejection of the New Englander's proposal for de lay. Borne details of the secrecy In which Black's name waa sent to the senate were brought out at the president's conference with news men. Asked when he decided to noml nate Senator Black, Mr. Roosevelt said he could not disclose when at made decisions. ... Responding to further questioning, he said he wrote Black's name on the nomination, certificate with ata own hand and told only Black about It In advance of Its going to tha senate. Secretary In Dark. When asked If his press secretary. Stephen T. Early, knew about It ahead of time, the president laughed: and explained hla tardiness In re ceiving the newspapermen today was due to his and Early's apologising to each other on that score. At the senate committee hearing, Austin questioned Black's eligibility under the recent act of congress pro viding for retirement of supremo court Justices at full pay; He sug gested It might make any member of congress ineligible either en tho basis of creating a new office, or of Increasing the emoluments of the office. Questions of his eligibility had been raised from the first by some senators who, like Austin, cited his membership in the senate during action on the supreme court retire ment bill. It waa to answer these that tho president made known the opinion (Continued on Page Three.) F KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. 18. (AP Worthen K. James, operator of the Diamond Lake fox farm, today waa arrested In connection with the theft of 19 sliver foxes from A. E. Warsen skl of Spokane, and will be taken to Spokane to face larceny charges. Warsenskl accompanied sheriff's of fleers this morning to the Diamond Lake farm, 75 miles north or here, where they allegedly found two foxes whose ear markings bad been changed. James formerly worked for Warsen skl. and the Spokane man said he suspected blm when 13 of his ani mals were stolen some time ago. ELKS BAND PLAYS K Third of a weekly aeries of band concerts In city park by the Klks band under the direction of Ralph A. Botts will be held tonight starting at 8:15 o'clock. Program follows: Manhattan Beach March Sous, In a Little Hula Heaven (Popular) . Ralngex Pleasant Recollections (Medley)..... On tho Campus (March) Ooldman When My Dream Boat Cornea Home (Popular) - Prlend Happy Days Are Here Again (Popu lar) , i i -Ager The Old Refrain .....Transcribed by Krelsler Capitol City (Mrch) Del Bulgers Rio Rita (Selection) Tlernoy The Stars and Stripes Forever (March) Sous The Star-Spangled Bannat..,,. T
