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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecast: Fatr but with tn creating cloudlneas tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. TEMPER.tTl'KB Highest yesterday Lowest this morning SO Flease "Kill!" -Bold outl Pleaia mil' my For Sale Ad." A common ex pression for people who use Mall Tribune Classified, tt la an easy matter to find a buyer by using these little ads. Medford Tribune full Associated Freai Full United Fresi Thirtv-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY. AUGUST 16. 1937 No. 126. MEM HAGS j v WL I By H. R. BALK H AGE, (Copyright by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 16. The White House press confernoe fol lowing the nomination of Senator Black for the supreme court was well attended. The president was as chip per as ever. He had a recent haircut and there were no visible signs of the battle scars from the congressional re volt which bad spread to the house from the senate. When the subject of the wages and hours bill, stymied In the rules com mittee, was brought up, the president said there was no news on it. But there might have been If Pres ident Roosevelt had chosen to dis close the battle plan which had Just been completed subject, of course, to change In these days of strange victsssltudes. This Is the strategy, as It had been laid down In case the rules commit tee remained obdurate: Each committee chairman In the . house was to be approached with a warning to the effect that the rules committee was assuming legislative powers; that It was refusing to grant the rule required to bring the bill out on the floor of the house for consid eration until the measure was tail ored to suit Its taste. The argument would then be ad vanced that, If the rules committee pursued Its present course, the rest of the committee might as well be abandoned entirely. From Monday to Friday of last week, Washington witnessed the smoothest piece of lightning lobbying that It has seeen In many ft moon when King Cotton called on the pres ident for help In Its hour of need. Th whole thing was stage-managed by a single businesslike figure, but wrapped In a romantlo robe of ln Intrlgue and adventure. He was Col. Lawrence Westbrook. one-time promoter of farm coopera tives, Texas relief official and and la ter assistant director of Harry Hop kins' WPA. The colonel at present Is retained In an advisory capacity by the WPA and Is honorary director (without honor arium) of the association of state agricultural commissioners. At one time he was with the American Cot ton Cooperative association, but for some reason left lta employ. Now he v-- kMn nam.rf to Investigate It. A few days ago. Senator Smith's rrtfiiiturtt committee ordered a probe of charges against the associa tion brought by J. Hoy Roberts. So. Carolina commmlssloner of agricul ture. Mr. Roberts says that the as- -la.ln V. o mlOTTAded COttOU in that state, with a resultant loss to producers. Mr. westbrook was named (Continued on Page Four.) WABHTNOTON, Aug. t. P The senate Judiciary committee recom M.wt tnri.v the confirmation of ' Claude McColloch as federal district Judge in Oregon. Portland Youths Accused of Holdup onflrmmo. Ore.. Aua. 15. (API Officers here were holding tor questioning three Portland youths. Donald E. Randell, Charles Conro nit Arthur O'Netl. each 33 years Mf District Attorney J. V. Long aald the trio stopped at a service station near Rice hill Sunday ana that OTOI1 was reponea w nave f? thrust his hand In his pocket and r demanded money from a man whose name the officers have not yet learned. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTER sUynard Bush going in as plucb hitter. smacking In a telling run and thus putting the Typos picnic soft ball game on Ice for Medford, he sur prising everyone, himself most of all Lee Oarlock taking three pairs of brofans to the cobbler after bis strenuous foot work at the legion convention. Rudy flintier marking around town to display the bronze statuette of Columbus won by Medford at the Casey picnic, he finally deciding to save shoe leather by putting tt on exhibition at the CofCo. J. R. Marshall chnzinz to t rnadr of a giant tree st s ,. lake outing. he oeing un.ihng to taxJ sof c&uce with the sua, DELAY PROPOSALS ARF RFATFN nnWN RY IIFM MMfiPlTV iNominee Congratulated WOMEN, CHILDREN Di ULiVLmMJumn i DUN P.AIIMTI TT Til Leaders Plan To Call Nom ination Up For Senate Confirmation Tuesday Hot Debate Foreshadowed WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. (AP) The senate judiciary committee approved today the supreme court nomination of Senator Black D., Ala.) Voting down all proposals for de lay, the overwhelming Democratic majority of the committee Agreed to report the liberal Alabaman's nomi nation favorably and at once. Democratic leaders planned to call the nomination up In the senate to morrow for confirmation. Republic ans already, however, had served no tice they would urge Its recommittal for hearings, foreshadowing, at ieest, a bitter debate over the appointment, polntment. The committee turned down re quests for general hearings on the nomination, and said the argument was chiefly over "constitutional questions." Two Record Voea Only two record votes were held In the hour and a half executive session of Aie committee. Senator Neely (D., W. Va.). chair man of a subcommittee on the nomi nation, moved to report tbe Black nomination favorably. Senator Burke (D., Neb.) moved as a substitute that the committee delay "until It could examine the legal ability of the nom inee. The vote rejecting Burke's substi tute was 11 to 6, with the committee lineup as follows: For the nomination: King (D., Utah) .McCarran (D., Nev.), Burke (D,. Neb.), Austin (R.. Vt.) and atel wer (R., Ore.) . Against the motion: Neely, Van Nuys (D.. Ind.), Logan (D., Ky.), Dle terlch (D 111.), McOlll (D. Kas,). Hatch (D., N. M.), Ptttman (D., Nev.), (Continued on Page Three.) TRUCK LINE GETS 8ALEM, Aug. 16. (AP) An order suspending Consolidated Freight Lines, Inc., for 30 days for alleged violations of the state motor trans portation act came today from N. O. Wallace, state public utilities com missioner. The suspension will be effective September 16, but Wallace explained the company may ask to have the effective date of suspension delayed. The company, one of the largest trucking firms In the northwest, op erates1 throughout Oregon, the order affecting Its operations over the entire state. Today's order accuses the company of operating Its trucks over routes not Included In Its permit, of making payments to other trucking com panies, of charging rates below those permitted in Its permit, of granting rebates to shippers, of failing to issue bills of lading, of failing to file copies of Its time schedules, and of making changes In Its schedules without notifying the public utilities commissioner. GIRL SHOOTS STEP-DAD If) ROW OVER CAR USE WHARTON Tel.. Aug. 18. Jp) A quarrel between a 17-year-old girl and her step-father over her visit to town In the family automobile today had led to the death by gunshot of the stepfather. Jack Watklns. 40, an oil well driller. The girl, Uozelle McDanlel, was quoted by Deputy Sheriff Carl Ble j brecht as saying her stepfather came i to Wharton to return her home, and told her he would punish her. After the girl and Watklns return ed home. Slebrecht said, she obtained a 22 rifle. Sixteen shots were fired, eleven of which struck Watklns. He died en route to a hospital. The girl was held here, but no charge had been filed. Education Expense Higher This Winter EU OPINE, Aug. 18 (AP Among those higher costs of living this 'fall will be education, fees and tuition will be about 13.50 more at the Uni versity of Oregon than last year and 13 00 at the normal school. Resi dents of the state will pay 30 a term at tbe university and state eol ; and non-residents 970. At the :.o;mal -.iols, the fe wiil w 921 tor stac rrs.dnts and 127 t ; ethers Tbe scbooj open freptetnbei Union rWi LEAVE SHANGHAI Sending In the name with a list of other nomination!, President Roosevelt named Senator Hugo Itlnck (right) of Ala bo ma to the supreme court bench. It u prised his colleagues on Capitol Hill, bat here's the vice-president, 4nrk Garner, offering his congratulations. EARL FEHL BACK, FILES AFFIDAVIT HE'S STILL JUDGE , Earl H. Pehl, ex -county Judge of Jackson county who served the ma jor portion of a four-year sentence (n state prison for complicity in the Jackson county ballot thefts, re turned today. Terms of a parole granted by Gov. Charles H Martin prohibited his return to this county until midnight Sunday. He Is sched uled to appear as a witness in the civil suit of hts mother-in-law, Cor Inthla E. Stallry, against the estate of the late T. Helmroth, for col lection of rentals allegedly due un der a purported contract. Before appearing n circuit court with his wife and Mrs. Stalley, Pehl filed a docTiment with the county clerk In which he maintains he la "the duly elected and qualified county Judge of Jackson county," and further asserts that "with the aid and help of divine providence. and the desire to act manfully as the elected servant of the people, stands ready to accept the com mand to resume as county Judge." The affidavit which claims Fehl'a term does not expire 'until January 1. 1939, Is signed "Judge Earl H rhl." In a letter to Sheriff 8yd I. Brown received Sunday, Fehl de mands "protection," and states he Is returning to Jackson county "un armed . In the civil action In circuit court, presided over by Circuit Judge E. B. Ashurst of Klamath county, on assignment from the (Continued on Page Five.) Glendale Defeats Roseburg 7 to 3 ItOSEBURO, Ore., Aug. 18 P The Roseburg Pirates were defeated by the Glendale Loggers 7 to 3. In a Southern Oregon baseball league game at Flnlay field Sunday. War in China Unpopular Among Tax-Ridden Japs James A. Mills, dean of Associated Preiss foreign correspondents, wlreless- j ed from the 8- 8. President MrKlnley, between Japan and Shanghai, the first completely uncensored story of Jap an's side of the Blno-Japanese con f.let. The Associated Press, New York. By James A. Mills ON BOARD THE 8. 8. PRESIDENT Mc KIN LEY between Kobe and Shang hai, Aug. 18. (Ar Japan la pouring troops by the thousands Into the Chinese war cones. The President McKlnley. en route to Shanghai, has passed Jspsnese trans ports ca frying JQ.000 troops to Shang hai to reinforce perhaps 80.000 Jap anese foroes who will supplement nav al landing parties and be prepared to resist any further Chinese attacks. This correspondent also saw col umn of Japanese war transport re turning to Japan from China to pick up additional reinforcements. In Japan itself, the war Is un popular. But railroad ttaMons eloor II main lln-i are gaily decorated lta tlaf. LHUtfP and lanterns and Rivalry AS lLl 'IB FLIERS IS REPORT WASHTNOTOM, A!&r-! ( AP The Sonet . embassy announced to day that the government radio sta tion at Irukutsk, Siberia, had picked up signals "of a weak and Irregularly working transmitter" believed to be the emergency radio set of Slglsmund Levaneffsky. missing Soviet flier. The signals were received at 3:23 a. m. (E.S.T.), the embassy said. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 16. (AP) To direct the search for the lost Russian transpolar plane. A. Var tanlan. Soviet representative, was expected here momentarily today. He took off from Juneau on the second leg of his flight from Seattle at 9 a. m. (10 a. m. Pacific standard time), while scores at the slrport waved goodbye and shouted expres sions of hope Pilot Slglsmund Levan effsky and bis five comrades would be found. "Find our lost comrade 1" was the cry of many Russians tn the crowd as Vartanian climbed Into his big plane nine miles from Juneau on the Gla cier highway. Jimmy Mattern, famous filer, Joe Crosson. noted Alaska mercy pilot, and other aviators were prepared to take off for the Arctic coast In search for Slglsmund Levaneffsky, Soviet ace pilot and his five companions. ASHLAND TRUCK LINE WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. (JP) The Interstate commerce commission has authorized the Pacific Truck Express, Ashland, Ore., to purchaso for 15, 000 the property and operating rights of the Zero Express of Washington and Oregon. crowded with people giving Japanese soldiers a loud sendoff. Countless military train loaded with artillery, motor trucks, tanks, anti-aircraft guns and armed motor cycles converge on Japan's ports. Six thousand horses were sent from Kobe. This second 8tno-Japanee war Is unpopular in Japan because the peo ple already are overwhelmed with taxes and other burdens. Under the stimulus of government propaganda the Japenese nation has accepted the conflict reluctantly as an accomplished fact from which there Is no backing down. Although a general mobilization has not yet been proclaimed. Japan already Is on a full wartime footing The cabinet I determined to ob tain concrete results returns for the half billion yen (about el 44 ,000 ,000) already Invested In the war. Foreign economic expert say Jap an's flnanoee will not stand more thin a three-months' war because the gov- iernmenfs only real, tangible funds eonu of the equivalent of about Closes American Families Ordered Out of War-Beset City Furious Fighting Staged Both Banks Whangpoo. Br MORRIS J. HARRIS SHANGHAI, Aug. 17. (Tuesday) (AP) Chinese soldiers drove desper ately at Japan's fortress-like naval headquarters under the glare of star shells early this morning as the land, sea and air battle of Shanghai entered Its fifth day. On both banks of the Whangpoo river, Shanghai's outlet to the sea, the battle raged furiously, large Chi nese forces hammering with Infantry and artillery against Japanese naval units facing both ways from the river. The Chinese asserted they had cap tured the Japanese headquarters, huge steel and concrete building at the northern boundary of Shanghai's Hongkew park, whence Japanese guns had been blasting their lines. This has been the key point of the Japanese shore positions. Clal mi. Ridiculed But Japanese officials said the Chi nese claims were ridiculous. They also denied reports that Chinese bombing planes had disabled a Jap anese submarine and two gunboats off Wooaung in Monday's bombing forays. ''The Whangpoo, center of the bat tle eon e, was the avenue of escape for Shanghai's American and other for eign communities, which began wholesale evacuations of Shanghai. All American women and children were oraered withdrawn and the first refugees already had been taken down the shell-swept river to a bome-bound liner. The Japanese warships on tbe Whangpoo turned their chief atten tion to a great concentration of Chi nese troops In Pootung, teeming In dustrial district Just across the river from Shanghai. Thirty fit forty thousand of China's best soldiers with artillery were reported to have taken up positions there, exchanging fire with the Japanese ships at al most point-blank range. pootung Bombarded The apaneae flagship left her moorings off the International settle- (Continued on Page Three.) STAR PUBLISHES AS TRUCE ENDS SEATTLE, Aug. 18. (P) Guarded by 36 policemen under orders of May or John P. Dore, the Seattle Star con tinued normal operations today de spite the end of a four day truce per iod agreed upon by union printers and tbe American Newspaper Guild, About forty Seattle newspaper guild strikers and sympathizers loitered In small groups within a block of the plant but dispersed after members of the Star chapel of the International Typographical Union, who are not on strike, went to work in a body. There was no Interference or disturbance. The printer Toted to continue working after having announced last Friday that they would not go through picket lines if the guild strike was not settled by today. Co-ed Slain In Stroll On Campus BEREA, Ky., Aug. 16. (AP) Po. lice Investigating the embusn slay ing of a Bereat college co-ed were hunting today fra George E. Wells, 30, a quiet, poetry-writing student of the mountain institution. Tbe girl, Opal Sturglll, 16, a aopho omore, was shot three times with a pistol last night aa she and her "date," William Anderson, another student, were strolling together on the Berea campus. Anderson said a man leaped from a olump of bushes, fired upon the girl and fled. 1 , Lindbergh Eldest Is Five Years Old WEALD, Eng.. Aug. 16. ( AP) Jon Lindbergh was five years old today at Long Barn, the rambling Kentish house where he lives with his father and his mother and his little brother, Hla father, however, was not at home to help blm celebrate. He atlll was on the continent, presumably at or about Brittany's Bt. Qlldas Islsnd with Dr. Alesta Carrel, the American scientist with whom Colonel Lind bergh mfsi aa aUtleUl baart. Two Portland Sawmills Senator McNary Returns With News of Importance For People of His State Third Term Effort by Roosevelt Will Be Resented Is Republican Solon's View; Supreme Court Bill Dead as Dodo By Joseph Plgney PORTLAND. Aug. 18. (p) The American public will resent a third term effort by President even more than his attack on the supreme court, Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.Republlcan minority leader, told In terviewers upon his return from Washington today. There will be no revival of the su preme court measure." he sold, "It Is as dead as a 'dodo'." i Senator McNary, who found the call ; home "Irresistible" and left the hot capital before oongress adjourned, brought vital news of national and state affairs to his Oregon people. "The Bonneville dam measure as passed by the senate Is the best bill ever provided for a government oper ation of a power and navigation pro ject," he said. Fair to Companies "It protects public Interest more ef fectively than other measures of a similar nature. It Is fair to private companies and much better than the one passed by the house." The senator, chief sponsor for the vast northwest power measure, re marked he "didn't know a thing" about J. D. Ross of Seattle, promi nently mentioned as a candidate for Bonneville administrator. Then he added "I know a hell of a lot but I'm not going to tell It now." Oregon's grant for capltol building development Is not at the top of the list, the Republican chief said, out "we'll ret It." "They are going to use the first money for burned schools and public buildings damaged by floods, but I m certain there will be enough left for a capital grant." McNary interviewed Interior Secre tary Ickee Just before he headed west. The cabinet officer "Is strong" for the 460.000 grant for the library (Continued on Page Eight.) RACE WITH DEATH BOOENE. All. 16. (AP) A flgl" was started today by Eugena doc tors, nursea and firemen to aava the life of Rudcrlck Bwearlngen. 16, Springfield, who Is Buffering from paralysis of the diaphragm. An ambulance- left here this afternoon for Portland, talcing the youth to the Doernbecher hospital where l drinker respirator Is available. Buffering from what the attend' Ing physicians described aa a form of Infantile paralysis, It Is almost Impossible for Ruderlck to breathe, Two city firemen volunteered their services to give young Bwcaringen artificial respiration during the tnp to Portland and Miss Trean Wilcox accompanied the party aa nurse, To save time arrangement wero made with the state police to meet the ambulance aouth of fialem and escort It to Portlsnd. Ruderlck la the son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Swearlngen of Springfield. . 10 Ti LOS AN0ELE8, Aug. 16. (AP) A highway Unking the east and the west will be dedicated to the memory of Will Rogere tomorrow. Running from Santa Monica, the late humorist's last borne, through Claremore, Okla., hla former home, to Chicago, the final link of the Rogers highway was completed al most to a day on the second anni versary of his death with Wiley Post In an airplane crash In Alaska. Taking part In the dedicatory cere monies will be Will and Mary Rogers, children of the aetor; Oov. Prank P. Merrlam and other state and county officiate, Irving 8. Cobb and others aasoclated with Rogers during h life. . Furs, Jewels Taken From Actress Home HOLLYWOOD, Csl, Aug. 16. (API Kettl Oslllsn, French film actress, found $30,000 worth of furs and Jewelry missing from her csnyon home when she returned from an overnight trip, she told police today. The burglars apparently entered the house with s pas key. she said. Nearly $1,000 worth of rsre pe'- himes wen among article listed as Molts). TO I WASHINGTON. Aug. !. (AP) The house appropriations committee list ed today a large number of buildings throughout the country for proposed construction under a 70,0O0,0OO publlo building program. The projects, mostly postofflce buildings, are on the recommended list from which the treasury and postofflce departments will select those to be undertaken. The third deficiency appropriation bill oarrlea a aas.OOO.OOO lump aum for publla buildings. The project aotually selected for Immediate construction will be an nounced after congress completes ao tton on tho bill. The list of new autftarleed projects from which will be selected those for actual construction Includes (postofflces): Oregon Beaverton, $70,000; Burns, V80.00O; Coqutlle. $78,000; Cottage Drove, $80,000: Dallas, $89,000: En terprise, $76,000; Forest, drove, $80,- 000: Ore, ham, $76,000: Lebanon, $76,000; Medford. $70,000: Newport, $76,000; North Bend, $76,000: Red mond, $76,000; Saint Helens, $80,000; Seaside, $76,000; Sllverton, $80,000; Toledo, $80,000; Wood burn, $76,000. For years an effort has been made here to procure an addition to the federal building as the space hss been held Inadequate. Additional room haa been sought through either an addition on the weat tide or an other story. The $70,000 figure specified In the foregoing dispatch Is the aum sug gested here for the additional con struction. The federal building houses several government agencies in addition to the postofflce. In. eluded are the federal court, tbe for est servloe and the park service, the latter two being cramped for apace. HOOVER TO FISH IN SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 16, (AP) Flshormsn Herbert Hoover left by automobile for Portland, Ore., today after reporting "w had wonderful luck fishing" on a trip through Wy oming and Montana. The former president stesdfestly refused to discuss politics, but re plied to a question: "Physically, I feel perfect. My ail ments are all spiritual and political." He was traveling with Dr. Olenn Saxon, Tale university law professor and assistant Republican national committee chairman and Robert North, Stanford university atudent, Mr. Hoover said they would fish In southern Oregon. Post-Mortem Tot Lives Few Hours WILKES-BARRB, Pi, Aug. 16. (API Death claimed Pennsylvania's second post-mortem baby In two weeks today a few hours after It had been delivered from It dead mother In a Caeaarean operation at the con tagious diseases hospital. Tiny Frances Mary Bossasslnl, bora In a similar operation after ber mother's death, died a week ago In an Incubator al a Philadelphia hos pital. Doctors said the baby boy delivered at 13:16 a. m. btd a better chance than the Boccaaslnl baby. Tbe 90-year-old mother, Mrs. Beat rice F. Sweet, died of oerebro-tplnal fever. BAKER. Ore, Aug. 16 (P Her bert L. McDonald, 47, was killed In stantly when struck by a clrcu train a Haloes Sunday nigut WITH til GROUP 1,000 Men Out Of Work When A.F.L Group Re fuses To Permit Its Mem bers Handle C.I.O. Lumber PORTLAND. Aug. 16 (AP) Tae building trades council, an affiliate) of the American Federation of Labor, dlspatnhed two pickets to each of ten lumber mills today where the) employes are members of the com mittee for Industrial organisation. Two of the plants closed Immedi ately. The action threw Q00 men out of work at the Inman-Pouleen mill and an undetermined number at the Jones Lumber company. The A.P.L. group ssld It will refuse to permit Its membera to handle CIO lumber. The Portland local of the lumber and sawmill workers severed relations with the A. P, L. by accept ing a CJ.O. charter. By noon the shutdown wsa esti mated to have put 1000 men out of work and the closed mill: Included soms of the city's largest Jonea Lumber, Inman-Poulsen, Clark as Wilson. Eastern and Western and East Side Lumber. No show of violence 'accompanied the flret critical showdown between the rival union groups and A. P. L. leaders predicted It would be the means of a settlement, contending only a email number of worker bad stampeded Into the O. I. O. and that the majority never bad a fair chance to vote. Simultaneously with the shutdown the Labor Temple association owered (Continued on Page Three.) GETS UNDER WAY Picking of the Bartlett pear crop of the Rogue River valley, estlmsted at 16.000 tons, started today In sev eral orchards, and will be In full wing by the end of the week. A small lot of Bartlette has been sold to canneries for $37.60 per ton, Myron E. Root, packing plant opera tor roported, for sizes two and one half Inches and larger. Root report ed the cannery purchases were light, and the Bartlott cannery market "very quiet." No cannery price has been an nounced, but representatives of Cali fornia and Willamette valley canner ies were reported Investigating local conditions. The Myron E. Root packing plant Is scheduled to start packing Tues day, and the Plnnackle Packing com pany will start Its No. 1 Wednesday afternoon, and It two other plant Friday. Other plant will start dur ing the same period FLYING PHYSICIAN SAVES K.F. WOMAN KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 16. (AP) Antt-venom rushed from the Rogu River vslley In a plsne piloted by her physician. Dr. Paul 8harp, prob ably saved the life of Mra. Cyril Cook of Keno, attendant at th hospital where she t slowly recov ering from a rattlesnake bit, aald today. Dr. Sharp, ealled to attend Mra. Cook Bsturdsy afternoon after ah had been bitten near her bom on the Klamath river, learned that tbe snakebite antitoxin supply available here was only enough for on In jection. He telephoned Medford druggist, then hopped over the mountains m his cabin plane, picked up the pack ages of anti-venom, ona of whlcb had been hurried from Ashland ta the Medford airport, and returned, all In the course of about an hour. Mra. Cook remained in a critical condition Saturday night and U day yesterday but appeared consider ably Improved today, Sharp aald. Huge sturgeon Landed TOLEDO (DPI Largest catch by commercial fishermen so far this season baa been 106-pound aturg eon meaaulng feet. S Inches m length. The fish yielded about 0 pounds of rot marketing at $3 $ pound.