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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuetdav bat with morning cloudiness. Slightly warmer Tuesday. TEMPERATIRE Highest yesterday 72 Lowest thli morning .. 46 You Will Find There IS a way to find a buy er. The most satisfactory WAV la through the Classified Ada In thlt newspaper. You will rind the cost small and a pleasing response. Medford TRIBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1937. No. 132, lira TIL MPS n rtJEII HUME Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. EARLY PBKPAHKS TO QC1T ROOSEVELT PLANS TO ENTER PIBI.IC1TY FIELD 130 BILLS INCREASE CONGRESS'S PATRONAGE WORKERS' ALLIANCE STRIVES FOR MARTYRDOM WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. Waiting only for the consent of his "boss," Stephen Early la about to leave what waa once the tight little triangle that made up the White House sec retarlat. Secretary Early, director of those most delicate of relations, relational with the public, will make no final ! decision until the president gives i the word, or while matters which) might concern a prospective employer : or business colleague still pass under his official scrutiny. However, when he does decide, friends of Carl Byotr, of Carl Byolr and associates, publicity firm of New York, are confident that the organi sation will have another associate. And that before the snow files. The first break In the secretarial trinity of Howe, Mclntyre and Early waa when Louis Howe went and be left hla "boss" (that's what they all call the presidenti only at the com mand of the one higher authority he recognized.. Even in his last fading moments, Louis Howe still made pitiful and sometimes embarrassin efforts to serve, like a mounded ar tillery horse struggling In Mb tan gled traces. Now Early prepares to leave in his prime. politics played no role in the men's servlcea, except In the sense that the president's politics waa theirs. Secretary Early, knock-about news paperman, A. E. F. machine gunner nd ex-artlllery captain. Is hardly a Democrat, since he has lived his life In voteless Washington four of the less than five decades of his life. He has been a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt since the latter was a slim young assistant secretary of the navy and Steve covered his department for the Associated Press. That tie Is the one thing that now keeps the loyal secretary to his desk But a family and a graying thatch are reminders of his economic needs. Otherwise it is doubtful If he would erer change bosses. When (and If for there might be another "emergency") Mr. Early Joins his friend, Carl Byolr. It will be ft congenial connection. First, there is the long-time personal acquaintance; necond. the fact that among the or ganisation's activities are the Infan tile paralysis "birthday balls," and lastly It might permit this confirmed Washlngtonlan to remain in his na tive haunts. Steve Early's long newspaper ser vice hero has made his Job at the White House both easier and harder. Be has had to sit "on the other side of the desk' and face a lot of former fellow-reporters. Frequently, one of those particularly Impertinent questions that reporters have to ask would bring a flare-up from the sec retary. Then suddenly his face would change and you could see that he (Continued on Page Four.) WHALE SCHOOL SPORTS OFF GOLD BEACH SHORE OOLD BEACH. Aug. 23. 7P The unexpected appearance of nearly 100 whales near the beach ft few miles north of here provided unscheduled entertainment Tor hundreds of res idents and visitors Saturday after noon. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Jack Murray puffing with pride upon being told of his close re semblance to the celebrated Bobby Jones. Wild Man Zlm wandering erouod in his ecu n tie and finding Medlord more metropolitan than Klmatn Palls where the long-haired racier wm pinched for shocking the sensi tive cltipen. Photographer Blanche LeClerc in dustriously clicking the bigwigs at the Egan memorial dedication cere mony. And Sam Houston adding nis "snush" to the silence chorus about the ffeens a the golf stars per- 13 FIRE FIGHTERS TRAPPED, BURNED IN SHOSHONI AREA Gale-Whipped Conflagration - Attacks Dense Timber , Near Yellowstone Park Victims Mostly CCC Boys CODY, Wyo.. Aug. 23. (AP) The Shonshonl national forest fire claimed Its 13th victim today with the death in a hospital here of William Whit lock, CCC enrol lee at the Tenaleep, Wyo., camp from Austin, Texas. Whit lock's death occurred Just after a hunt through smouldering ruins of the charred mountain for est had failed to yield up any addi tional bodies. CODY. Wyo., Aug. 33. (AP) Grimy rescue workers hunted through smouldering ruins of a mountain forest today, seeking more victims of a gale-whipped fire which burned 12 of their companions to death. Two score others were Injured 25 so seriously they required hospital treatment. Trapped by Fire. All the victims, many of them CCC enrol lees from Texas, were fire fight ers, trapped while battling the blaze in the Shoehoni national forest In northwest Wyoming. The blaze, which broke out Fri day from an undetermined cause, was about 35 miles northwest of Cody and approximately the same distance east of Yellowstone park. It blackened 1500 to 2000 acres ol dense timber In the Absaroka moun tains. As the flames subsided slightly under a drizzling rain the searchers ed ged f orwa rd toda y . "We don't know whether there are more men out there or not." said John Bieker, superintendent of the forest and leader of the drive against the flames in which 500 CCC mem bera, rangers and bureau of public roads employes were participating. Little Hope Held. "If there are. it seems impossible they could be alive." Eight of the bodies were recovered yesterday. Three others were found last night among the smouldering trees. The first person to die In a hos pital was Roy Sevens, civilian con servation corps en roll re from Smith vllle, Tex., who had gasped out, "God, how lucky I am to be alive," after he wa carried from the in ferno. Identification of the charred bodies waa a laborious process. CCC officers, forest service rangers and bureau of public roads officials all took turns viewing the bodies In a Cody morgue. The official list of dead released (Continued on Page Five.) 4 STATES UNITE GRANTS PASS. Aug. 2' Permanent o ...nlration of fc.i.r state aivcinim was oomr.lt-u here Saturday when Northwest tllad lolua sfrsocla'ioi elected officers, adopted a price schedule, mi voted to hold th.fce meetings yearlv. h at least one each Yf,r here. L, E. Wei of Falem ws elecfd president; Frank H. Rcum. Mulford. vie -president; us. R. M, Pcnln Port'wd. secjeia'v-treasurer. Direct on 1:cVm the officers an 1 Ben R. Bones. Everett Robin m, nud P. A. Jerome of . Tsnta Pass; .V,I!m Warner, MedfordJ Ralph J. tmmert. Pacific, Wash., and A. D. Kendall, Troutdale. Ore. The association Includes Oregon. Washington, Idaho, and Montana. An Invitation waa extended the Califor nia association to Join the group. - ' - Dickinson Fruit Co. Sale Is Announced PORTLAND, Aug. 23. p Walter M. Dickinson announced the sale of the Dickinson Fruit Packing com pany to the Oregon Fruit Produce, Inc., today. The new firm, organized by eastern finance and represented by Arthur S. Rudd of Chicago. all! expand to distribute canned Oregon prune Juice throughout thi Unitd States Dick inson will remain aft president aiid production manager. TRACKS TELL STORY OF FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT ALBANY. Aug. 23. (APt Tracks told the story of the overt u mi ng motor car that claimed the life Sun day of Walter W. Lawrence. eJO, of Lebanon, whose body was found by passing motorists on the Springfield read In northern Benton county. T.ic trak? 'howed, off'-er ld. that th car, In which he was riding Hone, had akidded la loose gravel. 400 Die as Shell Hits U. S. S. Augusta Hit In Whangpoo, One Dead i1 'wj.A'jJuw..mm.i . FOR LOST FLIERS BARROW. Alaska. Aug. 23. (AP) Reports from Moscow that radio sig nals on the wave length ot Slgls mund Levaneff sky's mission trans polar plane had been heard spurred rescue fliers, grounded yesterday by fog. to prepare to take to the air again today in search for the six lost aerial adventurers. The signals, heard yesterday, could not be interpreted but Soviet offi cials asked northern Russian stations to broadcast rescue plans In an effort to encourage the filers If they are stranded In some Isolated Arctic point. In this far northern outpost belief began to grow today the missing ship will be found "somewhere In Alaska." Pilot BUI Knox, of Pacific Alaska Airways, said Ala-.ka filers firmly believed the plane had landed on Alaskan soil. SMALL CROP OF ROSEBURG BARTS ROSEBIRO, Ore., Aug. 24. (AP) The Bartlett pear harvest will be In full swing in. the Umpqua valley this week with an unusually light crop In prospect, growers report. Yield esti mates are from 1.000 to 1.500 tons, as compared with a normal of about 3.500 tons. Dry weather Iniie fall, unseasonable cold during the winter months, and rains during pollination combined to cut down the slEe of the crop, growers state. The fruit, however, will run to large sires and good quality. It is reported. The greater part of the crop has been contracted to canneries at 125 per ton for first grade and 115 for second. Roosevelt's Mother Has Own Fish Story INNSBRUCK, Austria. Aug. 23. (APt Mrs. Jams Roosevelt, the prridenti mother will have an au thf-nti" fish story to tell her fisher man son when she returns to the United States from her European trip. While motoring near here today, Mrs. Roosevelt was persuaded to try br luck in the Haldensee. A two and one-half round pickerel grabbed ivr lure and w:ille t.rr Airman rom puni -ns cheered she landed it unaided. Seaman Freddie John Kalgnut (helow) of Rnreland. Iji., was killed when an anti-aircraft shell hurst In the nfterdeck of the U. S. S. Au gusta (above) as she lay at anchor In the Nhunguoo off Shanghai. Eigh teen sailor were wounded. (A. P. Photo). MOTHER BRUTALLY SLAIN SMILING SON CONFESSES PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23. (AP) Calmly and with an occasional smile. Howard Filiate ad, 27, unemployed draftsman, told Portland police how he ended- an argument with his mother laBt night by knocking her unconscious with hla fist, choking her with his knee and beating her to death with a heavy set-screw from a bench vise. The young man, left a partial cripple by Infantile paralysis, had at tended church Sunday morning and attended a picnic in the afternoon. Returning home about 6 p. m., he found his mother, Mrs. Gurlne Fin steed, 65, eating dinner alone In the kitchen. A Norwegian Bible lay open beside her plate. At her other elbow waa a church pamphlet under a bowl of string beans. She had HAMPERED BY RAIN PORTLAND, Aug. 23. (AP) Rain spared no one. not even the scores of golfers competing for the national amateur championship, at Portland today. Sparse patches of blue sky disap peared with heavy showers. A low pressure area spilled nearly half an Inch of rain Sunday in half an hour. Lightning ard thunder accompanied the downpour. The storm blew out a transformer and for a time crippled special wire facilities from the Alderwood country club where the tourney Is underway. TO REJECI CIO PROPOSAL MADISON, Wis.. Aug. 23. (API Henry Ohl. Jr., president of the Wis consin State Federation of Labor, ad vised the American Federation of Teachers today to reject proposals for affiliation with the Committee for Industrial Organization. Ohl charged the Wisconsin CIO with "treachery, disruption, perfidy and treeson." He declared any group that secedes from the AFL must be subject to the charge of helping to prolong disunion. The veteran labor leader spoke at the first seaslon of the tea:h"rs' na tional convention, emphasizing a topic wblfh the agenda committee had set for discussion late this week. STOICAL INDIAN GIRL NEGLECTS BROKEN LEG CORVALLTS. Aug. 23.,- te Wtshlngton, youn Indian Ionian. mi for two dare in an auomobile with a broken leg wlthotit medical Attention, city police said tV dis covered when they arrested her com panion n a drunken driving cnarge. Offlrers sld trr pair Md htitw for Chenewa to seek m'd:-e. aid when the car broke down. inJ the driver be-me Involved with the law II Hie In Train CollMon GENOA, Italy, Aug. 23. (AP) Ten Italian sailors and a trainman were killed and 40 aallora were In jured today In a head -on collision of their excursion train and a freight train. The ten sailors and the freight trtin engineer died on their way to hospital, or at tha hospital. written a note, presumably for her sons: "I went back to church." Detective Walter Peterson quoted Flnstead aa saying he got into an argument with his mother when he returned. He indicated It concerned his lack of employment. Peterson said the young man talked freely, sftytng he had wanted all summer to kill his mother be cause of her "domineering" attitude, and "for the rest of the family; I thought it would be for their good." After the killing, police related, Flnstead wont to the home of Homer G re n well, a neighbor, and asked him to return with him. Green well called the police, at Finstead's sug gestion. Officers found Mrs. Flnstead lying hair In and half out of the kitchen door, her head In a pool of- blood. SADDLE MOUNTAIN FIRE1 EYED BY AUTHORITIES FOREST GROVE, Aug. 23. (AP) Officials of the Stlmson Lumber company -and of Washington county Investigated today the origin of a forest fire which covered 200 acres on company holdings near Saddle mountain Saturday night. Harold Miller, company manager, said the fact that the fire broke out In a number of places, all easily accessible to where the crews had left the operations made It appear "mighty mysterious." The company mill here has been the focal point of a controversy be tween rival A.F.L. and C.I.O. labor groups. Moody Divorce Up At Closed Hearing RENO, Nev., Aug. 33.-M Holen Wllto Moody Arranged to go Into court At Carson Cltj today to secure a dl vorce from Frederick J. Moody, Jr., her attorney, Robert M. Price an nounced. Moody will be represented by Harlan Hevcard. The case will be heard by Judge Clark J. Qulld behind closed doors. Mrs. Moody will charge oruelty of a mental nature In her complaint. Newspapers Show Advertising Gain CH1CAOO, Aug. 33. (AP) Adver tising Age said today retail display advertising carried In newspapers In 78 cities tor the year through Aug. M was 33,139.118 lines or 6.3 percent greater than the same period of 1030. For the week ended Aug. 14 these newspapers gained 338.068 lines or 1.4 percent over the same week In IP39. RAIN AND FOG HEMS NORTH POLE REGION SOVIET NORTH POLE CAMP (By Wireless to Mmcow), Aug. 23. (APj A drizzling rain and fog kept vis ibility to 1000 feet at the North Pole today. Temperature was 32 de gree Fahrenheit. The barometer reading was 20.80 Inches. hcrlppt ML HONOLULU, Aug. 23, (AP) Rob ert P. Scripps, chairman of the board of directors of the Scrlpps-Howard newspapers, waa reported gravely III today with internal hemorrhages Mr. S-Tl;jpj as Uken to a boepltnl Saturday night. Crowded LOOK TO F. D. R. FOR: FUTURE STRATEGY; ! Two Courses Seen Open to j President in Party Strife Speaking Trip to Coast Is Seen As Possibility WASHINGTON. Aug. 23. (API Democratic lenders, worried by the strife within their party, predicted today that before congress reconvenes President Roosevelt must choose one of these far-reaching courses of strategy: 1. Reconciliation, at the cost of abandoning some of hla most cher ished objectives, with the party fac tions which have refused to support all of hla program. 2. A new campaign to rally pub- lie support and hammer through his controversial Issues, risking disrup tion of the party beyond all repair. Walt Public Trend One of the New Deal's most trusted strategists said privately today that Mr. Roosevelt will base his decision on the trend of public opinion within the next few weeks. He described as "trial balloons" two contradictory speeches made almost simultaneously last week by men of ten regarded as White House spokes men Postmaster General Farley and Senator annoy (D Pa.) In a savagely-worded radio speech aurrcy predicted that the "rebel" senators notably Wheeler (D.. Mont.) Burke (D., Neb.) and O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) would be driven from the party. Reaction to these pronouncements, Democrats predicted, will guide. In large measure, the president's future strategy. Rebels Defiant ' ' Tha first reaction was promptly supplied by the thre senators Guffey had denounced. In their last major (Continued on Pft. Three.) 1 E PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23. (AP) Mill employers denied a mass peti tion from CIO lumber workers to open seven closed plants In the Port land district today. The CIO men, out of Jobs since laat week when mills shut down with the appenrance of AFL pickets, were on hand at company doors this morn ing to resume their old stations but they turned away again when they failed to gain admittance. "Every one of our men showed up to go back to work." said Harold Prltchett, president of the CIO In ternational Woodworkers of America, "but none of the mills la opened yet." Spanish Air Bombs Miss British Ships PORT VENDRES. France. Aug. 23. (p) The British freighter. Noeml Julla, arrived here today undamaged by bombs launched at her by two mysterious airplanes In the western Mediterranean, near Spanish civil war waters. The captain said the planes began dropping the .bombs without warning. Ho was headed for Barcelona, Spain, and at the time was Just off AJacclo, the capital of Corsica. Chandler Egan Eulogized At Memorial Dedication Beneath spreading oaks at the Rogue Valley golf clubhouse yester day afternoon, notables of the golf ing world and friends gathered to pay tribute to the late II. Chandler Egan. leading figure In the growth and development of golf In this country. Dedicated to hla memory wa a granite blork drinking fountain bear ing a simple bronre likeness of the beloved sportsman. Hundreds of lis teners, many of them personal Irlends of the Medford man. heaTd simple expression of respect and admira tion from speakers, who Included Robert T. "Bobby" Jones. C. J. Semon. president of the Med ford club, Introduced the speakers. Opening the ceremonies waa Leon ard Carpenter, long-time friend ol Ean, who reviewed the prominent sportsman's golfing career of over 40 j-cara. Carpenter spoke of agan s arhievementa which rsnged from wins la major tournaments to rec Shanghai Store Gasoline Sales During July Set New State Mark SALEM. Aug, 23. (AP) Gaso line sales set an all-time high mark In July of 23.702.506 gallons, on which a tax of 1. 185.125 was paid. Becretary of State Earl Snell said today. The gnllonage increase over July, 1936. waa 1311,205. The Increase for the first seven months this year over the same period last year was 7,062.487 gal lons, while 8308,124 more In taxes was collected. Snell said he expected the Au gust Rates to exceed those of July. LEADS QUALIFIERS By tmiAN nr.LL ALDERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB. PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 23. (API Arthur L. Doerlng, Jr of Chicago and No. t man of the Stanford uni versity golf team Jumped tnto the lead In the first qualifying round of the national amateur golf championship by firing a score of 71. one under par, at his 177 rivals for medalist honors. Doerlng's performance waa sensa tional In the circumstances, aa In termittent showers and one short but severe downpour made the course heavy. Hot Coming Home The Stanford Indian save no sug gestion in the first nine holes that he was about to take the course apart coming home for he went out In 38, one over par. Gathering mo mentum aa he turned the corner he galloped In with an expenditure of only 33 strokes, two under . perfect flgurea. A deuce at the 169 four teenth was accomplished through the medium of a 15-foot putt and a 10-foot putt at the long fifteenth netted another birdie. Chunky Eddie Hogan of Portland, former Pacific northwest champion, turned In a sparkling par 72 to take the second place at the moment, while Bob Coffey. 21-year-old Fort Worth student, and Jimmy McHale, 23 -year-old Los Angeles motor car salesman, tied at 73. Rain Hampers Play. The sudden change In weather conditions made scoring difficult and caused revised estimates of the score needed to qualify for match play beginning Wednesday when only the low 64 may continue. Before the storm clouds gathered and soak ed the course soon after the start of play today the experts thought 152 or 153 might be needed to qual ify. Later predictions were freely (Continued on Page Five.) TALKS ASSESSMENT MILWAUKEE. We.. Aug 38. P A proposal for s 35 cent s month spe cial nJ-Kssment oo each member of the Automobile Workers of America to finance the international union's campaign to organize the Ford Motor company workers came before the an nual convention today. Local No 3 of Detroit. Mich , sug gested the assessment In a resolution submitted before 1.000 delegatos rop roscnvnii 300 locals throughout the United States. ognition as one of the leading golf architects In the country. He also discussed Egan'a close as sociation with the local club alnce Its beginning In 1011 and reviewed Incidents of hli connection with the organisation. Bobby Jones, long a persona) friend of Egan. spoke briefly of his deep and sincere rerpect and liking for Egan aa a friend and aa a sports men, declaring that no one could be of greater credit to any game tnnn Egan was to golf. He attributed to Egan a high place aa a sports man, player and designer and pressed the belief that his death waa a great loss to the game. Speaking of Egan as "one of the finest gentlemen I have ever known,1 Grantland Rice, top American sports writer, paid tribute to the man he knew for over 30 years and expressed his plessure at being able to be J Continued on r Ibr4 THREE AMERICANS BY HEAVY BLAST Second Shell Hits U.S. Naval Warehouse in Shanghai Americans Hurry Evac uation in Heavy Fighting By Morris J, nnnis SHANGHAI. Aug. 23. (AP) An estimated 400 peruona were killed and perh a pa 1 ,000 wou nded . lncl udlng three Americans, by a heavy artillery shell that smashed Into a crowd e4 department store section of the International settlement today. Scores of Americans marvelously escaped death when a second projec tile pierced the six-story United States naval warehouse and crashed through to the bottom, but failed to explode. The wounded Americans were An thony BUllngham. staff correspon dent for the New York Times, Hallett Abend, chief of staff for the New York Times In China, and Blanche Henney, Shanghai-born American. Shell's Origin Unknown Police said they were unable to eat t mate accurately the toll of In jured and killed, but I counted 200 bodies and know there must have been as many more. Origin of the department store shell waa unknown. Some military experts said it may have been a 120 pound eight-Inch .shell which Japa nese warships off Woosung were fir ing to protect . landing of reinforce menta. The shell struck Nanking road at the busiest corner of Shanghai. On one aide of the Intersection, the huge seven-story building of the Sincere Co. Ltd.. department store waa crowded with shoppers. Across the street the newly opened (Continued on Page Eight.) PRISONERS REVEAL E WITH IN8UROENT8, Approaching Santander. Aug. 23. ( AP) Youths who had never pulled a trigger be fore they were conscripted to defend Santander now prisoners of Insur gent Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's southern armies told today of their city's desperation. They said every store In the starr ing port, the last Important government-held harbor on the Bay of Bis cay, has been shut and boarded for days. They said their officers hid when Franco's armies drove across their fortifications and when their com manders deserted "we hid and wait ed for our first chance to surrender. At one concentration camp, near Sonet I lo, 10.000 government prisoners were captured within the past nine days. The Insurgents virtually unresist ed advance sped on today with about 90,000 troops converging close to Santander In three columns. ALL PEAR PLANTS NOW IN OPERATION AU packing plants of the Rogue river valley are now Id operation, the laat starting thla afternoon, and the picking and packing of Bartlett will be in full swing by mid-week, furn ishing employment for close to 1,000 persons. Frank Isaacs, of the Pinnacle Pack ing plant, reports a large number of workers, with many from the middle west. He described the labor situation aa the best In map years. Majority of those employed workers are local people. There was no change In the Bart lett cannery price over the week-end from 927.30 per ton for 24 alsea and larger, with not many offerings. It la estimated that 6.000 tone ot B art let U have been told to canneries. 22 STUDENTS GRADUATE IN SONS SUMMER CLASS ASHLAND, Aug. 33. (IP) Close Ot the Bummer season at Southern Ore gon Normal school brought gradua tion to 93 students. The group Included: Arna Qeer, O rant. Pass, and Jeanne Loldler, Medlord.