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The Weather TVJJ-I You Can Reach ' FuU Aaaoclated Press - - - ; J -g-vl " ; ' ' f"" Pted ' ' ' ' Thirty-Second Year MKDFORD, OKKGOX. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST -Jo, 1937. No. 134. !M1 n mm US H i K VTU ULTUVrU U DIES INSTANTLY AS AUTO OVERTURNS Mrs. Pearl Johnson Seri ously Injured in Accident 25 Miles North of City In Grants Pass Hospital Mrs. Florence Morgfln, 25. of 1211 West Tenth street, was Instantly killed yesterday afternoon when the car in which she was a passenger upset and rolled over two and a half times on the Pacific highway about 25 miles north of Med ford. Seriously injured in the Josephine General hospital at Grants Pass and not expected to live are Mrs. Pearl Harriet Johnson, 24, of 1208 West Tenth street and Jack Thomas Wool folk. 26, of 721 Alder street. Mrs, Morgan met death when the 1931 Ford phaeton sedan, driven by Woolfolk, left the pavement and traveled for more than 300 feet on the road shoulder, then swerved back on the highway, over turned and rolled 37 feet. The car, demolished, came to a rest upside down. Accord ing to state police who talked with eye witnesses. Mrs. Morgan was thrown clear of the catapulting auto. then picked up in some manner. When the car halted, she was lying on the exhaust pipe. The accident occurred about 4 p. m. on only slight curve in the road. County Coroner Frank Perl, who removed her body to the Perl fun eral home, stated the actual cause of death was a severe skull fracture. Mrs. Pearl Johruon, wife of Earl Johnson who drives a fruit produce truck between Med ford and Sacra mento, lies near drath with a frac tured skull, lacerations of the left arm and a crushed right shoulder. She was unconscious in the car fol lowing the wreck. Jack Thomas Woolfolk, employe of (Continued on Page Five.) 'LOST' BOY SAFE AT HOtBROOK, Ariz., Aug. 25. AP) Thirteen-yen r old Wayne McClure. of Grants Pass, Ore., who consulted a oulja board to determine his des tination, was located today by Sher iff Lale S. Hatch at Painted Desert Hon farm, 25 miles from here. The youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McClure, with Sheriff Hatch, had been directing a. frantic search by 30 men since Monday. Hatch quoted the youth as saying he had wandered away from his parents' stalled car purposely so that he might return to the lion farrh. which he, had visited previously, and secure a Job feeding the animals. "He told me," the sheriff said, "he had consulted a oulja board twice while visiting his grandmother in Santa, Fe, N. M., recently and it told him both times he should go to the Painted Desert Hon farm and settle down." ROOSEVELT APPROVES EXCHANGE OF LANDS WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. fAP) President Roosevelt signed today leg islation authorizing the interior sec retary to convey to states certain lands on which grazing leases have been Issued, in exchange for lend already owned by the states. GRANTS PASS. Aug. 25. Wil lnrd Arant. editor of the Grants Paw Bulletin for the pa.st four years, will resign In September to study eco nomics at Harvardu ntverslty. He Is a graduate of the University of Ore gon. SIDE GLANCES bj TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dtpplty Marshal Paul Hanltn bMng crest ly p-rplxed by official orders to proceed Immediately to the Klam ath country to take charce of 5 000 head of sheep for the government. Slater Johnston vigorously running down leads for his lost pooch Harpo. Various tori!-mii wondering why Aubrey Norris and his 20-30 club cohorts don't ride their baseball donkeys tnnisht instcuj of drafting other-. Jim Coll i lis rerilliru bow a prcv icuslv troublesome knee failed to afford him an excuse for soldiering all the time he was in the army. Eh Hrdrirk and C. O. Smith lrarr.edly discussing the financial ptt-i-Oitirs oI a T'-.n football ' wr.if V'T'1 tM f t'i i"'-d Uiit-.ii--.. deciding that it eouid be arranged. Chinese Cannon and V ELS. - van ' jk wi -Mjmu - visit's il I Si" I 'M II 9 A ' - Press Photographers Risk Hv Jnmes A. Mills SHANGHAI. Aug. 25. fAP) A steel-helmeted Associated Press "for eign lcion" i fichtlng the ShanehU war with pneed cameras and flash bulbs Instead of puns and (rrenad.. Day snd tilifht a corps of Associat ed Press photographers of a half doivn nationalities is under fire in Chinese and Japanese tin1 and In flame and shell -scarred Shanghai. The "foreign lenlon" Includes Amer ican. BritM-.. Russian. C:.lnew. Jp n;.ese nd Turkl-'.i tit. i.era men. On two otcsoK'n they wort buiict- Take Heavy Toll in Repulsing Planes Rain Death On Teeming Shanghai proof vesta and crawled into skir mish tones. The field fttaff sends hundreds of plates dally to the Shanghai bureau office. The developing and printing staff works under hign tension to speed pictures to America by every possible meant. Japanese troops virtually banned foreign photographers from key front line positions, but a Japanese cam eraman who came with me from To)o "orks blonMdc t:: Tokyo newtpGpcrs. Beniud fiotn Chinese MS.- Lives In China lines, the Associated Press Chinese wing of the "foreign legion" enjos cordial relations ith the military. This "foreign lrgion" apparently has e nose for news pictures. When a Chinese bomb wrecked the Cathay end Palace hotels in Nanking rond, Aaso-'lated Press cam eramen were there before the drbrls quit falling. One of the staff was coming back from an aiKnment when the bombs crashed downward His ih utter was clicking while the i df .id and d; u la viiii-.i :d and unok aad dLbru tilled Uit air. At top Is ft picture taken a few minutes after a hi n esc air ho nib lilt In front nf the I "a lace lintel on sliii iictml H Nanking nuid. killing three Ainerlciins mill 'il ( htitest In the In (erniitlonal KCttleiuent. The picture, din flrL lo arrive In .sun I runclhto, mis rinwn iicroH the racing A ( hfuefe iininl honilt Ih pictured e4' liter) Mlttlujt a MrMWi-on ned uharf on ShniiKlinl's International settlement In a futile tit tempt to lnk the cruiser Iduina. Japaitese flag ship, Just, to the rich! of the .In pan -ese coitstihitc til the extreme left. Ar row points lo where the lilzuma was hlng In the Mhuncpoo, Terror-stricken Chinese, remeniiirr lup (he tnijrlc iliivs of lf);U, are Hlumn below, st miming across (warden Itrltlge Into the Anierlcnn portion nf the in (erntitlonnl settlement from unlive districts of MiaiiEhal. (AM Photo by Associated Press, air mall to Mali 1 rlhune.) Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. BATTLE IN SHANGHAI LIKK.NEll TO LITTLE WAR I.ONO STRI'fjfiLK NEKN HV MILITARY EXPERTS MANY FACTORS All CHINESE HI 1 IMH RS Japan's t si; ok wwtsmp PI .I E KTKXTEtHNTM WASHINGTON, Au. 25. The pres ident stated recently that the gov ernment had information on the far eastern situation which some of the organizations pressing for the Invo cation of the neutrality law lacked. The war department Is making no statement of what that Information may be, but military exports, here and on tho scene, make one predic tion: the battle of Shanghai is more than a battle. It Is a little war In ltc!f. And it will be a long one. Possession, says the adatte, Is nine polnta of the law. Defense, In mil itary matters, everything else being equal, has at leant two strikes on of fense. And there Is another adae, believed by most military men, which says that all the air-bombs and hlh explosives In the world don't make (Continued on Page Eight.) SOVIET SEARCHERS IN LANDING AT ARCHANGEL ARCHANGEL. U. S. B. R., Au. 26 iVPf Three Hovirt rescue planes landrd at this White see, port today on their flUtht In search of SUtis- mund Levaneffftky. missing transpo- lar pilot and his five companions, The plane U to fly to the Soviet t.ir bn on Rudolf Ifc'and for an cx- U twite survey of the Arctic wa&tcs, CHANGE IN COURT SAYSJOSEVELT Statement Comes With An nouncement of Signing of Measure Providing for Changes in Lower Court WASHINGTON. Aug. 25. (AP President Roosevelt served notice to day that some, reornanizatlon of the supremo court remains an objective of his administration. He made his first publto statement on the court situation since congress shelved his demand to enlarge the hlph tribunal by ono new member for each present Justice over 70 who did not retire. The statement came with a Whlto House announcement that Mr. Roose velt had signed a measure providing for changes In Judicial procedure In the lower courts. Out of the long and bitter fight over the court bill these proposals alone wero retained and enacted. Further Action Needed The president said that the lower court bill "registers a moderate and limited advance Into a field which calls for further and mora complete exploration." He listed as being "on the side of omission" the fact that the bill "leaves entirely untouched any meth od of relieving the burden now im posed on the supreme court." Thla he then included as one of the objectives which he said "are of a necessity a part of any complete and rounded plan for the reform of Judicial processes." (Continued on Page Sight.) SUED By BREWERS Suit for plflfi.OOO alleged damages against the International Brother hood of Teamsters Union, Med ford Local No. 57 of the teamsters and 15 "Docs," designated In the com plaint as "First Doe." and so on up to 15, was filed today by eleven I California and Mid-West breweries In circuit court here. A preliminary restraining order and a permanent injunction is also sought by the plaintiff breweries to prohibit the teamsters union from engaging in an asserted "primary or secondary boycotting" of the plain tiffs' products In Jackson and Jose ph I no counties, the territory em braced by the Med ford local No. 57 of the teamsters' union. The complaint also seeks prohi bition of picketing, acts of violence, or boycotting of plaintiff breweries' beer, or distributors thereof. The complaint points out the breweries have no quarrel with union labor but legal action Is due to a Jurisdictional dispute between the brewers unlona and the teamsters union. Breweries listed as plaintiffs are the Acme, Rainier, Golden West, and General Breweries, . Call for a corporations, and Schlltz, T1mo. Hamm Brewery, Miller Browing com- (Continued on Page Iwo.) ACTIVE CLUB PICNIC Active clubs of Med'ord, Grants Pass arid Ashland will hold their get-together picnic at Helman's baths In Ashland at 6:30 tonight. Previously H had been erroneously announced for last evening. Members of the three clubs and their ladles will assemble at tho pic nlo grounds. In addition to the picnic supper, the program includes swimming, races for men and women and diving exhibitions. i . , THIRD BROTHER DROWNS AT SAME SPOT IN RIVER ASTOTUA, Aug. 3S. (API twain, striking In the Mime mannftr and plare, cl.ltnM thf third tnn of Mr. nnd Mr.. Elmflr HendirMn whrn Howard. 0, Ml from the old Wllion ihlpyard dock nd drowned In the Columbia river. One brother drowned at the dock In 1027 and a third laal car.. Landing Force BASEBALL American. CLEVELAND. Aug. 2fl. Up) Bob Feller struck oxit 16 Boston Red Sox today to give the Indians an 8 to 1 victory. It was the 18-year-old Iowan'a nearest approach to top form since last year, when he ranned 17 to tie the major league record. Score, first game: R. H. E. Boston 14 1 Cleveland 8 12 1 Ncwsom. Walberg, Olson, Gonzales and Desautels; Feller and Pytlak. National New York ..10 .. 5 Chicago . Had ley, and Dtckey; Lee, Rtguey add Sewell. St. Louis .... 4 0 1 Brooklyn 2 0 ! Wnrneke and Owen: Hout, Cant well and Phelps, Second game: R. H. E. .. 5 9 0 St. Louis Brooklyn 3 8 I SI Johnson and Owen; Mungo. Llndsey, Butcher and Spencer, Phelps. Chicago . 7 U 4 New York 8 15 2 Lee, French, Davis and Harluetl; Hubbell, Schumncher, Bronnan and Dannlng. Pittsburgh fl 12 2 Boston 0 6 1 Batters and Todd; Gabler, Hutchin son and Mueller. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, oned, rain. post Dy BRIAN BELL ALDERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 35 (AP) The defending champion, Johnny Fischer, Cincinnati, won his way Into the second round of the na tional amateur golf championship, while the medalist, Roger Kelly, Los Angeles, fell In the first round. Fischer advanced at the expense of Robbert N. Babblsh, Detroit, win ning four up and three to play after being two down on the first two holes. The tltleholder squared the match at the ninth and moved out In front on the second nine. Kelly was a victim of a great clos ing drive by T. Buffern Taller, New York, who came from behind to win three straight holes and take the lead for the first time In the match at the 16th. The simon purea were burning up the course in the first round of match play. Holes were being halved In birdies and the firing was about the most intense in years. A sample of the fast pace being (Continued qp Page Five.) AFTER LONG SIEGE H END A YE, Franco-&panIsh Fron tier, Aug. 25. (Pi A flying column of Insurgent Qoncrallsalmo Francisco Franco's motorized cavalry drove Into fallen Santander today to plant the red and gold Spanish Insurgent ban ner on public buildings. Entry of the conquering troops came only aa a matter of minutes af ter the Insurgent high command an nounced that government officials had surrendered the city the last Important government seaport strong hold on the northwest Spanish coast Revolt of santandcr'a civil guards (Continued on Page Four.) MING GROUP LEADER O RANTS PASS. Aug. 25. Rob ert Kelly, president of the Southwest- ern Oregon Miners association, has turned In his resignation effective at the next mwtlng. "I don't believe there Is room In this district for two miners' organlrattons." he said, refer ring to the proposed drive by the Miners Protective association for wide membership. Kelly's group is a parent oryanlra tlon of units at Grave creek, Oallce Oold Hill, and Ja:ksonvUlf. HIDDEN MINES AND MACHINE GUN FIRE RIDDLE JAPANESE Foreign Residents in Heart of Shanghai Surrounded by Devastation Two Jap Warships Sunk, Is Claim By MORRIS J. HARRIS SHANGHAI, Aug. 25. (AP) Th lives of hundreds of Japanese sol diers were sacrl tlced today tn mass effort to land desperately need ed reinforcements and wipe out th Chinese armies of Shanghai. The city a wily defenders took heavy toll of Japanese landing parties thwarting a Japanese plan to land 55.000 troops near Woosung and storm Shanghai's defenses from th rear. Woosung la at the confluence of the. Whangpoo and Yangtze, down river 12 miles from the heart ot Shanghai. lUnks Riddled An estimated 42.000 Japanese still were on their ships and the ranks of some that reached shore wera riddled. The Chinese allowed the new Jap anese troops to rush what seemed, to be second defonse lines, then ex ploded hidden mines and virtually wiped out the Invaders with sheeta of fire from secret machlne-gui& nests. Both sides admitted that casual ties In the Woosung sector, wher the battlefront abruptly shifted, wor extremely "heavy. a One late report tonight, uncoa firmed, said the Chinese finally wer (Continued on Page Eight.) TO TEST LEGALITY OF BAN The district attorney and sheriff of Jackson county, In a letter today from legai representatives of pin- ball machine Interests, were invited to make an arrest tomorrow to ts the legality of the Oregon anti-lottery law. The letter served notice that Mur ray Bell would have "a plnball ma chine for play In his place of busi ness In this city tomorrow, Irrespec tive of the deadline set by you." Plnball machines, under ari order Issued by the sheriff, must be re moved after midnight tonight, and, players, proprietors and distributors are subject to arrest tomorrow. The ban also applies to punch boards in Jackson county. Sheriff 8yd I. Brown said: Thera la no need of writing a letter about It, If anybody Is caught violating that law they will be arrested, with or without an Invitation." The letter, signed by Attorneys Oeorge A. Roberts and William M. McAllister stresses "This letter i not written In any spirit of defiance or disrespect of your authority, but merely for the purpose of obtaining an early determination as to whether or not this game which has been sanctioned by the legislature, and licensed by the city of Med ford la unlawful ..." (Continued on page Nine.) TlAlTlD ON FIRE CHARGE J. C. Roberts and Clifford Crump were each fined 20 and .4.50 coats by Judge L. A. Roberts In Aahland Justice of the pence court yesterday sfternoon. They pleaded guilty to permitting a fire to spread In forest land. Com plalne-nt was Clarence Williams, a state fire warden ot the Klamath Palls district. Employed by the M. L. Poet Log ging company t Ptnchurst, Robert snd Crump set . fire Monday to burn out nest of yellow Jackets which had bothered them in their logging work, Rogue River national forest headquarters here said. The men thought the fire was out but as an extra precaution covered It with dirt before quitting work, head quarters explained. The fire flared up. howevor. and pread over half an acre of timber land, requiring an all-night fight by logip-rs and personnel and equip ment of the Rogue River national forcsb i
