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Find A Buyer No matter what you hsve for tale, you may trust Mall Tri bune Claskllted to find a buyer If there li the least demand for what yuu have. The cost U emalL The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday; little change la tem perature. Temperature: t Highest yesterday . W Lowest thli morning M Tribune Medford full Aaooiated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 26. 1937. No. 135. n IWffi mn i.aiiii J in m M7A jIHol SlU i r Mllll II II WW lvl u u u u Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. I.AnOH-KAKMKK TIBIP SOlfillT BY LEWIS rOMKINEn VOTES NEKS NEEDED IN COMiHESS , CO-OPKKATION OF WHITE IIUl'SB EXPECTED INOFFICIAL DISCLAIMER HELD LIKELY WASHINGTON. Aug. 36. Another "break" between the president and i John Lewis Is about due. Only it i won't be another. If It comes. It will be the same synthetic fracture which ! 1a regularly made public when the respective following of either gen tleman gets sufficiently outraged at the other. The point is that the New Deal and the CIO. are being forced into close cooperation Bgaln, and, when and If the public gets In on the deal. It may be necessary for an unof ficial disclaimer. This latest bit of "cooperation." which is being arranged with great care and no publicity, grows out of a dire need on Mr. Lewis' part and on Mr. Green's part, too, for that matter. Both labor leaders realize that they have to have farm votes If they want to get their legislation, and they know that their only liai son with agriculture Is the White House. Mr. Lewis made a Herculean effort to get the wages and hours bill through on the eve of the adjourn ment of congress, when It was stuck In the rules committee. It Is loudly whispered that, if the White House had seen fit to turn on the heat, it could hare obtained the petition necessary to get the bill out of the committee. Once on the floor, tne votes to pass It would have been found by the administration among the farm state members and others whom Mr. Lewis couldn't reach. This experience, added to the gen eral coolness of agriculture toward labor, undoubtedly prompted Mr. Lewis' new cooperative movement. On Us side, the White House, while It doesn't like to be reminded of the matter- too loudly, knows the value of labor's aid In vote-getting. Meanwhile, the C. I. O. Isn't ne glecting an independent Invasion ol the rural districts. Its little brother, labor's non-partisan league, has sneaked out and bought a broad brimmed straw hat and Is practicing chewing straws. Very quietly It is laying out a campaign to woo the farmer. The first step will be the public pro nounce me n't which Mr. Lewis has made on the subject of the latest addition to the C. I. O. family, the new Agricultural Workers' union. Mr. Lewis will address his new ward in a pamphlet. He will call at tention to the appalling living con ditions of the farm workers. He will mention that the new union Is the first attempt to help them. He will mention the farmer's stake In the (Continued on Page Three.) FALLING TREE KILLS EX-0REG0N STUDENT OROFINO, Idaho. Aug. 36. (API Struck by a falling tree yesterday. Ingram KJosness, Jr.. of Lewiston, died today in a hospital here. He suffered a fractured skull and failed to regain consciousness. He was era ployed at a camp near Welppe. KJosness was a former University of Oregon student. His wife and daughter. Ingrid. were notified of the accident at Eugene, where they were visiting. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS State Trooper Paul Williams bounc ing belatedly out of bed and rushing pell-mell to headquarters, discover ing after he had excitedly checked in on time that It was his day off. Q. W. Oinn complaining about quail knocking down his extraordl nary six-foot tomato vines, the birds using the pitch for a landing field. apparently mistaking the tomatoes for brush. Mrs. C. E. Crsic of Brownsboro pumping fresh milk down the Insati able gullets of two city blackberry pickers. Aubrey Norrla trying futtlely to explain to fellow Actimnt that It U not he but his brother Carl who Is a 30-30 clubber. much confusion taring oeen causrd by a critical arrur la mis pillar at playfulness. MEDIATION PLEA f)aer f lifniun nnoTnniiri ks wuulu rujirunt STRIKEJll DAYS 250,000 Men in Five Broth erhoods Involved Nation to Be ' Divided Into Zones for Strike Plan " CLEVELAND, Aug. 28. (AP) A. P. Whitney, president of( the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen, an nounced today that committees rep resenting five railway brotherhoods had authorized a strike for Sept. 6 to support demands for a general 30 per cent wage Increase, Whitney said the committee, carry ing on negotiations at Chicago, set 6 a. m. of Sept. 6 as the time for members of the brotherhoods to be gin leaving their jobs. The organizations Involved, he ad ded, are the trainmen, the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine- men and Firemen, the swltchinen"s Union of North America and the Order of Railway Conductors. The membership of the groups to tals approximately 350,000 men, Whitney said. Strike By Zones The nation Is to be divided into four zones, Whitney added, with each walking out on a different day the strike to become entirely effective by Sept. 8. Details as to the zone boundaries. he said, are to be worked out today Broadly, they would be the eastern, northwestern, southwestern and the southern sections. Federal mediation, which may be (Con tinned on Page Seven.) . City police were today Investigat ing the mysterious circumstances that led three pretty, 14-year-old Medford girls to board a stage for San Francisco Tuesday evening with no explanation nor word to their parents that they were leaving. The girls are Jetta Avanell Frazler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe O. Fra zler Of 215 West Eighth street; Betty Ann Dale, daughter of Mrs. Sadie Dale of 106 South Grape street: and Margie Bell Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Stone of 105 South Grape street. All are 14 years old and close friends. Investigation by police revealed that the girls all purchased tickets for San Francisco. Their parents, unable to explain the reason for their daughters' sudden disappearance, stated that, so far -as they knew,-the girls bad no money. It was also learned that previous to leaving each girl had also purchased a new dress and other wearing apparel. Immediately upon learning of the "runaway," city police here notified 8an Francisco authorities. Parents of the three girls, all believing their daughters were staying with the oth ers, didn't discover tneir aisappear ance until several hours after the bus taken by the girls woud have arrived In San Francisco. The stage was due In the bay city at 7:03 yes terday morning. City polce received the report of the disappearance about 10 a. m. yesterday from tne gins parents. TRAFFICACCiDENTS NCREASED IN YEAR 8AI.EMH. A9ug. 38. (AP) Every county In the state except Crook and Wallowa showed traffic accident in creases during the first six months of this year compared with a similar period last year. Secretary of State Earl 8nll said today. Accidents Increased 33 per cent throughout the state, varying from 6.4 per cent In Clataop county to SM per cent In Curry county. Portland showed a 13 4 per cent Increase, exactly double the rate of Increase In Multnomah county out side the city. FIRST KLAMATH SPUDS ROLLING TO SAN FRAN KLAMATH PALI. Aug. 36 (y- pint carload of the Klamath basin's IM7 potato crop left here today. The potatoes went to the Daskorona com pany of San Pranciaco. other shipment are expected to more out dally. KANSAS CITY. Mo Aug. M. (UP nnit a heat wave wnlch sent temperatures high Into the Bu a .t,. in.!.. in rnr coats from To Hall, exclusive lumen, British Ambassador Wounded by Japs; International Complications Are Feared NIPPON AVIATORS! EGARD FLAG TO FIRE ON AUTO By JAMES A. MILLS. SHANGHAI, Aug. 26. (AP) In ternational complications of the un declared Chinese-Japanese war in creased ominously today as a Jap anese warplane shot and seriously wounded the British ambassador to China and the Japanese navy threat ened to include foreign shipping In its blockade of China's coasts. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. the British envoy, was shot while motoring from Nanking to Shanghai. The ambsssador'e party was traveling In two motor cars, both flying large union jacks. Bombs Dropped. Fifty miles from Shanghai two Japanese planes swooped down. The first sprayed the two cars with ma chine gun bullets. The second drop ped bombs after the cars had stop ped. ; Lieut.-Col. W. A. Lovat-Praser. military attache, was knocked- un conscious by a bomb explosion when he alighted from his car, but was not wounded. The ambassador was hit at least twice, In the left lde and stomach Aii official British statement said there ""was no' doubt the planes that attacked' Him were Japanese. ' He was taken to the country hos pital In Shanghai's International set tlement, where surgeons found bullet had broken his back, but left the spinal cord Intact. (Continued on Page fire.) PRINElLElILL .15 KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 25. l,V) Plans of a group of prominent Wis consin lumbermen to build a sawmill at Frlnevllle were made public here today with the announcement that Junior Daggett, Klamath Falls mill manager and member of the state board of forestry, would move to Prlnevllle as vice-president and gen eral manager of the new plant. The new mill will operate under the name of the Alexander- Yawkey Lumber company, with Ben Alexander of Wausau, Wis., as president and O, C. Yawkey, Wausau, and Daggett, vice-presidents. Construction will start September 15 and sawing about November 15. An Initial Investment of 1300.000 Is planned. The Yawkey interests have wide pine timber holdings In central Ore gon. IN CRITICAL CONDITION GRANTS PASS. Aug. 26 (IP) Pearl Johnson, 34, and Jack Woolfolk, 37. both of Medford, were still In critical condition today from Tuesday'a auto accident which was fetal to Mrs. Florence Morgan. Mrs. Johnson had not regained consciousness this morning. Woolfolk was occasionally conscious but spent a bad night. X-rays revealed both suffered a aeries of skull fractures. Iron Lung Inmate Making Progress ' PORTLAND. Aug. 3". (AP) Cheerful Roderick Swearlngen. 15. of Springfield continued to wage his slow, but sturdy fight today In an "Iron lung" at Doembecher hoe pltal, Attendants reported the Infantile paralysis victim was able to swallow liquids and food and remain out of the respirator for a few seconds longer. Until two days ago he was fed through a rubber tube. Nurses said he Is alert and Inter ested id everything they resd to him Inebriate Loses pants. PORTLAND. Aug. 30 JPi A tipsy pedestrian got Untied up with a truck and although he was unhurt, the big vehicle had to be Jacked up to release him. When rescuers pull ed the victim free they discovered . tnai in some unciDiameo war w hl lost his pant. READY BY NOV bund Guilty Muracring Six Die in Navy Air Crash : i?l Wreckage of the giant navy flying with the low of six lives Is shown as a navy barge. TL TO BE PRINCIPAL DALLES HI SCHOOL Paul Menegat, for the psst three years principal of Medford Junior high school, hss been released from his duties here to accept the prlncl palshlp of The Dalles high school. It wss announced today by E. H. Hedrlck, city school superintendent. The Medford school board has not yet named a successor to Mr. Menrgnt but Is expected to do so In the near future, the city school superintend ent stated, end added that the board had almost definitely selected the new principal. Annoucement would1 be msde as soon as final negotiations Mr. Menegat came to Medford In the fall of 1934 from Scappoose, where he wss principal of the Junior high school. He served as principal of Modford high school during the autumn of 1034, when B. H. Hedrlck was absent and C. G. Smith acted as city school superintendent. Upon Mr. Hedrlck's return, Mr. Smith moved back as principal of the high school and Mr. Menegat transferred to the Junior high, where he had remained ever alnce. Although regretting the loss of Mr. Menegat. wbo was extremely popular with stu dents and teachers alike. Mr. Hed rick said that he waa glad the Junior high principal received the opportun tty to make auch an advancement. Several teaching vacancies have oc curred during the summer and an nouncement of replacements will be made as soon as confirmation from all new teachers are received, it was said. . $72,024 NET PROFIT FROM RUM IN JULY SAEM. Aug. 36. (API-Sales In Oregon liquor stores during July to taled 9308.307, the liquor commission reporting a net profit of 173.034. Agencies reported sales of 1305.474, with a profit of ,63,181. Stores and agencies reported profits of 30 per cent of sales. The commission at the end of the month had II, 110,070 operating cash. It had on hand I, .117, 889 worth of wines and liquors. SAN ROMANI BETTERS 2000 METER RECORD HELBINOrORS. Aug. 36 (API Archie San Roman), smooth-, trldlng Kansas runner, bettered the world s record tor the 3000 meters today when be ran the distance In 5:18.7. San Roman! defeated Talsto Maaki Finnish runner, who also broke the old record of 1:114. set by Kalerne juliww to iuit. uv ,---, program ol an International ma boat that crashed off Han IMego part of It was raised to the deck of 1 ARREST EARL SIS FOR TEST CASE IN PINBALL CLOSURE Earl A- Sims, plnball distributor. was arrested shortly before noon, charged with the operation of a lot tery In the form of a plnball ma chine. Sims was arraigned In Jus tice court and granted until Friday morning to plead. 'He was released on his own recognizance. Murray Bell, hamburger stand pro prietor, named yesterday by counsel for plnball operators as willing to submit to arrest for a test case, changed his mind and declined the sacrifice. A plnball machine, un pad locked, rested In Bell s place all morn ing ready for play. After Bolls declination, the con trivance was moved to Sims' shop a block away, and the arrest by the sheriff followed. A speedy determination Is sought by both sides, with a final decision by the state supreme court. Shorlff Syd I. Brown reported there was a complete observance of his orders to have the plnball machines In Jackson county padlocked or re moved by today. WASHINGTON PEARS WENATCHEE. Wash., Aug. 26. (API Floyd ONell, field agent for tho federal surplus commodities cor poration, snld he had received auth orization to buy Immediately 10 cars of pears from the Wenatchee and Ynkima districts. The fruit will be paid for at the rate of P0 cents f.o.b. for No. 3 grade or better, ONell said. New York Couples To Wait 72 Hours NEW YORK. Aug. 38. (UP) A week from today marrying New Yorkers will have to punch a time clock under the new marriage law requiring that 73 hours must elapse between the time a license Is grant ed and the marriage takes place. The law provides that when a couple asks for a license, the exact time of the application be atamped on the mar riage affidavits. When they are mar ried, officials performing the cere mony must write on the marriage certificate the time of the ceremony. Need Bean Plrkers. PORTLAND. Aug. 36. UP) Three hundred bean pickers are needed Im mediately in the Scappoose area to prevent a large portion of the crop from becoming too big for market ing purposes, the Orenon state em- nlr.vm.nt rvtfi office hara waa tn- - formed, ASPECTS OF WAR I.OM.OX. Aug. 2fi. P) The Ilrttlsh government Announced tonight It was preparing to deal "appropriately with (he Japan ese government on the wounding, by Japanese filers, of Brit Ish AmlMMNirinr Mir Hughe K natch-biill-llugesHen near Nlianghiil. This "appropriate artlon" will he taken as soon as his ma J Jesty's government obtain "fur ther Information" on the grave Internal Inmil Incident. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. (AP) The possl hi II I y hern me 11 ppnr ent today that any extensive Japanese blockade of the China coast may Influence vitally the ' president's decision on whether to apply the neutrality art to the undeclared war of the far east. Informed persons said blockade Interference with foreign shipping to China could he recognized by neutral governments as legal evidence that war existed. WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. ( API President Hooseelt arranged a lunch eon conference with Secretary Hull today after disturbing developments In the Slno-Japanese conflict. Occurrences which caused most concern at the state department were two the report of the shooting of the British ambassador. Sir Hugh Knatchbull-Hugcssen, and a formu lation of Japanese plana for a 700 mile blockade along the China coast with the possibility that this might mean some Interference with Ameri can and other foreign shipping In Chinese waters. Call Cabinet An hour after Secretary Hull was scheduled to talk with the president, Mr, Roosevelt was slated to meet his cabinet. This meeting was set for ward a day because the chief execu tive, leaves for Hyde Park tonight. The bureau of agrtcultura econom ics which referred to the fight as a "war" thereby probably becoming the first government agency to do so said that both Shanghai and Tient sin were centers of cotton goods manufacture and expressed the belief that Intense military opera tions at those cities probably had dis rupted this end other forms of eco nomic activity. Secretary Hull received a sheaf of press dispatches on the wounding of the ambassador as soon as he ar rived at his office. The British embassy here was with (Continued on Page Five.) Red Label Beer Is Flowing Again ASTORIA, Aug. 36. Jfy-Red label beer, dammed for the past three weeks by refusal of the teamsters' union to deliver It, flowed again here today following the serving of an In Junction on teamsters, distributors and dcalera forbidding Interference with the product. The order waa served by Leo Mc- Laln. United states deputy marshal. 'Genuine Democrat9 Urged As Party s Next Candidate WASHINGTON, Aug. 36. WP) A proposal from Senator King (D.-Utah) that the 1840 Democratic presidential candidate be a man from outside the new deal's Inner circle emphasized today the fundamental split within the psrty. King said the nominee should be someone Ilka Senators Byrd of Vlr- glnls. Clark of Missouri, or Ballsy of North Carolina. He asserted ho could not "scoond the nomination" by Sen ator Mlnton (D.-Ind.) of Paul V. McNutt. King was one of the leading op ponents of the Roosevelt court bill and tha three senators he nsmed also were opposed to the measure aa well as many other new deal .proposals. McNutt, former Indiana governor and now American high commissioner to the Philippines. Is described by his friends as seeing eye-to-eye with the new deal. Kinir said It was "too early" to pick the Democratic nominee but added "I leal suit uut tne caiuuojtw wiu Inglewood Girls EVANS ELIMINATES IE BEATS G1VAN By HKI.W BKLL ALDERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB, PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 36. p) cnaties (Chick) Evans, of Chicago, 47 year old former champion, today eliminated Frank Strafacl, brilliant you tig Brooklyn shotmaker. In the third round of the National amateur golf championship. Evans margin of victory was 3 up and two to play. Evans, who qualified for his first amateur championship 31 yenra ago and won the title twice, as well as the open, won his 53nd match In the amateur competition over tho years. He played par golf for the first nine hones and was two under for the six holes coming borne. Johnny Goodman, one of the prlmo favorites, advancesto the quarter finals with a 3 and 1 victory over Lieut. Ken Rogers of Honolulu. The Omaha boy, national open champion In 1039, won the 14th with a birdie 3 to square the match, then went Into the lead by taking the 15th. Goodman hit a par clip on the 16th and 17th while Rogers slipped over to end the match. Wlnfleld Day. lanky Los Angeles youngster eliminated Ross Soroervllle, who was champion In 1933, one up. The tall Callfornlan leveled the match at the 16th when Somervllle hooked his tee shot and took a bogey four. On the 17 Somervllle again hooked from the tee. reaching deep rough and could not got his par while Day was on lntwo and two putts. The 18th waa a half In par fives. Don Moe. Portland, defeated Harry Glvan, Seattle, two and one. Moe putted a SO footer home at the 17th for a birdie three. He then conceded Glvan a 30 footer for a half In three's and won the match, two up and one to play. Day, conqueror of tne great cant' (Contluned on Page Seven.) F. R. CLOSES LEAKS IN TAX MEASURE WASHINGTON. Aug. 36. (API President Roosevelt signed today the measure to close loopholes In the In come tsx law. The measure, requested by the president to curb what be termed tax evaalon and avoidance, la expect ed by oxperte to Increase tax reve nues from 178,000,000 to 1100.000.000 a year. The White House made public a letter from Acting Secretary Taylor of the tressury saying his department wss "happy to recommend prompt approval of this bill which will oner ate to close a number of serious loop holes In the revenue laws through which large amounts of revenue have been lost and still larger amounts would hsve escaped In the future.' Hungary Will Pay On Post-War Debt WASHINGTON. Aug. 36. (AP) The White House announced today that the government of Hungary had notified the United States It would begin payments soon on Its post-war debt to his counry. ' not be communistic or radical, but will be a genuine Democrat who will defend the constitution and maintain democratic Institutions." At the same time, King discounted the possibility of a permanent split within the Democratic party, fore casting that It would "continue aa the progressive and liberal party or our country. King's statement came on top of an assertion by Democratic Leader Barkloy of Kentucky, that the Demo cratlo party had beaten off "at tempts to divide and weaken It," and a "no reprisal" edict from Demo cratic Chairman Parley, The postmaster-general suggested, however. In a press conference yes terday the possibility ol reprisal from the voters against senators and congressmen who had failed to sup port the president. So tar aa the administration Is con cerned. Parley said, "there will be no reprisals." But, he added, "we h... nn nwtml rtf ihA Voters WhO want to approve or disapprove any Weaver. Cohen and R Fatrell; Ken aoUon." Ifisdy and Bewail, . DEATH SENTENCE WILL BE LOT OF SEX MAHILLER Long Deliberation by Jury Due to Difference of Opinion As to Degree of Punishment, Is Revealed LOS ANGELES, Aug. 36. (AP) A Jury convicted Albert Dyer, 33, today of murdering three young Inglewood girls and made no recommendation for life Imprisonment. This means the death penalty for him Is manda tory. The Jury of seven men and five women received the case at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday, but apparently had spent most of Its actual deliberation time In argument over whether to recom mend life Imprisonment'. Confession Repudiated Dyer waa accused of slaying Melba and Madeline Everett, 0 and 7. and Jeanette Stephens, 8, In a sex frenzy last June 36 after luring them from Centennial park In Inglewood to the Baldwin hills on a supposed rabbit hunt. He confessed the slaylnga In detail but later repudiated hla confessions and pleaded Innocent upon arraign ment. Puhllo defenders' deputies assign ed to represent him contended the state's case, without the confessions, was Inadequate and that the confes sions themselves were contradictory. Dyer Unmoved Dyer est motionless as the Terdlet of death was read. His hands wen clenched and there wss an almost total absence of expression la his drawn face. More than 300 perspiring specta tors jammed the comparatively small court room but there was scarcely ft stir when the decision was an nounced. Under a recent California law af fecting oapltal eases, Dyer's convic tion will be appealed automatically to the state supreme court for review. Mrs, Grace Calvert was the only Juror who would give any first hand account of the Jury's deliberations. ' "All of us." she said, "were agreed from the first that Dyer was guilty, The only difference In our opinions waa as to the degree of punishment. WINNER TO SETTLE WITH DOCS FIRST SEATTLE, Aug. 36. (UP) Calmly, Rollle J. Johnson, 48, automobile ac cessory salesman, received a 610,000 oheck today as third prize In the Old Gold puzzle contest the first money ho ever won In any contest. "My wife did most of the work," Johnson said. "We're not going to squander this money. It will give us a new start In life." Thinking he had possibly won 110 but ready to give oflclala "a punch In the nose" for getting his hopes high If he had received only that amount, Johnson went to a hotel suite by appointment. He did not know until the chock was given him what his prize was. I have no plans yet; I haven't had time to make any." Johnson said. "We're going to a better place to live and pay some doctor bills first." Johnson came here last Christmas from Slocan City, B. O. Ho formerly lived In Burlington. N. D. The four Johnson children Norma Dean, 14; Emma Lou, 11; Lois Nan, 8: and Ran dall, 8 also helped on the contest. Johnson said. BASEBALL National. Pittsburgh at Now York: Cincin nati at Brooklyn, postponed; rain. American. R. H. Philadelphia .. Cleveland i Smith. Turhevllle Harder and Pytlak. 6 11 t 10 14 0 and Brucker; R. H. I. , is a 6 10 0 Boston . Detroit . Mnrcum and Desauteia; Lawson and York. " R. H. I Washington 10 0 4 I i CMCRCO
