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When do we tart? It you eottti restiw the nta of elaaslfied advertising a tnoH 6s who um It constantly, yon alto would be a constant user. A word to- the wis Is sufficient. When do we atartt The Weather Forecast! Probably ahowers tonight and Tuesday; slight lr warmer tonltri cooler Tuesday. Teiuiterature - Highest yesterday 86 Lowest this morning .. 43 Tribune full Associated Press Full United Pre si Thirtv-Seoond Year MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1937. No. 138. to) MMiaraj. MEBFORDfllI ' BY ffllffil ... Behind Washington Headlines By H.' R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. MENACING SHADOWS SEEN ON INDUSTRIAL HORIZON REPERCUSSIONS FEARED OVER RISING MVING COSTS "CONSUMER RKSISTANCE" LOWERS PRODUCTION FAR EAST WAR THREAT ADDS TO UNEASINESS WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. Month end statistics on financial and in dustrial conditions from government as well as private sources are mis leading, according to economists who are looking beyond the immediate horizon. On the surface, the long-range bus iness trend seems to be upward, and farm income is expected to reach this season the highest level since .1620. bumper crops . . . general pros perity. But that's only one part of the picture, which, bright as it is, reveals several shadows in the cor ners. While official reports do not em phasize the fact. It ts being privately admitted that the high cost of living is a growing menace, with political as well as economic Implications. There are a number of straws which show which way the wind Is blowing. Several manufacturers, re porting reduced production, explain lower demand as due to "consumer resistance." Xn 1921, they called it "buyers strike." ' - ' - " Another shadow, of course, on the business scene, is cast by the situa tion in the Par East. While officials are still pretty optimistic, each new explosion in China has ita repercus sions here, and certain moves on the checker board of private finance are undoubtedly being made with the possibility of a maor war In the background. This is evident in the tendency toward liquidation of gov ernment obligations. Steps were taken during the past week to offset this tendency by means of an "easy money policy" on the part of the government. The rediscount rate of the federal reserve banks wes brought downward until, In New York, It reached the all-time low of 1 per cent. The heavy excess reserves are dis tributed chiefly among country banks, and not In the money cen ters, where the big demands -for crop loans, business expansion and com merce In general exist. In those centers where the pres sure has been felt, member banks In the system have had to reduce the government holdings in their port folios. Thare are, however, other unfavor able factors, not so evident, back of the general financial situation. They involve the whole question of federal (Contluned on Page Seven.) 1 Repairs Are Begun On C-C Building Work was begun this morning on repair of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce which was damaged by fire August IS. The damaged parts are to be re paired, the whole building Is to be painted and a few modest alterations are to be made, officials stated. The work will be completed in about ten days, tt was estimated. LAKEVIEW BOX FACTORY IS DESTROYED BY BLAZE LAKEVIEW. Aug. SO. (API Fire of unknown cause destroyed the Adams box factory last night with a low etlmat! at 135,000. Robert Adams. Sr.. owner. Mid be would resume operations as soon ae repairs could be msde. Fir damaged the property less than a year ago. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REP0RTEE8 Barbara Bowermen selecting Vene tian bllnos for the home she and bubby Bill are building. rAllce Ward magnanimously offer ing the choice of her wardrobe to a guest from Klamath and lesrnlnc later to her dismay that the gown rhneen was one she had laid out for a dance. B1U Orenbemer declining to tell a frlerjd In the presence, of a reporter how many fish he eauaht, the In ference being the mtch was too small to record In the public prints. Fred Vndrraood avirrtna the rest ful autumn atmosphere came hun o last yeis of aonlMoa. S. S. Hoover Mistaken For Jap Troop Carrier; Seven of Crew Injured By JAMES A. MILLS SHANGHAI, Aug. 30. AP) A swift fleet of four Chinese bombing planes blasted the big American Dollar Liner President Hoover by mistake In the China sea today, wounding seven of her seamen and halting Amer ica's efforts to get United States women and children out of bloody Shanghai. The national government of China, at Nanking, accepted full responsibil ity for the "most regrettable, unfor tunate mistake." It offered "the full est redress." "One pilot," the Chinese authori ties said, "bombed the Hoover be cause he thought it was one of ten Japanese troopships." Japanese de stroyers were In the victntty at the time. Four Bombers Independent reports indicated there were four bombers. Japanese naval authorities an nounced two of their seaplane had shot down one of them, an American- made plane, at an undisclosed place. The President Hoover, steaming to Sir ha! from Manila on a mission of evacuation for 850 American na tionals, was hit at 5:30 p. m.. outside the lighthouse at the mouth of the Yangtze, on the high seas 50 miles from Shanghai. Three passengers were shell-shock ed as one bomb hit the boat deck and steel fragments ripped 35 holes in the liner's sides. Emergency opera tions were performed to save the Uvea of two seamen. Protest Lodged . International aspects of the Si no Japanese conflict assumed an omin ous note as United States Ambassa dor Nelson T. Johnson rushed to the Nanking foreign office to bring the situation before the highest Chinese officials. '.t-tj The President Hoover, at 19 lenots, steamed toward Kobe, Japan, on or ders of United States naval author ities, abandoning further evacuation efforts. She ts due there at noon Wednesday. She moved under her own power. Rushing to the Hoover s side ahead of two United States warships, the British cruiser Cumberland almost bad been hit by other bombbs. Her physician assisted the Hoover's doctor in performing the operations on the liner's wounded crewmen. For the time being, at least, the Dollar Line suspended plans to evac uating the hundreds of Americans who remain In Shanghai. Both the Hoover and the President McKlnley, following her, were ordered Into Kobe. In Shanghai, Mayor O. K. Yul et- (Continued on page Three.) Russia as it Is Today Uncensored Revelations in Stalin's Blood Purge By Webb Miller United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 193T by United Press MOSCOW, via London (uncensored), Aug. 30. (UP) (HFR) During Josef Stalin's 'hlstorlo struggle with Leon Troteky 19 years ago the work ers of Leningrad presented htm a steel broom. Toe broom waa a sym bol of the necessity of "cleansing" the communist party. Today Dictator Stalin la using it with a vengeance. The purge which began In the soviet union three months ago haa extended from generals of the red army to dramatlsta and writers: from chiefs of Industry to directors of theaters and even the directors of amusement psrks. 500 Executed Information about the true extent of the current "blood purge" Is hard to get. but available compilations Indicate that about 600 persona have been executed by firing squads. Tens of thousands have been arrested, exiled or dismissed from their posts. The chsrgea against them varied greatly, but they had one common focus that the accused. In thought or deed, opposed the Stalinist leader shin of the Soviet regime. It should be kept in mind that under the Bolshevik system (and other dictatorial systems for that matter), any opposition to or devla. Hon from the "party line." after the line once la laid down, constitutes a deadly crime. To deviate la treason able and automatically qualifies the dissenter as an enemy of the people or even a deadly enemy If the holdet of the adverse opinion la In a position of Importance and trust. They Disappear The following Incident Illustrates the difficulty that certain element have had In trying to keep up with the bends and twists of communist doctrines aa they are being applied In the Soviet union. On a previous visit to Moscow last February, t dined one ntght with members of the foreign office and a few Journalists In the pslstlsl fweijn j office guest house, formerly the j , tern a Moaoa Bliltrnnejm, ftu., G HOOVER BOMBING WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. (AP) Secretary Hull said today he had In structed Ambassador Nelson T. John son at Nanking to make a strong I protest to the Chinese government on the bombing of the liner Presi dent Hoover. The secretary aald he was under the Impression that merchant vessels of the United States would not call at Shanghai, "The bombing Is to be very much deplored," Secretary Hill said. "It is one of those not entirely unusual incidents that occur in conditions such as exist In that area. Regarding American merchant ves sel calls at Shanghai, Hull said Ad miral Harry B. Yarnett, Asiatic fleet commander, had directed the Presi dent Hoover to go to Kobe, Japan, but that no definite Instructions had been given that other Dollar Line ships avoid the war-torn port. This raised the question of how Americans remaining In the . city would, be evacuated. Between 5o6 and 300 Americans are ready to leave the city, the secretary said. t GENEVA, Aug. 30. (AP) The Chi nese delegation to the League of Na tions told the Associated Press today tt was filing with the league a pro test against "Japan's aggression In China." The protest will be delivered to night, the delegation aald. It does not make an appeal under any spe cific article of the league covenant. but is "an informative communica tion for members of the . league, they explained. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 30. (AP) Police discovered the unidentified body of a young man yesterday on the railroad tracks at the outskirts of the city. A train had severed both legs and an arm. Laplnaky, at that time foreign editor of the newspaper Izvestla, the official or (ran of the central executive com mittee of the Soviet union, waa being chafed about his pet cat, of which he was Inordinately fond. "Well, I should love that eat," La. plnsky said finally, grinning. "The other day he scratched one of my manuscript, and I found that he had saved me from a grievous devla. tlon from the party line." Laplnaky has disappeared now no one knowa where. Apparently his cat failed him at last. There were six Bolsheviks at the dinner table that evening In Pebni' ary. Pour have disappeared In the Isst two months and are believed under arrest or In exile. One transferred out of the country. One Neymann. In the department of the foreign office which deals wtth Amer lean and western European affairs, a man well known In Washington where he waa previously attached to tha embassy, disappeared In the midst of negotiating the Soviet- American trade treaty, an assignment on which he waa working while waa In Moscow, Another official welt known to many Americans, Jacob Doletaky director of Tass, the official news agency, also Is missing. All that hi, frlenda can learn la that there are rumors that he waa arrested and tried to commit aulclde. But the rumors an without confirmation Heavy Casualties Casualties In the present purge have been especially heavy among of- flcisla who deal wtth foreigners and officials who had been long sbroad Periodical "clesnn- rf the com. jOPBUBued 9B -! Three Seriously PORTLAND MILLS RESUME SUNG IN LABOR TRUCE 2500 Return to Work for First Time in Two Weeks Building Trades Retain Boycott On CIO Lumber PORTLAND, Aug. 30 ( AP) Twen ty-ftve hundred Portland sawmill workers went back to work in the rain today to start the machinery at seven big plants for the first time In two weeks. The activity ended, for the time being, at least, a costly shutdown enforced by a Jurisdictional contro versy between the AFL and CIO. Mills began releasing lumber to the building trades and sawdust and wood fuel to Portland home Juat as the chill autumn wet season set in, Although the scrap between the two powerful labor forces apparently has not reached & satisfactory set tlement, the plants resumed opera tion without difficulty. No pickets appeared. The building trades council, AFl affiliate, Informed employers the "boycott" still existed and would affect all ClO-handled lumber re gardless of the time It was cut. . The central labor council, protest ing that it did not give Its approval to a truce negotiated by Charles W. Hope, . regional Jabor relations -board director from Seattle catted a spec ial conference. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC IN THREE STATES HIT BY G-l TRENTON, N, J Aug, 30. (AP "Two very important arrests" were Imminent, federal authorities said today, as they pushed the clean-up in their tri-state drive against the white slave traffic. Assistant U. S. Attorney William F, Smith, who disclosed the new arrests were expected momentarily, said the connection of the hunted pair with the week-end vice raids might be surprising." He decline. to reveal the identity of the two sought. Smith worked with J. Edgar Hoover. chief of the federal , bureau of In vestigation, in two of the well-timed raids In Atlantic City which wtth simultaneous raids in Philadelphia and Wilmington netted 13? persons. Hoover said 37 of the prisoners were "principals procurers ana maa- smes" and 100 inmates and "maids.1 Seventeen alleged houses of in fame were emptied at Atlantic City by 40O-men led personally by Hoover. MR. AND MRS. HAYS INJURED IN SMASHUP Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hays of 1016 Court street ere confined in Com munity hospital today as a result of an auto accident on the Jacksonville-A pplegate highway early Bun day morning. Mrs, Hays, according to the attending physician. Is suf- fertns from an Injured back, chest and head, but ts expected to recover Mr. Hays has a broken right forearm. but no other Injuries. Mr. Hays told the attending phy sician that he was blinded by the lights of an oncoming ear with the result that his machine left the roao, skidded into a ditch, and overturned Six More Die In Polio Outbreak TORONTO. Aug, 30, (Canadian Press) Six persons died of infantile paralysis In Toronto over the week end, health author it Set reported to day, These casualties Increased the deaths in Toronto since the outbreak of the epidemic several weeks ago to 15. There were 2d new case re ported, raising the total under treat mnt to 248. Twn-yeer-old Helen MfMurray. one of triplets, was among the Toronto fatal it lea. Rain ilsmages Crop ASTORIA. Aug. iO OPi Heavy rains today added fresh damage to Clatsop county, rich bent grass erop. It as the nrst time since -he ' I the harvest haa suffered from wet in""r - ." w tUat FARM WIFE MS 6 CHILDREN, SELF WITH EXHAUST GAS Tube Carries Deadly Fumes From Family Auto to Bed roomNote Blames Hus band's Drinking Habits DENISON, la., Aug. 30. (AP) Seven bodies -a mother and her six children lay in a funeral home here today, victims of a farm home trag edy that Coroner John Oottburg said was murder and suicide. The dead werei Mrs. Elsie Noll en. 30. Leona, 4, Viola, a, orvtn, IU Wtlbert, 10, Pauline, 7, Earl 8. Leaving a suicide note which told of marital unhappiness Mrs. Nollen took, the lives of her children and herself by sending deadly automobile exhaust gas from the family car Into a bedroom window of her home, west of here. H ribband Finds Bodies. Her husband, Albert, 36, found the bodies early yesterday when bo returned borne. "I have tried and tried to live a decent life," Mrs. Kollen said In the six-page, penciled note, "and raise my kids up right so they would be decent. . "But they have a father that does not care for them or either me. He don't know any better . . . "Albert was awfully good to me when he -wasn't drinking. I eouldn'-v ask for a better husband But, oh. he sure was awful when he got drunkl , "He bae beat me up lots of times and I always forgot about that Just because I loved him and wanted to live with htm, Now today he got drunk. I never said much to htm because I knew It would just be a fight again . "Oh, my, such a life ... 1 am doing this because I can see that this family la not going to be raised up right and X think it is a shame to let them grow up and live such a life ... Used Family Auto. Nollen found the family car back ed up under a bedroom window with the motor running. Sheriff C. A. Greene said Mrs. Nollen had coupled a piece of fie ible metal tubing used to carry off the exhaust from a small gasoline washing machine motor to the haust pipe of the car, and ptaceo It beneath the bedroom window. The bodies of Mrs, Nollen, Leona and Viola were found on a bed, he i said. The other four children wore; found in the adjoining room. I BINGHAM SCOUTS . RUPTURE REPORT LONDON Aug. W. (AP The de parture last week of Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham lor tbe Unit ed States waa the subject of specu lation today in the British press. Reynolds News declared informed sources In both Washington and London believed the envoy woutd be replaced aa ambassador to the Court of St. Jsniea by Joseph E. Davtes. present ambassador to Soviet Ttue- sls. The shift wss aald to be scheduled because Bingham had delayed re porting last December's abdication crisis to the slate department before tt had developed to the most criti cal stags. , BALTIMORE. Aug. 30. (AP) Rob. ert W. Bingham, ambassador to Eng land, satd today that stories he would not return to London were "nonsensical.' "The whole report Is a complete fabrication," h satd. 'I'm going to be here two to three weesa, then I'll go back to my pah He said he would go to Washing ton tomorrow. CREWS MOPPING UP ROGUE FORES! ARE Crews today were mopping up the Rogue river national foreat tins which kpt 103 men busy over the week end In a remote area on Halifax creek about 30 mites east of Frospect. The fire covered about 40 acres of tlmbr land, It was discovered early Saturday morning and brought under romro, yea.ernay. n. v. uove. .-.- .....,-.. . I trot, went to the are thl moraine ito survey lb Jos. Hurt in Ambassador Jilr Hughe K natch bull-II urease.!, the British ambassador to China, was seriously wounded when an auto tn which he was riding was spray ed by marhlne-gun bullets from Japanese war planes. He Is shown with Gen, Yu iian-Mour who U In charge of the defense of China's southern eoast. , L ANE WALLERS DENIED INJUNCTION AGAINST SEIZURE EUGENE, Aug, SO. (AP Holding that a court of equity could not properly restrain officials from acting under criminal statutes, Circuit Judge F. Skip worth today denied petitions for a temporary Injunction preventing Lane authorities from seising pinball machines here on and after September t , - District Attorney L. L. Ray recently ordered Sheriff 8. A. Swart to seize all machines in operation after the September 1 deadline and to make arrests. Frank Dal ton, pinball oper ator of this area, Saturday filed a suit seeking to enjoin Lane officials from acting under this order. Stating that Lane authorities, in proceeding against tha pinball ma chines, wore acting under the Ore gon criminal statute banning Jotter tea. Judge Sklpworth declared that tn his opinion a court of equity could not properly Interfere with of ficials In such cases and ha there fore denied the petition for the In junction. The judge warned, however, that machines seized should not be de stroyed as that might violate the general rule affecting rights of pri vate property Pointing to the difference of opin ion regarding whether plnballs were lotteries. Judge Sklpworth declared this Issue should be settled and stated that in his opinion the best way to settle the matter was through arrest, trial and appeal to the state su preme court. Attorneys for EMI ton, tn arguing for the Injunction, stated operators were going under the Oregon act of ltKtft authorizing cities to license pinbatt machines and that until the supreme court had declared tha law unconstitutional, the owners had a right to presume It was constitutional. Coast s Growing Wealth Shown by Bank Summary BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 (API Orowlng wealth of the Paclflo slope stands out significantly tn today1 aummary of tha last month's econo mic development seen through the eyes of the statistical stalt at the feedrat reserve bank of San Uranclaco Tha report give unusual promi nence to production of gooda. This tin of economic activity shows note worthy expansion. Wlhouetted along. ids production of recent yeara, the bulk of current out put tower at several point. Just now. for example, the canning in dustry 1 at the height of Ita yearly hustle. Lumber production and ehlp ment have been at Pk level top. ping showings or any Km eiiior I 30. Farm production appear likely I as ouMa aagt&S&c ia sweat rear, Head - On Crash Wounded BASEBALL ' ' National ' HEW YORK, Aug. 30 (AP) The Otsnts climbed 'into first place In tha National league today for the tint time since June M by nosing out tha Cincinnati Reda to 3- be hind the airtight relief pitching Carl Hubbett. Cincinnati a I New York 4 10 1 Holllngaworth. Schott and Lombar ds Melton, Coffman, Hubbell and Danning. . , Amer leas R. e T Washington Cleveland . Weaver. Cohen and Perrell; Hud- Un. Whttehtn. Oslehoun and Sulli van. New Tort Detroit Oomez. Pearson and Dickey; Auker arid York. LOSSES AT CARNIVAL CAUSE BOY'S SUICIDE PENDLETON, Aug. 30. (P) Qrief atrtcken over money losses at a car nival here Saturday night were aald today to have been a factor tn tha death of a Pendleton youth who took his own life Sunday. Pat rolsom, Umatilla county coro ner, returned a verdict of aulclde to day in the death yesterday morning of Arvtd c. Btom, 20. honor graduate of Pendleton high school In 1936. ma father, Frank O. Blam. satd that the youth had been saving money to finance a term at aviation th!a fait, and that he waa grtet-strtcken at loss of 'aomewhere between .15 and 50 at a carnival concession." BERLIN, Aug. 30. (P Major Gen era! Hans Buses, who during the World war held tha east Prussian : fortress of Boyen against Invading Russians, died today at tha age of The reserve bank reports "most twelfth district crops are larger this season than tn many yean, and price received by grower, are gen erally high." Turning to the canning industry. the bank pointed out the activities in fish, fruit and vegetable canning usually eapand at thl time of the year, and th la year expanded mora than usual. The pack of apricot la reported larger than tn any year since IBM. tlie Alssk salmon pact 1 fudged equal to the averag of the last 10 yesrs. In the Pacific sorlhweat, canning of vegetables, principally pea, show ed the turns season Increase. Utah participated in thl gain also. July lumber output waa higher abut IB acf nuttH 9M Kr JS, AJTEIP I TO PASS THIRD CAR CAUSES IWIASIUP Brooklyn, U. Y Man and ' Los Angeles Couple Taken to Hospital One Ma cbine Thrown into Ditch Threa person, were takes to Com rrmnity hospital shortly before nooa today following a hesdon automobile collision about four miles north of Central Point on the Pacific highway. Extent of injuries waa not learned at press time, but It waa believed that all were seriously hurt. Tha injured wen Mr. and Mrav John A. Bterley of 10371 Woyten Way, Loa Angeles, and Sydney Oreenberg. of let Chester street, Brooklyn, N. T, Thef were removed to tha hospital by Deputy Coroner Herb Brows, wha waa called, ts tha accident aces im mediately after It happened. Investigating state police- officer said that Mr, and Mra. Bir.riey war traveling south ts a Cadillac eoup aoit that Oreenberg, in a Plymouth, waa traveling north. The accident occurred, police said, when one c the oars attempted to pass anothev vehicle moving in the same direction and met the Gocom&g machine head-on. .... ... D. O. Moody, manager of a boos binding ssrvtoa tn Portland, arrives at tha scene shortly after It hap pened. Ho stated that tha Bierlef machine was battered into a dlteat alongside the road and the Greeaberf car waa standing across tha highway BOlIIirctAiM VICTORY IN LAND, All! BATTLE AT BELCHITE By the Associated Press Both Insurgent and government forces battling on the northeast Span ish front claimed victory today la severe land and air battle near Set chit, 20 miles south of Zaragoza Insurgent dispatches declared the government offensive had bes smashed by a thundering attack ed ISO planes, including 40 hug bomb era, which took off from the Insur gent stronghold at Zaragcea, The government reported, however, that Belohlte was completely sur rounded and that insurgent control: of Zaragosa was menaced by further government advances along the Ara gon front, Belchlte was apparently the gov emment objective in an effort to score important gains before Generalissimo Francisco Franco could rush rein forcements from the Biscayan front near Santander. Cardinal Bisleti Called By Death slOMB. Aug. 30. (AP Gaetano, Cardinal Btalett, t, died tonight. The venerable cardinal, wbo dean of cardinal-deacon In. 1SXI announced the electron of Pop Hue XI from the balcony of St Peter. had been ill for a long time. abort time earlier, the bo if father had sent him a special bless ing and had granted absolution. German Net Star Win Doubles Title PROOKLtNI. Mask Aug. 0 AP) Baron Gottfried Von Cramm and Keener Menket of Germany became the first foreigner to win the na tions! doubles tennis champtonthlp stnos 1919 today when they dethron ed the defending tttltsts, Don Budja and Oene Mako, -4, T-, . Longwood, Hasson candidate, SALEM, Aug. 80. (AP) Victor Hasson, Portland, filed a declara tion of candidacy today for th Democratic nomination for sen ator. right Service A fast and accurate description of the Louie-Parr title bout will be gives over the Mail Tribune public address system, tn front of the newspape office on North ftr street, starting not earlier thsai 4:15 p. m., Metfford time. The blow-by-blow story a earned on the United FT leased wire di rect to the Mill Tribune new room will be gives ft re ceived. Because of bad weather condition the main event, which ta scheduled for 8 p. m., Medford time, may be advanced.
