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Newspaper Page TextMr Good Dividends Rain or thine. In all kinds of weather Mall Tribune Class trie ads keep up the good work of serving promptly and e.f flelently. They pay good div idends. You should try them out. The Weather Forecast: Unsettled and fit ly cooler tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy; silently warm er, TKMPEHATIIIE Highest yesterday .... 14 Lowest this morning 53 Tribune Medford .' il United Presi Full Associated Presi Thirty.-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31. 19:37. No. 139. BHU Mi MAM mam ii mm mum Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance. Inc. RAIL LABOR DEMANDS "MORE ABUNDANT LIFE" HIGHER MVINO COST RETURN TO INVESTORS CITED ARGUMENT SEEN HAMPERING GOVERNMENT AS MEDIATOR OPERATORS EXPECTED TO SEEK RATE INCREASE WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Just how far William M. Leisorson. crack nego tiator of the national mediation board Is getting with the railway workers In Chicago, they aren't say ing at headquarters. But there is more Involved lri the outcome of the negotiations than a threat of a strike of some 300.000 men and the tying up of our trans portation system. Involved is the broader Issue of the redistribution of wealth. The argument of the railroad men for higher pay revolves around the one Issue that Is giving the new deal economists the most headaches to day: The mounting cost of living and the whirling spiral which has started with higher wage demands chasing the tall of Increased costs. The railway workers answered the refusal of their demand for more pay by the carriers with quite a hom ily .on raising the standards of liv ing. They charged that "thus far. recovery, especially In the railroad industry, has been characterized prin cipally by an increase In the share going to security holders." As a result, said the workers, they haven't the Increased purchasing power "that will enable them to streamline their existence in ac cordance with the modern standard of living." This discordant note in the hymn to the "more abundant life" has been hoard before from the president's op position. Now, when the "common man," 300,000 strong, declares that the "recovery" has benefitted the big fellow Instead of the little fellow, It makes the government's Job as medi ator that much harder. No sooner had the men sounded off than the employers began to say pri vately that the time had come for all good railroads to get together on a (Continued on Page Six.) SALEM. Aug. 31 Pj Governor Martin and the state highway com mission will leave here tomorrow for Bend on an inspection tour of the North Santinm highway. The commission will leave Bend for southern Oregon to inspect roads In Lake county. They will arrive In Klamath Falls Wednesday noon, and then will go to Medford on secondary highways, arriving there that night Budge and Fabyan Win Mixed Doubles BROOK LINE. Mam.. Aug. 31. (AP) Donald Budge of California, who lost his national doubles champion ship yesterday, salvaged one title at least from the Longwood title meet today, when paired with Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of Boston, he won the mixed doubles laurels from Yvon Petra and Mme. Sylvia Henro tln of France. 6-2, 8-10, 6-0. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Florence Scherrer nibbling sun flower seeds like a rinary and Mar garet Boardman felenlng alarm lest she burst out in song In the solemn CofC sanctum. Fisherman Frank DrSura giving untruths to the press, real farts of hn week-end angling party being that Kn Anthony caught only two trout. Frank Perl one and he none and that Perl positively didn't use bacon rind for bait. Wicliy Wickletn obligingly broad casting f.ght returns when the MTi loud speaker system got entangled vrith f?g or something. Ef Trowbrldee taking another stab at assembling his fih and came committee niter two Litlurw. he hop ing travel schedules would permit a quorum to be present this time. HALT EVACUATION fIF AMFRIIM RY VI finite! IIVI II IV W0 I 1 CLOSING OF PORTi Unidentified Bomber Attacks Italian Ship Japanese Open Drive On Strategic Positions Near Shanghai SHANGHAI, Aug. 31. (AP) Chol era broke out tonight In Shanghai's French concession, where moat of the clty'a Americans live. The outbreak became known short ly before midnight, after a day in which United States authorities closed the port of Shanghai to all American ships except naval vessels, marooning for the time being some 2000 Americans who have not been evacuated from the zone of Shang hai's Sino-Japanese war. Attack Second Ship. Meanwhile an unidentified bomber attacked but did not damage the Italian operated steamer Lung Shan, filled with Chinese refugees, and Japanese forces, on sea, air and land, opened an offensive 12 miles north of Shanghai which, they said, result ed In the capture of strategic Woo sung, its railway station and Its forts. French concession authorities took every measure to halt the spread of the cholera, deadly Intestinal dis ease which yearly takes Its toll of underfed Asiatics. Earlier In the day, with cholera dangers rising from overtaxed sanita tion facilities and the steady drain on water supplies, the United States navy cancelled shore leaves and all Chinese hands were ordered off the flagship Augusta. Bubonic Plague Seen. Reports of the black (bubonic) plague in native areas added to the horrors of war. Hundreds of rotting bodies of Chi nese civilians, killed In air raids and by artillery and machine-gun (Continued on Page Ten.) TACOirslES, CLOSED 38 DAYS PLAN REOPENING TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 31. (AP) Tacoma's 10 closed department stores began calling key employes back to work today In obvious preparation for Immediate re-opcnlng. Neither store owners nor officials of the International Protective As sociation of Retail clerks would make any definite announcement about the end of their dispute which has kept the city's largest retail Instltu tlons closed for 38 days; but both sides admitted unofficially the sign tng of a new working agreement ap pearod Imminent. Union and store representatives were closeted In another conference this morning, following a vote by union members last night on the draft of a proposed agreement. Terms of the proposal and results of the union vote were both kept secret. Confidential sources Indicated the agreement would call for the end ot tho dispute Wednesday, although store executives expressed doubt the institutions would be able to reopen on that day, due to the necessity of arranging stocks and completing agreements with 13 other AFL craft unions represented In the stores. No disputes were expected In these ar rangements. Stores closed Include J. C. Penney, Sears Roebuck. Montgomery Wsrd. Metropolitan, Kress, Fisher, Rhodes, The People's and two Woolworth units. THREATEN TIEUP S.F. I SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 31. (AP) A complete tleup of the waterfront here was threatened today as the result of a CIO-AFL dispute. John P. McLaukhlln. president of the teamsters' union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, declared the union would stop handling of goods tomorrow or the next day unless forcible opposi tion of the warehouseman to team sters' deliveries of California Pack ing corporation's products ceased. Louis Ooldblatt. vice president of th warehousemen, a CIO affiliate, said there waa no dispute with the teamsters but chanted 7S men were locked out by the packing corpora tion nine months ago. M'uiuK.iiinii uinuiavuiit i" hi i te" a crowd of men stopped trucks carrying so-called "hot goods." Five Louis Decisions Fair in Savage Battle ) A hi NAB THREE BOYS WITH STOLEN CAR Charged with larceny of sn auto. thrre Portland youths are being held today following their arrest by city i and state police on South Fir street t 6:10 vesterdnv. State nollee say they will bo returned to Portland to face prosecution. , day by a Jury of seven men and five The three are Thomas , William : women, after having repudiated con France. 19: David Monroe Williams, i fwon he made following his arrest 20, and Charlps Ernest Montague! Dunran, 19 The three were arreMz-d when city and state police stopped a 1035 Ford coupe on suspicion The cur Is own- ed by P. H. Kane. 2731 Northeast Schuyler street, Portland, who Is the complainant, according to state police. Following the arrest, admissions were secured from the trio that they hsd stolen the car from a parking lot near the Circle theater in Port land about 12:30 a. m. yesterday, and had taken turns driving It to Mrd ford, state police reported. Father Is Charged With Shooting Son OAKLAND, Calif.. Aug. 31. AP) A complaint charging first degree murder was issued today by Arthur Sherry, deputy district attorney, against Donald Page, 53, In connec tion with the death of his 10-year-old son. Donald E. Pnge. The complaint was signed by O. M Thompson, a police Inspector. Au thorities said the charge was based ca the drubbed story of the son i that P-ve shot him in a qti&rrel J over a French military decoration. Killed, Score Injured in Bus, Sedan h (C 1 J DEATH SENTENCE PASSED ON DYER I LOS ANOELES, Aug. 31. (IPi Sn- tenco ol dentil was pnsud throe times I In three minutes today upon Albert Dyer, convicted strangler and rnv- I '"" Inglcwood Blrls. TUa miiri rlnntH mntlnn tnr a tin 11 H(J Wftfl convlctrd Mt Tu(1R. unarr ainonua w inn chiw nm. maucaiiy gors 10 me bihmi mipitine com for review, following which. If ; the higher court supports the con- vicimn, anui ubiiaiii, and time of execution flxpd. The court fixed San Quentln as place of execution. SHOOTS MEDIC. SELF I.A ORANDE, Ore.. Aug. 31 (AP William MeWllllam. about 70. com- in it ted suicide today by shooting hlmielf throunh the haed tn a down down office building following the shooting of Dr, Clsrenee L. Ollstrsp throucn the lower bar. GJlstrap.VftA In a serious condition Invcstlcsting officers were inform ed that MrWUIlam. s Jsnttor. was dismissed from his Job, effective to dev. Oil trap, one of the city's most prominent citizens. Is married and has three small cMMrrn. McWillwm is survived by his widow. Two remnrknhle pictures, simpped Inst night In New York, show Tommy Fa rr, Welsh elin I longer ( left above ) and Joe tan Is, heavyweight champ ion, hard nt work In their fight which was won by tanls by a decis ion. In the upper picture Farr Is at tempting to get set for a right hand snuisn at the negro In the early part of the fray. The fighters are shown In a hum mi'r-nnd-tongs exchange In the lower shot. (A. P, Photo hy wire to San Francisto and Airmail to Mall Tribune). ' - '"r " ; HI SCHOOL PUPILS GET INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPENING DAY All senior high school pupils new to the Medford school sys tem and not registered for sen tor high school work before school was out Inst spring should report to the senior hl?h building next Fri day between 9 a. m. and 3 'p- ni. for the purpose of registering, C. O Smith, principal, announced today. All Medford schools will start Sep tember 7. Pupils entering senior high who at tended Junior high last year arc already registered and are not to re port for registration Friday, Smith Raid. Regular class work starts Tues day, September 7, and senior high school students are expected to re port not later than 8:20 a. m. to re ceive schedule slips and begin regu lar classes. The senior hlh book exchange will be open to receive books from 9 a. m. until 3 p. m. Friday, and from II a. m. until 3 p. m. Saturday Smith I stated. Books will not be sold from j me excuangc unin lucsuny. Pupils new to the Medford school system should see to It that credits (Continued on Page Two.) T PORTLAND. Aug. 31. (AP) Threatening clouds hovered over Ore gon today ready to resume tho heavy showers striking the west portion yes terday. The weather bureau predicted showers tonight with lower tempera tures in the Interior. Temperatures, however, probably will ascend In the Willamette valley Wednesday. Yesterday s rainfall brought .70 of an Inch of moisture to Porttand. Vancouver, Wash.. Just a stone's throw away, had 135 inches. Siskiyou summit reported s 44 de cree, minimum temperature, tho low est In the ntate for the last 24 hours. Ship Cut In Half By Bow of Another SAN FRANCISCO. Aug 31. (AP) The Marine Escliange here received word today that the Mexican steamer Cedros was cut In half tn a collision with the freighter Hldalso off the coast of Lower California. . One man was reported killed, the exchange ssld. The Hidslijo. operated by the Keene line, was enroute south from Los Angeles harbor. AND RIA7FI WRECKS PLANT OF CRUSADING PAPER Batteries Wired Together Believed Remnant of In fernal Machine Paper Carried Attacks On Vice 'BELLE CENTER, Of, Aug. 31. (AP) A bomb explosion and fire today wrecked the publishing plant of J E. Manahan, who prints under con tract the American Examiner. Inc., a crusading weekly paper. Sheriff Charles Bewley said he found In the wreckage of the build lng six flashlight batteries, wired to gether, and that they apparently had been used to set off a charge of high explosive. Manahan at first Bald he believed an accumulation of gas might have caused: the explosion, but after view ing the wreckage said he waa con vinced It was the work of bombers. He estimated damage at about $15. 000, with 4S00 covered by Insurance. Founder In Pen. Manahan declined to say with whom ha held his contract to print the Examiner, a paper which was founded by Grover Fleming. Flem ing now Is serving an indeterminate sentence up to five years In the London, O. prison farm on a charge of circulating obscene literature. Sheriff Bewley said that the paper published special editions for various cities in Ohio and the mlddlewest, each edition "crusading" against al leged vice conditions. Andy Bold, reporter, said he be lieved a bomb waa thrown Into the plant. Heard Window Broken. Bold said he waa working tn an upstairs office when he heard an auto drive up to tha aide of the building about 3:15 a.m. He heard the breaking of glaaa aa If an object had been thrown through a window. He heard a man say. "well, that will do the Job," he reported. The explosion followed. BROTHER KILLS SISTER II OREGON CITY, Aug. 31 (AP) The accidental discharge of a shot gun fatally wounded Dorothy Louise Tursley, 10, of Meridian late Monday Coroner Tom Myers and Deputy Sheriff Willis Koehler said her broth er, Byron, H, had Just finished re pairing the weapon when It discharg ed, the shot striking his sister In the side and slightly wounding Lydell Reed, 17, a neighbor. The brother and Reed rushed tho girl to the office of an Aurora doctor. where she died a few minutes later, EARL REINHARI NAMED SALEM, Aug. SI, (AP) Earl C. Relnhsrt, Grants Pass, was appoint ed horticultural and nursery In spector In the state department of sgrlculture' today. Rclnhart was ersduated from Ore gon State college In 1B2S and taught Smith-Hughes agriculture lor twolve years. He also has owned a farm nenr Orsnta Pass for three years. Ho will assist John Wclman, super intendent of the depsrtment's nursery service. NARCOTIC SEEKER TAKES 12TH PHYSICIAN'S VALISE Southern Oregon's "narcotlo thief" struck for the twelfth time In the psst 10 dsys, Isst night. And, as In all previously reported esses, the rob-' bery was committed by ransacking a physician's psrkod automobile, - Dr. Charles W. 8weeney told city police that some time during the night his machine, psrked at his home on the old pacific highway be tween Medford and Central Point, was entered end from It waa stolen a physicians medicine kit containing a tew surgical Instruments, tape and bandages but no narcotics. Expensive surgical Instruments, In another case, were left behind by the unidentified drug addict. Dr. Sweeney told city police, Chief Clatoua Me. Credle pointed out that that was proof the thief waa Interested only -i baseball American DETROIT. Mich.. Aug. SI. (AP) Rudy York's 39th and 30th home runs of the season accounted for half of Detroit's runs today in a 12 -to-3 victory over Washington In the first game of a series. The circuit blows brought Tork's August total to 18. bettering Babe Ruth's record for borne runs hit during a single month. The score: R. H. E. Washington 8 11 l Detroit 12 14 1 Appleton. Jacobs and R. Ferrell, Millies; Lawson and York. - R. New York '. 7 H. 18 Cleveland ...... 8 8 3 Hadley and Dickey; Harder, Brown, Wyatt and Sullivan. . First game: R. Philadelphia St. Louis H 1 . a Thomas, Fink and Hayea; Kogsett and Hemsley. Score: Boston R. H. 6 11 h 7 17 Chicago Wilson. MoKstn, Neweom, Marcum and Berg; Kennedy and Sewell. R. - .. 2 Chicago Brooklyn Garleton and Kartnett; Frankhouse and Phelps. R. H. S. Cincinnati . a a 1 . 7 10 1 Lombard!; Boston ... Mooty, Hallahan and MacFayden and Mueller. R. H. E, Pittsburgh 0 S 0 Philadelphia sou Brandt, Brown and Todd; Walters and . Wilson, St. Louis .. New York Wetland and Owen; Caatl.man, Brennan, Baker and Dannlng. PALESTINE FEARS NEW RACE RIOTING JERLSALEM. Aug. 81. (AP) Race-torn Palestine was nervously on edge today while police and troops prepared to quell any violent se quels to disorders which caused the death of throe Jews and four Arabs. There wss widespread fear that the outbursts yesterday presaged another period of racial conflict and blood shed In the Holy Land. The flareup was attributed In most quarters to the political situation of a country torn for years between Jews and Arabs a situation recent ly accentuated by Britain's proposal to partition the land Into sovereign Jewish and Arab atates. Authorities told Palestine police and British troopa to "stand by" and warned newspapera and others not to attempt Incitement. Sir Arthur Orenfcll Wauchope. the British high commissioner for Palestine, wse hast ily called back to Jerusalem from his summer camp In northern Palestine. GUARDlENlEIN CITY ABOUT 5 P.M. A special train bringing Medford's national guardsmen back to their homes waa scheduled to arrive here between J and 11:30 thla afternoon. The warriors of Company A and headquarters company . are coming home after two weeks of Intensive training and participation In war games with regular troops at Fort Iwi, wn., and points nortlv, In obtaining narcotics. An attempt to procure fingerprints from Dr Sweeney'a car met with no success, Chief MoCredle stated. Previous to the. robbery last night four medicine bags had been stolen from physicians' parked automobiles In Medford, Ashland police have ra celved reports of two bags purloined from Llthla City doctors' parked cara: four were reported stolen In Klamath Falls and one In Grants Pass, all within the paat 10 days. State and city police of all south ern Oregon are Investigating the baf fling series of robberies. It la believed that the clever thlst la probably transient, although local state and city authorities stats that he perhaps Uvea In Medford, Ashland, Klamath Falls or Grants Faas. Crash STAGE IS UPSET, 24 Taken to Hospitals In Goshen and Elkhart, Ind. Autoist Driving Alone When Accident Occurs OOSHEN. Ind.. Aug. 81. (AP) Five persons were killed and more than a score Injured today In tha collision of a transport (Oreyhound) bus and a sedan at a road Intersec tion live miles north OX Goshen. Coroner Karl vctter complied thl list of dead: Allison Bishopric of Cincinnati, O. A. Q. Carpentler of Iowa City. Iowa. Mrs, James Kelleher of Chicago. John H. Helnsohn of Buffalo. N. T. Raymond Bufkln, negro porter of St, Louis. In the confusion following th, crash seven were reported dead. Am bulanoes sent from Qoshen and Elk hart carried dead and Injured away while the coroner waa making hla tint Investigation. Elkhart and Qoshen hospitals list ed 34 persons admitted for treatment for Injuries, Physicians said none of them waa injured seriously. Bishopric was driving alone In th sedan Involved In the accident. At Cincinnati, friends said he left thla morning to drive to Old Mission, Mich. He was president ot the Allison Bishopric Manufacturing company. The bus waa damaged badly whesi . It overturned after the collision. Bishopric's sedan was demolished. E TACOMA. Wn., Aug. 31. (AP) Pacific Northwest National Guards men, their two weeks of war at an end, left the swamps of Fort Lewis to the regulars today. Their departure, beginning 1b earnest at 4 a. m., signalized the of ficial end of the fourth army man euvera held in the last month at San Louis Obispo, Cal., Fort Riley, Kas., Camp Ripley, Minn. and hers. Regular army troops from Forts Lawton, oeorge Wright, and Missoula and Vancouver barracks remained In their tent cities, sodden under a blanket of rain but were to leave for their home posts Wednesday. Oregon truck convoys began lear lng the post here at 9 a. m., and were to arrive in home cities beforv nightfall. FRIEND OF FAMILY SLAYS DAUGHTER DETROIT, Aug. 81. OT A 48- year-old automobile worker. Irration al alnce the death of hla own daugh ter eight yeara ago. led police today to the body of Evelyn Mack, 10, hid den In a clump of weeds at the out skirts of the city. Police Lieut. Walter Bach or ssld Joseph Jacobs, a friend ot long stand ing of the Mock family, confessed be crushed the child's skull with an automobile crank, yielding to an Im pulse he could not explain. Jacobs, the officer said, told mm he killed the child between S and o'clock yesterday afternoon, shortly after he hsd obtained permission from her mother, seriously 1U, to take Evelyn to a nearby grocery. Jacobs said he drove all night long. while a search for him and the miss ing child grew In Intensity. HEAVY RAIN DANGERS EUGENE AREA CROPS EUGENE, Aug. 31. (AP) More than half an Inch ot rain tell here during the night, the local weather observer reoordlng ,57 of an Inch of precipitation this morning. It was the second hesvlest rstnfall In the past 13 Augusta recorded hsre, Hop growers eyed the skies anx iously today, fearing continued rain fall would ruin their crops. Picking of late hops was due to start her within the next few days. James C Davis Dies DES MOINES Iowa, Aug. II (AP) James C. Davis. 80. Dea Molnea attorney and director general of the United States railroad administra tion after the World war, died last night of heart disease.