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Mail Tribune Bargain Days Now on-- Six Da,s Left for Saving i The Weather , Forecast: Fair tonight . and Tuesday; not much change In temperature. - Temperature: Highest yesterday . ....79 Lowest thla morning. ....41 Do Not Hesitate If you need help In preparing your ad Mall Tribune ad taken are ready and will gladly write your ad, or give any assistance necessary. Do not hesitate to ask. Medford TklBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Presi Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1937 No. 144. Hi ffllBI STA " 1 -aaa a ,. . a Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The 'North American News paper Alliance, Inc. C S. POLICY ON CONFLICT IRES CHINESE UNOFFICIALLY CRITICIZE LACK OF FIRMNESS ARMS MAKERS'. BANKERS' INFLUENCE SUSPECTED FOREIGN INTERVENTION EFFORTS FAVORED WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. Chinese sentiment toward America In certain important Chinese circles la quite different from that expressed In the honeyed phrases of the diplomats, according to certain Influential Washington friends of the besieged nation. Not for quotation, of course, they are citing an old Chinese proverb to describe America's foreign policy. Secretary Hull, they say. "Is trying to cure the Itch by scratching bis boot." Official comment on Secretary Hull's two recent public communica tions on the aubject of America's attitude toward the war will never be .made by the diplomat. But others, equally Influential In Chinese affairs, put the comment privately, like this: "He ' haa issued " two statement. One. very noble In sentiment, but wry general In terms, addressed to world powers. Another, equally high sounding, which mentions the Far East specifically. Neither calls lor action." These critic see In what they call negative attitude an about-face from America's policy, ss at least attempt ed by Secretary Stlmson In 1932. They point out that, at that time, the United State was ready to Join with the other power In an attempt to Invoke the nine-power treaty and the Kellogg anti-war pact. At that time. Oreat Britain refused to go along. vnT snv these men who are In a position to follow the developments that have been taking place behind closed doors. Britain Is willing, but the United States refuses to go ahead. If this revolutionary change In the attitude of the United States toward China has taken place, these Inquirer, unable to get an explana tion which apparently their own of ficials isck. privately hazard some guesses on the subject. Is It possible, they suggest, that the munitions makers. In plte t the thorough airing given their pre vious machinations, are at their old game) Or the bankers? From the Chinese standpoint, an attempt to atop shooting and begin talking would, at worst, do no harm. Negotiations alwaya "take place In the end. Why not start them before many more people are killed, they are asking unofficially. The boys with the aharp pencils In the department of Justice have been doing a little bookkeeping on the famous Teapot Dome affair, the scandal that rocked the Harding ad ministration and ended up with a (Continued on Page Two.) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Director Don Clark remarking with a grin that the championship trophy of the southern Oregon-northern California golf tournament waa aafe for another year, Bob Hammond and Eddie Simmons, each with two leg on the cup, being eliminated, Clark adding he really hated to see tne Medford boys drop by the wayside. Newspaperman Bill Eberhert of Ashland modestly giving out a state ment to the local press after his great golf victory In the fifth flight, consolation. Junior Porter Insisting on reciting favorite bite of poetry despite the listeners' avowal of complete disin terest. Weatherman Kenneth Anderson commiserating with another wage slave working on a holiday. tittle Jimmy Scheffel having a grand time going througn me i plant. Clyde Flchtner parking hi cop 'rcle by a fire plug as be directed WatliO, JAP FIRE TAKES HUGE LIFE TOLL Infantry, Air and Artillery Fail to Crack Defense Lines in 100-Square Mile Area About Shanghai HONGKONG, Sept, 6. (AP) The British passenger steamer Talshan was confronted by . a Japanese cruiser today and forced to turn bock to port when the warship began dropping shells nearby. By JAMES A. MILLS SHANGHAI, Sept. 6. (AP) Japan fought with virtually no essential progress today In a terrific offenalve against Shanghai over an area of approximately 100 square mile. Chinese line sagged, but did not break under the combined force of charging Japanese Infantry, air, ar tillery and naval bombardments. The bBttle area stretched all the way from the edge of the Interna tional settlement to Woosung, where the Yangtze and Whangpoo rivers flow together, about 12 mile north of Shanghai. Tho Japanese contended that their operations were aimed only at wiping out Chinese machine gun nest and Joining broken Japanese lines. Heavy rlvlllan Toll. From the Yangtzepoo district ot Shanghai to Woosung, and to Pao- shan and Lluho on the Yangtze shore, Japanese naval, land and air bombs swept the countryside with sustained fire that took a frightful toll of noncombatant lives. Chinese batteries answered with a ceaseless barrage of hand B.vnadea. trench mortars and machine guns. Chinese at Woosung, whose stub born stand continues to surprise foreign military observers, foiled a Japanese effort to land new rein forcement. Japan's veteran flagship In Slung hal'a waters, the old cruiser Mzumo. and 10 destroyers bombarded the Jukong wharf for several hours, Chinese communiques, however, de nied Japanese claim that Japanese had progressed two miles from the Yangtzepoo past the Jukong wnan, The Chinese admitted the battered (Continued on Page rbree.) RAIN THREATENS FAIR OPENING DAY SALEM, Sept. 6. (AP) Overcaat skies threatened to dampen the opening today of the 76th Oregon state fair, although a Labor day crowd of more than 30,000 persons was expected to pass through the gates before nightfall. Judging or livestock, agriculture home economlca- and poultry began today, while Judging in other de nartmenta was held yesterday. About 150 bangtail were in tneir stables awaiting the opening at 1:30 p. m. today of the race meet, which will last for six days. Today'a races will feature two harness end six running event. Including the 300 Labor Day handicap. THREE DAYS TRUCE IN PORTLAND SAWMILLS PORTLAND. Sent. S (API A truce, arranged through the city council, nromlsed three daya of peace at least In Portland's labor-troubled sawmill Industry. With all plant closed down over the Labor Day holiday, those with supplies sufficient to operate were expected to start work tomorrow minus the violence which baa marked the dispute between the A PL and CIO over which labor union would control sawmill employee, now claim ed by CIO. TAKE FROM TOURISTS FIVE MILLION LARGER PORTLAND, Sept. 6.- (AP) The 1937 tourist crop In Oregon should gross the state 40 million dollars, or five million more than In 193. the chamber of commerce estimated today. In the first seven months, 84. 877 out-of-state automobllea were counted, a gain of 18 3 percent over 1919. MARKETS CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE NEW YORK. Sept. 8. All financial and commodity markets in the Unit ed States and Canada were closed today for the Labor day holiday Siropean markets were open aa usual. ED Two Killed in Plane Crash .' Rf ", 7 'ft..,., m Charles B. Mount, Jr., and Char leg Cables plunged to their deaths Hhen this plane In which they Here Joyriding went Into a spin, hit the rooftop of thlt house In Valley Stream, N. V., then crashed Into the driveway. INE By the AxMclated Press An unnamed vessel Joined the mounting casualty list of Interna tional ships sunk by mysterious Mediterranean pirates as diplomats today hastened an all-European con ference to meet the grave new threat to freedom of the seas. . Tunisian fishermen reported an unseen attacker sent the vessel to the bottom of the North African coast Saturday night, leaving no trace of her crew or Identity. , a) Pirate Cridders Win Opening Tilt CHICAGO. Sept. (AP) The Pittsburgh Pirates have served notice they're out to cause trouble in this season's national professional grid league campaign. The Plratea opened the 1037 "play-for-pay" program yesterday with a brilliant 37 to 14 triumph on their home field against the Philadelphia Eagles. MOLALLA. Sept. J. (AP) The capital stock of the First National bank was purchased Saturday by the Olannlnl banking Interest of San Francisco, marking another extension of the banking chain In the Oregon country. 246 DEAD, MANY INJURED TOLL IN DOUBLE HOLIDAY (By the Associated Press) Labor day week-end accldenta left at leaat 248 men, women and children dead today, with thousands of more injured. Automobile accidents were respon- Bible for 191 of the deaths at the i end of the second dsy of the three day holiday. Drownings claimed 33 lives and miscellaneous causes ac counted for 33, The accident toll for the Labor day week-end laat year waa 271. With tbouaanda of motorists taking to the roads for holiday outings to day, traffic experts believed the cas ualty llat this year would far en cord the 1938 total. Ohio, with 33 traffic deaths, led the mortality roll In an Associated Press survey that Included 40 other states. Michigan and California fol lowed with 10 death, eacb. Seven ot Michigan', deatha occurred In an automobile-truck collision near West Branch. Plve deatha were attributed to plane crashes. Two were killed at Cleveland when a privately owned ship crashed In landing. At Lin coln, Neb., a man died when his plane fell near Ord. Neb., and two navy fliers were killed near Frtends vllle. Md, when their plsne plum meted to earth and burst Into flames. Pour persons drowned near Clay ton. N. M when wall, of water from a cloudburst trapped them In their automobile In an arroyo. In Chicago, a man and hla wife were killed when two automobllea collided and caught fire. In another accident nine persons were Injured when e motorist swerved hla car Into a diu-h to avoid crashing into a freight train. GUM HITLER RIDES - TO PARTY CONGRESS NITRNBERQ. Germany, Sept. 6, (AP) Adolf Hitler rode stiff and unsmiling through the streets of Nurnberg today to open the Nazi party congress, his annual pageant of national socialism- Right arm aloft In the Nazi salute, he stood In the tonneau of the open automobile which took him to his hotel. Guns boomed and church bells chimed. Almost a million Nazis were here ahead of him. Hitler's first act will be to receive Nazi party and government leaders In a private audience. Then, In the evening, he will be host at the tradi tional performance of Wagner's "Melsterslnger." Europe Tinder Box Baruch Conclusion NEW YORK, Sept. 6. (AP) Ber nard M. Baruch returned from Eur ope today on the Cunard liner Queen Mary with a picture of the world as a "tinder box dominated by fear." "People do not hope any more, they only fear," aald the financier, "However, I would not venture any opinion as to the possibility of general European war." SIX FATALITIES ON OREGON LIST PORTLAND, Sept. 8. (AP) The start of a double Labor day holiday In Oregon brought death to six per sona Saturday and Sunday, three by drowning, two more In traffic accl denta and a fifth person was crush ed by a rock. Attempting to repair a leaking hatch In a ratnatorm Saturday night. Lyle C. Ayera, 40, an executive ot the Paclfle Telephone and Tele- braph company, allpped from hla cabin crulaer In the Columbia river near here and drowned. Another drowning claimed the life of Thomas Cunningham, 18, Marsh tleld. The trafflo fatalities were Mrs. Davis Dallemand, about 60, Loveiand, Colo., end Mildred Gabriel, 18. dsugn. ter of a prominent Stanfield family Mrs. Dallemand waa killed In stantly sytinday when an automobile in which she wsa riding with ner aon-tn-law, w. B. Thestrup. Pacific Beach, Wash., collided near Echo with a Pendleton-bound truck driven by John S. Piaher. Tom Quilnot, Stayton, was killed Saturday by a large rock rolling on him while he was working for a lumbar oomnaai at Ljor mi AMERICANS STAY T OV Executive Plain Spoken in Defining Government Atti tude Toward Citizens in War Shattered Territory By 1. Harold Oliver ABOARD YACHT INDIAN, Sept. 8. (AP) Americans remaining In war-wracked China were faced to day with the warning of President Roosevelt that they dc so at their own risk. Ignoring the language of diplo macy to describe the Slno-Japanese situation as an awful mess, the pres ident, on the eve of turning home ward after a short cruise, made crystal clear the government's atti tude toward Americans who persist In sticking to their posts In China, ln a chat with newspapermen aboard his yacht Potomac. 7.780 Urged To Leave He aald there were 7,780 Ameri cans, mostly missionaries and teach ers, In China who had been urged repeatedly to leave. While a great many had declined . to leave, the executive said others were so far removed from points of embarkation that not sufficient time had elapsed for them to complete the Journey. For thla reason, he said, no dead line for completing the evacuation has been set. Warmed by a blue sweater as he sat talking, to newspapermen on the storm bound yacht anchored in Great Salt pond off Block Island last night, the executive showed his con cern over the situation in the Far East. He made clear that the ad ministration has reached no decision on Invoking neutrality. May Delay Trip West The Far Eastern situation la the only obstacle to the president mak ing a trip to the Pacific coast next month which would be similar, he Indicated, to his 1936 dust bowl tour when he was Intent upon adhering to the role of listener. If he makes the trip the president said he would make no formal speeches and would be little con ceracd with politics. The president expects to arrive at his Hyde Park home Tuesday and return to Washington September 14 He is scheduled to make a Consti tution day speech on September 17, after which he expects to return to Hyde Park. His western trip la ten tatively scheduled to begin a week later. BLAZES PUT OUT Ten small llghtnlng-caused forest fires in this ares were reported en tirely extinguished todsy. Plvo fires were set by lightning Saturday on the Rogue river national forest four In the Butte Palls dis trict and one In the Union Creek district. They were entirely out by last night, headquartera reported. About 30 men were employed on the fire lines. Plve fires were act on the state forests one each In the Prospect. Butte Palls and Derby station dis tricts and two In the Antelope moun tain district. They were extinguished yesterday morning. Eighteen men were employed. 4 Bill Posedel Going To Dodgers' Mound PORTLAND, Sept. 8 (AP) The Portland Beavers will send another star of Paclflo Coast league baseball to the big leagues next spring. The Brooklyn Dodgers of the Na tional league bought Pitcher Bill Posedel, righthander, Saturday for a price reported to be $10,000 and two players, Outfielder Ed Wilson and Catcher Elmer Klumpp, Posedel haa been with Portland since 1930, being farmed out to the Western league until 1015. when he started hurling for tho Beavers. TOWNSEND PLAN ALIVE DECLARES REP. SMITH PORTLAND, Sept. 8. ( AP) The Townsend plan rather than being dead It "more alive" today than at any time In the past and will be "very much heard from" In the next congress, Rep. Martin Smith ID Wash) told a Townsend Chautauqua Sunday. More than 1000 people attended the address at which Smith predicted Ire pwslon plan m-ould hare the strongest legislative backing of Its history In the 1938 congress. EAW ORBS Annual Holiday of Labor Finds Factional Leaders Exchanging Sharp Words WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. (AP) Organised labora annual holiday found the leadens of Its rival factions dent Roosevelt's labor policies, William Green. American Federa tlon of Labor president, denounced s "autocratic and dictatorial" the thinly-veiled rebuke for tht presi dent contained in John L. Lewis' pre- holiday speech. Although he did not mention the CTO chieftain by name, Green told a Dallas, Tex., gathering of A. F. of L. leaders that he resented Lewis' threat of an election day reckoning for labor's "so-called friends." Mr. Roosevelt, aald Green, la "the greatest friend of labor who has ever sat In the White House." Lewis' Friday night broadcast ad dress Inferentlally Included the presi dent among the 'so-called' friends who he said had stabbed labor In the back. Green said the enemies the presi dent has made "were made because of the devoted way In which he stood for labor." He asserted Lewis "denounced Franklin Roosevelt because he didn't do what he wished him to do." Arriving In Pittsburgh for two holiday speeches In Pennsylvania. Lewis refused to comment on his own political plans and when asked what he had to say about Green's attack, replied: - Nothing to say. Nothing at all. Don't even cars to know what he had to say." The holiday thus took Its embat tled groups the two now totaling 7,300,000, largest number In the his tory of the American labor movement further apart rather than closer together. It also marked a further break between the president and Lewis whose United Mine Workers gave $500,000 to the Democratic campaign of last fall. Sandwiched between the Lewis- Green exchange, waa the president's own Labor Day comments, deploring mistakes made on both sides. In re cent industrial disputes, and urging that "sanity and reason" supplant "bitterness and distrust.' The president's Labor Day message was Issued from his fishing yacht off Rhode Island. in mm BLAZE LOMPOC, Calif., Sept. 6. (AP) Four children were burned to death and two othera were rescued by their heroic mother when fire destroyed the home of Mra. Mary Tost! on a farm near Lompoo shortly before daylight. The fire, reports said, apparently started In one of the children's rooms. It spread with such rapidity that a county pump wagon was un able to recover the children's bod lea before the house wsa rased to the ground. AARON B. CLARK DIES IN RED TOP DISTRICT Aaron B. Clark, 10, a farmer In the Red Top district for the past 14 years, died at hi, home about 4:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon after a short Illness. Survivors are hla wife and several children. A complete obituary and an nouncement of funeeaj arrangementa will be made tomorrow. The Perl funeral home la In charge. HEAVY RAIN HAMPERS . YAKIMA AREA HARVEST SPOKANE, Sept. 8. (AP) The In land Empire waa awept by rain and wind yesterday, which halted late wheat harvesta. Injured hop fields and disrupted trsfflo In Yakima Flooded gutters poured water over sidewalks In Yaklma'a downtown In tenectlons and filled railroad un derpaaa crossings, The rain brought fear, for much late wheat aa her veat In the Palouse country and the Big Bend was brought to a halt. More than an Inch of rain la the Okanogan valley forced poetpone- ment of the Orovllle fair rodeo. Weatern Montana was also hit by the storm. Weather Northern California: Fair tonight and Tuesday but fog on the coast; little chsnge In temperature; moder ate northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Fair tonight and Tuesday; but morning tog In west portion: slightly r.srmer in east portion Tuea. day; gentle vansble wind off coast. exchanging sharp words over Presi KANSAS CITY, Sept. . (AP)- The march of 70,000 Kansas City children back to school waa post poned today for at leaat a week aa a precautionary move against Infan tile paralysis. The schools were to have opened tomorrow. Ten deaths. Including four non residential, have been attributed to the disease here since mid-July when cases began to Increase noticeably. said Dr. Edwin H. Schorer, city di rector of health. In that time there have been 64 cases and there are aa active cases now In hospitals. Dr. Schorer aald there waa no epidemic and no occa- i slon for alarm. ! Mrs. Dorothy Gosstck died laat nltfht aftar a prolonged struggle to keep awake and force herself to breathe until a second "Iron lung" purchased by the city arrived. Hos pital attendants were unabla to ex plain the delay as the "lung" had been expected here Friday. The other available mechanical respirator la occupied by a seven-year -old boy, CALL TRUCE FOR E SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 -(API- American Federation of Labor and John L. Lewta CIO unionists marched together without disorder here today despite a "showdown" conflict which left the powerful teamsters out ot the ranks for the first time In San Francisco labor day history. ; The 48.000 (police eaUmate) march era Included but one group affiliated with the A PL teamsters, which boasts a local membership of 18,000. Thla group, carrying a banner which declared "we are for a united labor movement" waa composed of 800 bsker truck driver,. They refused to Join with the other teamster council affiliates in boycot ting the parade because of a dispute with the CIO longshoremen oyer control of warehouse workers. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. Sept. 8 (AP) A beacon will flame to night high on the aide of Cheyenne mountain for the memory of Will Rogera. And, If mortal plana prevail, tne be aeon 'a light will gleam continu ously for a thousand years and longer. Spencer Penrose. Colorado Springs mining millionaire, will 'light the flare In the top of a 100-foot gran ite spire to be dedicated today aa the Will Rogera Shrine of the Sun. Penrose, builder of the shrine memorial to Tils friend, the cowboy- humorist, killed with Pilot Wiley Post In an Alaskan crash, made the tower of (link granite atone, with strength to last 1000 years. DYER HYSTERICAL ON TO SAN QUENTIN, Calif, Sept. 8 (AP) Albert Dyer, 82-year-old for mer WPA crossing guard convicted In Los Angelea of the brutish mur dere of three little Inglewood, Calif., girls, occupied a oell today In San Quentln'a condemned row. Deputy Dan Crowley aald Dyer, en the trip, recovered some of hla com posure after an hysterical scene at Los Angelea Ssturdsy night. Dyer harangued 3800 persona at a railroad station, ah outing hie Innocence. Masonic l-eeder Die, PORTLAND, Sept. 8. (AP) Dr J. Francla Drake, dentist and prom inent In Oregon Masonry, died at hla home here Sunday. Be waa 88 jreara old. - - HUBERT BENTLEY FOR m TITLE Portland and Ashland En trants Win Way to Final Defeating Medford Stars Play 36 Holes Today Hubert Bentley, Ashland veteran, was 2 up on young Don Thompson of Portland as the tournament final ists finished the first nine holes of their 36-hole championship match at noon today. Bentley was one up on the eighth and won the ninth for hla 3-hole advantage. Belting Hubert Bentley, the Ash land Teteran who la gunning for hla second title and sandf-halred, 24 year old Don Thompson, stylist from Portland's Waverley club, bleated their way Into the championship ftnala of the ninth annual southern Oregon-northern California golf tournament oyer the Rogue Valley course yesterday afternoon by de feating, respectively, Med ford's last remaining entries. Defending Cham pion Eddie Simmons and big Bob Hammond, In the semi-finals. The 36-hole finals were being play ed today, with the morning round starting at 10:15 and the afternoon Journey getting under way at 3:00 o'clock. The slender, wiry Thompson, num ber one man on the Llnfleld col lege team thla spring, produced a maglo and deadly putter under tre mendous pressure to eliminate Boh Hammond. 1 up on the 30th. Bent ley. consistently steady throughout, defeated Simmons, last year's tltltst, 8 and 3. Win, On 20th Before a tensed gallery of 800 and beneath aunny skies for the firs tune since the tournament opened (Continued on Page Six.) SOVIET PROTESTS ROME, Sept. 8 (AP) The Soviet government tonight delivered a pro test to Italy against the sinking of two Russian ships in the eastern Mediterranean. The protest declared Italy was responsible for the sink ings. Hitherto lossee of Russian ahlpa In the Mediterranean have baa ascribed to attacks by "unidentified" sub marines. The Moscow note formally de manded that Italy pay reparations and punlah the guilty officers. The Italian government flatly re jected the protest and demands. BUDGE AND JADWIGA SWEEP TO VICTORIES FOREST HILLS, N. T., Sept. 8. (AP) Don Budge and Jadwlga Jedrzejowska. leading domestto and foreign candidates, respectively, tor the men', and women's national singles championships, today wasted little time getting Into the round of sixteen In the combined tourna ment at the West Side tennis club. Playing before some 8.000 people the 2,200 "rush seats" were packed Budge won In 48 minutes, at 6-0, 6-1. 6-1, from' young Joe Abrama of New York, while "Je-Je" needed only 30 to dlapoee of Edna O. Smith of Cleveland, at 6-1, 6-1. BASEBALL First game: R. . a i B. Chicago . Cleveland Lyona and Sewell; and Sullivan. Hudlln, Alkan Washington , Boston W. Pe trail , .. a 6 and R. Ferrell; 6 1 8 0 Orove and Berg. First game I R. & a t 6 1 New York Philadelphia Had ley, Malone and Dickey; Ross, Nelson and Hayes. National 10 Innings: let gsme, Boston R. If. , 1 a 1. t Brooklyn MacFayden and Lopes; Hamlin and Phelps. First game: Philadelphia R. R. ' . a a o 13 1 New York Pasaeau and Atwood; Melton and Uencuso.
