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Mail Tribune Bargain Days Now The Weather forecast: Fair tonight and Thursday: little change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday lowest this morning 51 Thirty-Second Year Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright VM1, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. OFFICIALS FROWN ON MOVIE ABOUT ALCATH.tZ FEAR FILM WOULD MISREPRESENT CONDITIONS PRISON FOR WORST OFFENDERS NOT TYPICAL LIFE ON "THE ROCK" DEFLATING CAPONB EGO WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. While nothing has been said about It offi cially, members ot the department ol Justice admit privately that. II they had the power, they would stop the forthcoming movie based on life at Alcatraz prison. Knowing that no movie camera can get nearer to this lonely rock In San Francisco bay than the deck of a dis tant ferry-boat, they believe that any "popular" film, with It ready-made romantic elements Injected, will mis represent conditions In the grim cita del where "the worst criminals in the country" are confined. Further than that, they declare such a film must necessarily glvo the peo ple an entirely false picture of the federal prison system as a whole. Alcatraz Is the ultimate In penal Institutions: It represents the max imum In confinement, the minimum in privilege, the nth degree of dis cipline, complete Isolation from the outside world. But It Is not typical. le contains but S18 of the nearly 20.000 prisoners now held In federal prisons, which range over every type of Institution from the unfenced mountain camps and farms, where trusted light of fenders work out-of-doors, to the hos pital for defective delinquents, where prisoners are treated as patients be hind barred windows and a double wail of barbed wire. Alcatraz has two main functions, according to experts In penology who now are disturbed over the possi bility of Interfering with them: first, the threat of Alcatraz walls Is a crime deterrent. Flctlonlzlng the life of the Inmates of this prison might easily portray a brutality that does not exist and thus arouse false sympathy or In Test the Inmates with dramatic vil lainy. Either would serve to destroy the moral effect of the Institution. Besides serving as a deterrent, the prison likewise acts to deflate the ego of a criminal, and for the very few who are released only the ex ception ends his llfo elsewhere this Is vital to society. A striking example In this class Is Al Capone. While Interviews with America's ex- nnhllA enemv No. 1 are forbidden. It can be stated authoritatively that Mr. Caoone'a eeo Is considerably deflated t this writing. Bv 1639. when he leaves his slnele cell on "The Rock.' officials have little fear that he will be a burden on society. The thing that he has learned, the (Continued on Page Four.) EUGENE VETERAN DIES AT NATIONAL CONCLAVE MADISON. Wis . Sept. 8. Wr P. H. Jeffers. 91. Civil war veteran from Eugene. Ore., died at a hospital here today of heart disease. Jeffers. here for the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, wat taken to the hospital Sunday. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mom Alford looking frantically be fore council meeting for hl box ot official papers, same having been removed from Its customary niche by a councilman for study. Mel Hocan acting like Santa Cleus In distributing cigars for Hlsxoner. the Mayor. Tom Rweberry being advised to watch out for Vt times Charley Furnas gets rerkl.sa In spending roin of the realm and Fred Ertckson ruing to ask archly what times were they. Kenneth Anthony threatening tc oult the National Catfish Derby as sociation because Its general man ager. Frank DeSouM, took an eiec trie rarer to a barber to be oiled. Gasoline Tvcoon Oyle Brlcgs run rlr.g out of petrol In the hart ol t?t caton business awe. mm Full Associated Press MEMBERS OF AFL REFUSE TO MOVE Freight From All Parts of World Piling Up While Unionists Squabble Over Warehousemen Control MARSHFIELD, Sept. 8. P) The j California waterfront Jurisdictional I dispute stalemate today the loading 1 of boats of the Coos Bay Lumber com- pany. largest operator ot tne lnaus- try here. Henry J. Leaf, vice-president, said the mill, cutting a million feet a day, would have to close down immediate ly, throwing a thousand employes out of work. SAN FRANCISCO. 6ept. 8. (API- Teamsters affiliated with the Ameri can Federation of Labor stopped moving cargoes away from Oakland docks at 7 a.m. (Pacific standard time) today. ClO-af filiated longshore men continued to unload cargo and stack It on the piers. Freight consignment from all parts of the world must remain on the docks here and in east bay ports until the longshoremen and teamsters settle their dispute over which shall control organization of the warehousemen's union. Threaten New Wulkouta. Simultaneously with the apread ot the pier tleup to Oakland. Charles W. Real. Oakland teamsters' union official, threatened to call out teams ters at downtown warehouses where CIO warehousemen are employed. Should shippers divert cargoes to other ports, Real said In a statement, the teamster strike will be extended to those ports and eventually to In. land warehouses. Walkout of teamsters In Oakland today was quiet. Work simply ceased and there were no large picket lines established. Real said, however, ob servers would be posted to warn teamsters who might try to work cargo at the piers. No Immediate congestion was In prospect at Oakland because teams ters worked throughout the night, clearing the docks and warehouses both In Oakland and at Alameda. (Continued on Page Eight.) 5 REALTY SALES Sale of five parcels of municipal real estate was approved at last night's regular semi-monthly meet ing of the cty council. The sales were recommended by George T. Prey as chairman of the land appraisal com mittee. The sales: lot and a half at the southeast corner of Jackson street i and Central avenue to W. E. Thomas: i lot on Highland Drive at Bnat Main street to Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lewis; lot at the northwest corner of Grove land avenue and Oekwood Drive to Prank and Emma Hohlweg. Also lot on the east side of Bsrne burg road south of Main atreet to Aurora M. Burelson; and a lot on East Main street to Emll and Berte Mohr. Remainder of the council's bus iness was routine. . FEDERALGRANOlURY MAY BE CALLED HERE! PORTLAND. Sept. 8 (4t Carl O. Oonaugh, United States attorney for Oregon, said today the federal grand Jury session scheduled for Portland September 13 bad been postponed un til October. He said a special grand Jury prob ably would be summoned to meet In Medford early In October during the regular session of the OnlUd 8tates district court there. Accident Mother Holds On To Life DFS MOINES, It.. S-pt. .(IP Mrs. James Wrlborn. 30. who was de ilvered of a normal seven pound boy lour hours after she and her hue band suffered fractured skulls in an auto-train collisions here last Friday night, remained alive today. Twelve physicians were In attend ance at the young mother' bedside. Mrs. Welborn does not know she Is the mother of a five-day old boy or that, h.r 21-reer-old husband la dead of Usuries euliered In the crash. MED wm Nazi Spade Corps Goosesteps Past Hitler In Parade NURENBERQ, Germany. Sept. 8. (AP) Rank on rank of spade carrying workers goosestepped past Adolf Hitler today In a gigantic demonstration of the compulsory labor servlce-nazl Germany army ot workers. "You are as firmly welded Into the new state as the armed forces," Relchsfuehrer Hitler pro claimed to the 40,000 marchers. 3000 of them stripped to the waist as they lined up In the vast Zep pelin landing field. The labor service commander, Konstnntln Hlerl, sounded a spir itual note before the more than 100.000 spectators. We serve God by serving Ger many," he told the massed work ers. "Ours Is a demonstration against the Jewish materialistic belief that labor Is only a money affair, a matter of merchandise." SHOOTING 10 DEATH ISELm. N. J., Sept. 8. Pi A 30-year-old school girl admitted after hours of questioning today, Police Chief George E. Keating announced, that she fatally shot Paul Reeves, 25-year-old father of two children, when he attempted to assault her. The Wood bridge township chief gave the girl's name as Margaret Drennen and said she was student At a New Burnswick secretarial school, She was the "Lady In Red." Keating said, who was seen running from the bungalow where Reeve was shot to death In his bedroom last night. Charged with murder, she entered a formal plea of Innocent before Po lice Recorder Arthur Brown and was held without ball for grand Jury ac tion. . Her father and mother wept during the brief proceedings but the girl consoled them. She told her attorney. David I. Stepaooff, she was sure she'd be cleared. She had been taken Into custody shortly after Reeves, a laborer, was found nude and dying In his room. His children, Paul, ft, and Emma. 3. were found whimpering under the sheets In their adjoining bedroom. Mrs, Myra Reeves was called by police from a Rahway theater, reach Ing her husband a few minutes before he died. Keating quoted the Drennan girl as saying she went to Reeves' home because Reeves threatened to reveal their previous love trysts to her fam ily If she failed to do so. AMITY. Sept. 8. (AP) Prank Thomas. 65, waa fatally injured Tues day while blasting stumps on his place near here. Coroner Glenn Macy said details of the accident were not known. The body was discovered by a sister. After Japanese Guns Battered Peiping Native Quarters m,.. fry' ksCd After war come, mln. and plr.g Thl. aIri" one nf the I era turned eq taipen and home FORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, Ml E OF Trend Will Continue, Says Wallace, if Series of Nor mal Yields Follow Con sumer Protection Provided WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. (API Secretary Wallace said today food costs already are beginning to decline because of the larger crops farmers are harvesting this year. This trend should continue, the cabinet member said In an Interview, "If we have a series of normal crop yields." Wallace said wholesale food prices turned downward in August and that large crops of corn and other live stock feeds Indicated meat prices would follow in 1938. "Of course the city resident must remember." he said, "that It takes i even the best farmers several months to convert corn Into pork chops and beef steaks. The city man must re member too that fair prices for farm products are one of the best guaran tees of continuing city prosperity." Wallace keeps a close check on prices of farm products. Cm his desk are. several volumes of price charts which agriculture department econo mists keep up to date. The cabinet member emphasized that "ample consumer protection" Is Included. In administration of farm measures Ho-'sald this whs written into the new sugar legislation and was included in the general farm legislation embodying his ever normal granary plans which was In troduced in congress by Chairman Jones (D-Tex) of the house agricul ture committee. 232 PLANES USE Medford municipal airport was used by 2.12 planes In August, it was shown In a report submitted to the city council last night by Thomas A. Cul bertson. Jr., airport auperlntcndent. The planes were classified as fol lows: 48 United States army. 8 United States navy, 46 privates, 6 bureau of air commerce and 124 United airliners on regular passenger and mall sched ules. With the summer vacation period virtually over, plane travel through here Is on the decline. Mr. Culbert son reported. Army maneuvera hive been completed for the year and equipment has been ordered over- hauled for winter flying, the report said. once more lhlne. search the debris of their home, for what e.e me gunfire or imen.ni P" tin, viiiaae, m.kln, up Ih. Ct)'. nati,. quarter. A. th, Japanese encountered unexpected resistance, guns were deiUojtd. onFour Days i h Mil BASEBALL (1st game, Boston New York R. H. B 3 8 0 : 3 7 1 DesautelB. Ruffing Newsom and and Dickey. (2nd game) Boston ..................................... 6 H 3 New York ...... - 0 6 1 Wilson. Thomaa and Berg; Pearson, Makosky and Glenn. (1st game) Washington . Philadelphia . Chase and R. Brucker. H. 6 Fcrrell: Caster and (2nd game) Washington ... Philadelphia R. .. 1 .. 0 Apple ton and Millies; Thomas and Hayes. (1st game) Cleveland Detroit Allen and Pj'tlak; 1 7 J Bridges, Wade and York. Chicago .. St. Louis IS 6 Kennedy and Sewell; Knott. Strick land and Heath. National (1st game. 10 Innings) R. H. Cincinnati 6 11 E. Pittsburgh 7 14 1 R. Davis. Derringer and Lombard!, V. Davis; Bowman. Brown, 8wtft and Padden. (2nd game) ' Cincinnati .... 3 4 Pittsburgh 8 10 Mooty. Hallahan. Lombardl, Caaca- rella and Campbell; Tobln and Pad. den. (1st game) . . Philadelphia .,,- Boston '-. - Johnston and Grace; Lopes. R. - e . 3 Turner and (2nd game) R. H. Philadelphia 0 8 Boston 1 7 Jorgens. Kelleher and Atwopd; Shoffner and Nueller. New York 18 Brooklyn 7 18 1 Gumbert, Coffman and Dannlng Butcher, Cantwell, Ltndsey ajid Phelps. St. Loula 0 8 Chicago 4 6 J. Dean and Ogrodowskl; French and Hartnett. Appeals To Martin In Union Beer War SALEM. Sept. 8. P The Oregon hop Industry la threatened with ruin unless the teamsters and brewery workers unions settle their dispute over which union shall haul beer in Washington and Oregon. W. A. An derson, Eugene, vice president of the Pacific Coast Hop Stabilisation cor poratlon. said today In an appeal to Oovernar Martin. Anderson said the teamsters stop ped the flow of eastern beer Into the two states, and that eastern brew erica hava threatened to boycott Ore iron hope unless the dispute Is settled Tribine Full United 1937. 300 KILLED WHEN JAP BOMBS LAND 1 ive Cars Packed With Non Combatants Blown From Tracks Explosion Scatters Bodies, Debris By James A. Mills SHANGHAI, Sept. 8. (AP) At leaat 300 Chinese non-combatanw were killed and 400 Injured today In one of the worst disasters caused by Japanese air bombs In the three months of undeclared war. Five railroad cars, packed with 1.800 Chinese refugees from the war zone, were blown from their track by Japanese bombers at Sungklang station, 30 mllea from Shanghai. Two densely crowded second-class coaches and three third-class cars were shattered by the blast and turned over. Many passengers were crushed to death In the wreckage. No Warning Given The bombs fell without warning as the train waa standing in the Sung- kianu station, on tho line to Hankow, The fearful explosions iiieranjr showered human forma and blood smeared debris Into the air. The bodlea of the dead were scattered In all directions. Injured and dying were sprawled srotesauely in the ralroad yards aa though they had been enoi aowu in hsttla. A Chines spokesman declared., tne train carried' no soldiers, and that the station was serving no military nurpose. Red Cross officials ruahed aid from (Continued on Page rhree.) HITS PULL STRIDE Harvesting of the peach crop of the Rorue River Talley la now In full awing. The first three cars of the 1937 crop wero dlspatcnea w " Francisco and Portland markot thla week. The county agent reports the crop 50 per wn' omT 1B3B' 11,8 1B:'8 crop waa hit by a late March freer. Plcklna and packing of Boso and D'Anjou pearl atarted Monday. All nnr.kinff nlants were operating full blast today after a Labor Day lull Growers for the moat part will now concentrate on harvesting D'AnJoua. Pear shipment showed a lull over the week-end due to the holiday. The total to date aggregates 384 cars, 114 packed peara, and 250 can' nery Bartletta. The Bartlett crop estimated at 16, 000 tons. Is believed to have been slightly helow that figure. Left for Press Boys Will Brave Turbulent Rogue In Plywood Boat GRANTS PASS, Sept. 8. (AP) Two Portland youths trundled a U-foot six-Inch home-made ply wood boat down the main street hers this afternoon to launch It In the temporarily peaceful waters of Rogue river at the city park and hope for a safe voyage to Gold Beach, almost 100 miles away. Much of the remaining distance Is turbulent, canyon-walled, with rocks, whirlpools and rapids which only licensed river guides usually navigate In boats - many times larger. The youths are Bob Farias and Gene Gayer. "There's no turning back In the rapids," the boys were warned. "We will." they answered, 'send .on a postcard from Gold Beach FORCED 10 CLOSE IN PORTLAND, Sept. 8. (AP) Shut down hit two mora major sawmills today, bringing the total to four and throwing hundreds more out of work aa AFL river ploketa succeeded in blocking off log supplies from CIO- operated mills. Confronted with thla newest loss of working operations for Its mem bers, CIO lumber union leaders, war ring with the AFL over control of sawmill employes, replied grimly: "Let's gat thla straight there Is going to be no more Interfenoe; we will sea to tliatl" Declining to say how log deliveries would be made. John H. Sullivan, business agent for the CIO local, pre dicted all the mills would be open again In "a day or two." As to the river pickets, Sullivan remarked: The Wlllamettt river la a navi gable stream and aupervlaed by the government. No one has a right to block navigation on the river." Whether this Indicated an appeal to the courts to remove the pickets, Sullivan did not aay. Meanwhile the labor deadlock waa being reflected In logging camps. Lloyd Crosby, spokesman for the Co lumbia Basin Loggers' association, an employer group, said the log Jam in the river waa becoming ao great that the Consolidated camp employing 600 men will close down tonight un less logs move sometime today In the river. The oamp has 26 log rafts tleu up. E OF PARENTS ALBANY, Sept. 8, (AP) Entering her parents home late yesterday, Mrs. Mabel Walker found her father, George F. Zledler, 01, dead on the living room floor with his throat cut and her mother on a couch in tne same room, seriously wounded with a knife, Coroner K. O. Fisher said. The coroner said Mrs. Zledler, taken to a hospital, was too weak from loss of blood to respond to question. Ing, but she scrawled on a piece of paper the numbers H :80." which he construed as meaning the tragedy had occurred at 11:30 a.m. yester day. He said one of Zledler't hands grasped a butcher knife, and - nreased the belief Mrs. Zledler had been wounded In trying to prevent her husband from committing aui clde. Pear Markets CHICAGO. Sept. 8. (AP-USDA) Pears: one oar Washington. 10 Cali fornia, arrived; 12 on track; seven sold. Washington Bartletta 6S0 boxes ax. tra fancy 2.00. California Bartletta 4671 boxes l.tO- 2.90, averaga 2.48. HEW TORK. Sept. 8, (AP-USDA) Pears: Twenty-three care arrived two New Tork, 24 California, three Oregon, one Washington unloaded; 10 on track; by boat three California arrived: market slightly weaker. Oregon Bartletta S73 boiea extra fancy 2.40-2.70. average 2.91; 1.064 boxes fancy 24S-J , average x.te, Washington Flemish 630 boxes fancy t.2S-l.0. average 1 JIT. California Bartletta 14.000 boxes 2.1S-8.20, average 3.0. SALEM, Sept. .8. (AP) The City of Salem received the beat price to date for water bond, when Baker, Ford; re Co., of Portland purchased a 1 100.000 lot of short msturltlea, bearing 2', and 2'4 per cent Inter est, with a premium of 18J cents per 8100. Saving Near and Far Bvery day Is tales-day when yoo use the Classified page of t h 1 1 newspaper. Prospective buyers from near and far de pend on classified to keep them posted. I'rompt results No. 116. 10 HELPFARIR Taber Pleads for Return of American Market to In sure Enduring Prosperity for the Nation's Farmers SYRACUSE, N. T.. Sept. 8. (API- Return of the American market, m a mean of insuring "enduring pros perity" to the nation's farmers, was urged today by L. J. Tabor, master of the national grange. Taber, speaking at the New York state fair, presented a 10 -point "fighting program" designed to help solve the farm problem. Pointing to increase "of 8400,000,- 000 In the last 13 months In farm produce Imports," Taber asserted that farm exports had decreased during the same period and asked: "Give our farmers the American market for those commodities which can be efficiently produced. As other points, Taber urged con tinuation, "under additional farmer control," of the soil conservation program, a larger share of the na tional Income for the farmer and a "long-time farm program empha sising land use. - The 10-year average farm Income, he said, was "but 10 per cent of our total national Income" although 'agriculture represents 80 per cent of the nation's population, 30 per cent of the nation's wealth and. ons-slqth of the gainfully employed." . Taber recommended retirement off marginal land by Increasing forestry, 'Give the farmer co-operative marketing machinery to guide pro duction and prevent unreasonable surpluses," he continued "use the principles of the ever-normal gran ary and crop Insurance." Despite serious problems, Taber said, "there is a golden lining to the farmer's storm clouds." We have the biggest crops la many years. Outside of cotton and one or two other commodities, both yields and prices wilt be fairly satis factory. The farmers will have a bil lion dollars more to spend than is any year since 1030.' Other points on Taber's program Included : Use a larger proportion of tariff revenue In finding new uses for farm products, In finding new mar kets for farm crops, and equalizing market conditions and prices. Place emphasis on the family-slued farm. Keep farm coats and supplies. Including transportation, Interest and taxation within reason. Develop national unity, and op pose sectionalism and class warfare. Ample support for education, ex tension, research and youth activi ties. Emphasln rural organization and self-help agencies. KLAMATH PINBALL KLAMATH FALLS. Sept. 8. (AP) Klamath county's ban on plnball machines will remain In effect re gardless of court action In other parte of the state. District Attorney Hardin O, Blackmer declared today. and plnball operators who violate the attorney', order will be subject to Immediate prosecution. It u understood t numoer oi ma chines here were unpadlocked thla morning when word waa received of a Polk county ruling sustaining de murrers filed by a plnball operator at Dallas. Blackmer said that he was Inform, ed by Dlatrlct Attorney Bruce Spauldlng of Polk county that the Dallas caae would be appealed Imme diately to the state supreme court, His decision to enforce the Klamath county ban will stand until the supreme court acts, he said. Canned Peach Crop Is Under Estimate PORTLAND, Sept. 8. P) Crop ob servers predicted today thai the 1087 canning peach production of the Pa clflo northwest will be below earner expectations because of the unusual dropping of poaches In the Yakima and The Dallea areas. Reports said that for every peach picked, two drop. PORTLAND. Sept. 8. (AP) Je rome B. Buckley became chairman of the Multnomah county Republi can central committee by action of the executive board last night, The former vice-chairman succeeds Stew art Weiss, who recently resigned to practice la. -
