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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
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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
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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
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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. -