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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday; not much change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday .... M Lowest thli morning M 46 Good Investment Why wsite a lot of time when until Clssslfled In thU newspaper will get you what you want qulrkly and at a small cost? You will find them a good Investment. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Freii Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD. OKKGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1937. No. 153. M JVL Ml mm UXJL J UvJi N II ME Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. ROOSKVF.l.T-I.EVt IS PARLEY DISCOUNTS HKI'OltTKD SPLIT APPROVAL OP CIO MF.AD SOUGHT IN APPOINTMENT MASSACHUSETTS LABOR HEAD WOULD SUCCEED McGKAUY WATT'S SELECTION HAILED AS "HAPPY COMPROMISE" WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. That ad justable '"split" between the president and John Lewis was glued together again when the two men agreed to a meeting at the White House Wednes day. One of the subjects discussed at the surprise -party, according to the old gray squirrel, which had his ear cock ed at the window wqltlng for fire works, was the appointment of Rob ert J. Watt to fill the highly effici ent footgear of Edward F. McGrady. recently resigned assistant secretary of labor. If the squirrel was looking for trouble, he found none. Quite the contrary. The president proved to be waiting on Mr. Lewis opinion. And so, If Mr. Watt, brilliant Scotch-Irish secretary of the Massa chusetts State Federation of Labor. Isn't already named successor to the able Ed McQrady, It is because John Lewis Is still mulling tho matter over In his mind, and not because the president Isn't satisfied with the choice. ' Mr. Watt's friends considered that It augured well for his selection as "a happy compromise" when they re called tt was because of such an un official understanding between the heads of labor's battling bodies that he was appointed one of America's three representatives on the board of international labor office of the Lea gue of Nations last June. It was generally known that the A. F. of L. approved of Mr. Watt for assistant secretary of labor. What wasn't generally known was that the president wanted the Bos ton! an, too, but wanted htm only If And that "if" was Mr. Lewis' ap proval, regardless of "plagues on houses" or references to ungrateful "diners at labor's table" and other phrases which have been batted back and forth between the White House and C.I.O. headquarters. So Mr. Lewis was allowed to ponder the candidate's qualifications. Like Marc Antony, Mr. Watt Is said to be an orator of no mean ability. But, some of labor's Brtituscs say that, like Caesar, he Is also ambi tious. Certain high railroad officials. In town when tho president returned from Hyde Park, anxiously questioned newspaper men nfter the White House press conference. They wanted to know whether the (Continued on Page Nine.) LICENSELESS DRIVER REFUSES TO PAY FINE Peter Boston, a native of Aus tria, and a resident of the Holland district In Josephine county, plead guilty In justice court yesterday to non-possession of nn operator's li cense and was fined ,2.00 and costs, which he, defiantly refused to pay. He was remanded to the county Jail In lieu thereof. In a complaint filed by Wllbert L. Dale, two youths, W. H. Olsen and Jlmmle Hamlin were charged with alleged defrauding of an Inn keeper. Justice William H. Coleman held the matter In abeyance. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Uttle Jtmmy Shelry-showing pho tos of himself steering a boat and deep sea fishing while vacationing with mother and dad. Richard Qalder looking over post office bulletins to see that they were neatly arranged. Matt Tribuners knocking off early to beet fruit workers to seats at Murray Bell s eatery. Bill Bowermsn descending from the height of optimum to the depth of pessimism, and vice versa, over T".ger football prospect. Oene NarregRn giving an enlight ening lecture to a Uttle girl aftei he nsd bi'yrlcd into the path ot bis car. hi hating to stop In a half sec ond fist. CHINA-BOUND Si AT SAN PEDRO, CAL Action in Compliance With President's Order Forbid ding Government -Owned Ships Carry Munitions SAN PEDRO, Calif., Sept. 18. (p) A crew of twelve longshoremen started unloading the 19 bombing planes from the China-bound freight er Wichita to a three hundred ton barge In the outer harbor here to day. What disposition would be made of the planes whether they would be stored here or loaded on another ship bound for the orient could not be immediately determined. The Wichita dropped anchor In the roadstead Just Inside the breakwater and several miles from port last night. A fueling barge was tied fast last night but whether the vessel nad been refueled to continue Its Jour ney from New York to China also was a mystery. Tlie action was In compliance with President Roosevelt's order this week forbidding government-owned vessels to transport arms, ammunition or implements of war to China or Jap an. Tho freighter Is under lease to the American -Pioneer Line. It was understood hero that the vessel also would unload Its cargo o! machine guns, scrap metal and barb ed wire, consigned to China. The action of the company In hav ing tho Wichita anchor In the outer harbor was taken to be a move to forestall a possible sltdown strike of the crew, members of which an nounced they would, not proceed un css paid a war bonus of 1260 each. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. (API John D. Blggers. president of the Lib bey -Owens-Ford Glass company, accepted today the Job of adminis trator of the unemployment census. The Toledo manufacturer told newspaper men after a conference with President Roosevelt fie would continue to hold his private Job but would devote most of his time to the unemployment census until It is completed. Blggers said he preferred to work without pay. President Roosevelt, he snld. sug gested tlO.OOo a year, asserting he did not like for people to work for the government without salary. Indicating no decision had been reached. Blggers told newsmen at the White House: "I want to work for the unem ployed and keep the cost down. "The way to keep the cost down Is to begin at the top. I think he will humor me on that." Los Angeles Fries In Five Days Heat LOS ANGELES. Sept. 16. (AP) The heat wave moved through Its fifth day today, with Los Angolenos still wearing thlr summer weights. The mercury went to 89 degrees at noon, one degree less than yesterday's peak or 90 and one more than yesterday noon's rending. Gen. Johnson To Rigid CHICAGO. Sept. 16. P Hugh S. Johnson today declared that "under the seduction of ballyhoo, bribery and charm we are moving away from the democracy Imagined by the constitution and straight toward as rigid a dictatorship as there Is on earth." The former NRA administrator told the National Hardwood Lumber as-1 soolatlon: "The executive seeks the power to. influence the decisions of the supreme court by appointing to It a ! majority of puppets of his own choos- j tng hillbilly Ku Klux Klan wool hats! from tho forks In the creek, like Sen- j ator Blsrk." He referred to the New Oral pro gram sine as "sstenlphlng and. I beliec, of revolutionary dUrn and eTpretved "fear that the prin cipal objective la to give us a newi form of (rovernment not within the ! constitution but in spite of it." Through lump sum appropris-1 Hons of otllions of money to be spent ; in his unlimited discretion and through a power n-. sr-U'Tht to h M , appropriated money frum out pur- j Super Black Silent on Klan i fK a?. jrJ V. S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Mielr London hotel, remained silent thiit he Is a member f the Kii Klux from London to New York by radio. SCHOOLS OF CITY OF All schools of the city will be closed tomorrow In observance of the 160th anniversary of the signing of the constitution. Banks, city hall and county court house offices will also be closed. Rogue River national forest offices will close during the afternoon. All business establishments will remain open. Special programs were, in progress today In the schools to mark the occasion. Informal observances were held In grade schools and assemblies In Junior and senior high schools. Prank VanDyke, Ashland attorney and graduate of Medford blgh school, addressed senior blgh students at a patriotic assembly this morning. He discussed the constitution and difference of United States govern ment and those of other countries, notably Russia and Germany. The speaker stressed Individual freedom In the United States and emphasized the bill of rights as a vital part of the document. Patriotic music by the school band and songs by the audience were Included on the program. All social science classes and some English groups of the high school yesterday devoted 30 minutes of class periods to a discussion and study of various phases of the con- (Continued on Page fbree Sees Trend Dictatorship pose to another, the executive seeks to take from congress the power of the purse." He termed this ti.e "power of per petuation of any administration" and the "worst threat of all." "I was in at the birth of the New Deal," Johnson stated. I thought I knew It aa well as any. But through nut the whole discussion from which It grew. I never heard any whisper of an attempt to change the organ .ent I on of the courts to make them subservient to the executive; to re organize the government, centralizing all power of planning and quasi-Judicial and quasi -legislative commis sions In the executive. I never heard of a suggestion to appropriate rev enue In a lump sum for the exec utive te distribute among certain claws of p-ople. "Ple-e by pie-e. like a Jig saw pus rle, there wts disclosed the court plan, tho government reorganization plan, the long attempt to browbeat, bulldoze and dictate the court plan through congress, the terrible Impli cations ot the lack-Connery wages nnd hour bill, a llmw of the new and completely dictatorial AAA bill." -Highway South of Jj shland Open Itlnrk, shown with hi wile in n the controversy over allegation!! Klan. Thin picture was transmitted BASEBALL American. ' R. H. E. Cleveland 0 3 8 New York 8 10 1 Hudlln. Brown. Wyatt and Pytlak; Gomez and Dickey. R. H. B. St. Louis S 6 0 Philadelphia 4 7 3 Knott and Gr.lllnnl; Kclley and Hayes. National. R. H. E. New York .t - 3 9 0 Pittsburgh 0 6 1 Melton and Mancuso; Tobln and Todd. (First game) R. H. E. Philadelphia 3 6 3 St. Louts 6 8 0 Mulcahy and At wood: Wetland and Ogrodowskl, Ryba. Boston . Chicago Turner end Lopes; Lee, Logan, Psr- melec, 8 noun and Hnrtnett. First game: R. H. L. Brooklyn .... 8 11 3 Cincinnati 5 9 6 Hoyt and Spencer; Hallahan, Oehr- mnn and Lombard). T Medford residents were counseled today not to burn rubbish, grnss or other materiel In the afternoon or evening because of the hot dry weather now prevailing. Burning of material will be per missible In the morning provided the fire department Is notified before hand, tt was stated by Henry Has well, assistant chief. Permits may be pro cured by telephoning fire department headquarters. 849. With humidity dropping as low as 14 per cent In tho past few doys. fire conditions are extremely hazardous and are similar to those existing when the disastrous Bnndon fire hroke out a year ago, Mr. Haswell warned. Ten Irish Youths Burned To Death KIRKINTILLOCH. Scotland, Sept. ! 16. (AP Ten farm youths brought 1 from Irrland to help harvest the po j tato crop mere burned to death to day In a fire In the "bothy." build j lug used for quartering laborers, Where they slept. ! The youths were trapped In a sec tion of the stone building. WOODBUflN. Kept. 16. (AP) Funeral services for Dr. Peter Henry Fitzgerald, prominent Oregon phy sician, will be held here Friday. Dr, Pttrgeraid. 79. tiled Tueiriay at the Monte of his sister. Miss Mary Hersh btrger. LEAGUE ASKS U. S. APPEAL OF CIA Committee May Ask Both Japan, China to State Their Cases U. S. Par ticipation Seen Vital Point GENEVA. Sept. 16. ( AP) The League of Nations council put Chi na's appeal against Japanese aggres sion In the hancis of a revived ad vlstory committee today and asked the United States to take part In Its de liberations. Quick dispatch of Invitations to Washington and 33 other capitals made It certain the United States must soon decide if she will co-operate with the committee, on which her representative formerly served. Sanctions Shelved By Its action the league also pushed Into the background any question of sanctions against Japan at least Tor a time. With China's conditional approval, the council shelved her appeal under the cove nant Article XVU the sanctions section. The committee which will now hear tho protest may nsk both Japan and China to state their cases something Japan Is not likely to do. She has made it plain she will Ignore any league mediation whatsoever In her undeclared war In the east. Despite the apparent shelving of actual league sanctions, committee members will be empowered to rec ommend to their respective govern ments such matters as suspension of credits to the aggressor and the stop page of arms shipments. V, S. Parllclpallon Vital This committee was created tn 1933 as a result of Japan's seizure of Man churia, a conquest the league foiled to stop. There was an American con sultative member then. The potential participation of the United States In the revived com mittee's deliberations thus became a matter of the most vital Importance here. The advisory committee will meet shortly after the election of new members of the council, which Is set for next Friday, REBELS RESUME - (By the Associated Press. t Insurgent shells pounded central Madrid at flve-mlnute Intervals to day, killing several persons. The bombardment came after two weeks of artillery Inactivity. It be gan about 11 a. m., and there were some casual 1 ties before people In the downtown district could take cover, Government guns replied to the fire, which came from nearby hills, There the Insurgents have laid siege to Madrid for almost a year. Several of the shells fell In the Moncloa district and near the na tional palace, where a famous col- lection of medieval armor was dam aged. Government authorities said tho shelling had little military Import ance. HOME FROM TRIP Med ford's world - traveling Boy Scouts, Jerry Vawter. Richard Thler olf and Jack Thompson, arrived home last evening after almost three months of traveling In the United States and Europe. The hoys left here June 30 with other scouts to attend the natlonsl Jamboree In Washington, D. C , and continued to New York where they sailed for England and Europe. They have visited several countries on the continent In the company of a large number of other United States scouts. ELKS RULER ON VISIT TO NORTHWEST LODGES PORTLAND, Sept. 16. ( AP) The exalted ruler of the Elks lodge Charles Spender Hart, visited Port. Isnd today on a swlr.g through the northwest lodges. After a trip to various Washington points, he will return Friday to confer with deputy rulers from Oregon, Washington and Idaho. lY'S FATE SEEN" iN GOTHAM MAYORALTY VOTE Outcome Also Expected to Have Deep Significance in National. Politics Violence Marks Election NEW YORK. Sept. 16 (AP) Tam many 'a fate as a political force may be determined today by the vote of 1,000.000 enrolled Republicans and Democrats In a mayoralty primary contest of extraordinary bitterness. The outcome of their election may also have far reaching Import and national interest In both major parties. , Primary bitterness brought violence before dawn, when a mob wrecked a lower east side drug store owned by Benjamin Brown, assembly can didate, who Is Involved In a bitter district fight between rival Tam many factions. Tliis was the second outbreak In the district, four men armed with axes, knives and pistols having wreck ed a bar owned by a participant last Monday. There are three major candidates: (Continued on Page Three.) CHALLENGE LEGALITY BLACK APPOINTMENT TO SUPREME BENCH BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 16,- (AP) Patrick Henry Kelly, Boston attorney and member of the supreme court bar for many years, today announced be had challenged 4he legality of the appointment of Hugo L. Black to the supreme court bench, Kelly said he filed an Information with the supreme court maintaining there was no legal vacancy for Black, former United States senator from Alabama, to fill, and that Black, be ing a member of congress when "emoluments" for supreme court Jus tices "were Increased." was thereby automatically eliminated from ap pointment. The attorney contended Justice Willi Vandevanter did not resign, but, rather, merely ceased to func tion while still retaining his com mission. This mean, Kelly maintain ed, there were ten commissions as supreme court Justices, but only nine seats that can be occupied. A suggestion was made by Kelly today In a letter to all members of the supreme court and to Homer Cummlngs, attorney general, that the court "investigate and determine" Black's right to sit In order to avert "embarrassment" to the court and Black later. Astoria Pea Crop Struck By Blight ASTORIA, Sept. l6iJP) An ex tensive blight has virtually stopped the pea harvest In the famous Brownsmead district, Alton Zundel, county agent, reported today. The blight, leaving the vines crisp and brown, has cost the growers thou sands of dollars. Less than one-third tho crop has been harvested. What Is left of what appeared to be ft bumper crop throe weeks ago is nearly a total loss, Zun del said. Men Are Better Drivers In Dangerous Situations SAI.RM. Sept. 0P Men are better drivers than women as far as being able to react In dsngorous sit-' uatlons Is concerned, lending cre dence to the prevalent male opinion that the fair sai has little business being on the highways. Secretary of State Earl Snell pro duced figures, obtained from dem onstrations of the department's re sctomcter at the state fair, to prove that men can apply the brakes faster than women whey they have to act In an omergency. The Instrument, constructed by employes In Bnell's office, consists of a driver's seat, the person being examined alttlng at a steering wheel snd strpplng on the "gas." When the red light flashes on, the person must step on the brake, a clock measuring tho time between the flashing of the light and the application of the brakes. Herd Of 6 Calves Born To Holstein Sets New Record OLA.RKSBURO. W. Va., 8pt. I (AP) A Holstein cow at Pietor Potha dairy la the mother of an entire herd ot calvea. She gave birth to aeitupleta nine daya ago and all were re ported physically perfect ' today. Another Holstein and a Guernsey are helping out with the feeding problem. Dr. H. O. Henderson ot Morgan town, head of the department ot dairy husbandry at West vnglnla university, said he believed the multiple birth a record for the nation. CHINA WAR ZONE SHANGHAI. Sept. 16. (AP) A cholera epidemic reaching grave pro portions spread through the foreign sectors of this war-wracked metropo lis today, striking down more than 100 additional victims overnight. The sweep- of the dread plague raised the number of oases in the International settlement and the French concession alone to 740. There are an additional 1400 suspected cases tn the two areas. In the Chinese sections of the city, where war refugees have been hud dled together without even the most primitive sanitary provisions, the number of cases was believed In the thousands. Because of conditions It has been Impossible even to estimate the number affected outside the set tlement and the French concession. Population Congested. The great number of those stricken are Chinese who have been forced Into Shanghai from the war zones ringing the city. The native popula tion of the foreign sectors has been almost doubled by the traglo army of homeless civilians, only a few for eigners have been affected. Chinese counterattacked In force today from the center of the strong Shanghai defense Una and drove the Japanese from battle-scarred Lot ten, (Continued on Page Pour.) 3 Alfred Boyd Davli, waa found guil ty yesterday of driving an auto while Intoxicated by a Justice court Jury, D, T. Lawton, foreman, and was sen tenced to serve three months In the county Jail, fined 1100 and costs amounting to and hla liquor permit and driver's and chauffeur's licenses were ordered suspended for orio year, by Justice of the Peace W. R. Coleman, It waa Davis1 second conviction on a drunken driving charge, the first occurring In 1934. The records also showed he had been convicted of violation of the baslo speed law. The Jury of six men, deliberated fif teen minutes on the verdict, all con curring. Davie was arrested by the state po lice, last Sunday, on the Pacific highway near the poorfarm, when his car went Into the ditch. Davis claim ed he was forced off the highway by a speeder, and took to the ditch to avoid a collision. Of the S ,70a men examined, 44.11 per cent required seven eights of a second to spply the brakes, while 48.30 per cent of the 1,013 women hsd a similar reaction tlms. Only 1.38 per cent of the men could react In a halt second and none of the women could equal this mark, while 11.87 per cent of the males reacted In flve-eighU ot a second compared with 4.58 per cent ot the women. Of the slow group, 8 78 per cent of the men and 14.18 per cent of the women req'llrrd a full second. The rractometer has no official Flatus because It has never been prov en how slow a reaction must be to determine what Is a dangerous driver. But If a driver has a one-second re action, It will take him U feet before he applies the brakes at 80 miles an hour, and another 13714 feet before the car comet to slop. Friday NEW ROUTE CUTS THREE MILES OFF Present Route to Green Springs Junction Will Be come Part Green Springs Route, Says Engineer ASHLAND, Sept. 16. (AP) Te miles of the new Pacific super-high way construction from Ashland to near the Siskiyou summit will be opened to traffic tomorrow morning? at 8 o'clock, P. P. Whltmore, rest dent engineer, said today. Format dedlctalon la planned October 30. The new 30-foot pavement extends ten miles, to within two miles of the summit, and reduces the present distance by three miles. New direction signs will be placed, at the Southern Oregon Normal school campus while that section of the Pacific highway between Ashland and the Orensprlngs highway will hence forth, be part of tlia Qresnsprlngt route. The road from the present Green, springs Junction to the Pacific high way near the Siskiyou summit may be abandoned and revert to Jaoksoa, county. About seven miles more of the present Pacific highway will eventu ally be replaced, cutting off as much, aa two more miles. An 600-foot tunnel Is planned near the end of the sec tlon ' to be opened tomorrow. 1 TWO YOUTHS INJURED 1EN CAR HITS POLE ON OLD C. P. Clyde Lees, 10, ot Central Point and Oliver Allen, 30, of Langley, Ky received cuts and bruises late yes terday afternoon when the ear la which they were passengers crashed Into a telephone pole on the old Central Polnt-Medford highway about two miles north ot the Pine Cone. Allen waa the more seriously hurt, receiving face lacerations and a cui tendon on his finger. He la confined in Community hospital, though not dangerously hurt. Lees Incurred minor bruises and cuts and returned to his home after spending the night lsi Community hospital. According to Investigating state) police officers, the car driven by Lees and Allen struck the telephone pole when a machine operated by Marshall Reeves, Medford Insurance man, drovo out of a private driveway, apparently forcing the other car to swing wlds to avoid a crash. Reeves, state polios said, rushed Allen to a hospital while. Lees waa taken by state police. Allen was a hitch-hiker and had been picked up by Lees Just previous to the accident, according to state police. ITALY'S NEXT MOVE IN ANTI-SUB PATROL LONDON, Sept. 10. (Pi Oreat Britain and Prance rushed their Medl terranean naval activities to virtually a wartime basis Jtodey and Intimated that Italy must make the next move If she wants to Join an "antl-plracy" patrol In the Inland sea. The two powers took the stand that any Italian suggestions, Including U Duce's demand for patrol parity, would be "considered." But neither England nor Prance had any Intention of addressing fur ther requests to Rome for coUabora tlon. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Sept. 10. (AP-U8DA) Pear auction: 8 cars arrived; 38 California: 1 Oregon un loaded, 33 on track: market weaker. Oregon Bsrtletts, 1100 boxes extra fancy, t3.lS4t3.3S. average 83.30; 030 boxes fancy, t3.10o3.30, arersoa ,3.33. California Burtletta. 18.810 boxes, tl J0 3.00. average t3.4S. CHICAGO, Sept. 10. (AP-USDAI Pear auction: Six California cart arrived; 8 Oregon, 1 Washington. 13 cars on track: 0 cars sold. Washing ton Bnrtletta. 880 boxea exlrn fsncy, 3 to. California, 4008 boxes, 13.30a .88; tvertge 13 80.
