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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday, but with fog In morning; cooler tonight. Highest yesterday 01 Lowest this morning .. 52 Precipitation To 5 p. m. yesterday .19 Overlooked In ca yon did not read tha Classified Sunday morning you likely overlooked something. Why not refer to these Ada now? This page It always In teresting and should not be overlooked Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1937 No. 156. taULEft Ml IN ' I 7Ss ..SW ffmr W I Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, inc. BLACK HELP LIKELY NOT TO SERVE ON COURT HINT HE SUSPKCTS EXPOSE SEEN IN SECRET OATH EFFECT KLAN REVELATIONS ON PRESIDENT FEARED INFLUENTIAL SUPPORTERS ESTRANGED BY CHARCiEH WASH I N GTON , Sept. 20. A fine French silk gown arrives today in Washington which niay never be worn. It was ordered In August by Associate Justice Black, but, If the situation now reaching a boiling point here doesn't cool off. a brand new JudlclaJ robe and skull cap can probably be picked up at a bargain. It Isn't merely the fact that Mr. Black once wore a white robe, say some of the perturbed New Dealers, that may make him unworthy of wearing the more sombpr vestments What them gentlemen who won't be quoted declare Is that they now be lieve that Mr. Black had a hint of what was coming and for that rea son took the oath as member of the court secretly and Immediately de parted fur Europe. (The oath Is tra dltlonally administered in the robing room Just before a new appointee takes his place at the bench for the first time.) If this Is true. If It Is established , tnai ivlt. niacK Knew wnw was anesa and didn't warn the president, it is going to make his situation consid erably worse. . . The president's friends are far less concerned over the fate of the for mer Klansman than they are over the effect of the revelations on the White House. They are worried. And the presi dent Is worried. For the affair has had the result of estranging some of his Important Influential supporters men who hold public confidence because, while they have been frank enough to criticize the New Deal, they have stood firmly behind the president. General Hugh Johnson Is an ex ample. Both in his writings In the last few days and In a recent speech, he virtually cut the last tie with his former ehief whose policies he has often criticized but for whom he has always professed loyalty. When the fiery general declared, as he did before a gathering of lum bermen In Chicago, that "the execu tive", was seeking power "to influ ence nil the federal courts." referred to Associate Justice Black as a "hill-billy Ku Klux" and shouted that we were moving "straight to ward as rigid a dictatorship as there la on earth," his words had definite repercussions in Washington. These opinions, It can be defi nitely stated, were General Johnson's own and were not Inspired by any advisers. The morning that the papers re ported the Johnson Bprech there ap peared on the stands "News-Week" the magazine with which "Today was merged. Raymond Moley, one time close personal adviser to the president, and editor of "Today," (Continued on Page Pour ) Ropes can be had as' small as 3-1 6th of an inch In diameter. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Pop Gates reminiscing with a Portland visitor over the "good old days" when ho was a high mogul on the highway commission. Barbara Wall gathering travel lit. ratu re with a weakening of her resolutions not to head south witn the birds for her vacation trip. Charlie Adair gnzing ruefully at a crumpled fender which spoils his long -boasted record of no auto accl dents. John Enders trying to decipher long telegram from Shrine pals of Oakland, dispatched during a stag party In the Bay City metropolis. Petrol eumologist Cole Brtggs tell ing the latest yarn to fallow break fast club members In a local restau rant. Jtmtnv Iw.ft and his dad tuning up the family car for a trip to the east. Pay Baker impersonating a km with a free circus puna affr landing his firt stelheed nar Brbe- bridge Sunday, it being beauty, too, weighing 04 pound. . I ACCIDENTS MARK OPENING DAY OF SHSONON DEER Companion Fires at 'Some thing Moving in Bushes' Hits Hood River Area Man Son Shoots Father HOOD RIVER. Sept. 30. (API Reports from the 'Isolated Coopers Spur Junction on the north slope of Mount Hood said Otto Smith had been shot and killed in a deer hunt ing accident. Sheriff's deputies and state police left immediately for the locality, seven miles south of the Junctlv, to Investigate and bring back the body. The reported fatality was the first for the opening day of the, hunting period. Early Information said that Smith, a resident of the little community of Mt. Hood 14 miles south of Hood River, was shot by his companion. The second hunter's name could not be learned from authorities. The men had separated, the re port said, and Smith's companion fired when he saw something mov ing In the bushes. MERCED, Cal.. Sept. 20. (AP) Death from the accidental discharge of a rifle In the hands of bis 13 year old son was the fate of Prank Louis Guerena, 46, Stanford univer sity trustee and former assistant state attorney general, on a deer hunting expedition. A bullet discharged from a rifle carried by Prank Louis Guerena, Jr.. when he stumbled while following his father up a mountain, passed through Guerena'a body. The accl- dent happened Saturdays near Signal peax on the old Yosemite park road. BAKER, Sept. 20. (AP) Charles Gacy of Harper was shot through the head In a deer hunting accident in the Blue Mountain district near the Austin mnger station early thl6 morning. Gracy, one of a party of six hunt- era, was taken to the Prairie City nospitai. his condition Is very ser ious, but the wound is not expected to be fatal. The bullet penetrated the head through one eye and emerged near the ear. Details as to how the accident occurred were not learned here. ORGANIZE LATER EUGENE, Sept. 20. (AP) Formal organization of the Retal Clerks' as sociation of Oregon was held up here Sunday when delegates from councils all over the state turned down the proposed constitution, mod eled on the Washington state plan. As a result of the action, final organisation plans were deferred for six weeks during which a new con stitution will be drafted. This con stitution Is expected to be presented to the organisation In Portland Nov. 3, at which time It Is expected the permanent organization will be ef fected. At the Portland meeting, eacn town In the state will be entitled to two delegates, the delegates to be at the meeting In person or their votes not to count. WASHINGTON", Sept. 20. (API- President Roosevelt proclaimed the week beginning October 8 as tire prevention week. In a statement re- leased at the White House he In vited "the active co-oppratlon of all our people In the el fm In at ion of fire hazards and the prevention of fir waste.' League Refuses Renewal Of Spain s Council Seat GENEVA. Sept. 30. (AP) The League of Nations assembly refused today to grant government Spnln a seat in the league council for the next three years, to the Jubilation of member nations sympathetic with the Insurgent regime of Generalis simo Francisco Franco. The Madrid-Valencia government failed by nine votes to obtain the two-thirds majority necessary for a new term. Spain's present thr-year trm expires this year. Spain remains, of course, a mem ber of the league and my snd a representative to council sessions destine with matters concerning her but will laek the right to vote In rouncll. The major powers hold permanent seats on the council, wMeh Is In rffert the lMffue'n executive com mit'ee, but Spain has held one at the four sea rotated nn:ii minor nstinn? at- three year int-vU. Tha rote came at a session wheiem American Embassy Is Forced to Freight Piles Up as Workers Dispute This Is a typical scene on Hun Francisco's waterfront where C.I.O.-afflllaled longfhoremen and A.F.L. teamsters are locked In Jurisdictional dispute. Longshoremen continue to unload ships hut teamsters refuse to move growing piles of freight from the pi pr. TRIAL OPENS;! EXPERTS' TO TESTIFY QUESTION OF SKILL Selection of a Jury In the trial of Earl A. Sims, local plnball agent. charged with setting up and oper ating a lottery was underway this morning before Judge H. D. Norton in circuit court. The trial Is expected to take most of the day. A half-dozen local citizens, who played the plnball devices when In operation, were subpoenaed as "ex pert" witnesses by the state. They Included H. N. (Dock) Butler. Charles -B. Gay and P. B. Harrison The plnball machine, formerly In a Sixth street hamburger stand, was set up In the courtroom as Exhibit A. It was seized as evidence when Sims was arrested on August 26. The technical point, whether the plnball machine Is a "lottery." as the state contends, or Is a game of "skill," as the defense holds, Is the question at Issue. The state la represented by Dis trict Attorney Frank J. Newman and Deputy District Attorney George W. Neilson, and the defense by Attor neys Ocorge M. Roberts and William M. McAllister. ING PLANT TO PUBLIC ON FRIDAY Through Leonard Carpenter, offi cial of the Southern Oregon Sales, Inc. packing plant, and the Jackson' County Chamber of Commerce, an Invitation has been extended citizens of Medford to visit the huge pear packing plant next Friday from 0 a. m. to 3 p. m.. It was stated today. At that ttme. operations will be Ir. full blast and every one Interested In seeing pears prepared for market are urged to take advantage of the opportunity. Guide will be furnish ed and visitors shown through the en tire ptant, located on Stewart avenue Just off the Pacific hltrhwny. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden deplored that "peoplea of the world seem as far as ever from at taining peace." Eden, pledging Britain to unstlnt ed effort toward preserving peace, nevertheless, belittled the importane a nee of Germany's demand for re turn of wax-lost colonies, some of them now under British control: and Inferred Italy herself was to blame for the limited patrol arras offered her by the Nyon conferees on piracy In the Mediterranean. The foreign secretary declared the nine Nyon powers undoubtedly would be ready "to consider sunnBiton" tor elaborating Italy'i psrt In the plan to drive plra7 from the Med iterranean sea lanes. But It was felt he eipe-ted Italy! to take the first step, and he point-1 edly remarked that it tu 'quite Impossible to !ave attemn'' an flr.:cMe plsn in nesonaM- ithirnttt on 1. The rorp lll a country not represented at hwn. Pear Markets NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (AP-USDA) Pear auction: 30 cars arrived, 38 California, 0 Oregon, 3 Washington unloaded, 18 on track, Oregon Bart ietts, 780 boxes extra fancy, ai.6o,$, 3.15, average $2.08; 2530 boxes fancy 1.75(3-2.30, average (3.12; Washing ton Bar time, 230 boxes extra fancy, $1.70(5 3.15, average $2.03; 780 boxes fancy, $1.60(a2.05, average $1.88; Cal ifornia Bartietts, 17,850 boxes, $1.70 (rt 3.16, average $2.42; Hardy 640 boxes, $1.85(0 2.05, -average $2. CHICAGO, Sept. 20. (AP-USDA) Pear auction: 11 California arrived, 4 Illinois, 11 Oregon, 3 Washington, 20 on track, 13 sold; California Bart ietts. 6441 boxes $1.8533.70, aver age $2.37; Oregon Bartietts, 720 boxes fancy or better, $2.10(2.35, average $2.25; 744 boxes fancy $1.00 2.25. average $3.18; 720 boxes extra fancy $2.05(3.20, average $2.10; Washington, 720 boxes, $2. FEAR 1 HUBERT EDMONTON, Sept. 20. p) Possibility that Sit Hubert Wllklns may have crashed In a blind landing near Aklavlk was seen here today by Capt. W. R. "Wop" May, Canadian airways Mackenzie -district superin tendent, following a radiogram from Pilot Arthur Rankin, now at Aklavlk, N. W. T., which aald that Wllklns' radio faded out Just before the explorer-flier had said he was going to attempt a landing somewhere on the Mackenzie delta. Pilot Rankin notified Capt. May that Wllklns, now missing since yes terday afternoon on a flight from lake near Aklavlk to that post, had radioed "we are over the delta' and was going to attempt a landing. At that time the weather was "zero zero" at Aklavlk. Immediately arter this message, Rankin said, the Wllklns radio faded out. Capt. May Interpreted this to mean that Wllklns may have crashed, smashing the radio, aa the radio was "workable" either from the ground or tho air. 1200 CARLOADS PEARS E: HOOD RIVER, Sept. 20. (AP) Hood River pear packers today an ticipated the shipment of 1.200 car loads of packed pears from here this season. Good prices sre being paid on steady market. The Apple Growers association ex pects to ship about 000 carloads of Bosv snd D'AnJous and about 75 cars of Bartietts. In addition to the packed Bartietts, about 4.000 Ions will be cnn"d by the association CCC VETERANS GIVEN CHANCE TO RE-ENLIST WASHINGTON. Bpt. 20 (API About 05. 000 veterans of the civll- isn ConvrvaMnn corps, whose stv J ire mHft sipt to he terminated, re i reived tfM t sr thet they ms re ' uroU l00,fe. uin at that urn. ELUDES POLICE HUNT State police said this afternoon that the clothes worn by Nichols had given them a clue as to the condition of the hit-run automobile, and that the type of Injuries he received had furnished "a pretty good description" of the front of the car. They said that, from Information furnished by several persons who saw the car Im mediately after It hit Nichols. It ap peared that the driver would be op pi eh ended soon.. No trace has been found by the state police or sheriff's officers of the hit-and-run driver, who Saturday night, struck Geonge W. Nichols, Jr., local stockman, as he was repairing a defective auto headlight near Talent. Bherlff Syd I. Brown aald evidence Indicated that Nichols' auto was close to six feet off the Pacific highway when he was hit, and It was neces sary for the hlt-sklp car to be off the highway, to cause the accident. Nichols sustained fractures of both (Continued on Page rhree.) STUDEflWlN MOSCOW. Idaho. Sept. 20. (AP) One University of Idaho student was killed and three persons one of them Miss Idaho of 1037" were reported Injured In an automobile crash between here and Pullman Wash., this morning. Bob Baker, son of Judge and Mrs, Hugh Baker of Rupert, and president of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the university, was killed. His sister. Martha Jsne, a university graduate last June and named "Miss Idaho1 for the San Francisco bay bridge celebration, was injured. Gilbert St. Clair and hit sister, (Catherine, were reported Injured. Officers said the four were riding in a coupe when It collided head on with one driven by Perry Heaton of Cotton, Wash. The Idaho group waa returning to Moscow. 10EB, FORMER AIDE OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT, DIES OI,EN COVE, N. Y Sept. 20. AP William Loeb, 70, who rose from a professional stenographer to business executive termed by former AmbsKSAdor James W. Gerard one of the 50 "rulers of America," died In a hoftpltnl yesterday of pneumonia loeb was best known to the pub lic, however, as the secretary of President Theodore Roosevelt, a Job he first undertook when Roosevelt una governor of New Tork. Hi pitlon he served as a buf fer between the president and of fice seekers made him an import ant person nr in Washington, and "Tell it to Ixrb" and "Blame It on Iieb" t-erame stork p rases in the capital. He ws credited with exert Ine yrrst Influence on the president. 3dead,8w0unded in folsom prison escape Warden Stabbed 12 Times in . Desperate Melee Guard and Two Convicts Die 7 Inmates in Break POLAOM, CaU Sept. 20. (AP) A Folsom state prison guard and two convicts were dead today and eight others, Including Warden Clarence Lark in, were wounded 'In a brief, deadly and unsuccessful attempt at prison break. Warden Lark in lay In the prison hospital with 12 stab wounds In his body. Two guards and five convicts were wounded in the melee of flash lng knives and swinging clubs that climaxed the warden's usual Sunday Interview with Folsom Inmates. One of the convicts, Ed Davis, reputed Instigator of the break, waa believed near death. Twenty minutes fighting which began when seven long-term Inmates stepped out of line and rushed Lar- kin In the office of tbe captain of the guard, ended with all the con victs badly beaten snd prostrate. Captain W. J. Ryan and Guard James Kerns had serious knife wounds. H. E. Martin, a guard, was stabbed to death. Convict Clyde Stevens, Instigator of an equally desperate prison break attempt at Ban Quentln prison In 103$ Involving the kidnaping of the state board. , of prison terms ' and (Continued on Page Bight.) ABANDONED BABY IN CHICAGO. Sept. 20. (AP) A wo man social service worker turned de tective today and found a young mother accused of abandoning her two weeks old baby girl In ceme tery. Assistant State's Attorney John Boyle Identified the mother as Mrs. Blanche Cassello, 31, a WPA clerk. She told him, he said, her estrang ed husband, Samuel, persuaded her to leave the mite In a graveyard In suburban Hillside because . "I'd be unable to support It." The Infant, hungry but apparently unharmed, was recovered yesterday after she had lain upon a hedge for 24 hours with only a blanket and a shopping bag to protect her against tho chill winds. The baby was taken to St. Vin cent's orphansge, where the director of social welfare, Miss Bernadlne Healey. examined county birth reo ords. She obtained the names and addresses of recent parents and vis- ltd each home. After she questioned Mrs. Cassello, she called police. - At the prosecutor's office Mrs. Cassello said her husband accompanied her to the cemetery. "Oh." the young matron sobbed, "I'm so aorry." Search for Cassello was ordered PORTLAND. Sept. 20. (AP) Police detained Lor an Morgan, 38, today for District Attorney J. R. Bain In con nection with the death of his father. Joseph Morgan, 07. Police aald the son admitted scuffling with his fath er, who fell and suffered a wound on his head. Return of Land to Grass Due Under Farm Program WABHINOTON, Sept. 30 (AP) Admlntitratlon leader, aald today the 1938 farm benefit program ahould help return to gr.M many acrea In tha great plain, that ahould nerer have been plowed. H. R, Tollejr. chief of the agricul tural adjuatment admlnlitratlon, aald "an Innovation" In next year'e pro gram announced by Secretary Wal lace waa offer of a apeclal payment cf 80 centa an acre for "reatoratlon plan " Thla land waa deacrlbed aa land on ahleh corn, wheat or other cultivat es crop, haa been grown lno 1913. and la dealgned by county AAA com i.llteee aa "unadapted to cropping." "Thla mekea It poaalble for farmera t. net aalda land that ahould nerer httve been put Into cropa for 4 return to graat," Tollay .aid. Leave Nanking BASEBALL American First game: It. H. C St. Louts I 14 0 Boston .. - 0 9 0 Trotter, Bonettl and Qlullanl; Marcum, Walberg, Newsom and De- aauteli. Second game: R. H. B. St. Louis . 8 13 1 Boston 7 14 0 Giuliani; Walkup, Koupal Gonzales and Berg. Detroit 0 4 0 a o o Gomes and New York . Wade and York: Dickey. Nutlonal Brooklyn .- 4 0 1 Chicago - M. 6 0 0 Frankhouse, Llndaey, Henshaw and Phelps; Lee, Bryant, Logan and Hart nett. MAY LEAVE CIO 8 AN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30. (AP) A major break, possibly secession of 1000 longshoremen from the CIO, was forecast by various delegates as they gathered today for an A. P. of L. "council of war," From a reliable source cam word that a "definite development" was likely today, and from a CIO spokes man came a similar expression the meeting was called to effect "seces sion" from the CIO affiliated Inter national Longshoremen's association, As the AFL leaders went Into ses sion, chieftains of the rival CIO, Harry Bridges, west coast organiser, John Brophy, executive director, and Lee Pressman, general counsol, de parted for Los Angeles to confer with CIO officials there. . SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 20. (AP) Opposing labor leaders In the Pa cific coast's "fight to the finish' conflict between the AFL and CIO were reported moving cautiously to day after the national labor rela tions board declined to enter the Immediate dispute over control ot warehousemen. The AFL forces opposing the CIO longshoremen and allied unions, led by Harry Bridges as west coast aide of John L. Lewis, gathered for war council, one aim of which waa to break Bridges' waterfront strength Mrs. Alice M. Rosseter, regional director for the labor board, dis patched to the CIO longshoremen and AFL teamsters the order declin ing Intervention In the dispute over warehousemen Jurisdiction, "I simply sent them the order as I received It from Washington," Mrs Rosseter aald. She declined to com ment further. NVEST1GATE DEATH OF KLAMATH FALLS. Sept. 30. (AP) Klamnth county authorltlM nought tn MiAwer today In th drath of Clarlnda Ball Lang, 37, Klamatn Indian, on Tha Dallea-Callfornla highway yeattrday a few mlla north of tha city. Sheriff Lloyd Low said he would attempt to determine If the woman waa punned. Jumped or fell from an automobile. Her father. Edward Ball, and George Santerno, Wlaconaln In dlan. were detained aa material wlt- nesaea. The aherlff aald ha waa alao Inquiring Into re porta of a fight be tween tbe woman and Santerno. Tolley aald llmlta on amount of land that might coma under thla claaalflcatlon had not been determin ed and probably would be decided by atate and county AAA groupa. The potato goala will be eatabllahed if potato growers vote approval In a leterendum thla month, and then only In commercial areaa and for the producera with mora than three acrea. Tha corn goua w'H operate only In dealgnated areaa. In tha corn belt Peanut goala will be eatabllahed only In commercial areaa. A maximum payment will be eatab llnhed for each farm that attalna Ita "goala." Thla will be calculated on the following baala: 1.80 for each acre within iha gen eial crop "oil-depleting goal." Thla will ha adjuated according 10 pro ductivity of farma. EVACUATE BEFORE JAPANESETHREAT OF Invaders Will Lay Waste to Chinese Capital Is Warn ing Aerial Raid Em phasizes Need of Hasta SHANGHAI, Sept. 30. (AP) Tha American embassy decided tonight to leave In the face of a Japanese threat to lay waste to the Chinese capital, emphasized by a morning aerial raid in which 40 civilians were killed and 40 homes destroyed. United States Ambassador Kelson Johnson, with his aides, worked feverishly to transfer documents to the American patrol boat, Luzon, for the trip 30 miles up the Yangtze ta Wuhu. Amid the rush of evacuation Johnson said: 'I am too unhappy to . speak. This 1s the first time la thirty years of service that I am forced to leave my post. . Hopes to tteiurn But, under Instructions from Washington, I cannot risk the Uvea of loyal staff men. I am not desert ing, and I hope to return to Nanking by motor during the enforced ab sence. Furthermore, tha Luzon, ana the Guam, which also are going tej Wuhu, can reach Nanking In a few hours If the emergency requires." The embassy staff planned to leav for Wuhu early Tuesday morning, thereby observing a demand by tha Japanese naval force. 1 (Continued on Pag Five.) BERLIN IN TURMOIL AS AIRPLANES BOMB CITY IN MIMIC WAR BERLIN, Sept. 30. (ff Air raid maneuvers threw Bert In Into an up roar today the population was driven Into cellars, the propaganda ministry waa burned "theoretically to a cin der," and the Kalserhof hotel, oppo site the foreign office, waa "destroy ed." Warning sirens sounded at 8:10 a. m., and crowds enroute to work Jam med Into the cellars. Bombers droned overhead 30 min utes later and were met by fire from anti-aircraft batteries on roofs of high buildings. - A direct "hit" was scored on Air Minister Hermann Goerlng's new min istry building, but the thousands In Its cellar were "saved." Goerlng himself directed relief op erations as the fire department, air defense corps and police ambulances dashed about. Great clouds of black smoke shrouded the "damaged area" until the "debris and victims" were removed. The raid's end was signal ed at 8:58 a. m. It was the dramatic opening of the week of the third relch's greatest pro gram of war maneuvers. 1- DENVER, Sept. 30. (PtMrt. John Richard O'Brien, exclaiming "Z knew Qod would return my boy to me," fervently prepared to rejoin late to day In Lob Angelea her two-year-old aon, Jackie, the vlotlm of what po lice reacrlbed aa a "mother frustra tion complex" kidnaping. Mrs. O'Brien aald aha waa too thankful to feel 111 will toward Mra. Mary Lou Rupe, 30. arreatod by fed eral agenta at Los Angelea yesterday on charge of unlawful flight from Denver to escape prosecution for tha alleged abduction of Jackie. Loa Angelea officers aald Mra. Ruse claimed at first the boy waa her aon but later confessed kidnaping him because "he looks like my little boy who died nine years ago." EUGENE POST OFFICE DELAYED BY CHANGE WASHIMJTON. Sept. JOe (AP) The procurement division of tha treaaury department disclosed today a change In plana will hold up con struction of a ami! 000 federal build ing at Eugene, Ore., several month.. Tha project, however, la now IB Um "dnftlnf atata," officials sal.
