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The Weather Can Be Done there are to many things that may be accomplished through the uk ol Classified ads In thlt newspaper If jour wishes are made known. Thl can be done at very tniall cwt, Medford Tribune Forecast: Fartlr cloud, bi. nlbt mil Wednesday, with tog In morning; little chanje Id temperature. Highest yesterduy ?g lowest thll morning . . 43 Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Fear MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1937. No. 175. MM IM1 I mm tm is 1 , . - I Behind Washington Headlines By H. B. Baukbage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. NAVY SEEN IN MOVE TO WARD OFF HOSTILiriKS ... FLEET HELD UNLIKELY TO WIN IN WESTERN PACIFIC ... MANUFACTURERS' OROUP PLANS PUBLICITY DRIVE ... p I BENEFITS OF INDUSTRY TO BE EMPHASIZED WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. Whatever may be going on behind the closed door In Washington these days, every official whisper that floats over the transom le carefully calculated to as aure the country that nobody In tends to start any shooting. Meanwhile, according to what seems to be sound evidence, one governmental agency, least suspected of It, appears to be acting as a powerful brake against any mad nisb Into war with Japan. Believe tt or Dot, It la the navy. Admirals don't talk, especially on the subject of war. But there Is an unofficial record of one conversa tion a short time ago, referring spe cifically to Japan, that Is startling to the layman. The spokesman was one of those men whose Job it Is to back up our foreign policy with guns, and the listener was one of the men who decide what our foreign policy Is to be. What the statement amounted to was a warning of what not to expect If we did get Into war with Nippon. This Is the, sense of It: 'If you expect-ttoe-navV, with" the ships now at its disposal, to protect the Pacific coast, don't ask us to guarantee a naval victory west of a line drawn from the Aleutian Iselands off Alaska to Guam. We can't." The largest publicity campaign to date to plead the cause of Industry versus the New Deal will soon be under way. The National Assoc 1 talon of Manu facturers, which Is back of the cam paign, states that, its purpose la to supply the public with Information concerning the benefits of Industry. It la already sending out weekly news releases to 6000 newspapers. It furnishes a radio program, "The American Family Robinson," which Is broadcast over more stations than any other dramatic sketch on the air and which Is said to have one of the (Continued on Page Six ) OIL PROMOTION PORTLAND. Oct. 13. OP) Day Karr, regional administrator for the securities and exchange commission, raid today he was Investigating three oil promotion schemes In Oregon. "There Is no Intention on the part of the 8.E.C. to do any Injury to legitimate promoters." he said. "We have no quarrel with that kind, but we have with any that may be seek ing to take advantage of a gullible public. "If there la any oil In southern Oregon, it has never been discovered, but reports received by us state that many people have parted with their good money and gotten only fancy pieces of paper In return." He reported Incidences of sagebrush land sold to individuals for amounts far In excess of the true value. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Owney Patton pawing out oranges din honor of Christopher Columbus. Gov. Charles H. Martin slipping un obtrusively in and out of town, tar rying long enough for luncb and a quiet confab with friends. Little pnyllia Tengwald crying her eyes out over loss of her pet Pcke. hoping the finder will note Its li cense tag 3442 and restore Chang Foo to her. Deputy Clerk Glenn O. Taylor be ing kidded about legibility of his writing on court papers. Promoter Mark UlUrd declaring there are ten million Roosevelt tup porters who have never voted for fr him, or anyone else, for that matter. Edith Nichols gracing hrr city h.UI desk with beautiful home-grown dahlia. ON AIRJONIGHT Farm Legislation Seen As First Business Before Solons Wages, Hours Also Due for Consideration WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. (AP President Roosevelt today called a special session of congress to meet on November 15. At bis press conference late today, the president announced to a large crowd of newsmen that he had sign ed the proclamation calling congress into session. Mr. Roosevelt gave no Indication to reporters of the subjects to ne considered, but the first business of the extraordinary meeting will be farm legislation with surplus crop control as Its principal purpose. That was placed at the top of the calendars of both houses under an agreement congressional leaders made with tho administration at the time a nine-cent loan and three-cent sub sidy program was arranged for cot ton. Other matters for probable con sideration are wages and hours, re organization of the executive de partments and nation-wide planning of the development and use of nttu- i rai resources under coordinated re gional boards. The president said he would out line the purpose of the special ses sion In his radio address ton tg tit. Tho president's speech, to be broad cast nationally at 9:30 p.m., (E.S.T.) will be his tenth "fireside chat' since he entered the White House on March 4, 1933. It will be delivered from the executive mansion shortly before Mr. Roosevelt leaves for Hyde Park, N, Y., on an over-night train. T HEARI TO BE SET The budget committee at Its meet ing Thursday Is expected to complete the major part of Its work and' set a date for the public bearing. One of the chief items on the budget will be a 811.000 Increase In the old age aid fund, due to lowering of the ago limit to 65 years, bringing the total of this fund to $44,000. Tenta tive estimates place the 1938 ap propriation for all relief and welfare work at around 985.000. Appropriations for all county of fices and departments will run prac tically the same as this year. AH county offices and departments will close the year well within their al lotments. Continuation of the present road oiling program and funds for weed control are antlclpted, though some members of the county court feel any war on weeds in this county must 'have federal co-ope rtion. advice and cash. Enlargement of the weed control program started last spring Is urged by some farmers and Is held vital to horticulture and agriculture alike. PEAR CROP PROSPECT LARGEST ON RECORD WASHINGTON, Oct. X2. ( AP) A downward revision since September 1 left the prospective 1937 pear crop In the nation the largest on record. The agriculture department said the October 1 condition of the crop indicated a yield of 39.832.000 bush els, compared with 36.956.000 bushels In 1936 and a 192S-'33 average of 34.334 000 bushels. Andros Isle May be Key In Indian Tribe Mystery WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. (AP) pe scendants of the Indiana who wel comed Christopher Columbus to the new world 446 years ago today may still he hiding out in an island sanctuary, suggests Dr. Herbert W. Krirger of the national museum. Dr. Klreger, curator of the mu seum's division of ethnology, specu lated on the legend that Andros Island in the Bahamas holds the solution to the mystery of what be came of the Indian tribe, the Lucay ana. Andros Island la 100 miles off the southeastern coast of Florida. No white man, said Dr. Krleger, has pen etrated the full extent of Its slimy mud regions, its caves and pine for est. Th jitrtrr arnuslng his interest was that Indian Islanders even today Brady Insecticide i - in " 1 i i- i i mi ---mmm St linn- Three Itinerant tomato pickers were dead and a dozen violently 111 In Winter. Calif., of what Deputy Sheriff Clifford (iarrlsnn ha Id was food poisoning due to the mistake of Jim Hlne (left), ranch rook. In using Insecticide Instead of flour In pancakes. Assistant Cook William Sher man (rlchO was held with II I tie ntmn open eluirc.e. WELL DRESSED LADY PASSES BAD.. CHECKS, IN MEDFORD STORES State and city police are searching for a "well dressed" womanwlth a "drug store" complexion who Friday and Saturday of last week cashed worthless checks at Medford stores totaling 989.50. The checks, drawn on the Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank, were all made to a Helen Patton and purport edly signed by an Ella C. Simpson. All were returned marked "no ac count." Across the top of the checks was printed Hollywood Beauty Shoppe. Roy Anderson, meat cutter at Safeway store 471, told city police he cashed one of the checks In the amount of 922.50. giving tho woman 922 In charge after she had pur chased 60 cents worth of bacon. He described her aa being 34 or 35 years old, weighing about 130 pounds, five feet five Inches tall, dark hair, well dressed and having a drug store com plexion. Other local stores to cash the worthless paper were Safeway store 41. for 923; Plggly Wiggly. for 922.50, and Peerless market, for 922.00. FARLEY SEES NO WAR WHILE ROOSEVELT IN ELLENDADE. N. D.. Oct. 12. (AP) Postmaster General James A. Far ley, pausing here en route to James town. N. D., to address a postmasters' convention, told a gathering of Ellen dale citizens: "Let me reassure you that this country is not in any danger of be ing involved In any trouble across the sea while President Roosevelt Is in the White House. do their hunting at night because they dread being seen. Some 40.000 Lucayani were lurd Into cnptlclty by the Spaniards dur ing tho half century which followed Columbus' appearance, and were sold Into slavery tor work In mines near San Domingo and for pearl diving off the coan of Venezuela. "It was a campaign which ""! -cally wiped out this kind and friend ly race." Dr. Kneeer said. "But It is entirely possible that some of the Lucayans esca ped and took refuse on the still unexplored Andros Island." There's no proof that the Lucayank till exist. But Dr. Krleger pointed to legends told by negroes who now inhabit the coast of Andros Island and to his own discovery of a Luoa yan canoe and varioua implements in cave i ob the laliBd. Gangsters Wiped Out by Kills Three CIO CLAMS CREDIT JORWAGEJCREASE IN TEXTILE PLANTS ATLANTIC CTTT. N. J.. Oct. 13. fAP) Sidney Hlllman. CIO textile director, told Commmlttce for Indus trial Organization leaders today It had been responsible for u 20 per cent Increase In the wages of more than 1.000.000 textile workers. In a report on "progress" of the taxtllo workers' organizing committee since Its origin seven months ago, Hlllman announced 456.000 workers had signed pledge cards, 258.150 were under contract with the Industry at a 10 per cent Increase in pay and 9970.000 had been spent In the or-gnnlr-atlon drive. "We have brought about a 30 per cent Increase In the wages of more than 1.000.000 workers In the Indus try," Hlllman said. "In addition, the wages of those under contract have been Increased still another 10 per cent, making more than 30 per cent In all for them from tho original level." PLEDGE ROSS AID PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 12. (API Oregon leaders, many of whom op posed the appointment of J. D. Ross of Seattle as Bonneville dam admin istrator. Joined today in pledging co operation. Mayor Joseph K. Carson, In sign ing an agreement for the renewal of the city's option on the Northwestern Electric company In Portland, sug gested that the city council take steps to acquire the Portlund Gen eral Electric company, declaring the action would be in line with Rosa' expressed beliefs. Others promising their support and co-operation to Rosa Included Gov. Charles Martin and Walter W. R. May, manager of the Portland Cham ber of commerce, both of whom op posed his appointment, and Howard Latourette, Demcrtaic national com mitteeman, and Ray QUI, master of the Oregon State Grange. Columbus Statue On Capitol Site Vandals' Target WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (API What with the ravages of years tnd the vandalism of visitors, the Christopher Columbus statuary at the capltol has encountered imra times. A checkup on the 445th anni versary of Columbus' arrival in the new world d Iscloaed today that erosion has eaten deeply into the globe held In hla right hand. Furthermore, someone has brok n all the flngertlpa off the figure of a woman in the group. AWng one side Is tho terse In scription, scrawled during the lest dimmer: "I .in 1ef low t liberie ' rt- sit v .:..f,i JAPANESE PLANES STRAFE AUTOS OF BRITISH EMBASSY Occupants Escape Injury As Two Squadrons Machine Gun Three Cars On High way Outside Shanghai 8HANGHAI. Oct. 12. (&) Three automobiles belonging to tho British embassy were machine-gunned today by two squadrons of Japanese war planes. None of the occupants was Injured. The staff cars In which 8. S. Mur ray, the assistant air attache of the British embassy was riding with sev eral other Englishmen, were attack ed by tho raiding Japanese planes near Mlnhong. 14 miles south of Shanghai, about 4 p. m. Curried Hugs. Although the three motor cars car ried the Union Jack, the British of ficials said, the Japanese warplanes continued their machine gunning after the occupants Jumped from the machines and sought cover. The British asserted the cars could have been Identified easily and added there was no doubt that the attacking planes were Japanese. With Murray and ther Englishmen in tho automobiles, British officials stated, was a Soviet embassy secre tary named Shahov. Ho had been picked up ten minutes before the attack, when his car broke down. Herbert Phillips, British consul general, said an Immediate Invest! gatlon had been ordered although no details of the assault had yet been received by his office. En lt ii to Hhanghal. The embassy staff cars were en route to Shanghai from Nanking on the same highway on which two Jap anese planes recently seriously In jured the British ambassador to China by bombing and machine gunning the automobile In which he was making a similar Journey, British sources received the news of the episode with the gravest con cern In view of tho previous attack on Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugeasen, the ambassador. NANKING, Oct. 12. (P Five Jap anese warplanes were brought down today during spectacular air raids on the Chinese capital and nearby cities, the Chlneso announced. Three of the planes were shot down during dogfights with Chinese air craft over Nanking. The other two suffered destruction at tho hands of enemy pursuit planes at Chlngklang. Taking part In the raid of Nanking were 34 Japanese aircraft. Two bomb era made Ineffectual attack on Boo chow and attempted to attack Chlng klang. Before they reached tho city, however, they encountered Chinese planes and were shot down. The air battle over Nanking waa most spectacular. One of the Japanese planes crashed headlong into the center of the city after a spectacular dogfight with a Chlneso pursuit plane. ST. St. Mary's academy and high school held a combined Constitution and Columbus Day program on the cam pus yesterday afternoon. A. H. Ban well, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, talked to the student body on the constitution of the United States and Father F, W. Black spoke on Columbus. Program waa opened by students assembling In the yard and marching to the place where an Atlrona cy press tree waa planted to signify the stability, growth and strength of the constitution. Barbara Bray ton was dressed to represent America. Mar garet Mlksctie spoke to tho students , pledging allegiance to the const) tu 1 tlon. ! Combined alngtng of all atudenta of the Star Spangled Banner brought . the program to a close. COQUILLE MAN HEADS COAST HIGHWAY ASSN. I ASTORIA, Ore.. Oct. 13. (AP The Oregon Coast Highway association ended Ita annual meeting here last ! night, choosing Newberg for lt next ' year's session and electing Jean B. ' Norton of Coqullle president. Other new officers were: Sam t Reed, Neahkanle, first vlce-presi-I dent: Dred Robinson. Taft. second : vice -president; J. Albert Matson, ( Marnhfleld. third vice-president; Tom ' Cummlng. Astoria, secretary; and 1 Ufa Compton, Coqullle, treasurer, ARMENIAN SLAYS AMERICAN ENVOY WHO DENIED VISA James Marriner Assassi nated in Front of Office in Beirut Consul's Chauffeur Captures Killer BIERUT, Syria, Oct. 12. -(P) -James Theodore Marriner. 45. one of the best known American foreign service officers, was shot and killed today by an Armenian to whom ho had re fused a visa to enter tho United States. Tho assassin's gun felled tho tall. scholarly consul general as he step ped from his automobile before htt. office for the start of tho day's of ficial business. Marrlncr's chauffeur captured the OKsasMn. Police, after a preliminary Investi gation, said the killer's name was Mejardlch Karayan. They reported he pumped six bul- ieta i rum a rcvuivcr into marriner at close range. The consul general was struck in the bead, abdomen and thigh. He died instantly. An Investigating magistrate exam ined Darayan. Tho prisoner, police announced, admitted that Marrlncr's refusal to issue a visa for tho United States waa the motlvo for the at tack. . The authorities said the American official had blocked Karayan's entry on. the grounds of insanity in the Armenlan'a family. Marriner was known throughout tho diplomatic service In Europe a quiet-spoken, effective agent of his government. A native of Portland, Me., he was graduated from Dartmouth and Har vard universities and was an Instruc tor In English at Harvard, a position he resigned to enter the foreign serv ice August 37, 1918. GRANGE CHIEF RAPS SECRET CAUCUS FOR PORTLAND, Oct. 12. ( AP) -Ray W. Gill, master of the Oregon State Grange, said in a statement issued here that grange members will not "take kindly" to a secret caucus held at Salem to nominate a slate of candidates for office. The grange baa a very democratic system of electing Its officers." the statement said. "For many years the grange has opposed political conven tions and I do not think the rank and fllo of the grange membership will take kindly to a secret caucus to nominate grange officers. Apparently selfish Interests are grabbing at the opportunity to create a division In our ranks." Gill described as false statements he had denied the floor to certain speakers at a grange convention. Morton Tompkins, grange ovorsoor, said he saw "the cunning hand of powerful groups," In charges alleged to have been made at the Batem meeting. Bertha J. Beck, secretary of the grange. Issued a statement saying the use of her name on the ticket was "without my knowledge.' To BrondcnNt Mrs. Lou Cook Young and Mrs. Elsie Carlton Strang will ting the national P.T.A. song for all members enrolling during the campaign this week on Wednesday morning's Friendship circle hour over KMED. Two Jiggers of Whisky Render Autoist Unsafe KANSAA CITY. Oct. 12. yp How much wbLeky makes an unsafo driver? Two JUtKera. Dr. Rollo N. Harger, biochemistry profeasor at Indiana university, gave that estimate to tho national safety congress today, based on studios made with a "chemical breath smeller" with which ho hopea to replaoe the policeman's nose aa a teat for Intox ication. Three ounces of whisky or a lit tle leas than two Jiggers are enough to make the average motorist a peril to traffic. Dr. Harger said. Discussing the "chemical breath smeller," Dr. Harger aald it can de tect the small the amalt amount of alcohol present In a single glaaa of beer. "The polkauiana nose for booao," Federal Tiny Tribune Ad Leases Property Within Few Days A Mall Tribune classified ad vertisement was caucelled today by Mrs. James H. Mooro, 302 Beach street, Ashland. The reason; tho ad had served its purpose. The llttto ad brought results within a few days for Mrs, Moore. She advertised property for lease She Informed the Mall Tribune to day sho bad leased tho property to Mr. and Mrs. William Sttnaon of tho California Oregon Power company, tho lease carrying an option to buy at tho end of six months. INDIAN CASE GOES TO STATE HI ON SANITY ISSUE Kllda Clilloquln, Klamath reserva tion Indian waa remanded to the cus tody of B. G. Court right, reservation superintendent, by Judgo James Al ger Fee In United States district court this forenoon when a writ of habeas corpus was don led. Chlloquln has been held In custody with the intention of sending him to St. Elizabeth's hospital In Washing ton, D. C, for treatment, It waa brought out. The reservation author ities contend that Chlloquln is suf fering from a form of Insanity which they say has been growing worse. They also assert he la suffering from tuberculosis. . The court ruled only on the legal ity of holding Chlloquln In custody. Judgo Feo Issued an order requiring the reservation authorities to estab lish the state of Chlloquln'a sanity Id a proper tribunal within a reason able time. If this proceeding la not taken, tho order said the court would grant another writ of habeas corpus and view neglect of the authorities to act aa contempt of court. Tho question of sanity, It was brought out, must bo determined In a state court In Klamath county. It was indicated that such a proceeding would be followed without delay. Chlloquln was represented by W. C. Van Emon, Klamath Falls attor ney. DOOR SEEN OPEN FOR FURTHER CHALLENGES WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AP Some legal experts expressed the opinion today that the supremo court has left the way open for further challenges of Justice Hugo L, Black s eligibility. The court ruled yeaterday that Al bert Levitt, former federal Judge in the Virgin Ialanda, and Patrick Henry Kelly, Boston attorney, did not have sufficient Interest In the outcome to warrant their attacks on the new Justice's right to hla seat. This made It possible, In the opln ton of some observers, for filing oi new contests by litigants who might be directly Interested. Levitt was silent on his specific plans, but asserted he Intended to take further action. Both he and Kelly contended Blaci was constitutionally Ineligible be cause there waa no vacancy on the court and because the Justice waa a member of the senate, which in creased the "emoluments" of Justices hy permitting them to retire at 930. 000 a year after becoming 70 and serving 10 years. he aald, Ma frequently unfair, though commonly accepted as evidence In court. In reality the odor of the breath of one who has been Imbibing is due more to the flavoring matter of the liquor rather than the small amount of alcohol." But the "chemical breath ameller" can't be fooled. "No larger thin the ordinary cam era, the scientific breath ameller used In the testa has aa Ita nose a sensi tive chemical reagent," he explained "The fluid, normally a healthy pink color, la unaffected by onion or gar lie but palea at tho slightest aug geatlon of alcohol on the driver's breath," Tho degree with which the fluid pales le the glto-away on how much driuXlu the broalher baa been up to, Agents TWO SHOT 001, THIRD GIVES UP IN GUNJATTLE G-Men Ambush Long-Sought Mobsmen On Busy Street in Bangor One Federal Agent Wounded by Bullet Mother Faints MADISON, Ind., Oct. 12. p Mra. John Craig of Madison, told today by a newspaper man that nor son, James Dal hover, had been wound 0(5 In Bangor, Me., In a gun fight In which two fellow mobs ters were killed, expressed regret that he escaped death. "It's too bad he wasn't killed suddenly like the rest of them," said Mrs. Craig. The gangster's mother then fainted. Craig said Mrs. Craig had re ceived no word from her son since hla escape from Jail at Greenfield, Tnd.. In April. 1936. BANGOR, Me.. Oct. 13. (API- men wiped out the notorious Indian gunman-gangster, Al Brady, and on of his mobsmen today In a scnsM tlonal flve-mlnute gunflght on Bangs or'a busiest downtown street. A third gangster, superficially wounded, threw down his gun andi surrendered. One federal agent wa wounded, ... . The dead: Al Brady, 85. wanted for threa alaylnga and several robberies. Clarence Shaffer, Jr., a Bradg mobsman. The wounded: James Dal hover, Brady mobsman, head graced by bullet. Tho name of the wounded federal agent and the seriousness of his um Juries were not immediately mac known. Traced by Agenta. The gangsters, who long have term rorleed the midwest with their forayt upon fcanks and their armed bravado against officers of the law, had been traced to Bangor by the department of Justice agenta, working with In dlana state police. Brady and hla two companion! went early today to a sporting goods store to buy ammunition. A squad of O-mon stationed themselves us a vacant building across the atreea with maohlno guns poised. When Brady, Shaffer and Dalhovof emerged, the G-men opened tire, - The gunmen, surprised, sought cover, whipping out their pistols aa they dodged behind poata and parked cars. They blamed away In return and busy central street waa swept by the chattering cross-fire of ma chlno guna and pistols. Deputy sheriffs and Bangor pouce hastily cleared the streets of passera by who miraculously escaped injury, and kept curious onlookers beyond range. Five Minutes Fight. But the destruction of Brady and hla men waa not aa simple aa tn killing of the more famous Indiana born gangster, John DUUnger, wae also fell before G-men guna. The firing today went on for five mtn utes before Brady and Shaffer la? dead before the horrified gae ot scores of Bangor cttlmna on theUf way to work. In the killing of Brady, the de partment of Justice ended a career which they charge Included the murder of an Indianapolis police sergeant, Richard Rivera, an Indiana state policeman, Paul Mlnneman. and Edward unaey, a Ptqua, O., grocery clerk. Brady also led his mob in numer oua raids on banks in the midwest, tho officer said. He waa known, like Dllllngcr, aa a desperate criminal with a "norvoua trigger finger." The government declined, as usual, to discuss the dotectlve work that led to the discovery of the gang presence here. It waa recalled that Brady on one occasion boasted: "I'll make John Dllllngcr look like punk." But today the G-men made Al Brady look like John DHIInger that Chicago night when federal fire out htm down aa be rled from the -"finger woman." the storied "lad in red." GRANTS PASS, CRESCENT RAILROAD HAS BACKING 8AM FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. (AP) A resolution favoring an application tMforo the IntaraUto com mp roe com minion for construction of a rail, wtvy between Orants Pesa, Ore, and Crescent City. Calif, had the ap. proval todey of the San Pranclie board of auperruora. Chrl.imai la celebrated In Sputa on January . which la known a, tht ftout of the Three Kings.
