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The Weather Forecast: Occasional ml n tonight and Saturday; little change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday 3 Lowest thli morning . 46 Precipitation last 24 hrs...10 Try Sunday For your convenience the Mail Tribune business office wtll accept want ads until 8 o'clock Saturday night for the Bnnday morning edition. Try Sunday for aatlifactory result. Medford Tribune Full Associated Pre si all United Press ' ThirtytSecopd Year Eighteen Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1937. No. 178. ira on mm m WWfn. M GROSS i 'I 4 , iT . Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. REACTION TO F.D.B. SPEECH PLEASES WHITE HOUSE REMARKS FAIL TO AROUSE OPPOSITION EXTRA SESSION LAID TO FARMERS' DEMANDS PROBLEM OF SURPLUSES SHIFTED TO CONORESS WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. On tne morning after the president's speech there were smiles of satisfaction on the faces of the members of tne official White House family. It waa worn In public, and. according to the Old Oray Squirrel, who got a peep over the transom, it's still being worn In private. Nobody got on chairs and cheered, but everybody seemed happy. These were the reasons, aa the O. O. tJ. added them up: The president didn't call any names. He said nothing to make the con servatives fear he was going further to the left. i Be aald nothing to make the libe rals doubt that he was going straight ahead. Bis call for an extra session woke no storm of opposition. Farther "down the avenue,- you eould hear the same old question, why a special session? Dp until the eleventh hour, house and senate leaders were as euro that congress would not convene until January as they were sure they didn't want It to. Now pessimists are pre dicting that little ' will be gained, aa :far a actual law-making goes. Congress, like newspaper' rheh,' only works fast aa the -deadline ap proaches. . It's generally ' conceded that the sooner the New Deal program la acted upon, the sooner business un certainty will end, but tew feel then will be such action this year. Farm legislation la urgent enough, taut neither the head Of 'the senate nor the house agriculture a commit tees wanted the session; even the department of agriculture Isn't con fident that the necessary bills will be framed In time for passage. But the wall of the farmer was rowing so loud that something bad to be done. And therein, say toe politicians, Ilea the explanation tor bringing the boya to Washington willy-nilly because: Jt gives the administration an alibi. The farmers called for action as their markets threatened to sag witn surpluses. They demanded action with blood in their eye. Now, u eongrea falls them, that blood will be on the head of congress and not on the administration's. The' presi dent made the gesture: he Is leading the lawmakera to Washington, ne ean't be expected to make them vote. (Continued on Pag Twelve) COURT REFORM NEED OVER, SAYS ASHURST TTJCSON, Arlr., Oct. 1. (API Senator Henry F. Aahurst (D.. Aria.) who led the fight for President Roosevelt's supreme court enlarge ment bill, said today' there wsa no further need of "Judicial reform" because the high court now Is ren dering decisions In line with public opinion. The Judiciary committee chairman also expressed the belief that tne president would not seek re-election to a third term In 1940. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Margaret Boardman and Florence eVberrer being able to alt down again after a horseoack ride, a bottle of balsam of myrrh donated to a "blonde and a brunette" by Fred Heath, Jr.. having helped Immensely. Harold Johnson taking the day off to bombard quails and pheasants, his forestry colleagues hoping he'd do better than Herschel Obye who re turned empty-banded after an early start. Ernest Scott matching coins for a cup of coffee and graciously losing Ranaon Webeter causing a minor disturbance In his place of business by working on the weaknesses of two ticklish patron. A well known Medford lenllrt hollering bloody murder wben he be came tangled up with an clertrlfied fence while hunting pheasant. AUTO IS CRUSHED AGAINST BRIDGE: I Driver Unable to Stop Car On Muddy Mid -Town Street Is Believed Cause One Pinned in Wreck KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 15. (AP) Two men were killed and one other injured shortly before 7 o'clock this morning when a Southern Pacific passenger train craahed into their auto at a mldtown grade crossing and carried the machine against the steel side of a railroad bridge. The dead are: Vale Phillips, about 38, driver of the car, Klamath Palls. Dale Beck. 47, Klamath Falls. The injured: Fred Noland. Klamath Falla. I'nabie to Stop Muddy condition of the stree along which the' Phillips automobile was traveling waa apparently the causa of the accident, Phillips being unable to stop his car In time when he heard the train's warning whistle. After the machine waa carried Into the side of the bridge, It buckled sgalht the solid steel and fell off to the left down the bank of the Irriga tion canal which the tracks cross at tbat point. Beck was crushed In the wreckage, and Phillips pinned under the seat. Beck died immedltaely. Residents of the. vicinity were able to extricate Noland, but not until a wercker ar rived was It possible to free Phillips. He was resuscitated temporarily but died shortly afterward at a hospital. Chests Crushed Deputy Coroner A. J. Ward said he believed. Internal injuries were the chief oause of both deaths, with crushed chests and skull fractures as possible contributing causes. - , Dr. E. D. Johnson, who attended both Phillips, and Noland, said he ex pected Noland would recover. The .accident occurred . about a quarter of a mile from the Southern Pacific station, Just as the train was beginning to slow down for its stop. KILL TWO POLICE JERUSALEM. Oct. 18. fl"J Guer rilla bands of Arabe struck new terra in' the Holy Land today and two young British policemen fell In a pre-dawn ambush on the Bethlehem road. Constables Norman Harrison and Austin Mails were added to the Ust of dead which already Included four Arabs. Twelve Jews had been In jured In the last two days. Authorities were expected to de clare a nightly curfew and possibly proclaim .martial law unless British military moves brought order. One thing waa certain that the recent banishment of members of the Arab higher committee had not halted terrorism. The guerrilla bands apparently were functioning In a well-knit organisation. Grins in Today's News Grist (By the Associated Press) -FIRST OFFENDER PHILADELPHIA A policeman brought Max Welntraub, It, before Magis trate Jacob Dogole. 'The charge." said the officer, "I, reokleaa driving on a power scooter and driving without lights." "Case dismissed," asld the magistrate, because Welntraub was the first motor scooter offender he'd ever seen. UP IN THE AIR COLORADO SPRINGS Miss Velmarle Sanders dreamed she was married In an airplane. She liked the Idea, They compromleed and were married In the Will Rogera Shrine of the Sun, amid the cloud on Cheyenno mountain. BETHANY, Mo. Vocational agriculture teachers, choosing entrant for a corn abucklng contest, found few "grown up" since the last crop was Drought and grasshoppers destroyed the corn four successive year. DANGER UNDER REPAIR TOPEKA, Km. Carl Newcomer, Knes vehicle commissioner, drove safely to the National Safety Congress at Kansas city and back but showed up for work with his head bandaged. He aald he was fixing hi bed when the springs fell on him. EAST ON CH1CAOO Patron at Orchestra crane their necks to see a piano artist's hand In action. A mirror designed to nefce the pianist' handa vtalbl from every quarter of the hall will o used this season, right side of the house a desirable WONDERMENT PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. So love 1 blind, huh It wasn't to the young couple who license examining bureau, and watched applicant take eye-tight test. Said he: "what' an eye teat got to do with getting a marTlage license, anyrtov.?" Then eomeono found that a courthoue employe by error dlrcrtfd the young couple to th drivers' license Instead of th marriage IVcenae bureau. C. I. 0. Japs Free Writer Haldore Hanson (above), an Asso ciated Press staff writer, held In North China two weeks as a spy by the Japanese wbom he followed on a bicycle from Pel ping, was freed and permitted to return to Pelplng. 10 LOVE OF BARTENDER A SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. (AP) A bitter quarrel over the affections of a Reno bartender. resulted In .the deaths of two women here today In what police described aa a murder and suicide. The victims were. Mrs. Neoma Nel son Reynolds, 33, a blonde waitress, formerly, of San Marcos, Tex., and Mrs. Nell Reynolds. 47. also known as Mrs. Gladys Williams, formerly of Dallas, Texas. v Police Inspector George Engler said witnesses told him Mrs. Williams drew a gun on the fourth floor of an O'Farrell street hotel, fired point blank' at Mrs. Reynolds, then turned the weapon on herself and died later In an emergency hospital. - Engler said he waa puzeled by a note found In Mrs. Reynolds effects which asked the chief of police here to notify a brother, J. E. Whitehead, of Dallas, that his sister had commit ted suicide. The officer added thst the note asked that her body "be laid to rest? beside a sister, Pearl, in Dallas." Engler aald he thought Mrs. Wil liams might have been the divorced wife of Jack ' Reynolds, Reno barten der, and evidently had followed Reynolds' present wife here. Smaller (irass Crop. ASTORIA, Oct. 15. (AP) Oregon's bent grass crop, which Is 95 per cent of the total yield In the United States, will be from 36 to 40 per cent, or 375.000 pounds smaller than last year, reports of growers Indi cated. but Alfred Welch, her fiance, oldn't. WVm AW, SHUfKSI ' ' farm boya knew bow. The lade had raised In 10.12. THE NECK hall recital will no longer have to sponsor said It wtll make seats on th, a those on the left. lined up before the county drivers' Proposes Peace ITALY WARMED BRITISH PATIENCE EDEN LASHES AT I LONDON. Eng., Oct. 18. (AP) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, In a strong speech tonight, unmistak ably warned Italy that British pa tience la "well nigh exhausted at "proclaimed intervention" In Spain. Blasting at "glorification of breaches of the (non-intervention) agree ment," the foreign secretary reviewed the entire International situation on the eve of tomorrow's mometous non intervention meeting to discuss vol unteers In Spain and of the confer ence of nine powers on the Far East ern situation. Eden also hinted to Italy that she Is hoping in vain If she hopes for permanent domination o f Spain through intervention. Eden recalled the Duke of Wellington's 100-year- old dictum that "there Is no coun try In European affairs of which for egners can Interfere with so. lfttle advantage as in Spain." Echoing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's welcome of President Roosevelt's Chicago speech, Eden af firmed that England would go to the nine-power meeting at Brussels pre pared to "co-operate heartily with those who go there to work in the spirit" of the declaration by "the president of the most powerful re public m the world," T CAMPAI Franklin's grocery at 437 South Central avenue will contribute to the Community Chest 4 percent of Its cash sales on each of nine Thurs days beginning October 31, It was announced at a report luncheon of campaign workers In Valentine's cafe this afternoon. In addition, the pro prietor pledged a contribution equal ing that of last year, the group was Informed. The announcement was mado by M. N. Hogan. chairman of the chest executive committee. Yesterday he Informed the luncheon-meeting that Hy Ptager had voluntarily Increased the contribution asked of him and In addition donated 6 percent of re ceipts at his Rex cofe Saturday and Sunday. Eugene Thorndlke, chest president, presided at the luncheon. It was stated that returns to dale would be tabulated this afternoon. BLACK RESIGNATION SEEN AS KLAN HELP BOSTON, Oct. 18. (AP) Former U. 8. Representative William D. Up shew of Atlanta, In a birthday In terview today, declared: "If Justice Hugo L. Black resigns from the su preme court a million men will Join the Ku Klui Klan overnight." The former congressman, who ran for president on the national Prohi bition ticket In 1033, asserted Jus tine Black "has aa much right to Join the secret Klan as Senator Da vid t Walsh has to belong to the secret order of the Knlghta of Col umbus. I will say that It Is no body's business what secret lodge anybody belongs to so long aa they are loyal American citizens." Upshaw, on a speaking tour, ob served his 71st birthday here. Hopgrowers Fight Reduction In Duty SALEM. Oct. 15. (AP) Briefs op posing any reduction of the duty on hops were filed In Washington today by 0. W. Paulu. Salem, rep resenting the Oregon and Washington Hop Growers association, and M. J. Newhouse, Oakland, representing the Pacific Coast Hop Bta oil I rat I on cor poration and the United Hop O row ers of California. The briefs pointed out thst local production exceeded the normal con sumption and that any lowering of the duty on hops would prove dis astrous to Oregon growers. 63rd Traffic Death PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 15 f AP) Portland recorded the Mrd traffic death of the police year here today. James Parr, 78, died from Injuries differed in an accident September 38. Dive from Window To Escape Ghost, Woman Explains LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15. (UP) Mrs. Consuella Barrare, 33, frowning through her bandages, said tonight she flung hersell from a second-story fire escape today to evade the cold hands oi a green-eyed ghost. "We've heard the ghost before, my husband, Felix and I," she ex plained. "Last night I saw It. a towering, gaunt-faced woman with flashing, unearthly green eyes, standing be side me. "I waa gathering my baby's clothes on the fire escape and i felt a chill on my neck. I knew It was the ghost. I saw It, glaring over me with green eyes. I scream ed and that's all I .remember until I came to on the ground." PATRONS WILL SAVE $331 ,000 YEARLY BY ELECTRIC RATE CUT SALEM, Oct. 15. (AP) Savings of approximately $331,000 annually will accrue to Oregon patrons of the Northwestern Electric company and the Portland General Electric com pany and subsidiaries aa the result of rate reductions announced by the state utility commissioner, N." G. Wallace here today. Principal features of the new resi dential rate schedules are the-reduction of the top block from 5H per kilowatt hour to 8 cents and elimina tion of the demand charge. Officials aald elimination of the demand charge would simplify the resident ial schedule of the two com panies and was In line with the com missioner's policy to have residential and other rate schedules of all utili ties throughout the state simple and easily understood by the rate payers. The top block of the commercial lighting schedule likewise has been reduced from 5 cents to 5 cents per kilowatt hour with other -changes In the lower blocks of the schedule. Commissioner Wallace aald the re ductions resulted from an Informal Investigation of his department, Washington patrons of the two companies will enjoy a saving of $35,000 annually under the new schedule. PACIFIC HIGHWAY E GRANTS PASS. Oct. 18. fl) Pa cific highway supporters were cheer ed here today by announcement of Henry Cabell, chairman of the state highway commission, that Moscburg Oranta Pans reconstruction I one of two major project next In line. An Astoria paper reported that Ca bell on Monday night at tho Oregon Coaat Highway association conven tion said . the coast "must yield to two other badly needed projects the Pacific highway botwoen Roaeburg and Grants Paaa and the Old Oregon Trail reaching nearly to the Idaho line." Previous report of the meeting here did not make clear that Cabell Identified the two project to come first. VANDALS ENTER TWO CENTRAL PT. STORES Believed by the county sheriff's office to have been the work of young vandala, two store In Central Point were entered sometime last night, but nothing waa taken. The K. P. stone pharmacy waa broken Into and an attempt appar ently made to steal the refrigerator unit or the electric motor. However, nothing was missing this morning. Door of the Lewi butcher shop was broken down and the store entered. Nothing was disturbed. Slap Fine On Slapper LOS ANOEI.ES. Oct. IS (UP) Pat Turco. 20, was ordered to pay IS fine on a battery charge today Police say he entered the home of Mrs. Laura Oage, a neighbor, and .lapped her several children U cause his son Lawrence, a. accused the children of alajiplng him. Parley With Federation BELIEF IN OLD ACE PENSION SALEM. Oct. 15. (AP) Governor Charles H. Martin, In an address be fore a state-wide Townsend meeting here last night, denied emphatically that he Is or was opposed to old age assistance. The meeting was held In commem oration of the filing of petitions with tho governor earlier in tho da ask ing for a special legislative session to amend the old age assistance law. "You have been told by many who would hoodwink and deceive you for their own selfish end that I am and always have been opposed to old age assistance," Governor Martin said. "These false political leaders are the worst of all their type because they prey on the actual needs and hopes of the aged for a mere mess of pot tage and make promises they know full well can never be fulfilled. To Spend r5,OOO,0OO "In July, 1938, six months before the last legislative session convened, I Instructed my budget officer to rigidly scrutinize the fiscal set-up to see If It was at all possible to reduoe the age limit to 65 years. "Aa a result of the Oregon legisla tive program this state will , spend almost $35,000,000 for a social security program In the current blennlum, "I can assure you that the old age (Continued on Pag Three.) ORDERED JAP AID VATICAN CITY, Oct. IB. ( AP) Assertions of private Vatican sources that instructions already hav.o gone to missionaries In tho far east re garding their conduct in the Blno Japanese war, were denied officially today by the Vatican semi-official news service. It. said: "The news has been spread in America and published under sensa tional headlines that the Vatican seeks to abet the fight against com munism in Japanese favor," The news service added: , "In s t ructions to this effect are said to have been Issued to repre sentatives of the Holy See In the Far East. Both pieces of news are absolutely false and have been of ficially denied by Archbishop Glu seppe Plszardo (undersecretary for ecclesiastical affairs), Msgr. Tardlnl (undersecretary of state) and Arcn bishop Coetantlnl (secretary of the congregation for the propagation ot the faith.)" FIRECRACKERS CAUSE STRIKE OF STUDENTS KELSO, Wash., Oct. 15. (UP) Because Principal Dean Mlcklewalt objected to Kelso high school stu dents exploding firecrackers In the corridors, approximately half of tho student body of 350 walked out on strike today. The firecracker exploded In a hall way. Principal Mlcklewalt allegedly boxed the ears of several of the boys nearby and the walkout followed, with a procession through the busi ness district. The 135 strikers, all boys, then returned to the school to establish a picket line. It was suspected here that further "fireworks" might be expected for the ringleaders. 'Corpse Astonished When Casket Broken BUDAPEST, Oct. 15. (UP) The newspaper Magyar Orazay reported today from Belgrade that during the funeral" of Milan Kontes in the Til lage of Tomlo the casket fell to the ground, broke Into pieces and Kontes rose In astonishment. Kontef was quoted as saying he was "puraled" by his funeral. PORTLAND DOG OWNERS NEGLECT LICENSE FEE pnnTijtND. Oct. IS. IAPI Ap proximately two-thirds of Portland 18.000 dog owners lac warrant tor their arrest for failure to obtain llmnw. tnr their net.. Harrv Dan iel, president of the Oregon Humane society aald today. Daniel said warrants wouid be ought next week tot the tardy own er. ' NEAR END Concrete Casket Designed To Foil Ransom Seekers STREETS VTLLE, Ont., Oct. 15. (UP Hayden Pope was burled again today In a selfseallng con crete and asphalt casket designed to foil grave robbers. The 30-year-old son of the vil lage blacksmith was burled the first time last Sunday. Robbers visited the grave the next night, took the body and, in the empty coffin, left a note demanding $100 for Its return. A group of children returning home from school found the body In a road ditch. It apparently had been thrown from an automobile before A. E. Pope, the father, had a chance to pay the -ransom money. MANY ARE EXPECTED AT FETES FOR FARLEY DURING OREGON VISIT SALEM, Oct. IB. (AP) More than 300 persons were expected to attenj the luncheon here tomorrow In honor of Postmaster General James A. Far ley. At the conclusion of the luncheon Parley will dedicate Salem's new postoffloe building. He will be intro duced by Gov. Charles H. Martin. Prior to the dedication address Parley will meet the local postofflco employes. A parade through the downtown district will precede the luncheon. PORTLAND, Oct. 15. (AP) Pol lowing part of the "Northwest Trait" biased by President Roosevelt less than a month ago, Postmaster Gen- eral James A. Farley, one of the "good right hands" of the chief ex ecutive, reaches Oregon tonight for a series of dedication events; A police escort will meet the cab inet officer at the Interstate bridge as ho leaves Washington, said E. T. Hedlund, Portland postmaster. A brief parade Is planned. The chairman of the national Democratic party will be guest of honor at a Jackson -club breakfast Saturday. He will lay a cornerstone at the East Side pos toff ice and then leave for Salem and Eugene. CAME FROM BEAR SEATTLE, Oct. 1. OP). A bear shot recently near Aberdeen and a 13-year-old boy' Ideaa about "dis poning" of the feet explain the "am putated human foot mystery." It all came out when a taxiderm ist, C. P. Perkins, viewed the second "human foot" found yesterday, after another one had been found the day before by Mrs. Jessie Hitchcock In her mailbox. Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff O. K. Bodla took the object to the taxidermist. Dewey Ocepet asld later, after some questioning In the neighborhood, that the feet were taken off a bear shot reoently by a friend near Aberdeen and that they were skinned. Young Raymond Healy, ordered to bury the feet, stuck one In the mailbox and dropped two other "somewhere." IN FAIRFIELD, Calif., Oct. H. (UP) Fred Barnewlta of Vallejo, who sued Ben All temple, and tbe Vallejo Shrine club for iDI.flOO. charging hi leg was broken during an Initiation, today aettled out of court (or a re ported $18,000 payment. The case opened In court here to day, but the settlement waa said to have been made during a recess, Barnewlta charged his left leg was fractured during a ceremony at Val lejo, November a, 103S, : FJcvator Burn. WALLA WALLA, Oct. 18. (API A Walla Walla grain grower' wheat levator at pleaasnt view, 40 mile north ot here, caught fir during tne night and wa believed doomed to completa deatructlon today, with 116,000 bushel of whest stored In It. Officials of the cooperative esti mated the valu of the building at between 16.000 and (30,000. HOLDING MEETING IN COMING WEEK Lewis Cohorts Also Favor Calling National Conven tion to Consider Con solidation of Situation ATLANTIC CITT, N. J, Oct. IS. (AP) The Committee for In dustrial Organization went on record today In favor or a boy cott of all Japanese-manufactured goods. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. Oct. M (AP) The Committee for Industrial Organisation proposed to the Ameri can Federation of Labor today that committees from both meet to con sider further the possibility of peace conferences. The C.I.O. In conference here, ad vised the federation convention at Denver of its decision In a telegram which suggested a preliminary meet ing be held In Washington the week of October 38. The conference then approved ft suggestion of It leaders that they be authorised to call a national C.I.O. convention to consider, among other things, the "necessity for the creation ot machinery to consolidate; the existing situation and to afford opportunity for the continued organ tratlon activities." Both decisions were approved unan lmously. . , ' "" ' ' "'' Lewis then announced the confer ence had "some administrative mat ters to discuss" and the meeting again was closed to the publto and, newspapermen. DENVER, Oct. 15. (AP) George. Harrison, chairman of the American Federation of Labor's peace commit tee, said today that th CJ.O.'s latest peace proposal "looked like It had possibilities." - William Green, A.F.L. president refused' to ' comment on newspaper report of the Committee for Indus trial Organization's proposal to send !0 representatives to Washington, D, C. the week of October 35 to discus the bssl of further peace negotta tlona with a committee of the same size from the A.P.L. Green said he would reserve com ment until he had received tha C.I.O.'s telegram. Harrison said th only bar ts a conference, as far a he could sea, would be attachment, of any "con dltlon or stipulations'' to th CJ.O. offer. SEARCHERS FIND THREE LOST MEN Three blister rust control worker were back at their toll today after being the object of a successful search. They apent Wednesday nigh in the brush, having lost their near- Inga on their way back to oamp. . Th men wen John Farmer, 40, a transient, Tony Blals, 90, of Klamath Palls, and Peter Martin, 85, of Ban Francisco. They quit work late Wed nesday afternoon near Prospeot and becam lost a darkneaa descended. Realising they had loat their bear ings, they decided to hoi up tor the night and await a searching party. A group of 90 searcher from vw camp north ot Union Creek found the lost men early yesterday morn ing. They bad experienced no suffer ing, It waa stated at headquartera har today. End Of Petroleum Due In Few Yeart HOUSTON, TI., Oct. 15. (UP) Americana were warned today that they must guard carefully their lim ited supplies of oil or see their van ishing petroleum reserve exhausted 'In only a few years." Th warning was voiced by Oov. I. W. Marland of Oklahoma, an experienced oil operator, at th an nual convention of th Independent Petroleum Association ot America. Oil men, h said, should quit worrying about over-production and It threat to price, and give mora concern to the diminishing supply ot this "liquid gold." KMED TO BROADCAST OREGON-U.S. C. GAME Th University of Oregon-U. S). O. football gam at Lo Angele will M broadcast Saturday over NBO t tlon,. Including KMED, starting at 1:15 p.m. Saturday.
