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HUSKIES ...,21 IDAHO . HARVARD .... . . 34 PRINCETON 6 NEBRASKA 7 PENN - - TA PURDUE -.13 IOWA 0 ALABAMA KENTUCKY 0 INDIANA 0 NAVY itJa 7 BEARS .-... . 27 UCLANS 14 NOTRE DAME .... 7 MINNESOTA 6 COUGARS 0 TROJANS ..... 0 ST. MARY'S 0 PACIFIC 0 MICHIGAN 7 ILLINOIS - f : SANTA CLARA .38 MARQUETTE ... 0 NORTHWEST. TO14 WISCONSIN m 6 The Weather Forecast: Clearing -today, cloud t tomorrow; little change tn temperature. Temperature: HI inert yesterday 57 Lowest yesterday SO Pick the Best The belt bnys In real estate In and around Medfnrd are nana Ij advertised In Mall Trlbnne classified ads. If yon Intend Investing natch these ada. rick the brt offer; ait quickly. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1937 No. 191. STATERS ; 0 STANFORD 0 mm Behind Washington Headlines By H. R. Baukhage Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. NEW PFAI. HF.I.Tt UNHARMED BV MARKET SLUMP "BIO FELLOWS" ALONE DECLARED CAUGHT MANY FACTORS SEEN TO OFFSET TRADE RECESSION WAB SITUATION VIEWED AS MAIN CAUSE OF ALARM WASHINGTON. Oct. 30. It has now become evident, as Indicated In thia column last week, that the ad ministration's "hands off' policy re garding the stock ' market situation wasn't as "handa-offlsh" as Indicated, even at the start. There are some amazing and, U you didnt get burned In the market, amusing tales rustling among the fallen leaves on Pennsylvania avenue. The most amazing Is the charge from a certain set ol anti-New Deal ers to the effect that the president locked the barn after the horse was stolen and did It on purpose. This la pretty emphatically denied at least that hands were held off on purpose to give bad. big business a lesson. But the denlers admit that, Ironically, the recent slump that ended on the bright, blue Octo ber 19. was, aa their opponents called IV a "Roosevelt panic," but In a dif ferent sense. This la the explanation: The fed eral reserve put the margin require ments on stock purchases so high in 1638 that the "little fellow" hasn't been able to get Into the market and hoot the works the wsy he did In 1939. Not many miniature Morgans eould plunge when they had to put up 88 per cent of their purchase In cash (48 per cent on the loan value of the stock). That la what happened. The gen eral public wasn't In this market. The "big fellowa" were. They were the onea who got burned. And some of them are blaming the president, saying he refused to step In and save them when he might have. However that may be, the affair, unleea the situation grows worse, may work out all right for the New Deal. The "forgotten man" wasn't hurt directly, and the folka who pile up the majorities In November have almost forgotten It already. The chain of events leading to the federal reserve margin orders is In teresting. To Hyde Park came, first, members of the advisory board of the depart ment of commerce, heeded by Averell Harrlman, and composed of lending business men. They Invited the presi dent to dinner, It was announced. It wasn't announced that they Invit ed blm to do something about the market. Perhaps they didn't. The Wednesday following there ar rived at Krum Elbow Joseph Ken- (Continued on Page Eight ) '' SING SING DEATH CkSflTNTNO, X. Y.. Ot. 30- (UP) Mrs. Lewis B Lwe, wife of the no ted warden of Sing Sing prif-on. died In Otttnlng hospital tonight of In Juries apparently suffered in a mya tertou fail near the Bear mountain step today to appeal to the tdaad Mrs. Law eg. her leg broken and oth erwise Injured, was found on a pre cipitous path near the bridge and about 125 feet below it. How she came to the Isolate -pot wa not Immedia tely determined. Mrs. ITf left her home. JuM ou,t slde the ptiren walls, at 8 a. m. to day driving alone Two hours later bridge, attendants noticed the car standing unoccupied on the bridge. When the empty ear was still there some nine hours later the ownership wa traced and Warden Lawea noti fied. The warden and Dr. Amos O. Squire, Westchester medical pTamtner than hvn a aNi.-h rhic.f ended Then Mr. Lawea waa found. m7 A in in f i WW W tat aVef taaa TOKYO DIPLOMATS RESENT ATTITUDE E London Stand Held "Im proper" In Resolution Anti-English Feeling Mounts Chinese Escape SHANGHAI, Oct. 31 (Sunday) (fp) Three more British soldier were wounded by stray shells early today In the Jessfleld Park area of .Shang hai, creating a new btraln un Anglo Japanese relations. TOKYO. Oct. 30. (fP Members of the unofficial "council on the cur rent situation." Including high army officers and members of both house of parliament, served notico today diplomatic relations between Japan and Great BrlttUn might be severed. In a resolution passed unanimously. themore than 100 highly-placed Jap anese, charged Great Britain has been assisting China and added: "the Jap anese cannot allow the British to continue unmolested In their pres ent Improper doings." The resolution declared Britain had been the main driving force In per suading convocation of the Brussels nine-power pact conference November 3 In an apparent effort to start in tervention In the Cljineser Japanese undeclared war. "If the British fail to reconsider their attlutde," the resolution said, "we may be forced to take an atti tude of grave determination by sever ing yeera of friendly diplomatic re lations." Anti-British feeling has been ris ing steadily In Japan with charges the British fostered a report Japanese airmen slew 2.000 Chinese n on com batant In Canton and the Japanese navy had torpedoed Chinese fishing Junk. Hongkong, the British crown colony on the southern China coast, has been mentioned continually as a source of munition for China. Among other charges against the British, Japanese editorial have stated frequently England had caus ed the United State to change it original attitude of "understanding" of the Japanese position. LONDON. Oct. 30. (fpf Tension between Great Britain and Japan. aroused, by a series of fatal Incidents in the Bhan glial war one, today nar rowed the possibilities for success of the Brussels conference to halt tht Chinese-Japanese war. As the London delegation, headed by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, made ready to go to the Belgian capi tal Monday night the British foreign office sought a full report on the kill ing of three British soldiers by Jap- nnese troop at Shanghai yesterday. Tho latest Incident In the eerles starting with the wounding of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British ambfcwador to China, stirred new British feeling against Japan. It was apparent the repeated occurrence had strained British pattonce with mere Japanese regret. Reports from Shanghai indicated Japanese resented British troors stopping Japanese troop launches from going up Soochow creek yester day. Dispatche eald Japaness de clared a British soldrier had touched (Continued on Page rwo ) FARfRSSlNG FOR CROP RULES SPRINGFTELD, Til- Oct. SO. (AP) Two members of the senate agri cultural subcommittee, which tor a month has been holding neanngs in various part of the country cklng farm legislation sentiment, today said a last majority of larm era want crop production control, Sn. Elmr Thorna of omanoma said M perrrnt of the tarmera "no have appeared before the suocom ml tire want produrtton control in corporated In the farm nut to oe considered by congress In special session next month. "They want the ever-normal gran ary a Insurance against the non prnd uct 1 ve yr ar a nd eon tinuat.cn of the anil eov.vrv.it ion program, ftwitcr Thomaa asserted. loiNl UUUM Violinist Quizzed In Attack - H, -J, . ' u Kclor No land (left), 23-year-old violinist, shown In Portland, Ore., be ing questioned by Detective John fioltz In connection with the alleged milk hottle a ft ark on Winifred Ay re, Rpd college history teacher GUILTY ON THEFT COUNT LOS ANGELES. Oct. 30. f AP) Oroucho and Chlco Marx, two of the world's leading comedians, were con victed in federal court todsy of In fringing on a copyright tn a radio j broadcast they made last ye?r a var- I diet that Grouch o said In tragic tone "might mean a jail Jolt for Oroucho delivered that pessimistic statement a the Jury retlted. After the verdict waa returned, "he and Chico. equally serious, had noth ing to say for the time Iving. 1 The misdemeanor conviction car- j rlea a mlximum fine of 1.0O0. or maximum Jail sentence of one year, j or both. I Judge Oeorgo Cosgrove said sen tenee would be Imposed next Mondav. ; Defense coun.vl declared thry would ask for a r.ew trial. 1 After only brief deliberation, a Jury convicted the hlgh-salarlM screen comedian of using, in a radio broad cast, certain "gag" material wWch Carroll and Garrett Graham submit ted to them previously, but which they rejected. In the trial, the Marx brother contended the late Al Boas berg, screen writer, prepared the script they used In the broadcast. Thy testified thry dtd not recall the sub stance of the kit, "Mr. Diablo and Mr. Dabble," that the Grahams suh ml t tad. and did not realize it and their broadcast were similar. both tams offside. A far aa could he determined, this is the first time In the history of the Hollywood film colony that any one haa ben convicted on plagiarism charges. There have been many civil suits for damages, charging thert of literary materials. After the Marx brothers verdict wa read. Chief Defense Council Lloyd Wright aroe and aaked: "When will thi sentence b pTo nounced?" adding "We want to ak for a new trial at that time. Judge Cosgrsve then Instructed the defense to return to court Mor.cay morning for wntence. BOSTON. Oft. 30. (AP-USDAI Business In the wool markM was slow the psst wefk. Quotations were Irregular, Some houses weaaenea while othera refuvd to revise tneir price ldaa In spite of uncertainty In the goods market and resulting lack of interest by manufacturers. TOLEDO. Oct. 30 (API John C Cowles. 5, Harlan high school prin cipal, pleadrd guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a stx-year old girl before Circuit Judge O. K SKipwnrth y?terdv and wa sen tenced to a two-year term. ALBANY, Oct. 30. ( API Demo crats should ttop worrying about fascism and narlsm and "worry more about making O'tr own democracy tvork." C. A. Robrlaon. Wrn Balem. f .id a six-county Democratic rally her. Q)5) E' IN GOOD HEALTH TORONTO. Oct. aO.-nTPr-Om 0f the beat ways to tell the Dionoe quintuplets apart Is by their right ears. They have had no meat so far ex cept liver and bacon and their weight ahnwB they've had a balanced diet. They have special similarities this aet of "Identical" quint which In dicated, oddly enough, tiny are pair ed: Annette and Yvonne, Emllle and Marie, and Yvonne and Marie addi tionally "paired" with. Cucile. So psychologist and child rearing expert heard today from doctor as sociated with the little Dlonnn lnce birth, and from research spcclal'Rts of the University of Toronto. Out of reports on the quints' prog ress from their birth, when :hey weighed an average of about two pounds, to their preaent state of bouncing health at three years and five months, emerged a complete pic ture of the little sisters who unwit tingly have furthered the cause of child welfare. It wa the first confernnco scientlstc and psychologist ever held on quin tuplet, and the day on which the first scientific book about the quint came off the presa. "Collected Studies on the Dlonne Quintuplet," a book preparrd by Dr. W. E. Blat and his research aaocl atea of the University of Toronto, appeared. How truly the quint are "paired" remain to be shown by additional studies. A doctor who reported on their biological progre said further studies of In la Inter-relation my be a clue some dsy to the detallr. of j formation of five embryos from one T NE WYORK. Oct. 30. W, Police men outnumbered marchers by 600 today along the route of Narl-mlndcd membera of the Oeerman-Amerlran bund throuch Yorkvllle, Manhattan'', "little Oermany." Though spectator booed and cheer ed. Polk-c Comm. Lewi J. Vaienllne called It "a vrry orderly parade." Only one now was puneiied a young man made the mistake of holMlng hi arm in the Nazi salute In the middle of a hostile group. Twenty -al American flags and six Nar.l banners waved In the parade Packed from three to 10 deep along the curb nrrtitors were o''.1 v,.ck nv moo po!:c-xn and 200 dMec tivea. Folka clocked H2 marchers. an Tl POLITICAL DRIFT New York City Election To Affect National Policies Tammany Fights For ny The Aworlatrd Press) In IS statea, scattering off-year election campaigns drew toward a close today with the usual widespread claims of victory on November a. From a national standpoint the chief Interest lay In the signs that might bo raised to show which way the political winds are blowing. Two governors, four mombcrs of- congress, half a dozen state legis latures and mayors of several large cities are to be elected Tuesday. The governors are In Virginia and New Jersey. The members of congress are In Virginia and New York. Tho chief mayoralty elections are in New York and Detroit. These mayorallty elections and the New York congressional and New Jer sey gubernatorial supply the chief tugs of party against party. But even nere the issues are greatly compli cated by other questions. new York, Oct. 30. ap) The nntlon'alargeat city will elect a new mayor Tuesday, ending a campaign marked by bitterness and high pub lic interest. The election results, whether the victor be Mayor Florello H. La Ouar dl or Jeremiah T. Mahoney, may profoundly affect policies of both major partlea for tba 1938 and 1940 national elections. Each candidate confidently pre dicts victory for himself by pluralities of 400,000 or more. The election will give Tammany a near knockout blow no matter who wins, for the city makes Its first experiment with "P. R." (proportional representation) In voting for the newly chartered city council Tuesday, onnging about automatic reappor tionment, which should give a mathematically certain leadership to Brooklyn (Kings county) where a "new deal" favorite who has no use for Tammany, Prank V. Kelly, Is Democratic boas. SEEK LIFE TERM FOR DOOMED MAN BOISB. Idaho. Oct. 30WTI At torneys for triple-slayer Douglas Van Vlack. of Tacoma, Wash., took legal steps' today to appeal to the Idano state pardon board for a commuta tion of their client's death sentence to life Imprisonment. Van Vlack's death date waa aet at Twin Palls yesterday for December 10. Robert Allshle, Boise attorney, said the first of four weekly notlcea of Intentions to appeal to the board will be published next week. The notices are required by law. Van Vlack was convicted of killing his former wife and admitted he mor tally wounded two police officers who tried to stop him as he fled through south Idaho In 1035. FRETS OFFICIALS RUTHERFORD, If. J., Oct. W. (AP) Too much money ha glutted tho coffer and grayed the hair ot borough officials. So fat la the unwanted cash pouring In that a plagued mayor l and council acted today to stem ! the flood of tax payment. I It seem the municipality votea ' a six and then a four percent dis count on early tax payments, b . many took advantage of the htgn , discount rate that the Borougn treatiry found Itself flooded witn j money that drew no Interest in i bank. What with 11.200 lost last year and 9100.000 too murh rusting in (he banks, they decided to rescina the discount. ORKaoNcTrY Oct. bo, ( ah tnjurle suffered Tuesday when n ' automobile overturned near i Orove proved fatal to Margaret A. 1 Baker, 17, vtatenlaf. Mffl F Bridges Gives Cue For "Work Stoppage Move" In High Court Appeals Fails. BAN QTJENTIN, CaL. Oct. 80. (UP) Thomas J. Mooney announc ed tonight be would take bis case "to the workers of thia nation" through an appeal for a "stoppage of all work" if the supreme court of the United State fails to tree him from San Quentln penitentiary. The announcement waa Mooney' reaction to today's refusal by tne California supreme court to grant him a writ of habeas corpus in his fight for releaae from a life sen tence given him on conviction aa a perpetrator of San Francisco Preparedness day bomb outrage in 1016. The at ate tribunal held Mooney had been fairly convicted and tnat there waa nothing to substantiate hit claim he had been framed ny perjured teatimony or by the with holding of evidence that would have favored hla defense. George T. Davla, Mooney attor ney, announced ha would carry case pa the supreme court of tn United States a soon aa possible, "In the event the U. S. supreme court fails to do simple Justloe by freeing me with honorable vindica ton," Mooney said. "I will appeal to the court of last resort to the workers of this nation now arouaed a they never before have been to the consciousness of their own eco nomlo and political power, to nring our ultimate, unconditional release and vindication through a stoppage of all work." Such "stoppage of all work" was threatened here several month ago at a rally of Mooney sympathizers by Harry Bridges, head of the Mar itime Federation of the Paclflo ana west coast C.I.O. head. Bridge described his proposed ao lion, which ho terms a "work holi day," aa "legal and effective." QUASH FEHL SUIT T PORTLAND. Oct. 80. (API Cir cuit Judge James W. Crawford sus tained the demurrer entered oy Ralph E. Moody, awiAtant state at torney general, on behalf of Gov ernor Charlea Martin aa defendant In a $M8,000 damage suit filed by Earl H. Fehl, former Jackson coun ty Judge. Fehl, who alleged that the gov ernor had denied blm good-time credit in serving a four-year prison sentence for ballot theft, was given 30 daya In which to file a new complaint. Tho demurrer said that Fehl wa not entitled to the credit claimed, and that the governor wa not liaoie to civil action for damages for any orftctal action, however erroneou. Judge Crawford ' held that creoita for good behavior applied only to parole, and not to the discharge oi prison Inmates, and that the matter of parole waa discretionary witn the governor. SOME RAIN, SEEN Northern California: Fair Sundiy; eieept local showers over high Si erra: cooler in Interior south por tion; moderate northwest wind off coaat. Oregon: Cloudy Sunday; probably with showers: little change In tern perature: gentle northerly wind off coast. Outlook In far western states for period November 1-6, inclusive: Oen erally fair weather but rain in Pa clfie northwest after middle of week temperatures slightly above normal. ".atem Chest Near quota SALEM. Oct. 30. (AP) Salem a Commrinlt c;et fund todi re"eh'd ,i totil of 38 8M P0. o? only IMBTJO hort of tht goai of 146,000. Ml Laughter Holds Big Lead Over Weeping In Vale of Tears URBANA. IH., Oct. 80. Whi said this was a vale of tears? A definitely dissenting opinion waa delivered today by Prof. Paul Thoma Young of the University of Illlnola psychology department. HI campus studies showed laughter wa 400 tlmea more prev alent than weeping. The research wa conducted among student but It waa indi cated the 400 to 1 ratio might pre vail among other folk a well. PAST WEEK GIVES CHEER JSTREET First Sunshine In Two Months Noted With Prices Showing Gains, And Steel Dividend. NEW YORK. Oct. 30. (fl) Tht big gest stock market advanca In nearly four years brought sunshine Into tha deep canyons of Wall atreet this weak after more than twd weeka of almost uninterrupted gloom. Prices of eharea of several leading corporations at tha olosa of tha tout ing wars from W to nearly $15 above the levels of a week ago. . Tha Aasoclated Press average of 60 leading Issues advanced 93.90 for tha week to ,50.18 tha blggeat weekly gain since tha third week of January, 1934. At this level, prices had recovered 19 per oent of the loss suffered In the steep slide from mid-August to Octo ber IS. The week's business barometers still pointed to "unsettled." Steel and au tomobile production and railway freight movement alackened. But at least two things happened that struck Wall street aa possibly of deep algnlflcar.ee In trying to fore cast the economlo weather. ' Pint, Tuesday afternoon brought news directors of tha United States Steel Corp. had ordered a dividend of 91 a ahare on the common stock, the first In 614 years. This prompted the question, "would the directors pick this time to re sume common dividends If the bus iness outlook appeared aa dark to them aa share prlcea and ateel pro duction figures seemed to Indicate?" Wednesday night brought the sec ond development. The response to that waa Immediate and unmistak able. That waa the action of the federal reserve board In cutting margin cash requirement for the purchase of stock, and In lifting the amount of cash necessary to sell "ahort." Tha actual effect of what waa done, most brokers aald, dtd not bas ically alter conditions very much, but the msrgln action did show that Washington, after the past yeara of Increasing restrictions upon securities dealings, waa willing to move In the other direction when convinced the situation called for It. FATHER CLEARED OF MURDER PLOT MTOIA, Pa., Oot. 30. (AP) A ii,r imiffhf fniinri Albert R. Knlgnt guilty on three chargee of arson but acquitted him of a cnargn attempted to bum to death nia four children to collect 9190.000 in surance. Knight end his four children heard the Jury's verdict without any show of emotion. The three chargaa on whlcn Knight was convicted carry Witn them a total of from four to " yeara In prison. Knight wa charged with setting fire to hla home laat May to murder his children and collect the inaur nnce on their Uvea. Trailers On Wane BFrnj.Oet.90 (API Oregon mem bers of tha Motor Court Trade asso ciation held that house trailers al ready were vanishing from western highways In rejecting a California request to recommend regulatory legislation. PRESSURE PUT TBUSI Tax Revision Urged To Eas$ Trade Tension Republi cans Find New Keynota In Hoover Speech. fly Klrke t Simpson WASHINGTON, Oot. 30. (AP) Eventa are shaping to focus publlo attention on President 'Roosevelt's) message opening the coming special session of congress more sharply than on any similar utterance since hla first Inaugural address In 1933. No suggestion baa yet come frona tha president himself of any pur pose to expand the address beyond the outline of a legislative ftve-potnt program such as he sketched In hla recent fireside chat. Yet evidence of cumulative pressure upon him and upon assembling members of oon gress for action promptly to atera) downward bualneea trends and re verse tha prolonged downswing ol the suck market lncreaaea day b day. Soma advisors close to the nretU dent are urging him to Include Ua tne special session program action, toward tax revision or other steps relieve business uncsrtalnty. Actloq of the federal reserve board in aur prise amendment of margin require menu for stock market dealings hag already modified tba previous Wash Ington hands-off attitude toward tho market decline. Market reaction to tha margin rao taxation announcement waa described aa aatlsfsetory by reserve board offi. clala. The reaction In market ano! financial olrclea in New York was more significant. While the technical aid toward stabilization of day to day market operations wss welcomed, the Intervention from Washington waa read aa forecaatlng further gov. ernment movee to encourage private) enterprise, chiefly In tha way of raw vision ot the undistributed nrofltt and capital gains taxes. President Roosevelt declined In hla press conference Frldsy at Hyde Park to give any light on hi attitude toward such proposed tax change. He reverted Inatead to reiteration of the contention that raising the pur. chasing power of the ona-tblrd of the population ha haa before de scribed as still 111 fed, 111 housed and 111 clsd eould point the way to an utlmate national Income goal of hundred billions aa against 88 Ml. Hons In 1938 when he took offtct and an expected .70 bllllona for next year. To soma Washington observers that aa read as Intended to answer tha attack of Former President Hoover In Boston on new deal pollriea. Mr. ' Hoover said they were calculated te pull down the middle two-thirds rather than lift standards of living for the lower one-third or, whatever proportion correotly statea the aub standard ratio. Tha Hoover theory has been since roitersted. by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan. It sounds like a new keynote for Republican onslaughts on Roosevelt policies when congress convenes. FELON ON PERCH COUTMBUS. O., Oot. 50. (API- Ohio penitentiary guards were only slightly amused today as James Mason. 89, chanted his "I wsnt ou of here" from a perch on tha 190- foot high prison wster tower. Mason broke from a marching una of convicts at breakfast time ana climbed to the tower's catwalk where, four week, ago, he paced back and forth demanding futueiy releaae from tha prison. "He can't go anywhere," ana Warden J, O. Woodard. Indicating prison official would make no fort to bring down the protesting convict, sentenced In 1030 for on to 30 yeara for operating an auto mobile without the owner's con sent. Cold and hunger ended Mason, previous water-tower marching. I Unionists Saved i PORTLAND, Oct. 80. (AP) Stat police rescued W. J. Roth and M. A. BUlmeyer, A. P. of L. organisers, from the woods near Oak drove yesterday aftar they hsd fled Into hiding from 30 men. believed to be C. L O. ayra pethlsers, '
