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Christmas Opening in Medford Stores Saturdaj - Free Bus Rides The Weather ' Forecast: Cloudy tonlglit and Saturday, with fog in morning; little chance In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday . M...A5 Sunday Want Ads Remember to write that Adr. for the Sunday morning edi tion. Adva. In before S:SO p.m. ftaturday will be properly clas sified, latrr Adva. will be run "too late to classify." T7 JBUNE EDFORD Lowest this morning.. . 43 Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirtv-Second Year MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1937. No. 213. If Tffl B nrfhixn M HOSVELT EV J Aid - t 1 The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kinter Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. LEFT-WINGERS GUIDE F. IS ITILITY TALKS UNCOMPROMISING STAND TAKEN ON PEACE OFFEK GOVERNMENT PLANTS HELD NO COMPETITIVE THREAT WTLKIE'8 PROGRAM RECEIVED SANS COMMENT WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. In a struggle as Intense as the one now la progress between the right and left wing presidential advisers, no secret keeps very long. Too many people are too personally Interested lo the atniggle's outcome, on which will depend the whole administra tion approach to the problem of the depression. Therefore, the real story of the recent presidential confer ences with utility executives, which merked the first round of the straggle, Is already on Its wny through the administration's whis pering galleries. The conservative Whlto House ad visers hoped that the conferences would be the first step on the road to an administration pence with the utilities companies. They had strong ly urgdd conciliation on the presi dent on the doublo. grounds-mint a peace with the utilities would sootlie the present panlo fears of business, and that It would encourage the utilities themselves to spend . hun dreds of millions of business-stimulating dollara on construction work. Therefore, three things stick out of the real story of the conferences Ilk eo many sore thumbs: I. The president mado no peace offer to the utilities executives. 3. A peace program was brought down by at least one of the utilities executives. Wendell L. Wlllkle. of the Commonwealth end Southern com pany. And although the Wlllkle pro gram Involved such concessions as general write-oft of 1.400.000.non In the national utilities capitaliza tion, and future acceptance of the president's "prudent investment" theory of rate-making, the president eeemed to pay little or no attention to It. S. The president devoted consid erable time to lecturing the utilities men. blaming them for unreasonable terror, and arguing that, In spite of the government competition spon sored by TV A end the other things which have unset the utilities ousi ness, there waa no excuse in the world for their hesitant attitude toward new investment. The first end most Important of the conferences that with Mr. Wlllkle must have been downrlaht funny. The utilities man. rather naturally, went to 'It hoping to sect an olive branch or so waved In his direction. As the story comes from the most reliable Washington whls perlng galleries, he found Instead a slightly contentious president, with Prank R. MeNlnch, the able power expert who now heads the federal communications commission, there (Oontinued on Page Six ) RENO, Nev., Nov. 28. Pi Mar riage licenses Issued today included: Nathan C. Coleman. 39, Medford, Ore., nd Esther C. Johnson, 39. San Fran cisco. t SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Viola Bcherrer falling to find any forest service news to report after a heavy holiday. Prank Rogers lending a helping hand In cellophaning city street lights tor Christmas. Barbara Bignlow having a swell time at the firemen's ball in spite ot Jaequea Mstlaqvic. tnn Paber bustling around town With oodle of conlldt-ntinl informa tion regarding the pro'peria for nis A:bsny collyp ha.vk'iball tnm. which he s'atr, will be a hum-dingT. Ardo Stocks and Floyd Baker dem onstrating their eipertness In doing the "Big Apple." latest dance craw Father Francis Blnrk getting In a bit of sly sar.-atn by r.i..:n.; l n-- dlately lo lr-.vi,.'e a . r Ina ground be eeltWui saw Um awi L RECOMMEND unii otihiiiii iiiTn I 10 Message to Congress . Mon day to Ask Legislation Aimed at Private Housing Program On Large Scale WASHINGTON. Nov. 36 (IP) Pres- t ident Roosevelt said today he wanted j tax revision as soon as congress Is i ready to go ahead with It. i As further moves to restore confl : dence and stimulate Industry the president told his press conference i he would send a message to congress Monday recommending legislation to spur private financing of a largo scale1 housing program and another Tuesday proposing curtailment In the annual appropriations for federal aid In road building. A fourth step, Mr. Roosevelt dis closed. Involves a presidential letter ti department heada to anticipate federal purchases of supplies for the remaining seven months of the cur rent fiscal year and to speed these up Instead of spreading them over until June 30. When Congress Ready Asked If he favored tax revision as an aid to business now, or at the regular session starting In January, the, president Joked with his ques tioner and asked If he had been read ing the newspapers. Mr. Roosevelt advised reading his message to the special session whtch' he said made very clear that tax revision waa de sired. . In other words, he added, he' want- (Continued on Page Pour.) BURKlITOSES IN DAMAGE A verdict In favor of the defend ants waa returned Wednesday night by a circuit, court Jury In the dsm aire milt of B. P. Burkhardt against Jay R, Williams. Nettle C. Wi!llnms. Bert Williams, Dale Stokes. Opal Nelson and Lois Fretwell. Burkhardt sought $5,000 punitive and $3,100 general damages from each of the defendant on the allegation they had entered Into a conspiracy to send him to the Insane asylum when they stoned a complaint last April. Testimony In the case was highly Involved and lasted two days. Burk hardt waa represented by Attorney Gua Newbury and the defendants by Attorney Charles W. Reames. During the closing argument one of the Jurors, due to a headache. requested the lawyer not to talk so loud. 1 I ,1 Grins in Today's Hews Grist By the Auoclsted Press. LITERALLY A fKY PILOT. " NEW YORK The most Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Russian ca thedral, turned acrobat when his campaign for a $26,000 fund to repair the cathedral's lenky roof failed. Day after day he hung by ropes, applying tar paper to the steeply pitched roof. The cost: $30 for the paper and many hours of hard work for the dean. AT LONG LAST MACON. Os. Charlea Grace, deputy county tax collector, struggled two days to balance his books. He was a nickel shy. He even carried on the grim battle Thanksgiving day because then ne would be free of Interruptions. But the door opened, and a man entered. "I owe you a nickel," he aald. "They gave me too mush change when ( paid my taxes." FAMOUS FIRSTS. ARKANSAS CITT, Kas. Hunters hereabouts are telling this one: . A man engaged to dispose of an ailing horse waa Joined by two hunters. Talk turned to their marksmanship. Then the executioner spied the nsg. "There's one thing I've never shot a horse." he aald. and fired. Enjoying the hunters' consternation, he added: "I've never shot a man, either yet." He's still wondering what hit him. GOING, GOING DENVER Sant Daniels, of Hugo, Colo., took the seventh of hli enlldren to a hospital for an appendectomy and announced: "My daughter. Marjorie. haa the only appendix left in the family. I hope she can keep It." Ridding the family of appendices, he aald, cost him S2400. TOl'GH f't'STOMF.R CHICAGO Bartender John Campobasso never liked arguments. The one he had with Edwin Zsger. 27. a customer, ended abruptly when Zsger pulled a pistol from his pocket. Casting composure to the wlnda. CampobaMo reached behind him. picked up a bottle and broke It over nia customer's head. . Wh"n police arrived Csmpobasao wa. moody. "Why," he walled, way cou.an t -I have picked up a beer bottle Instead of pert wine." BACK FOR WNNEH. LINCOLN, Neb. Police Lieut. Gene Masters Is a kind-hearted sort fellow, and it grieved him eoniderab? when John Hudson. 41, dashed out oj the rttv j-t) jtu' n-'ore trie lnanic-.iA.ng. dinner ass radv for prisoners. M:;'rs nu-'.it i;' '.-on In n pr.v rer the station and brought r'm back lot a dinner of roast port tod EnrA'.Wnvloere Crnrlo J-JmiMi Pinhet 1 in in ' ' Pastor Guilty A Jury, of ten rarmers and two tradesmen found the Rev. C. E. New ton (above) guilty of the slating, of .Mrs. Dennis Kelly, his former Sunday school teacher, it Plttsfleld, 111. . SEAL SALE DRIVE OPENS TODAY IN The annual campaign to eradicate tuberculosis, which medical science has proved can be cured and can be prevented, opens 1a Jackson county today with appearance ot the 1937 Christmas Seal, carrying the pic t Ure of' the Jovial town crier, which will brighten Christmaa pack agea In every state of the union. For the first time In history ot the local drive, boxes for mailing, return cheeks, .or. money, .will be placed In the downtown area.. They may bo used by those who prefer to save the expense of mailing. Boxes will appear December 6 at the Seal Bale booths In the Medford post office, Groceteria No. ' 1', and Mont gomery' Ward's. This arrangement has been made by the Jackson County Health asso ciation, sponsors of the drive to divert the money usually spent on postage. Into the purchase of Seals. Mrs. Robert .Hart, 1037 Seal Sale chairman for Jackson . county, is being assisted by a large staff of workers, with every community oi (Oontinued on page Si.). OiesMf ie i '. v a"":1'" sjj-l J o' PLANES ON LINE NEARESTJAPAN Tokyo Newspaper Claims 1500 Machines Now in Maritime Provinces Air planes Also Go to China TOKYO. Nov. 38. (AP The Tokyo -newspaper Hochl today pub lished a dispatch from Tsuruga. as serting that 1,600 Soviet airplanes had been massed In the maritime , provinces, that part of Siberia near est Japan. . The same source reported 1,000 ! Russian bombing planes were enter- 1 Ing China by way of Slanfu. capital of Western Shensl province, pre sumably to buttress China's resist ance to Japan. (Tsuruga la a port on Japan's western coast normally the terminus of steamer aervlces to Vladivostok. Japanese correspondents there fre quently forward rumors of develop ments In Siberia whtch are not con firmed. Latest reporta have not placed the Russian air strength In far eastern Siberia at more than 700 or 800). Sub Tarts Rushed The Hochl dispatch also said the Russians wero rushing submarine parts "to Vladivostok, where they were being assembled. This report waa repeated In Harbin, Manchou kuo, dispatch to the Tokyo Nlchl Nlchl. The Harbin dispatch asserted that the Moscow government had ordered the staff of Its consulate -general there to withdraw on December 15. Transportation facilities on the tmns-Slberlsn railway, -main source of supply for Soviet forces in the far east, were reported being In creased. ' (Reports that Soviet Russia was (Oontinued on Page Pour.) NEW YORK, Nov. 28. (AP) Oer ardo Machado. former president of Cuba, was arrested today at the Mur rey HIU hospital by the V. 8. mar shal's office, his counsel, Francis a O'Neill, announced. He was arrested on an extradition request by the Cuban government, which charged him with murder, em bezzlement and various other crimes. General Machado. his attorney said was arrested at the hospital by a detail from the marshal'a office thla afternoon while he waa still under going treatment. , An operation waa to have been performed "when his condition makes it advisable. O'Neill aald he had Intended sur rendering the former president Mon day. Ex-Mayor Walker . Loses In Appeal New YORK, NOT. 3. IP) The ap. pellate division of the state supreme court today affirmed unanimously a decision holding invalid former Mayor James J. Walker's original appoint. ment to the transit commission as assistant counsel. The salary la 113, 000, and Walker's appointment would have made him eligible for a pension The suit, protesting his appointment last summer, waa brought against the transit commission by Richard Well ing, president of the Civil Service Reform association. Moving Mountain Breaks Big Mam TjOS ANGELES. Nov. 39. -(API The moving mountain moved enough today to break a water main, which flooded to ankle-depth atreete in the Immediate vicinity. At noon city engineers began re pairing the main, which la directly at the base of the big cliff. PIONEER MERCHANT OF KLAMATH TAKES LIFE KLAMATH PALLS. Nov. 3. !P Wltb a bullet hole In the head, the body of J. B. Chambers, 71, pioneer Klamath Palls business man, was i:r. In hi) home last night. Cor oner George Adler said ha apparently had C-Mr.:ttc4 suicide. A friend said CK' : rs had been morrled biuuuas. over Magda Asks Time To Ponder Offer Of Flier To Wed NEW YORK, Nov. 36. (p) Magda de Pontanges, French Jour nalist who ahot a diplomat be cause, she said, he interfered with her romance with Premier Mus solini, has met an American avi ator who wants to marry her. The two had Thanksgiving din ner together last night after Miss Pontanges was released In ball from Ellis Island, where she haa been held for deportation. She was barred from the country on grounds of "moral turpitude" when she arrived several weeks sgo. .The aviator. Jack Hedgard, of fered to rescue her from the com plications of International law by marrying her. but the Dally Mir ror said she wanted time to think it over. T CALLED 10 TALK Turkey growers of Jackson county. numbering close to 300, . will meet Saturday at 1:30 p. m. In the' court houso audltorlnm to discuss threat ened union labor restrictions against turkeys shipped from this section unless they bear a union label. The meeting was called by County Agent Robert Q. Fowler. According to County Agent Fowler, the butchers' union 'of the biy city area refuses to handle turkeys from hare unless they bear the union label affixed at 30 cents per label. Ross Kline, president of the South ern Oregon Turkey Growers associa tion, reported the same situation. According to Fowler, the butchers' union served notice It would not sccept turkeys after Thanksgiving unless they bore the union label. The Thanksgiving shlpmenta were unmolested. ThankAglving trade shlpmrnta from this section, according to the county agent, approxlmateo be tween 30.000 and 35,000 birds and the same number remain awaiting the Christmas holiday trade. Turkey growers maintain they can not bear the union label fee at the present pound price for turkeys ranging from 31 to 33 cents locally. Fowler astd the possibility of the turkeys raisers appealing to federal agencies would be discussed and de cided upon. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. SB. (IP) Milton 8. Maxwell, International vice president of the Butchers' Union on the west coast, said today he would recommend to the local union that turkeys shipped In from Oregon for the Christmaa trade be not accepted unless they bore a union label. Maxwell said union labeia cost only 1 a thousand and scoffed at reporta from Medford, Ore., that they oost 30 cents each. "Furthermore," he said, "these la bels are furnished by the union with out cost to the grower." Maxwell said one carload of tur keys shipped In for Thanksgtvlng was held temporarily while reports they had been sent from a non-union packer In California to Grants Pass for reshlprrrent -to San Francisco were Investigated. As soon as It wss es tablished they were direct from Ore gon they were released, he aald. Maxwell Is calling a meeting of the local - Sunday to atudy the label question. 4 Seamen Rescued Off Haiti Shore MIAMI, Pis., Nov. 3 (AP Trop ical radio wss advised today the 17 seamen remaining aboard the British freighter Notllngton Court In dis tress off Haiti had been rescued but thst the vesael was a total loss. A message from the Tug Klllereg said: "Tua Klllrreg took remaining 17 crew from Nollington Court. Nol llngton Court Is a total loss. All lives, saved." Hostess Slashes . Kitchen Kibitzer OAKLAND, Calif.. Nov. 3. IPr Oeorge Christopher, 62, was In an Oakland hospital today wltb knife wounda In the rUtht arm and chest because police aald he argued with hla hostese on how to cook a Ttianks 4l'.lng day turkey Police booiced Mrs. . B-s.ie Marc lie. for stabbing I alto a butcher kiufe. him AS TO ARBITRATION Three-Week Tieup Ended by Acceptance of Citizens' Committee Proposal for Peace Portland Hopes MARSHPIEIiD. Nov. 36. (AP) Silent for nearly three weeks, the big docks of Coos Bay hummed with activity today aa 113 longshoremen. freed from a Jurisdictional union battle, began loading three vessels. The 18-day port tleup came to an end yesterday when the CIO ana APL, accepting proposals of a citt aens' committee from the Marshlield and North Bend chamber of com merce, agreed to submit their dit ferences to arbitration before a fed eral labor conciliator and abide by the decision, to be returned In ao days. Settlement of the dispute, which originated 6B days ago when CIO longshoremen refused to handle APL- produced lumber from tho Smith Wood Products plant at Coqullle. raised hope in other sections of the state that serious union Jurisdictional stalemates - of Industry might be solved likewise. I'urtland Hupcrut. In Port In nd, state, city and civic leaders, determined to end 104-day-old deadlock In the sawmill in dustry, will assemble Monday with Oh a rles W. Hope, regional d lrector of tho national labor relations board. Gov, Mnrtln and Mayor Joseph Car son, of Portland, served notice on the board to provide some immediate solution "or get out of the picture." Oov. Martin waa expected to go to Portland this afternoon from Salem but he declined to give the purpose of his visit. Cargoes of pulp and lumber here began to awing aboard ships sched uled for salllnga to Japan, Soutn America and the California trade. The Mccormick steamship- West Ira waa ofr the bar, awaiting favorable weather, to dock for a cargo ot 8ml i h wood. It waa the refusal ot longshoremen to load this cargo on November 5 that caused employers to close the port. The citizens' commlttea waa await ing an answer from E. P. Marsh, federal conciliator, to Ita telegram asking him to coma here Imme diately to draw up an arbitration agreement. 1 Coastal Highway . Open To Traffic SALEM, Nov. 36. ffV-The Oregon coast highway waa open today, al though water and slides hindered trafflo at several points. Cars were going over the flooded section west of Coqullle behind a pilot car, while one-way trafflo waa effective at Depoe bay. near Wheeler, south of Coqullle and north of the Coos Bay bridge. BEND, Nov. 2fl. P) Burglars. In search of Thanksgiving football game receipts, blasted the Bend high school safe last ntght. Football cash waa In the bank, but 6? waa taken. New Deal Prestige Loss . Claimed by John L. Lewis WASHINGTON, Nov. t0lp) John L. Lewis aald In an Interview copy righted by Mrs. Eleanor M. Patterson, publisher of the Washington Herald and Timaa today that the Rooaovelt administration had "declined In prea tlge" because of "lack of competent and coordinated man power." "That has been the story of every thing from the NRA down to Nathan Stroua' 'star garlng' at the housing problem," he said. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, aald he aas an administration critic, "but I ahall alwaya be an admirer of hla (the president's) alms and Ideals.' "When 1 said 'administration'." he added. "I meant 'admlnlatratlon' with a small 'a'. In other words, his ability to administrate, to carry out the Idrala which he haa set for himself and'for the country. "The bituminous coal commission Is a case In point. Mere Is a great Industry marking time because the commission han been allowed lo drift rlth no supervision or check-up ' It wt are going to centralise power Told 'White Lie' V PM . iHmSm ssasssaissasasassstg KLaJ Ul(li-peil Lorcltu lluriu'k (ulitne), M. calmly told a coroner's Jury In f hlcaco she was the secret -bride of Warren 8. Sinclair, 17-yenr-old mili tary academy student who ended their tragic romance by slaying him self after being told by the girl she una to become a mother. Miss llnry nek told police she falsely Informed the youth she wiu to have a baby "lo innke him feel hal.py., E BEATEN, HELD By S.P.T LAS CRUCES, N. M., Nov. 38. Two young oastern "drug stora cow boys," whose Thanksgiving Day at tempt to hold up a crnck transcon tinental train contained all the ele ments of a western fiction "thriller," told their story from a Jail cell again today as officers prepared to file charges. District Attorney Margin Thrcet said the two. Henry Lorenr., 33, of ' Manitowoc, Wls.i snd Harry Dwyer, 37, of Dlgby county, Canada, had ad mitted firing the shots which claimed the life of one man before a crowd of enraged train . passengers over powered them aa they attempted to flee the train. Thrcet said he had not "had the time" to file charges, but ha Indi cated this would be done soon. "I Intend to file charges of train rob bery," he said. Hough ty Treated. Lorenx and Dwyer were brought here last night from Doming. They were taken from the Southern Pacific- train there yesterday, bruised and bleeding, their cowboy clothes torn, after passengers thwarted their holdup. The body of W. L. Smith, El Paso. Tex., yardman who was wounded fa tally In the crowd's scuffle with the bandits, was aent to bis home today. "There Is no chance of our beating the law," Lorens and Dwyer were quoted aa saying. "We know we're both where we belong. They were both In New Tork, they (Continued on Page Sixteen) and coordinate government we can not escape administrative responsi bility. "The other day I was in Nw York conferring with the anthracite opera tors and 1 got a call from Marvin Mclntyre (the president's socratary) saying that the president wanted to see me. "But he didn't say when. He said there was no hurry anytime In two or three days. Well, usually the White House Is ipcclflo and In a hurry re garding appointments, and I couldn't understand sll tho vagueness. "Then I got It. BUI Orecn (presi dent of the Amerloan Federation of labor) had visited the Whlto House and Mclntyre had given me thla nebulous Invitation for fear 1 would be displeased. "Now that Illustrates what I think la one of the serious defects of thu administration. "There la too much time given to balancing political personalltlea and not enough given to applying the ai-of-thepanta lo the scat-of-lhe-chair." x4 105 DRASTIC ACTION TO CIM PLANT Police Squad, Has Little to Do Few Rocks Hurled When Motorcade Ap proaches Gate at St. Louit ST. LOUIS, Not. 36. fl) Striking United Automobile Workers of Amer lea, massing a heavy picket line with! the aid of other C. I. O. unions, failed today In a second attempt to ball production at the Ford Motor com pany's St. Louts assembly plant. The picket line, formed In the early morntng darkness, was broken, with Uttte disorder, by automobiles loaded with workers and escorted In be) the plant by police cars. At dawn, the first motorcade oJ 30 automobiles approached tha main gate, where a police detail watched milling pickets closely. A few stone were thrown. An hour and a half later, a count made by an Associated Press staff member and four other newsmen. allowed 474 workers had entered thai plant In 137 automobiles. The count showed 353 of the men drove into tha grounds in the first hour. Tho gate remained heavily pollc4 although the lurgo picket line dwtn died as sympathetic union meal dropped out to go to their Jobs la other Industries. Delmond Oaret, U. A. W. regional director, told strike leaders and unto officials at a "pep meeting" later: "We're going to turn loose one est (Continued on Page Five.) GAYlECOllONS MARK RETURN OF HOLIDAY SEASON With the passing of the 193 Thanksgiving holiday into history. Medford today turned Its attenttoa to Christmas, less than a monta away. Tomorrow will mark tha formal opening of the Tuletlde season. Deo oration of the city streets, with col ored lights, large stars and evergreen garlanda on the lamp standards, will be completed tomorrow night. At the same time Medford stores win unveil their Christmas show win dows and special exhibits, Jackao County Chamber of Commerce an nounced. To demonstrate Its service and t (Continued on Page five.) TO RAIN-SOAKED CITYi Happy It the city the tun shine on. And today Medford waa happy. Old Sol finally came through and brightened the city with sunshine after 20 successive days of rain. Wnat) It more the weather bureau ended Its monotonous forecast of showers, ccaslonal rain or Just plain rata. Weather tonight and tomorrow, tn bureau aald,, would be cloudy, wit momlng fog. 1 It looked today as though tnl month would turn out only second best In tho matter of record Novem ber rainfall, though the weather bu reau would not venture thla opinion. Nevertheless, with only four dsyt te) go, thla month would have to cnal up almost another Inch of rain tt exceed the all-time high November record of .8 Inches, established In 1928. Thlt month't rain Uil morning totaled 8.09 Inches. PORTLAND. Nov. 28. (AP) Rain, awept western Oregon welcomed clear. Ing sklet today. for the flrat time In weeks, weather bureau forecast did not pre dict rain. The tun ahone here and fair weather wee In tight for moat of tha state. Trafflo rolled over moat state nign waya without difficulty, the southern coastal region excepted. A foot of water covered the highway weat Coqullle,
