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Newspaper Page TextOREGON .......24 MARINES 7 UCLANS ...13 MISSOURI 0 NOTRE DAME 13 6 PITT DUKE ..... 10 FORDHAM 20 0 NEW YORK U. .... 7 RICE 13 BAYLOR 7 AUBURN .,. . 14 FLORIDA 0 HOLY CROSS ...20 BOSTON COL. ,. 0 MICHIGAN .......... 14 U. of S. F. ..... .. . 0 TROJANS ARMY ...... 6 COLUMBIA STANFORD , . 0 NEBRASKA ....... 3 .... 0 KANSAS S 0 T. C. U. . S. M. U. 3 0 LOUISIANA 20 TULANE 7 -i i. 1 The Weather Forecast: Cloudy today and tomorrow, probably followed by rain tomorrow. No change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday M Lowest yesterday S Profitable Medford TRIBUNE The classified pa (re glvea out some rery Interesting Informa tion this morning. Just a small amount of your time spent reading might prove enlighten Ing as well a, profitable. Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Second Year MEDFOKD, OREGON. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1937 No. 214. LE.U. OFFERS HELP Guage Measures Landslide Wed Mate's KUler The Capital Parade By Joseph Alaop and Robert Kinter Copyright 1937, by The. North American News paper Alliance, Inc. F.D.R. ASKS SOUTHERNERS TO HALT CONliUESS REVOLT UNITE!) DEMOCRATIC FRONT SOCUHT BY PRESIDENT ... PIXIE HEI.EUATION SEEN COLD TO OVERTURES CONSERVATIVE COUP nriMi iiiscrssi-i) WASHINGTON. Nov. 28. The most Interesting phenomenon of the ape etl session of conjress Is the cheer less bankruptcy of the administra tion leadership. The lawmakers, mad dened by the smell of depression In the air, are quite out of control. ' The situation Is no bad that, last week-end. the president secretly ate crow, calnug In a representative of the same conservative southern Dem ocrats whom he virtually cast out of the party last spring, Inviting him and his friends to kiss and make up with the administration, and asking for assistance from the powerful southern group In handling the situ ation on the hill. The chat was pleasant, although the president could not have much enjoyed It. After Jollying the south erner In the accustomed fashion, the president mentioned the serious state of affaire on the hill, and admitted that It muso was the depression. He read a little sermon on the polit ical dangers inherent In depressions, putting especial emphasis on the fact that voters, enraged by bad times, rarely differentiate between conservatives and radicals, so long as they wear the same party label. He urged that all Democrats ought to pull together, and he suggested that the powerful southerners put themselves behind the administration leadership In an effort to bring the congress under some sort of control. Actually, the plea was rather In effectual, although the southerner dtd agree that procedure ought to be orderly. Indeed, during the days since the chat, the situation has grown worse to a point where the air Is full of rumors of a sort of conservative coup d'etat. It would probably be possible for such Democrats as the vice-president. Senator James Byrnea of South Caro lina, Senator Pat Harrison of Missis sippi, Jesse H. Jones, and their like, to make alliance with Independent New Dealers like Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, sleze the reins In congress from the White House, cut the glwsrd out of the un distributed profits and capital gains tsxes at once, and make other con cessions to business. And It is not altogether unlmsglnable that they will do so. They have already talk ed of It, rather nervously perhaps, among themselves. Crow Is a rare Item on the presi dential menu, and the particular bird which the president swallowed 111 his recent private chat with the south erner was as large a crow, as fat and as unpleasant as it well could have been. Hl request to the southern era was. to all Inwnts and purposes, a frsnk confession of error In having shouldered the southerners aside In his quest for a completely obedient congressional leadership. Last spring, when the post of Dem ocratic leader of the senate waa va cated by Joe Robinson's death, the tight little southern oligarchy which had ruled congresses of the New Deal put forth Harrison as Its candidate for the succession. The president and the men around him fought like tigers for the election of Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, a southerner by origin but not by association, on whom they knew they could depend to listen to their least command. One aenatorlal vote for Berkley was procured at the last hour. In a three eomored telephone conversation be tween senator already pledged to u.wiMn renresentatlves of the Whit House, and representatives of the malodorous Keny-nasn nwemm In Chicago. That .tnffle TOti WSS dCCldlhg. Snd Senator Barkley was chosen to fill the huge shoes of the mg. nsra-anv-Ing. strslpht-tslklng. much-respected (Continued on Page Sight) Baker Burglar sentence BAKER. Nov 37.-IAPI Andrew e. Moser.. former awlatant manager of the Fait atore In Baker, pleaded guilty to circuit court today to ehirgo of robbing th. atore. He was sentenced by Judge C. H. Uccoiiocr. to three years In the state penitentiary. FARM BILL COST BE HALFBILLION Letter To Senator Barkley Hints At Curb Senator McNary Proposes To Quit Program. WASHINGTON, Nov. 37. Pres ident Roosevelt gave congress a strong hint today that he wanted the cost of the new farm program held to half a billion dollars a year. In a letter to Senator Barkley, the Democratic leader, the president re lnforced esrller budget-balancing statements with the emphatic asser tion: "It is obvious that a constant in crease of expendlturea without an equally constant increase In revenue ran only result In a continuation of deficits. 'We cannot hope to continue "on a sound basis of financial management of government affairs unless the reg ular annual expenditures are brought ithln the revenues." Mr. Roosevelt said he felt "every effort should be made" to keep spend ing under the new farm program within an already-voted asoo.000,000 appropriation. But If this were Impossible, he add ed, "I then urge that steps be taken to provide the necesssry Increase in revenue to meet any expenditures un der the new farm program In excess of that sum." Barkley told reporters It would be difficult to estimate how much the new program would cost, but If It st talned Its purpose of stabilizing farm prices and eliminating aurpluaes the sum probably would be smaii. "I feel sure." he said, "that If. any additional revenue la needed, congress will raise it so as not to make any ad ditional burden on the treasury." , Senators debating the farm legisla tion have varied widely on their es timates of cost, with most guesses ranging between $500,000,000 and II, 000,000.000. Senator McNary, the Republican leader, urged that congress abandon efforts to ensct farm legislation at this time. He said soil conservation payments under the present law would be adequate until the federal budget has been balanced and "con ditions are more stable." McNary said the delay would give congress sufficient time to draft per manent legislation without the haz ard of too much waste. The pending bill, he declared, had been "hastily" and "loosely" drafted. He estimated $500,000,000 would not carry out the bill's parity provisions but at least $250,000,000 more would be needed for a much larger amount in event of a bumper crop. As for additional revenue, he ask ed: "Where would we get It?" The second week of the five-week special session ended today with both houses In recess. Monday, the senate will cpntlnue farm debate and the house will take up Its farm measure. A message from the president re garding possible methods of stimu lating borne construction also is ex pected to go to congress Monday. E FIGURE IN JAIL SAN FRANCISCO. NOT. 37. (OPI Willie Meeban, at one time one of the most promising young flgnt era in the American prise ring, mumbled to himself tonight in tne San Francisco Jail. "It. a bum beef. It don't go." But offlcera had a telegrapnic warrant for hla arrest which was sworn out by his wife In Sacramento charging he had failed to contrin. ute to the support of their young eon. "Women, they don't know." sua Willie whose real name Is Bugene Walcott and who gave Jack Demp- sey a thorough walloping In a oe clslon fight here during World war daya before Dempsey became ism oua. Willie wsa a great fighter In those days. He had everything. Including s great fighting heart which brought him some terrific beatings because he wouldn't quit until the last glimmer of consciousness had been punched out of him. He was San Francisco's fistic hero. He lived high. He knew lots of peo ple. They were all hla "pals." Toen he began losing fights. It waa tne old story. Lstely he has been a bouncer In a Turk street night club. ferry .Misses Storm ASTORIA. Nov. 37. ( API Escsp In. a .tArm hre-rln. off the ColUnV bis river muth, the ferry Golden t.te h. the rue Commis sioner, entered the river at 11:1$ a. m. today and safeljr Ued up Here ( . v , , rial toi&ift?miit& tSnmn hnlf million tons of earth In a bluff In Los Angeles Elvslnn Park have threatened to slide since a section of the hill started to sink slmly lart Ortoher. tertlon of the bluff crashed down this week. Carl Minium tndlratea on a gauge set up at one of the cracks how far the earth has clipped. LOS ANGELES. Not. 37. (Jff Piece-meal, Elyslan park's moving mountain today continued it de scent, depositing boulders, trees and more earth upon Riverside Drive and the Los Angeles riverbed. PENN STATE GOES HARRISBORO, Pa.. Nov. 27.--P) Pennsylvanla'a millions of workers In offices, stores snd Industries go on a 44-hour week next Wednesday. Thousands of coal miners sr.d other union members have contracts for a shorter week but two laws passed by the 1P37 legislature fix the maxi mum work week after December I at 44 hours for those who don't have such agreements. SIT-DOWN STRIKE NEW YORK, Nov. 37. m Two bodies lay unburled tonight In Green wood cemetery. Brooklyn, as a result of a sit-down strike. One waa covered by a stone slab In an unfilled grave, the other waa plac ed In a receiving vault by mourners after union chauffeurs refused to handle the casket. Graved iggers laid down tools In protest against discharge of 100 fel low workers last week In violation, they said, of an agreement to keep the full staff of 350 employed the year around. SOI RAIN SEEN Northern California: Pair and mtld Sunday; moderate northerly wind off coast. Oregon : Unsettled Sunday; show ers In northwest and local snow or rain In northeast portion; little change in temperature; moderate to fresh southerly wind off coast. On tlook far western sta tea, No vember 30 to December 4. inclusive Generally fair In California and Ne vada and frequent rains In nortn Pacific statet and Idaho, with snows In mountains: normal temperatures. OFFICIAL BAN ON KLAN RAID CAFE MIAMI, ria.. Not. 27. f AP) A night club, rlotvd two eek ago by 176 raiders In Km Klux Kian regalia, wa hut down by sheriff's deputies tonight an hour aftr re opening and all of Its employes were arrested. Sheriff D. C. Coleman earlier had described the resort Just outside the city 11x18 as a "menace" ?nd Mid he r.ould "do everything In my power to keep it from operating. While this compnrntlve trickling continued, geologist predicted an other landslide. An estimated 1 .000.000 tons of the bluff cascaded down last night, leav ing a huge scar on the face of the hill. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (fly-Be- crecy-bound printers took first glimp ses today at New Year's federal bud get, but economic developments in the next few weeks may decide wheth er It can be balanced. The figures will be made public In January. Many of the budget estimates will stay blank, until about Jan. 1. when the president will havp had more time to gauge the extentof the current business recession. Declining business would dim in come prospects, however, and a spread of unemployment might require more relief spending. There have also been demands for a resumption of "pump priming" expendlturea by the govern ment. The recession was described a "a temporary check in our progress" by the American Federation of Laaor, which appealed to private employers not to reduce payrolls or postpone ex pansion. , BY RECORD MIST LONDON, Nov. 27. D Millions of Britons breathed moderately fresh air tonight after three choking days of a fog that waa blamed for the loss of 13 lives. Before the fog one of the heaviest In London' history lifted. It had "blscked out" half of England, cut ting visibility In many places to a scant two yards. There were scores of aecldenta as pedestrians made torches of newspa per to guide their way along the street. FAST CARS BOOST W AsSHJ NO TON . Nov. 27. (JPr The bureau of public roads reported today that public funds now available were "insufficient' to meet highway Im prove men ts and extension needs oc casloned by heavier and speedier au t onto bile travel. This statement was made In an annual report released while Pres idmt Roosevelt waa drafting ipe cial meiuutge to congTv'sa reconmwnd tng curtailment In federal expendl turea for highway building. (nn Vlrilm Die, EUOlN, Not. 37. I AP) Victim of an accidental gunshot raund. Gordon A. McNrll, 44, died ner. rrldaj. LAID BY BOY TO HITCHHIKE PAIR Five-Year Old Tot Tells Grim Tale To Montana Sheriff Couple Held. WHEAT BASIN. Mont., Nov. 37. (fPt "They shot Mama and Papa last night." Thus did five-year-old Larry Kuntz disclose today a story that two hitch hikers killed his parents and left the boy beaten senseless In an automo bile with the bodies of hLs rather, Mike Runts, 38, and his mother, Mrs. Kuntz, 38. Directed by little Larry. Mike Zlsser and Hubert King found the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Runts In their auto mobile Inside a grain elevator which Kuntz operated atnee coming here from Bismarck, N. D., several weeks ago. Undcrsheriff Jack, Benjamin said both bodies had sveral .bullet wounds. He said no ' gun could be found. Benjamin reported tonight he had arretted a man and his wife at Co lumbia, Mont., for questioning In the double slaying. Questioned by P. R. Heily, Stillwater county attorney, they gave their name as Hugh Dow nard, 40, and Mrs. Downard, 38, and dented the Mayings. The Kuntz boy. Sheriff Benjamin said, pointed to the couple and fald: "That man look like the man. but the woman doesn't look the same." , King said the boy walked forlornly into hla Whfat Basin atore a mile from the elevator. Z laser , believing the boy had been attacked by a dog, asked King to take him home. An they started. King said, the boy told hirm - - "But there's nobody at homo." "Where'a your mama?" King said he asked. Then the child replied: "They shot Mama and Papa last night." Before Larry was taken to a hos pltal at Columbus, Mont,, for treat' ment of his Injuries, he said his parenU started with htm to a cam party last night. Benjamin said the child related they were flagged down by a man and a woman hitchhiker. GLASS EYE 'YEGG' SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. 37 WAV- Salt Lake City' "glass eye" bandit, Cecil R. Wright, 38, of Spokane. Wash., was sentenced to an Indeter minate term of five to 20 year In state prison today for robbing a downtown department atore Novem ber 13. Wright, who pleaded guilty, at temtped to escape Identification after his capture by removing his glass eye when paraded before Ml as Dells Jensen, store cashier whom he rob bed. Detective Capt. E. A. Hedman said. Police bought Wright new glass eye. With the new orb In place. Miss Jensen Identified Wright as the ban dit. He confessed. E PLANS HUGE SUIT JOPLIN, Mo., Nov. 37. f Mrs. Martin Johnson, noted explorer, an nounced here today thaj she had In structed her attorney, Clarence M. Hanson of Los Angeles, to Institute a civil suit there against Western Air Express for 1500,000 damage for death of her husband and Injuries to herself In an airplane crash sev eral months ago. Mrs. Johnson, who la here on a lec tu re tour, said the suit la tn be filed Monday. WINTER, Win.. Not. 27. (API- Carl Kviit. husky all-foot farmer. ttimM the ubla on hla son tonight irhon he dcyoiirrd 44 Herculean flapjacks In $1 minute to win tn. local American tcglon'a second na tlonal pancake eating contest. Arrld Kvlst, 31. hla son and last year's winner, flnl.hed second, three pancake, and sereral ameara of syrup behind. . FLAPJACK EATING CHAMPION NAMED TO END PORTLAND SAWMILL TIE-UP Operators Wire President And Labor Chiefs To Take Peace Steps Churches Appeal. PORTLAND. Ore.. Nov. 27. (&) A new force injected Itself into the AFL- CIO jurisdictional dispute today when the Industrial Employes' Union, for merly the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, offered Mayor Jo seph K. Carson Its help In reopening sawmills closed 106 days ago. Angus Chlsholm, president, speci fied the IEU had no Intention of so liciting members among mlllworkcrs here. Tito national labor relations board la hearing chaigea of company unionism against the organisation. Meantime, 16 sawmills and wood products companies telegraphed Pres ident Roosevelt, Labor Secretary Pran ce Perkins, John L. Lewis and Wil liam Green and congressmen their first appeal for help. "Stepa to bring peace and force the two major unions to conciliate their positions," were demanded. Other development were a Port land council of churches recommen dation for a local arbitration con tn it tee; AFL refUrsal to participate In an election conducted by the na tional labor board and an announce ment sawmill operators would not attend a Monday meeting or Charles W. Hope, regional NLR.B director; the governor; Mayor Carson and AI"L and CIO groups. Governor Martin and Hope receiv ed appeala from Tillamook county of ficials and resident to intercede In Jurisdictional disputes which hava thrown 2,000 mou out of work there. At Salem, efforts to arbitrate a dis pute between 28 restaurants and the Culinary Workora' union wore halted when the union declared agreement had to Include closed shop. PORTLAND, Nov. 37. ( AP) Key lor Noland, 22. violinist Indicted on a charge of assaulting Mis Wini fred Ayres. Reed college history teacher, with a milk bottle, was released from Jail on reduced ball Circuit Judge Jamea W. Crawioro. lowered ball from 110.000 to 3.0tw nn ni of John A. Collier. Noland nttnrnev. that the voutn waa lutw- cular and needed treatment. Noland wa alleged to havo enter ed a college dormitory and attacked the woman. FINAL RITES FOR BRITISH LEADER LOS8IKM0UTK. Scotland. Not 37. ( API The aahee of James Bamaay MacDonald, the poor 8001 tlah farm lad who became prime mlnlater of Orcat Britain, were bur led today In wlndwept Bpynie churchyard bealde the grays of his wife, Margarot Ethel. Twenty of "Jamie's" boyhood com- panons men who ueed to pick po- tatoea with mm in tne neia. side the Firth of Forth were smong the mourners. ON RATE BOOSTS PORTLAND. Ore., MoT. 37. (AP) Arthur M. deary, attorney for tne farm rata council, reprenentlng ore. ion, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana farmers and atockmen, asm today a demand that the Inter atate commerce commission hold a hearing here on a proposed 1$ per cent blanket increase In railroad freight rates .mild be filed t Waahlngton, D. C tomorrow. WABHINOTON, Not. 27. (A) John Brophy. director of the C.I.O., told a national unity conference of furnl ture workers today the C.t.O. would not accept a peace with the A f.L "that means death." "Any peace we make," said Brophy. "must be made between .quels, and must provide protection for the 4 000,000 workers now enrolled In the CIO." Conferences between repreaentetlve. cf the two HTal labor organlratlons will be resumed In Washlntgon Mon VIOLINIST FREED ON REDUCED BAI! v f I . Mrs. Kva Rohnrrit (above) told St, George, t'tnh, authorities she thought her flit husband. Spencer Malan, had deserted her when she obtained di vorce, she Inter married Charle lloss- hnnlt who has confessed slaying Ma luti three years ngo and pitching his body down a well. He married the widow, he said, as he felt a "respon sibility to her." E FOR FLORIDA FOR BRIEF VACATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 37. r (AP) President Roosovelt turned south ward tonight for a brief fishing va cation after, a final review of hla legislative program with congressional leader. Tho president's special train wa ready to. leave shortly before mid night for a leisurely run to Miami, Pla. He will embark there on the yacht Potomac Monday morning. Mrs. James Roosevelt, daughter- in-law, and Miss Marguerite Le Hand, the president's personal secretary, went along, but planned to leave the party at Palm Beach. Invited to go on the boat trip were- Secretary Ickea, Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator; Robert H. Jackson, assistant attorney-gen eral; Secretary Jamea Roosevelt, and several White House aides. A temporary White House head quarters will be established at a Miami hotel with Secretary Marvin H. Mc In tire In charge. Unless tentative plans are changed. the president will leave th yacht at Miami or vicinity next Thursday or Friday then Journey to Warm Springs. Os., for hla annual turkey dinner with the Infantile paralysis patients there. Hla customary Thanksgiving Day engagement at the springs waa postponed thla year because of a tooth Infection. U HENDAYI. Franco-Spanish Fron tier. Nov. 37 AP) The Spanish government today claimed victories on the tipper and centra! Aragon fronts after an Insurgent bombing squadron blasted at communication lines between Madrid end th eastern coast. A Barcelona communique reported that government militiamen defeated Insurgent infantry and selred con siderable quantity of war materials In the vicinity of Batanero. Farther In the south, In th Villa Franco de Ebra sector, government force engaged the foe In a hard fought skirmish In which, the com munique aald, the Insurgents were driven back with losses. While thla struggle In th east and northeast was under way, one of Oeneraltsstmo Francisco Franco's bombing squadron smashed at the link between centrally located Ma drid and th rest of government Spain. To The Rork Pile PORTLAND. Nov. 27. (AP) Sen tences of six months on the county rock pile and lines of AOO each were Imposed by municipal court upon Clarence Wenger, 33, and Fran cis Petrlqulne, 33, arrested witn eight other in ft police drive against a robbery ring. Priests Accused VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Nov. 37 (AP) Three priest were under r- reat here today on charge of vio lating Vera 8m state's ntl-retig loua lawa against which Catholic con due ted a "peaceful rebellion last February. Ei SECY. HULL WARNS America Not To View Calmly Any Interference With Shanghai Customs British Protest. WASHINGTON, Not. 37, (AP)- Secretary Hull, concerned for tho future of China' commercial "open door." warned Japan today th Unit ed States could not look with equa nlmlty on any attempt to tampst with tho Chinese maritime customs, system. Acting on hi Instructions, Amer ican Ambassador Joseph O. Orww formally notified the Tokyo loretga office the American government would be 'very much concerned If the Japanese conquerors of Bhang hal and other part of China dla turbed the Integrity of th Chine custom service. The secretary of atate announce also the state department was main talnlng close contact on the sutM Joct with other governments, soma nf vhrtm nttatilM nvs.t nv-4s t have lodged similar representation with the Japanese government- Whether Washington and the otheaj protesting powers contemplate furth er action with respect to th eu torn situation was not made known. But officials here did not attempt to disguise their growing anxiety over the - possible consequence ta American trade and financial in vestments In China if the custom ports were seized.' Uppermost In their calculation was the question whether such big shipping center as Shanghai ami other coastal cities might be treat like the Interior Chinese custom depots Which, . were taken over tn the Japanese conquest of Manchuria, in 1032-33. . .. t Since then, trade authorities tL American and other foreign export ers have been able to enter lh Manchurlan market only with th$ small categories of good Japan wa unable to supply. Approximately M percent of Amer. lea's annual exports to China proper, amounting In 1938 to about 4i, 000.000, move through the Shangna customs. LONDON, Nov. 37. ( AP) Orea Britain today ordered her ambaasa dor to Tokyo to Inform Japan Brit ain Insisted on being consulted be fore any change were made in th$ Chinese maritime customs. ' A British anxiety shifted from Surope to the Orient, some quarter suggested recent Japanese move to take over the government of con quered Shanghai might lead Britain again to try to bring the United States Into a Joint British-French- American program. i The British instruction to Sta Robert Cralgte, Tokyo ambassador came almost on th eve of an Anglo- French conference on the interna tlonal situation between Prima Min ister Neville Chamberlain andFrenca Premier Camilla Chautemps. Official British quarters aald tn) United States would b "advised fully" on anything It want to know about the Anglo-French talk. FRANCE NETTLED BY ITALY JIBES PARTS, Not. ST. ;P) France pro tested to Italy today against Itsllaa press attacks. Alexia Leger, secretary-general of the foreign office, called Renato Prv nas, Italian charge d'affaires, to th Quel D'Orsay and objected to bitter criticisms of France by the gorern ment-controlled press In Italy. The Incident arose over a supposed speech by Cessr Camplnchl, French minister of the nary. In which he was alleged to haye declared that Corsica was bound firmly to France and would be ready to defend ;elf against Italy. Camplnchl denied making the) speech. VIOLElTlED ST. LOUIS STRIKE BT. LOOTS. Not, 37. Fear of Tlolence In the United Automobile Workers' strike agalnat the Ford Mo tor company was Toiced today by an attorney for the company and by rep Rsentstlrea of the CIO union. Dan Bartlett, lawyer tor Ford, told Circuit Judge Robert J. Klrkwood "bloodshed" waa likely If the court did not Issue an injunction to re atraln mass plcketln at the St. Uiula assembly plant. The Judge, howeter, declined to take Immedtete totlon.