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The Weather Foraeut: Pair tonight and Saturday, bat with fo(; sllthtly colder tonight. Temperature Highest yesterday 4J Lowest this morning , 29 Costs No More Medford TRIBUNE Just a reminder to writ that Adr. for the Sunday morning edition. It coeti no mora than week -day advertising. Ads for the classified pace mast be tn by 3:30 P. M. Saturday. Full Assooiated Presg Full United Press Thirty-Second Year (Twenty Pages Two Sections) MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937 Jl . J No. 219. HESJBKV WE I 4 1 - i i i The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kinter Copyright 1037, by Tbe North American News , paper Alliance, Inc. STRATEGIC MOVF. SEEN IN ROAD FIND MESSAliE BUDGET-BALANCING ADVOCATES AT DISADVANTAGE F. D. R. SEEKS FREE HAND IN MEETING RECESSION SWING TO LEFT EXPECTED IF CONSERVATION FAILS WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. The presi dent's message of Tuesday, demand ing heavy and Immediate cuts In fed eral appropriations for state aid roads. Is the real tip-off on the ad ministration approach to the depres sion. In the Inner circle of White House, advisers, the message Is some thing of a Joke. As one distinguished brain truster remarked, it was writ ten "with the tongue half. In. the cheek." That la not to say 'that the presi dent doesn't consider the present road appropriations ridiculously high. He does. But his message also had a secondary purpose. Senators and representatives love road money hot ter than life. A violent revolt against the proposed cut In road appropria tions la already in progress. Many of the ' conservative, budget-balancing Democrats are equalling against the cut like so many pigs under a gate, If the cuts go through, well and good. If they are defeated, the mes sage will have performed the useful tactical function of putting the con servatlve budget-balancers on record as opposed to economy. And thus, If tbe president suddenly decides to stop economising, he will have a cruel weapon In his armory for use against the budget-balancers. There you have, In miniature, the complete strategy of the president's approach to the present depression. At the moment, some of .his uni formed left-wing followers are ac cusing him of having "gone Hoover." They are quite wrong. He has, ac cording to close advisers, two very definite objectives In hl present pol icy: to aTold being forced further to the left than he has gone in the past, and to get a free hand In deal ing with the depression problem If the business recession continues. Tbe president has chosen to try one stimulant and three sedatives as the first cures for the .depression The stimulant Is his proposal for a government-sponsored housing boom, to start the mill-wheels of industry turning once more. The sedatives, all Intended to soothe the gnawing ter rors of the business community, are bis promised tax revision, his pro mised (and largely sham) concessions to the utilities, and his promised economizing. The message calling for cuts in road appropriations was Intended as a sort of proof of the honesty of the president's intention to econo mize, a well aa a way of getting potential trouble-makers behind the eight ball. None of the close presidential ad visers, with the possible exception of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., believes that the government can avoid heavily In creased relief appropriations this Continued on pape fourteen) . Idnho Takes Opener WALLA WALLA, nec. a. (AP) The final gun halted a Whitman rally as the University of Idaho basketball quintet defeated the Missionaries 33 to 31 In the season's opener last night. Belko and Winter starred for i the winners. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mrs. Carrie Puhl of Gold Hill en couraging bigger and better egg pro duction by installing a radio in her chicken coop. Cliff Cordy teasing a Wena tehee horticulturist on the small amount of spray used for codling moths In this district. Howard Mrrriam. here for the Hort meat, recalling hla turbulent days In the state legislature. Ray Refer declaring no one should mist the free frozen food exhibit and sampling in the Elks temp: tonight Sllrab!! Penarrl having reporters rrfc un ah p-,-y rumors of a f-tfeed plan landing. RELIEF OF FARMER 1 Address Before Urban Audi ence Is Viewed. As Trial Balloon 'Balance the Population' His Slogan By WILLIAM S. WHITE. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. (AP) Mayor Florello H. LaGuardla's apparent na tional political ambitions perhaps the presidency floated aloft today on an unmistakable trial balloon, trailing this slogan : "Balance the population!" In language about as clear as the diplomatic language of pre-actlon politics ever Is clear, the mayor pro jected himself last night Into a lar blpger theater of operations than the chief magistracy of New York. Before a completely urban audi ence LaGuardla who In the Nov. 2 city election became a local ms-tory-maker as the first man ever to beat Tammany and allied Demo cratic organizations here twice in a row put farm relief as the biggest American necessity. City A.i ii Irs Slighted. He spoke at the 25th anniversary dinner of survey associates, a re search and publishing organisation, 1n an address that scarcely touched at all on New York City and dwelt at length on national policy. The subject of the presidency he Introduced however Jocularly in manner near the start. Without doing It In so many words, he re called a public expression by Wil liam Allen White the Kansas tdltor. who sat on the platform last nlgnt, that he (LaGuardia) was a presi dential possibility. 'We have one man of great dis cernment here," said the mayor with a smile. "He Is Mr.-William Allen White of Kansas. He said A was good." He turned almost Immediately then to a denuncjatlon of any budget balancing now, crying out: "Wo must balance the population when you've balanced the popuia- ( Continued on Page Nine.) PUBLIC ASKED TO TRY AT GROWERS' EXHIBIT The annuel meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural soclt.y will come to on end with an exhibit of frown foods In the Elks temple basement at 7:30 this evening. The exhibit was planned primarily for the benefit of the general public and everyone Is Invited, there being no chorge of any kind. The display ts sold to be exceedingly Interesting and gives an Insight Into the latent method of preserving foods. Samples of the frozen foods, all fruits and vegetables, will be presented to the visitors. . The exhibit Is In charge of H. Campbell of the U. S. f roa n foods laboratory In Seattle, Wash Mr. Campbell will lecture .on the food preservation process and answer questions regarding use of froeen foods In the home. SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec. 3. (AP) The Alnska passenger liner fukon, which went aground In a henvy snowstorm early today near .Valdez. was refloated on a high tide at 10:16 a. m. (13:15 p. m., P. S. T.) and proceeded under Its own power to ward Vnldez, a message relayed to coast guard headquarters here today said. Dual Unionism Major Bar Facing Peace Conferees WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 (AP) Dual unionism, an outgrowth of organised labor's civil war, was the big ob stacle confronting William Oreen and John L. Lewis today In their personal negotiations for a labor peace pact. They spent four hours yesterday exploring all the possibilities for re uniting the American Federation of Labor and the Committe tor Indus trial Orsnl7atlon. Then they re ressod until 8 o'clock tonight with out reaching sny concluslona on a pecc psot. Four men sat In the dramatic con ference and weighed the chances of merging the strength and resources of iome 7.000.000 organlMd workers. The CIO chlertAln. Lewis, was ac companied by his principal strategist. Phillip Murray, while Green was supported by Oeorge M. Harrison, ir1rtnt of tve Brotherhood of R11- Mfthod of merging the labor fac Western Rail Passenger Fare Boost Approved Parents Slain, POSTMEN TO TAKE OF WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. AP ) Postmen who recently helped take a census of '.ne unemployed turned to pig counting today. They will leave "pig census cards" In the mall boxes of 750.000 hog raisers the country over. . The object la to determine the number of hogs to be raised for next year's market. The findings may indicate whether pork prices will be higher or lower. No official notification of a pig census has been received at Medfoti postoffice, Postmaster Frank DeSouza said. PORTLAND, Dec. 3. (AP) The Willamette Democratic society elected William Prendergaat, Portland attor ney, president yesterday. Tom Wold was named first vice-president, George Aiken, second vice -preni dent, and E. O, Robinson; secretary treas urer, tions, with the CIO throwing off It separate Identity to heome an au tonomous or semi-Independent agen cy with the AFL, constituted the first problem before the conferees. Its solution, however, was said to binge on the amaJgamstlon of dual, or rival, unions In the same Indus tries. Involved were such problems as finances and Jurisdiction, and the co terie of young and militant Lewis follower leading the CIO affiliates In the masi production Industries, the mrttme trades, and tmnnporta tion. Bitter Invective and crltlciim af ter two years of strong language were laid aside in the Lew'j.Green meeting. It was learned they ad dressed each other as 'Mr. Oreen" and "Mr. Lewis, occasl'nally lapsing Into Just "Bill 'and 'John lth the eay fitmiMarUy of other o- -when the labor movement had no family feu.1, I I M,, :(' '5 , VS."..:- .'M$3r.vS . ' M. . - v. . '. Boy Beaten r Ma. V x Five-year-oil! tarry Kuntz of Wheat Basin, Mont., Khonn In a Columbia, Mont., hospltul. was henteit Into un consciousness by an assailant who killed lits parent, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Kuntz, and left thrlr bodies In an automobile tn a grain elevator. The boy awakened the next morning and made lili way to town to . tell of the tragedy. County Attorney p. R. llelly said Fnink Itohtilemi, 38-ymr-ulrt far mer (below) admitted the killings In a quarrel over the title to 18(1 bushels of wheat. (A. P. Photos.) FRIENDS TESTIFY EARL FEHL SANE, IN THEIR OPINION A score of witnesses testified today In behalf of Earl H. Fehl, former county Judge, In the trial to deter mine his. sanity or insanity. The courtroom was packed at the morn ing session. Most of the witnesses were ac quaintances of Fehl over a period of years, ranging from 13 to 35 years, and most of these lay-witnesses test ified In their opinion Fehl was sane, but admitted they were not qualified to Judge some held It was a matter for alienists. The Black Political Plot." a pamphlet purportedly written - by Fehl while he was a state prison In mate, as well aa complaints, state ments and articles written by Fehl, figured In the cross-examination. Several of the witnesses testified they did not regard the pamphlet con tents as "rational." Others testified they hd never read the pamphlet nor any of the recent complaints which contain accusations against state and county officials. . A number nf the witnesses also testified they had never discussed with Fehl any of his "troubles," but their conversations were casual or on business mMtters., Attorney E. E. Kelly, in cross-examination queries (Continued on Page Four.) KLAMATH VOTING ON IMPROVEMENT BONDS KLAMATH PALLS, Dec. 8. (AP) Klamath palls voters went to the polls today to decide the fata of 10 city Improvement bond Issue pro posals and a npeclal 3-mlll levy meas ure for flush coating streeta. The 10 proposed bond latuea total 1187 000, ranging In aire from 63. 000 for new bridges over the govern ment Irrigation canal to 16200 for new snow-clearing equipment and an addition to the city garage. A light rote appears likely. SMEDLEY BUTLER TO SPEAK IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Dec. $. ( AP)-med-ley Butler, retired major general of the United States marines who or ganized the state police in the late Governor Julius L. Meier's admlnla-traM-m. "rill pak here Mnrday on the vrie-i'n of foreign war rampaln egilnrt war. JAPANESE YIELD TO U S. MARINE CHIEF'S PROTEST Nippon Troops Withdrawn From American -Guarded Shanghai Sections After Victory Parade Bombed By James A. Mills . SHANGHAI, Dec. 3. ( AP) Japan ese troops bowed to the United States marine command today and with drew from American -guarded sections of the international settlement after a grenade explosion had Interrupted I a victory march celebrating Japan- i ese domination of Shanghai. A Chinese student hurled tho hand j grenade and momentarily broke 1 ranks of the 6.000 marching Japan- ebe as they ncared the Wing On de partment store In Nanking road, out the parade was reformed and the troops completed transfer from Jess fteld park on the west to Hongkew. Japanese sector east of the settle ment. Clean Up Area Immediately after the explosion Japanese troop6, with gleaming bayo nets, surrounded and cleared an area of some 30 blocks around the scene. Because a portion of the American marines' sector was included a vig orous American protest came immed iately. The Japanese yielded and withdrew from that section. TVe grenade thrower was shot dead on tbe apl by a Chinese policeman, member of the settlement's force. Three Japanese soldiers, one Jap anese consular policeman and a British police Inspector were wounded.- Amid a flurry of panic, a Chlneso threw himself from a tall building Into the street in patriotic martyr dom. The Japanese withdrew from the American section or the- BriUsn Araerlcan guarded International city at the insistence of Col. Charles F B. Price, commander of the United States fourth marines. TenMon In Bettlentent His action possibly prevented .dis aster, for the parade had been held (Continued on Pa Nine.) TWO PILOTS DIE IN MIAMI RACE MIAMI, Fla.. Dec. 8. AP) -Two airplanes crashed rounding a pylon todAy in a feature iv.ee of Miami's annual winter air ahow, the aiOOO Silva trophy race for alrplnues of 649 cubic Inch displacement. First reports to the control tower snld the pilots, Rudy Kllng of Lemont. III., and Frank Haines of Detroit, Mich., were killed. Carl Fromhagen, vice-chairman of the contest committee, reported . the two planes were demolished. ' He said apparently the two ships struck the same down air current In rounding the pylon and catapulted to earth at almost the same moment. Kllng was the big money winner at the national air races in Cleve land last September, placing first in both tho Grove and Thompson tro phy races. OF f. r:s trip MIAMI. Fl.. Dec. (IT) Prenlilent Roomvelt notified tompomrjr White Houtt headquarterji hero t today thet becaUM of elow healing of his In fected irum he was cutting hit south ern trip short by three days and would return to Washington late Monday, In order to jet proper treat ment. Officials said the president's gen era) health was eirellent but Mr. Roosevelt evidently felt he should re turn to Wsshlngton to get the dental treatment he was obtaining before he lett the White House November VI. The president's message said the yacht Potomac would leave th Dry Tortus s Islands, some 300 mllm southwest of here. ;-morrow after noon and arrive In Mlsml around J p. m. Sunday. , Plnre-Nex Intenfor IMea ALBANY, N. Y.. Dec. S ,'APl-Dr. Leo rrank Adt. 71. eye sperullit In ternationally known for his Inven tion of the pinco-ni-s type of eye glass, died today of pneurr.orii. Dr. Adt also was credited with the In vention of the rapid pute emulsi fied, devlr for coating photo crspMc pletes, tri a prlntlr., frsm': ix pbcwrepheia. . jjj OF Succeeds Col. Gordon Voor- heis Eugene Is Picked for 1938 Meeting Six Resolutions Are Adopted Truman Chase of Eugene was elect ed president of tho Oregon State Hor ticultural society at Its annual busi ness session In the Elks temple late yesterday afternoon. He succeeds Col. Gordon Voorhels. Medford or-1 chanltst, and will serve for the 1338 term. i Eugene was selected for next year's meeting which will be th? society's i 53rd annual conclave. Other officers elected wero Dan j plorson of Hood River, first vlcer ; president; Chester Fitch of Medford, second vice-president, and E. A. Mc- j Cormack of Eugene, third vlce-presl- i dent. I MeWhorter Ke-Elected. I O. T. MeWhorter of Cor vail Is, ex- ! tension horticulturist of Oregon State Agricultural college, was re-elected i secretary - treasurer. Raymond R. ! Reter of Medford was re-elected a trustee for three years. Six resolutions were adopted and the treasurer and auditor's reports were approved. All votes were unan imous. In an afternoon talk on the Ore-gon-Washtngton-Csllfornta Fear Bu reau, E. R. Pooley, associated with American Fruit Growers, Inc., at Hood River, predicted that tho time Is not far distant when the four northwest pear districts will be producing 8, 000,000 boxes of winter pears annu ally lis against 3.300.000 for this year. The four districts are Medford, Hood River. Yakima and Wenatchee. His predicted production, he pointed out. did not Include that of California which thla year became affiliate with the pear bureau. Itiirenu Held Need. Such an organization aa the pear bureau, supported by a per-box levy. Is vitally needed to mark-'t such a large tonnage, Mr. Pooley emphasized. He traced the development of the bureau, explained Its work and de scribed Its methods of advertising, sales promotion and education of the trade to present the winter varieties In proper condition for the retail markets. He told of tho expansion of markets and the Increase tn con sumption through the efforts of the bureau, emphasizing that on a rela tively small bifdget the bureau had widened distribution and stepped up sales to a point never reached before. At the resumption of lecture ses sions after lunch. R. A. Work, em- (Continued on Page rnrm.) t MET THIS EVENING A meeting of turkey growers will be held at the Jackson county court house auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock. County Agent R. O. Fowler called the meeting to discuss matters relating to the asserted turkey boycott In San Francisco, AH turkey growers were re quested by Mr. Fowler to attend. Duces Mouthpiece Aims Bitter Editorial at U. S. . MILAN Dec, 8. (AP) Premier MuMcllnt's newspaper Popolo D'lUlla today accused the United States, Britain and France of planning "eco nomic strangulation" of the "have not ' nations. II Duoe'j frequent mouthpiece, In cne of the bitterest editorials It has published In recent years, said: "To believe the history of the world can be crystallzed by defining as active or potential aggressors the poor peoples who hare the sacred right not to resign themselves perpetually to the too sharp Inequality in the distribution of tho earth's goods Is an effrontery In rcrltably nitradem-ocr.-itio style." (Presumably the editorials' refer ence t.) the "poor peoples" Included raa 1st Italy, Nasi Germany and Japan). The article, generally axcrlbed to Mussolini's pen, declared that the only answer to what It termed the program of "economic strangulation" was ft ' t!mfly and whole hartcd j separation of spirit and arms.'' Despairing Mother" Ilrr only child flcnrilhly beheaded and tier hiistmnJ In Jail, Mrs. James lllller. 23, of Samluxky, O., stares hlanKly Into a seemingly futile future at she contemplates the tragedy that rnvi'lnped her. Police said Miller con fessed lie hawed off the head of his seven-mont hs-old son, Charles. The fiit her awaits sanity hearing. - DOWN TOWN SALE OF HEALTH SEALS TO BEGIN MONDAY The down town sale of the 1037 Christmas Seals will begin Monday, Miss- Helen Bullls, chairman of booths, announced yesterday. Booths will be maintained In the post office. Groceteria, No. 1, and Montgomery Ward's. Medford health workers wilt pre side In the booths until December 14, when Jacksonville and Talent will send workers to play hosts In the Oroccterla and the Montgomery Ward booths. Jacksonville taking the first place and Talent the second. On December 30 Central point health workers -will preside at the Groceteria and at Montgomery Ward'a and on the following day, December 31, workers from Phoenix will maintain the three, booths. Residents of these towns are asked to remember .the days on which their committees will be In the booths and to buy more than their usual number of seals on those particular days, for the proceeds will be re turned to the communities to be added to their an tl -tuberculosis funds. Tills Is the first year that adjacent communities have .operated the booths In Medford during the drive for funds to combat ' tuferculoets and Mrs. Robert Hart, tho 1937 coun ty chairman, la anxious to see the communities gain an Important sum from this source. All persons, who can. are urged to buy seals from the booths. They are Just a penny each and each penny goes to swell the 14,500,000 brought in by seals annually to kill the tuberculosis germ, which still wreaks havoc In human lives. Fall to Find oy's Body. BEND. Dec. 3. (AP) Deschutes authorities drained Mirror pond to day, but failed to find the body ot Larry Crowell 3, whose tricycle was found In the water at the foot of an embankment, Scores of searchers waded over the muddy bottom. A net was placed below the power dam. The editorial obvlouaty reflected U Duce's Irrlatlon over the political im plications attributed by some quer tere to pending negotiations of a British-American reciprocal trade agreement. 'To believe that these needy and dynamic peoples (the "hare note") can be Intimidated by the threat of eccnomlo strangulation Is to give evi dence of a colossal ignorance ertn of a spiritual nature," II Popolo DTtalla declared. "We will never be Intimidated by these Insulting threats but we take note of and duly record these deli cate proposals of strangulation, this dpmcratlc noose which is supposed to choke us." "The United States leaves to the two Xuropeaj. democracies the task of confronting tbe totalitarian states on the field of arms, the editorial said. "Britain never demonstrated outstanding wsrltke tendencies. ""Recently It haa expressed reasons fur whlrh the Kugllsh now have de rided, as It once was said, to fight to the last Frenchman' EDICT FROM I.C.C. TO TRAVEL COSTS Principal Increase in Basio Pullman Fares New Rates Mean Additional Transcontinental Costs WASHINGTON, - Deo. ft. (AP) The Interstate commerce eommtasloa approved today a 13,500,000 passenger fare Increase for western railroads. The Increase will become effective In ten days. The principal boost la In baste) Pullman car fares which will be rlased from 3 cents per mile to 34 cents per mile. S. P. Benefitted Principal among the railroads af fected by the increase are Union Pa clflc: Northern Pacific; Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul A Pacific; Chi cago St Northwestern; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway; the Atchi son, Topeka te Santa Fe; the Mis souri .-Kansas-Texas lines; the St. Louts-San Francisco; Missouri Pa cific; Southern Paclflo and Rio Grande and the Great Northern. Railway officials were authority fot the estimate that the proposed in reases would produce 13,000,000 year ly In new revenue. The rates remain below, maximums set by the commis sion about two year ago. The maud mums, are 8 cents a mile for Pullman travel and 3 cents for coach fares,, ,., Pullman Fares Go Up The new schedules Include a boost In 30-day round-trip Pullman farts 180 per cent on the one-way 9-oant per mile fares to 100 per cent of the new 3 '4 -cents care. A similar percentage Inorease wai made In -30-day round-trip coach fares although the basic 3-oent fare per mile remained unchanged. The schedule also provided an In crease in first class elx-months roundjtrlp fares from basis of 1 3-S of the one-way first olass fares of 8 cents per mile to a basis of 1 3-6. Likewise Included was 10 per cent Increase In 12-month excursion fares. The Increase In special one-way transcontinental coach fares now based on Mi cents per mile will amount to 14.5 per cent and the In crease In round-trip transcontinental six-month coach excursion fares will be approximately 13.34 per cent. Freight Rates Walt The commission's action today had no direct connection with the cur rent hearing on a requested general 15 per cent Increase In freight rates plus a half cent Increase in passen ger fares on eastern lines. It may be some months before that oase is settled. , Hearings In that case started Mon day with testimony of railroad exec utives who today were undergoing cross examination by attorneys for shipping Interests and various state public service commissions. In connection with this case the Interstate commerce commission had before It a motion by shippers op posed to a flat 15 per cent rate Increase for suspension of Increases on various selected commodities granted several weeks ago and are to become effective December 90. ' The railroads refused to agree to a voluntary suspension. HIKES RETAIL TRADE NFW TOnit, Deo. S. (AP) PIOM bv expanding demand tor winter merchandise and Christmas gift buy lng. retail trade tilted upward thle week and ran 8 to 13 per oant a bora last year for the country as a whole. Dun & Bradstreet reported today. Wholesale buying Jogged along ua. evenly, with replacement ordere gen erally disappointing, but Tolume heat t to 10 per cent abore a year ago at this time. Daring Gang Cet$ Refinery Payroll LOCKPOHT, 111.. Dee. S-PV FIT' men carrying m wed-off shotguna and machine guns executed a daring pos tal robbery today to escape with a 24.800 payroll aftor shooting a pos tal clerk and abducting the chief of police. The robbery occurred outside the IXKkport postoffloe as employes were transferring cash mailed to the Pint National bank ot Lockport to meat the payroll of one of the Texaa com. pany'a largest oil refineries. The money was stolen aa It was belnf carried Into the postotllce. t
