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The Weather Forces t Cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not much change In temperature. TEMPER ATt'RR Highest yesterday ... 6 lowest this morning W......M'48 Will Reach Him Medford Tribune The buyer you are looking for may live Just around the cor ner. How are you to know? Regardless of where he Urea If In thli community a Mali Tri bune Adv. will reaeh him. Full Auociated Preu Full United Prei ' Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1938 No. 29. m m Mfo) A uvuir u a, mi M hi - . I I - OVA The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. V. 8. TO FIGHT PROPAGANDA IN SOUTH AMERICA BROADCASTS PLANNED TO OFFSET EUROPEAN ORATORY EDUCATION COMMISSIONER WILL MAP RADIO PROGRAMS . NATIONAL INCOME HILLION UNDER LAST YEAR'S waHHiwnTOK. Anrll 25. The United States is getting ready to go Into the propaganda broadcasting business. In order to offset the per suasive radio programs aimed at South America by the fascist nations, this country will offer competing en tertainment and oratory. Such at least will bo the recom mendation of the president's com mittee now studying the problem of the short-wave Itolo-German prose lyting to the southward. The com mittee has taken tho plunge, and now Its chief energies are concen trated In the effort to decide Just whet sort of program should be of fered by this country. By all ac counts, the committee members are finding It a little difficult to adapt the machinery of the federal govern ment to the strange goals of the amusement industry. Tho committee has made a factual studv of the reception accorded the German and Italian broadcasts by South Americans. They have had much advice , from the state depart ment, and they have" also been W contact with a number of friendly South American diplomats here. From these latter have come rath er depressing reminders that the new radio propaganda scheme can back fire rather seriously. The president's good neighbor policy is still pretty new. the diplomats have pointed out. And. while the Italians and Germans are an ocean away, the United "States U Just next door to South America. Suspicion of imperialist Intentions may easily be aroused, even by radio blather. Nevertheless, the committee is go ing ahead with its work. Frank R. MeNlnch. chairman of the communi cations commission. Is also commit tee chairmen. He has delegated the task of program design to John W. Studebaker. commissioner of educa tion. And so It Is up to Mr. Stude baker to spot the crooners.. If there are any. parcel out time between the comics and the orchestra, and decide how much time the sponsor can use for his sales talk for democracy. (Continued od Page Pour.) Oregon Farm Wage Above U.S. Average WASHINGTON. April 35. (AP) The department of agriculture re ported farm wages In Oregon April 1 were $35.50 a month with board and 53.25 without board, compared with a national average of S23.86 and 34.B1. Day wages In Oregon were H.75 with board and 2.40 without board. Farm pay In eight states, all west of the Rockies, was higher than In Oregon. California led with 48 and S72.25 on the monthly basis. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Fred Heath saying good morning to an advertising dummy In his drug emporium, so lifelike Is the figure as It glances at the Crater Lake page In the SatEvePost. At Format! losing a picayune trout after spending the whole day trying to hook It. Wifev ChrUta and Velma Severwn gptting exhausted hauling lunch through thick brash while Bob Gl'.strap enjoyed himself. Postal Clerk Prentice Petty tiring his colleagues by aeklng them fre quently to admire his sprouting moustache. La Tosca pleasantly surprising numerous Medfordites by the abun dance as well as excellence of its dinner servings. Bill FMlwell. Austin Fraer and Wall) Rickert re-p.a)ing yesterday's osll came, and getting to the seventh inninp, oelore realizing they better return to work. Howard Doran and Ed Harlott try ing to Identify t:ic mysf-rious woman Ukiti- 11 f ts at t::n S. P. dpo: tney thlnk;r. it might have been & ne KT reportei. "Prompt Action" Plea Adds to Problems of SpeedingAdjournment WASHINGTON, April 25. (AP) President Roosevelt asked congress today to remove "promptly" tax exemptions on income from all future government bond issues federal, state and local and on all government salaries Existing exemptions, he said. re suited from Judicial decisions and could be eliminated by "a short and simple statute" which he predicted the court would uphold. , Some advocates of ending such ex emptions have claimed a constitu tional amendment would be neces sary because of Judicial decisions holding the federal government could not tax state bonds, nor the atAto government federal bonds. Ideas Changed Mr. Roosevelt said, however, that recent decisions Indicated the courts were following a different line of thought from that which produced earlier rulings. The president's rtqutit for "prompt" action came as a surprise to many legislators and added to the problems of administration leaders trying to reach adjournment by the latter part of May. Prior to receipt of the message, some lformed members of congress had predicted It would ask only a study of the problem. Se n a tors and re p ream ta 1 1 ves wh o handle tax legislation In committees were divided on whether the, recom mendations could be taken, up at this session. Chairman Doughton (D., N. C.) of the house ways and means commit tee said he did not know. The ways and means committee logically would originate legislation on the subject. Doughton said the recommenda tions could not be written Into the tax revision bill, now pending before a joint conference committee. . Til have to study over the mes sage to see what we can do." he told reporters. McNiiry Ifopofn Representative Treadway (R.. of Mass), a member of the house ways and means committee, said he would favor the presidents' plan "If we can accomplish It by legislation." Senator McNary, the Republican leader, said he thought the proposals might be enacted at this session. McNary told reporters he would not oppose them If he were con vinced congress has the authority to legislate on the question. He added that tn the past he had believed a constitutional amendment would be necessary. Senator Walsh (D., Mass), a mem ber of the senate finance committee, said he favored the president's rec ommendation and thought' It could be acted upon at this session. Another finance committee mem ber. Senator King (D.. Utah), op posed the rocommcndatlon,)nylng a constitutional amendment would be .ncces.ry. Constitute Menace The president asserted exemption of securities from taxes created "a vast reservoir of tax exempt socurl. ties in the hands of persons who equitably should not be relieved of taxes on their income." . "This reservoir now constitutes a serious menace to the fiscal systems of both the states and the nation," he added. Similarly, he said, tax exemptions claimed by officers and employes of state and local governments had be come "a. serious defect In the fiscal systems of the states and the na tion, for they rely Increasingly upon graduated Income taxes for their revenues." Treasury experts have estimated that removal of security and salary exemptions would produce income of 165.000.000 annually for the federal government on the basis of present security issues and under present tax laws. The president said that "for more than 20 years secretaries of the treasury have reported to the con gress the growing evils of these tax exemptions.' Escaped Bengal Tigress Spreads Panic in Circus NEW TORK. April 25. (AP The eight-year-old'- Bengal tigress "Lady" broke looe outside the arena of Madison Square Garden at the matinee of the Rlngling Brothers circus today, causing injuries to sev eral circus employes before the wai recaptured. Lady, who parades In the opening spectacle on a leash handled by Franz Wanka, meuag-rte boss, escaped just after she left the arena when Wanka slipped and fell, dropping the leash. The 200-pound tigress bounded down a long runway, scaring camels and horses returning to their quar- 1 ter. Several grooms were tii-'wn : fttxl kicked by the rearing horses I The shout of the men scared Lady ARE CHOSEN FOR P Y Double election boards will serve in all but four of the Medford pre clncu. and in all but one of the ten Ashland precincts, In the May pri mary. Double boards will also act In Bellviewt North Central Point, South Central Point, Eagle Point, Gold Hill. Jacksonville, North; Jacksonville, south; Mound, Orchard Home, Perry dale, East Phoenix, West Phoenix, Rogue River, Roxy Ann. East Talent, West Talent and Trail precincts. Medford precincts without double boards are: East Medford, Northwest Medford, South Central, and North. Ashlsnd West Is the Llthla City ward without a double board. Election boards have been named by the county clerk's office and for the Medford precincts, are as follows. The first named In each list, Is chair man, the second the Judge, and the remaining three clerks. North Main, 1st board: Marie Shaw Wilson, Mrs. Lee Allen, Minnie Bel linger, Elisabeth Jane Hunter, Llla Mae'Haaa. 2nd board: Mrs. Huse Mc Klnney, Lillian A. Flynn, Florence Graves, Agnes Koppes, Grace Wold. South Main. 1st board: Hiss Alta Naylor, Effie R, Dalley Cora J. Truax, Cora A. 1 Wilson. Clara T. Fisher. 2nd board: Lillian Hlnman, Bill C. Hagen, Edith L. Miller, Frances Lamoureux, Gertrude M. Moffet. North Central, . 1st board: Kate Young. Chas. P. Champlln, Jr., Anna Gilbert, Harry N. Butler, Fannie Cochran. 2nd board: Wlnnif red Jones. W. S, Kee, Dorothea Nellson. Dora -Hamp ton. Grace L. Pankey. (Continued on Page Sight) couplTheldTin I HOBBS. N. M.. April 26. (AP) A man and a 20-year old girl were held In the county jail at Loving ton today on suspicion In connec tion with tho three-weeks, old west Texas desert slaylngs of Mrs, Weston G. Frome of Berkeley, Cai and her daughter, Nancy. They were held by local authori ties pending the arrival of officers from El Paso, Texas, to question thm. Arrested in one of the city's lead ing hotels after officers became sus picious, the girl, a "peroxide blonde," became hysterical when questioned about the Frome murders. They gave their address, as Bak ersfleld, Cal., but their car carried Texas licenses and various articles and Identification cards In their possession Indicated that they had spent the past several weeks In or near El Paso. WILLIAMS GRANGE IN FAVOR RALPH PERRY GRANTS PASS. April 35. (AP) Williams grange reported today nine votes for Ralph Ptrry for state grange master and five for Ray Gill. back up the passage, and she dashed for the main entrance to the arena. running underneath the tiers of Mats out of sight of the audi nee. She started up a short flight of steps leading Into the arena where the performance was In full swing, but was frightened back by John Singling North, head of the circus. The tigress dashed over toward a iroup of clowns made ,up as Snow White's Seven Dwarfs. 'Sleepy. In real life three-feet high Frank Harumpo, smacked Lady on the nose with a stick. Lady backed Into ft corner, marling. Terrell Jacobs, animal trainer, dashed Into the corner grabbed her leash and the three-minute backstage per formance was over. El Daladier Says Totalitarian ism Must Come If Strikes Continue Rehabilitation Plan Meets With Approval By the Associated Press A warning to French workers to knuckle down and Increase produc tion to avert totalitarian dictatorship, a defense and trade accord between Britain and Ireland and revolution ary demands from two quarters against Czechoslovakia today became new Ingredients In the European stew. Czechoslovakia's powerful Germanic minority , demanded autonomy while a land-hungry league of Hungarians called for return of upper Hungary, lost to Czechoslovakia In the world war settlement.. France's "strong man" premier, Edouard Daladier, warned workers given to frequent strikes they must expect totalitarianism which would force them to work unless they step ped up production willingly, Daladier announced cabinet appro val of a plan for economic and finan cial rehabilitation to be put Into effect by decrees next week. He promised continued freedom of for eign exchange and adherence to the monetary accord with Britain tnd the United States. The Anglo-Irish agreement skipped over the Irish desire to absorb north ern Ireland but provided for reci procity In trade and strengthened Britain's defenses. Reports from the world's wars (old of a Spanish insurgent air attack on Valencia in which 30 persons includ ing a British sailor were killed. ' - To season Europe's goulash of dis cord a powerful military and diplo matic pact between France and Bri tain seemed In the making, promis ing somewhat to allay British mis givings over weakness In preparations for aerial warfare, ; 'S HAS PRESS AGENT HOLLYWOOD. April 35. (UP) The turbulent mother and son battld to determine who shall control Jackie Coogan's inovle-earned millions took on more of the aspects of a Holly wood gigantic today. Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein hired a press agent to offset the flood of publicity that has been go ing to her son and to enlighten the public more fully on her side of the dispute. Most of the publicity has been go lng to Coogan. who has pulled no punches in accusing his mother and stepfather. Arthur Bernstein, of freezing him out of the family circle without giving him a penny of the 4.000.000 he says he earned as "The Kid" of the silent movies. The news that Dave Epstein. Hol lywood publicist, had been retained by the Bernstein's brought a smile to the face of Coogan's attorney, Wil liam Rains. "We shall be glad to subpoena Mr Epstein and find out how much of Jackle'a earnings are being spent for his salary," Rains said. , SIT-DOWN CLOSES DETROIT, Mich., April 26. (AU) A United Automobile Workers sit- down strike closed two plants of the Oar Wood Industries, Inc., toda; while two other Detroit firms at tempted to - operate strike-closed plants and two plants remained closed while strike Issues were ne gotiated. UAW and General Motors officials. meanwhile, were conferring on the grievances which caused Bulck MUor Co. and Chevrolet Motor Co. em ployes at Flint to vote to strike Sat urday. , Homer Martin. International presl dent of the UAW. deferred a con templated visit to Flint, at leas until tomorrow, and said no imme dlate action was contemplated oi the strike votes, which are subject to the approval oi the International of fleers. The Bohn Aluminum and Brass corporation, whose eight plants were closed by a UAW strike last week, attempted to resume operations to day. There were numerous" brushes I between police and picket w-o at tempted to prevent morkers irom en tertni tha plant. General Terauchi Is With drawn In Effort To Wipe Out Stain Of Taierhch wang Debacle Is Report. SHANGHAI, April 26. (AP) Re ports of a change in the Japanese command In North China as a re sult of the disastrous Talerhchwang defeat coincided today with fresh Japanese- advances In the drive to wipo out tho stain of that rovorso. Tho American -o w no d Shnnghal Evening Post and Mercury said Gen eral Count Julchl Terauchl, com manding in North China since, early in the war, had been recalled to Japan and been succeeded by Lieut. General Jun Ushlromlya, known as one' of Japan's greatest tacticians. The Japanese army spokesman in Shanghai denied reports of a change in command. (The Tokyo war office said they were "groundless.") Japans strongly relnformed arm ies drove southward close to the vital east-west Lunghal railway, at tacking Plhslen, 12 miles north of Yunho. where the Lunghal crosses the Grand canal, and an equal dis tance southeast of Talerhchwang. scene of China's recent victory. The attacking column had crossed from Shantung province Into Klang bu and captured two villages on the outskirts of Plhslen. An American missionary, W. S. Junkln of Lex ington. Va.. Is reported at Plhslen. The Japanese offensive extended along a 60 mile front east and west of Plhslen. Fifteen troop trains were rolling southward from Tientsin with fresh troops for the drive. CUT IN PAYROLL TAXES FOR SOCIAL SECURITY IS VANDENBURG'S IDEA1 WASHINGTON, April 36. (AP) Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.) sug gested today that social security payroll taxes be reduced as an nntlL depression measure If It could be done "without Impairing the pension system." Ho wrote the social security board expressing hope tho board'; advisory council, now stuaymg tho possibility of putting the aystem on a "pay-as you-go basis," would report tn time for congress to net at this session on any recommendations. "Congress would greatly welcome" a recommendation for the alternative system of a sound a tun rial basis and I nm certain nothing would be more helpful as a powerful factor In the on tl -depression campaign tn which we are all now engaged," he said. The taxes now Amount to 2 per cent, levied equally on 30.000.000 employes and their employers. Van denberg said If they could be re duced "the stimulation to suffering buslne.is would do profound." HEART AILMENT NEW YORK. April 25. (AP) Death today had stayed the restless hand of George Grey Barnard, 74, one of the world's greatest sculp tors. . A heart ailment claimed the stocky, white-haired artist yesterday while he lay In a hospital, fretting to complete his gigantic statue of Abel, brother of Cain. The "modern Michelangelo," whose marble figures grace the great gal leries of the world, also left un completed his life's masterpiece the Rainbow Arch. " monument to de r ocracy." Barnard, who worked 16 years and upent ft200.000 of his own money to prepare a 100-foot model of the arch, had sculptured in plaster 400 heroic statues for the frieze. Death Intervened before he could ratse funds to convert his dream Into marble. Grants Pass Wins From Placer Nine GRANTS PASS. April 25. (AP) The Grants Pass Merchants easily defeated a CCC team from Placer 16 to t yesterday for their first baseball game of the season. The high school lost to Oaklsnd high Saturday at the northern city 0 to 1. SAN FRANCISCO. April 25. (AP, Melr At Frank, Inc., Portland, Ore gon department store firm, will pay the muni quarterly dividend of 16 vnu share May 16 to stockholder of record May 9 Rest Between !'rlnrlni! In thn ConBon-BcnulcIn lntti for control of Jackie Coo inn'! . movie, mode million, are nhown ahoro rcnllnj between rnundi. Jackie and hl pretty wife, Betty O In their Hollywood home to while away the time. The tcp-ratner, Artimr Hernalelii; Robert, Jackie's younger brother, and Mrs. Bernstein are ehown (In lower photo) In their San fernn ndo valley home. SURGEON'S KNIFE NEW YORK, April SS. (AP) Rooaevelt hoepltal official disclosed today that Brig. Oen. CDarlea Dates Dawes, former ' vice president, who was taken suddenly III yesterday, had been operated on for "acute suppura tive appcndlclts." Dawes, who will be 73 years old on AuauBt 27, camo to New York from Chicago to attend the wedding of Francis Warren Pershing, son of Oeneral John J. Pershing, and Muriel Dache Richards. The operation was performed at 10:30 last night. The attending physician U pr. Henry W. cave. Mrs. Dawes Is in New York with her husband. Mrs. Charles Hanna, of Monlclair, N. J., wife of a New York clearing house official, who accompanied Mrs. Dawes to the hospital, said the gen eral had spent a "good night" and wss "doing fine." IRlERlRIES HARDWARE OIET OSBININO, N. Y., April So. (AP) By eating pieces of bed -spring and nuts and bolts, John Rylowlcr, 30 year old house painter nearly cheat ed the Sing Sing electric chair. Rylowlcs la awaiting execution ror the fatal shooting of Mrs. Lenlda Watte, as. and a visitor. Miss Jean Schuellaln. IV. at Elmont, long Is land, on January 13. 6aturday he became 111 In the death house and was taken to the prison hospital for an operation. "I found pieces of bed spring and a large quantity of wire In his stomsch, as well aa a couple of hsndfttls of nuta and bolts," said Dr. Charles Sweet. He ssld Rylowlcr probsbly would recover. . nenlnn Pioneer nies. CORVALL1S. April 25. (API Mrs. Rose J. Wilson. M. Benton county's oldest pioneer, died Sunday at her ! home here. Born In Missouri in 1830. she was brought across til plain by I ber parent year later. Legal Rounds ruble (at top), play n Rnme of card FISCAL CLASS SET t FOR 7:30 TONIGHT First of a series of four classes for municipal finance officers will be held at 7:30 tonight In council chambers at Medford city hall, It was announced by Fred W. Scheffel, city superintendent. All public officers of Medford. Grants Pass, Talent, Jacksonville and other southern Ore gon cities are Invited. The classes are sponsored by the League of Oregon Cities. Tonight's class will be conducted by S. W. Starr, tho league's supervisor of the dlvlMon of audits, and Floyd Bowers and Ber nard Davis, his assistants. R. S. Bryson, counsel and field consultant for the league, will also be present. The other three classes of the series will be held here May 0, 16 and 23. LOVELY WHITE COLLIE WAITING FOR OWNER A beautiful, friendly white collie was today waiting patiently at the Southern Oregon Humane society shelter for hi owner to claim him The dog wa picked up for safe keeping by the humane society on April 23 at Minnesota avenue and Geneva street. It was suoh a valuable and affectionate dog the society thought It would be claimed Imme diately. Now the society believes It might be owned by a .new readent who doe not know about calling the shelter about lost pets. "We can eaally find some one to take the doij but we want to restore him to hi owner If possible," the so ciety ssld. The society may be reach ed by telephoning 1S26. REMilCELY IS WASHINGTON, April 23. (API Senator Kesmes ID., Ore.), Ill In na val hospital with bronchlil pneumo nia, was reported today by attend , lng physician to b nicely. 'getting tlons T TO HELP- CITIES Revised Measure Meets Su preme Court Approval Opinion Is Rendered In Tulare Irrigation Case. WASHINGTON, April 25. (AP) The supreme court ruled constitu tional today the revised municipal bankruptcy act which permits cities, and improvement and school dis tricts, to agree with creditors to re duce their indebtedness tn federal bankruptcy courts. Chief Justice Hughes delivered the opinion to which Justices McRey nolds and Butler dissented. Justice Cardona did not participate. ' Hughes asserted that "the bank ruptcy power may be exerted to give effect to a plan for the composition, of the debts of an Insolvent debtor." The court on May 35. 1036. held unconstitutional a similar act per mitting reduction of Indebtedness. The revised measure was passed by congress in an effort to meet su preme court objections. Today's decision applied specifi cally to a plan for adjustment of tha debts of the Llndnay-Strathmore lr-; rlgntlon district of Tulare county California. The original act was held to vio late state rights in a five-to-four opinion delivered by Justice MoRey nolds. Present members of the court who voted with him were Justices: Butler and Roberts. Those dissenting were Chief Jus- tlce Hughes and Justices CardozaJ Brandels and Stone. 1 - In the revised measure, congress' specified that it should not be con-1 stmed ' to "limit or impair" the power of any state to control any municipality or political subdivision "in the exercise of Its political or governmental powers." lIOSWfMCKTNGS IN SAN FRANCISCO, April 35. fP Robert Lane, 31-year-old Salem, Ore., youth who police say admitted 110' . safe cracking jobs In California, wait ed In city prison today for a hearing In municipal court. Lane served 10 months on the Mult nomah county rockulle near Portland., Ore., he told Officer James English, after being captured by a special of ficer May 10. 1037. In the act of, cracking a safe at the T. M. House. Inc., automobile agency there. ? The youth admitted. 60 robberies, here, Including "two $1600 Jobs,"; English said, as well as a Jewel robi bery In Santa Barbara, several In Hollywood and Los Angeles. The ex -sailor said he was born In Salem, Ore., whore hit father, Mi chael Lane, still lives. He left home? after the death of his mother, and went to Jail several times for vag rancy, meanwhile learning the career of safe cracking, English quoted him as saying. BASEBALL R. H. B. a u i 8 12 1 Chicago Pittsburgh . Bryant. Epperly. Logan. Lee and ODea; Bauers, Brown and Bcrres, Todd. , R. R. C. St. Louis . 0 3 2 Cincinnati - 11 0 Welland. Henehaw (3). McOee (). Bush (B) and Owen: Derringer and D. Lombardl. Brooklyn at Boston, postponed. ' Phllsdelphla at New York, po poned; rain. I American R. H. . 1 1 New York Phlladelphl . t Beggs and Dickey: Rosa and Have. R. H. -7 '9 Washington . 0 4 natemiueller and DeSautels: Leon ard, Phebu and R. Perrell. Cleveland at Chicago, postponed; cold weather. far Kills Aged Woman ' PORTLAND. April 38. (AP) Mrs. Anna P. Anderson. 71. died tmtantly Saturday night when an automobile struck her a she crossed Sandy Boulevard. The ear carried her mora than 140 feet.
