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The Weather Forecast: Cloud? and unsettled tonight and Thursday ; not much change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 69 Lowest this morning 41 Deal Half Made FORD Many people (all to Include ImporUnt facts In their Ada and si s consequence the beat results are not always forth coming. Many Ads hare ft deal Halt made at tint reading. RIBUNE Full Associated Presi Full U em Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938. No. 31. Med 1UEB The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1037, by Tbe North American News paper Alliance, Inc. ADMINISTRATION SEEK SPENIINO INDORSEMENT ... SENATE OPPOSITION GROUP MAPS FI01IT ON. PLAN ... EAR-MARKING OF PWi FUND IS OBJECTIVE . TROinl.E IN FINDING FOKMl'I.A HAMPERS FOES WASHINGTON, April 37. A few days ago. an emissary of the White House, a large Philadelphia drug manufacturer, a New Deallsh pub lisher and Senator Robert M. LaFol lette, Jr., of Wisconsin, foregathered quietly at the Mayflower hotel. Sena tor LaFollette wns there aa the best congressional defender of the presi dent's spending program: the White House emissary waa there as one of the program chief sponsors In the executive branch; and the other two men were there to be convinced. The object of the meeting was to persuade the publisher and the drug manufacturer to get a mass endorse ment of the ependlng program from business men friendly to the New Deal. A simultaneous Indorsement of the wage-hour bill was also desired, but the apendlng program came first. As yet, the meeting has not come to much. The example of the other business men who followed Thomas W. Lmont and John L. Lewis into the White House and got nothing for their pains except the run-around was too present In the "mind of the drug manufacturer. He asked point edly how on earth he could be ex pected to rally his business friends to the New Deal standard when the White House business conference of the winter were still remembered. Nevertheless, the meeting at the Mayflower was a significant one. It Indicated how fearful the White House, and its friends now are of another shellacking on the hill. At first glance, the situation in congress scarcely seems to Justify the nervousness of the New Dealers. The wage -hour bill a ppea rs to be tied up in aa many knots as ever, but no strong opposition to the spending program has materialized to date. Ten days have passed slnco the pro gram's disclosure, and the law-makers are still repeating, like their con stituents, that "we tried It before. (Continued from page four) LAWRENCTlO PAGE CHARGES IN SALEM H. C. Lawrence, 37, Salem, salesman arrested In Ashland Monday following a wild auto dash on the Pacific high way between Grants Pass and Ash land, waa returned to Marion county today,- where charges will be pre ferred according to Sheriff Syd I. Brown. Lawrence allegedly commandeered an auto belonging to his employer, and headed south at high speed. He sped through this city at 75 miles per hour the city police claim. Lawrence waa arrested at Ashland after a chase through the city streets. When searched, he was found armed with a pistol. He waa charged with carry ing concealed weapons, driving while Intoxicated, and reckless driving. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Victor Sparks working diligently to make Medford a poets' colony. Cappy Albert Anderson filling his friends with deep sea crabs. Earl York hoping for a big turnout at the 40 et 8 stag party. What Montana Gilhousen was wearing in town, as noted In a quick glimpse by an admiring MT office worker: brown serge suit with faint beige stripe, beige sweater, green chiffon neckerchief raMeued with a unique costume Jewel; green suede feathered Rob in hood hat. brown leather spectator sports shoes, beige hose and a green patent-leather bag. Lowell Brown being undismayed by a hefty sandwich placed before him that he hadn't ordered, and put ting It away with neatness i.nd dispatch although he had eaten two a. re adj. 15 PER CENT HIKE IS TURNED DOWN BY5T02V0TE Communications Commis sion Will Issue Appropri ate Report, Order Later on Companies Application WASHINGTON, April 27. ) The , federal communications commission ! denied today an application by the ! principal telegraph companlea for a i IS per cent Increase in domestic , rates. Five commissioners voted to deny I the Increase, Two others favored granting of an Increase on a tem porary basis for one year, The commission said It would Is sue later "an appropriate report and order" denying the petitions for an Increase. Companies which asked for the In crease were Postal Telegraph -Cable company, Mackay Radio and Tele graph company (California); Mockay and Radio and Telegraph company (Delaware), The Western Union Tele graph company and R. C. A. Com munications, Inc. , 7 KILLED, 11 HURT BY BLAST AND FIRE IN DEEP COAL. PIT , POrrsviLLE, Pa., April 37 (,V) A gas explosion, followed by fire deep In an anthracite mine, killed seven men today and Injured 11. Rescue workers, struggling against dread "black damp" removed six bodies within seven hours after the blast shook the St. Clair Coal company's-mine, four' miles from hen. The seventh was buried under a rush of coal. Physicians expected several of tho Injured might die. All were burned. Twenty men were In the level. Two. standing near an exit, were unin jured. ( The dead were: Frank Montgomery, 30; Paul Sikra, 40; Wasil Holovak, 46; Luke Chuck ran. 40; Rlchrnd Barnes, 43, all of St. Clair; and John and Michael Ter ris. brothers, of Port Carbon. The body of Michael Terris, a bride groom of only a week, waa buried In a rush of coal and not recovered im mediately. Andrew Potts, 43. mine fire boss, waa among those critically burned. He was about to enter the number nine tunnel, located In the mam moth vein, when the blast came. The blast let go about two miles from the main entrance to the mine. A witness said: "There was a loud report that rock ed the mountainsides two miles from the colliery office. "Within 10 minutes, a half hun dred miners had formed a rescue party, the emergency station waa op erating and every ambulance In the region was en route to the mine." Outside the mine, mere minutes after the blast, was formed the pic ture repeated wherever such disaster strikesof relatives, tears streaming, waiting some word. NEW YORK. April 27. (IP, Henry Lewis Bullen, 80, curator emeritus dt the typographic library and museum started by American Type Founders, Inc., in Jersey City, N. J, died today. KingZog's Nuptial Rites Blend of Orient, Occident TIRANA. Albania, April 37.fP) In a civil ceremony marked with moun taineer simplicity, Countess Geraldlne Apponyl. whone mother was an Amer ican, became the first queen of the Albanians today when she was ac cepted in marriage by King Ahmd Zog. A sslvo of 101 guns, the tolling of church bells, and ahouts of Moham medan muezzins praying from minar ets signalled the marriage. The ceremony was held In an at mosphere half oriental, half occi dental. Thy were declarrd man and wife by Heqmet Detvlna. vice-prealdpnt of parliament, after he had read the conditions of marriage from the civil code In the presence of 300 guests and members of the royal family. Queen Oeraldlne thus took her place with Queen Farida of Egypt as the world's youngest queens. Queen Oernldlne Is 23, Queen Farida 17. Queen Oeraldtn? Is the only queen possessing American blood. Simone Accuses Secretary JT. g"wtv .ar 3 ,V7$. mmmxz t lit 3 V I - fa if "' Vi JAP-BIISH CLASH SHANGHAI, April 37. (AP A threatened clash between British and Japanese In the Shanghai area was averted when Japanese authorities promised to release the British steamer Tung wo before morning. Previously it was understood a British gunboat waa prepared to effect the release by force if neces sary. Japanese soldiers In launches nad halted the 1,337-ton steamer off Hal men, near the mouth of the Whangpoo river, about 15 miles from Shanghai, alleging that a Chinese passenger hftd fired a pistol at a Japanese soldier. SEN. REAMES CONTINUES PNEUMONIA RECOVERY WASHINGTON, April 37. ( AP ) Senator Reames D. Ore.), ill with pneumonia, continued to improve to day. Members of his family said the senator passed a "very comfortable night'.' and was "coming along fine." Tlrk Fever Fatal MOSCOW. Idaho. April 37. (AP) Spotted fever was fatal to George Rommel, 58. of Pomeroy, Wash., at a hospital here today. It was the sea son's first reported death in the region from the dread malady caused by a wood tick bite. The ceremony took place In the flower-banked annex of the smill royal palace. The walls were covered with antique Albanian firearms. The bride, slightly taller than the king, waa resplendent In bridal gown of white satin, embroidered with dia mante, pearls and silver thread In flower designs. Her majesty's em broidered court train was long. A large veil of white tulle trailed from a high diadem of orange blossoms. The king wore a sabre and color ful decorations with his uniform as commander-in-chief of the army. The king's bodyguard of 1000 men completely surrounded the palare grounds, but admitted the crowd In side the walls where It pressed close to the palace doors. Thousands of picturesquely dressed, thrilled -to-the -bones mountaineers Ohegs from the north and Tosks from the south milled about, trying to glimpse the king who rose from a tribal chieftain to establish a mon archy, and hut queen. Simone Simon, pert film actress from France, shown above with John Kline, Los Angeles district attorney' Investigator, as she signed si com plaint HRaliift Sandra Martin (hclou), her former aecretnry, accusing her of stealing yitt.000. Miss .Martin de nied she confessed to the theft and promised "plenty of fireworks." S TO FREE - ALB ANT, April 37. (AP) Assert ing that his war on labor terrorism la to "free union members from leeches and blood-sucking vampires." Gov. Charles H, Martin, candidate for Democratic re nomination, charted to day that victory for his opponent would "mean the ascendency of forces that would eventually destroy our form of government." The governor, in an address pre pared for delivery at a chamber of commerce luncheon, said the people must determine "whether Oregon Is to be a state placing a real value upon Its honor and freedom, or whether we choose to submit to the yoke' of racketeers and gangsters. "There is a definite battle lino being formed to defeat me and thereby nullify the work already ac complished. . . . These groups must not be permitted to gain dictatorial power, for that would be the first step toward arbitrary and unwhole some dictatorships such as Infest Europe today. Each group must be made to perform Its proper function in our system, and be protected In that right." Pleading for elimination of "petty bickering, cruel chiseling and group antagonisms," tho governor said he wanted the laboring man 'to be freed from the rule of "racketeers and gangsters" so he could run iia own union organization. He aald he desired to have the state's Income level raised, but said this could only be done by eliminat ing "rabble-rousers and demagogues." and by finishing raw materials in the state. DENSE FOG TROUBLES NEW YORK, April 37. (AP) Five steamships were In trouble today, with one of them beached, aa the result of three accidents off the north Atlantic coast In a dense fog last night and early today. The coastguard dispatched assist ance to three of the vessels, but the other two, after reporting a collision did not ask for help. In the most serious accident, the 2686-ton commercial Pioneer of New York was in collision near the Dela ware breakwater with the 2677-ton York of Baltimore. The port side of the York was stove In and her master grounded her In 18 feet of water on Cape He nl open. Salmon Hatchery Measure Approved WASH IN O TON April 27. (AP) The house committee on merchant marine and fisheries approved today a senate bill authorizing a 500.000 appropriation for fish hatchery con struction and fishery conservation along the Columbia river and Its tributaries in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The bill's primary purpose. Its sup. porters said, was to perpetuate the supply of salmon. ' Ankara Temblors Worst In' Years ANKARA, Turkey, April 27. (AP) A scientific expedition on the spot snld today the recurring earthquakes In the districts east and south of Ankara were the worst that region baa known Jar oentunea. E OF NAZI CZECHSiWITH ROOSEVELT High German Official Says Only Question Is Whether Union Can Be Made Without Shedding Blood BERLIN, April 27. p) A German official of cabinet rank told the As sociated Press today that "Anschluss" (Union) of Czechoslovakia's Sude ten Germans with Germany "Is Inev itable and the only question Is wheth er It can be done without shedding blood," "Before long the audetcn Germans will raise a demand for union with Germany," this official said. Ho asserted that one of the chief concerns of German diplomacy was how to make France understand she would be violating no agreement If she claimed to come to Czechoslovak la'a aid at that time. He aald. "If the French can be mode to un derstand' that peace In Europe can and will be safeguarded, if only they will understand that people of the same blood and language have the right to form one retch, another great step forward toward the pacification of Europe will have been taken." LONDON. April 27. (JF) The heads of the French and British govern ments will take up the growing Nazi clamor In Czechoslovakia and Its dan gers to their plans for European peace agreements in Important conversations beginning tomorrow. France's Premier Edouard Daladler and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet flaw from Parla and landed at Croy don airport late today. TALK BY OONAUGH SCHEDULED FRIDAY Carl 0. Donaugh, Democratic can didate for the United States senate nomination, will spend Friday in Medford. During his campaign he la on a leave of absence from hla posi tion as United States attorney for Oregon. Mr. Donaugh will be honor guest at a dinner In Valentine's face at 8 o'clock, party leaders of the county to attend. At 7:30 he will addresa a public meeting In the hill at 123', West Main street over the Baldwin piano shop. All residents of the county are Invited to the meeting. Mr. Donaugh Is expected to arrive from the north by train Friday morn ing. During -the day he will confer with county party leaders. J. R. Marshall, county chairman. Is In charge of arrangements. E J. E. Bennett, the antl-gambltng crusading city commissioner of Port land, tarried In Medford today to give his views on various political races before continuing to Sacra mento, Cal., to attend a convention of shade tree nurserymen. In Multnomah county It looks to Mr Bennett like Sam Brown, the Oervals farmer who Is campaigning with 940 and the "same old Ford" for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. In Multnomah county also tho odds seem to favor Henry L. Hess of La Grande, primary opponent of Gov. Charles H. Martin, Mr, Bennett said. ' "I hear a lot of favorable talk for Oovernor Martin but It la mainly outside of Portland," Mr. Bennett declared. PORTLAND, Ore., April 117. (UP) City Commissioner J. E. Bennett said yesterday he would make ' no more personal raids on Portland gambling houses. But would Instead refer all future warrants to the mayor for service. Bennett's statement came a day af ter he said he received an antonymous bombing threat over the telephone and four days after he waa pelted with eggs and tomatoes while a raid waa In progress. New Yorkers to.Pay More For Papers NEW YORK. April 37. (API The New York Herald Tribune today an nounced a one-cent Increase In the newsstand sale price of Ita week-day editions In New York City. The new price will be three cents. Pri-e revision by the Herald Tri bune followed a similar announce ment yesterday by the New York Time, HENRY FORD AFTER LUNCHEON Motor Magnate Admits Pleasant Visit, But Is Si lent on Topics Under Dis cussion at White House WASHINGTON. April 37. (AP) Henry Ford, 74-year-old motor mag nate, sat down at luncheon with President Roosevelt today to talk about business. Ford refused to answer any ques tions aa he emerged on the front portico In the midst of nearly 100 newspapermen. Did you have a pleasant visit?" he was asked as he hurried Into hla big black limousine to go to the railroad station. "Sure." waa all that he would say. O. Hall Roosevelt said: "It was all Just a family conversa tion. There was nothing that smack ed of commercialism In any way. There was very little economics In the discussion." The gray, frail manufacturer, who often has differed with administra tion policies, walked silently past a crowd of reporters and photographers into the White House. Several hundred persons gathered to see him arrive cheered. Immediately after arrival of the Ford party. Chairman Marrlner 8. Ecclea of the federal reserve board entered. Ecclea was Invited by Mr. Roosevelt with Ford and his party. Trie luncheon was held in the homey atmosphere of the smalt White House family dining room. FIND PLANE WRECKAGE SEQUOIA FOREST AREA VIS A LI A. Cat., April 27. (Jp) Joseph E. Elliott, superintendent of the Sequoia national forest, said to day a ground crew reported It had reached the wreckage of an airplane which vanished Monday, and that all four passengers residents of Vlsalta were dead. BAKERS FIELD. Cal., April 27. P) Cecil Meadows, Kern airport super intendent, reported today he had sighted from his searching plane a completely wrocked airplane near Sunday peak In Tulare county. Hs expressed the opinion the pilot, Dr. O. N. Lambert, became lost In the clouds and crashed the ship Into the mountain side. With Dr. Lambert were his wife. Mrs. Csrolyn Lambert, her mother, Mrs. Frank Blaln. and Miss Dorothy Davis, Dr. Lambert's office nurse. BIG JOSEPHINE LEAD nniHTS ntn. SnHI 97 Alt Although Democrats gained more new vrvt.ra Remthllran. retaln.H & mm. mandlng lead In Josephine county. figures compneo irom may primary reifl.trmt.lrm ihmvpd tvlaV. Th total waa B086, or 636 more than two yeara ago. Republlcana registered 6490, a gain of 300. Democrats Increased 436, for a total of 3308. Non-partisan and miscellaneous registration waa slight ly down at IBB. Hoover Sees Recession in Government Moral Fibre PRBSNO, Calif., April 37. (AP) A warning that dlclatoiahlpa have arisen where governments lost 'moral fibre" waa left today before Calllor nia Republican women by former President Herbert Hoover, who aald American government was In a "moral recession." "If morals cannot be sustained In self-government either one of two things ensues," Mr. Hoover said In an addresa hera Isst night. "Clvlllia tlon rota, or the people turn to dicta torial government "to clean up the polltlclana." These are grave hours." Mr. Hoov er told the federation of Republican women's clubs. We sr. In a moral recession In government. "Beyond this wt hava for five yeara listened to a contlnuwoua defama tion of everything that haa gone be fore. Honest achievement of men haa been belittled and attributed to Improper motives Ideals ambedwl la MUM Admits Safe Jobs !i " ' " V; Robert Lane (above), 21-yeur-old Salem, Ore., youth who San Fran-, clteo pollre say admitted 110 enre craeklnf Jobs In California, was held In the San Francisco Jail for trial following his rapture while attempt ing to crack another one. MOTHER TURNS OVER VALUABLE JEWELRY CLAIMED BY WAN . LOS ANGELES, April 27. (AP) A 17-carat diamond, valued at 920.' 000, and a 92600 diamond-studded platinum watch., purchased from the ' earnings nf Jack e Ooosan as a child movie. actor, were among the assets listed today by the receiver in Coo- gan's 14,000.000 accounting suit against his mother, Mrs. Arthur Bernstein. Mrs. Bernstein voluntarily turned over these articles, with many others, to Job Blby. appointed by the court to appraise assets of the Jackie Ooo- gan Productions, Inc. Her attorneys estimated the worth of the concern at somewhere around 800,000. Mrs. Bernstein contends Jackie has no estate and that hla earnings re verted to her with the death of her former husband, John R. Coogan. Next step in the case probably will be resumption of Mrs. Bern stein's deposition, after which her second husband, then Coogan, will give testimony to enable the court to determine whether a temporary injunction granted Coogan la to be made permanent. Coogan wants his mother and stepfather restrained from disputing of property until his suit Is carried to a conclusion. BLADINE RESIGNS AS SECRETARY OF G. 0. P. PORTLAND, April 37 (P) Resig nation of Lars W. Bladlne, McMtnn- vllle publisher, as secretary of the Re publican atate central committee, waa announced yesterday by Arthur W. Pralulx, Chlloquln, chairman. Bladlne will campaign for Charlea A. Sprague, Salem publisher and a candidate for governor, CHERRIANS WILL HOLD SILVER JURILEE MAY 9 SALEM. April 27. (AP) The Sa lem Cherrlana have Toted to hold a nv.r inhllA. celebration Mav 9. honoring all past King Blngs of the organization. The cnernans were or ganlzed In 1913. our patrlotlam ere smeared with con tempt. Wa are told that we are In ruins and we must begin anew. Wa are told that the government must do It for us." Twenty-eight hundred persons, thronging the municipal auditorium, cheered the former prealdent before and after his address In which he listed eight "simple principles" of moral government and suggested through questions that all were being violated In Amerloa. "Government In a democracy can afford some Inefficiency." ha aald. "That Is the price we pay for self' government, for Intellectual and aplrltual freedom. But government In democracy cannot be Immoral that saps Its very life." The former president aald he waa turning to women "aa a complaining cltlren," because "somebody haa to do a cleanup lob In this republic. ' and "the men haven't done much ol late." BANDIT HOLDS UP SERVICE STATION ON BT. FALLS ROAD $39.25 and Six Gallons of Gas Obtained in Early Morning Stick-Up Offi cers Search Wide Area A lone bandit, armed with a blua automatlo pistol and driving a new Dodge sedsn, held up the Midway service ststlon on the Butte Falle highway 38 miles from Medford at 6 a. m, today and escaped with 839.38 In. cash and six gallons of gasoline. State police and the county sher iffs office are searching the Butte Falls area, and have notified author It lea In Klamath Falls. Grants Pane. Ashlsnd. Crater Lake National park and the California quarantine sta tion. Fred J. Terry, owner of the service station located eight miles from the Crater Lake highway and eight mllea from Butte Falls, told atata pollco the unidentified bsndlt drove his car into the service station Just as ha waa getting up this morning. The man. Terry explained, had six gallons of EBSollne pumped Into hla tank, then drew the platol and demanded alt the money In the cash register. Alter, rifling the till, the bandit forced Terry, at the point of the gun. to. walk down the road, men jumpea In the car and speeded south toward; the Crater Lake highway. Terry told police the automobile had driven Into hla atatlon from the Butt rails direction. After the bandit scooped out tha money In the caah reglater, Terry ' quoted him as saying, "You bettr not notify tha police or I will oonvav back and get you." Disregarding tha threat, Terry telephoned atata poltea Immediately after tha holdup. Terry told state police he bad 860 or 960 In a wallet In hla pocket, but that tha bandit didn't search aim. The victim described the robber aa about 36 yeara of age, short, slender, dark complexloned and having black hair combed straight back. Ha waa wearing a dark brown suit and no hat, Terry said.' He told polios thi car was a new Dodge, green color end had Oregon license plates. STUDENTS UNINTERESTED IN WAR PROTEST MEET EUOENl, April 37. (AP) A stu dent demonstration called aa a pro test against war, drew a crowd of lasa thsn 100, of whom a fourth vera high school students, at the Univer sity of Oregon here today. The event waa lacking In color thla year aa the usual signs and placarda crying against war and their alleged promoters were missing. The Oxford pledge sgalnst supporting tha gov ernment In any war was administered by Betty Ann Paddock, Eugene, and but a scant dozen assented to it. BASEBALL National PITTSBURGH, April 37. (IP). Arky Vaughan's borne dun with three on base climaxed a five-run seventh tn- Ing rally. which gave Plttabungb'a Pi rates a 6 to 6 triumph today over tha Chicago Cubs. The Pirates were trail ing four to nothing at tha start of the Inning. The score: R. H. Chicago ,,..,-,, 6 13 1 Pittsburgh 6 8 1 French, Russell. Root and Odea; Blanton, Brown, Kllnger and Todd. Tha score: r. R. a. 18 17 1 I Brooklyn Boston Pltrslmmons and Spencer. Fetta. Oabler. Erlckaon, Balaa and Muller. , (First game) R. H. I, Philadelphia t I New York 7 11 Mulchay, Slvess and Atwood; Oum- bert and Denning. American. R. R. 16 a e New York ..- Philadelphia Rufflnc and Olenn: Keller, W11-. llama, Thomas and Hayes. R. H. E. St. Louis i IS 0 Cincinnati ,. 0 8 4 Warneke and Owen: Ortsaom, Van- , dermer, Barrett and V. Davis. R. H. 1 1 11 Cleveland . Chicago . Harder, Hudltn and Pytlak: Lea and SeweU. ,' The score: R. R. R Boston 9 7 1 Washington 8 1 McKaln. Rogers, Dlckman and De stuaels; Peacock. Deshong, Hogsett and R. FemU.
