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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1938
No. 34.
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Parade
By Joseph Alsop
and
Robert Kintner
Copyright 1U37, by The
North Americau News
paper Alliance, Inc.
HANEK CRi:SAI)ES FOB NEW
DEAL-BISINKSS AMITY
SEC COMMISSIONER SEES
CIVU- WAR IS I'HOdKESS
ELABORATE CONCILIATION
PROGRAM IR PI.ANNEO
EX-nlIOKER MEMBER OF
RICH ROI THERN FAMILY
WASHINGTON, May 1 When James
Roosevelt and Chairman Douglas of
the SEC persuaded the president to
offer a SEC ptac to John W. Hanes.
Joseph P. Kennedy was assigned to
make htm take the Job. With the
more picturesque language expunged,
the Kennedy sermon was as follows:
"If you don't take It, find the time
comes when you think things aren't
going right, you can only blame your
own selfishness."
Hanes, who Is an emotional fellow
with a Methodist conscience, sue
eumbed easily to Kennedy's plea. He
left his prosperous brokerage busi
ness. He" moved to Washington to
follow in the Kennedy footsteps. And
now, with Kennedy in London exile,
he has accepted the old Kennedy
duty of mediating between business
and the new deal. His first effort
waa the recent friendly gesture to
ward the White house by 16 business
leaders, and he has an elaborate
conciliation program planned for tho
future.
The importance of Hanes new
position cannot be underestimated.
The new deal needs a tame capitalist,
and Hanea Is both a new dealer and
a man of Impressively large capital
Of course, his task of making the
president understand business men
and business men understand the
president la almost hopelessly dif
ficult. But someone la always needed
to make the effort.
Bancs has a larger, but a more
specific objective than his predeces
sor, Kennedy. Joe Kennedy's Idea
was simply to keep things going from
day to day. He lived In a perpetual
crisis, now averting crimes by busi
ness, now preventing dreadful as
sults by the administration. Hones'
hope Is to make a permanent peace
between government and business.
He Is really obsessed with It. The
mere subject provokes him to bursts
of camp-meeting oratory. He will
tell you that all he wants Is national
unity, that a civil" war Is as much
In progress now as in 1804. and that
his history book lesson on the evils
of the civil war Is what always
haunts him and drives him on.
He Is a kindly, genial, shrewd fel
low, with the Immaculate and highly
polished appearance of a successful
Wall street man. But under his
admirably exit double-breasted suit
there beat the heart of a crusader.
His career has not been the sart
which usually forms crusaders. He
was born in 1892. In Winston-Salem,
N. C. and tnto a family of baronial
manufacturers. The Hnneses and the
Rynoldses still own Winston-Salem.
The Ha news, beside having a larg
Interest in the Reynolds Tobacco
company, possess one of the largest
hosiery mills In the United States,
a bank and a cotton-converting fac
tory, all presided over by our crusad
er's brothers.
Our crusader's father was a tough
but sentimental old fellow, who
thoughtfully started a business for
each of his sons. He sent young
John to preparatory school In Vir
ginia, to the University of North
Carolina, and finally to Yale. Possi
bly It was at New Haven that young
John Imbibed his notions of service.
At any rate, he played enthusiasti
cally on the Tale baseball team for
three years, and then, after a brief
Interlude, went home to run a tire
factory.
The tire factory did well in the
war. but the post-war collapse fin
ished it and left the youthful presi
dent without a Job. He went to wall
street, was te.kn on by C. D. Barney
and company aa an 80-a-month
clerk, and became a partner In two
years. He waa senior partner when
he finally left the big firm. Among
other large portsesslons which he
picked up during his business carrer
was the largest commercial orchid
farm In the country. When you buy
an orcbld, you sre likely to pay
small tribute to John Hanes.
With his connections and back
ground, he should have been a
violent antt-new dealer. Although
they are Democrat In Winston
Salem, they do not love the admin
istration, and. in Wall street, -wm-pahy
for the new deal is rare indeed.
But Hanei f a aeries of run-ins
WM. POOL TRAPPED.L
AFTER
BATTLE
TAKES
LIFE
Last Bullet In Captured Gun
1 Fired Into Heart After
Duel Identified As Hold
i Un Of Gas Station.
The crime career of William
Chester Pool, 23, former Butt Falls
resident and cx-eqnvict, ended in
suicide late Friday afternoon when,
after a blazing gun brittle with
State Policeman Paul Williams on
a lonely country road in the Reese
creek district, he shot himself
through the heart, atate Police Cap
tain Lea Bown said yesterday.
Pool killed himself 'with the one
remaining bullet in Officer Wil
liams' gun, which he obtained In a
terrific encounter, and a county,
state and city authorities were tight
ening a cordon around a small,
brushy hill to which he had re
treated. He was discovered dead
with the gun in hie hand, by Sgt.
Harold Howard of the state police.
City Policeman Clyde Flchtner. and
Charles ' Champlin, deputy sheriff.
He was lying about 200 yards from
tiie road.
Officer Williams waa uninjured In
the gun duel, In which at least 10
shots were fired at close range. Pool
waa struck twice by bullets from
the state policeman's gun, one slug
ripping through the muscle of his
right arm above the elbow and
grazing the bone, and the other
slashing away part of his right
collar-bone.
No Inquest
County Coroner Frank Perl said
there would be no Inquest. Ha said
Pool died from a hemorrhage of the
left lung, which' was punctured by
the suicide bullet, and which also
nicked hia heart.'. . - -
Pool was positively Identified by
Fred J. Terry, owner of the Midway
service station on the Butte Falls
highway, aa being the gunman who
early Wednesday morning held him
up and escaped; with 39.50 In cash
and six gallons of gasoline. South
ern Oregon authorities had staged
an Intensive search for him follow
ing the holdup.
The gun duel between Pool and
Officer Williams occurred on one of
the rough, narrow county roads
leading from the Reese Creek school
house to Eagle Point. and about
one-half mile south of the school.
The battle took place shortly after
4:00 o'clock, only three hours after
Pool had stolen a 1935 Chevrolet
coach owned by Charles Bateman,
from Its parking plrice opposite the
Riverside market on North Riverside
avenue.
In Stolen Car
Pool drove the machine to the
Four Corners service station owned
by W. E. Mann, and after obtaining
six gallons of gas, raced away in the
direction of Sams valley without
paying for It. Mann Immediately
notified state police, and because
Mann formerly owned the Chevrolet
sedan and recognized It, police were
certain the car waa the one owned
by Bateman. Officers were at once
sent in chase of the car, and patrols
blockaded all roads in the area.
Officer Williams, attached to the
game division of the state police,
was making routine patrol in the
district when he was" Informed of
the search for the Chevrolet. Short
ly afterwards, while driving on the
road on which the gun duel oc
curred, he noticed a car speeding
toward him from the direction of
the Reese Creek school, Capt. Lee
Bown quoted him aa explaining.
Halting his car in the middle of the
road. Officer Williams got out of
the machine and motioned for the
other car to stop. Capt. Bown said.
Pool Starts Battle -
The approaching machine slowed
down and stopped, and Pool stepped
from the enr and opened fire. Wil
liams told Captain Bown he fired
once at Pool, then ran toward the
(Continued on Pace Nine.)
PORTLAND. April 30. fTPv Imme
diate congressional action on the
Cartwrlght bill, containing federal
highway aid authorization for 1940
41 and now stranded In the house
rules committee, was urged yesterday
by the highway commission.
The commission sent telegrams to
members of the Oregon detestation
declaring IP40 construction projects
would be Jeopardized unless budgets
were arranged the previous year and
the amount of federal aid to be re
cetred determined before the 1939
session of the legislature.
The commission agreed to tcotpt
from Multnomah county the Vista
Houw at Cro-wn Point on the Co
lumbia River highway, u a lUU
pari.
HIGHWAY ACTION
URGED BY BOARD
Ends Own Life
; I 1
I S Iv 1
.After a desperate gun battle with
a state policeman. Will In in Chester
Pool (above) 23- far-old ex-convict
and former Butte Fatls resident,
killed himself hy firing a bullet
through his heart late Friday after
noon In the Reese ('reek district. He
was Identified as the gunman who
held up the Midway service station
Wednesday morning, esraplng with
JOB
RULE RAPPED BY
IE ADjNG LAD I ES
Boston Maid In Last Minute
Decision Becomes Sym
bolNew England Wo
men Protest New Order.
BOSTON.; April 30. (AP) A last
minute "yea" sped a New England
maiden and her eager swain to the
altar tonight for a marriage that
promised to rival I he fame of John
Al den's match with Prlsellla.
She made up her mind within a
few hours of the midnight deadline
set by her employer, a Boston util
ity man, In a rule which said "Girls
who marry on or after May 1 must
quit their Jobs."
Her name was Miss Florence Ru
dolph and the man aha accepted was
Harry C. McKenny.
The best wishes of thousands of
American women were with her. for
unknowingly she had become the
symbol of the cause of the working
girl.
She was the fourth Boston maiden
in a week to resort to a hasty wed
ding to escape loss of employment,
and her Job-holding sisters across
the land were shouting:
"It isn't fair."
To this angry chorus, the new
bride represented the goal of count
less other girl employes who saw
their chances of happy marriage
bsrred by a growing movement
against working wives, a movement
which centers In several spots In
New England but extends through
out the country.
Congreeswomen. t o e 1 a 1 workers,
feminist leaders and a throng of
Just plain employes in all phases
of Industry and professions added
their voices to the hubbub. The wo
men. It may be said, were up In
arms.
From Dallas, Texas, came the voice
of Mrs. Orace Noll Crowell, chosen
this week as "The American Mother
of 1938." Said she: -
"The right to work is a prime
factor In the pursuit of happiness
guaranteed us under the constitu
tion." LA FOLLETTE PLAN
TOLD TO I0WANS
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. April 30
(API Oor. Philip r. La Toilette of
Wisconsin tonight laid hla proposal
for a new national Progressive party
before Parmer-Lsborltes and Progres
sives of Iowa and surrounding states
at a huge rally here.
He made no direct reference to a
proposed coalition of the two latter
groups. Lesders of the groups, how
ever, urged midwest farm and isbor
elements to support La rollette'e
caiisea. They Included Representative
Harold L. Pefrson. 8t. Psul. Minn.:
Howard Wllilama, Minnesota Farm
Lebonte organizer, and Wallace M.
Short, Farm-Laborlte candidate for
governor of Iowa.
La Pollette told a crowd of 850
that the cure for government ail
ments la to reduce them to "funda
mentals" instead of dwelling la
"realms of. tbeorlt,'
OUT $150,000 IN
'STUD' GAME, SUES
Halts Payments On Checks
After Record Poker Game
In Los Angeles Trickery
Claimed.
LOS ANGELES, April 30. 7P The
game advanced to where there waa
$340,000 In checks and IOU'a in the
pot, one of the largest reported in
them parts.
It was stud poker and three of the
five players dropped out. When all
bets were finished and the hole cards
turned up, one player had two pairs,
kings over Jacks, and the other had
three sevens.
Harry T. Clifton, scion of a wnlthj
English family and a visitor here,
told Dlst. Atty. Buron Fltts today,
after" obtaining a temporary court
order halting payment on hla ''heck
for 9150,000. that he held two pairs.
Lew Brlce. former song and dance
man and brother of Fanny Brlce, the
comedienne, held the three aevena,
he said
Clifton charged "trick and dsvice.
and misrepresentation," claiming
Brlce had represented himself aa a
wealthy man. capable of paying a
similar loss, had the cards go-he
against him.
The other players. Clifton said In
hla statement, were Tommy Gulnan.
brother of the late Texas Gulnan
Jack Reynolds and George Lewis. He
said that two years ago he had met
Brlce and Lewis, who represented
himself aa a millionaire, that he lost
110,000 to them In a poker game and
thought nothing of It.
CUf ton said the five players nlayed
''dealer's choice" a week ago-and he
lost .about - l, 000. Then came the
big hand.
He had kings back to back. OHfton
said, and had bet $50,000 up to the
last card. On the firth card he got
his second Jack, while Brlce had only
a pair of sevens showing, so he bet
another $100,000. Then Brlce called
he related, and turned over the third
seven.
Superior Judge Emmet H. W:Ison
granted a restraining order against
a Los Angeles bank, where payment
was to have been made. The $50,000
check was on a New York bank and a
$100,000 draft was on a London bank.
Brlce said Clifton had appeared a
good loser and watched him pocket
his checks without a whimper.
State Atty.-Gen. U. S. Webb recent
ly held In effect that draw poker
was legal, provided there was no
house "take." but held stud poker
was specifically defined In the penal
code aa a game of chance and there
fore Illegal.
EVANBTON, III., April 30. (AP)
Scientists have caught the breath of
nearly 3.000 motorist In Chicago
and some of Its suburbs and con
cluded the peak for driving after
drinking waa reached between 3 and
4 o'clock Sunday mornings.
This was announced today by
Richard L. Holcomb, of the North
western University Traffic Safety
Institute.
Cruising in a trailer equipped aa
a laboratory, Holcomb and his as
sistants. Including a uniformed po
liceman, requested drivers to blow
up specially designed balloons which
were then tested for alcohriic con
tent. The location of the equipment
was changed every two hours so the
sampling would represent not only
changea in experience from day to
day and hour to hour, but also from
one type of location to another.
The low point for alcoholic In
dulgence waa found to be about 10
a. m.
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Weather forecast. Sundsy. May 1!
Northern California: Sunday fair
with rising temperature In Interior
moderate northwest wind off the
coast.
Oregon: Generally cloudy Sunday:
unsettled with lower temperature m
Interior Bundsy; moderate northwest
wind off the coast.
The outlook for the period May 3 to
7 for far western stat Is: Fair in
California and the plateau region and
occasionally unsettled with showers
In Oregon. Wsshlngton and northern
(dabo; moderate temperature.
King Zog
K I tiff Zog' and the new Quern (irrnlrtlne of Albania are shown In Tirana lis. In a markedly simple
ceremony, the Albania monarch made the American-Hungarian t'o nutans t.eraldlne Appnnyl hla bride and
queen. At left, aptly symbolizing Zor'h clow relationship with fasciHt Italy. Is Count Oaleazzo Clnno,
Italian foreign minister. This picture was flown from Tirana to Home; telephotoed from Rome to London
and thence radioed to New York.
DESIRES TO QUIT
Lend-Spend Program Only
Interest Wage - Hour
Law Vote Held Unlikely
This Session.
WASHINGTON. April 30. (?)
Congress' aversion to doing much
about anti-trust or other controver
sial matters at this session became
manifest Increasingly today and ad
ministration leaders concentrated on
whipping President Roosevelt's lend-lng-spendlng
program Into shape for
an early vote. '
Informed legislators said the pri
mary concern of most membera wis
to complete action on still pending
phases of the $4,512,000,000 Irndlng
spendlng program, clean up the tax
revision bill and a few other measures
and get back home to their political
fence-mending.
Talk of adjournment May 15 and
June IS raised an obsaclo to action
this year on the abolition of bank
holding companies, a field In which
the president asked prompt legisla
tion In his monopoly mesnago yester
day. But legislators generally agreed
there was a good chance of fundi
being voted, as Mr. Roosevelt request
ed for an Investigation of the "con
centration of economic control."
Many members expressed belief the
adjournment urge precluded any
oh a nee of forcing a vote this session
on the beleaguered wage-hour bill,
for which the hoime rules committee
rcfUsed legislative right-of-way yes
terday. Proponents of the measure
went ahead, however, with arrange
ments to circulate a petition to force
the bill to the floor. To be suc
orjttful, tho petition must be signed
by 218 members.
Meanwhile, a house appropriations
sub-committee agreed tentatively to
end hearings Monday on the piesl
dent's public works and relief bill
and ha-e it ready for house consid
eration the following Monday.
BULLETIN
Sight Game
Score: R. H. t.
Sacramento 4 0 2
Seattle . 0 S 1
Walker and Franks; Plckret, Scr
ventl (8) and Splndel,
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LEEDS, En?., April 30. At Frank
Pennlnk, 25-year-old golfer from
Kent, won the English amateur
championship for the second time In
as many years. He defeated S. Z
Banks. 2 and 1, In the 38-hoIe final
round.
4
W. ft. C Illanked
CORVALLIS. April 30. (AP) Ore
gon State's northern division tennis
champions blanked Washington State,
7 to 0, yesterday, winning straight
sets in all matches with the excep
tion of one singles game, which went
three act
Of Albania Takes
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HITLER VISIT TO
IL DUGE CLAIMS
Czechs Clamp Down On
May Day Parades
Soviet Issues Call To
Workers Europe Tense.
(By the Associated Press)
PR AH A Explosive Czechoslovakia,
troubled by autonomy demands of
her German cltlswns, took extensive
precautions against possible disorders
In Sundays May day celebrations.
Government clamped down on pol
itical demonstrators and at the same
time took advantage of occasion for
friendly gesture toward Germany by
sending May day greetings to Adolf
Hitler.
LONDON European attention fo
cused on Rome where Hitler goes
next week to visit Mussolini osten
sibly to strengthen Rome-Berlin axis.
Tho fuehrer also reported going after
outright military alliance with Italy
In view of newly-ahaped Anglo
French front to preserve peace In
Europe.
BERLIN Hitler proclaimed amnes
ty for nazls charged .with offenses
against party rules prior to April 10
and worked on two May day
speeches to be delivered before a
children's gathering and a labor
rally.
MOSCOW Communist Interna
tional Issued May day manifesto
calling un socialist and trade union
internationals to form united work
ers' front against Japanese, German
and Italian aggression. Hundreds of
thousands massed for military dis
play in Red square May day cele
bration, PARIS French soldiers, tradition
ally kept In barracks to guard
against May day riots, given usual
Sunday leaves in sntlclpatlon of
quiet celebrations.
HENDAYE Government troops
fought In knee deep mud under tor
rential rains to repel surprise In
surgent attack in eastern Spain. In
surant air ratdera bombed Barce
lona, killing 30 persons and wound
ing SO. . .
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PORTLAND, April 30. Wl A
decrease of four percent In aales of
the past week compared to a year
ago wss noted todsy by Dun's Review
In a aurvey of trade conditions here.
Collections were alow.
A aurvey of the apartment house
business showed vacancies of only
eight percent, allglitly higher than a
year ago, but rentals were descr'brd
as stable and hlghei than a year so.
Business vacancies were virtually un
changed from a year ago and rente
held firm.
A Queen
IALIST CHIEF
fflTO
TALK IN JERSEY
Thomas Claims He Was
'Kidnaped' And Forced
To Leave By Jersey City
Police Before Speech.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.. April 30. P)
Norman Thomas, national chairman
of the Socialist party, returned to
Journal Square tonight from where
he waa seized earlier by police as he
attempted to make a speech and
charged he waa "kidnaped by offici
als."
"I was not arrested but kidnaped
by officials, some In uniform and
some not," Thomas said In a state
ment. "I was forcibly put on a ferry
boat for New York as were others not
oven guilty of the offense of coming
to Jersey City to make a speech. I
have every Intention of taking what
ever legal action Is possible against
Mayor Frank Hague and hla grand
fascist administration."
A crowd of 300 milled about a local
newspaper office where Thomas made
his statement and shouted loudly
"we want Thomas. We want Thom
as." Thomas left the building with his
wife and his brother. Dr. Svenn
Tli o mas. and police escorted them to
a Hudson tube station. Police guard
ed all entrances to tho station until
the Thomas group had boarded a
train.
Thomas charged "an officer hit my
wife In the Jaw while I was being re
moved from my automobile."
Thomas, who was removed from his
automobile aa he attempted to ad
dress a May Day eve meeting, said
his only reason for returning was "to
find out what happened to my wife,
and other American citizens In Hitler-
Hague serfdom."
His wife and brother had visited
headquarters earlier to Inquire of Po
lice chief Harry J. Walsh as to his
whereabouts.
PRINCETON, N. J., April 30. (UP)
-The trouble with the American peo
ple la that they are tired of thinking
for themselves, John D. M. Hamilton.
chairman of the Republican national
committee, said tonight In a speech
to the Intercollegiate Republican clubs
conference here.
Speaking of the Republican party.
Hamilton said there Is a need for
unity of purpose among Republicans
'If you gain something of perma
nence you must do It as a party mem
ber and not as an independent," he
aid.
As a minority the Republican party
should give constructive criticism,
be added.
EMPLOYERS CLOSE
PORT OF TACOMA
Stevedores Failure To Pass
Picket Lines Brings Dead
lock In CI0-AFL Rumpus.
TACOMA, Wash., April 30 (V
The port of Tacoma, an Industry in
volving $131,000,000 worth of goods
annually, was deserted tonight, closed
tight by orders of waterfront employ
ers. The employers acted at 8 a. m., to
day, after longshoremen for two weeks
had declined to pans a sailor's union
of the Pacific picket line to load the
Shepard Line freighter Timber Rush.
For 12 days, the employers had placed
two calls dally for stevedore gangs to
work cargo waiting on the dock for
the ship. Each day, th gongs answei
ed the call, then turned back to their
hiring hall when confronted by the
pickets.
A final call this morning resulting
In exactly the same procedure; and
Immediately afterwards, the employers
made good a threat to close the port.
In reality, the actual closing had
virtually no effect, since every ship
except the Timber Rusb had sailed
before the deadline, leaving the 600
longBhoremen and some 1,000 other
workers with nothing to do even bad
the port remained open. Normally.
about 36 ships a week leave the port;
but more than half that number Bail
ed In the 24 hours before the dead
line. Even the British freighter Hart
bridge salted for Seattle, although
less than half completed.
Tonight, longshoremen and employ
ers alike waited for some move from
the opposing side the longshoremen;
clinging stubbornly. .to..thftlE.ccajteiP.'v--tlon
passing the picket line would be '
dangerous; and the employers de
manding the union recognize an ar
bitrator's decision that refusal to load
I the ship was a violation of the steve
doring contract.
The situation waa complicated for
Tacoma by the fact longshoremen
here have maintained AFL affiliation,
even though most of the other Pa
cific coast locals Joined the CIO
year ago. The sailors union of the.
Pacific, although nominally Inde
pendent, If friendly with the AFL,'
but tn porta with CIO longshoremen,
the stevedores have disregarded the
sailors union pickets, who blockaded
several Shepard ahlps after the union
claimed violation of a working agree
ment. There was no Indication tonight of
any break In the deadlock, although
several possibilities have been men
tioned. SEEKS 5 MILLION
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HOLLYWOOD. April 30, (UP) A
suit for $5,000,000 damages, the larg
eat sum ever aoked In a Hollywood
assault case, was filed here today
by Mary Elolse Spann, pretty 31-year-old
actress, who said she waa onoe
known as the "sweetheart of the Re
publican parly."
Mlsa Spann charged she waa as
saulted by Milton Beecher. 33, a Hol
lywood film director, who, she ssld,
lured her ,to an apartment "for
movie voloe teat."
She named as co-defendants th
Metro-Ooldwyn-Mayer atudlo. for
whom Beecher la a music director,
and 80 "John Dooa," on the theory
there waa a Joint responsibility be
cause of the "film test" angle,
Two years ago, she aald, she mng
before a group of senators and con
gressmen In Washington. She has
appeared, she said, In "The Great
Zlegfeld," "Ah Wilderness" and "Dam
sel In Distress."
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PORTLAND. April 30, (AP) The
Multnomah county grand Jury, la a
final report filed today, recommend
ed legislation to make the Oregon
liquor control commission sole dis
tributor of fortified wine.
"It la apparent . . . that no alco
hol beverage has a mora detrimental
moral, mental and phyalcal effect
on the drinker." the Jury reported.
Under the present act, the bever
age la distributed by wholesalers or
distributors and bottled ben.
The grand Jury aald It felt that
"this distribution to frequently made
without proper seleotlon of li
censees.' The report said aalea of fortified
wlnea had Jumped from 60.000 gal
lone In 131. when distributed by
the liquor commission, to 2,24,784
gallon In 1937,