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The Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight and Thursday with occasional ratn, moderate temperature, Tcmperuture Highest esterilay 7fi Lowest this morning .. 5'! Precipitation last 24 lira... trace Only Method Save time, energy and expense. L'se the Clarified page of tills newspaper. Hundred!, find tht method the only method. It will prove so to you. Your Adv. will reach thousands of home. MEDFORD Tru une Full Associated Press Full U fress Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1938. No. 43. bbws sliiJgasWf QaBBBMeasMataaaaasr' assssaifSW MMffl RAPS GAfffAKN AttBAIMH i i i 1 4 The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1!o7. by The North American News ' paper Allinnce, luo. STORMY Ll'NCIl MAY LEAD TO PBACE mi.LKii: si'i'nNs im.an FOR NKl'TRAI. L'MIMICES SIHSTITITK I'KOVIHKS 1'OK UTILITY COMMIT ! IX WOULD F.I.IMINATB Wll.l.KtK. I.H.IKNTHU. WASHINGTON, Mny 11. At a small and rather stormy lunch tn l New York's financial district Bcveral j weeks ago, there began tho se quence of events which may noon bring final peace between the public utilities and the fcdernl government. The luncheon meeting was colled by the powerful broker, Paul Shields, who Is the only real White House Crony In Wall street. The other men present were the three most con spicuous leaders of the utilities busi nessWendell L. Willklc, of Com monwealth and Southern; James F. Fogarty. of the North American com pany, and C, E. Grocsbeck of Elec tric Bond and Share. Shields, who spends half his time shuttling from New York to Wash ington and back, trying to make peace between government and busi ness, suggested to the utilities men that independent umpires be ap pointed to see fair play between the utilities and the New Deal. His no tion was that lending Industrialists unconnected with the utilities ought to do the Job. t Unfortunately. Shields Is suspected of a connection with -a financial al liance, headed by Dillon, Read and company and Harrison Williams, which would like to elbow J. P. Morgan and Company out of the utilities field. Willklc, a Morgan man, was so doubtful of the Shields mo tives that he blew up. energetically and loudly, on the spot. The lunch ended atormily. For tunately, however, it was only a starter. The Shields Idea was taken to the SEC In Washington, where Commissioner Robert E. Healy. chiel of the utilities division, greatly sur prised everyone by repeating the Willkie arguments against tho in trusion of "outsiders." Therefore, a far more sensible plan was resorted to. It was decided to form a committee of executives from thirteen of the largest utilities holding companies, with the two fold purpose of working with the SEC In the application of the hold- (Continued on Page Six FLOOD CONTROL HAS WASHINGTON, May 11. (AP) Representative Sccrest (D-Ohio) said today the house flood control com mittee had approved tentatively a $50,000,000 flood control and conser vation program tn the Willamette valley of Oregon. A committee member. Secrest said the group had Included In a $400. 000.000 national flood control pro gram a $12,000,000 authorization to Initiate the Oregon works, based on recommendations of the army engi neers. 4 SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS The forest service getting Blmerl Jarvt to go to church by assigning him to give a talk at a church meet ing. Florence Scherrer getting a night view of the carnival from a plane 3000 feet up. she being thrilled no end. AH Ban well eirtted at sight of groups of women walk in a: around town, he fearing he had slipped up on a convention. Horace Bromley out !n the sun Khtne seatn and looking better than he would sdrptt he felt. Mary Morrtsey clcdhopplng to a "Little Clodhopper" rehearsal, she playing the title role in the Thun and Fri. night show. Florence Bos urn havlna a great time playing with a cougar cub. she trying to start ft circus animal act. John Ead ignoring his 86 vein by climbing around on his roof to zniks repairs thereto. HE FIE IE1EDJL0 LIE Governor Says Statement Is Typical of Unscrupulous Campaign i Being Waged in State Quotes Farley May 20, Mr. Farley! PORTLAND, May 11. (API The Oregon Journal said today that in a telephone conversation with James A. Farley, postmaster-general, it was told: "The Democratic national com mittee nor the administration is not interfering in the Oregon Democratic primary." Farley's answer was in respons? to a question about a report that the administration intended to attack the Democratic Oregon governor, Charles H. Martin, "By the way, when Is the Ore gon primary?" Farley asked. It is May '20. SALEM. May 11. (AP) Govornor Martin charged today that a state ment that he sent a friend to Wash ington to seek endorsement of the national administration was "appar ently Inspired by political conuuDla tors" and that It was "an unmitigat ed lie." He bald the statement was "typical of the character of the dirty, un scrupulous campaign being waged against me." In a prepared press statement, the governor isaid: "In view of the cordial relations with tho president and the adminis tration, there Is no reason to do so. "It never ooourretl-'to'mc tff-i the national administration to inter vene in a local state election where United States government officials are not involved. The public should be prepared for a repetition of many similar lies." The -governor quoted again from a letter written March 22 by James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman who said "you have done a splendid job, governor, and I am sure 'hat the citizens of your state realize it." The charge that the governor sent an emissary to Washington first ap peared In a syndicated, daily column, BONNEVILLE SALE 10 UTILITIES SAYS HESS ALBANY. May 11. (AP) Henry Hess, candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, charged last night that his opponent. Gov. Charles E. Martin, was planning to sell Bonneville dam to the utilities. Asserting that the people would be "sold out" without question If Martin was re-elected, Hess declared that an attempt already has been made to sell the dam to Henry Ford, automobile magnate, for $5,000, 000. Hess answered an old campaign argument on the withdrawal of Dr. J. F. Hosch, Bend, from the race shortly before the close of the filing period by saying there was no col lusion with Dr. Hosch. Hess said Hosch told him he would not file if he (Hess) did. Coincident with Dr. Hoechs' withdrawal. Hess filed. Dozen Leningrad Clergymen Arrested in Purge Program MOSCOW, May 11. ,p The arrest of more than a dozen clergymen In Leningrad province on charges of "Fascist spying, debauchery and plot ting against the Soviet regime" was reported today In the At hies t news paper Bezbozhntk. The newspaper said a former met ropolitan, Seraflm Ruzhentsoff. and two bishops were among the Ortho dox clergymen Involved. Ruzhentsoff was accused of debauches with altar girls. The bishops were changed with corruption of nuns. It also mentioned Ad vent 1st and Baptlnt pastors, who were said to have actd as spies for Germany. Some clcrnymen were accused of writing antl-Sovlet articles against collective farming. Others were rharg ed with inventing "anti-Soviet mlr- j acles. The clergymen were alleged to have tried to persuade people that arrest -' ed churchmen were "martyrs of the j faith, the newspaper said. It added that "only ft few fanatical .vomen believe them. 1 TUe boviet govenuueot kxlay re Revolt Attempt Chiloquin Pooch Cured Of Fits By Bullet In Head CHILOQUIN. May 11. (API Because his dog had fits, lake Polin, Chiloquin storekeeper, hired a man to take the animal into the woods and shoot It. The man fired a bullet Into the dog's head, and the dog took the count. Tho other day the dog Jogged into the Polln store. Mrs. Polin fainted. Subsequent examination showed that the bullet had only pierced the hide on the dog's skull. Bruno hasn't had a fit since. REVISED TAX BILL TO WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, May 11. (AP) Congress sent a $5. 300 ,000 ,000 tax revision bill to the White House to day for President Roosevelt's signa ture. The house completed action on the measure, designed to case taxes about which business nas complain ed, by approving a conference report which compromised differences with the senate. The compromise measure retains only a vestige of the wldely-crltlclzed undistributed profits tax and re vamps the present system of capital gains levies. JXL-Uie aggrogaU-U-lnipo!B-no ad-j dltional tax burden but merely pro duces the same amount of money as the present law. The revised levy on undistributed profits would apply only to corpora tions having Incomes above $26,000. They would pay taxes of 16 i to. 10 per cent. The more profit they turned over to stockholders in the form of dividends, the less taxes they would pay. Firms distributing all their profits would pay the 16' per cent minimum. Companies having Incomes up to $25,000 would pay no undistributed profits levy simply a corporate In come tax ranging from 12, to Ifl per cent. Under existing law all corporations pay an Income tax of 8 to 15 per cent and a surtax of 7 to 27 per cent on their undistributed earnings. LECTURE SERIES . WILL OPEN HERE First of a series of classes to be conducted by Worth Smith and Genevievee Behrend will be held In room 415 of the Hotel Medford at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. The class was formed following the lectures given by the two authors In Town send hall Monday night. Another class will be held In the Hotel Medford at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Miss Bchrand, & mental scientist, will address a class of women only. Saturday eve ning at 8 Mr. Smith will give a lecture on "The Great Pyramids." Next week classes will be held at B p. m. Monday, Wednesday and Fri day. jected the 1038 program of the Acad emy of Sciences with the criticism that It was neglecting the application of research to Industry. "Pseudoadenttsts and wreckers" who write books on "useless topics" were criticized In a government state ment which found there was "still ft lot of conservatism and cold seed emlsm" In the academy. Implying that some members were old fogies, the government ordered that the academy's ranks be opened to young scientists. The government ordered simplifica tion of wage scales In the automobile Industry, seeking to Increase and Im prove output. The Industry has been growing steadily and made 200.000 cars In 1937. but deficits still are re ported. Confusion In wsge scales was blam ed for heavy labor turnover, with waste In production and defective parts. Forty different wage schedules were reported In the Stalin plant and ' twenty in the Oorky plant. Sonv fore j men as a remit received lew than .men under tiitm. SPAIN'S DELEGATE!! NS1STS ON OF Britain and France Bitterly Attacked in League Meet ing 4 for Bargaining With Italians Russia Aids GENEVA, May 11. (AP) Govern ment Spain's delegate tonight halted the steamroller which Britain and France have been operating in the current session of the League of Nations council. Julio Alvarea del Vayo, Barcelona foreign minister, bitterly attacking the two powers for their bargaining with Italy, refused to let the ques tion of intervention in the Spanish civil war be run through the coun cil without full consideration. Maxim Litvlnoff, Soviet Russia's foreign commissar, and William J. Jordan of New Zealand rushed to the defense of the Saplard's demand that the council take the question of intervention out of the hands of tho 27-natlou non-intervention com mittee In London. Their stand blocked Anglo-French plans to complete discussion of the 8panish war tonight. The program, in which a majority of the council had agreed obviously was upset. After brief consultation with Brit ain's Viscount Halifax and Joseph A. C. Avenol, league secretary-general, the chairman announced the question of Spain was adjourned to a later meeting. V , . t '"' However, last minuto British and French "corridor victories' made Halle Selassie's chances of prevent ing the two big powers from recog nising Italy's conquest of his former realm slimmer than ever today. Ethiopia's king of kings was on his way here to make a personal appeal to the league council, but before his train arrived It was learn ed that Soviet Russia and China had moderated their stands against the recognition plan. F. D. R. POWERLESS IN HELIUM SALE WASHINGTON. Mnv II IAW The White House said today that President Roosevelt was powerless to settle the controversy over th Mio nr helium to Germany growing out of me reiusai or secretary ickes to ap prove a sale contract wfthnut fugnn. tees against Its use In foreign mili tary operations. The export of the gas to Germany, it was pointed out, requires the unanimous consent of the six cabinet officers on the national munitions control board, and Ickes Is one of th board members. The announcement wa mni attr & conference between tho nrHnf and high army, navy and interior of- I1C1B18. The whole question now goes back to 'the munitions control hnnwl onri Its next meeting Is expected to render a lormai decision. Secretary Ickes said he would at tend the meeting with an open mind, but would not say whether there was any likelihood that he would change his position against approving the contract. The state department already has approved the sale. TOWNSEND PAYS, SUIT CALLED OFF SAN FRANCISCO, My 11. IAP) The 1SO.OOO lltwl suit brought by Edwtrd J. Margett agnliut Dr. T. E. Townsend, originator of the old age pension plan, wai acttled out of court today Juat after a Jury asaem bled to try It In federal court. Attorneys declined to reveal the monetary consideration of the agree ment but It wa reported to be Be tween ,7.500 and 110,000. Margett alao charged Dr. TowTuend with accusing him of misappropriat ing funda for bit own use. Double Teeth HAZELTON. Pa.. May 11 (API Thirteen-year old Donald Klnaey, of St. Johns, haa to do double duty every time he brushes his teeth. He-" ot a double row of teeth In bU upper Jaw. The rows contain 15 teeth one more than is normal for the average lad o( bis ag of Brazilian Nazis Is Short-Lived Police Clash With Auto Pickets j PRESIDENT VARGAS ik I ::Onrf U V i TO BATTLE GALLOWS SEATTLE. May 11. ( AP) Detec tive Chief Ernest Yorls said today i Castro Earl Mayer declared he would "not lift a finger" to save his 72 year old mother, Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith, from the gallows for tho Jamr? E. Bassctt slaying which sne laid Mayer committed in her presence. "She got herself Into this mpss now let's see her get herself out," Yorls quoted Mayer as replying when tho officer informed him full admis sion of tho killing might save Mm. Smith's life. Yoris said he told Mayer "It may "he that If you lead u to BnPHOtt'a body It wilt save your mother's life." Mayer, who signed a confession or the Bassctt killing, hut later repud iated It. refused Yorls suggestion and berated his mother for having con fessed the 10-year old crime, the de tective said. A few minutes later Yorls sum moned Mrs. Smith and told her of Mayer's declaration. "I can't believe it my son would not do a thing to harm me," Yoris quoted her as replying. Yorls said Inter ho believed B-ts-sctt'a body never would be. found. "I don't think she knows where It is and he won't tell," Yorls said. "I see no reason for pu rsui n g ,hc search further. We have sufficient evidence to send at lea:t Mayer to the gallows." LEGION LEADERS O. E, Palmateer, state commander of the American Legion, and a group of other executives, will hold con fe rentes in Ashland and Or ants Pafaa Friday, It was announced today by Don Newbury, commander of Medford post. A luncheon-meeting will be held for the visitors In Ashland and dinner-meeting tn a rants Pass, mem bers of the auxiliary being invited. Mr. Newbury asked that all Legion naires make arrangements to attend one or both of the meetings as Im portant matters are to be reviewed. Anyone wishing transportation to Ashland or Grants Pass should com municate with Horace L. Bromley, post adjutant, at once. Mr. Newbury said. Coming with Mr. Palmateer are E. L. Knight, state vice onmmnndr. Carl Moser. state adjutant, Robert Robinson, department Junior base ha 11 chairman, George Rauch. department boys state chairman, and Al Green walt, department chairman of the "On To Los Angeles" committee. I'hfwnU ( luh To Meet PHOENIX, May 11. (Spl) The Phoenix Thursday club will meet Thursday, May 12, at the home ot Mrs. Guy Coblelgh with Mrs, H. Van Gordon assisting T s if V) 1 Swinging eluhfl sent two policemen and a picket to ft hospital hs polln; forced u path thrmiKli ft l ulled Automobile Workers picket line Into the MlrlilKiin Steel Canting rumpnny plnnt In Detroit. Neverul others re quired first uld treatment. Clubs mid fUts were swinging as this picture uus taken. SPEND, LEND PROGRAM THREATENS SOLVENCY IS REPUBLICAN VIEW WASHINGTON, May 11. (API Republicans attacked the administra tion's lendtng-spcnding program as a "throat to nntlonnl solvency" today while a Democrat declared it was "much better" than any previous re lief measure. The Republican attack centered around an appropriations committee minority report written by Represen tatives Tabcr and Bacon of New York and Wigglcfiworth of Massachusetts. The report distributed to the press by the Republican national commit tee referred to current business con ditions as n "Roosevelt depression.' Representative Maverick (D., Tex., replying on the house floor, said such criticism "doesn't solve aiy of the economic Ills of the United States." He charged the critics with having no program of their own. Another reply to Republican criti cism came from Representative Hook (D.. Mich.). He declared tho' United Slates had had a federal spending program In every administration since the days of George Washington. ' He said grants of land to the poor and Jobless of tho cities were as much relief measures as appropriations for the needy In recent years. y ASK PROBE OF E Ml WASHINGTON May 11. (AP) Tho senate civil liberties committee has received "hundreds of requests" to Investigate the New Jersey political organization headed by Mayor Frank Hfigue of Jersey City, Senator Thomas (D-Utah) said today. Thomas a commltteo member, said requests have come from wMely scattered sections of the country and even from Jersey City. 12,000 Worthless Checks Stall Creditors for Years CHICAOO. May 11. (AP) Walter 11. Wood. 65-year-old plumalng equipment executive, was under ar rest today after telllmi an amazing story of check writing. Ayl.tant State's Attorney nichard B. Austin wld Wood told of writing 13.000 worthless checks during the past year In an effort to keep ahead of hla creditors. Arraigned before Judge John J. Rooncy In felony court, on thre, charges of operating a confidence game, Wood was released on a 1.000 bond. The prosecutor said Wood's finan cial troubles began three years ago after he had auflered a I2.000 fire loss. For several months, he added. Wood cashed more than 1.000 checks a mouth fur as much as 15.000 a day 11 -"'V CAUSrHEM DAMAGE SHANGHAI. May 11. (P) Chinese reported today 4.000 houses had been damaged and 300 civilians killed and wounded In an air attack: on 8u chow, baso of the huge Chinese army defending the Lunghat railway. Moro than 300 bomba were said to have been dropped on the city, leav ing sections of It burning fiercely, Japnncso said largo stores of military supplies hod been Ignited. Jnpaneso warships and planes also continued Intonalve bombardment of Amoy, gnteway to Fuklen province on the south China coast, where the United States gunboat Anhevllle and the British destroyer Diana stood by ready to evacuate Americans and Britons If necessary. Fires wcro reported spreading rap. Idly through Amoy while 30 foreign ers. Including 15 American mission aries, watched In comparative safety from Kulnngsu Island nearby. The United Statoa destroyer Edsall, ordered from Tslngtao to Amoy. was due at Shanghai tomorrow for quick refueling. An unverified report aald the cruiser Marblehead, en mote from Manila to Hongkong, also had been ordered to Amoy. Pompoon Prances To Dixie Record BALTIMORE. Md., May 11. (AP) J, H. Louchelm's Pompoon. making his first start since finishing third to Stagehand and 8ea-Blseult In the Santa Anita handicap, today hung up a new track record for a mile and three-sixteenths as he won the tao.OOO Dixie handicap at Plmllco In 1:56 4-5. llahv Hialila To Dentil HAYWARD, Cal.. May 11. (AP) Eleven-year old Imlko Nlhel died to day of burns received when she fell Into the boiling water In the center of the family's huge bathing tank. Austin aald ha kept cashing checks at currency exchanges to obtain funda to pay debts and cover previous checks on his depicted account A 48-hour period was required to clear a check. By the time It bad cleared. Austin said, new checks had been cashed to cover It. Austin said Wood's financial status was disclosed when operators of a currency exchange sent a check to the bsnk to be certified Instead of dealing It In the usual manner. He estimated creditors would lose 18200. Wood Is president of the Modern Equipment company and headed the bankruptcy division of the federal department 'of Justice In Chicago from 1031 to 1938. He was charged with operating a confidence game. LEADS IN OF PALACE Uprising . Seen ' Inspired by Outlawed Green Shirt Faction Some Killed and Hundreds Arrested RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 11. (AP) President Qetulto Vargas, pistol In hand, personally led defen ders of Ouanabara presidential palaca todAy as government forces swiftly smothced a fascist revolt against his' authorltalan regime. An undetermined number of rebels were killed or wounded and hundreds were arrested. The short-lived uprising. Implied by the outlawed lntegrallst (dreen- shirt) faction, flared and died In the heart of the capital, where street dis orders and futile assaults on public buildings .marked Its Ineffective course. Martini Iavi Decreed Martial law was decreed, effective at noon today. - Authorities said Admiral Edusrdo Tavares had been arrested as a par- . ticlpant In the uprising. Police declared they had advance knowledgo of the plotted rebellion and said they had ovon slipped agents Into the ranks of the Integral-, lets to follow more closely progress of the scheme to overthrow Vargas' totalitarian ruler of Brazil since hi solKure of power In his eoup of Nov.? in, imytrta;f--; - '.' ". (...:. ' A gun fight at the presidential pal- r ace between besieging fascists and ' Vargas" household staff highlighted the abortive rebellion.. For three and a half hours the heart of the city was In agitation, with traffic disrupted and police de tachments ranging the danger son suppressing revolutionaries. War Minister Wounded Firing echoed through downtown Rio De Janeiro and uncounted casu alties resulted from the fighting. The minister of war. General Eurico Cas par Dutra, was wounded slightly. The rebels also made an attack on the Pan-American Airways airport near the center ot Rio De Janeiro but -were beaten off, The only brief measure of success the Orcenahlrt had was at tho naval arsenal, which was captured and held briefly. Then a bayonet charge by a fore of marines brought rebel surrender at that point and the rebellion col- lapsed. The war ministry stated that Pllnlo Salgado, leader of the lntegrallst,. hesded the rising, but that the actual field commander was Belmlro Valde. . verde, member of the high command of the party before Its dissolution. Salgado has been a fugitive sine March 18, when the government an nounced suppression of an lntegrallst plot to assassinate Vargas and other , officials. The psrty was outlawed soon after the November coup. 1 BASEBALL National. Boston at Cincinnati, Philadelphia, at Pittsburgh postponed; cold, rain. . R. H. E. . 7 18 0 . 0 T I Brooklyn -Chicago ... Mungo and Phelps; Carleton, Kim ball, Logan, and Odea, Garbark. American. R. H. . Cleveland ,- ., , .. ., 10 0 New York 4 10 0 Harder and Hemsley; Chandler and Dickey. R. K. a 11 B. a i Chicago Boston ... . 4 a Oabler and Sewell; Grove and De sautela. R. H. . 8 St. Loula . i i Philadelphia . t 18 Knott. Newaom and WmlOv Smith, Thomas (4), and Brucksr. Detroit 4 11 1 Washington 17 a Kennedy and York; Kelley. Chass, Phebus and R. Perrell. . WILL DRAW NEW JURIES FOR MAY COURT TERM A new grand Jury, and s new petit Judy will be drawn for ths May term of court, starting Monday. May 38, It was announced today by the district attorney. Less than a down criminal matters are scheduled t present to bs placed baton ths In quisitorial body. Prospects are also bruiut for light civil and squltjr calendar. 3
