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Mr The Weather lorrrAst: Fair tonight and Saturday: warmer Saturday; 6 tin day fair. Temperature Highest yesterday 8K honest tills morning 47 Adds To Value Sunday la the big day for tiaftslfled Ada. Prepare your Ad NOW to you mil not be disappointed. People spend more time reading on Sunday. This adds to the value of your MEDFORD TRIBTJNE Full Associated Press Full United 7 Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY. .MAY 13,. 1938. No. 45. nm a IBM urn MOVE - . 1 emu The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyiiylit l'J37, by The North American News paper Alliance. Inc. WEAK FITURE FACING BASES AT TKEASIIIY UNIIEKSECKETARY POST PROVES UNHAPPY ONE O1I0STK OP TORTliHED PREOEt'ESSOKS WALK BRIEF OI FK'IAI. LIFE FOR SEC COMMISSIONER WASHINGTON. May 13. John W. Hanes has been gazetted Under-Secretary of the treasury, the Lord help htm. If the plan goes through, the shrewd and genial SEC commissioner will find himself Installed In an of fice where the ghosts of tortured predecessors shriek and gibber be ' hind every curtain. Somehow or other. Jobs In the treasury seem to be the blnck aces of the New Deal. Professor O. M. W. Sprague was lured from his peace ful authority at the Bank -of Eng land, only to be put in the coldest Coventry In Washington. Professor George Warren deserted his Cornell chicken-coops to manage the dollar, and soon wished himself back among the hens. And omy the other day, Mr. Jacob Vlner, one of the ablest economists who ever served the gov ernment, shook the treasury' mol derlng dust from hts feet with the remark : "I'm tired of the Job and I don't liko tho way things are run here." But if economists have a hard time at the treasury, under-secretaries 4 must be prepared to face a regular administrative Inferno. Why it should be. no one knows, unless it Is be cause of the president's Insistence on running the treasury In his own way. The record simply shows that an under-secretary's lot Is not a happy one, and that Is all there Is to It. Oddly enough, the first man to serve the New Deal as under-secre-tary of the treasury was the Re publican stalwart. Arthur Ballan tlnc, as a hold-over from the Hoover era. He stayed on through the first days of the 1633 banking collapse, and departed as soon as the crisis was over. And of all the men who have held the post In the Roosevelt administrations, he was the only man except Henry Morgenthau to leave It in peace, with a contented heart. The post's first real victim was one of the best public officials ever recruited by the president Dean G. Acheson. Acheson seemed to have every qualification for the Job. He . was Intelligent, liberal, agreeable. " well acquainted with the highways and by ways of finance, finely equip ped to handle difficult economic problems. Unhappily, his most difficult problems were not so much economic as personal. In those days, the presi dent was running the treasury him self even more than he does now. and in such informal fashion that Acheson received at least one vitally (Continued on Page five) navies Confined WASHINGTON. May 13. ,AP The senate confirmed today the nom ination of Joseph E. Davles to be United States ambassador to Belgium. Davles is now ambassador to Russia. He succeeds Hugh 8. Gibson at Brus sels. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Oracle Craft. In a fetching pair of short, salvaging an orange on the highway. Jim Murray threatening to dlAgutae himself In whiskers to fool the al mon that have thwarted his best angling effort for four consecutive years. Major Charlie Pcttee bringing one of the army's best badgers for the cat fish derby fight and refusing to dis play same at the CofC lest the hu mane society confiscate it. Marvot Fluhrer and Ann Barnes, refreshingly attired. Inspecting the flora while enjoying the sunshine In the patio of the Barnes Dutch eolo nisi marvse. Chuck James tying unable to com prehend why anyone would prefer at tending the catfish derby rather thin a tea-dance, though many will do both. Frank Rector observing Friday the 11th by skinning his hide In a 10 loot ladder fall. COMMITTEE VOTES FOR TABLING OF NYE RESOLUTION 17 to 1 Action Seen As Tan tamount to Death of Pro posalSecretary Hull Ad vises Against Passage WASHINGTON, May 13. (AP) The senate foreign relations commit tee voted, 17 to 1. today to table the Nye resolution which would lift the embargo on United States ship ment of arms to the Spanish gov ernment. It acted after Secretary Hull opposed action at this time. Chairman Pittman (D,, Nev.) ol the foreign relations committee, said the commitiea's action meant action on the Nye resolution had been "postponed indefinitely." This usu ally is tantamount to killing a res olution. It was not- Immediately disclosed which member of the foreign rela tions group had voted against de laying action. Plttmen sold he had arranged to permit Senator Nye (R.. N. D.), who now is out of the city, to appear beforo the committee next week to make any statement he wishes on behalf of tho resolution. The Nevada senator, asserted how ever, it was highly unlikely that the committee would reconsider Its ac tion. ' Secretary of State Hull told the senate foreign relations committee In a communication that "from the standpoint of the best Interests of the United States In the circum stances which now prevail, I would not feel Justified in recommending affirmative action on the resolution under consideration." , Reconsideration of the present neutrality legislation, Hull said, should be delayed until effects of the law can be viewed in Its broader aspects "rather than to rewrite it piecemeal In relation to a particular situation. "It Is evident," Hull wrote the committee, "that there Is not suf ficient time to give study of such questions In the closing days of this congress." 4 AGIST NOON RULE SAN QUENTIN. Cal., May 13. (API Approximately 500 of San Que n tin prison's 6.000 convict re sumed a "folded arms" strike against withdrawal of noon-hour recreational privileges today, but all except 3S0 in the tailor and shoe shops were persuaded later to resume their Jobs. The barber, tailor and shoe shops were affected In a similar protest yesterday but work was resumed In all three when Warden Court Smith promised there would be no punish ment. Added to the "strikers" today were workers in the Jute mill and machine and carpenter shops. There was no disturbance. Captain of the Yard Ralph S. New sought to end the difficulty yester day afternoon after the scowling, disgruntled men had told guards: "To hell with it. We won't work." s KLAMATH FALLS. Msy 19. (!P) Two proposato for distribution of a five million dollar plum dropped In the laps of Klamath Indiana when the supreme court upheld a court of claims Yamsay Mountain land case decision In their faror were discussed yesterday at a tribal council, but both programa were left hanging when the meeting adjourned for the day. One plan, which failed to receive much support, was for per capita di vision of the whole amount among the 1.450 members of the tribe. The other proposal, drawn up by tribal delegates to Washington two years ago. provided for per capita payments of S2000. which would dls pose of 2.P0n.0O0 of the (.1.313.000 nt total, and division of the remain der Into four separate funds. Pioneer Slter Pies PORTLAND. May 13. (API Sis ter Mary Rose (Jsne Kelly). 81. the first woman to enter the mroun- I Ity of the Holy Names of Jesus and j Mary In Oregon, died Wednesday at i t::e Marvlhurst convent of the Holy I Name. She entered the communlt; : from slrm In 1869 and took her first I vows in 1871. I Longshoremen Ignore Sailors' Pickets .1 JG l ' - t - . A' .1 Vr M)"1 i lit f i it,. I sV a lb . I W. ' ' II l .it... -. foxes l , diiilt:iii:dhlj D EM AN D Wallace Chides Hughes On Alleged Reversal of Supreme Court's Stand WASHINGTON. May 13. (AP) Secretary Wallace has told Chief Jus tice Hughes that a supreme court decision invalidating an agriculture de partment order not only reversed the court's stand two year ago. but was 30 months behind a similar change In procedure Instituted volun tarily by the department. The secretary's views were made I public last night in an unprece dented letter to the- chief Justice dated May 3, a week after the court decision. Wallace's decision to give out the letter apparently was prompted by a speech the chief Justice delivered earlier In the day. In which he as serted that the success of govern ment administrative agencies would be commensurate with their exercise of Judicial "impartiality and inde pendence." Defending hi department's handl ing of cases In general, Wallace wrote that the particular case involved In the decision originated during the Hoover administration, under a law signed by President Harding. It concerned an order reducing commission rates In the Kansas City livestock market. The supreme court Invalidated the order on the ground that the commission men were not permitted to rebut findings of fact by an agriculture department exam iner. Chief Justice Hughes wrote the decision. Immediately afterward the national lafcor relations board moved to withdraw several of its orders against Jarge Industrial .rirras.. . . Wallace's letter to the chief Jus tice said In part: "You will be Interested to know that the practice you now recommend- that the examiner conducting the hearing make a report which Is available to boteh parties for exrep. ttons and argument, was adopted by this department about 30 months ago. "You will recall that when you remanded this same case to the lower court In Msy. 1936. you discussed this question and at that time you wrote: ... we can not aay that that particular type of procedure was essential to the validity of the hear ing. The statute does not require it and what the statute does require j relates to substance and not form.' "Although you pointed out that such procedure was not required, we nevertheless felt that Its adop tion would help to assure fair play to all parties and made It a part of our regular procedure In all cases arising Under the packers and stock yards act and similar legislation. "I am glad to know that the court has now approved the procedure which . the department already had inaugurated." TO E PHILADELPHIA, May 13. (API The U. S. ciicult court of appeals todsy denied the national labor rela tions board permission to reopen the Republic Steel company case. The company had been ordered to rein state fi.oon mploye dismissed nftet last summer's "little steel" strike. Judges Joseph Buffi nrton. J. War' reh Davis and J. Wh (taker Thompson restrained the board from "taking any step or proceeding" in the case until the certified record is filed In the court. "That ruling makes national his tory." declared Mortimer Gordon, of Republic's attorneys. Robert B. Watte, associate NLRB counsel had told th court that 'he board had Intended, to revoke IU order on the Republic company with the recent supreme court ruling In the Kansaa City itockyards case. M. C. Green. Labor member In the South African Assembly, deplored the fact members were supplied with Ger manmade pencil. He refused to use thtm. Ignoring a picket line or the Sail on lulon of the I'm-lMc, C.I.O. long shoremen crossed It Wednesday In Port hind's harbor and unloaded the Sage Hniuli, Khepard line freighter, which was . the scene of a riot re cently In Xun FriinelRco In a slnillat Instil nee. There m no .violence at PorCluml. Tho NX. I, claimed I Ik line hired aearnen of u rlvnl union In vlo Infirm of a contract. In the top view, police limit the picket line to two men, seen on the. left, while crowds formed in t he nnckgrnii tid. In t he middle view, Jumps S. I'antz. long shoremen president, holds an Infor mal meeting with Ills union members on what to do. He Is shown by the arrow. Below Is the stern of the Sage IlrtiKh. ADMINISTRATION FOES ON CONTROL OF RELIEF WASHINGTON, May 13. (AP) Antl-admlnlstratlon aenatora de manded restrictions today cm Preal dent Roosevelt's control over the (3,000,000.000 relief and public works fund voted by the house In a noisy night Besslon. Senator Byrd (D. Va.), frequent critic of administration measures, conferred with .some of his colleagues on the possibility "earmarking" the bulky bill to limit tha uses to which the money could be put. But Senator Adams CD.. Colo.), chairman of an appropriations sub committee handling the legislation, predicted It would reach the senate floor by the middle of next wees without Important changes. Democratic leaders, retaining hopes of mid-June adjournment, expected senate, passsgc :ti anoU.r week. The house approved the measure last nlrht. 929 to 70. after an un successful three-day fight by Re publicans to modify It. 1-2 VICTORY OVER HESS SALEM. May 13. ( AP) Governor Charles H, Martin predicted today he would defeat Henry L. Hess of La Grunds by. 2 to 1. for. the, Dem ocratic gubernatorial renomlnatlon at nxt Friday's primary election. He said he expected to carry Mult nomah county, which has a third ol the state's voting strength. He added that he would carry Clackamas county, where he campaigned last night and where he will revisit to niiht. "There's- nothing to It." -he aald. PALLBEARERS NAMED FOR BELL'S FUNERAL Honorary psllbearera at the fun eral of James D. Bell will be Ed Brown. Dr. J. C. Heyes, T. E. Daniels. Judge r. L. TouVelle, O. M. Belsby and O. C. Coriun. Active pallbearers will be Pred W. Srheffel, N. 8. Young. Eugene Thorn dike, John Wllktn.on, Al Hsgen and Rav Wright. Puneral services will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow la tha Perl chapel. E PORT OF TACOMA IN 10-DAY TRUCE i Sailors Union 'of Pacific Ac cepts Proffer Move Forestalls Tieup of Ship ping in Seattle Port SEATTLE. May 13. (AP)-Water-front employers reopened the port of Tacoma today after the sailors union of the Pacific accepted a 10-dny trice forestalling tieup also of virtually all American shipping In the port of Seattle. There were no ships In Ta coma, but three were posted to sail there from Seattle. Tho truco was offered by the Pa cific Coast Waterfront Employers as sociation In order that conferences on the east coast might seek to per manently settle the question of whe ther the Independent-SUP or the CIO-Natlonal Maritime union shall furnish crews for the Shepard steam- ahlp line. Crews to handle the affected ships in both Seattle and Tacoma were dispatched early this morning and all waterfront activity In both cities was to resume at 8 a. m. The port of Seattle was tied up yesterday and early today after em ployers failed to reopen the Tacoma port by 6 p. m. as demanded by the SUP. 'GENTLEMAN COP' KILLS WIFE, 10 SONS, SELF NEW YORK, Mh.y 13. (AP) Pat rolman Anthony Mod leak! . 36, known to neighbors aa "the gentleman cop," beca"e or his devotion to his fam lly. d his wife, two sons and him t today. He left a third son critically wounded In what police described as a murder-suicide out break caused by a fit of despondency. The wlfo, Antoinette, 37, and one son, Joseph, 4, were dead when found, Modleskt and another son, William, 1, died In Green point hos pital shartly after the early-morning shooting. The only survivor was An thony Jr., S. All were shot In the right temple. Police Inspector Michael J. Mc Dermott said Modleskl had under gone an operation for appendicitis six weeks ago and had been depressed and nervous In the two weeks since his return to duty. He was excused from duty as 111 yesterday afternoon Ac McDermott reconstructed the shooting, he said Modleskl apparent ly got out of bed, obtained his serv ice revolver from a bureau drawer and shot his wife as she lay asleep, and then one-year old William In his crib, Next he went Into anothe: bedroom, and shot Joseph and An thony. In the front room he turned the gun on himself. Neighbors bestowed the "gentle man cop" nickname upon hioi for his courtesy and his devotion to his family. BALLOT BOXES READY FOR COMING PRIMARY Sample ballots for the primary election have been printed, and copies may be obtained by voter at the county clerk's office. ' Work of preparing the ballot boxes for the 70 Jackson county precincts was completed yesterday and they are ready for distribution by the sheriff's office. This work will atart Thursday, with delivery to the out lying districts flrat. F. R. Urges Congress Study To Avoid Future Recession WASHINOTON. May 18. (AP) I'resldent Roosevelt expressed the hope today that congress In Its com ing sntl-monopoly study, would cover methods of avoiding future depres ,lons through avoldsnce of unab sorbed Inventories and unwarranted high prices In some commodities. Ha made this remark In denying that his administrations original lending and apendlng program was a failure. Asked at a preas conference whether he had any definite program to com bat surplus Inventories and high prices, the president said h had not. but this waa part of the anti trust study he recommended to con gress. He said. In response to questions, that unabsorbed Inventories and high prlrea were factors In reces sions, but not the only ones. He added these two factors were combstted In an experimental way under the national recovery act, but pointed out this bad been halted Eclipse Watchers Will Be Favored By Clear Weather PORTLAND. May 13. (AP) Clear weather tonight and early Saturday will give the west a glimpse of a total lunar eclipse. Astronomers said the period of totality would start at 13:18 a. m., Saturday and continue to 1:09 a.m., on the Paclflo coast the earth's shadow will begin darkening the moon at 0:44 o'clock tonight, when the moon enters the penumbra or outer shadow cast by the earth. The edge of the earth's shadow will begin bit ing Into the moon's eastern side it 10:57 p.m. ROLLO SENTENCE IS DELAYED FOR L Ronald Rollo. 30. alia John Zwlck, I self-styled Chinese war aerial ma chine gunner and soldier of fortune, entered pleas of guilty to seven counts or burglary In a dwelling today In circuit court. Deputy District Attorney O. W. Nellson Informed the court the de fendant had admitted IS burglaries In this city, and one each In Port land and Klamath Falls. Passing of sentence was deferred upon recommendation of the district attorney, until returns upon Hollo's fingerprints could be received from the Department of Justice at Wash ington. D, C. A return from the California Identification bureau re veals a detention In Sacramento for Investigation, under the name of Wallace. It was revealed today by County Judge Karl B. Day that Rollo had been invited to apeak beforo a civic club's noon lunch. At the appointed lime, however, It was announced the speaker was In Jail. Rollo posed as a man of means, and represented himself as a prospective orchard pur chaser. Rollo. aa yesterday, appeared In the borrowed habiliments, made nec essary when victims claimed a suit, shoes, and shirt he was wearing as their own, and repossessed the stolen property, leaving him with nothing much but his socks. The prisoner was arrested by city pollco two weeks ago when found loitering in the residential districts at night. Loot, valued at 500 and identified aa stolen from Medford homes, was recovered. I. Rollo says he served seven weeks with the Chinese air forces, was wounded In the leg. and was dis charged after a period In a Nanking hospital. He claims Long Beach. Cal,. as his home, and Topeka, Kansas, as his birthplace. Expect 1000 IOOF At State Conclave PENDLETON. May 18. (APC-Ap-proxlmstely 1000 delegates are ex pected to attend tha state conven tion of Oddfellows and Rebekehl opening here on Sundsy, 8. p. Bow man, Pendleton, general chairman said today. The session will continue for five days, concluding on Thursday. ASHLAND ELIGIBLE FOR POSTOFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON. May 13. (API- One of IB eligible towns In the first Oregon congressional district will re ceive a new postotflce on the recom mendation of Senator Evan Roames (D-Ore). The procurement division listed aa eligible Ashland. Seaverton. Coqullle. Cottage Grove. Dallas, Forest Grove, Lebanon. Newport, North Bend, fit. Helens, Seaside, 8 liver ton, Tillamook. Toledo and Wood burn. when the NRA was held unconsti tutional. Therefore, ha aald. the Inventory-price problem continues to extst. When asked about contentions that the flrat apendlng program waa a failure, the- president denied .this and contended certain economlo and business methods ran away with the ball. He aald Vt was a misnomer to call his proposal for a congressional atudy of antt-trust laws an anti-monopoly program, because It was a far wider problem and that the Inventory- price altuatlon would go hand ' In hsnd with It. Lesdlng up to the business discus sion, Mr. Roosevelt made public a semi-final report by John O. Big gera on the unemployment census of lsst November. It showed 6 833.401 voluntarily re ported aa totally unemployed, 3.011.- 61A as unemployed except for emer gency work, and ,319,S02 aa partly unemployed. BILLION DOLLAR U Measure Authorizes 46 New Fighting Ships, 26 Auxil iaries, 950 Planes May Also Build Dirigible WASHINGTON, May 18. (API The senate passed and sent to tha White House today the administra tion's bll lion-dollar naval expansion bill, The measure, pending In eongreea since February, authorizes construe tlon of 46 new fighting ships, 38 auxiliaries and 050 airplanes. Funds to carry out tho program must be appropriated later. Separate bills originally were pass ed by both chambers. A Joint committee- worked out a compromae car rying authorizations estimated at 81.000,000,000, and this was approved In the house by a 07-to -31 vote Wed nesday. Three new battleships and two 30,000-ton aircraft carriers are pro vided by the compromise bill. The battleships will be limited to 35,000 tons, unless the prestdent finds that larger vessels are necessary In the interest of national defense. Upon such a finding, ships up to 45,000 ton could be built, Tho bill also carries authorization for a 3,000.000 dirigible provided tha president finds one la needed. President Roosevelt is expected to ask congress before adjournment for funds to start work on some ol the vessels. PETIT JURY LIST L DRAWN PDR MAY' TERM OF COURT The petit Jury list for the May term of circuit court, scheduled to open Mondsy, May S3, hss been drawn with instructions to report at 10 o'clock. The list followa: Beach. Stella W., Jacksonville; Bechdoldt, Earl, Butte Falls; Run yard, Don, Medford; Rlnabarger, R, J Medford; Ottlnger, Jason, Talent; Lamport, E. H Medford. Rt. 4; Boussom, Chss., Medford; Pankey, Clarence, Medford: King, Oeo, W Phoenix; Nutting. B. L Medford; Skyrman. Mra. Elisabeth, Medford; Houston, Prank W., Talent, Rt. 1; Hill. Gilbert, Medford, Rt. 1; Stead- man, W. D Phoenix; Norrla, Robt. K Medford; Williamson. H. C, Cen tral Point; Llnlngcr. Bruce M., Ash land: Ooddard, Delbert C Talent; Wilcox. Mildred. Medford: Kelly, Fred, Medford; Work, Elizabeth, Med ford: Older, L. p., Medford: TouVelle, F. L Jacksonville; Dickey, Floyd, Ashland: Lockhart. Jewel, Ashland; Flynn. Thoe. K., Medford: Farlow, Florence. Ashland: Leever, Earl, Ash land: Peroezl. Domingo, Ashland; Isaacs, W. P.. Medford; Turpln, Ines F., Phoenix, Rt. 4. BASEBALL R. H. . 0 7 Washington Boston 1 ..10 18 W. Perrell and R. Ferrell; Wilson and DeSsutels. R. H. E. st. Louis s ii a Detroit 7 14 1 Walkup, Bonettl, Mills and Sulli van; 0111 and Tebetta. R. H. B. Chicago 7 11 I Cleveland - 8 8 8 Btratton. Whitehead and Sewell, Renua: HudUn, Having, Oalebouas and Pytlak. ' R. H. I. Philadelphia s is a 4 9 1 New York . Caster. Potter and Bruckcr: Pear son, Stlne and Dickey. National (10 lnnlnga) R. H. . Pittsburgh 4 8 1 Chlcsgo 18 0 Lucas. Brown and Todd; rrench and Hartnett. ALBANY WILL BUILD $15,000 CITY POOL ALBANY, May 18. The city prepared to advertise for bid today for 818.000 municipal swimming pool and specified August for com pletion. The site will be purchased by tha highway commission near ths route of the proposed overhead cross ing on the Paottle highway. s
