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The Weather lorwant : In creating high t-loiidlnes tonight and Tues Iq ; little change tn tern, prrntiire. Highest jestertiuy ........87 Lowest this morning .-fil Great Assistance Are you blind to the fart that 'Want Ada. In thli newspaper ran b nf great aMl'tnnre to vou. In bu.Mnr., selling, rentlne. and what not? Mont people npprerlnre the value of these A ill. MEDFORD TJJBUNE Full Associated Press Full United Press Tbirty-Tbird Year MEDFORD, OR KG ON. MONDAY, MAY 23, 1938. No. 53. Ml i BAR -EEVBt TO WMlllllllllBl ... ... , ... I - I The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner S Copyright 1937, by The N8rtlf American News paper Allinnce. Ino. CORCORAN NOT SINISTER INFLUENCE IN NEW DEAL FAMED BRAIN TRl'STKK MERELY USEFUL AIDE WO BUSINESS PRESSURE OPPOSED IN GOVERNMENT HOLDS PEOPLE SHOULD SET NATIONAL COURSE WASHINGTON. Ma) 3. It's the common theory that Thomas a. Cor coran'a Influence In the new deal means youth at the prow and com munism at the helm. The theory Is pure nonsense. Corcoran Is ft genial, untiring, remarkable Intelligent and reasonably disinterested fellow, whose fertile mind and pleasant personality make him the perfect Idea man for the president. And. as It happens, he la neither excessively young nor ex cessively radical. Lately, the new deal has been mov ing leftward again, in the ami monopoly program. In a new and more aggressive political strategy, and In other ways. Accordingly, the word la going around that Tom Cor coran's fine Pawtucket hond Is one more at work. In view of all the drivel talked and written about Cor coran, this seems like 'a good tlnw to see what sort of fellow He really la The notion of Tom Corcoran's ex treme youth no doubt derives from his boyish and unassuming manner and his odd chubblness. At first glance, he calls to mind a rather nature choir boy. Look closer, and you see a stocky, short man, nearing forty, with large eyes, a brilliant smile and a shock of graying black hair. The moat striking tiling about him Is the Impression he gives of Immense mental and physical en ergy. He haa , not the appearance, and he does not lead the life of a com missar. He and his brilliant partner. Ben Cohen, probably work harder than any other two men in Wash ington. Their Job Is to prepare plans draw bills, draft speeches, and watch the carrying out of policies for the president, whom they call "the boss." Yet, In spite of their manifold duties, they wield no sinister and determining Influence. They are not the minds behind the throne. They are merely very useful to the pres ident, because they express more ably than any others the most Im portant of the many competing pol itical viewpoint within the new deal. Corcoran is the front man for the team, and by far the busiest. The telephone In his bleak office at th Rjr.C. rings all day long. In the short , space of 34 hours, he can oarm three or four serious con ferences In weighty matters, with hla "boss." with Cof.en, with other Influential men In the administra tion; half a dozen minor chores: i long talk with one of the many earn est young men for whom he has found places in the government: a lunch with an old Harvard friend: and one of the sudden trips to the movies which he finds it relaxing to make at odd hours. Except for the movies, he gets hla only rest on lon deling trips. Both he and Ben Cohen live as simply as possible. The downtown apartment they share la Spartan In Its bareness. Corcoran haa no taste for luxury, tf he had. he could have gratified It long ago. by taking one of the many hugely profitable offers (Continued on Page Pour) SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Little Tana Bcwden looking very recal In a queen's costume complete with crown and all. Claus Klelnhammer sleep in? peace fully on the banks of the Rogue tn Grants Pass park. Dr H. P. Hargrove being a dis satisfied cutnmT while lunching at his daily restaurant, the establlsti mnl not being concerned over It they avertng he was dissatifled even before he ordered. Audrey Davis flabbergasted by oversleeping an early morning outing date. Mai Henne finding Seattle & mJih Interested In the MrUn-He& contest aa aoj Oregon ctV. BRITAIN, FRANCE London, Paris Act to Secure Patching of Nazi-Praha Government Quarrel Peace Talk Is Arranged (By the Associated Press) Sharp British and French warnings to Adolf Hitler and a bristling dis play of Czechoslovakia's determina tion to defend herself at all costs allayed Europe's war fever today. Behind the warnings, which bore the implication of military assistance to the central European democracy If Hitler marched against It, wore effort by London and Paris to see that the Praha government and Kon rad Henleln's defiant nozls patched up their quarrel. Prime Minister Chamberlain told the British house of commons that Premier Milan Hodza and Henleln. Hitler's "echo" tn Czechoslovakia would meet tonight or tomorrow to talk peace. Wants Order Guaranty Stocky, bespectacled Henleln had refused to talk terms with Phaha until tho government guaranteed order tn districts wherein dwell the 3,500,000 Germans for whom he had demanded nazl-style autonomy. There had been outbursts Insults fist fights and the shooting of two Sudeten Germans by Czechoslovak border guards on the eve of yester day's communal elections, the first of three election Sundays seen as ft test of nazl political strength. But yesterday's voting was qutet and, as another contribution to case the crisis, Czechoslovakia apologized to Germany for what the Czecho slovak military command termed an "unauthorized" attempt to dynamite border bridge. Through Sir NcvJIe Henderson British ambassador to Berlin. Prance and Britain were reported to have warned Hitler they would not toler ate war tn C'zrrchot'iovakia In the style of the "Internationalized" civil war In Spain. See Crisis Rased Uneasy statesmen of the two big democracies felt that the crisis had eased, temporarily at least, but French quarters emphasized the pos sibility of a "million incidents" If it were true that Czechoslovakia 5 nazls had been supplied with arms from Germany, There were persistent reports In Parl6 that such was the case. Still unsettled was the future of Czechoslovakia's 3,500.000 Germanic minority, over whom Adolf Hitler had declared a hazy sort of protec torate which many had feared he would put Into armed effect as a result of pre-election disorders In Czechoslovakia. Time and the scant reassurance that Hitler had not acted yet- worked In favor of British and French efforts to forestall a clash Into which surely France and possibly Britain would be drawn. The first of a series of Czechoslo vak communal elections, seen aa a test of the Nazi political strength among the 3,500,000 Sudeten Ger mans, came off peacefully yesterdsy. PAY-HOUR DEBATE VOTED BY HOUSE WASHINGTON. May 33. (AP) The hoiue broke Its rules committee's prolonged blockade of the revised wage-hour bill today by voting over whelmingly to debate the measure Immediately. This action ratified a petition signed May 6 by 318 members to force the legislation to the floor In spite of the rules committee's steadfast refusal to give It preferential status. Debate waa limited to four hours But leaders aald efforts of a southern bloc to make the measure more flex ible might delay a final vote until late tomorrow. It was the second time wage-hour legislation had come before the house In the last six months. It rejected a somewhat different version last De cember during the special session Klamath Brakeman Suicides By Noose KLAMATH FALLS. May 23 .IIP Leon O. Dunn. 65. veteran South) m Pacific railway brakeman. took Ms life early thl morning by nangtn. Coroner George Adler reported to day. Dunn's body was found suspended from a gas pipe In the baaement of his home shortly after 7 o'clock Mr. runn. who made the discovery, no tified Adler and Police Chief Frrnk : Hamm Adlrr ?a!d the man had ben ' dead about two hours when he was I f c-uaS, Supreme Court L Cardenas in President l.aznrdo Cardenas 1 with state officials as he Investigated Cedlllo, "strong man of the state. of fighting In the state between flfers. An uprising wan feared. f "" "' .""i ". ' "',.'.'''?; ' 'Li"-"1!"1 . u ma Girl in Rowboat Plunges Over Savage Rapids Dam GRANTS PASS. May 33. (JF) Joyoe, 8, step-daughter of Al Clements, was rescued from the Rogue river yester day after being carried over the Sav age Rapids dam In a rowboat wl'lch was smashed to bits. The child was picked up. uncon scious, by Dudley Klenstra who was fishing for salmon 000 feet below and noticed the drifting fragments of the boat. She was taken to a local hos DIAMOND LAKE ROAD CLEAR IN FEW DAKS SAY HAY HEADS ROSEBURG. Ore.. May 28. 4t State highway department and forest service crewa today started clearing snow from the Union Creek-Diamond Lake highway and expect to have the route open to the lake within tour or five days, according to reports from the iocp.1 division office of the state highway department and locil heid quarters of the Umpqua national for est. Between four and five feet of snow la reported on the summit of the highway. The forest service reports snow melting from the east ahoreline of the lake, but there Is still about two feet of snow at the lodge, rhere Is about 30 feet of open water along the east shoreline, the report ttnu.'. but the lake generally la covered with Ice and as much as three feet of snow on top of the ice at the outlet. IS FINED $1000 LOS ANGELES. May 23. fAPl The Hollywood baseball club was fined 1,000 and Its manager, "Red" Killefer. tlOO. In a ruling announced today by W. C. Tut tie, president of the league. It la an automatic fine," said Tuttte. "The ftne against the club and the manager In the vent of a forfeited game such as yesterday's between Hollywood and Sacramento, la provided for In the league's consti tution. Rioting broke out at Wrigley field yesterday when the umpires halted the second game and forfeited It to Sacramento after Pitcher Wayne Oa- bome left the mound and refused to continue pitching. The arbiters ord-red Klliefer to get anotner pitcher In. He refused, so tbej maoujjeed tie lorXeltur, Foes' Domain shown In San Luis Potn, Mexico, actMHes of fieuerol Siitiirntim This picture was taken before reports Cedlllo followers and government " ' '-" pital and discharged a few nours later. Clements, who was in the boat when It was sucked over the dam and Johnny Lorraine, abort 8. who wo being towed in a second boat, avoid ed the drop by clinging to the frame work of a foot bridge. E. P. Preble, Holland miner, drag ged the boy to safety as he hung to the superstructure of the dam. NO LET-UP IN WAR IN SALEM. May 23. (AP There will be no let-up In Oregon's war on "racketeering ,lnbor lords and goon terrorists" so long as he retains the authority of the office he still holds, Oovernor Charles H. Martin made it clear today. "There will be no change In my attitude toward strict law enforce ment and the suppression of violence and Intimidation," said the governor. "The 'goon trials will go on until every one has been disposed of and every guilty offender convicted." When the final returns of Prl day'a election. In which he waa de feated for re-nomination, were com ing Into his office here Saturday the governor waa in conference with Ralph E. Moody, special attorney for the state police department whom he appointed to aasist district at torneys and co-ordinate prosecution of the various labor terrorist casea over the state. "Oo ahead, we put our hands to the plow and we will finish the fur row, no matter what It turns up." were the governor's Instructions to Meody. BASEBALL National Chicago 4 t I Boston 16 3 Le and Hartnett: Fette and Lopez, Mueller. St. Louts 0 9 0 Philadelphia . 7 13 0 Lanier. Hsxrell, Ryba and Owen: Mulcahy ad Atwood. Pittsburgh . 4 S a New Tork S 7 3 Blanton. Brown, Bauers and Todd; Gumbert and Dannlng. Cincinnati a 11 0 Brooklyn 4 6 3 Schott. Caacarella and Lombard!. Poaedel. Marrow and Phelpa, Tamulls American. NEW YORK. May 33. -(API All American league games were rained out todar Broadens Field Letter tfJ Heckner BROCKWAY LEADS By 121 VOTES IN SHEirCONIEST Orchardist Takes Weil-Defined Margin With Only One Precinct Uncounted; Perry Commission Choice On the face of returns from com plete and unofficial returns, from 69 out of the 70 Jackson county pre cincts. A. E. Brock way of Orchard Home drive waa leading Rudy Slngler of Med ford by 121 votes In the race for the Republican nomination for sheriff. The West Ashland precinct Is missing. The vote: Brock way 2,1 07 Slngler 1,986 William Perry of Eagle Point, waa leading W. W. Allen. Medford.,ln the county commissioner contest on the Republican ticket by. 379 votes, with one precinct missing. ' The count: - t Perry 1,862' Allen ........1,473 Brophy 1,031 For Justice of the peace, Mcdford district, complete, the count stood: Coleman 2.340 Jerome 634 Coleman's lead 1,706. State Senator George W. Dunn of Ashland, won the Republican state senate nomination overwhelmingly. with one precinct missing, over Artel Burton Pomeroy of Central Point. The vote: Dunn 8,388 Pomeroy 927 Dunn's lead 2,461. William McAllister, Mcdford, and E. T. Newbry, Talent, unopposed, won the Republican nomination for repre sentative. Moore Ha m 11 ton . M rd ford , u nop - posed was accorded the Democratic state senate nomination, Ralph Ste phenson, Medford. and W. H. McNalr, Ashland were Democratic write-In candidates for representatives. MEXICAN REBEL LEADER KILLED MEXICO CITY, May 23. -(AP) The defense ministry announced to day that HI poll to Cedlllo, nephew of the rebel leader, ex-Oeneral Satur- nlno Cedlllo, had been killed with followers In a clash with govern ment troops yesterday near Lazunlta. In southeastern San Louis Potosl state. The ministry said Hi poll to Cedlllo waa heading a rebel band of 180 men. This group clashed with a column of the governments 36th cavalry regiment. The ministry denied reports that a rebel plane flew yesterday over San Luis Potosl city. It was explained the re porta arose from government pur suit planes mistaking one of their own observation planes for an enemy machine. Telegrams From Friends Lessen Sting For Martin SALEM. May 23 ( A P ) Oove" exnor r the Charles H. Martin, defeated for Democratic renomlnitlon by Henry Hess, said today ha "would rathe, have the hundreds of letters and telegrams 1 hve received from all over the country than the governor ship." The dejected 74-year old governor, wbo retires next January after a 10-year political career which fol lowed military life that saw him rise to major general, said at his morning press conference that he waa "swamped" with letters and tel egrams after he conceded defeat Saturday morning. "The letters and telegrams show me that I have many friends. I would rather have the hundreds of litters and telegrams I bv received Mail TMbUlie Fr0IU Shows Suicide Plan Valuable Diamond From Lady's Ring Is Gulped By Duck BOSTON, May 23. (AP) Mrs Jeanne Lerman. wife of a Brook line physician; Park Commissioner William P. Long and police had a nice problem on their hands today how to retrieve a valuable dia mond from a duck. airs. Lerman, reported to author ities that one of a score of ducks she waa' feeding at the public gardens yesterday apparently snatched the atone from her ring. She had no idea which duck might be the culprit. Under park department regula tions Long can't sell the ducks to allow Mrs. Lerman to probe their gizzard. OTTO CASTER HAS MARGIN OF 277 IN COMMISSION VOTE . County Commissioner Otto Caator of Phoenix, with ona .precinct miss ing out of 70 In the county, had a lead of 377 today over Thomas Stan ley of Brownsboro for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner. The count, semi-official, waa: Caater 1.634 Stanley 1.3S7 Sheriff Syd I. Brown on the face ol almost complete returns defeated Oordon L.. Schermerhorn, former ahcrlff, who sought "vindication" at the primary by a majority of 3.690. The count: Brown 3,448 Schermerhorn 778 For Justice of the peace, Medford district, complete; on the democratic ticket, the county stood: Stewart 1,314 Rector - 381 The vote for governor, on the Dem ocratic ticket, with four preclncta missing waa: Martin 1.061 Hess 1.130 Oleen 473 Martln'a lead 841. The Democratic primary vote for United Statea senator, waa: Mehoney 1,886 Donaugh 1.317 Mahoney'a lead 668. Other Democratic primary results Representative (congress) : Burk '. 068 Miller 1.377 Nott . .... 673 Superintendent of public Instruc tion: Putnam .'. - 1.786 Lconhordt . 080 Labor commlasloner: Hyde v 1 .B Roth 1.13 Cattlemen Klert BAKER. May 33. ( AP) W. B. Sni der of Paisley. Wayne 8tewart of Day- Tills, Jack Tlppetta of Wallowa and O. L. Jameson of Canyon City were chosen as president, first and second vice presidents and secretary-treasurer of the Oregon Cattle and Horse Raisers aasoclatlon Saturday after noon at tha fltjal business session ol tho Silver Jubilee convention. Myrtle Point waa chosen aa the next con vention city. from all over the country than the governorship.' he said. W, L. Oosslln, the governor's pri vate secretary, said he sent formal congratulations to Hess last night. An advisor to the governor Indl oated that Martin would not an nounce whether he would support Heas or Charles A, 8prague, Salem publisher and Republican nominee. iThls name source aald It was ap parent that the Democratic party in Oregon was "torn to shreds" by the bitter primary campaign and that "many of Martin's votes would go to Sprague." The governor, who will be 76 "years old In October, probably will retire Last week he told reporters that he would tike some leisure for himself and hla wife. Mrs. Martin urged him not to run MU of Federal Tax LAST NOTE GIVES NO CLUE TO HELP Y Almost definite proof was received today by the Mall Tribune that John H. Heckner, 62-year old Jacksonville prospector and lover of nature, has committed suicide because of a broken heart over the recent death of his wife. ' In the moll this morning waa a farewell letter from Heckner, In which he wrote that he "has decided to end what can only be a few yeara more of drab existence detrimental to others." Also In the envelope, ad dressed to the Mull Tribune and postmarked "Jacksonville, May 18. p. m." was bis will and fen explanation of a land sale agreement between his wife and Frank Fernlund. Heckner has been missing from his home In Jacksonville since last Tuesday night. May 17, and state po lice, sheriff's deputies end Jackson vine residents have scoured the sur rounding countryside without ft tid ing a single clue to bis whereabouts. His farewell letter was as follows: ."A farewell to all: After oalm de liberation the undersigned has de cided to end ?'hat can only be a few yeara more of avJtt exlstence-detrt- mentnl to others. Before this note reaches It destination I will be be yond reach of search. It a search ts attempted send a few thousand un employed to the rough lava belt east of the mountains perhaps they may find another cave, or a new lease on life. "Ooodbye frtendal John H. Heckner." In the lower left hand corner of the letter waa the date. "J'villr. 6-17-'38, and the .request to "kindly deliver enclosures to proper author ities and oblige the erring one." The letter, will and agreement were all written In a firm, legible hand writing and wore nicely composed. The Mall Tribune turned Ml over to Deputy Sheriff Bill, Orenbcmer, Sheriff Syd I. Brown said the let ters would cause no change of plana In the general search for Hockner's body, that all old mine shafts In the vicinity of Jacksonville would continue to be Investigated. He said about a dozen authorities and Jack sonville residents ..were engaged In the hunt today. The sheriff stated he held no faith In Heckner's mention of "tho rough lava belt east of the mountains," saying he believed that to be merely an f.tcmpt at sarcasm. The will was also dated "5-17-'38," and was signed "John H. Heckner." It said, "My last will Is that any and all personal or real property to which I have any claim, excepting homestead referred to In attached "agreement" la hereby bequeathed to Raymond A, Jackson, my deceased wife's youngest son, In return for generosity and fealty to us. With my heartiest approval." Attached to the will was the card of Mr. Jackson, manager of the Redding district of the California State Automobile association, 136 Tuba street. Redding. Mr. Jackson arrived In Medford yesterday to aid In the search for his step-father. The agreement regarding the home stead was headed: "State to: To Whom It May Concern," and waa also dated May 17, 1938, and was signed by Heckner. It told of an oral agreement between his deceased wife. Mrs. Lanle Heckner and Frank Fernlund whereby her homestead of about 120 acres was sold to Fern lund for 9460. It Is situated on sec tion 2, twp. 30 8.. R. 1 C. Jackson county, according to the letter. Heckner. who waa a lover of wild flowers and raised 26 different va rieties In a beautiful garden at his home, waa last seen by neighbors last Tuesday night. HI wife died Msy 10, and until hla disappear ance he apent many solitary hours grieving at her graveside In. Jack sonville cemetery. Each day he placed lovely flowers on her grave. Sherlfr Brown said he waa told by Jacksonville resident that Heckner kept a nightly vigil over tho grave, and that Wednesday morning foot print were discovered that pointed to hla pacing around and around his wife's burial place. Heckner came with hla wife to Jacksonville about two years ago, and since then had written many letters to the editor of The Mall Tribune, dealing with politics and economics. He waa apparently a well-educated man with a fine mind, and waa highly respected In Jackson ville. The search for him began Wed need ay morntnx when his Personal HIGH COURT HOLDS COLLEGE ATHLETIC EVENTSJUST PAY New York Port Authority Employes Must Pay ln": come Tax Is Finding Remington Rand Loses WASHINGTON1, May 33. (AP) Treasury officials estimated today approximately 61,000,000 was col lected annually In taxes on admis sions to Inter - collegiate football games of state and other public unl- versities. ' . . The tax has been paid under pro test pending a supreme court ruling on whether such a tax waa constitu tional. The court upheld the tax to day. , WASHINGTON, May 33. (AP) The auprema court broadened the field of federal taxation today by holding that the federal government can Impose levies on athletic con tests at state universities and on the salaries of employes of the New York pott authority. Justice Roberta delivered the 6 to 3 decision sustaining a federal ed- mission tax on tickets to Intercol legiate football games at the Uni versity of Oeorgla and Georgia Tech. Justice Btone delivered i I to I opinion holding that the federal gov ernment could collect an income tax on port authority officials. The au thority waa formed by an Interatata oompaot to operate tunnels - and brldgea between New Torn and New Jeraey. Remington Rand Loses Ilemlngton( Rand, Inc., failed In court In Its challenge of a national labor relations board order directing the reinstatement of employes who participated In a 1036 strike. The company contended that under .e labor board order It would have ' to reinstate nearly 4,000 persona and oust an equal number who had taken the place of the strikers. '. In Ita action, the aupreme court rtffused to rovlcw a decision by the federal circuit court of appeals at New York sustaining the board's ac tion In ordering reinstatement and also directing the company to bar gain collectively with an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. The port authority litigation had caused as states to file a brief with the court asking protection from "federal usurpation" and "tha bur den of federal taxation." In the admlaslon-tax decision, Ro berta held that Immunity from fed eral taxation "does not extend to business enterprises conducted by the states for gain." BURGLAR'S LOOT Chief of Police CI a tons McCredie today received a letter from S. W. Yorls, chief of detectives In Seattle, stating that Myrle O. Hanmore, r rested there recently,had confessed to a series of house robberies up and down the coast Including one In Medford between. May 10 and 14. Detective Yorls said In his tetter that Hanmore confessed robbing an apartment here and obtaining s horseshoe tie pin set with small dia monds, and a gold nugget. The pin and nugget have been recovered, ac cording to the letter, and will be re turned to their proper owner when he makes himself known. Chief Mc Credie requested the owner to get tn touch with him at city police station. OFFICERS IN CHI HANKOW, China, May 33. (API Berlin dealt China's war resistance hopes a heavy blow, it was said authoritatively today, by ordering the recall of aeneral Alexander von Fal kenhauaen and his entire staff of 40 odd Germany military advisers to the army of Oenerallsslmo Chi any Kai ahek. belonglnga were discovered on a table In hla home. A revolver he waa known to own waa not found, and authorltlea Immediately believed he had taken hla own life. Sheriff Brown aald It waa almost a certainty that Heckner had crawled Into one of the many abandoned mine ahafte In the vicinity, a'nd committed suicide. 4
