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The Weather Forecast: Pertly cloudy today and tomorrow; normal tem perature. Temperature Highest yesterday 75 Lowest yesterday ... , 60 Lose No Time Medford Tribune If tha classified tip you off an something food thii morning. belter lose no time In reaching the advertiser. Remember there are hundred of otheri reading tha claw I fled at the tame time. Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1938 No. 58. en. ro)M ruifmn im ' i 'ix.'x.iiir Mm ui MA nam aal MM MM M The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1J37. by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. NEW DUALIZING OF DEMO. . PARTY IS PLANNED ... WHITE HOUSE GROUP WOULD DOMINATE PRIMARIES . CANDIDATE SOUGHT TO CARRY BANNER IN 1940 ... ANTI-MONOPOLY INQUIRY EXPECTED PROVIDE ISSUE WASHINGTON, May 28 The Amer ican congress has been unappreclatlve of the Nazis' glories. The senators and representatives have been sadly obtuse In their understanding of the wisdom, high statesmanship and hu manitarian purposes of Herr Hitler and his followers. It Is refreshing, therefore, to know that the light of truth has penetrated even the murky halls of the capltol: that the German racial program has been warmly In dorsed on the senate floor, by one vested with all the dignities and pow ers of a senator of the United States. Somehow or other, when it was made a day or so ago, this Important pronouncement escaped the attention It deserved. It Is reproduced here In proof of the Intelligence to which democracy can sometimes rise. As preserved In the official record, It runs In part: "Race consciousness Is developing In all parts of the world. For exam ple, consider Italy, consider Gormany. It Is beginning to be recognized by the thoughtful minds of the age that the conservation of racial values Is the only hope for future civilization. It will be recslled that Hitler, In his speech on April 0 at Vienna, gave as the bssls of his program to unite Austria with Gormany, 'German blood ties.' The Germans appreciate the Importance of race values. They understand that racial Improvement Is the greatest asset that any country can have .... "It Is to the scientific Inventiveness of the German people that their great leaders look In these troublous times for means to preserve their political future. They know, as few other nations have yet realized, that the impoverishment of race values contributes more to the Impairment and destruction of civilization than any other agency. Hence It comes about that. In every extremity with which they are faced, they strive to stir up the feeling of race conscious ness and race pride ..." Rerr Hitler's gratification at the utterance of such elevating words In a the United States senate should Be y Increased by the fact that the utterer la a member of the party In power, a statesman whose faculties are wide ly admired, a fellow Justly celebrated under the simple title of "the man." It was fitting. Indeed, that this In dorsement of the principles of Nazl lsm should have come from the lips of the Hon. Theodore Gilman Bilbo. Junior senator from Mississippi. The Bilbo speech, which consumed most of last Tuesday afternoon, was an appropriate setting for Its most Important pronouncement. It was a plea for the use of part of the pump pMmlng fund to transport up to 12.000.000 American negroes to Africa, there to enjoy the peaceful plenty of another Liberia. Ita theme was In genious. Its manner, grand. Senator Bilbo brings to his oratory ill the (repressiveness of a side-show barker, all the rich Intellect of an assistant kleagle. The senate chamber, to be sure, has the ahabby colorleasness natural to democracies. Yet. it Herr Hitler hsd been In the gallery last Tuesday afternoon, he might have shut his eyes and been convinced that he was listening to Ooebbels. In case Ambassador Kleckhoff needs Information In Bilbo to cable to his master. It may be well to sup ply some. Bilbo. Herr Hitler will feel at home to hear, la the apotheosis of the poor white politician. He has once been In Jail, as Herr Hitler was himself. And he has often been the victim of Just such misapprehensions. as to his motives and purposes, as have made the rorld estimate of the fuehrer ao unjustly low. Fortunately, the record shows that Bilbo is a leader of the peopl? of th' greatest Ingenuity and highest states manahtp Did he not once suerest tha'. all Mississippi's roads be paved with brvki of Mississippi cisy. thus winning the votes of all Mississippi's back country farmers, who expected their Infertile acres to be transformed into profitable clay mines? Was not that scheme worthy of comparison with some promises msdi by the fuehrer himself? lPoatUUM4 SB fag S1J PRESIDENT'S TALK E Southern Leader Answers White House Criticism Of Business Aid Measure Veto Desired. WASHINGTON, May 38. (AP) An old line southern Democrat Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi told : the senate today President Roosevelt was all wrong when he criticized the j new tax law. Harrison, chairmen of the atnate committee which helped write the tax revision measure, replied to the criticism voiced by the president yesterday in a speech at Arthurdale, W. Va. Raising his long arms to emphasise his words, he said: "Congress framed this tax legisla tion to help business. I only hope that what we had expected will not be dampened or thrown away by this speech the president made yes terday." Mr. Roosevelt permitted the afi,. 000,000,000 revenue measure to be come law last night without his sig nature, declaring he did not want to seem to favor "the abandonment of an Important principle of American taxation." This was an obvious reference to the undistributed profits tax, which the president consistently has advo cated and many business spokesmen criticized. The new law continues this levy for two years In drastically modified form. Harrison said Mr. Roosevelt had been "misinformed" in arguing that the new flat-rate capital gains tax did not bear on the big end little taxpayer In proportion to their abil ity to payr The Mlssisslpplan said the treasury gave him "no sympathetic co-operation" when he sought recently to ease the tax load on debt-burdened corporations. Harrison expressed regret that Mr. Roosevelt had let the tax bill be come a law without signing it. "I would have much preferred that he had said he didn't like those (undistributed profits and capital gains) provisions and vetoed the bill," the senator added. "I have no fear of what would have happened In the American congress." Thla statement was interpreted generally as a contention that con gress would have overridden the veto. The new tax law, the Mississippi Democrat declared, should "unfreeze much of the credit of thla country, and be most helpful In getting some new Industries started to relieve un employment and distress." Prior to Harrison's talk, treasury officials disclosed the administration would seek general tax revision at the next session of congress. Harrison told the senate there un doubtedly would be a tax bill at next session. He said some "nuisance" taxes would be expiring next year, and added that the modified undis tributed profits levy would be inop erative after January 1, 1940. "So We will need new taxes." he said. NEW DEAL VOTING WASHINGTON. May 38. ,7p) Ad ministration intervention In state primary elections was assailed anew in the senate today. "The federal government has noth ing whatever to do with the election of United States senators and the governors." said Senator Bailey (D. N. C In a speech on the $3,000, 000.000 spcndlng-lendlng bill. "And that goes for the president of the United States." Bailey reopened an attack begun recently when WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins expressed favor for Representative Otha Wearln of Iowa in his race with Senator Gillette for the Democratic senatorial nomination He criticized also what he Hid was the Intervention of Secretary Ickes In the last mayoraltty campaign In New York. SUSPECT'S DEATH SEATTLE. May 28. I API A su perior court Jury convicted three former Seattle policemen tonlaht on manslaughter charges In connection with the death of Berry Lawson. 27 yeer old negro waiter. The three men. Patrick L. Whalen, W. Stevenson and Prrd H. PsschaL were accused of beating Lawson fat. ally after his arrest for Investigation ts a hotel prowler. The case went to tha Jury jeeterdaj attarnoon. Union Head Shot To Death imii'WW'Uiwmi!UWWW'-Wl!'ill'i i ii sessMeaaMassjMas---- p ( Arnold Johnson (left), SS-year-oli! organizer for General Drivers' Un ion No. W4 of Minneapolis, was named by Police Ciller Frank Forestat as having admitted shooting to death William Brown, 44 (right), president of the union, as they were driving around the city. HUNDREDS ESCAPE Bl MINUTES WHEN VESSEL3C0LLIDE Bermuda Bound Liner Hits Excursion Craft In New York Harbor In Fog Speedy Rescue. NEW 'YORK, May 28. M The excursion boat Mandalay and the steamship Acadia collided In a fog An the lower bay tonight, the Man dalay sinking a few minutes after her several hundred passengers and crew were transferred safely to the other boat. The Mandalay was returning from a trip to Atlantic Highlands. N. J.. Just outside New York harbor. The Acadia was bound for Bermuda with about 100 passengers. The Acadia buried her prow more than 15 feet into the starboard side of the excursion boat, crashing Into the dance floor and engine room. A Mandalay sailor immediately Jumped across to the Acadia and made fast a rope, and the passengers were helped across by the crews of both ships. Witnesses said It took only about 10 minutes to transfer an estimated 300 passengers. The Mandalay. built In 1889, sank a few minutes later In about 30 feet of water, with the bridge and funnels still above the surface. A veritable squadron of police and coast guard boats went down the harbor and took the Mandalay pas sengers off the Acadia. Two coast guard boats landed 57 survivors at near-by Staten Island and the Icarus with 388 steamed back to the Battery, the southern end of Manhattan Island. The Acadia returned to her dock for Inspection by government offi cials, routine after a crash, although no serious damage was visible. At the dock, passengers were not al lowed to leave and no one was permitted to board her during the inspection. The collision occurred In the "nai rows," a channel formed by tha Brooklyn and Staten Island shores between tha upper and lower parts of New York harbor. Capt. Philip R. Curran of the Man dalay, when he reached shore, was taken to the Old Slip police station for questioning. The fog in which the crash occurred was part of a freak weather situation, with intermittent thick fogs, which prevailed over most of metropolitan New York. TO NATIVE LAND PORTLAND. Ore.. May 28. )P Roy J. Norene. district director of Immigration and naturalization, said today he had received a labor depart' ment deportation order against James R. Scott. 31. former A. F. L. Ware houseman's union official, who re cently pleaded guilty In Stevenson. Waah.. to changes growing out or the alleged bombing of a beer truck. Scott, a native of Edinburgh. Scot land, li also under Indictment in Multnomah county In connection with other alleg-d labor vandalism. Norene fa Id no action would be Uken on tha order until Scott was released, bf th state. EUROPEAN LANDS OF PEACE PLEDGES Secretary Of State Takes Note Of War Dangers- Nation To Exert Influence For Peace. ; WASHINGTON. May 38. (AP) The United States government tried to keep central European powers from each other's throats today by reminding them that they had given their solemn word nearly 10 years ago to refrain from war. While Europe awaited anxiously the outcome of Sudeten Germans' demands for autonomous powers In Czechoslovakia, Secretary of State Hull called a special press conference to exert this government's moral influence for a peaceful settlement. He said: "With reference to the critical situation Involving countries in cen tral Europe. I desire to say that the Bovernment of the United States has been following recent develop ments with close and anxious atten tion. "Nearly 10 years ago the govern ment of the United States signed at Paris a treaty (the Kellogg-Briand pact) providing for the renunciation of war as an Instrument of national policy. "There are now parties to that treaty no less than 63 countries. In that treaty the contracting parties agree that 'the settlement or solu- lon of all dispute or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.' That pledge la no less binding now than when it was entered into. It Is binding upon all of the parties. "We can not shut our eyes to the fact that any outbreak of hostilities anywhere In the world injects Into world affairs a factor of general dis turbance that ultimate consequence of which no man can foresee and la liable to Inflict upon all nations incalculable and permanent In juries." m WEEK'S PROSPECT SAN FRANCISCO, May 38. (AP) Weather just about made to order appeared a probability for the far west the next two days, although there remained a possibility Oregon and i Washington might get a few more sprinkles late Monday, the weather bureau said today. Precipitation which extended from north of the Golden Gate to the Canadian border ceased last right. Temperatures for the Memorial day week-end will be about normal or even lower, the forecaster said. Oregon: Sunday generally fair, but cloudy on reast; moderate temper atures; moderate changeable wind off coast. . Outlook period May 30 to June 4. far western states; Pair weather with moderate temperatures southern dis tricts and unsettled in northern districts becoming fair toward mid dle of week. KLAMATH FALLS. May 38. fPj An army plane, piloted by Major Bur rows of Vancouver barracks, was en route here today from Portland with sn emergency cargo of diphtheria eerum. OFFENSIVE GAINS ON CENTRAL LINE Japanese Admit Defeat At Lanfeng Canton Air Raid Toll Heavy, Report Says. SHANGHAI. Sunday, May as. (AP) Chinese made steady gains to- : day in their central front countor- j offensive which had developed Into j one of the heaviest engagements of the undeclared war. Major fighting centered about Lan- ! feng, whose recapture by Chinese j brought one of the rare Japanese I admissions of defeat. Besides taking I Lanfeng, key to China's ancient capital. Kalfeng, on the Lunghal railway. Chinese reported they had captured Lowang, eight miles weat of Lanfeng. Chinese also said they held stra tegic Yellow river fords at Mengh slen, 120 miles still farther to the weat. North of the river, Japanese were said to have abandoned Wenh- slen. (At Pelplng a Japanese spokesman said reinforcements were on their way to the Lanfeng sector from the north, southeast and east. He said Japanese had abandoned Lanfeng voluntarily aa part of their necessary strategy). Japanese told of one success cap ture of the city of Kweltheh, a new base for Intensification of the Jap anese drive westward toward Chens- chow, Junction of the Lunghal and retping-Hankow railways. The Chinese central front galna came as Canton rescue workers counted 1.800 cssualtles In South China's most severe air bombard ment. - . Keporta from Canton said the dead In yesterday's air raids were est! mated officially at 600 and tha In jured at 900. The Intensity of the raid was re garded aa further evidence the Jap anese now are embarking on a large scale campaign to atop the move ment of munitions through South China. The Chinese press earlier had re ported the arrival of ".000 Japanese troops at Amoy. off the Puklcn pro vince coast, and the basing of a squadron of Japanese planes on Quemoy Island, near Amoy. E GIRLS, k ENJOY BIRTHDAY CALLANDER. Ont., May 38. (UP) The Dlonne quintuplets, whose growth from puny babyhood to strong, nor mal children haa astounded the med ical world, celebrated their fourth birthday today by tasting Ice cream for the first time. Papa and Mamma Dlonne and the quins' six brothers and sisters ob served tha day Joyfully, but as quietly aa the boisterous quins, who seemed to realise It was a day of special significance, would permit. "Bon Jour, bon Jour." the children shouted to Visitors who watched them during the morning in their play ground. They were In particularly gay spirits. In the afternoon, the Dlonne family arrived, played with the children out doors for a short time and then went inside to the nursery, where a large cake, without Icing but bearing five candles, one for each quln, was In the center of a big table. Around the cake were grouped presents from the girls, from their relatives and from their admirers everywhere. SOLON BALKS AT UNCLE SAM'S 'POP WASH1NOTON, May 28. R, Rep resentative Havenner (D., Cat.) made congressional history today even If he did not establish a precedent- he turned back to the government ai ,200 allowed him for traveling expenses. The Callfornlan said he did not feel Justified In keeping the money He received- a similar amount for traveling to and from the special session of congress last December and, although he went home for Christmas, he said ha had enough of the momy left to get home after thla aesalon. Members of congress receive a travel allowance of 30 cents a mile. Some contend thla leaves them "In the red" because they have to bring their families with them. SPECIALjERVICE Public Invited To Lutheran Church At 11 Today Decoration Day Exercises Tomorrow. The Thinning Ranks' B HILLING HAM. May 38. (!) Only one little old man In blue will attend Belllngham'a memorial services tomorrow. He Is Daniel H. Thompson, 98. quartermaster of the local a. A. R. post. The other three members, slightly younger, said they do not feel capable of participating In the ceremonies. Memorial day will be observed with special services at H o'clock this morning In the English Zton Lutheran church on 4th street nesr Oakdale avenue. The Rev. Werner Jessen, pas tor, will conduct the services. The public Is Invited and members of veteran and patriotic organizations are expected to attend in groups. Decoration day exercises wilt 1m held tomorrow beginning at 9:30 a. m when a parade will be held from city park along Main street to the Bear creek bridge. At the bridge brief ceremonies will be hold. Principal exercises of the day will be held in the park upon return of the parade. If the weather, la In clement the program will be held in the near-by Presbyterian church. In the afternoon additional' 'exe.',jlaea will be held In Medford I. O. 0T P. oemetery at 3:30. Business will be at a standstill tomorrow, all Medford stores jxtlng closed for the day. All merchants have been asked to fly the American flag at their business places' and residents at their homes. Officers of veteran organizations yesterday made a special plea that all ex-service men report In city park to take part In the parade. It was observed that In recent years veteran participation In the procession had decreased and It was hoped that this year an unusually large number would take part. All members of Medford post of the American Legion were asked by Commander Don Newbury to assem ble in city park at 9:15 tomorrow morning to take part in the parade and exercises. "It la the duty of every able-bodied veteran to march In the parade as a mark of tribute to our departed comrades." Commander Newbury said. "It la to be hoped that a large representation from all patriotic or ganlrationa will participate." T FLIGHT MARK SET OAKLAND. Cal.. M.t aa Am Prank W. Puller Jr.. San Pranpliuv. paint firm executive and winner of me iuji transcontinental Bendlx air race, established a flight record of three hours, eight minutes and 43 seconds between Vancouver, B. O., and Oakland today as a feature of the Pacific International air races here. , He left Vancouver at noon and was over the field here .hnrt.lv or. 3 p. m. He waa timed by the Na tional Aeronautical association while still in the air. Puller circled the field several times, waiting for a clear runway. Landing, he wa, sub- Jpct to customs Insnectlnn whlrh had been waived at Seattle to permit nia non-stop night. BOY MEETS GIRL T ATHENS. Oa. May J8. (API Pretty "Jerry" Rivera. 17-year old daughter of Georgia', governor, as serted tonight with a toss of her hesd she wouldn't let politics Inter fere with her friendship with 19 year old Jsck Mangham of Bremen. They've been "keeping company" since last fall. Today Mangham'e father, J. J. Mangham. announced he would run for governor and erlt Icired the Rivera administration. Tonight Rivera announced for re election. "It won't make any difference aa far aa I'm concerned and I hope It won't as far as Jack's concerned." aaM Mlas Rivera, a University of Georgia student. Captain Quizzed fly 0 c Capt. Adolf Ahrens (above) of the liner Bremen was suhpoened by spe cial agents from the spy division of the federal bureau of Investigation aa his ship reached quarantine In New York. Captain Ahrens was to appear before a grand Jury In Con ner Hon with the flight of Dr. Ignatz Orleb I, one of the principal witnesses In the bureau's spy Investigation. NEW YORK. May 38. (UP) The federal government seeking to atop the flight of witnesses from Ita great eat spy hunt In peaco-tlme history, Issued a warrant today for the arrest of Werner oudenberg, who allpped from the view of ala aocret service agent, laat Wednesday and boarded the German liner Hamburg. U. S. Attorney Lamah Hardy, prose cuting the Inquiry which may reault In espionage Indictment against a score of persons, said th. yarrarrt wAuld be served at Cherbourg Wed nesday. Oudertbcrg vanished after he had testified before the federal grand Jury.. Pour members of the crew of the German liner Bremen posted ball aggregating 840.000 and were freed aa material witnesses In the case against Gucnther Rumerlch, one of four per sons who have been held on espionage chargea tor two months. LEND-SPEND BILL PASSAGE LAST OF WEEK PREDICTED WASHINGTON. May 38. (UP) Administration sources reached agree ment tonight with opponents of President Roosevelt's $3.37 .000 ,000 recovery bill for a debate limitation to take effect Tuesday, making pass age likely late next week. The senate will recess over Memo rial day. When It meets again Tues day no senator may speak more than 30 minutes on the bill nor more than 18 minute. In the aggregate on any amendment. Leaders predicted that aa a result the .measure can be brought to a final vote Thursday or Friday. Thla prospect heightened hopes for early congressional adjournment, probably by June 18. Opponents of the measure, led by Senator Royal S. Copcland, (D., N. Y.) had accomplished their purpose, which was to delay action on any amendments or on the bill until njxt week. The opposition la concentrating It efforts to earmark the fund so that It will all be distributed In accord ance with the wishes of congress, with presidential discretion entirely removed. They believed that by watting until next week they would give the coun try an opportunity to express ap proval of their plan. Privately, how ever, some of the leaders of the bi-partisan opposition conceded tha measure likely would pass substan tially In the form In which the senate appropriations committee reported It. Rilled In Crash KLAMATH PALLS, May 28 Vp Mrs. Mary Baker, 46, a Beatty Indian, was crushed to death laat night when the light truck In which she was tid ing upset on the Fremont highway between Silver lake and Summer lake. SEATTLE. May 38. iff Awaken ed by a home-made burglar alarm, W. O. Oolfea shot to death one of the two men he said fled from his chick en house early today. Paper In the dead man's clothing bore tha name of Arthur H. Hagen, 40. SALEM. May 28 PV K. L. Wleder, chairman, and T. A. Wlndlshar, mem ber of the Marlon county relief com mittee submitted their resignations to Governor Martin a number of daya ago although the Information became known only todav. CALLS ON G.O.P. TO FREE U. S. FROM 'DICTATOR' Re-employment Held Vital Need Oppression By , Labor Or Capital De plored By Kansan. NTAOARA FALLS, N. T., May 38. () 1 Former Gov. Alf M, Landon of Kansas called on the Republican par ty tonight to resolve to "free thla country from all oppressive dicta tion," whether by government, In dustry, finance or labor. Addressing the annual New York young Republican cluba convention. Landon declared the Republican par ty, equally with the Democratic par ty, "derives from Thomas Jefferson, the Individualist, the decentrallst, tha opponent of oppression, and the ene my of omnipotent planning." The Republican party must re member that Jefferson fought not only government oppression, but all economic oppression aa well, be said. Calling his speech "the opportunity of the Republican party," the 1930 Republican standard bearer declared that the party might attract "prac tical libera la" by opposing oppres sion. The party, he continued, muat re solve to free this country from all oppressive dictation, whether by bu reaucratic official or financier, wheth er by Industrialist or by labor lead er, whether by publto money or by private money, whether by the force of the militia or by the force of the mab. V "If . the Republican parby can take M-.Jw-oacJ swxcV honest a view of ita mission," he continued, "it will last through a multitude of years. It will stand as a bulwark against hitherto unknown oppression in America. It will be of Immeasurable service la time of need." He continued: "I don't want to sea tha pendulum awing back to the dom lnant rampant lndlvaduala of old. Neither do I want to see It swing toward the complete elimination of Individualism with the destruction of all the previous freedom that makea democracy. "None of us wants to see society ruled by fascist of bureaucratic gov ernment on the one hand, or by tha power of money on the other. The average man can lost his political and economic security either way. , "We have failed to check up our monopolies. They must be checked, and there la little difference between a private monopoly and a government monopoly. It la still a monopoly." Landon declared, however, that re employment of 13.000.000 men and women was the nation's first prob lem and added: "I don't want to be personal about this, but It la too bad we dont have somebody In Washington who can get the Job done." The speaker aald a "great basic" poll Ural issue waa forming over tha question of whether government should police or manage business. The problem, he aald, waa whether the law should tell business what It cannot do or whether business should be told by "one mortal man" what It must do. Landon predicted the breakup of the Democratic party because "tha president, in spite of a broad consis tency of stated objectives, haa led his party Into a program of many divergent, contradictory and lrrecon ctllable policies. "We all agree government must do things today that we did not conceive; of even a generation ago. But aa we extend federal government power to eurb economic oppression, we must approach the question with a cau tion born of competence, not with decision born of recklessness." "If the problem of over-concentrated (economic) power la not met with Intelligence, the temptation la to meet It with violence," Landon continued. "Revolutions seek to ach ieve what could have been worked out by peaceful means." a- OKLAHOMA CITY. May 38. (API A mnth.r waa convicted her. today on a charge of helping a 34-year-old roomer ravish her m-year-oia oaugn ter In her home. District Judge Clarence Mill, found the mother, Mrs. Hawl Robertaon. guilty after the daughter appeared against her. The roomer. William Nelaon Sulli van, a dairy worker, convicted laat week of the attack, waa given a 90 year prison sentence. Tha M.nth. Vhn WSlVfMl a lUIT trial, will b sentenced. Wednesday. INHUMAN MOTHER WAITS SENTENCE
