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: gif i &ySJ Mr The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Wednesday; temperature above normal Wednesday, The "Eartr Medford Tf.tbune II Interested In i nj CUsJ Adv. you read m tnu 'Mm paper, loe no tlra in Temperature: IllghPht yesterday Lowest this morning. Ing the adTertufi thli page I, wider rr;l. jSitmA f t . 43 "early bird' Full Associated Press .11 United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY' 31, 1938. ULa Hgsr Lam . ?.-lKiW!r A NlTf c -j : i The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 11)37, by Tbe North American News paper Alliance. Inc. BIO ALTO FACTORIES TO CLOSE FOR TWO MONTHS FOIID. CIIKVSLEK, Ci. M. PLAN SUMMER STOI'PAUK NEWS TERKORIZES NEW DEAL ECONOMISTS FEAIt f. S. SI'RSniStl PLAN TOO SLOW. TOO SMALL WASHINGTON. May 31. Tho fac tories of Ford. Chrysler and General Motors wUl shut their gates for at least two months this summer. The busy assembly lines will come to a tull stop. Hundreds of thousands of workers will lose their Jobs. A whole vast Industrial empire will relapse Into cold stagnation. For weeks, rumor have reached Washington that the new depression would force a two-month shutdown on the motor-makers. Even In the black summer of 1932. the Industry's between-season paralysis was less pro longed. High officials, refused to credit the rumors. But late last week a motor parts company executive brought word to a meeting of the federal reserve board that Ford and General Motors would close. In consternation. New Deal econ omists hastily checked th-l news In Detroit. They discovered that not only Ford and General Motors, hut Chrysler as well would participate in the shutdown.- They. were, told that nothing but an extraordinary eco nomlc rebound could avert the dis aster. Disaster Is a mild word for a two months' shutdown in the motor in dustry. Within the motor empire Itself, It Is likely to produce the most serious social consequences. A whole populatloi. eating the bitter bread of unemployment: great cities suffer ing business coma: unrest, perhaps even riots among the workers the picture Is not a pretty one. And the economic consequences will be no better. No other Industry consumes more raw materials and finished prod ucts than the motor Industry. The poison of its paralysis will spread through all the members of the eco nomic system. If disaster Is not too strong a word for the two-month shutdown, terror weakly describes the emotion pro duced here by news of It. The ad ministration's fiscal managers and chief economists see less light ahead than at any time since 1933. True, they have not abandoned hope of an upturn. They still be lieve that In the end better times will be produced by the new spend- (Conttnued on Page Eight I Floating Cannery Sails For Alaska ASTORIA, May 31. (AP) Delayed by a Bristol bay fish price dispute, the Columbia River Packers' associa tion floating cannery Memnon sailed yesterday for Nushsgak. Alaska. Cannery workers, normally trans ported on the Memnon. were left be hind to sail from Ban Francisco as the result of a department of com merce dullng setting passenger quali fications. From Nushagnk, the cannery's first stop, it will move to the Bering sea, or off Point Moller, where It will operate. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS A strange dog making off with four tenderloin steak) Just as Ruth Owens was preparing to broil them at a fishing party. Major George Owens and Cappy Herman Melrlng facing stark hunger until thoughtful Viv ian Melrlng produced n auxiliary basket of fodder. , Roy Sunderland t-jrnin P. T. Bar num by exhibiting a chicken with a leg growing backward. Cheefapleece Clatous McCrcdle showing his Italian leanings by tak ing a party to a sumptuous dinner at La Toeca. Rum Davis producing stiletto to rut off the Black Secrets mask st the rssslin riot. X. L. Calford pom tin? out the gran- j deur of the panoramic view from his , Old Suc road home to prospective nurefcasers RIPPLING QUAKE OVER WIDE AREA , DOES NO DAMAGE ! Million Homes Rock in Mid ! night Visitation Temblor Most Severe Since De I . structive 1933 Shook J LOS ANGELES. May 31. (AP) A i giant earth slippage Jarred a. million ! southern California homes at 12:35 a. m. (P. S. T.) this morning, but spared the area of damage, i The quake, one of the most severe since the disastrous one In 1933. was felt for 200 miles along the Pacific coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego and Inland 150 miles to the Mojave desert and the Coachella valley; Alarmed families wero frlgr.tened out of sleep by the rippling, sldo wlse motion of the earth. Dishes rattled in cupboards. Lights swayed. Houses creaked. Long Brach, center of tho destruc tion In '33. quickly reported "All's well," and other cities, such as Santa Barbara and San Jacinto, which wero hard hit by past earthquakes, went through today's without barm. The post-mldnlglit calm at police headquarters ond newspaper offices was shattered by a flood of ques tioning telephone calls. All asked If there had been any damage. Nono had losses to report. The earth shocks, three lu num ber, lasted sevetal seconds. They were strongest on the Los Angeles ocean front, stirring up high waves. Imperial Valley, which experi enced a series of quakes In recent months, was not shaken. A survey Indicated that the Jarred arcs, about 30.000 square miles, es caped with nothing more serious than a few broken windows and cracked sets, of glassware. WASHINGTON. May 31. (PI The supreme court replied to criticism by administration officials today by de nying flatly that It had reversed It self In the celebrated Kansas City Stockyards decision. Chief Justice Hughes read an opin ion, to which Justice Black dissented, denying a government petition for rcijonsldcrntlon of the April 26 de cision. "t he tribunal had condemned pro c?ure follr.:ed by the secretary of agriculture In ordering a reduction of I:harees permitted commission men at hn Kansas City stockyards. General Robert H. Jackson that the court had reversed itself were "un warranted." Both Jackson and Secretary Wal lace had contended the court In its April 25 decision had termed "fatally defective" procedure to which It had not objected In an opinion two years earlier. SECOND BIG FIRE EUGENE. May 31. (AP) The sec ond disastrous fire to sweep Coburg In the past 30 years roared through three-fourths of a town block, de stroying four business establishment and the Odd Fellows hall shortly af ter 1 1 o'clock this morning. Total loss was estimated at (35.000 The fire started on the second floor of the Walter E. D'rury general store In an undetermined manner. It spresd so rapidly that the town's i fire righting equipment was of little . use. Inadequate water supply hampered ft re fighting efforts and the blaze soon engulfed the entire block. A I brisk northwest wind carried flamea toward the hall, a short distance fast of the burning buildings. It soon was a mass of flsmea. Burning embers whisked aloft by the wind, kept resident busy putting out small blazes on houses and other nearby buildings, but no other build ings were lost. The Coburg pos toff Ice was one of the buildings burned, but the mall was reported saved. Little waa saved from the other structures. Fight Service Due to the early starting hour nf the Rossi Armstrong fight to night. (6 p. rrt. Medford timet, and the consequent unsatisfactory ra dio reception at that hour, the Mall Tribune office will remain open to answer telephone Inquir es regarding the outcome. The ::?ht is twhidiiled for 15 round Reorganization Cops, Pickets Clash on Strike Fronts ;5." LJl low T Police swung night clubs freely and threw many trar gas bombs at Akron, Ohio, In a battle with 4.0(H) pickets at the gates or the Good year Tire and Rubber To., where a strike had been called. The picture above was taken at the height of the rioting... Police Lieutenant J. Wesley Brown Is shown below being helped to a sqund car for a trip to a hospital after receiving Injuries In a battle between CIO pickets and non-strikers at the American Brass Co., In De troit, CANDIDATES SPENT T Gasoline was the principal expense Item In the compaign costs of four candidates filed with the county clerk today and Saturday. W. W. Allen, Republican candidate for county commissioner expended 79.38. The filing fee was $20 and the balance was expended for cards and gas. Wllllsm perry of Eagle Point, Re publican nominee for commissioner, according to his (statement, spent 87.12. The riling Tee was $20. The balance went for cards and gsa. E. C. Jerome, Republican candi date for Justice of the' peace, Med ford district, spent SCO .90. Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman, Republican nominee, spent 25.50, chiefly for cards, with 3 50 for gasoline. Candidates under the law, must file their expense statements, on or before June 4. ATTACK SLAYING CINCINNATI, May St. (AP) Po lice Captain Patrick Hayes announced today that Llndberg Heist, 16, alias Undberg Trent, hsd confessed the attack -slaying of six-year-old Shirley Ann Woodburn. Immediately, Detective Walter Hart filed a murder charge against the former news vendor, who previously had been Identified by a five-year-old playmate of the girl as the one who bad lured Shirley Ann from her side Sunday afternoon. The confession was made, Hayes said, as the youth waa led to the girl's bier In an undertaking estab lishment. GRANTS PASS. May SI. ( AP) Ord Maurice pntchett, 20, of Klamath rails, arrested Saturday evening on a change of reckless driving by state police, was fined 150 In Justice court today. His slater, Nandine Carmen Sech tel. 20. of the same city, who rammed a state police car a few hours later with the same automobile, was fined 150 on a charge of driving while In-tazlcatc4. TSTXT1 iflfi" wt'" Kts 4 I IS GRADUATION TALK UNIVERSJTY HEAD BY EUGENE. May 31. ( AP) In a combined inaugural and commence ment address. Dr. Donald M. Erb, 37-year-old University of Oregon president, urged 607 graduating stu dents to grant intellectual toler ance "of a person's views regard less of his racial stock, his religious affiliation, his economic status or his educational opportunities." Dr. Erb, offlclaUy Installed as president by Wlllnrd L. Marks, chair man of the atate board of higher education, after performing the du ties of the office since March, de clared "there la a growing tendency to condemn a man's every utterance because he Is 'a banker' or 'a la bor leader' or 'a New Dealer or 'a fascist' or a manufacturer'." "This tendency Is an evidence of Intolerance and Its chief ally Intel lectual lszineu," Dr. Erb said. "It Is to be condemned- He warned graduates, however, "do not be tolerant of misrepresentation, or superficiality, of tbe parading of false Issues as though they were real Issues." ' Death Of Skipper Linked With Wreck SAN FRANCISCO. May 31 . (AP) Misfortunes of the sea which robbed him of his last command, the tfl. 000,000 luxury liner President Hoo ver, were blamed today for the death of Captain Oeorge W. Yard ley, 59. senior skipper of the Dollar line. Captain. Yardley, a farm boy who left his Yardley, Pa., home when he was 12 years old to go to sea, died last night at the Marine hospital Doctors said death resulted from complications growing out of expos ure and nervous strain in connection with the wreck rf Ms vessel, last December off tht coaM of Formosa, 1 'j & (3? TOLERANCE is urged bank robbers find IN GRADUATION TALK HOT RECEPTION WHEN Bill Shelved for POLICE TIPPED OFF MORTONS OAP. Ky., May 31. (AP) Shooting from peepholes above the bank ,vault officers who had been tipped In advance, killed one man and later captured two others In attempted holdup of the Planters bank here today. Only two bullets were fired by State Phtrolman Ed Fraellch and Deputy Sheriff B. W. Asby and both pierced the head of a man Identi fied as Jr&se Roberts, 31, as he painted a pistol at Mayor J. T. Davis, vice-president of the bank, and O. R. Pendley, cashier. Roberts fell dead behind the cashier's cage. Officers stationed near the bank rushed In and captured a man iden tified aa Otha Halley near the front entrance, and others caught a man f Jentlfled as Charles Rogers, seated in an automobile In an alley, back of the bank. Sheriff F. C. Wllkey, who Identi fied all three men, said Roberts had served part of a ten-year conviction of robbery of the Cltlreru bank of Nebo some years ago, but had been paroled or pardoned . Hopkins Suffers From Bad Throat GLEN COVE, N. T May 31. (AP) Hrr L. Hopkins, VPA adminis trator, who was stricken with an acute throat Infection while visiting In Olen Cove over tbe holiday, wna reported in a "satisfactory condl- ' tlon" today at the north country Community hospital. Hospital attaches said he passed a comfortable night and would prob ably be able to leave in a few days. Hopkins, suffering a fever ti 101 wlien he was taken to the hGpltal. was attended by Dr. Rom M in tire. President Roosevelt's phyiician. REBELS KILL 430 More Bodies Believed Buritid in Ruins of Granollers Bombs Are Dropped in Crowded Market Square BARCELONA. May 3 1 . ( AP)At least 430 persons were killed today in an Insurgent air raid on tho town of Granollers, 10 miles north of Bar celona. That many bodies were tiken from the ruins and authorities be lieved 100 more still wero burled. Forty bombs were dropped by five trl-motored bombers, 12 of them plunging Into the market square at Ita most crowded hour. Early reports Indicated most of the victims were women, and children Other bombs fell In aranollera' po tato distribution district. The entire Red Cross service of the district haa been mobilized. , The raiders arrived at 8 a. m., and took only a few minutes to dump their cargo of bombs. Many v-omen were doing their marketing. Long queues of men, women and children were waiting to get potato ratlins. At one spot 55 person, were killed. At another 50 died. Approximately 25 buildings were, destroyed completely. MADRID. Spain, May 31. (AP) The British freighter Penthames was bombed and sunk in an air raid on Valancla harbor this morning. No Uvea were lost.' - . A Spanish vessel also, was sunk. Air raid alarms kept the harbor district In a state of tension from 11 p. m., last night until after daybreak. The Pent names was the third Brit ish ship sunk recently at Va'encls. By the Associated Press Ominous threats of war subsided today In Mexico and Czechoslovakia, leaving only the open conflicts In Spain and China to disturb world peace. President Lazaro Cardenas, whose Mexican government was endangered by prospects of a civil war, haa suc ceeded In dispersing Insurrectionist of General Saturnlno Cedlllo. With the army in apparent control of Codlllo's former stronghold, the state of San Luis Potonl, and tho re bellious general hiding In tho moun tains, President Cardenas felt free to start on an Inspection trip through the oil fields he expropriated from i? British and American companies on March 18. Czechoslovakia's troubles with Nazi Germany were eased, for the moment at least, by the Praha gov ernment's prompt step to remove one of the most pressing causes of controversy airplane flight across j the border. ; 4 . 1 Traffic Victim noes KLAMATH FALLS, May 81. (AP) Injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile at a busy mid town Intersection here provnd fa tal to John Olson, 62. Father Waits Son's Return After $10,000 Ransom Paid PRINCETON, Fla., May SI. (P W som demanded by the kidnapers o Bailey Cash, Jr., had been paid. The money was thrown from an automobile, he added, by the lad's father, who made two trips over routes outlined In a map provided by the kidnapers. Returning from the second drive, the father, wealthy merchant, report ed the contact and said he oxpected to be notified momentarily of the release of his son, taken from his bed Saturday night. W. P. Cash said hit brother tossed out the bundles of currency. In 15 end 10 denominations, after blinking the lights of his automobile In accord ance with instructions contained In notes from the kidnapers. When the noon hour passed appar ently without a stgn from the ab ductora, grave fear was felt for the lad's safety. The mother was reported prostrated. A crowd of some 300 persons, most ly overalled truck farmers and citrus grower,, gathered outside the frame two-story Cash' apartment building and filling station on the main high way and discussed forming posses to search the region. The tow-headrd youngster was stolen from his bed while his mother went next door to help her husband close the grocery for the night. The kidnaper silt a screen, unlatched the back door and took the pajamaclad boy Present Hail Drifts Deep In Denver During Half Hour Storm DENVER. May 31. (AP) More than 4.000,000 tons of hall and rain descended upon Denver In a sharp storm last night which set new records for more than a 30 year period, meteororoglsU re ported today. Hall ranging In depths up to 18 inches piled in some downtown streets as the sudden storm add ed 1-63 Inches to the city's 1938 precipitation within a half-hour. Only slight damage resulted from the hall and rain. FROST SEASON OVER FOR ROGUE VALLEY; OBSERVER TO LEAVE The frost danger season officially ends today In the upper and central Rogue river valley orchards. Roy J, Rogers, government frost observer on duty here since last March, has been directed to report to Pomona, Calif., at once. Rogers haa completed pack ing Instruments, and making other arrangements for departure. There was no general firing of smudge pots during the frost season, and only three light smudglngs with no commercial damage. It was a mild and favorable season for growers. County Horticulturist A. B. Cordy said today, It was a normal season with prospects the pear crop would be slightly more than last year, al though It is too early to make any crop forecasts. The lflirf crop ship ments totalled approximately ' 2,250 cars. Some packers have estimated this year's crop at 2,500 cars. First cutting of alfalfa Is complet ed and described by County Agent Robert F. Fowler as "light and weedy." Fall sown grain la In good condition. Spring sown grain Is suf fering from delayed planting, due to unfavorable weather conditions. FUNERAL FOR TRUAX THURSDAY AFTERNOON GRANTS PASS, May Si. (AP) Funeral services will be held hen Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock for Oeorge Andrew Truax, M, of Apple- gate, who was drowned In four Inches of water Sunday morning when his overturned truck pinned him face downward In a ditch south west of here. He Is survived by his widow, Hazel Truax of Applegate, and son, Don ald Truax of Marshfteld. 1 BASEBALL American R. R. B. Boston t 6 Hew Tork U 1 1 Marcum, Ostermueller, Dickman and Desautels; Beggs, Murphy and Dicxey. 1 (Only game scheduled). . P. Cash said today the SIO.000 ran f his five-year-old nephew, James LEVINE WITHOUT IDEA AS TO KIDNAP SLAYER OF 12-YEAR-OLD NEW ROCHEUJt, N. T., May it (API Murray Levlne declared today he still had no idea of who kidnaped and killed his 13-year-old ion or why, and said the case henceforth was "entirely In the hands of the police." Speaking In embittered tonea, the moderately well-to-do New York law yer tald ransom was the only mo tive he could advance for the ab duction of his boy, whose mutilated body was, washed ashore on ljong Islsnd sound Sunday night after three months of mystery. 1 Federal agents, who had remained on fie sidelines temporarily In defer. ence to Levlne's hope that he could ransom his son for $30 .000, have unleashed the full power of their orgsnlsatlon In a, methodical search for the kidnapers, who apparently killed the boy a few days after ab ducting hlja on February 34. Sessim AGREE M TO CLEAR fi I v Strategy Ctnfc $ White Housp Atr lift Congress Leder Adjournment AI$:j' WASHINGTON, W : Congressional Icau'rs fti.iu; formally late toda' tliaf "li ther. effort will be um.W I" (lie rcnrgnnlintlon bill UlllA. It il l WASHINGTON, Miv SI.! Ill President Roosevelt and en)M leaders have shelved tno i; 1 reorganization bill I r tv1 Informed members or botl 1 and senate reported to'ayv ?, They reported this coraf upon at an early morr.li j i i conference at the Whh means of clearing the waJv' on pending bills. Including I '! lng-lendlng measures, anvj 1 final adjournment. j t. Formal disclosure ct ;im. a expected to be mlte ti mm wmoh fienate Majority lru said upon leaving the wv'' would be Issued "In a di Spending Bill V7 t w neaiueniy nooseve.7 onr. 5 ' Is "growing" opposltkn to t , S3S5BS bill because . of - i nor ! "Kj wnetner the. renr!0in-;'V.' ysrsy would be rnvivred. A definite statement tf i latlou would be dlscar " session, Berkley repoiii the prealcflnt, o .Id V " tir.te spendlng-londl.-,g bin. M The senate hsa lim'teM $Je -' Z tne dui as a mean m t, a r , vote soon. . ... 5tj'Jpgii!?i3 Another IndlcaKon 1 ef t- V r?s been omitted fron tha tfE ,i A'ff S elate appeared when th. .Z' fT ,JL ed. las to 37. a routl R.5 ll &l to allow It to expedite lt StAr man O'Connor (D.-N-Y committee asserted:. "This portends adlo Representative Martlf acting minority loadir. oraelc Leader Rar!.an. house into his conud- close what addlioi' might bo taken t.ji oa' closes. He was adrtuer find out "after ton (it Delay lnrn Bankhead was one c Ing the White Hou Others were Vlcn-Pro Barkley and Ma,'0rtt' ourn of the hum None of them reorganization sta'i' Issued Immediately. -' speculation, however. was to be a Joint sent ment lt might take prepare. One proponent of f. administration had d It despite the faat tti tfi or tho house who vet. would switch their vc'-a The house rtwiim.ul April 8, by a voce (' u the bill wore tv this representative pass by from Sf t-. f) cially if the coap'J ill civil service provide. immediately after thi conference Barky, tff woum not say um fchfi c talon had been it scrap the re tjc re t&jk j"" tnrougn rft'orefr) ARTTiUTA V!.W.-. in Sflllnette racked' tnelrWB, big canneries o(ratnHe? 71 salmon, royalty 01 tn Jir celled the sprlnj run In tho tip t it:.' river. ;4 ' - , , Old hands who uave ne.tU'A tola the silver horde In yean in"-. were unaoie hi s..piaju uiv ..w, enon. They decU.wd to con, condition with in, how; rev, tuna .V-V spent the Idle dn,', . r T " Heir gear In shape for JUu ' ' Packers sate t' ti?-1"M was -u- most aa aer.'iu ;C-. emfxinte the IndustrMfttrli ) knrltn run." There hv ttii light run before, but Indians on Mm upper river, con servationists ana many commercial fishermen agreed the llsh drougnt had nerer been t nwe nevcrtt Ml? WW -4 4 '." j it i
