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.11 United Press
Thirty-Third Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY' 31, 1938.
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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
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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
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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,
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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. ;
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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