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The Weather Forecast' Fmlr tonight and Wednesday; slightly cooler to night. Temperature: Highest yesterday 98 tOWMt this mnrnlny , 4 Fails To Appear It may not be advertised today but Eieep watching the Classi fied then If It tills to appear try advert Ul rig. Thousands of eyes are on the Clufwiried every day. Tpibune EDFORD ) Full Associated Press : ull United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1938 No. 66. Ml MIME M eh mm tr The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 11)37, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. RAIL SITUATION WORRIES FEDERAL ECONOMISTS ONLY 8 CLASS ONE ROADS COVER 1938 FIXED CHAlUiES STOP-GAP MEASURE SEEN DL'B FOR DEFEAT SOLUTION BLOCKED BY SPECIAL INTERESTS WASHINGTON. June 7. Only elht of the nation's claas one railroads will cover their fixed charges this year. Of the eight, several are un important, and all of them, big and little, are roads with comfortable monopolies on ore traffic or coal traffic. - Of the entire railroad mileage In the United States. 94 percent repre sents roads which are either now In receivership or will be candidates for the wringer before the new year. Some can be bailed out by the banks or the RFC. Some can escape dlsastor by living on accumulated fat. But the majority are already nothing but skin and bones, technically precluded from RFC help and untouehablea to the bankers. New mileage totaling 140.000 may be added to the mileage now bank rupt. Eleven fairly Important roads now solvent will not make a penny toward 1038 fixed charges. And even If railroad fixed charges were arbi trarily cut in half, 49 roads, with an annual gross revenue of over $2,000. 000.000. would still fall to meet their full bond Interest. These predictions emanate from re sponsible economists In one of the largest and most efficient government agencies. They are contained In an elaborate study of the railroad situ ation now being circulated among the high officials of the administration. And while they are the gloomiest of the authoritative forecasts, they are not much gloomier than the proph ecies of such professional optimists as RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones. In recent private conversations, Mr. Jones himself has named a figure pretty close to eight as the numher of roads which wilt earn their full charge this year. To be sure, both Mr. Jones and the economist-authors of the railroad study are making propaganda for action on the railroad problem before the adjournment of congress. At the moment, their task appears to be hopeless. The only real rail road bill under consideration would merely permit the RFC to make loans (Continued on Page Six.) IN 92-DEGREE HEAT PORTLAND. June 7. (API The temperature soared to 92 degrees the hottest since last September 14. here yesterday and the humidity dropped to Increase forest fire haz ards throughout western Oregon. The weather bureau forecast cooler weather for today, with possible re lief from lack of moisture which has damaged pea crops, pastures and strawberry harvests. Strawberry grow ers, racing the season's peak ten days earlier than usual, called upon the state employment office for 400 additional pickers. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Caddymaster Carl Murphy going through as many contortions as the performers at the rasslln riots, even Leah Inch discarding her usual de corum, almost demolishing her Al pine hat In the mad melee. Pllllst Fred Heath. Jr filling a pre scription for acetylamlnohydroxpheny larsonic acid with boric acid and glycolyzed carbohydrates, and vowing he knew what It was. Elno Hemmlla ambling around town lth an air-conditioned ahirt. Dorothy Prances Roberta objecting to her middle name appearing In print, she being exhausted by friends unaware of the center moniker, quit ting her as to when and how the got It. Roy Lee drtring madly to work and ml wing feminine pedestrian with professional Tineas Wearin Is Swamped In Primary Contest For Senate Choice DES MOINES, June 7. () The purported drive of some nationally known New Dealers against Iowa Senator Guy M. Gillette appeared to have "been swamped under a deluge of Democratic primary votes todaj. Senator Olllette, who charged dur- i lng the campaign that New Deal Strategist Tommy Corcoran was di recting the drive against him from Washington, was polling more than 50 percent of the votes as returns passed the three-fourths mark. Representative Otha D. Wearin. en dorsed by WPA Chief Harry L. Hop kins and 'my friend" to James Roose velt, was receiving a little more than a quarter of the total, and three other candidates shared the rest. Returns from 2,374 of 2,447 pre cincts gave Gillette 75.735. Wearin 40.527. W. O. Byerhoff 5.071, J. J. Meyers 16.716, Mrs. Ellsworth Rich ardson 8.975. Former Senator L. J. Dickinson, conceded victor In the Republican senatorial race, had polled 135.171 votes in 2.280 precincts. Represen tative Lloyd Thurston, his opponent, had 102.372. Wearin could not be reached for a statement. His family In Hastings, la., reported that he was not expect ed until late tonight. A campaign aide, J. Don Kerlln of Dcs Moines, said he (Kerlln) had sent a con gratulatory telegram to Gillette. Both Wearin and Thurston. In cumbent congressmen, ran poorly out side their own congressional districts. The volume of Republican voting continued substantially ahead of the Democratic totals. STRIKE IS VOTED -BYHOTEL UNIONS PORTLAND, June 7. ( AP) A strike for higher wages and recog nition of hotel unions was voted yesterday by 6000 members of five restaurant and hotel unions. No total votes were given by un ion officials for the 3000 restaurant and 2.000 hotel employes- Involved, but they said the majorities were large. The strike employers feared this would coincide with the opening of Portland's annual rose festival Wed nesday. Another vote was ordered today among members of the cooks and waiters unions on an employers' pro posal for a 10 percent wage cut In new contracts, rather than 20 per cent previously requested. A. negative vote would leave the unions' execu tive board free to act. CONVENTION IN LOS A. LOS ANGELES, June 7. (AP) Ebullient Shrinedom of the United States and Canada opened Its annual convention hero today with impres sive pageantry and ceremony In Memorial coliseum. Oay and as be -plumed as pencocks. members of the ancient Arabic Order. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, started their three-day program with en official parade. The official opening march was before Imperial Potentate Walter S. Sugden of Sistervllle, W. Va., his 1938-39 successor, Deputy Imperial Potentate Andrew A. D. Rahn of Minneapolis, and other members of the imperial divan. Rahn becomes Shrlnedom's head this week. MAYON VOLCANO LULLS TO OMINOUS RUMBLING MANILA, June 7. p) Mayon vol cano, whoso five-day eruption has driven 18.800 persona from their homes In villages near the base of the mountain, quieted noticeably to night. A plume of tmoke. streaked occas ionally with red bursts of flame, tow ered a mite and a half In the air above the 7,900-foot peak. Earth quakes, which had accompanied per iodic outbursts from the volcano for days, had ceased but the ominous rumblings from within the moun tain grew In volume. Filing Bat (.and. SAN DIEOO. Cal., June 7. The big flying boat Guba. carrying Richard Archbold and crew of five on a flight from Ban Diego to Now Ouinea, landed at Wake Island at 12:14 p. m. (P3T.) today, according to a relayed radio report received by Bernard Boyd, local amateur. The message was relayed to Boyd by an amateur In Honolulu, where the Ouba took off at 7:30 p. m. (P.8.T.) yca terday. 4 Goldfish were introduce Into Eng land from China in 1728, GILLETTE HAILED AS E TO ET AL WASHINGTON1. June 7. (AP) President Roosevelt, commenting to day on the renomlnatlon of Senator Gillette In the Iowa Democratic pri maries, said It was a perfectly good carrying out of a perfectly good system of party government. Harry L. Hopkins, tho works pro gress administrator, who had said he favored Representative Wearin, Gillette's principal opponent, com mented earlier that the senator's victory showed WPA was not playing politics. WASHINGTON, June 7. JP ' Secretary Wallace pledged his "whole hearted support" to Senator Gillette , (D.-Ia.) today and urged all Iowa Democrats and Republicans who fa vor Roosevelt policies to work for his reelection. Iowa Republicans nominated for mer Senator L. J. Dickinson to oppose Senator Gillette In general election In November, Democratic senators who fought the Roosevelt cour bill hailed Gillette's victory aa a rebuke to the exertion of outside Influence In a state pri mary. Gillette was first of their num ber up for re-nomlnatlon this year. It was this group which focused national attention on the Iowa con- ; test by senate declarations that WPA j Administrator Harry Hopkins was trying to "put WPA Into politics" I tli rough his endorsement of Repre- sentetlve Otha Wearin, Gillette's prln- clpal challenger. After the votes were counted, these senators described Wearln's defeat by i nearly two to one as a sharp rebuke ' to Hopkins. Antl-admlnlstratlon legislators, In fact, regarded the primary aa a dis tinct setback, to the Roosevelt forces not only In view of Hopkins' stand but because Wearin himself claimed White House support. Representative Martin (R.-Mass.), chairman of the Republican congres sional committee, said the Iowa vot ing "indicated plainly Iowa la set to Join Pennsylvania and Oregon In the Republican parade in November." Several of the court bill foes Intend to campaign on the same formula. As for organized labor, the Amer ican Federation of Labor once more backed the winning nominee, aa It had done In Pennsylvania, wearin had received the endorsement of several CIO leaders. Republicans were heartened by the fact that their total primary vote ran far ahead of the Democratic aggre gate, as usual. James A. Farley. Democratic na tional chairman, was not far behind Wallace In congratulating Gillette. On the White House steps he made public a telegram which pledged his aid "In the campaign that Is to follow" and urged Gillette to '"Teel free to call upon me for any as sistance you desire." Farley had Just conferred with Mr. Roosevelt but told reporters the tele gram had not been shown the pres ident. INSURGENTSOPEN VALENCIA DRIVE HENDATE. France (at the Spanish Frontier), June 7. (P Spanish in surgent armies today launched a n eral offensive against Valencia along a 60-mlle front between Teruel and the Mediterranean. The attack, unleashed at dawn, was supported by hundreds of planes and large concentrations of heavy artil lery. General Jose Varela's arm in the Teruel sector smashed southeastward toward the coast, while General Ar anda'c Galtcians struck straight to the south down the seaboard. Between the two armies, Navaresse troops under Oeneral Garcia Vallno fanned out to cover their flanks. The new offensive started after five days of skirmishing In which line had remained virtually unchanged. Despite Insurgent report yesterday of the encirclement of Albocacer. a keystone of the government's defense of Valencia, an official communique today acknowledged there waa "noth ing to report on any front." OE House Committee Gives Okeh On $35,802,000 Portion Of Omnibus Bill Debate Other Items. WASHINGTON, June 7. (AP) The house appropriations committee approved t35.B02.000 today for start ing the billion dollar naval expan sion program. The Item was part of a 9274.228,- 729 omnibus money bill on which the house Immediately began de bate after receiving the committee report. Leaders hoped consideration of tho measure to be completed late to morrow. . Besides the naval funds, principal Items in the bill were: (94,285.404 supplemental capital for the com modity credit corporation: $40,561.- 888 to refund social security faxes to states which did not have unem ployment compensation laws in ef fect prior to Dec. 31. 1938; $50,000. 000 for refunds of processing taxes collected under the original agricul tural adjustment act. and the- cot ton, tobacco and potato control laws. The bill would permit the begin ning of work on 19 naval vessels two 36,000-ton battleships to cost $141,700,000; two light cruisers, seven auxiliary vessels and eight experi mental vessels for a "mosquito" fleet. An Initial appropriation of $16,- 050.000 waa recommended for these ships, the total cost of which was estimated at $312,035,500. The bill also carried $10,752,000 for Improvements program at navy yards and shore stations, Including $2,000,000 for a drydock on Puget sound. The committee turned down re quests for $1,176,000 to start a new aircraft carrier and $600,000 for be ginning construction of a dirigible for experimental purposes. A $108,000 Item for the federal bureau of investigation was recom mended to make up a deficiency de scribed as partially due to tho large number of kidnaping and extortion cases confronting the G-men In re cent months. The committee sug gested, however, that In the future the FBI should set aside part of its money for emergencies. Other Hems for law enforcement agencies Included1 $160,000 for an FBI target range at Quantlco, Va., and $200,000 for expansion, recom mended by President Roosevelt,- of the Justice department's anti-trust work. The whole bill was $24,868,736 less than budget estimates. t PORTLAND. June 7. (AP) First round scores of the women's match play In the Oregon amateur golf championships at Columbla-Edgewa-ter country club Included: Mrs. F. G. Bunch, Med ford, de feated Margaret Crosble, Alderwood of Portland, 1 up. PORTLAND. June 7. (AP) Don Moe, defending champion and a Walker cup team alternate, trailed four others in qualifying rounds of the Oregon state golf championship yesterday. . The brilliant amateur from Aider wood country club was even with Dr. O. P. Willing, an ex -state cham pion and former Walker team player, with a 72. Harold Salvador, runner up to Moe last year and playing his home Columbia -E d g e w a te r course: Roy Wiggins, Lake Oswego, former state champion: Eddie Ho gan. former Pacific Northwest cham pion, and George Ingles, Alderwood, shot sub-par 71a. Other scores Included: E. K. Voorhles, O rants Pasa. 82; K. Bennett, Grants Pass, 83. YEHUDI'S KID SISTER JOINS MARRIED CIRCLE NEW YORK, June 7. (AP) MlM Yaltah Menuhln, lo-year-old slater of the violinist, and recent bride groom. Yehudt. today became a bride le than 34 hour, after returning to this country from Europe, and within one hour alter securing a Ueenae. The bridegroom was Wllllm stlx it. an attorney of St. Louie, who yesterday went down the harbor to greet Yaltah. Dr. Kerr llltrn Degree LOGAN, Utah. June 7. ( AP) The Utah Agricultural college awarded IU former president. Dr. William J. Kerr, an honorary doctors' degree today at the aeml-centennlal anniversary graduation exercises. Or. Kerr Is chancellor emeritus of the Oregon system of higher education. Bolt Kills ., L - - Two spectators were killed and four others Injured when lightning struck nenr the ninth green of the lllllcrpfct Country club golf course (luring a sudden shower which lialt'd piny In the first round or the Kan sas City open tournament. Hhown here I the crowd whfrh gnthercrt as first aid treatment was administered to William D. Doyle and Kilward M. Crltchrlrld. DIES BY POISON Lucy Ruth Davis, about 36, of Ashland RFD 1, box 240. died in Ashland Community hospital at 8:26 this morning under conditions which Indicate she committed suicide by taking strychnine, according to Dep uty Coroner Will M. Dodge and District Attorney Frank J. Newman. Suffering from 111 health for over a year, Miss Davis assertedly told a woman working In the house where she lived with her brother, W. L. Davis, that she had taken poison and waa then rushed to the hos pital by her brother. Deputy Cor oner Dodge said. She died almost Immediately upon reaching the hos pital. District Attorney Newman stated that further Investigation was be ing made by Ashland authorities and that an autopsy and Inquest was pending the outcome of that Investigation. He said It would be decided tomorrow morning whether an autopy or Inquest would be held It was also asserted that Miss Davis, despondent for tho past year, had threatened several times to take her own life, District Attorney New man said. Miss Davis, unmarried, lived with her brother about four miles from Klamath Junction on the Pacific highway south of Ashland, near Wagner Soda springs. She was a member of a family which has re sided In southern Oregon for many years. Her parents are dead, but she is survived by several brothers and slaters. A complete obituary will be published tomorrow. Funeral ar rangements will be announced fol lowing word from relatives. SAD FREUDSEEKS PEACE IN LONDON LONDON, June 6, ( AP) Dr. Slg mund Freud, a sad, white -whiskered old man. arrived In London today from Nazi Vienna In search of "peace and quiet." The 82-year-old "father of psycho analysis" waa accompanied by his wife, his daughter Anna, and hla son Ernest, a London architect. Dr. Freud, whose researches In the Influence of sex on behavior won him world fame, hopes to complete a book here intended to show how the Bible reflected the subconscious yearnings and feara of the people of antiquity. Anna Freud hopes to practice here as a psychoanalyst If she can obtain a working permit. 4 Ashland Has Fire In Business Block ASHLAND, June 7. (Bpl.) F.re caused damage estimated at $7,600 in adjoining establishments here early this morning. The flames, believed to have started In the ladles' ren room of the palace restaurant, owned by W. D. Jackson, had gained con side ruble proportions before being dis covered. The blae spread to the ad Joining weekl) Southern Oregon Miner plant. Loss is reported aa partially covered bj lniuranc Two at Golf Tournament ci &w . American Chicago 8 13 8 New York , 6 9 2 Lee and Sewell Ruffing. Andrews, Sundra and Jorgens. Detroit 6 10 I Philadelphia 4 11 3 GUI, Lawson and York; Castor. Dean and Brucker. . Cleveland Boston Allen. Zuber, Humphries and Pyt lak; Bagby, McKnln and De sail tela. Nallnnnl Philadelphia at Cincinnati, Boston at Pittsburgh, postponed, rain. R. H. B. New York 2 7 0 Chicago - 4 11 0 Melton. Cofrman and Dannlng: Leo and Garbark. SEVEN CONVICTS E FLORENCE, Arl., June 7. (AP) Several convicts escaped from the Arizona penitentiary farm near here today after stabbing and critically wounding Joe Uizear, captain of outside guards. Several guards wore reported dlnarmed. Sheriff Walter Laveen's office re ported four or five men escaped In a prison truck. There were about 12 men In the group which attacked Lazear, said Dr. T. B. Steward, prison physician. He said Lezear was In a critical condition with stab wound near the heart and lungs. The warden's office said It could not be determined Immediately how many escaped, or their identity. JOB AT LOWER WAGE SPURNED BY CIO MEN MrMINNVILLE, June 7 (API Members of the C.I.O. International Woodworkers of America refused yesterday to accept a 10 percent wage cut and resume operations of a hlghllno rig at the Flora lumber company, Carlton. T!ie plant, which closed May 20, throwing 625 men out of work, of fered employment to 275 yesterday. The union, while not officially vot ing down the offer, failed to send out crews. !r-H bUHULAnS r LI- HOUSES AT COLLEGE CORVALLLS, June 1, (;p) Four H club acholara filled three dorml torl.s and 20 fraternity and sorority houses at the start of the 24th an nual summer session at Oregon State college today. Nearly a hundred groups began sep arate classes which will continue for two weeks. Plane lilts Wires ALTURA8. Calif., June 7.P, Al Boone and Harry Ayrea of San Fran cisco, escaped Injury today when their airplane crashed after colliding with telephone wires on tho takeoff. The plane waa badly damaged. The filers landed here last night en route to Lftkevlew, Oregon. Filers Warned WASHINGTON, June 7. AP) President Roosevelt warned American fliers today their license would be revoked If they fought on foreign sott on the side of revolutionists against e Hating government BASEBALL 01 JtSm LA FOLLETTE OFFERS AS PROSPERITY PLAN BOSTON, June 7 (JP) The stream lining of American railroads was urged today by Philip U La Follette, governor of Wisconsin and founder of the new Progressive party, as one means of taking the United States out of the recession. Tho youthful leader of tho new party said In an Interview that the railroads In the east were "obsolete" and he suggested present equipment ought to be "Junked." La Follette came to the Massachu setts capital after addressing Dart mouth college students at Hanover, N. H., and young Republicans of Vermont at Rutlsnd. Vt. There la work to be done In this country If the government con bring work and the workor together," he said. "Tho railroads In the east are obsolete. Every time you run a train In New England you are wasting money. Every time you haul a pas senger train you are hauling three times as much weight aa Is necessary. Modern ctfra and modern equipment are only one-third the weight of the cars and equipment now in service.' The Notional Progressive associa tion, ha said, would compel such Improvements made by law. "It would begin with a survey of the railroads of tho country."- he declared, "an engineer's survey, not a banker'a survey, and It would es tablish first what should be done and then provide the legislation to do It. There are 3,500.000 jooa aione In modernising American railroads.' PAYMENT SIGNED WASHINGTON, June 7. (AP) A bill authorizing payment of 100 each to members of the Klamath tribe of Indians who have not re ceived land allotmenta on the reser vation In Oregon was signed yes terday by President Roosevelt. The money will be paid In 300 annual Installments. Indiana who will benefit are those born since the closing of the land allotment roll, on April 10. 1010, the house Indian affairs committee said. "The Klamath tribes deslr to conserve their grazing lands aa tribal asset," the committee said, "and there Is not sufficient good agricultural land unalloted within the confines of the reservation to make allotments of land to these Individuals." McNARY SEES ISSUE FOR FALL CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON. June 7.r-ffV-Bn. a tor McNary of Oregon declared Re publicans would make the senate's vote against restricting political ao tlvity by relief employes ft major Is- sue In this year's congressional alec tlon campaigns. The Republican leaders declared the Democratic majority In the senate had made a "major mistake" when it vot ed, under leadership of administra tion lieutenants, against writing such restrictions Into the 43, 73 3, 000,000 lending -spending bll' TO ROLL' OF DEAD IN T( Three Raids Conducted By Moonlight Raids Now In Eleventh Day Over 6,000 Victims Recorded. CANTON, China, June 7. (AP) : Japan's warplanea bombarded this terrorized South China - city three times today and swelled the toll of dead and wounded which had reached 6,000 since the punishing series of raids began 11 days ago. The third raid waa made by moon-, light, beginning at 8:30 p. m. (7:30, a. m. E. ST), and Incendiary bombs were dropped tn northern sections of, the city. Canton, including the foreign set-, tlement on Shameen Island, was . without electric light or power to- ' night. During an afternoon raid; nine bombs plunged into the com pound of the power station ' and waterworks In the Solchuen district,, near Shameen, putting 'the power station out of commission. Twenty civilians were killed on Honam Island, separated from Can-i ton City by the Pearl river. Local Chinese authorities have ordered all women and children to leave the city. Throngs have gath--ered at railway stations and along the waterfront, patiently awaiting transport. Facilities are entirely in-- adequate to handle the exodus. More than 100.000 already haver fled to British Hongkong; many mora have sought refuge In the Interior or In porta further south.' Canton has drawn Japan's lr. attacks because It Is the gateway for friMt ol ' ChiwtJpffiqct.' supplies. ' ' J (In Shanghai a Japanese nary spokesman declared Japan would continue bomblnga of Canton and Hankow Because of their military Importance. He denied they wen undefended cities.) PRISON FOR LIFE ST. HELENS. June 1.JPl Mm. Agnes Joan Ledford,' the mother of two children, wept Monday when Circuit Judge Howard K. Zimmerman sentenced her to life Imprisonment for murder.. .- The 38-year-old mother ni eon- vlcted recently of poisoning a step daughter. The convicted woman's husband ' and 60 friends were present. Mrs. Ledford had been brought from the Multnomah county Jail at Portland where she had been confined beoausa there were no facilities for women at the Columbia county Jail. Two of Mrs. Ledforda' stepdaugh ter died of poisoning last fall. She waa Indicted on separate counts and tried only on one. Through the long trial several ' weeks sgo, she asserted the children died after eating wild blackberries dusted by a spray from a nearby potato field. Klamath Gambling Conviction Upheld SALEM, June 7. PV The state supreme court upheld today a Klam ath county circuit decision finding the Embassy Country olub and Jamea P. Pulver and Barney Barnes, olub employes, guilty of violating the gambling lawa. The club and employes conducted twenty-one, black jack and other gambling gamea, being charged last July 36 in the Llnkvllle district Jus tice court, Klamath county. CALLISON ASKS TRIAL ' ON DRUNKEN DRIVING REDWOOD CITY, Cal.. June 7. (JP Prince O. Calllson. 39, former football coach at the University of Oregon, pleaded Innocent before Police Judge Edward 1. McAullffe today to a charge of driving while Intoxicated and re quested a trial by Jury. Judge Mc Aullffe set the case for June 34. Calllaon waa arrested here June by Policeman Cole Stafford, who de scribed him as "very much a gen tleman" when he was taken Into custody. EX-UTILITY MANAGER SENTENCED TO PRISON SPOKANE, June 7. (AP) After suddenly changing his plea to guilty after Jury wsa chosen to try him. Jay B. Johnson, former power com pany manager at Spragui and past president of the chamber of com merce, waa sentenced today to 10 yeara In McNeil Island federal peni tentiary for robbery of the Spragu branch of the Old National bank.
