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The Weather Fair tonliht ul Tuesday, not much change In temper ature. Temperature Highest yeiterday 88 Lowest this mornlni. .... &o Thirty-Third Year The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and . ' Robert Kintner Copyright 1937, by The ' North American News paper Alliance, Inc. HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH IN CONGRESS . TTNKHAM HAS THE ANSWER "SERVICE" BOSTON OFFICE KEEPS FILE ON FAVORS DONE ELECTION TIME REMINDER BETTER THAN SPEECHES WASHINGTON, June 30. This summer the United States will be overrun with congressmen seeking re election. From Passamaquoddy to Pasadena, the fellows whom Ambrose Bleroe once described as "members of the lower house In this world, with small hope of promotion In the next" will be bellowing, sweating, baby ktssing and generally behaving In a noisy andjunalghtly fashion. For the sake of the public peace and the serenity of their own minds, it's too bad that other congressmen don't learn the system of the Honor able George Holden Tlnkham, repre sentative of the tenth Massachusetts district for the past twenty-four years. This summer, Tlnkham will make no speeches, buss no babies. He will go abroad, perhaps to England, to study the perfidy of Albion; per haps to Africa, to slaughter lions; perhaps to Ispahan, to purchase Per slsn rugs. And he will return only to see the count of his own large ma jority. George Tlnkham Is one of the sights and mysteries of the capital. His long gray beard, hi beady eye, the constant disarray of his dress these give him an aspect of amiable eccentricity, which Is only increased by his habit of consuming three ten derloin steaks at a sitting, and lead ing the hotel orchestra with his fork between mouthfuls. But these are the obvious Tlnkham peculiarities.--... What everyone wants to know about Tlnkham Is, how does he do it? How does he. a Republican, carry a normally Democratic district, carry It by an Increasing majority at each election, and without visiting It, shaking hands In It or speaking In it? The answer to this puzzling ques tion Is to be found In the Tlnkham system, summed up In the Tlnkham motto. "Tlnkham and service." Other New Englanders have been Ingenious. The late Representative Augustus Peabody Garner, for example, constl tuted himself chief mourner of Essex county, endearing- himself to his vot- (Continued on Page Pour.) L CLOSES AT 7 P. M. Annuel board election for Medford school district 49 was being held to day, with the polls at senior high achool due to close at 7 o'clock to night. All registered voters In the city are eligible to cast ballots. Two members of the board are up for re-election, and they are unop posed. They are Dr. R. E. Oreen and Mare B. Jarmln. Railroader's Wife One Of Victims MILES CITY. Mont.. June 30. (AP) Ernest H. Johnson of Miles City, division civil engineer for the Milwaukee railroad, notified of the "Olympian" wreck and told to atart salvage work, cried: "My God. my wife's on that train 1" Mrs. Johnson's body was recovered and Identified. Johnson worked through last night, directing the clearing of the creek bed where the train piled up early yesterday. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Gordon Maxwell being stopped by a cop searching for cattle rustlers. Gordon quick. y establishing his Iden tity as an honest banker. Ward Spats toting Charlie Olbbeni. dignified Englishman, around the valley In a truck. Paul Hanlln laughing over a Jour nal typographical error which gave the Demo central committee meeting 100 more attendants than It bad. Patty Hsmpson enjoying ft sprin kler swim, fully clothed In her Sun day best. Mama Berte. standing bv unperturbed with Urge turkiah towel carried lor such emergencies Marguerite Boyle ably Instructing a group of wou!d-be-Blg-Applers. she snipping into a mean step. Pather Ernest Bartlam still feelliv eheerfui after performing four mar CArcfflaam in oat da Medford Full Associated Press TAKES LIFE OF Mrs. Elizabeth A. Crocker, 26, Is Victim of Acci dent at Highway Inter section North of City Suffering from Internal Injuries sustained In an automobile accident at the old and new Pacific highway Intersection near the Pine Cone early Sunday morning. Elizabeth A Crocker. 28, wife of Hervy Crocker of 444 South Plr street, employe of the city sanitary service, died in Sacred Heart hospital yesterday after noon at 3:14 o clock. An autopsy performed this morn ing by County Coroner Prank Perl revealed Mrs. Crocker died of a severed left renal artery, a stelat rupture of the spleen and internal hemorrhage. Strangely, she did not have a scratch on her. Coroner Perl said. Deputy District Attorney George Nellson stated there would probably be no Inquest. He ssid that Mr. Crocker, driver of the machine In which his wife received her fatal In juries, had assumed full responsi bility for the accident. Funeral Tuesday. Funeral services for Mrs. Crocker will be held from the Perl funeral home Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Rev. Leonard Weston of the Full Gospel church officiating. In terment will take place In Siskiyou Memorial park. According to Investigating city police officers, the wreck occurred shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday. Crock er, driving a Ford V-8 sedan south on the old Pacific highway railed to stop at the new Pacific highway Intersection and crashed Into a Chevrolet sedan operated by Melvln J. Harper of Central Point, moving north .on the new Pacific highway, police reported. The Harper auto was struck on the right front wheel and side, and so terrific was the impact that the Crocker machine was swung com pletely around and headed back In the direction from which it came. police said. City police called to Crocker to the .hospital, where all attempts to save her life proved futile. Others Unhurt. . Mr. Crocker was uninjured. Two passengers in the back seat of the Crocker car, LaDena Glass- of 318 Ashland avenue and Dutch Welch of Medford. were also uninjured. Mr. Harper, lone occupant of the other machine, also escaped injury, al though his ear was badly damaged. As the two cars crashed together, Mrs. Crocker was thrown violently against the front and side interior. The shock rendered her unconscious for a few seconds, but she regained consciousness and remained that way almost until her death. Crocker, crushed by grief, told Deputy District Attorney Nellson he was driving about 35 miles an hour and forgot all about the stop- street Intersection until he entered the new highway. He said he saw the Harper car and applied his brakes in an attempt to avoid the collision, but that it was too late. He took all blame for the accident. Deputy District Attorney Nellson said. Enroute Home. Mr. and Mrs. Crocker and their two passengers were returning from the home of friends on the Midway road, and Mr. Harper was also on his way home when the crash oc curred. Mrs. Crocker was born at Locks- burg. Ark., Sept. 7. 1911. She spent her early life and received her edu cation there, and was united In marriage to Hervy Crocker at Boka homa. Okla., January IS. 1928. They had lived In Medford for the past two years. Besides her husband, she la sur vived by one daughter, Jocarolyn, age 6, her mother, Mrs. William Johnson of Ashdown, Ark., two sis ters, Mrs. Lois Glenn of Forman. Ark., and Miss Ethel Johnson of Ashdown. Ark., and three brothers. John. Ralph and Joe Johnson of Ashdown, Ark. GERMANS EXPEL JEWISH BROKERS BERLIN. June 30. 1P AH Jews were expelled from the floors of stock and other exchanges throughout greater Oermany today by an order Issued by the ministry of economic. It waa explained that hitherto a certain number of Jews have been permitted to work In the exchanges in order that business would not be hampered unduly In the process of "Araynlzlng" German finance and business. Today'a order, however. Jecreed that Jewish brokerage firms must en gage non-Jewish agents henceforth for dealings on the exchanges. This waa part of another diy of persecution which extended what nrobsblv la the worst wave of antl- semltlsm In the five years of narl power. opllmll roniene jOS ANOELES. June 30. (API J Optimist International opened Its 70th annual convention hre today with plana to further aid needy orj (Wmsuent boja, BASEBALL National Chicago I 11 0 Brooklyn 1 T 0 Lee. Posedel and Hartnett; Hamlin and Phelps. (18 Innings) Cincinnati Boston I T 1 1 10 1 Lombardl; Pette, R. Davis and Lannlng and Mueller. American New York .......... I 18 0 St. Louis ... 4 8 0 Chandler and Dickey; Tletle, Walk up and Heath. TO REED'S SUCCESSOR AS PEACE JUSTICE The governor and not the county court Is charged with the responsi bility of appointing a Justice nt the peace for the Gold Hill district to fill the vacancy created by the death of H. D. Reed, attorneys here said to day. The county court had been con templating naming a successor. Oregon laws were amended In re cent years to pass the appointive re sponsibillty from the county court to the governor, attorneys said and Dep uty District Attorney George Nellson concurred. Only in the case of a tem porary vacancy, such as would be caused by Illness or absence, would the county court have authority to make the appointment, the law pro vides. It was understood in political cir cles that the Democratic county cen tral committee will recommend the appointment of W. H. Ferguson, Oold Hill city recorder. Because of the vacancy, a new Jus tice of the peace must be elected In the fall. Both the Republican and Democratic county central commit tees are to nominate candidates for the post. The appointed Justice would serve until January 1, SLAPS NEW DEAL IN CONVENTION SESSION LOS ANGELES, June 30. (API- Russell R. Hand, member of the Townsend plan Washington lrgtsla tlve commission, gave the third Townsend national convention fight talk today, rapped th new deal and told the old age pension advo cates: "We can have what we wantl" Hand, the convention keynoter, cited the Townsend plan aa a way out of the recession and pointed to Dr. Francis E. Townsend aa the leader. lnferentlally comparing him to Lin coin and Washington. Everything which has been 'tried during the paat eight or nine yeara to stem the tide of destruction of the greatest depression In our history has failed, utterly, to give us any lasting Improvement," he said, "and we are In the throes of graver economic dif ficulties than we have ever been." The Townsend plan he described as a great ileal more Important than an old age pension. "It . la, truly, a pay-as-we-go na tional recovery measure," said Rand, "which solves at one the problems of unemployment, old age security, relief, business. Industrial and agri cultural stagnation, and which de stroys the motives for three-fourths of the crime committed In our na tion." CLARK CARDS 77 PORTLAND, June 30. (AP) Dr. O. P. Willing, Oregon amateur cham pion and veteran Walker Cup player, led early finishers today In the first 18 hole qualifying round of the Pa cific Northweat oolf association championship on the Waverly Coun try club course. He came In with a 35 for a 73 par. Jack Westland of Seattle aM u.i. colm MacNaughton of San Francisco carded 74s. Other qualifying scores Included: Harold Salvador. Portland -) 78. Oerry Bert. Seattle. 48-8788. Oeorge Sarsfleld. Butu. Unni aa. 4385. Dr. William McBride. Portland ii. 4384. Leland Clark. Medford, 38-3877. Farr Arrives With Prediction F or Joe NEW YORK, June 30. (API Tommy Parr. British heavyweight champion, arrived today on the Queen Mary with a prediction tbat Joe Louis would knock out Max Schmeling "before the tenth round" n their fight Wednesday night. "Whoa he gonna fight?" Parr asked when he saw reporters and photographers gathered around Am- Uuador JoaeM . KsnnacaL MEDFORD, OREGON, .MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1938." RAILROAD CREWS E Tangled Debris in Montana , Creek Bed Hides Re mains of Nearly Forty Is Fear Scores Injured MILES CITY. Mont., June 30 (AP) The bodies of seven per sona were recovered today from the wreckage of sleeper B of the Milwaukee railroad's "Olympian." bringing; to 33 the number of bodies recovered from the train which early yesterday plunged Into a creek near here, causing the death of nearly 40 persons. Railroad officials said the seven bodies were all that were In the submerged car, but that they be lieved there were two or three more bodlea pinned under the wreckage. MILES CITY, Mont.. June 30. fl Custer creek, where the Milwaukee railroad's "Olympian" train crashed through a flood-weakened bridge early yesterday carrying nearly1 40 persons to death, receded to only six Inches In depth today and crews Began cutting apart the tangled debris to reach one tourist sleeper where many bodies remained. Heavy silt flowing into the sleeper where it wss submerged forced work ers to abandon attempts to raise It with cranes. The all-steel construction of the train made thla work difficult. Delay Inquest Coroner Stanley Quy of Prairie county, Montana, scene of the trag- edy, the worst in recent years In American railroading, said he would delay his Inquest until after recovery of the bodies. The Interstate commerce commis sion, however, began an Inquiry W. J. Patterson, director of the bu reau of safety of the commission, said two Inspectors, r. P. Engles and A. C. Murphy, were In Montana when the accident occurred and were ordered at once to the scene. Sixteen bodies have been recovered. Survivors told of seeing as many as five or six bodies swept Into the flood waters of Custer creek, Into which the train plunged yesterday. A midnight "flash flood" had car- rled away the 180-foot trestle span ning Custer creek 38 miles east of Miles City. Seven oars of the 13-car train followed the locomotive Into 30 feet of rushing water. Victims Visible Only a few minutes before the track walker had reported the creek almost dry. Witnesses said they could see the bodies of passengers still seated In the submerged steeper, the forms mads indistinct by the muddy water that filled the car. The sleeper's (Continued on Page rwo.) ELEVEN KILLED IN By the Associated Press Eleven persons died In a half dozen widely separated airplane crashes In the nation over the week end and an Intercontinental air liner with a crew of four was reported missing In South America. Four men were killed when their private plane crashed near Louln. Miss., In a heavy rain. At Ashevllle. N. C an army plane on a weather observation flight went Into a spin and was wrecked, killing an officer and an observer. Two civilian fliers lost their lives near Detroit when their sport plane fell shortly after taking off. At Milwaukee an amateur set out to test his home-made midget mono plane and died In flames as It crash ed to a highway. A naval reserve flier was killed and another seriously Injured at Oakland, Cal. A North Adams, Mass., youth was recovering from the crash of his plsne there Saturday after Its motor died 400 feet In the air. A friend riding with htm was killed. A Pan-American-Grace air liner carrying no passengers was reported missing on a night from Santiago to Antofagasta, Chile. Four crew mem bers were aboard. Gas Chamber For Slayer Of Child LOS ANOELE3, June 30. (API- Charles A. McLachlan, 63, was sen tenced to die In San Quvntln's lethal gaa chamber today for the sex mur der of ae ven-year-old Jenny Moreno last April 14. Clasping his hands In front of him In semi. prayerlike attitude, Mc Lachlan heard Superior Judge Frank M. Smith sentence him after deny ing a new trial. Judge Smith. In a court trial, found McLachlan guilty last week. . IrftMiilty Confirmed, ROSEBURG. Ore., June 20.I AP ' A message received here today from J. Edirar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau of investigation con firm Identification of the fugitive auto thief, who committed suicide here Sunday. June 13, aa Paul Joseph Pierre. Sentrant Paul Parsons oi the tat ooUm raoortwd. T"j " J-Bs-I 1 - .J J.J N x. 1 i.- " . -, ,- '.'..-J", 1M Scores Perish as T " jn Crashes Through Bridge - - . - - i ' " ? . 4 Mi ., , is..-. zJznz,.- .vv .. ; At top In an air view of the scone near Miles City, Mont., whire the Milwaukee railroad's crack "Olym pian" pawnger train crashed early Sunday through a flood-wrakrned treble Into a swollen mountain creek. Nearly forty passengers met death and scores were Injured. One car la shown almost completely sub merged with other cars piled up on the rtRht hank. At 111 other rars. which did not leave the track, ran he en on the right. In renter clos-np one cnarh Is shown h rokcn In the renter. Mof of the dead were trnpp.rcJ In nnother car which was almost entirely sub merged. The arrow on map below points to location of the t raged v, worst In American railroading history. (A. P. Photos by airmail to Mnll Tribune.) GRANTS PASS. June 30. (API- Earl Stevens, losing truck driver, was killed this afternoon when his truck rammed through San Evans creek bridge, seven miles upstream from Rogue River. Stevens home was believed to be In Rogue River. A Orants P ambulance was called. AuthoiiKe Coins. WASHINGTON", June 30. (AP bill authorizing coinage of 100, 000 fifty cent pieces commemorating the exploration of the southwest by Coronado needed only President Roosevelt's signature today to be come law. PENDLETON. June 20. (API For the second time In IS years a robbery waa committed In Uhlan, out-of-the-way mountain town 60 miles south of here, and the same store waa vlctim lwd as beiora. Tribun Fu ,ed BOISE IDAHO ' 7- NEV. j UTAH,' Dead and Missing MILES CITY. Mont., June 30. fi) A list of Identified dead and missing In the train Wreck near Miles City. Mont., as Issued today by Milwaukee railroad officials and doctors at Holy Rosary hospital, Miles City, follows: Mrs. Leroy Bailey and daughters. Juan its 0. Joyce 3, Billings, Mont. Frank Merrlfleld, engineer. Miles City, Mont. Charles James, baggageman, Miles City. Mrs. Milton Lchr and daughter. Billings. Mont. Mitten C. Norbcrg. mail clerk. Aberdeen. S. D. H. M. McCoy, fireman. Mi It City. Mrs. . afreJlck. Lemmoo. S, IX ? TERRY U. (MARK Press C A Isj A D A I.... A I I PIERRE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARIC I ' W Y 0. Mrs. . H. Johnson, Mites City. Missing: Thomas Lai I Is, Bell Ingham, Wash. Mrs. Thorn us Lallli, Be 11 Ingham, Wash. Lavonne Lou Leer, IS months old. Billings, Mont. (Railroad officials said the follow Ing held space In ttfe tourist aleeper that could not be raised from the crerk bed last Mtfht and In wnlch some bodies could be seen. However, possibly some of those listed either esrnpcd from the car or .were not on It when It sank in the stream.) Dorothy Debeer, Sloui City, Iowa. Nell Clancy,, Seattle. Kate Clancy, Seattle. M-rgo Clanry, Beattle. Miss Conway, Beattle. . Henry Schultit, Tacoma. Mi a. L. blcison, Seattle Do Likewise There la always something of Interest on the Classified page. Many people hove heroine reg ulnr dally renders of tliU page. It would likely prove of value to you If you would do likewise. No. 77. NEB. Unidentified boy believed to b from Avery, Idaho, . Two from Seattle who were uni dentified. P. F. Schulz, Seattle. Dean Hanscom, Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ranger, At lanta, Ga. Strati Olson, 64, Omaha. Margaret Olson. 03, Omaha. - LOS ANGELES. June 30 (AP) flunrira Martin, huxom secretarv to Screen Star Slmone Simon, pleaded guilty toaay vo mrw wuuw rnnrerv in ralslna the French actress checks for a total of 1663.50. JitritTf. a. A. Scott set July 10 for sentence and hearing on probation. miss Martin naa own cnarsn with defrauding the actress of til OCX Li?:-....
