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ATT Me Keep Informed There U nothing puzzling about the classified Advs. They tell a straight forward story and leave nothing to guess about. Read them carefully each day and .keep Informed. The Weather Forecast: Part It cloudy tonight and Thursday; lightly "cool er. Temperature Highest yesterday . 92 ' Lowest this morning AS MEDFORD Tribune Full Associated Press Pull United ? Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 22, 1008. No. 79. SIMMS BILBffl SfflMfflT JA IJfJK The BHYUU Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 11)37, by The North American News paper Alliance. Inc. NEW DEALERS. INDUSTRIAL. LEADERS DINE TOGETHER EXPLAIN ANTI-TRt'ST PROBE WILL SEEK FACTIj PROMISE EXCITEMENT BUT NO "WITCH-HUNTING" "PURGE" MAKES BUSINESS WARY OF PEACE EFFORTS WASHINGTON, June 22. The mll lenlum, when the lion and the lamb shall He down together. Is very for from being at hand. But, althougn business and government have never been more unfriendly, the time 1 not yet past when Edward R. Stettin lus, Jr., chairman of the board ol the United States Steel corporation, and Thurman W. Arnold, officii trust. buster of (the new deal, can take a cocktail off 'the same tray. The meeting was a significant one less because the new dealers present assured the business men that the oncoming anti-monopoly Inquiry would be fair and reasonable, than because It was part of a new and more promising effort to bring gov ernment and business together. The get-together was arranged by PrentLsa Coonley.a tall, sandy-haired, pleasant mannered partner of Paul Shields, the powerful broker who Is Wall Street's chief contact with the White House. At the suggestion of W. Averlll Harrlman. chairman of th board of the Union Pacific railroad and another White House friend, Coonley moved to Washington a month or so ago to- promote better business -government relations. - With a desk In the business advis ory counclt offices at the commerce department and a handsome house in Georgetown. Coonley has been hard at work. Last Thursday evening. whn Stettlnlus and Arnold dined with him, was a sample effort. The other men present were SEC Commissioner Jerome N. Frank; Leon Henderson, the WPA economist; Thomas G. Corcoran; Clarence Fran cls, president of General Foods: George Sloan, of the cotton textile Institute, and Btackwell Smith, n Washington lawyer. The party waa not only d languish ed; It was agreeable. Before and dur ing dinner, shop talk was outlawed. And then, after coffee and cigars, there was a round table. Since tho new dealers were all men deeply in- 1 Continued on Page Four.) FUTURE GRID STAR AT BOWERMAN HOME A future University of Oregon full back waa born today to Medford ht?h school's football coach. Bill Bower man, and Mrs. Bowerman. The boy was bom at 1:15 this aft ernoon In the Community hospital and weighed 8 pounds. II ounces. He was named Jon Hamilton Bower man. Mrs. Janet R. Young, Mrs. Bower man's mother, came to Medford Sat urday from her home in New York especially for the happy event. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS " Bethel Slagle backing up expertly albeit across the pedestrian lane after getting caught by a red light at an Intersection. Jerry Jerome exhibiting drawings, charts, pictures, maps and folders of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland's building at the Golden Gat 1030 fair. Councilman Larry Schade oblig ingly holding Mow Alford's big cigar while the city recorder ued both hands in recording city business. Frances Bare nursing a cold. John Wilkinson whipping Into the MT office to confirm the report the Louls-Schmellng fight had not been postponed. BtUle Hammett Robertson vaca tioning here and finding Medford much duller than her home town metropolis. Junction City. Horst- Bromley for, once bringing in Legion new to the MT on tim. he handing in tomorrow's stuff to- URGED TO LAY OFF JULY 1 10 NOV. 1 Proposal Offered As Conces sion to Groups Complain ing Tourist Trade Dam agedAcceptance Seen PORTLAND. June 22. (AP) Earl K. Nixon, director of the state de partment of geology and mineral in dustries, said today hydraulic miners on the Rogue river and its tributaries had been asked to cease operations from July 1 to November 1. The proposal was offered as a con cession to groups who complained mining damaged fishing and tne tourist trade. Nixon said a sufficient number of miners had been consult ed to assure acceptance. Operators will be asked to sign an agreement indicating their willing ness to close down for four months. In return, Nixon explained, the miners will assume that lower river Interests will recognize the concession before taking further legal action against hydraulic work. Curry county residents filed a suit last year to enjoin 17 mining oper ators from roiling the Rogue. "It is understood that this depart ment has no authority to compel compliance with . this closing down agreement." Nixon said, "but it might be pointed out that operators not In sympathy with the agreement would be most apt to be affected by retal iatory measures on the part of the lower river Interests." Miners have not been active at the week-ends since April. Nixon asserted, however, that complaints from Gold Beach continued. , The suggested closing dates con form with a California law affecting mining on the Klamath river. F. R. NAMES NINE HYDE PARK. N. Y., June 22. m President Roosevelt today announc ed appointment of seven men and two women as members of a commis sion to study the British labor dis putes act. and said the commission's work would be broadened to include Swedish labor relations. Members of the commission are : Gerard Swope, president of Gen eral Electric company. Charles R. Hook, president of Mie American Rolling Mill company. Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the Un iversity of Wisconsin law school. Henry I. Harrlman, former presi dent of the U. S. Chamber of Com merce. Robert Watt, of the International labor office at Geneva, Switzerland, representing tho American Federation of Labor. William H. Davis. New York City lawyer. Mrs." Anna M. Rosenberg, regional director of the social security board in New York. Miss Marlon Dtckerman, principal of the Todhunter school. . William Ellison Chalmers, assistant U. S. labor commissioner at Geneva. FIGHT WEATHER I NEW YORK. June 32. ( AP) After '. an early - afternoon ahower had threatened Promoter Mike Jacobs' peace of mind, the weather prospects for the Joe Louis-Max Schmeltng heavyweieht title fight tonight took a turn for the better. Late this afternoon the clouds be gan to break and the sun shope over the city. The prospect of a rain hard enough to force postponement of the bout at the Yankee stadium appeared slight. BEN HILTON REELECTED JOSEPHINE G. 0. P. HEAD GRANTS PASS. June 22. (Spl.) Unanimously elected, Ben Hilton be gan his third consecutive year as chairman Monday night at the or ganisation meeting of the Josephine county Republican central commit tee held at the Josephine county courthouse. Other officers elected were Mrs Ben R, Bones, vice-chairman; K. C. Cos tea. secretary: W. R. Burner, treasurer: Nlel R. Allen, state com mitteeman, and R. C. Hurt, congres sional committeeman. The first eramry in t're United Stfs ww built in Orange county M. T, is 1054, A Letter to Down a long vista of years, the ar ticles plii rod In the cornerstone of the new ntntc lllirarv hutldlng at Sa lem TuPMlnv bv Onvernor rhnrles l(. Martin will He In a copper. box until thev are again examined. Above at the left of the governor, renter, Is Morris II. Whltehnuse. one of the ar chitects, nml at the governor's right Is J. 11. McLean, rhalrmair or the capital commission. Lower: Mrs. M. Blair, assistant state librarian, speak er at the ceremony. (AP Photo) SPRAGUE NOT IN FAVOR HE TILLAMOOK. June 33. (AP) Charles A. Sprague of Salem. Repub lican nominee for governor, told the State Federation of Labor convention today "I am not in favor of any legislation to smash unions." The candidate, whose address fol lowed a speech by Henry L. Hess. Democratic nominee, at Rockaway last night, said he sought the contin uance of all civil liberties and civil rights guaranteed by the constitution. "The test of any legislation." he said, "can be made by asking this question: 'Does 11 preserve human rights? "I fully subscribe to the rights or labor to organize and bargain collectively,- not necessarily because It Is the law of the land but because of human necessity." Sprague warned the unionist they could not have rights without re sponsibilities. "You know you exercise tremen dous Influence over workers and Industries," he said. SHOW FROM SKY SHANGHAI, June S2. (AP) Jap anese planes twice bombed Swntow. Kwangtung province treaty port 320 miles northeast of Canton, today while 10 warships stood by after landing several hundred marines on the nearby Island of Name under cover of. a barrage. The attack lead to the belief that the long-awaited South China offen sive to cut Canton off from the cen tral battlefront was underway. Occupation of Kamoa vu complet ed by nightfall yesterday though Chi nese troops resisted, reports here said. TWO SHOT DEAD IN LOS ANGELES COURT LOS ANGELES. June 32. (AP) Captured In a Jury room In the hall of records. Arthur Emll Hansen, 38. confessed today, sheriffs officers said that he had shot and killed two lawyers. R. D. McLaughlin ,ind J. Irving Hancock - In superior court chambers. Reject Market Aid. PORTLAND, June 22. ( AP) The city rejected the reconstruction fi nance corporation's offer today to assist In acquiring the Front street market building to bouse municipal departments. Jesse Jones. RFC chair man. Informed the city last week the market company was In default a 775.000 loan. Ultra-violet rays are Invisible but may be seen through fluorescent Posterity in Cornerstone 17 ;'.V.iK'?K. m- MEMORY EXPERT HELD IN BEATING TO DEATH OF POLICE BEND. June 22. (AP) Ralph Kenneth Jubb, Identified as a Port land memory expert, was held today In connection with the slaying of Dclmont Lawrence, 62, police assis tant and former Jockey, in the Deschutes county Jail and the critical wounding of Mancet Wllburn Bower, a Los Angeles carnival worker. Jubb, the originator of the Jubb memory system, was arrested by Patrolman Harris Meagher at S a. m., a few hours before the alleged attack, and placed In the county Jail on a charge of Intoxication. The memory expert asserted he had no recollec tion of the subsequent assault. Police Chief Everett Ram bo said Lawrence was beaten to death with a heavy club. Bower's throat was slashed. Lawrence, formerly of Walla Walla, Wash., was asleep In his Jail quarters when the attack occurred, Charles C. Rohleder and William Smith, other Jail occupants, said. ALBANY, N. Y., June 22. (AP) New York'a polities! fog lifted today ag Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman bid for a vacated United States aenat seat on which the major 1838 New Deal test will pivot and precipitated a scramble for the governorship. Immediately. 44-year-old State At torney General John J. Bennett. Jr., tossed his hat Into the ring as Democratic aspirant for the state's first four-year governorship, as both Democratic and Republican leaders long anxious to learn Lehman's plans began belated dlacusnlon of opposing slates. The three-term 60-year-old gov ernor! self-lnjectlon Into the na tional picture made more evident the fact that New York's fall ballot ing will be watched aa a barometer of 1940'a national trend, especially in new of the fact he Ii univer sally credited with dealing one of the strongest blowi at President Roosevelt'i court rorganiMtion bill. Btat voters will also fill a second senatorial aax j"f4 fcvH.v"! til RULE REVISION FOR TO SPEED RECOVERY W ASH INGTON. June Government financial 22. (AP) leaders at- tempted today to put some of the 92,730.000,000 Idle bank funds to work for business recovery by revising bank examination rules. Settling factional differences, of ficials of five aRenclca which govern every hank In tho country agreed to modlfy'cxamlnlng procedure so as to encourage long term business loans. The changes also will permit na tional banks to resume purchases of bonds of small companies whose se curities are not listed on stock ex changes. The experts agreed that the major obstacle to business credit expansion was lack of loan demand from ellgltle businessmen, but one high official termed the agreement "a constructive effort which should "help promote cred' expansion and recovery." Others said the compact's main Im portance was the achievement, for the first time In the nation's history, of a uniform basla for bank examin ation, which Is divided among four federal and 48 state banking agencies 4 Oregon Ranks High In Cattle Control CORVALLIS, June 22. ( AP) A bureau of animal Industry survey from Washington, D. C, today placed Oregon among the lenders for the control of Bangs disease. The state was second In the per centage of breeding cattle under supervision and third In the num ber under test. No other state was aa high In both classifications. Virginia had 79 A per cent of Its breeding atork under examination and Oregon 75.5. The percentage of tested cattle m higher In Wiscon sin and Minnesota. Willamette River t Takes Lives of 2 PORTLAND, June 22 ( AP) "Two persons were drowned in the Wil lamette river yesterday, the first day of summer and cne of the hottest of the year. Thomas A. Clifford, 33. fell from a rowhost. The harbor patrol re covered his body 30 minutes inter. Mrs. W. H Mills dived from a rowboat and failed to come to the surface. Her husttand. In the boat with her. was unahln to locate the body, Ut harbor patrol aatd PLEA IS MADE FOR AT COUNCIL IE! Valued Articles Being Lost! to Oregon, Session Told, ! But City Aid Unavailable j Budget Group Named ; Most of the discussion at last ntght's meeting of the city council came from tho floor, the councllmen doing the listening, visitors the talk ing. William H. McClure, second vice president of the Bou thorn Oregon Oem and Mineral society, explained the need of a museum in Jackson county and endeavored to enlist the official sanction of the city in es tablishing one here; E. C. Jerome, field representative of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland association, de scribed the work being done by the association to publicize southern Oregon and northern California; C. E. Conway, operator of a beer parlor at 116 East Main street, asked that card rooms be permitted to remain open until 1 a.m., saying that the state liquor control commission had sanctioned extension of tho closing hour from midnight to 1, and Ernest Wolter sought to receive the amount paid for street improvements for a quit claim deed to lots on which the city haa acquired assessment deeds. No ActUm Taken No definite action resulted from any of the talks. Mayor O. C. Furnas told Mr. McClure that while tho musuem wag a worthy project the big problem was financial ao far as the city was concerned. The mayor indicated that there was nothing at present the city could do but Mr McClure was nd vised by councttmci) to present the matter to tho budget" committee this fall. Mr. Conway's request went to tho license committee for review. Mr. Wolter wan advised to confer with Frank P. Fnrrell, city attorney, and Mr. Jerome asked nothing of the council excepting that It lend Its collective ear to his recitation of the accomplishments of the wonder land association. With the approval of tho council Mayor Furnna appointed the follow ing citizens budget committee: W1I ltam A. Gates, Joe Marshall, R. A. Skinner, George Hlles, Lylo Thurman, Moore Hamilton, Ernest R. Ollstrnp and W. H. Relchstcln. Thia commit tee will work with the council In preparing next year's budget and Mayor Furnas asked the councllmen to work closely with the citizen members In acquainting them with the work of the various city de partments. (Continued on Page eight) G. Hill JUSTICE SALEM, June 22. (AP) W, H. Ferguson waa appotnted by Gov ernor Martin this afternoon aa Jus tice of the peace for the Gold Hill district, succeeding H. D. Reed, de ceased. BREWER ESTATE VALUED AT $107,622 IN SURVEY Estate of the lato Chauncoy M. Brewer, former president of the Cali fornia Oregon Power company, Is appraised at 1107,622, according to an appraisement and Inventory filed with the county clerk. The estate consisted chiefly of stocks and bonds and realty. "Guess Who" Contest Starts Thursday for Mail Tribune Readers A few days a?o members of the Mall Tribune staff started going through files of photo engravings to bring them up to date. It soon be came apparent that many of the "cuts' could not be easily Identified by sight though they were picture.) of well known local men and women. Only by reference to the catalogue could the Identity be quickly estab lished. The staff members found It Inter esting to guess who were pictured by the "cuts." Other member of tho Mall Tribune family became Interest ed In the gursMjig game and present ly a real honetto-goodnesi "guew who content wan on. From the office game dvoped Uil auMtlon: If to Mail Tribune Giant Mosquitoes Attack Portland, Leave Big Welts PORTLAND. June 22. Portland citizens who spent their evenings slopping at a winged hell In the darkness and appear ed tho next day with angry. Itch ing welts complained today that the mosquitoes were the largest and most aggressive In years. The hungry insects have hatch ed along tho river hanks by thJ millions, disturbing the mental end physical comfort of golfers, swimmers and playing children. Many families have been driven Indoors from a summer evening one the front porch. In recent years the cty and the WPA cooperated In controlling the pests. The WPA withdrew from the project lant spring. THOS. D. ROSS OF ONEER FAMILY TAKEN BY DEATH Thomas D. Rosa passed away last evening at his home In Central Point, Ore., where he had lived since his early married life. Ho was born on the Ross donation land claim, No vember 13, 1864. Mr. Ross was united In marriage to Anna Shipley, June .6 1887. Besides his wife, those left to mourn his passing Include three sons, Shipley Ross, of Grants Pass. Ore.; Floyd and James t Ross, of Central Point. Ore,; one daughter. Mrs. Clatous McCredle of Medford; five grandchildren; one brother, John E. Ross, of Central Point, and one sis ter, Mrs. Ad ale no Phelps, of Port- laud, Oro. Also numerous nieces and nephews, and a, host of friends, Thomas D. Rosa was the sixth or ten children bom to Col. John E. Ross and Elizabeth Hopwood Ross, who were the first white couple mar ried In Jacksonville In 1853. Colonel Ross arrived In Oregon In 1847. Doing captain of a train of Immigrants. Ho served In all the Indian wars (Continued on Page Three.) MEDICAL BUREAU DIRECTOR SPEAKS Dr. R. O. Leland of Chicago, direc tor of the bureau of medical econ omics of the American Medical as sociation, was the guest speaker at a. meeting of the Jackson county Medical Society Monday night at the Hotel Medford. The session was call ed specially for the purpose of hear ing the doctor, who la making a sur vey of western coast cities In regard to the problems of Industrial medi cine In relation to tho hospital as sociation. Dr. Lcland's subject was, "Economic Problems of tho Medical Profession." Thirty members and guests attend ed the mooting with ft delegation coming from Klamath Falls which In cluded Dr. O. W. Maasey and son. the latter a medical student, Dr. F. O. Adams and Dr. R. Osborne. The next meeting of the society will be held Wednesday. June 20 at the Hotel Holland. Dr. Bur hi Gilpin will be host of the evening. EYE BIDS JUNE 30 ON EUGENE POSTOFFICE WASHINGTON, OunB 33. (AP) The treasury mnounced today It wniilri nn.n hid. nn Jlina 30 for con atructlon of a poitotflce at Eugene, Ore, Staff members were Interested In guessing the names, why wouldn't Matl Tribune readers be equally in terested? So here we are, folks, announcing a cash prize contest. This la the Idea: Beginning on Thursday, the Mall Tribune will publish one of these old "cuts' each day. Twenty-five "cuts' will bo published In all, one a day for 25 days. Each picture will bear a number, from 1 to 29 consecutively. If you want to enter the contest, here's what to do: Each day put down the number of the "cut" and after the number write the mime of the person of whom you think It Is a picture. For example. If you think the (ConUaiMd on JPaga KlghtJ MEDFORD FEDERAL BUILDING PROJECT IN DRAW STAGE Engineer Due Here Soon to Clear Way for Adoption of Plans, Specifications, Reames Informs DeSouza Medford federal building project: will soon reach the stage of develop ment where plans and specifications will be drawn up, It was Indicated In an airmail letter and memorandum' received today by Postmaster Frank.' DeSouza from United States Senator' A. Evnn Reames, A Salem construction engineer,' Walnard. Rllppa, who haa been In' Washington, D. C, studying draw ings of the present building, waa ex pected to leave the national capital today for Medford, according to a" memorandum Senator Reames re ceived from L. P. Simon, supervising architect In the procurement division: of the treasury department. Memo Explains This engineer la expected to be back in Washington by July IB with full Information that will permit development of drawing, It was stat ed in the memorandum, copy of which Senator Reames sent to Mr. DeSouza. The memorandum from Mr. Simon follows: "Concerning the proposed exten and remodeling to the Medford, Ore, gon, postofflce and courthouse in-' eluded in the' third deficiency act of 1937. with a limit of cost of (230,000: "The Drolect contemplates an ex tension comprising a basement and' three stories, having a gross area of 18,000 square feet and a cubical con tent approximating 216.000 oubto feet. Alterations Planned "The project contemplates addi tional space for the postofflce de partment on the first floor and space for other fedora agencies In tha basement and on the second and third floors. It also contemplates certain alterations and renovating of cne existing building. "A construction engineer from Salem Is here In Washington review ing the drawings of the existing building in order to note the charac ter of Information which It will b necessary for him to secure at the. site. "It la expected that he will leave Washington for Medford on Wednes day of this week and It to believed, by July 16 he will have returned to Washington with full Information that will enable the division to pro ceed with the development of draw ings." GRANTS PASS, June 32. (AP) The body of Donald Wlmer, 10, was recovered thla afternoon three mUes below the point where he plunged Into the Rogue river thla morning. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Wlmer. The boy waa swept from a salmon pier Just below the Caveman Rogua River bridge when he dipped a long handled net Into the swift current. Two youtha wltb him -ran for help after he disappeared from sight down the stream. I BASEBALL American (1st game) New Tort R. H. . 1 1 -tie Cleveland Oom and Dicker. Olenn: Harder, Humphries and Hemsley. R. H. B. Boston , , i . - SIS Detroit 10 Grove, Rogers, Wagner, Dkman and Deaautels; Kennedy and York. (Second game) New York 1 4 1 14 0 Cleveland Pearson. Beggs and Dickey; Allen and Pytlak. Washington . S S -18 XT a Chicago . W. Perrell. Weaver and R. rerrell; Stratum, Hogsett and Rensa, Giuliani R. R. 1. 4 7 4 3 8 3 St, Louis Boston Warneka and Owen; Hutchinson. R. Rels and Mueller. r. h. a. Cincinnati . 4 0 Kew York 10 1 Derrlnier. Walters and Lombard!; Oumbert. Coffman and Dannlng. Chicago at Philadelphia postponed. iiala-
