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Ail The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Fri day; cooler Friday, Temperature: Highest yesterday ...... 86 Lowest thli morning..... 58 Wise Procedure Jut lot of iraait people de pend on the Classified page of this newspaper when they haw a want of any kind. It might be wIm procedure for yon to follow the tame tact lea, . Medfoe Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Fresi Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938. No. 91. op H 9USSI LN 1 The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright IU37, by Tbe North American News paper Alliance, Inc. ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS RESENT INNER CIRCLE CABINET, CONGRESS HEADS NOT IN POLICY MAKING i PARTY CHIEFS' IRRITATION MAY LEAD TO OPEN FIGHT WASHINGTON. July 7. The odd est featuro of the New Deal Is the fact that the highest officials of the government have eo little In fluence on the government's broad policies. These are formed at the White House by the president and his private advisers. And If the cabi net members and congressional lead ers don't like them, they can lump them. , Naturally, policy Is discussed at cabinet meetings, but It has often been settled on first. There have been times when unhappy cabinet members learned of Important steps by reading of them In the news papers. As for the congressional big wigs, House Leader Sam Rayburn had to make a mild scene before the preslaent consented to the Mon day morning conferences, at which he gives his orders for the week on the Hill. Until the arrangement of the conferences, the leaders got their orders sometimes by telephone, and quite as often In messages car ried by members of the White House Inner circle. There are several reasons for this situation the chief ones being that the present high officials of the government, almost without excep tion, are either hopeless hacks, or conservatives at heart, or men whose opinions the president only values In their special fields. Far more In teres ting, however. Is the situation's effect on the New Deal. A department with outright hack management, like commerce, the president Is content to let go quietly to seed. His abler official first lieu tenants he really values, and fre quently sees. There have been times when these men replaced the members of the Inner circle as .policy makers. One was this winter, when the president listened to the budget-balancing counsels of Secretary of the Treas ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and Chairman Jesse H, Jones of the RFC. The private advisers, spenders to the last man, nagged the presi dent so much that for a month or so they were positively exiled. But (Continued on Page Bight.) TAYLOR MADE LEADER EVIAN-LES-BArNS, France. July 7. WP) Myron C. Taylor, the United States delegate, today was elected president of the lnter-governmental committee on refugees, meeting here as a result of President Roosevelt's Invitation to other nations tn discuss the refugee problem. He was nominated by Senator Henry Berenger of France and sec onded by Dr. Tomas A. Lebreton of Argentina and election was ey accla mation. For the first time since the meet ing began yesterday, the delegates broke into applause when Berenger referred to Taylor as "the personal representative of the great humani tarian who caused this meeting to be called. President Franklin Roose velt." SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Emma Bigelow crying crocodile tears on account her spouse Parts wouldn't budget her 160 for a 3300 set of dishes. Hollywooder C. Leonard Swenson. Jr.. writing to an old school chum here, he failing to give any return address. Liquidating Engine Jim Douglas relating amusing Incidents occurring at the big public bank sale of cars Scck-eye Jack McDonald declaring no women rasslers are any good, rasslln being a he-man's Job. tils feminine hearer taking exception to hl remark. Stan Sherwood trying to cut a scribe off at the hip with his rigiit fender. HURRIED TO CRUSH F BLOODY DISORDERS Arab Tribes Reported Mass ing On Frontier Holy Land Swept by New Fric tion Between Tribes, Jews JERUSALEM, July 7. P) British troops lought a pitched battle today with a band of 6Q0 Arabs who enter ed Palestine from British mandated Trans Jordan. The battle, newest violence In bloody disorders sweenino- thn hr!- land, was said to have lasted four hours. The British reported tlvtt Arnhn killed and eight wounded and said mere were no British casualties. Arab tribes were reported massing on the frontier. Britain hurried warships and troops to crusn bloody guerilla warft.ro be tween Arabs and JewB. LONDON, July 7 iypi Britain to night ordered two battalions of troops rushed from Bvnt to PaiMtin assist in quelling the deadly Jewish- mtxa comnci m wnicn 28 have been Jellied in the last two days. Three hastily dispatched warships already had reached or were en route to the holy land. , JERUSALEM, July 7. (fp) The unusn government today ordered the 7,550-ton cruiser Emerald to Haifa, where 131 persons have been killed or wounded In two days of rioting. The blackest holy land situation since the bloody Arab general strike of 1936 caused the call for reinforce ments. Official sources said 22 Arabs and six Jews had died and 92 Arabs and 11 Jews had been' wounded since a bomb yesterday .fanned Arab-Jewish strife Into new turmoil. The Emerald, homeward from the East Indies, was diverted to Haifa from Malta and was due at the Pal estine port today. All Palestine was tense. Shops clos ed down as Arabs attempted to dem onstrate. Twenty-eight funerals were held at Haifa In the early morning under heavy police guard. Ttvia Dounie, 85, a contractor and brother-in-law of Dr Chalm Wclz mann, president of the Brltleli Zion ist federation, who was killed in the rioting yesterday, was burled before dawn. A British police official narrowly escaped when a bomb was thrown at his car In the Holy city of Naz areth. In the two and a half months since a British commission under Sir John Woodhead arrived to study the Pal estine snarl disorders have become as serious as they were In 1936, when the six-months Arab general strike kept the country in deadly ferment. BORAH SENT TO BED TO REST FROM WORK WASHINGTON, July 7. (AP) Senator Borah (R Idaho), 73-year old dean of the senate, was In bed today under a physician's orders that he rest after a breakdown because of overwork. Stricken Sunday, Borah was order ed to bed and a special nurse pro vided to care for him until the re turn of Mrs. Borah, who had been visiting In the west. She arrived this morning. Afdes seld the senator's condition was not serious, but he was tired from overwork. Roosevelt Adds Georgia Speech to Tour Program WASHINGTON. July 7. (API President Roosevelt added another politically significant speaking en gagement to his cross country tour today by accepting an Invitation to visit Barnes vi lie. Oa.( August 11. The invitation was extended by a delegation of Georgians, including Lawrence Camp, federal district at torney at Atlanta and candidate for the Democratic nomination tor the U. S. senate seat now held by Senator George. Oeorge, who frequently has opposed the administration, was not in the delegation. The president's long trip, starting tonight, taking on some of the as pects of a stumping tour for "liberal" candidates will bring him aluo into three other states Kentucky, Okla homa and California where he U expected to make it clear that he would like to have new deal support ers sent to the senate. The occasion for the Barnea7ille speech will be the dedication of a rural electrification development. Earlier on the same day the president will go to Athens. Oa.. where he will receive ?rrr from the state uni versity. Announce x.cn: cf the GorjiR .top caused tome to think It might afford Fear River ESay, fc. ... fiff-fafi.,Mi iniinr'ii s ,...r V4 - ' in FORD GETS PATENT WASHINGTON, July 7. (API- Henry Ford patented today a new type of passenger automobile with the motor mounted over and paral lel to the rear axle. With the new arrangement ttie en tire motor Is balanced across the axle with a direct drive from the motor flywheel through a set of gears to the axle. No indication was given whether the motor manufacturer proposes to make the new type of oar. Officials said Ford lias obtained many pat ents in recent years for radical changes in his car but has not always used them. an occasion for the president to speak his mind on congressional op ponents. There has been no definite word on this point. The president's trip on a 10-car special train will find him In the role of leader of his party, fighting for what he terms 'the liberal school of thought." Except for occasions when he himself has been a candidate. It will be his most extensive political Journey, While Mr. Roosevelt is eriroute to California, Democratic Chairman Jaa. A. Farley will be heading for the northwest. A tour to Ala&ka which Farley arranged several weeks ago as an escape from factional Democratic fights has turned Into a speech-making trip that will rival in oratorical output the president's Journey. The president's Journey will not be entirely political. In Fort Worth, Tex., he will spend next Sunday with his son, Elliott. In San Francisco, he will visit the 1939 exposition ground! and review the fleet. Then, after a tour through Yosem Ite national park, he will board the U. S. S. Houston for a Icteurely cm!.- to Panama. Tiirnre he will rail to F"nftftla, Fa., and return to Washington. Voyages Brought Disaster sam. KOBE DEATH TOLL TOKYO, July 7. (AP Flood wa ters that surged out of the hills sur rounding Kobe virtually dlfappeared today and Uie stricken western har bor city began clearing away the wreckage of Its worst disaster. Official figures put deaths at 303, with 1,200 Injured and 429 missing. Fears were expressed that the death toll might reach 1.00C. In vestl gatlona Vere said to have shown that reservoirs remained In tact, proving that the sudden torrent was tiie result of water collecting In the heights after a cloudburst Wednesday. Landslides previously had dammed tons of water In the hills. Pathetic sometimes harrowing sights greeted crews clearing the shattered building In Kobe. The flood cut through the middle of the city and damaged 60.000 houses with a wall of water nearly six feet high. Michigan To Hang Bank Robber-Killer DETROrr, July 1.JPh-The last legal obstacle to Michigan's first exe cution in 108 years was removed to day. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle ruled he had "neither the power nor the Inclination" to Interfere with the hanging, at the federal detention farm at Milan. Mich., at sunrise Fri day, of Anthony Chebatoris, convict ed bank robber. killer. The Judge's atatement was in an swer to an inquiry whether the exe cution could m transferred to an other state. Rescue Nursemaid From Cliff Face KEENE VALLEY, N. Y- July 7. (AP) An 18-year-old German nurse maid, trapped more than ten hours on a ledge half way up a 1000-foot Adirondack mountain cliff, was res cued early today by party of men with ropes. The girl, employed by Dr. Paul Wolfe. Evanston, 111.. Congregational minister spending the summer here, was little the wor for hr expe rience. Constant William Iihwn said. Attempts to ride the wild waters of the Kin (iron lie nnri .Colorado rivers have resulted In the wrecking of one boat and the complete dls fippearnnre of another. Raging rapids of the Rio (Irnnde (above) wrecked I he homemade craft of E. It. Hake field and A. 8. Hunt, mlildle-aRed Denver, Colo., men. Hunt rearhrd mi ret v, hut Wakefield was Nwep't itwuv. In lower picture government geologist keep a clow watch for four men and two women missing since nn n I tempt to flnnt down tlte Colorado river through the Grnnd Can von, (A. P. Photos), FEARS FOR SAFETY OF SCIENCE EXPEDITION BOULDER CITY. Nev.. July 7. ( AP) H. "Bun" Holstrom. 29, who alone last year conquered the Colo rado river, la "honestly worried" about the Nevllls expedition lost somewhere In the deep canyon. Holstrom said today if the scien tists succeed In passing Cataract canyon, more and greater hazards lie ahead after thev pass Loe s Ferry, (where they were due July. 4) and get into Maroio ana Grana can yons. "Cataract canyon is known as the graveyard of the Colorado," Hol strom declared. "It is the first rough water encountered by boats coming down, but I don't consider that the worst part of the trip by any means." Holstrom toegan his trip at Green River, Utah, where the Nevllls group Btarted. He reached Lea's ferry In 10 days. The lost adventurers are 18 days out of Green River. "Cataract canyon Is the most iso lated and Inaccessible part of the United States," Holstrom said. "If they lost their boats and wore not drowned, and were able to climb to the rim of the canyon, their chances of getting out safely still would be almost negligible. Holstrom, former Coqutlle, Ore., service station operator, now Is em ployed by a Lake Mead boat com pany. scieling Topes to (Copyright 1638 by United Press) ABOARD STEAMSHIP BREMEN. AT SEA, July 7. (UP) Former heavyweight champion Max Sdimel lng, returning to his homeland with a severe back Injury suffered In his recent fight with heavyweight cham pion Joe Louis, declared today he would make another comeback 'if doctors are willing." Confined to a bed with his back braced by strips of adhesive tape Max said he hoped to return to the United States in the fall to fight Tommy Fair of Wales. "Then," Max said, "if I win I would like to fight Louis a third time." Hamilton Predicts Republican Upturn PITTSBURGH, July 7. (API- Chapman onn D M Hamilton of the Republican national committee predicts that an "underlying current" running against the new deal will re sult In hit party winning back be tween 80 and 100 seat In the house of representatives at the November elections. In an address last night to 400 Pittsburgh party leaders, business men and Industrialists, Hamilton de clared that southern Democrats are In revolt against the Roosevelt ad ministration, that tha president's popularity Is diminishing and that hi congressional supporters have lost I in popular favor. NEV : -ALERS OF U r i urn J 1936 Presidential Candidate Says New Economic Tail spin Is Due When Gov ernment Spending Ceases COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., July 7. (UP) Alf M, Landon, Republican presidential candidate In 1936, last night accused the New Deal of "In tellectual trickery," and said the na tion will plunge Into another econom ic tall-spin when government spend ing ceases unless President Roosevelt changes his policies and methods. The former Kansas governor, in a radio address, placed the blame for the - current depression squarely on administration policies. He charged that the president has edged the country toward "government1 abso lutism"; that administration of re lief ts a "disgrace"; that the new wage-hour law was framed as a po litical weapon, and that farmers are being regimented. Roosevelt Criticized He criticised Mr, Roosevelt for not taking a "decisive" stand In his re cent fire -side speech against free speech activities of Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, N. J. The pres ident commended Hague's policies by Inference, and Landon said he wel comed even this "vague reference." "But, When he might have given real help, when he might have pro vided the moral leadership needed, he attempted to wash his hands of it." Landon said. "Even impatient, self-styled liberals of the New Deal should champion free speech," Hague ia vice-chairman of the Democratic national, committee. When the president was asked what action, as head of the Democratic party or as head of the naVon that he would take In view of Hague's refusal to permit labor leadors, congressmen others from speaking in Jersey City, he described it la a "local matter," Depression First problem Landon emphasized that the pri mary responsibility of all citizens to day Is to cooperate In a united front attack on the depression. He said Re publicans will cooperate In all the "humanitarian" policies Initiated by the chief executive, but "we will not condone corruption and trickery on the part of his advisers and assist ants, merely because the ultimate aim Is good." "First let Mr. Roosevelt abandon the confusion and contradiction that has marked so much of his adminis tration," Landon said. "Let him real ize again that the greatest peril to social reform Is financial recklessness. Let him make another determined effort to eliminate waste and extrava gance, aa he did In 1933 Let htm cease his nagging attacks on business. Let him, Instead, undertake to bring about an harmonious working rela tlonshlp between. Industry and labor, and between them and the public. Prnetlco Own Theories "Let him make a real effort to dis solve monopoly Instead of fostering It. Let Mr. Roosevelt foreswear all further attempts to tamper with the supreme court and to get power into his own hands. Let him put a stop to the use of WPA money to buy votes. "In short, let Mr. Roosevelt only practice what he preaches, and we will not only cooperate with him we will fight shoulder to sholulder with him to achieve the social prog rees and the economic recovery which we all desire and need." 4 FOR UMATILLA 01 WASHINGTON, July 7, (AP) Hope for the construction of Uma tilla dam wltti PWA funds allocated by tbe president was blotted out to day by a letter In which Mr. Roose velt told Senator McNary that ha could not approve the 34 ,000.000 project or a connected aeries of locks and dams on the Snaka river at this time. The president baaed his action on two points. He said that more than 23,000.0.10 out Of $200,000,000 set aside In PWA funds for federal pro jects already had been allocated to trie northwest and that the proposed expenditure for further development of the Columbia and Snake rivers "exceed the unallotted balance." NEW AUTO LICENSE TAG TO BE BLACK ON YELLOW SALEM, July T. (AP) Oregon will 1 Heard ta tlmoit traditional black and whlto automoblla Ucenae platea npit year In favor of a yel low background with black lettara. The sin. and general make up wilt remain unchanged. Becretnry of State rrl Snell aald the new platea would be mora economical and .eaaler to Webfoot Gridders Horrible Example For Nazi Youths EOGKNB. July 7. ( AP) The University of Oregon doesn't ex pect to profit in gate receipts from the picture of its football team published recently In a Ber lin newspaper. Tlie caption read! "Who knows where these atars were found? Many a football player In the American universities can not even write his own name." An article In an eartern news paper explained the photograph was part of the nazl propaganda program Intended to display the suprlortty of German education. POSE AS PLAY BOY ENDED BY NABBING Fl SEATTLE, July 7. (UP) David L. Strom, 33-year-old former head teller of the San Jose, Cal., branch of the American Trust Co.. Indloted In San Francisco on a charge of em bezzling 58,405, waa held In King county Jail today In lieu of eas.OOO ball. Posing aa a wealthy playboy under the Alias of Dave W. McKay, Strom had eluded capture for a year to the day before his arrest by federal bureau of Investigation agents In a fashionable Seattle apartment hotel last night. Raymond O. Suran, agent of the Seattle field office of the P. B..I.. said 18000 of the money allegedly taken from the trust company has been recovered In a safety deposit box in a Seattle bank. Strom had 500 In hla possession when he was taken Into custody. Suran said aiao In 910 denomlnatlona carried ' aerial numbers of the loot from the San Jose . bank. , v ,( Agents traced Strom, who attempt ed to evade- purault by dropping "suicide note" In Santa Crua bay, through his lavish spending In swank hotels, night clubs, and oocktall bare from Vancouver, B. 0., to Tla Juana, Mexico, LOYALISTS BLOCK INSURGENT DRIVE HENDAYE, Prance (at the Span ish border), July 7. (AP) Stiffen ed resistance of government troops south of the Teruet blocked Insur gent efforts today to drive down the Quadalavlar river valley and strike toward Valencia from a third direc tion. General Jose Varela'a Oaatlllan forces were at the borders of Val encia province but government troops, who had fallen back 13 miles in five days, hastily dug Into new positions and fougiit the advancing insurgents to a standstill. Insurgent dispatches from Teruel admitted the offensive on the 60 mile Teruel -to-Mediterranean front wea held up but said fresh troops were being rushed to the front line for a new attempt to resume the Insurgent advance down the coast. f TILLER. TRAIL JOB PORTLAND, July T.(flJ) The fed eral bureau of publlo roads announc ed the following low bids today: Tlller-Trall highway surfacing, about seven miles, c. A. Dunn, Klam ath Palls, 7,107. Santlam highway grading, slightly more than one mile, colonial Con struction company of Spokane, 1133,- 147. at. Helens highway, Washington. grading, about one mile, Pacific Con struction company, Seattle, 930,401. Enrollee Paroled In Ukiah Robbery PENDLETON. July 7. (AP) After being sentenced to three months In the county Jail on a charge of receiv ing stolen property, Prank Barton, Squaw Creek CCC camp enrollee (Gib bon), was yesterday paroled to Lieut. Carl R. Hottelet, of the camp staff by Circuit Judge Calvin L. Sweek. Barton pleaded guilty of having hidden money and Jewelry taken by Jerry Crlspo and Phillip Blessing, Uklah CCC enrolleea, from a Uklan store last month. Crlspo and Blessing were given penitentiary terms yester day. PENDLETON. July 7. (Pi Peti tions bearing the names of 438 Uma tilla county voters were tiled at the county courthouse here today, assur ing a special election August It on the creation of a Umatilla port dl-trle SHASTA FARMERS UNIONSJELIEF Redding Business Men Join in Request to Grand Jury for Ousting of State Re lief Administration. ' REDDING. OaL, July 7. (TJP) The Shasta, County Development as sociation today demanded that or ganizers and solicitors for union or "social welfare or economlo bodies" be licensed, that the county Jail chain gang, abolished 30 years ago, be restored and that the atata relief administration be ordered from Shasta county. , ' The sssoclatlon, oompoeed ' of Shasta county farmers and Redding? business men. filed the demands In. the form of resolutions with the board of supervisors and grand Jury of Shasta county. " 1 Action Not Indicated Ttie grand Jury la expected to con sider the resolutions at Its meeting tomorrow. The board of supervisor gave no Indication of probable ac tion. The resolution regarding the state relief administration pointed to tha migration of destitute Job-seekers to this area, attracted by the forth coming construction of Shasta, dam, which "threatens the economlo exlst- OIIUB Ul KFIHBVC MVU..J .--J t . -. "Permanent dependence of tha disappointed workers upon charity will eventually become the exclusive burden of Shasta county taxpayers," the resoluslon aald. Would End Lease The grand Jury and board of sup ervisors were asked to take all nec, essary steps to bring an and to giv ing of direct sellaf- by ..the B RA. In Shasta county. The "eaoolaUnn suggested that the lease now held by tha S.R.A. on office apace In tti county offlcea building in Redding; be terminated to discourage Its act ivities. The licensing proposal followed announcement of labor organizations that they planned to send, organizers Into the district to unionize work men on the dam project. Restoration of the chain gang was sought "to make Jail unpopular." ! - OF F. R. TO KNOXVUJJf, Tenn., July 7. (A- Dr, Arthur K. Morgan In a chancery court action on file here today chal lenged authority of the president of the United States to remove Mm aa chairman-director of the Tennessee Valley authority. . The gray-haired engineer-educator asked that the presidential order ousting him last March 33 be de clared void and Illegal. Be also asked that TVA Director David B. Ltllenthal and Rarcourt A, Morgan, present TVA chairman, be ordered to recognize him aa a fellow director and as chairman of the vast - valley ovelopment project. This sudden move by the former Antlocb college president came lata yesterday while a congressional com mittee prepared to start Monday aa Investigation of TVA activities an Investigation precipitated by Dr, Mor gan himself. General Counsel Jamea Lawrence Ply announced the TVA wouM op pose the suit, adding the case might be moved to district federal court. THIRD OAKLAND BLAZE LEVELS SHOE FACTORY nitrt.AMn rial.. Jul 7 (UP1 Plra believed started by an arsonlat ni.ht rieatroved tha Oakland shoe factory. It waa Oakland's third major fire In two days, and poueo Investigated possibility that they all were arson casea. Damage In the ahoe factory fire, In winch three alarms wen sounded, was estimated by police at approx im.r.i. aan nno. vnremen nrevented spread of tbe fire to the General Paint corporation and the jarea Brothers Tobacco company plants. Ti,-.H. niDht tha nlant of the Pacific Coast Canneries company and; the California Door company were partially destroyed. Kennedy Decorated ntmt.TH juiv 7. (API Prima Ulnlatw Kinvtn rfa Vs'.M todaV DTe- aented Josepii P. Kennedy, United States ambassador to Oreat Britain, with the honorary degree of doctor m in on behalf of Dublin univer sity, of which De Valer la chau- eellor. 1.
