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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Thursday; . little change In temperature. Temperature Highest yesterday 9ft Lowest this morning 03 Have Something Can you think of any way yon oould poailbly reach thousands of readers at a minimum cost of 25o without using the Mall Trlbunef If you can you hart lomethlnir. Many people de pend entirely on these Adva, TE7BUNE FORD Full Asaooiated Press. J United Press Thirty-Third Year BEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1938. No. 96. Ml IB) Ml IN Med mnmtvr MHUffiE iriMiP nJiyjiglnllLS) Woi) , . mm i PS ) t mm filiyjlr la MHHHMMMHMiMMMt The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and ' Robert Kintner Copyright 1U37, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. CHANDLER FIGHTS BAKKI.EY WITH POWERFUL MACHINE ' 7500 STATE JOBHOI.DKKS PRESSED INTO SERVICE LIQUOR DEALERS' OI.U-AUB PENSIONERS RECRUITED ... WEALTHY INDUSTRIALISTS SEEN FINANCING CAMPAIGN FRANKFORT, Ky., July 13. : cause he has upset the New Deal's peace by yearning for the seat of Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley, all the vast resources of federal pap. patronage and pressure have been mobilised to destroy Governor A. B, "Happy" Chandler. With the whole federal political machine, from the president to lowliest WPA foreman working hard against mm, too Drasn and ebullient Happy la usually pic tured as an innocent victim. Here in the state capital, however, the blindest eye can see that Happy is anything but innocent. He has constructed for his own use, to op' pose the federal machine, a state machine as ruthless and efficient as any Kentucky has known. He is using it for all it Is worth, caring quite as little as the federal people for the means to gain his ends. It is this which gives its basic in terest to the fantastic Kentucky primary". The defeat or" 'victory of Senator Barkley will have an jobvioue effect on the prestige and welfare of the New Deal. But the test of comparative strength between the federal and a state machine will be much .more significant. It will cast a real light Into the future when the president and hla little group of private advisers plan to capture the Democratic, party from the bashaws of Its state and local organizations. With the WPA Included, the fed eral machine Is somewhat larger than Happy's, but the best opinion here la that the tighter organization of Happy's followers makes it Just about a stand-off. The main works of Happy's machine are some 7600 regu lar state Job-holders, every one of whom has been pressed Into service, Some time back, Happy did pass a law against enforcing political con tributions from servants of the peo ple, out the state Job-holders have been persuaded to make "voluntary contributions, amounting to the usual 2 per cent or more of their annual salaries. They also do all sorts of work for Happy, running errands, filling .the crowds at meet- ( Continued on Page Six.) VESTAL IS HELD FOR GRAND JURY HEARING Robert A. Vestel charged with shooting a cow belonging to Walter Woods, waived a preliminary hear ing in Justice court this morning and was ordered held to await grand Jury action. Vestal was released on his own recognizance. Both Woods and the defendant reside in the Eagle Point district. The formal charges allege wanton maiming of an animal. Woods claims 42 pellets of lead hit the cow In the neck and face. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Doc Charles Lemery showing the boys in the Roxy Anne how he used to throw curve balls, the demonstra tion resulting In his full cup of cof fee being knocked off the counter and saturating the coat of his best Sunday suit. v Ben Trowbridge declaring the Guess Who contest Is keeping him from his business, he still being stumped by the gent with the han dlebar moustache. Justin Smith and Prank Rein hart being unable to help him. Carol Ramsey forsaking a summer In the Union Creek open spaces, the mosquitos getting the best of her. Dorrpn Leveret tp looking snappy In gay bonnett and an open air road ster. Nancy Heath In a hurry to get home for luncheon, absent-mlndedlv walking through a sprinkler on the lawn. Bunny Jerome disturbing a if.eep ine neighborhood by calling lustily though endearingly for a golfing mate. AMERICAN AIRMEN CROSS VAST AREA Only Brief Rest Taken at Yakutsk After Flight From Omsk Time Continues Far A h e a d ' of Post By Paul Lien (United Press Correspondent) FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 13. (UP) Howard "Hughes' giant mono plane droned over Teller, Alaska, 630 mllea. west of here, shortly before noon today, reaching American soil three days after he took off from Floyd Bennett field, New York.' lost Sunday night, on a flight around the world. , The big silver transport piano, roaring along at better than 310 miles an hour, was 90 miles north west of Nome at 11:35 a. m. Fair banks time (1:35 p. m., P5.T.) on the next-to-last lep of Its globe circling flight, and it had better than even chance of completing the trip In four days. Following the Arctic circle almost on a hairline, Hughes shot his plane over Bering Straits from Cape Dezh neva, the eastern tip of Siberia, and sighted Cape Prince of Wales on the Alaska shore, 600 mllea from Fair banks at about 11:30 a. m. Fairbanks time (1:30 p. m. P.S.T.). From Fairbanks he expected to make a non-stop flight to New York approximately 3,700 miles airline where his flight plotters estimated he would arrive at 4 p. m.. E.S.T. tomorrow. YAKUTSK, Siberia, July 13. (AP) Howard Hughes took off for Fair banks, Alaska, at 0:01 p, m. tonight (7:01 a. m E.S.T.), on the fifth leg of his attempt to set a new record for round the world flight. ' The American airman and his four companions had remained at Yakuts.: only two hours and 53 minutes after completing tlelr 2,177-mile hop from Omsk, Western Siberia. Hughes planned to make Yakutsk his last stop In Soviet Rus sian territory. He plotted a course of 2456 miles to Fairbanks, across the northeastern tip of Siberia and the Bering sea. 60 Hours Clone. Leaving Yakutsk Just 60 hours, 41 minutes after their takeoff from New York and with two-thirds of the flight completed, Hughes and his companions were far ahead of the time of the late Wiley Post, who girdled the globe alone In seven .days 18 hours, 40 minutes In 1033. (Post flew a different course across Siberia, from New York as Yakutsk, came 113 hours, 68 minutes after his New York takeoff. He had stopped at Khabarovsk only two hours, 13 minutes.) (Anadyrsk la a little more than 1,400 miles northeast of Yakutsk. From there the direct route to Fair banks would take Hughes close to the narrowest part of the Bering Strait, where only 60 miles of water sepa rates Soviet and American territory. The district between Yakutsk and Bering Strait, however. Is one of the wildest part of Siberia.) Hughea had landed his big mono plane at Yakutsk at 6:08 p. m. (4:08 A.M., E.S.T.) ending the fourth leg oi nis lugnt. Take Brief Rest The weary aviator Immediately snatched a brief rest, afterwards an nouncing he would take off again "In two or three' hours." The weather was fair. At Omsk Hughea was greeted warm ly by representatives of the regional Soviet executive committee and news papermen. In a brief interview he said It had rained heavily between Kurgan and Omsk. He flew at an altitude of more than 9.000 feet. Reports of good weather were re ceived from points as far as the Ber ing Strait, but fog and rain were re ported on the Alaskan side. AT CORVALLIS. July 13. (AP) Myrl Wilson. 22. Oregon State college stu dent from Med ford, was Injured critically last night when, diving Into the Marys river, she attempted to catch a swinging ring and missed. The power of the dive carried her to the bottom, where she struck her head, suffering a broken vertebrae of the neck. She wm paralyzed from the nerk down except in her arms and doctors said she had an even chance for re covery. She was attending summer school. Artre-w Wins Divorce. LOS ANGELES, July 13. tip) Blue-eyed Slgrid Ourle. film actress, won a divorce today In a ntf minute neaMon in which she told the Judee "My hiuband slapped me. hieatened to thrash me and fmld he would lock me out of the house. WITHOUT STOPPING ' Kidnap Hughes Greeted in Paris. Or- II ft in - i r i niti-te'ai,iH,' r.V jJsv MJ i Jl 1 W feg ' : The picture at top, transmitted shows tall llownrd Hughes striding four companion!- flew non-stop from New York to Purlsjn HHi hours, halting the time of Lindbergh. At right Is American Ambassador Wil liam C. Bullitt, who greeted Hughe and crew. Lower picture shows me chanics at Hod Bennett field In New York grooming Hughes plane for the first leg of his globe-gird ling flight. (A. P. photos.) FERENCE MEDIO G.O.P. EUGENE, ju.y 13. (AP) For mer President Horvert Hoover, en route to Med ford, paused In Eugene for half an hour shortly after noon today. Commenting on the beautiful Willamette valley. Mr. Hoover said he always had "a warm spot In his heart for the valley" where he spent much of his boyhood. Secrecy surrounded the projected conference of former President Her bert Hoover and Republican leaders here this evening. The former president was due to arrive here from Portland where he attended a dinner in hla honor at the University club last night, but the hour of his arrival In Med ford could not be ascertained. Only one thing about Mr. Hoover's visit here seemed certain: the con ference would be a private gather-in? of Republican party leaders Trom southern Oregon counties. Definitely no public meeting or reception was contemplated. Regarding Mr. Hoover'a departure from here, more Information wts available. Passage had been booked for him on the mldn'.ffht United Air liner for the south. Mr. Hoover Is returning to his Palo Alto home after a flchlng expedition In Canada, Confession Held Deranged Man's Dream by radio from London to New York, from his plane In which he and STEEL WORKERS HANG EFFIGY OF NLRB HEAD IN BIG DEMONSTRATION STEUBENEV1LLE, Ohio, July IS. (AP) A laughing, Jeering throng of approximately 3.000 persons milled In , front of the Federal building today, 1 flaunting banners attacking the na- ttonal labor board and shouting pro ; tests against the expulsion of a Welr I ton Steel company attorney from the ; board's 11-month long hearing against I the company. Although visibly disappointed by the shift of the hearing, which one leader said "ruined" the. planned demonstration, the crowd cheered Clyde Armstrong, company attorney barred from the hearing by Examiner E. Grandison Smith, and shouted lustily as Smith was hanged In efrigy from a hotel window Hoisted to the shoulders of two brawny ateel workers on the steps of a hotel facing the Federal build ing. Armstrong cried : "We never would have been able to carry on over there (waving hand at the Federal building) If It hadn't been for a fine crowd a group of people like you." HUBER, July 13. (AP) Loss esti mated by 8. E. Angelone. the owner, at $5,000 occurred last nlriht when a fire destroyed the poet office and stage depot here. CIO IN BEATEN, Ti Westwood, Calif., Independ ent Union and Citizens Conduct Early Morning , Purge Strike Rouses Ire WESTWOOD. Calif., July 13. (AP) One man was shot In the arm and 30 or more were beaten In a "purge' of CIO unionists by citizens and members of an Independent union In this lumber producing town to day. Nearly 900 men drove about 125 CIO unionists and organlzera from the town with the warning "don't come back 17 Fire hoses were turned on the evicted men and ' crowds went to houses where CIO families were known to reside and drove them from the town. In many cases the CIO members were driven from town without being permitted to gather their be longings. Others were given an hour to gather their clothing and effects. The Red River lnmber mills were closed Monday after a wage dispute. CIO unionists went on strike last Thursday In protest against a 17 per cent wage slash. A crowd began gathering at I a.m, today and at 6 a. m. someone rang the general fire alarm. Clubs and pickaxes were used In driving , the CIO men from the. town,, witnesses Constable James Small hurriedly recruited 50 deputies and Sheriff Olln Johnson sent, a force of men here from Susanvllle. Sheriff Johnson later appealed to Governor Frank F. Merrlam for troops, but later cancelled the re quest and said the town had quieted down. Membera of the Industrial Em ployes' Union, recognized by the lum ber company, - obtained rifles and patrolled the streets. - An Independent union man was shot In the arm and slightly wound ed. Later a CIO man surrendered, at the request of his wife, and was locked in Jail. His name was not learned. CONFERENCE HERE ON PROJECT HELP Possible PWa DrntectA urnr. HI.. cussed today with city and county uiuciaui oy Kenneth c. Le??. engl neer from the Portland offi As a result of th- mnr.r.nn. i. was Indicated, consideration might be given to PWA projects for the city and county. One project the v..-jr uiui more man an acadsmlo In terest In Is the surfacing of R(m.t. With one exception there are now u uij or jncKson county PWA proj ects pendlnir. The inn. nrni.. the proposed city water system for ...o rccenuy - created Jacksonville highway water district. Th. Hi.t.i. was to apply today for the project ....tch, io u. c. Hockley, regional PWA director at Portland. Cost of the project was estimated at 38.537JB. the district seeking uuwKni i-wA grant of 45 percent of the cost and a 4 percent loan for the balance. Ninety-four families in the district have aian.rf saying they will take the city water . ayaivni IS installed. If the Drolect 1 a nnrm. t b Is expected to start In th. ,.11 .vi. uuiirici proposes to buy wst-r whole ' irom tne city of Medford. Mr. Leave exnlaln.il ,h.t M proved projects, the PWA allots 45 percent of the cost as an outright grant and lends the nm.iMiK- percent at 4 percent Interest If de sired. The project sponsor, how ever, may finance the 65 percent o the cost In in, w.v i i . emphasized. Aim nf th. oil. il .. provide employment In regions where unemployment Is heavr. pui nirr. from WPA In that on PWA projects or may ne done by contract though In either ease the i.w i. t" be procured In the arc where me work is done, as far as possible, Mr. Legge explained. Project eligible for PWA financ ing Include schools, additions to schools, street Darin, wnter mntt sewer systems snd other construction nf nt.kllA ...111... Mr. Legge left for Ashland a! conferring here. He was to go Klamath rails tonight OKLAHOMANS GIVE1! FAVORITE OF F. R. TOP-HEAVY VOTE Senator Thomas Clinches Democratic Nomination for Third Time 'Alfalfa Bill' Bows to Phillips OKLAHOMA CITY. July 13. T) Senator Elmer Thomas, who made the most of the pre-election compli ments from President Roosevelt, clinched the. Democratic nomination for a third term today over two opponents In the Oklahoma primary election. Late returns In the Democratic contest for the gubernatorial nom ination showed W. H. "Alfa.'fa Bill" Murray, one of the state's elder statesmen bowing to Leon 0. Phillips of OkemRh, pledged to cooperate with the new deal administration. Unofficial returns from 2789 of the 3522 precincts In Oklahoma, gave Thomas 182,734 votes In the senate race; Representative Gomer Smith, former national vice-president of the Townsend pension organization, 153, 334; and E. W. Marland, new deal governor, 84,091. Phillips had 136,376 votes In 2790 precincts In the contest for nomlna tlon for governor. His nearest rival. W. S. Key, former state WPA admin istrator, polled 127,077; and Murray trailed with 111,800. AT 100 DEGREES GRANTS PASS, July 13. (AP) At 2:40 the mercury stood at 101 de grees In Grants Pass, setting the season's record. At 1:50 o'clock this afternoon, Med ford and vicinity were sweltering in a record temperature of the year, 100 degrees, and the thermometer was still rising. Yesterday at the same time the temperature stood at 91 degiees. It went up to a maximum equal to the year's previous high set on June 4. 00 degrees. There Is little change In tempera ture predicted for tomorrow. PORTLAND. July 13. (AP) Sum mer was doing Its best today to give Portland a new heat mark, the thermometer havJng reached 86 de grees at noon. The 1938 high was 92 degrees on June 6. EUGENE, July 13. (AP) The local weather bureau reported at 2 p.m. today that the temperature stood at 98 degrees, highest of the season so far. PENDLETON, July 13. (AP) The mercury reached 97 here at 2:30 p. m. today, the local weather bureau re ported, and higher temperatures were anticipated. The year's previous high was 90 on July 7. KLAMATH FALLS, July 13. (AP) The bureau of reclamation thermo meter had climbed to so fi'iifu nt 2:30 this afternoon, equalling the previous nigh mark for the season. Roosevelt Mum on Plea For Third Term Attempt ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSE VELT'S TRAIN EN ROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO, July 13. (AP) Bear ing a petition from a steelworkers' club urging him to seek a third pres idential term. President Roosevelt stopped early today at Salt Lake City where his daughter and son-in-law boarded his special train, then head ed again westward to Nevada. On board when the train left Salt Lake City at 4:45 a. m. (MB.T.) af ter a ten-minute check-up were Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger, 'and her husband. John Boettiger, Seattle publisher, who came by plane last night to meet the train. Tho presidential apeclal left Colo rado last night where the president received without comment at Pueblo. Colo yesterday a petition requesting his candidacy fn 1940 from the Colo rado Fuel and Iron Workers club. The petition, representing 4.000 Pueblo steel workers, declared "We are fearful for the welfare of the United Statei as well as for the peace of the world If one leaa courageous, determined and Intelligent mere elect ed in 194a to guide the destiny of this country." The steel workers club U a social Eccentric Woody Hock a tiny WICHITA, Kas., July 12. ( AP) Woody Hockaday. 53-year-old eccen trlo who rushed President Roose velt's car at Oklahoma City Satur day, was adjudged Insane In probate court today and ordered committed to the state hospital at Larned. Hockaday had said he "wanted to shine the presidents shoes," Probate Judge Clyde M. Hudson acted on a complaint signed by Kockaday a wife. - - . - - Hockaday 'has been widely known for various escapades in several cities since 1920 including feather-scat tering sorties against Harry Wood ring, secretary of war, and Father Charles Coughlln. AFTER WILD RIDE Roy J. Holbrook, 34, dairy wagon driver, charged with reckless driving, was fined 950 and costs in Justice court today. The state police report allowed that Holbrook traveled 70 miles per 'hour on North Riverside avenue, a speed at which tho state police car was unable to overtake him. about 2 o'clock this morning. The report also says that Holbrook ducked and dodged up and down streets and alleys, turned off his lights and made left hand turns In an effort to evado arrest. The city po lice prowl car Joined the hunt. 'Finally Holbrook stopped at Sixth and Riverside, where he was arrested by the state police. Pending payment of the fine. Hoi- brook's driving license was held by tne court. Two men companions accompanied Holbrook on the wild ride. LASSEN LOOP HIGHWAY TO BE OPEN SATURDAY LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL park, cel., July 13 p The scenic Lassen Peak loop highway wl'l be open It entire length of 30 miles on Saturday, John C. Preston, park superintendent, announced today. organization of employes In the O P. & I. mills here. The president did not make an appearance before the small crowd that gathered In the cool dawn In the Salt Lake City station today. WASHINGTON, July 13. ( AP) Senator Logan (D., Ky.) predicted today that a third term petition handed President Roosevelt at Pueb lo, Colo., yesterday was the forerun ner of many similar requests and that Mr. Roosevelt would resist them all. Logan, an administration support er, was praised by President Roose velt In a letter made public last week. The letter referred to Logan's refusal to consider appointment as a federal Judge In Kentucky, thereby leaving his senate seat open osten sibly for Oov. A. B. Chandler. Chand ler now la opposing Senator Barkle (D., Ky.) for renomlnatlon. The president's mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, aald at Portland. Me she never had heard her son mention the poaslblltty of hla run ning for a third term. "He haa never even hinted It. the said MAN CONFINED IN STATE HOSPITAL Taconia Suspect Has Pen chant for Fantastic Be lief He's Big Time Crimi nal, Says Asylum Chief SPOKANE, Wash., July 13. fl) Dr. M. W. Conway, superintendent of the' Eastern Washington hospital for mental cases, said today that Frank Olson, confessed kidnaper of 10-year, old Charles Mattson. was -n Inmate of the hospital when tho kidnaping occurred, December 27, 1933, and had been alnce 1B25. "Olson's real name Is Lester Mead. Dr. Conway said. "I tBlked to bureau of Investigation men In Tacoma thlt morning and there Is no doubt aa te the Identity. "Mead ran away from the hospital vegetable farm last week, Ht Is en. tlrely harmless, but Is gtvon to fan tastic theories that he la a blg-tlma criminal. "He escaped In March. 1037. and from Marshall reported to the Spo. kane county sheriff he had Just wrecked an Overland passenger train." TACOMA. July 13. m Chief William Cole of the Washington state patrol announced today he waa con. vlnced a man with various aliases, who yesterday confessed thfl Mattsoa kidnaping, waa a "mental rase and had no part In the orlme." Cole aald the 'man, who said hit name was Clarence White, Clarence xnorp, uiarance iueaa ana xtbii . Olson, would not be charged with the kidnaping and slaying of 10-year old Charles Mattson, but probably would be subjected to a sanity hear ing and possibly confined In a stat Institution. t Cole reached this deolslon, he said. alter rour aays or almost continuous questioning, during which the man had changed his confession of th crime a dozen times and had Involved uoverat persona who were later found to have alibis covering the peilod of the kidnaping In 1036-3C. Cole aald federal bureau nf lnves. ligation agents had taken part In th questioning of the prisoner, but ex. pressed no further Interest In th mm. ' ' - DRUNK DRUG BAIL REDWOOD CITY, Cel., July 13. (AP) Prince O. Calllson, former Un Iverslty of Oregon football coach, will forfeit his 1100 ball, posted on a charge of driving while Intoxicated, his attorney, Edmund Scott, . eald yesterday. Justice of the peace Edward Mo Aullfte agreed to the forfeiture. Th case was scheduled for trial today, but Calllson la In the east. BASEBALL . National. R. H. B. -10 II Brooklyn - Pllt.huroh . 14 0 Tamulla. Frankhouse, Preanell and Shea: Bauers, Brown, Bowman and Todd. Called 8th, rain: R. H. . New York . . 1 Cincinnati . 8MB csstleman. Coffman and Mancusot Derringer and Lombardl. American. R. H. .3 8 Chicago OKIIrf.lnhla . ft 8 Knott, Rlgney ana nensa, ocmue ter; Caster and Brucker, First game: R. H. . , - 4 13 a t II I Detroit Boston Kennedy and York; Dlckman, lie Kaln and DesauteU. Second game: r. n. , 9 14 0 Detroit Boston . 8 1J 1 Auker and York: Bagby, Oster- mueller and Peacock. (10 Innings) r. n. . -..ia 14 l 15 14 1 St. Louis New York Cole. Van Att. Newsom. Walkup and Sullivan: Chandler, Sundra, Beggs, Murphy and Dickey. R. H. . Cleveland 3 4 0 Washington 4 Feller and Hemsley; Kellej and R. rrr" . i
