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TRIBUNE
Full Associated Press
Full United Press
Thirty-Third Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 193S.
No. 97.
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The
Capital
Parade
By Joseph Alsop
and
Robert Kintner
Copyright l'ja7, by The
North American News
paper Alliance. Inc.
KENTUCKY PRIMARY SEEN
TEST OF FARM PROGRAM
EXPECT AAA BENEFICIARIES
CHIEF BARKLEY SUPPORT
INCUMBENT BELIEVED AIIEA1I
WITH VOTE 4 WEEKS AWAY
CHANDLER CONFIDENT WILL
WIN AGRICULTURAL VOTE
LOUISVILLE. Ky., July 14. If one
la to believe such expert prognostlca-
tors aa "Mlz Lennle" McLaughlin, the
wise woman of Louisville, who rules
the city machine with a shrewd, soft
hand, the Kentucky primary Is to be
a demonstration of the political ef
fectiveness of the new deal farm pro
gram. .' x
As one-third of Louisville's ruling
Democratic triumvirate. "Mia Lennle"
Is a principal supporter of Senate
Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, as
well as the only known first-rank
female political bosB In this country.
8he and other leading Barkleyites.
together with the franker adherents
of Governor A. B. "Happy" Chandler,
agree that the farm vote Is the chief
Barkley strength.
"After the AAA. Happy couldn't get
the farmers away from Barkley If he
had the Angel aabrlel to help him,"
Is the way Mlz Lennle puts It.
The farm vote seems, at least, to be
a fixed point in Kentucky's political
maelstrom, although Happy and hla
followers vociferously swear that, by
the August 6 primary, the farmers
will also be theirs. Otherwise, the
beat summation of the situation
seems to have been given by Senator
Barkley himself, "when he boarded
the presidential campaign train.
Barkley was not bubbling with op
timism, but he told the president
that, If he could hold what he had.
he would win, and he expected to
hold it.
For Barkley, there Is no great in
creased strength In prospect. The
powerful Louisville Junta has plump
ed for him. The gratifying shower of
AAA benefit checks has already de
scended on Kentucky's farmers. The
WPA and the rest of the federal ma
chine are already lined up solidly be
hind him. And the president has
spoken his august word. No Impar
tial observer denies that Barkley Is
now ahead, and various polls seem to
support the observers.
Chandler, on the other hand, has
(Continued on Page Six )
Wimbledon Stirred
By Murder Mystery
WIMBLEDON. Eng..' July 14. (AP)
The body of a pretty, smartly dress
ed young woman waa found In a
welter of blood, barely a hundred
yarda from the famed center court
of the All England Tennis club to
day. Preliminary Investigation showed'
the black-clad victim waa atabbed
about the head and then run over
with a motor car from which appar
ently she had been thrown.
Scotland Yard ordered Intensive
search for a blood-stained motor car,
tire-marks of. which were found on
clothing of the girl.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Emma Bunn explaining her method
of keeping cool these hot nights.
Bhe rearing her scheme might prove
Interesting to passers-by.
Tom Fuson causing anxiety to rel
atives and friends by sitting In on
a nocturnal bridge session without
letting on where ha waa, he escaping
a frantic 6-hour search.
Frank Van Dyke being torn away
from hla Ashland home by another
Medford banquet, he using the op
portunity to spread tidings about the
cute antics of his baby son.
Hotel Medford lobby patrons shed
ding more clothing upon hearing the
city was the hottest in Oregon.
Ken Denman appearing at the Hoo
ver banquet all in white and looking
cool and fresh.
Traffic Officer Ray Sloneker push
ing a stalled laundry truck out of
an Intersection.
Frank Celle carefully explaining th
hsndafre on hla ere wa the result
of t sock by a goU ball.
HUGHES RECORDS
AMAZING IE IN
1 4,824 MILE TRIP
Weary Airmen Given Tu
multuous Welcome New
York .Airport Tail Wind
Speeds Home-Stretch Hop
FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT. N. Y.,
July 14. ( AP) Howard Hughea and
his four unshaven, dog-tired compan
ions completed their - 14,824-mile
round-the-world flight at 1:37 p. m
(E.8.T.) today, In the amazing, record
smashing time of 3 days, 19 hours
and 17 minutes.
Aided by a strong tall wind which
shoved their big Lockheed, 14 plane
at top speed on the final 1,05 4-mile
leg of the flight from Minneapolis,
they lopped off nearly four days from
the old record of 7 days, 18 hours and
49 minutes, made by the late Wiley
Post, flying alone, in July, 1933.
Tumultuous C.recting
Weary by their long vigil in the air.
and wearing the same clothes they
wore when they left here Sunday
night, at 6:20 p. M.. E.S.T., the five
men came down to earth to be greet
ed by the biggest and most tumultu
ous crowd ever assembled at this air
port.
Officials said 25.000 were there.
Hughes' speed for the elapsed time
was approximately 161 miles per
nour, as compared to 83 for post.
A fire whistle let go with a screech
ing blast as the aerial argonauts set
their plane down on the concrete
runway and taxiied toward the ad
ministration building.
Hundreds of automobile . horns
Joined In a tumultuous welcoming,
Despite elaborate precautions to
protect the -plane, a surging crowd
drove through to. get a -cloteup
glimpse of the' unshaven, dishevelled
heroes.
Minneapolis Lnst stop
Hughes apparently did not notice a
path which had been cleared for him
and he taxiied toward a commercial
transport plane, which was Immedi
ately moved. '
Hughes and his companions'1 last
stop before New York was at Minne
apolis, Minn., at 7:38 a. m. (EJS.T.)
after a 2.441-mlle flight from Fair
banks, Alaska, over the Canadian
Rockies, down the great wastes of
the YuXon and the barrens of north
west Canada.
After a 33-minute halt at the airport
there they roared off at top speed for
New York. A strong tail wind shoved
the ship along at high speed over this
1,054 mile last lap.
They were reported at various
points along the route, their progress
cheered by the crowd which had
gathered at Floyd Bennett field.
Greeted by Wlialeu
Grover Whalen. president of the
world's fair. 1939, for which the
flight was designed as a good will
venture, waa the first to greet the
filers.
In striking contrast to the tired
filers, he entered the plane Immedi
ately after It came to a stop. Follow
ing him came Mayor F. H. LaGuardla,
himself a flier of world war days.
The Impeccably dressed Whalen
presented two large baskets of flow
ers.
Hughes took his time about emerg
ing from the plane, stepping partly
out once and then returning.
At 1:47 p. m., E.S.T.. ten minutes
after the ship landed, Hughes stepped
down, followed by his four compan
ions.
Those who accompanied- him on
the flight were Lieut. Harry P. McL.
Connor, navigator; Lieut; Thomas L.
Thurlow, navigator; Edward Lund,
flight engineer, and Richard Stoddart
radio engineer.
Back To Same Spot
The plane had come to rest on
exactly the same spot from which it
started Sunday afternoon.
Police found it Impossible to con
trol the masa of humanity which
swarmed around the plane twenty
deep., For fully five minutes the
fliers stayed inside the ship after the
motors were cut off.
Then Thurlow poked a bearded face
out, grinned at the crowd, kissed a
woman who had shoved her way to
the cabin door, and ducked back In
side. All the elaborate arrangements to
prevent damage to the plane threat- j
ened to go for naught.
Two small planes which had gone j
out earlier to meet the round the
world fliers escorted It back to the I
field and wheeled lazily about while
Hughes set bis ship down.
Crowd Unruly
Shortly before Hughes left the
plane a crowd broke through two
sections of a heavy wire fence around
the administration building. Police
(Contluned on Page Seven.)
Announce PWA Orant
PORTLAND. July 14 (API C. C
Hockley, regional director for the
public works administration, an.
nounced the following allotment to
day: Oregon. Tualatin grade erhool,
rant 123,900, estimated cost tSO.000.
Here's Hughes Schedule
Inilliultil on the map above is the around-the-world flight Itinerary
of Howard Hughes as announced by his flight headquarters In New
York. The plans were rhanged during the Journey, the plane hopping
from Fairbanks to Minneapolis Instead of refueling at Edmonton, as
originally scheduled. (A. P. Photo.)
By the Associated Press
(All times are Eastern Standard)
Sunday, July 10. 1838:
6:20 p. m. Took off from Floyd
Bennett field. New York.
10:20 p. m. Passed Cape' Breton
Island.
Monday. July 11:, '
12:30 a. m. Passed over St. Johns.
Nfld., last land.
8:30 a. m. Reached Ireland.
10:55 a. m. Arrived Paris, covering
3,841 miles In 16 hours. 35 minutes.
7:24 p. m. Took off for Moscow
after refueling and repairs.
11:18 p. m. Over Ponorze, Poland.
Tuesday. July 12:
3:13 a. m. Arrived Moscow, cover
ing 1.675 miles In 7 hours, 49 min
utes. ,
8:25 a, m. Took off tor , Omsk,
U8.S.R.,; after refueling. .
7:30 a. m. Crossed Volga river. '
1:00 p. m. Arrived Omsk, covering
1,380 miles In 7 hours, 88 minutes.
5:37 p. m. Took off for Yakutsk,
Siberia.
Wednesday, July 13:
12:15 a. m. Passed over Klrensk on
Lena river. .
YOUTHS TO HEAR
Llovd Marshall. Yakima. Wash,
youth, and Carl Martin, charged with
obtaining money under false pretens
es, will probably be taken before
Circuit Judge H. D. Norton, next
Monday. Both have Indicated tney
would waive grand Jury action and
enter pleas, the district attorney
said today.
Marshall was arrested by Chief of
Police Charles P. Talent of Ashland,
last week, after the youtii had con.
tided to the officer, he had passed
spurious checks In Klamath Falls.
Ashland, and this city, unier laiem
cave the youth a ride In hla auto
Into Ashland. During tne trip. Mar
shall volunteered the Incriminating
Information.
Martin Is held for the alleged pass
ing of a spurious check In Novem
ber, 1837 and was returnee iron up'
state several weeka ago.
Circuit Judge Norton, who . has
been holding court In Grants Pass,
returned yesterday.
Cordon Exonerated
In Auto Fatality
ROSEBURG, Ore., July 14. (AP)
A verdict of unavoidable accident
waa returned last night by a coro
ner's Jury which conducted an In
quest Into the death of . Miss Dora
Gammon, who died early Tuesday
morning from Injuries suffered when
she was struck by an automomie
driven by Attorney Guy cordon 01
Roseburg.
The coroner's Jury was told oy
witnesses of the accident that Miss
Gammon, walking across the Pacific
highway at the intersection with
Washington street in Roseburg, nar
rowly avoided being struck by a
northbound car Just before sne waa
hit by Cordon's southbound automo
bile. Bishop Brothers
Fined On Assault
On a change of venue to the Ash
land Justice court today, the Bishop
brothers William and Robert en
tered a plea of guilty to the assault,
but not to the facta. They were
fined 86 and cost by Justice L. A.
Roberts. The district attorney rec
ommended a 810 fine.
The specific charge was hitting a
state policeman In the face with a
flat.
PENDLETON, July 14. (AP) Fu
neral services for Elbert B. Casteel,
Umatilla county clerk for the last
six years, were held here today. All
offices In the county courthouse,
with the exception of the sheriff's,
were closed out of respect to the
late official
' 4:08 a. m. Arrived Yakutsk, cov
ering 2,177 mjles In 10 hours, 31
minutes.
' 7:01 a. m. Took off from Yakutsk,
Siberia, for Fairbanks, Alaska. .
4:00 p. m. Left Siberia, heads for
Alaska via Bering strait route.
7:18 p. m. Arrived Fairbanks, cov
ering hazardous 2.458-mlle hop In
12 hours, 17 minutes,
8:36 p. ml Took off from Pair
banks. Thursday, July 14:
12:32 a. m. Reported 811 miles out
from Fairbanks, speeding toward Canadian-American
border.
2:00 a. m. Encountered electrical
storms near Fort Nelson, British Col
umbia. Crossing rugged Canadian
Rockies, rose to 14.500 feet. . . ;
8:88' a. ra.-Landed it Wold-Cham-berlaln
airport, Minneapolis, after a
2.441 mile flight from Fairbanks.
Alaska, in 12 hours and one minute.
8:11 a. m. Took off on final 1034
mile lap to New York.
. 1:36 p. m. Landed at Floyd Ben
nett airport, New York, his starting
point.
E
IS LOCAL VISITOR
Fred W. Spuhn, head rowing coach
at Princeton university and former
Medford high dchool student, and
Mrs. Spuhn, are spending several
weeks visiting hla mother, Mrs. Lily
3. Demmer of 609 West Jackson
boulevard. They arrived July 7 by
car from Princeton. N. J., and expect
to leave about August 1.
After being graduated frum Med
ford high. In 1618, Spuhn ut tended
the University of Washington where
he was a member of the Husky crew."
This waa his first year as head coach
at Princeton, he leaving Yale uni
versity to accept the position after
serving as assistant coach at tho New
Haven school for four years.
Mr. and Mrs. Spuhn are doing a lot
of fishing in Rogue river, with the
result that the Demmer nome has
salmon and trout on Its dinner table
almost dally.
20 Killed In Fall
Of Italian Plane
ROME, July 14. AP Twenty
persons were believed to have lost
their lives today when an Ala Lit
torla lines seaplane fell Into the
Tyrrhenian sea between Italy and j
the Island of Sardinia. I
Seadlund Voices No Regrets
Before Death for Kidnaping
CHICAGO. July 14. (AP) John
Henry Seadlund paid with his life
today for the crime of kidnaping.
The 27-year-old lumberjack, con
fessed abductor of Charles 8. Rosa,
confessed killer of the man who
helped him commit the crime, waa
electrocuted at 12:08 a.m. (central
standard time) In the Cook county
Jail.
Shaved and masked, Seadlund
walked tensely Into the execution
chamber almoat unaided. 'You don't
have to hold my arms." he told the
guards on eacb side of him. "I can
get there alone." After seating him
self he made a visible effort to re
lax and held his arms out for the
clampa.
He waa the second man to Be exe
cuted by the federal government
under the Lindbergh kidnap law. The
first waa Arthur Oooch. 27, hanged
at McAlester. Okla. June 10. 1836,
for kidnaping two peace officers at
Paris. Texaa, while attempting to
avoid arrest.
Twenty-five witnesses saw Sead-
lund die. Among them was Severln
Oregon Mercury Aims
For New Mark After
Wednesday's Record
4 ' ' '
By The Associated Press.
Oregon citizens almost everywhere trod through aun-bllstered asphalt
pavement today as the heat-agitated mercury shot up the class as
though It couldn't duplicate or surpass yesterday's record perfrrmanoe
fast enough.
The hottest sun In the nation reg-
rstred 106 degrees yesterday at Med-
ford and Wolf Creek but Pol em
barked on a new effort today to
make that perspiring maximum seem
cool. .
A noon maximum of 100 degrees at
Pendleton equalled the government's
100-degree report for yesterday. Pen
dleton residents, who suffr-red the
Whew!
Whewl It waa hot hero yestor
day, but at times today It was
even hotter.
Up to noon the temperature
was running ahead of what It was
at the comparative hours yester
day, but early this afternoon
gathering clouds had checked the
mercury's rise and It looked as
though Wednesday's 106 degree
high mark would not be reached
this afternoon.
At 1:41 p.m. the mercury stood
at 97, three degrees under the
mark at the same time yester
da v.
state's highest temperature of 119
degrees in August, 1B98, prepared for
a dust storm late today.
Grants Pass, a hot spot yesterday
with 101 degrees, recorded 93 at
noon. The morning minimum of 63
was up nine point from yesterday.
Fires in the Grants Pass forest
region reached 20 for the ;.ast few
days. About half had been extin
guished and the others were con
fined to am a 11 a mas.
' Portlandera-cast -aside- thrir coat
when the temperature reached 90
degrees at noon, four points hotter
than yesterday. Wednesday1 maxi
mum-of 06-represented a three-year
swelter mark. -
Klamath Falls' noon temperature
declined from 91 yesterday to 87
today. An official reading, nowever.
established yesterday's top at 89,
equalling the season's high. Thun
der heads hung around the mountain
peaks, threatening fire-setting elec
trical storms In the pine forests.
Eugene's noonday mark of 92 de
grees was a point above yeiterday.
Light clouds appeared and yesterday's
seasonal high of 98 waa probably not
In danger. ,
Although Salem sklca were partly
overcast and a breeze blew In from
the north, the temperature con
tinued an upward swing and hit 96
degrees at noon. Weather experts
predicted It would exceed yesterday's
1938 high of 100 degrees. At mid
night Wednesday the thermometer
had dropped only to 72 degrees.
QUARTET SINGS FRIDAY
AT EAGLE PL CHURCH
EAGLE POINT, July 14. (Spl)
The Chris quartet of the Bible In
stitute of Loa Angeles will present
a program of music and devotion at
the Presbyterian church of Eagle
Point Friday at 8 p. m., instead of
tonight as previously announced.
The quartet, composed of four
young men, Is making a tour of the
west coast, and la said to offer a
rare musical treat.
Sculptor's Widow Dies
PORTLAND, July 14. vP) Mrs.
Elizabeth Staehlt, 86, widow of the
well-known pacific coast sculptor,
died here yesterday. Her husband
produced the central fountain In the
city's Washington park end prepared
much of the sculpterlng for the
Lewis and Clark exposition- here In
1908. '
E. Koop, a Crosby, Minn., undertaker
selected by Seadlund to carry his
body back to his home In Ironton,
Minn. Three newspapermen, three
doctors, five business men and state
and federal officers were- other wit
nesses. Seadlund's last hours were spent
In a spirit of fatality. Those who
saw him said he expressed no re
gret, voiced no bitterness. He fitfully
read the Bible and talked with the
Jail chaplain. In hla death cell, an
hour and a half before the execu
tion, be partook of a light lunch,
Seadlund and Jamea Atwood Gray,
his 18-year-old accomplice, kidnaped
Rose In northern Illinois last Sep
tember 26. They took the 72-year-old
retired manufacturer of greeting
cards to a hideout In Wisconsin's
north woods, near Spooner.
There, Seadlund confeased to agents
of ' the federal bureau of Investiga
tion, he killed Oray during a quar
rel. Rom was fatally Injured In the
struggle, Seadlund aald. So he shot
him, too.
CAUSED Bl BOLTS
AND HEAVY WIND
Light nlng fttnrm lilt the l,iike
o' the Woods nrea In mlu-afler-nooii
today and Immediately
caused two mure forest fires,
nntlonul forest lirudqiiarters here
reported at 8 p. m.
For the second time In lees than
a weok, flre-flghtlng crews were to
day battling a number of Ughtnlng
caused blares In the Rogue River na
tional forest and forest lands undr
stato protection In Jnckson and Jose
phlno countica.
The fires were sot by storms that
swept over the valley early last eve -nlng.
Accompanied by "Wind that mo
mentarily attalnod velocities of 50
mllca an hour, the atorm did only
nominal damage to some Jackson
county crops, according to reports
reaching County Agent Robert O.
Fowler. Most of tho small damage waa
done to grains by rain, Mr. Fowler
snld.
Llmba blown across wires caused
numerous short circuits In the Cal
ifornia Oregon Power company ays
tern In the city and rural areas but
thcro was no break In the service
the Medford office snld.
About a dozen rural telophone lines
were put out of commission but ser
vice was restored today, the telephone
company o-eported.
Mrs. Albert Young and her two
s'mall sons, Jimmy, 6, and Jerry,
3, were knocked to the ground by
a lightning bolt aa they picked ber
ries near their home at the star
ranger atatlon In the Applegate. The
three were severely frightened but
escaped Injury.
The .bolt ripped through a pine
tree near which they were standing,
tearing 30 feet from the top of the
treo and setting It on fire. Tho light
ning burned through barbed wire at
tached to the tree, threw bark 150
feet from the tree and scattered
gravel from the nearby road for 200
feet to the Harold Reed store.
The blazing tree waa put out by
Eugene Tower, a fireman, and two
CCC men from Camp Applegate.
Three other lightning fires and
one spot blaze occurred on the Rogut
River national forest. The largest,
about 2'i acres, occurred a mllo
Southwest of the 8tar ranger station.
In charge of District Ranger Lee
Port, crews controlled the fire about
midnight. Twenty COO men stayed
on the Job all night to mop up.
A small fire occurred In the Ash
land watershed. It was spotted and
put out by Herbert J. Penning, Wag
ner Butte lookout, -ft-nd one assistant.
In the Onion Creek district light
ning caused a fire two mllea north
east of the Hershberger lookout. Four
men were dispatched to the fire and
they were still out today. While re
ports were lacking It was assumed
the blaze waa under control aa look
outs Informed headquartera here that
the emokehad died down.
The 2'A acre fire In the Applegate
caused a spot Mate but It was quickly
controlled. '
Two and possibly three fires were
set by lightning In stato forest lands
In Jackson county. A dozen (Ires
'were set In Josephine county which
Is Included In the local state dis
trict. Most of the Josephine county
fires were around Kerby peak and on
Thompson creek. .
In Jackson county the fires oc
curred across the river from the
highway near the Wlldwood camp
and In Dudley mountain above Butte
Falls. They covered about three and
two acres respectively and were
under control today, the district tire
warden's office reported. It was pos
sible, the office aald. that there was
snother blaze near the Dudley moun
tain fire. CCC men and state patrols
were on the fire lines all night.
Apprehension waa felt by forest
executives because of the probability
of more electric storms this after
noon and tonight.
The wind caused negligible dam
age by limb marks In some pear or
chards. C. B. Cordy, county horti
culturist said. Only worm-Infested
pears were blown down by the wind,
he stated.
Fear waa felt for the experimental
sugsr beet seed crop at the Talent
experimental atatlon. but Prof. F. O.
Relmer said the plot escaped un
scathed. Forest fires were prevented or ex
tinguished by rain that accompanied
the storms In some localities, bead-
quarters here stated..
BASEBALL
American.
R. H. E.
Detroit .. I 8 0
Boston - 12 15 1
Gill, Lawson and York; Grove, Wil
son and Desautels.
R. H. E.
Chleago 8 12 0
Philadelphia 8 11 4
Whitehead, Gabler, Rlguey and
Sewell: Thomas, .Williams, S Smith
and F. Hayes.
(Game called end 7th, rain )
K H. E.
4 10 1
8 7 I
St. Louis .
New York .
Newsom and Heath; Pearson and
Dickey.
National
(First game) R. H. E.
Philadelphia 0 8 1
Chicago :. - 8 6 0
Passcau and Atwood; Bryant and
Odea.
R. H. E.
New York 0 8 2
Cincinnati 14 1
Gumbert, Coffman and Mmcuso;
Waltera and Lombard!.
(11 Innings) R. H. E.
Brooklyn . - 2 6 0
Pittsburgh 8 8 2
Fltzslmmona and Shea: Blanton,
Tobln and Todd.
(Second game)
Philadelphia
H. E.
6 0
8 0
Chicago
Mulcahy and Atwood; Lee and
Hartnett.
U. S: READY TO AID
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14. ft
Prosldent Roosevelt said today that
the United States stands ready to
encourage other leading nations '"In
any efforts they may make toward
a, definite reduction In world arma
ment." .;
The president, speaking at the San
Francisco exposition grounds Just
prior to reviewing the fleet In San
Francisco bay, asserted that this
country's navy "la not merely a sym
bolIt la a potent, everready fact
In the national defense of the Unit
ed States."
"Every right thinking man and
woman In the United States," Mr.
Roosevelt continued, "wishes that It
were safe for the nation to spend
less of our national budget on our
armed forces.
"All know that we are faced with
a condition and not a theory and
that the condition la not of our own
choosing.
"Money spent on armaments does
not create permanent Income pro
ducing wealth, and about the only
satisfaction we can take out of the
present world situation la that the
proportion of our own national In
come that we spend on armaments
la only a quarter or a third of the
proportion that most of the other
great nations of the world are spend
ing at thla time."
"We fervently hope for the day
when the other leading nations of
the world will realize that their pres
ent course must Inevitably lead them
to disaster. We stand ready to meet
them and encourage them In any
effort they may make toward a def
inite reduction In world armaments."
The president aald he regarded the
8an Francisco and New York expo
altlons of 1838 as demonstrations of
confidence that the United States
"and all the western hemisphere"
will be at peace during the year.
HUGHES GIVES TOP
RANKING TO POST
NEW YORK, July 14. (AP) How
ard Hughes, Just back from an his
toric flight around the world, de
clined today to put hla achievement
In the same class with that of the
late Wiley Pott, who circled the world
solo In 1833, and said Post's was "the
most remarkable Job of flying ever
done."
I believe." aald Hughes, "Wiley
Poet's achievement of flying solo
around the world waa the moat re
markable Job of flying ever done and
probably, that ever will be done."
I can't Imagine how he did It.
It Is tough enough with modern In
struments, and alone appear! almoat
Impossible. What Poat did was some
thing like aawlng a woman In half or
pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Some
people believe that there have been
other fltghte which were more Im
portant, but air pllota know that
Wiley Poet's feat waa the greatest."
C.I.O. Rejects Offer.
PORTLAND, July 14. OP) The
I'.I.O. district council of lumber and
sawmill workers rejected an offer
from the Columbia Basin Loggers
association today to discuss ly re
duction i
HOOVER AND AIDES
AT
E
Ex-President Confers With
Party Leaders at Dinner
To Return for Steel
head Angling in August
Herbert Hoover, the country's only
living former president, held a round
table discussion on Republican po
litical strategy with about 50 party
leaden of southern Oregon rounttea
at a dinner In tho Hotel Medford
basement dining room last night.
The political dlacwslon waa "off
the record," but Mr. Hoover talked
of other things on which nu atrtnga
were tied, such oa his trip In Europe
a abort time ago.
From hla European observation!
Mr. Hoover concluded there la no
Immediate danger of a general war.
While there la a great race In the
building of armaments, all of the
European nations are concerned al
most entirely with defenses, with no
serious thoughts of an offensive war.
Mr. Hoover related.
Traced to League Decline.
The present uneasiness In Europe
he attributed to an upset In the
balance of power among the coun
tries. Ultimately this balance will
be restored and fears of war will thus
be dissipated, he predicted. Break
down in the balance of power he
traced to the collapse of the Leaguo
of Nations. ,
Mr. Hoover gave a description of
Hitler that varied sharply from the
usual picture of the Gorman dlov
tator. He said the Nazi chief pos
sessed an amazing physchologlcat
ability by which he la capable ot
emotionalizing the German people.
If Germany were to hold a free elec
tion, devoid ot any trace ot mili
tarism, Hitler would receive 88 per
cent of the votes, Mr, Hoover pre.
dieted. Hla hold on the German,
people la astonishing, he added, and
declared Hitler had much mere abll-
(Oontlnued on Page Six.)
City building Inspectors office en
Joyed Its busiest day of the month,
yesterday, with applications for
building permits totaling 18,140, In
cluding two for the construction of,
new residences.
J. 7. Lawrence made application
for a permit to construct a new res
idence and garage at 2218 East Main
street at a stated coat of 84000.
O. D. Ward applied for a permit
to build a new residence and garage
at 44 Portland avenue at a stated cost
of 83000.
S. 8. Humphreys of SOS South Riv
erside avenue applied for a permit
to remodel the coffee ahop at Sun
rise auto court at a stated cost ot
81000.
Other permits applied for Included
one by W. H. Paine of 88 North
Orange street, tor the construction
of a summer bouse to cost $100, and,
by c, A. DeVoe ot 718 Welch street
to reshlngle a residence at a, stated
cost of 840.
WIN 10 SEMI-RNALS
SHAWNEE - ON - DELAWARE. Pa..
July 14. (AP) Samuel Jackson
Snead, the sweet swinger from Wblte
Sulphur Springs, W. Vs., and the
country's top money winner, today
continued hla aub-par pace as he -moved
Into the semi-final round of
the national P.OA championship
with an overwhelming 8 and 7 shel
lacking of sad-faced Jim Foulls of
Chloego.
Henry Plcard of Herahey, . Pa.,
moved Into the next-to-last round
by eliminating Gene Sarazen, three
time winner from Brookfleld Center,
Conn., 8 and 2.
VIC MacKENZIE'S SON
TO MAKE FILM DEBUT
HOLLYWOOD. July 14. Pr Keith
MacKenzle, 8-year-old national mas
cot ot the American Legion, will
make his movie debut In a picture
titled "Sons of the Legion."
Keith's father. Vie MacKenzle, Is
national convention director of the
American Legion. The boy waa bom '
In Portland, Ore., wille the 1832
Legion convention waa In progress.
Brilliant Feat.
AUCKLAND. New Zealand. July 14.
UP) Hsrold Oatty. who accompanied
the late Wiley Post as navigator In
his first record-making world flight
In 1831, today declared the flight ot
Howard Hughes and his companlona
was "a brilliant exhibition of mod
ern flying."