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'Tis Friday Again Again we remind you today ti Friday First thing In line It the preparation of tliat Classi fied Adv. for the Sunday morn. Ing edition. Advil. In by 3:30 p.m. Anturday will be properly classified. The Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to- Medford m BUNE H II I Kilt ailU doiuiuuji uv warm Saturday, Temperature: Highest yesterday Lowest thli morning , ..106 H 69 Full Associated Frets FuJ 3 ted Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938. - No. 104. Bum FA BE MUD I The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop. and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937, by The" North Ameriean News paper Alliance, Inc. DEWEY IS NEW YORK'S MAIN POLITICAL ENIGMA DEMOS FEAR HE WILL BB REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE PROSPECTOR MAY RUN IT WAGNER' LEI1MAN QUIT RACE MAY BECOME LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER WASHINGTON, July 23. The great political enigma of New York, la young Tom Dewey, the mass pro duction St. Oeorge who haa been mowing down the dragons of the racket at the rate of about one a week. He has been elected district attorney of New York county for a four-year term. He haa stated that he la not a candidate for any office Yet the grwit puzzle for the local political soothsayers Is whether or not Tom Dewey will accept the Re publican nomination for governor. The president and his advisers. Postmaster-General James A. Parley, and most other leading Democrats have been conclnved for months that Dewey would run. Many eminent Republicans (most of whom would not be averse to making the guber natorial race themselves) are equally positive that Dewey can't run. "He's been elected to do a big Job, and he's got to do It,'.'., they tell you, . As for Dewey himself, he seems to be handling his political future to the same cold, efficiently calcu lating way that he handles rackets prosecutions. It Is learned authori tatively that. In the last weeks, he has told close friends that he wtll run If he has better than an even chance. In practical terms, that means he will run If the Democratic candidate la anyone but Senator Rob ert P. Wagner of Oovernor Herbert H, Lehman, and If his prosecution of James J. Hlnes proves successful. It Is a strange conjunction of events. Indeed, which may make the Republican presidential nomination In 1940 depend on the conviction of the New Deal's official patronage dis penser In the largest city In the country as the political protector f the Dutch Schultr. policy racket. Yet that Is about the size of the situ ation. For years, New Yorkers, from church leaders to barflies, have beon saying that Jimmy Hlnes was doli.g precisely what he Is now under In dictment for doing. Nevertheless, (Continued ou Page Ten.) With fire conditions remaining ex tremely hazardous, Chief Roy Elliott today reminded the public that burning permits were not being Is sued for the present and that tht burning of trash and rubbish in We open or In Incinerators was prohib ited. Persons setting clean-up fires during the prohibited period axe lia ble to prosecution. "We are doing our best to prevent fires and we ask the continued co operation of ihe public." the chief said. "We feel confident We people win continue to give us their help." A man from the department, he ad ded, will patrol the city as a guard against clean-up fires. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Msynard Bush feeling a trifle out of place at a picnic, he being the only man present. Many friends wondering what has become of Everett Beeson. Mae Bogner betting on Wooden Boxmen so that Timber Products would win. her usually poor luck taking ft turn for the worse, she win ning the waeer when she wanted to loee. Mayor Charley Furnas wondering If It would be any cooler If he took off hit suspenders. Howard Hamilton being stopped In his tracks by an even more clever exponent of the art of sharp and cutting repartee. Forest Demon Foils All Control Efforts; Covers 5000 Acres Throwing uhes and cinders for ft i fire off Crater Lake highway between out of control today. The fire, mostly In brush and scrub growth, cov ered 5,000 acres and was sprendlnir toward Butte Falls. The community was about six miles by airline from the blaze this afternoon. The state fire warden's office here - said that no ranches were In lmme- i dlate- danger. Nevertheless farmers In the locality were repoited to be ! nervous and many of theiri had set backfires In an effort to check the main blaze. Backfire Add To Peril Instead of helping, however, the backfires added to the original blaze and made the task of control much more difficult, the warden's office said. While appreciating the cooperative Intent of the farmers, the warden's office asked that they make no effort to fight the fire excepting under the advice of trained forestry personnel. Butt Falls Itself was being covered with ashes and cinders from the fire. Cinders were falling as far as Mount Pitt, a distance of 30 miles. The Nlon Tucker summer lodge, Ro?ue Roost, on the Rogue river near Trail was under a shower of ashes. Pumper Aids Thirty trained state firefighters equipped with a pumper were bat tling the blaze. It was hoped the blaze could be checked this afternoon with proper backfires, the warden's office stated. The backfires were started this afternoon. The fire brought visibility in the Butte Falls district to a low point and lookouts were handicapped In their vigilance. California Oregon Power company sent a crew to the scene this noon upon receiving a report of line trou- ( Continued on Page Hires.) CATAPULT FLYING BOAT ARRIVES FROM AZORES IN NAZI EXPERIMENT PORT WASHINGTON. N. Y.. July 22. (p) Germany's 19-ton catapult flying boat. Nordmeer, alighted on the water at this transatlantic air port at 8:42 a. m. EST, today after a non-stop flight of 2.397 miles across the Atlantic from the Azores In 17 hours, 42 minutes. It had been tossed Into ti-e air at a speed of about 110 miles an hour at 3 p. m. (EST) yesterday by Its mother ship, the Schwabenland, at Horta, The Azores. The Nordmeer av eraged 133 miles per hour on the fligiit, powered with four oil-burning Diesel engines. Aboard the Nordmeer were Capt. Joachim von Blenkenburg, veteran transatlantic filer, Co-Pllot Otto Brix, Radioman Wllhelm Kueppers, and Flight Engineer Alfred Eger. In the harbor lay the German cat apult ship Friesenland which, next week, will toss the Nordmeer out In to the air on her borne ward Journey, completing the first of 14 round trip exploratory flights to New York plan ned by Luft Hansa this summer. Next month. Air France, the French flying company, will start the first of five or six planned flights from Bordeaux to Port Washington. YZ It cooled off to 106 degrees yes terday and today the temperature was holding sereral degrees below yesterday's comparable readings. At 1:41 p.m., the mercury stood at 08 as against 103 at the same hour yes terday. While the temperature was down, the humidity was up and the gen eral effect was about the same so far as personal comfort was con cerned. The humidity this after noon was 28 per cent against 15 per cent yesterday. The lowest the temperature got during the night wa 09, highest minimum of the year. Phone Inquiries ' Gauge Torridity PORTLAND. July 52. (AP) The telephone was almost as accurate a gauge on the heat wave as the ther mometer In the government weather bureau yesterday. The bell Jangled more frequently as the temperature mounted. By the time the sun reach ed Its maximum the calls were com ing In 260 per hour. WASHINOTON. July 22. (AP) Rural electrification administration officials said today they planned to send representatives Into 17 states to encourage formation of farmer organizations for construction of electric power distribution lines. distance of 20 miles, the stato forest Reese and Indian creeks roared on OF By the Associated Press Oregon, staggered by ' a . ten-day heat and forest fire epidemic that resulted In at least 13 deaths and burned thousands of acres, eagerly gulped the fredi, cooler air from the Pacific today as 100-plus tempera tures fell away and weary men con trolled several major conflagrations. J. W. Ferguson, state forester who traced 10 per cent of more than CO fires to lncendlarlsts, reported condi tions more favorable than yesterday when the heat created the blackest day In the 28-year history of the forest department. Six hundred smoke-grimed fire fighters conquered a 6000 -acre nurn along Big creek In Clatsop and Col umbia counties. The terrifying Smith river fire in northwestern Douglas county, which once threatened to spread southward and destroy the picturesque Umpqua river town of Scottsburg, still puffed smoke frcm 8000 smouldering acres but It was efficiently checked. The relenting weather and the un ceaslntz work of the embattled craws cut the numbef of fires to 17o'. Far-' guson said little merchantable timber had been lost. With progress made toward curb ing the Chetco blaze In southern Oregon, 200 CCO men Were transfer red to the 100-acre Oallce fire in the Siskiyou national forest. The flames subsided after making tragic scars on 10,000 acres. A hundred loggers replaced the CCC contingent. The Gal Ice menace raged northward and a number of mountaineers burled their valuables to escape disaster in the path of tlie all-consuming flames. Fire fighting supervisors directed backfiring operations to place a rein on the red march. Inexperienced firefighters were shipped back to Portland after many suffered minor Injuries on the Nome (Continued on Page fhree.) COURTENAY BLAZE EVICTS RESIDENTS SEATTLE. July 22. (AP) Fire drove British Columbia residents from their homes today as the . Pa cific northwest's destructive forest conflagrations continued, but cooler weather offered a possible check to the mounting toll of heat deaths and drownings. Near Courtenay, B. C, families fled their homes before a fire which already had covered 60.000 acres. destroyed the resort settlement of Forbes Landing and threatened log ging operations on Vancouver. Island. Seventy-five other families near Headquarters, B. C and Black Creek district prepared to evacuate at a moment's notice. The Seattle weather bureau pre dicted at least temporary lower tem peratures. It was 71 here at noon. 17 degrees cooler than the same time yesterday. KIONAP PLOTTER GETS TENCE BIRMINGHAM. England. July 22. (Pi John Bruce Thornton was sen tenced today to seven years of penal servitude for a. fantastic plot to kid nap Viscount Nuffield, Britain's "Henry Ford." and hold htm at sea for ransom of 1500.000. The grey-haired Thornton was found guilty on all four counts of the Indictment. Thornton denied any Intention to kidnap the mlllln alre automobile manufacturer. Hit counsel charged the main prosecution witness. Major Arthur Oeoffrey Rams den, was a "lying, cunning traitor.' One of the counts accused Thorn ton of Inciting Rsmsden to conspire with him to kidnap Lord Nuffield. WASHINGTON. July 20P Sen ator Char leu L, McNary's office an nounced today ti e WPA hod allotted 94O00 to improx'e t.:e wage disposal plant at the Chemawa Indian school near Salem. JAPAN READY TO TAKE ON RUSSIA, Official Spokesman of For eign Office Gives Varying Statements On Dispute Over Siberian Border " TOKYO, July 22. (AP) Tokyo newspapers tonight quoted an un named foreign office spokesman as declaring that Japan "is ready and has every right to take all necessary steps" toward Soviet Russia in their conflict over a disputed area on the Manchoukuo-Slbcrian border. Previously the official spokesman of the foreign office, Tatsuo Kawal, had Indicated to foreign correspon dents Japan had no Intention of forcing the Issue with Moscow, had dented any threat by Japan to use force and said withdrawal of Russian troops had been merely proposed as a preliminary to a "general compro mise." Challenge Seen To the Japanese pres the spokes man was reported to have said that "Russia's action piust be Interpreted as a challenge to Japan" and that Moscow must assume responsibility for the results of the Changkufeng incident Soviet troops' occupation July 11 of a border area Japan asserts Is Manchoukuo territory. The Japanese press continued to carry accounts of movements of Rus sian naval and army forces near the Changkufeng area, which Is south west of Vladivostok and near the point where Siberia, Korea and Man choukuo come together. Dome!, the Japanese news agency, reported five Soviet destroyers hod entered Posslet bay, which although practically enclontcl by Russian1 terri tory is near the troubled Changku feng area. The Tokyo newspaper Asa hi said 30,000 Soviet troops hod been moved close to the area. (Estimates of Russian forces In the Far East range from 300.000 to 000,000 men. Japan Is believed to have some 250,000 of her best troops in Man choukuo, over which she has assumed military protection. - Moscow Confident Informed persons said Japanese army leaders believed that Moscow was confident that because Japan was so deeply Involved fh the Chinese war she would have to yield to Russia in the present conflict. Moscow already has reJcAed vigor ously Japanese protests and demands that the Russian troops withdraw from Changkufeng. These sources said a whole "red division" was rushed to the borders of Suiyuan province In April when the news Of the Japanese defeat at Talerhchwang, In Shantung province, reached Siberia. Suiyuan Is a province of Inner Mongolia occupied by Japan and Is adjacent to outer Mongolia, Soviet protectorate. The same sources said Russia was ready then to attack Japan in the belief that the tide of the China war had turned against her. Tills they said they had on the authority of a Soviet officer who had deserted. How ever, when later the Japanese armies advanced again and took Suchow the Russian attack plans were postponed. TRANSIENT HELD ON THEFT COUNT Charged with larceny from a store. George Morland Garland, alias Kirk Brady, 35, was bound over to uwalt action of the grand Jury, In Justice of the peace court yesterday after noon. Bond was set at 500. Garland allegedly confessed to city police the thelt of a Unlvex movie camera and a Sunbeam electric razor from the East Side pharmacy, a fold ing camera from the Medford phar macy, a Schick electric razor from McNalr Bros, drug store In Ashland and two 91 watches from another Ashland drug store. Garland was arrested In Ashland yesterday morning by city police of that city, after he had sold the cam era and watches on the street. Med ford city police returned him here, where they obtained the alleged con fession. Osrland told police he arrived In Medford by stage. July 19. from Grants Pass, and the same day stole the cameras and razor. He gave hts home as Nevada, and bis occupation as a mechanic. INSULL'S BODY TAKEN TO LONDON FOR BURIAL PARIS, July S3. (AP) The body of Samuel lnsull, former Chicago utilities operator who died Saturday, was sent to London today for burial In the lnsull family plot at Putney Vale. British Rulers Homeward Bound After Friendly Visit With French IS OF CLOSE HARMONY CALAIS. France. July 22. yp - King George and Queen Elizabeth today ended their four-day visit of state to Franco, sailing for Dover nt 5:35 p. m. (11:35 a. m., E.S.T.) on the yacht Enchantress for England A French Infantry band on the dock played "God Save the King" as the Enchantress, with the king and queen on the deck waving good bye, pulled away. Thousands of spectators shouted, "God save the king." "God savo the queen !" "Como back to see us again 1" VILLERS-BRETONNEAUX, France. July 22. (AP) King George of Eng land again Informed the world today that Britain and France are bound by unbreakable ties. ' In a speech dedicating a memorial to Australia's world war dead, the concluding event of his four-day visit of state to France, the king said: "The events we recall today have bound us with ties that the passing years can never weaken." This assurance was given In ad dition to his statement In his speech the first night of his Paris stay: "It would how be Impossible to recall a period in which our rela tions were moro Intimate." - ... Before the. king- spoko--his" war minister, Leslie Hore-Bellaha, con ferred on co-ordination of Anglo- French military plans with Ocneral Marie Gustave Gamelln, chief of France's general staff of national defense. King Oeorgc's apcech was loudly applauded by his hearers, who inter preted It as a clarifying note In the present perturbed atmosphere of Eu rope. It came after Sir Earle Page, dep uty for the prime minister of Aus tralia, declared In Introductory - re marks that Britain and France "still stand shoulder to shoulder for. main tenance of the Ideals for which so many of our people laid down their lives." From the same platform President Albert Lebrun of France said the ceremony emphasized "the close en tente of our two great democracies, TURMOIL IN LANE EUGENE, July 22. (AP) A drive to oust Peter M. Sullivan, relief di rector of Lane county, was revealed here today as petitions demanding hts recall were circulated by a group led by William Akin, who said he was a Hess supporter and a member of the Workers' Alliance. . Charging Sullivan and Governor Charles Martin were cousins. Akin declared the relief office appointment was "political gravy" and -accused Sullivan of maldistribution of re lief funds. The move was Interpreted In pollti col circles as an attempt on the part of Hess supporters to gain control of Lane county relief administration. The petition seeks the removal of Sullivan and the appointment of E. H. Turner, former mayor of Spring field, In hi place. Akin tald there were 15.000 signers already, Heat Wave Brings Hop Crop On Fast GRANTS PASS, July 22. (AP) The current heat wave Is ripening hops far ahead of schedule. One of the growers of "late" hops who start ed picking lost year on August 18 and planned this year four days later. issued his call today for pickers to assemble August 4. . Crah Victim Recovers. GRANTS PASS. July 22. (AP) Colmar Lombard of Portland, Injured In a July 13 accident on the Caves highway fatal to Clyde Dunn of Portland, was discharged from the local hospital today. Raynor Smith of Roseburg. who suffered a skull fracture, was reported as showing steady Improvement. Enrollert Arrive. BARER, July 22 fAP) More than 200 enrol lees from New York and New Jersey arrived In Baker this morning to occupy the new camp to be established in the Keating dis trict. Fifty of the youths will b sent to Camp I! i Igr.nl ntar LaGran'ic to remain temporarily "Mm cpf K f"7 i$ r King George VI of Kngland n shown saluting the crowd which cheer ed him us he l(rt the railway station at Purls. Frnnec, upon his nrrlvul for a fttate visit the first In 25 yriirs by a British King. The king Is fol lowed by President Albert lehrun nf France, who Is partly o burn red by the man witlklng licstile hlui. This picture wis sent from London to New York by rndlu. $800 AWARDED LEONARD INJURY A verdict awarding Foncy Leonard, blacksmith, 9800 In his damage suit against Craig M. Cooper and wlfo of the Tablo Rock district, was returned Thursday nfternoon, by a circuit court Jury, Charles Boussom, foreman. Leonard, sought .$3000. damages. The Jury deliberated slightly more than an hour. The suit was based upon an auto accident on the old Pacific highway, on the night of December 22 last, In which Leonard, who was walking on the highway was struck by an auto driven by Cooper. Leonard sustained a fractured leg and ankle. The plaintiff was represented by Attorneys George M. Roberts and W. M. McAllister, the defense by Attor ney Gus Newbury. ABOARD U. S. HOUSTON, EN ROUTE TO PANAMA. July 22. (AP) President Roosevelt's vacation fishing cruise led him today toward the Galapagos Islands, locale of one of the strangest mystery death stories ever to come out of the t cop lea. A voyage of 1,300 miles lay ahead of the Houston when she left Clipper- ton Island yesterday, her refrigerators overflowing with fish the president and his party caught In ft five-hour expedition. Also aboard the warship was new information concerning the location of Slip per ton. 675 miles off Acapulco. Mexico, but one mile southeast of Its present charted position, according to observations takeji by Captain G. N. Bark.'r, commander of the Houston. Specimens of the volcanic Island's bird, animal and marine Ufa were gathered by Professor Waldo Schmttt of the Smithsonian Institution while the president fished and three navy planes surveyed the Island and sur rounding waters from the air. I ekes Will Survey Alaska PWA Jobs WASHINGTON. July 22. (AP) Secretary and Mrs. Harold L, Ickcs will leave Seattle, Wash., on August 3 for an extensive tour of Alaska, The secretary, Interior department officials said today, was Interested In visiting 'a number of PWA projects under Ju-lt !!rUon of his division of territories and Island poseeseionft. BASEBALL American. Chicago at New York, postponed, rain. Detroit at Philadelphia, postponed, rain. St. Louis . 0 11 a Washington - 7 13 2 11. Mills, Johnson and Heath; Kel ley, Krakauskas, Applcton and Giuli ani. Cleveland 4 10 2 Boston 7 12 0 Feller, Gatehouse, Humphries and Homslcy; Wilson and Dcsautels. Rational (1st game) R. R. E. Philadelphia . 2 10 3 Cincinnati 5 13 2 Passeau and V. Davis; Derringer, and Lombard I. Boston Ptltsburgh 17 1 .4 8 3 Turner and Mueller; Blanton and Todd. New York at Chicago, postponed, rain. - LI PORTLAND, July 23. (AP) M. L. O'Nell & Son offered the l.-w bid of 77,1B3 to the federal bureau of public roads today for 23 mllea re construction project on the John Day-Burns highway across the can yon creek-Bllvles creek divide In Orant county. K. h. Outta of Cratcl1 Lake". Ore., submitted the low bid of 78.J0O for (trading, one mile on the Enterprlse-Flora-Uwlaton highway, Buford can yon section In Wallowa county. A. Milne or Portland bid s-.is.7ju for surfacing 3.0 mllea on the Caa cade lakea highway along the east shore of Diamond lake In Douglas county. Entrapped Miners Escape Unscathed DUNCAN. Arlr... July 31. (API Five miners trapped by a cave-In 700 feet below the surface In the Sham rock shaft of Veta Mines. Inc., 11 miles from here, were rencued today after 34 hours of Imprisonment. When the miners emerged they were "nona the worse" tor their long stay In the darkness of the blocked tunnel, an official of the mining company announced. The miners were Alfred Ollllng rater, R. C. nobcruon, A'.bt-rt Carl son, B. V. Wright and D. K. Orlsson. REPUBLIC STEEL Charge Flung at Senate Civil Liberties Committee Hearing Reprehensible Tactics Charged to Co. WASHINGTON1, July 22. (AP) Philip Murray, chairman of the steel workers organizing committee. charged today that the- Republic Steel corporation Is "tho filthiest In dustrial cesspool of labor relations in America." The gray, partly bald steel union leader made his carefully worded charge In testimony before the sen ate civil liberties committee Investi gating the "little stool" strike of 1D37. Murray charged that the Republic firm, previously mentioned In tes timony as having aided tn financing the activities of citizens organlza- . tlons opposing CIO activities, domi nated groups fighting the 8WOC. "The Republic Steel corporation," Murray charged,- "created, maintain ed, dominated and financed every known kind of agency that could be created to prevent the organization of steel workers Into unions. 'I know of no single corporation In the United States that has re sorted to the use of more reprehen sible tactics against unionization." It Is generally known that this corporation as far as labor relations are concerned, Is the filthiest Indus trial cesspool of labor relations In America. Murray said he thought the SWOO had "revolutionized" the status of tho steel workers and eventually would win thlr "comploto economic freedom. ': V ' " ' "Wa virtually destroyed the politi cal and economic combination of these (steel ) companies,' he said, "and have given to the workers the right to exercise their franchise, the right to vote for whom they please and the right to attend the kind of meetings they want to attend." WITH VIOLATIONS OP FEDERAL REGULATIONS NEW YORK, July 22WAP) The securities and exchange commission, In a bill of complaint- filed In the U. S. district court here today, charg ed the Associated Gas & Electric sys tem with violation of the public utility holding company act of 1035 and the securities act of 1033. The SEC action arose as a result of the system's efforts to extend the Associated Gas it El ec trio corporation & per cent convertible Investment certificates which mature Novomber IS. Attorneys for SEC sought a prelim inary Injunction against the utility company. ' . This is the first action of its kind since the 1035 holding company legis lation was held constitutional by the supreme court In the Electric Bond & Share case. , ROMANCE OFFERS DUBLIN, July . (AP) Douglas O. Conigan aerred notice on girl admirers today that he la a filer, not a lover. "I can't get over the number of girls who seem to think because I flew the Atlantic I would make a perfect husband," said the California mechanic whose compass played trleka on him. "I am not having any feminine entanglements yet In my young life." ha added, aa his fan mall grew Into a huge stack. He la 31. . Corrlgan went calling today on more officials, In the role of a sort of unofficial American ambassador. His first engagement was with Elre'e police chief but, still conscious of his lack of papers when be landed hta $900 nine-year-old crat" here Monday, he explained quickly: "He only wants to hear about my flight." Unable Find Body G. Pass Swimmer GRANTS PASS. July 92. (IT) The body of Charles Chapln, 38, had not been recovered from Rogue river till morning. Be drowned last evening when he disappeared on the final Jump a he waa leaping up and down to "meaaure the depth of water." A wire net was Immediately atretch. ad acroaa the stream at the Cavemaa bridge. A.
