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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; little changtt In temperature. Temperature I Highest yesterday 04 Lowest this mornlng.... 61 Go After It Now that the "Hot Spell" haa passed let's get down to busi ness and advertise tor what we want. It's to be had If you ro after it. The Classified In this newspaper cost little but are effective. MEDFORD TR'-BUNE Full Associated Press $ . United Press Thirty-Third Year .MEDFORD, OREGON7, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1938. No. 108. HATOED nnrfnnn in j lyjiyj ira hap 1 : z BV The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937. by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. MAVERICK DEFEAT 19 BLOW TO NEW DEALERS TEXAS RESULT DAMAtiES POLITICS OF PRINCIPLE CONSERVATISM, GOOFINESS SEEN SHARING TRIUMPH F. R.'S FOES HEARTENED IN FIGHT TO RULE PARTY WASHINGTON, July 37. The New Dealers have rarely been o discon certed as by Texas, preference for bounding mountebankery over hon est liberalism. The defeat of Repre sentative Maury Maverick, and the triumph of the singing flour sales man, W. Lee O Daniel, are aing dong blows. The connection between the two events Is simple. In the White House struggle between professional Demo cratic politicians and private presi dential advisers, the latter have steadfastly advocated "the politics of principle. Arguing that the coun try was ready to make Its choice on basic Issues, they have urged such ventures as the primary purge. They have told the president. "Stand for coherent liberalism, and the country will stand behind you." Representative Maverick has been one of their best object lessons. Since the Civil war, Issues have meant little 1n the south, where the one-party system has reduced politics to a mere conflict between personali ties and special Interests. As Mave rick always ran on the Issues, how ever, he was used to prove the exist ence of a new southern trend. And now Maverick has been beaten while the people of Texas have chosen for their governor a miin whose only Issues were pensions and the ten commandments. The simultaneous events are dra matic. Maverick was the Intellectual leader of the 100 per cent New Dealers In the house. For years he had railed at the other southern politicians for their conservatism, their lack of interest in their con stituents' economic problems, their refusal to follow the president's lead. On several occasions notable In the wage-hour fight he had frightened other southerners Into line for the New Deal. By the mere, existence of such politicians as Maverick, Claude Pep- (Coutlnued on Page Four.) APPROVE LEASE, SALE OF MILLIONAIRE Ml An order approving the lease and sale of the "Millionaire Mine," lo cated In the Gold Hill district, to Artist A. Mole, was signed by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton Tuesday, upon petition of Cecil Johnson, receiver for the property. The contract, submitted by th petition, provides for yearly pay ments over a three-year period, im mediate starting of a pump to Clear water from the shaft, replacing of timbers in the mine that may have become decayed, and clearing of the tunnels of debris. The mine has not been operating for some time and has been In re ceivership proceedings. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS V i5i tor Wayne May commenting pn the low visibility smoke of the Rogue valley, he being used to the low rtt btllty fog of the bay area. Dick Wright collecting a two-bit wager for predicting rain within a week, this being the last day he could collect. Les Price becoming conspicuous with a patch on his chin. Bill Bowerman explaining how he pets an undisturbed sleep by put ting his baby boy to bed In a sound proof room and letting him squawk if he wants to. Miry Porter nrWully explaining hrr lush brow mannrr as bring due to i ft :f neck. Fr-dTtc Brommr tying a wh'.r et in rig milady beautiftera. END COME WHILE As Bo OFFICERS TRYING TO RIGJIFE NET 17-Story Plunge From Ledge On Side of Gotham Hotel Brings Instant Death Body Waits Kin's Order NEW YORK. July 27. (AP) Alone In death, the body of 26-year-old John Warde who thrilled tens of thousands of spectators near ly Jl hours yesterday before he leaped to his death from the 17th floor of the Gotham hotel, lay In an east side funeral parlor today. While morbid throngs still gaped at the 18-inch perch where Warde sulked throughout yesterday after noon and evening, or pointed to the crimsoned spot on the pave ment where his body struck, offic ials at the funeral parlors said no one had called to look at the shat tered remains. They said they had received no Instructions as to dis position. Souvenirs Sought Police kept the crowds moving, but passersby picked up fragments of broken glass from the Hotel Mar quee, which was hit a glancing blow by Warde's hurtling descent. "Here's my souvenir I" one of them exclaimed proudly , . . the piece of glass had a reddish tinge. A funeral parlor employe who es- (Continues on Page Five ) ALBANY, July 27. (AP) Re enactment of the law formerly per mitting formation of special road tax levying districts was recommend ed In a resolution passed by county Judges and commissioners of district No. fi of the Oregon Association oi Counties here yesterday. The officials asserted restoration of the law would f acl 1 1 ta te road construction In areas where Improve ments would supply purely local needs for which general tax levies would not be Justified. Roads designed as outlets for tim ber only were specified among the types of improvement which the special road district law promoted. The resolution will be submitted to the association's state executive committee when it meets at Port land Thursday. The county courta of Marion, Polk. Benton, Linn and Lane counties met with Judge Earl B. Day. Jackson county, president, and F. L. Phlpps, The Dalles, executive secretary, of the state association. AT ABOARD UBS. HOUSTON. In Gal apagos Archipelago. July 27. (AP Charles Island, the one-time refuge of Baroness Elotse Wehrboro and her "court" was the anchorage early to day of the cruiser Houston and lt presidential party President Roosevelt did not go ashore, but members of his party left the ship soon after Its arrival to explore the Island and take glfte from the president to the Wittmer family. The Houston was under way again shortly before noon, headed for Gardnrr bay in Hoed Wand, whet It as to anchor overnight. SPECIAL ROAD TAX I baseball As Body Whirled to Earth br ftp R John Warde Is shown above (rn hours on a 17lh floor ledge of New Vcrk City. Warde's body was was snapped. The broken body Is a marquee and roiled Into the street. cover the remains from the eyes of throughout the day. (A. P. Photos mall to Mall Tribune). National '(First game) Cincinnati .... 0 5 1 Boston - 1 ' 0 Weaver, Schott, and Hershberger; MacFayden and Lopez. Second game: Cincinnati Boston R. H. E. 1 5 3 6 8 0 Walters and Lombardl; Fctte and Mueller. R. H. E. Pittsburgh .460 Philadelphia .24 1 Bauers and Todd; Hallahan, Mul- cahy and V. Davis. R. H. 7 11 0 4 St. Louis New York Warneke and Bremer: Castleman Lohrman, Coffman and Mancuso, Dannlng. ' American. First game: R- H- E. New York 7 11 0 St. Louis 13 3 Vance and Dickey Johnson, Sundra and Heath. New York at 8t. Louis, second game postponed; rain and wet grounds. Washington Detroit Weaver. Appleton, Krakauskas. Kel y and R. Ferrell, Giuliani; Law son and Tebbetts. Sentenre Publisher's Son SAN FRANCISCO. July 27. (AP) Clarence Brettun Blethen. 31, was sentenced to a year and a day In prison today by Federal Judge Michael J. Roche for forging and cashing a 125 postal savings check. His place of confinement is to be designated by the attorney general. Blethen la the son of the publisher of the Seattle Times. F.irafltlon Aked SALEM. July 27. (AP) Governor Charles H. Martin today axked for the extradition of Jose Martinez who is under arrest at Douglas, Arlfc . charged with the murder of Daniel CssMo in Lane county, on October 2, 1931. hurtling to his denlh nfler spending the Hole) liotlinni on Hflli avenue. passing the sixth floor us the camera shown below a moment after It hit A fireman may be seen running to Ihousands who had watched horrllled by wire to San Francisco and air WOOD SAW WHEEL BOMBARDS CITY VANCOUVER, Wash., July 27. (Pj A vagrant wood-saw flywheel gave Vancouver residents all the vicarious thrills of an aerial bombing yester day, J. M. Sheppard's cast-iron flywheel broke In two. A 60-pound chunk crashed through the side of a truck, cleared buildings for three 'full city blocks and cut through a sidewalk beside several startled residents. Bounding up again. It knocked off an apartment h0UfiC rain gutter, came down on the sidewalk 100 feet away and crashed Into a parked automo bile, wrecking It. The other section took. off In the opposite direction, wrecking another parked car. Sheppard escaped with hla life because he had stepped away from the saw for a moment. No one was Injured. IS CALLED BY DEATH Mlna 8. Crawford. 84, passed away Wednesday morning after a brief ill ness. Mrs. Crawford was bom Au gust 1, 1853. In Crosscreek Village. Pa. She resided in Oold Hill with her husband from 1895 to 1933 when they moved to Medford. Mr. Craw ford passed away In 1913. She la sur vived by her son Oris Crawford of Medrord. A private Christian Science funeral service will be held at the graveside In the Rock Point cemetery at Oold Hill. Friday at 10 a. m. Conger Funeral Parlors In charge of arrangements. O.'P. (llrl Hurt GRANTS PASS. July 37. (AP Miss Dorothy Teed. Klamsth rails. was In the local hospital today with a back Injury sustained In an automo bile accident last evening near Kerby. Four other persons received minor cuU and bruise. 22 BILLION SPENTIOFFER IN EFFORT TO CUT Government and States Make Huge Sum Avail abfe Since 1932 High way Construction Large WASHINGTON, July 27. P Fed eral and state expenditures to com bat depression and unemployment have totaled nearly 22 billion dot lars since 1032. Treasury figures announced today showed 16,647,365,764 In emergency federal appropriations available bef'ire July 1. State expenditures for re lief were placed last spring at 45. 100,000.000 by a senate commit too Investigating unemployment. Of the federal expenditures, the treasury listed about 98,000.000.000 before April 8. 1035, and $8,656,321 646 since that date. That was tho time at which the treasury assumed administrative accounting responsl bllity for emergency funds. The largest slice of the money since April 8, 1035, went to highway, street and road construction, which gut 91,068,741.710. Conservation work came next with an expenditure of $984,061,553. States received $022,- 343.100 for continuing relief. - Other expenditures were: Public buildings. $631,771,129; housing. $111,708,331; public recreational fa cllltles. $633,104,738; electric utili ties, water and sewerage systems. $501,767,474; transportation facilities, $221,810,347: education, professional and clerical projects, $765,783,130, sewing, canning and miscellaneous projects, $631,066,722; rural resettle ment and direct relief, $432,430,081 and Administrative expenses, $441,- 606.408. . . - K Virtually every agency was given some of the 1032-36 funds, particu larly the $3,300,000,000 appropriation which congress made In the national recovery act. Large expenditures were made for the army, the navy. reclamation project, and rivers and harbors work. GEN. JOSEPH OIIL, 'FIGHTING PATSY' OF PORTLAND, July 37. ifpy Brig- Gen. Joseph Patrick O'Nell, retired long-time army friend of Oov. Charles H. Martin, who la a retired major' general, died here today. He was 74 years old. General O'Nell, known to his sol diers In the western Indian wars nearly a half-century ago as "Fight ing Patsy," waa born In Brooklyn. N. Y., on December 27, 1863, while his father, Major Joseph O'Nell, serv ed on General Nugent's staff In tho campaign to quell the New York City conscription riot. He was graduated with honors from Notre Dame university in 1883 and played on one of the college's first football teams. The general retired on n.nimni.r 3a, 1936, and made his home here SALEM, July 37. (AP) Governor Charles H. Martin expressed sincere regret today when advised of the death of Brlgadler-Oeneral Joseph Patrick O'Nell In Portland. "General O'Nell was one of the few old soldiers of the army," Oov ernor Martin declared. "Hla father was provost marshal of New York City during the Civil war. Tha gen eral was raised In military poats In the west during the Indian days. HI, grounding aa a soldier was complete." Indefinite Delay In Sentencing Rosser DALLAS, Ore., July 37. (AP) Circuit Judge Arlle o. Walker an nounced today he had Indefinitely postponed passing sentence on Albert Earl Rosser, former A PL teamster of ficial who waa convicted of arson. Rosser was scheduled to appear ' Thursday. j The Judge said the delay waa due to pressure of court duties In Yam- ' hill county. ! 4 1 Ancient Auto Acts L'p PORTLAND. July 37-(AP)Iohn C. Roeder'a ancient automobile re- enacted a scene yesterday common In ! the days when the gasoline buggy was young. It suddenly cama to life when he turned the crank. The car knocked him down, broke hit leg and rattled into Johnson creek. Ualon To Meet Information on railroad rates for ' the forthcoming American Legion j state and national oonventlona will j be given at meeting of the local post j In tha Armory at I o'clock tonight. 1 NEW PLAN TO KEEP PEACE IN Would Grant Concessions in School Administration, Government Jobs and in Use of Language By the Associated Press Two steps were taken today toward settlement of Czechoslovakia's trou blesome minority problem publica tion of a new minorities statute In Praha and appointment of a British adviser-mediator. The minorities statute would grant the republic's 3,600,000 Sudeten Ger mans new concessions In school ad ministration, government Jobs and the use of languages, but did not deal with the question of autnomous government. It appeared a definite settlement could not be reached until this ques tion had been cleared up by a later statute. Germans flail Triumph The appointment of the English Viscount Runclman as adviser In the dispute was hailed In Berlin official circles as a clear triumph for Ger many. Germans felt Czechoslovakia yielded a degree of her sovereignty by accepting an outside adviser. Meanwhile, In Spain's civil war, government troops were reported to have driven within three miles of Insurgent headquarters at Gandesa In their sudden offensive on the Catalonlan front. Insurgent advices Insisted only a few government troops managed to cross the Ebro river and those were annihilated, but government dis patches indicated .a 10-mlle advance In three days. v ' ,. Whatever gains the . government made on this front, however, seemed more than offset by an 18-mile In surgent advance In Estremadura pro vince southwest of Madrid. The In surgents said they had captured 14, 000 prisoners on the Estremadura front. Japs Press On tn China. Japanese naval units pressed rapidly up the Yangtze river toward Hankow after the occupation of Klukl'ang. 135 miles - downriver from the provisional capital. Dispatches from Hankow said the Chinese foreign ministry had closed Us offices there and moved 600 mites further Inland to Chungking. In Tokyo, the Japanese foreign of fice disclosed the third clash this month between Soviet and Manchou kuo patrols on the Siberian frontlet but said the clash was "not to be taken seriously," Manchoukuo, however, protested the Incident July 23, two days after It happened. 4 5 Children Smother When Cave Falls In CLEVELAND, July 27, (AP) -Five small boys and a girl were playing today when they decided to dig a cave In the embankment along a rapid transit track. Three boys and the girl were smothered to death when ten tons of sand collapsed on them. A fourth boy. believed dying, was taken to a hospital. The dead, all of Cleveland: Agnes Majkrajak, 8; Edward Kmc zek, 8; Billy Nelson and Leo Yazenv bra. Corrigan Prowls British Museum LONDON, July 37. (AP) Douglas G. Corrigan prowled among the relics In th' historic British museum of science today on his laat day In Lon don. Tho American avlator'a major In terest was In the plane which carried Orvllle and Wilbur Wright In the flrat sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, In 1903. "I don't tee how they ever flew that thing," Corrigan said. Hungry Crickets Eat Rattlesnakes In Mass Attack ELY. Nev., July 27. IP) When goaded by hunger. Mormon erlck ets will devour anything, animal or vegetable. In this region of sagebrush, the Innocent-looking crlckeU are kill ing and eating th rattlesnake whose dsrtlng head and poisoned fangs are feared by all men. Morley Murphy, Star valley rancher, reported today that large swarms of crlckeU are driving rattlers In pits dug by WI'A workers. Murphy said he saw the crawl irs. by mass attack, force three rattlers Into pits where thev swarmed over them without leav ing a tree of the reptiles Fire Fighter Saved By Aid Of Airplane, Radio PORTLAND, July 27. (X) Death In the rugged Siskiyou na tional forest area was averted for an appendicitis stricken fire fighter yesterday when radio, air plane and crude stretcher came to the rescue. Clarence J. Homer became '11 at remote Lizard Lake camp, for est service officials here said. Dr. M. M. Colllngs, CCG physician, diagnosed the ailment by radio. A forest service patrol plane groped Its way through the thick smoke to drop emergency medi cines by parachute toward a flash ing mirror. Relays of stretcher bearers carried the sick man through the mountains to a wait ing ambulance, which rushed him to a Crescent City, Cat. hospttal. PEAR GROWERS OF SANTA CLARA TO T SAN JOSE. Cal., July 27. (Spl.) Growers of Santa Clara district at a meeting here last night signed 22,000 tons of Bartlett pears to an agree ment not to sell or deliver to canners pending negotiations vby a committee for a suitable price. It was expected that 30,000 tons, or nearly 100 per cent of the crop, would be signed today, It was stated by Walter Brown, president of the Santa Clara Pear Growers Protective league. Mr. Brown sent a telegram to pear Interests In Medford asking that sim ilar action be taken there. No price ha been offered by can ners for Santa Clara Bartlotts yot, Mr, Brown stated. RE-ELECTS PEASE EUGENE. Ore., July 37. (UP) The atato board of higher education reelected Wlllard h. Marks of Albany as president at a regular meeting held here Tuesday. E. C. Pease of The Dalles was renamed vice president, and E. O. Ssmmons of Portland was ' reolected to the executive commit tee. Chancellor Frederick M, Hunter gave a committee report on a pro posed division of marketing, the pur pose of which ho said would ba to augment tha Income and wealth of Oregon by developing and using set entlflc marketing mothods. Hunter recommended that an ad vtsory committee of nine members be named to aid in the creation of the division. The board accepted a number of recommendations of the building committee, Including: The request for a $14,000 PWA grant for Improving Hayward field grandstands at the un iversity; a request for a 1163.000 PWA grant for a third wing of the medical school In Portland; approval of a new 910,000 nursery school at Oregon state college. Papoose Airplane Reaches England SOUTHAMPTON. England. July 37. (AP) The British pick-a-back sea plane Mercury arrived here at 8:30 p. m. (11:30 a.m. P.S.T.) tonight from Lisbon on tha next to the last leg of her double crossing of the AtlsnMc. She la to fly here to her base at Foynes, Ireland, where her survey night to New York and return began July 30. Lightning Fires Lava Bed Grass KLAMATH FALLS, July 37. (AP) A lightning-set graaa fire last night burned over 350 acrea on the west tide of the lava beds national monu ment In northern California before It was controlled today by a crew of 1st. Tha firefighters Included 80 CCC recruits from Indiana, who had ar rived the prevloua day and had barely had time to attend one session of "fire school" before being sent out on the flreltnet. ADVENTURERS TOWED INTO GRAYS HARBOR ABERDEEN, July 27. (AP) With her engine disabled and her food sup plies running low, the 30-foot yacht NJord, Marshfleld, Oregon, waa towed Into Grays Harbor today by coast guardsmen after having been 34 days at sea on a trtp from Honolulu. The craft, In command of C. A. Johnson, part owner, had Bailed the entire dlstanoa from the Islands, an axulll ary engine having been out of com mission aloe start of th trip. TNI TO Forest Officials Hope Storms Will Be Accompanied by Enough Rain to Offset Fires Started by Bolts With the fire situation throughout Oregon generally Improved, lightning storms this afternoon brought new threats to the timber areaa. The ' weather bureau reported storms In the higher altitudes from Eugene to Montague In northern California. Forest officials were hop ing the storms would be accompanied by enough' rain to put out any light ning strikes but they were fearful of a repetition of the storms of two weeka ago that set hundreds of fires In Oregon and northern California. It rained a little In Medford thlt afternoon, Just enough to make the atmosphere steamy. The temperature was running on a par with that of yesterdsy when a maximum of 94 waa recorded. Humidity waa higher to day. Two Out Of Control While all forest fires In Jackson county were under control today, two under state protection In Joaephlna county roared out of bounds laat night and additional crews were sent to the fire lines today. Forty-aeven men procured through, the atate employment service hero were sent to the Josephine county fire lines. Tha fires that leaped out of control were the Bull creek and Murphy creok blazes. Each covered between 400 and S00 acres. The Hound Top fire In Evans val ley was under control today, 350 men working to keep the blase from Jump ing over tha encircling trail com pleted yesterday. Logging Resumed Logging operations were resumed today In a numbor of Jackson county camps following the lifting of a clos ure order Issuod by the atate for estry department a week ago because of fire haiards. Undsr a modified order operations are permitted from midnight to 1:30 p. m. The Medford Corporation resumed logging In the Butte Falls district this morning and will work from 8 a. m. to noon. Simitar operations, it waa underatood, will be adopted by other enterprises. The Medford Corporation sawmill here has been' operating under "alo bells" the paet week but In a couple of daya, when the supply of logs In the pond haa been replenished, will resume normal schedules. State Forester J. W. Ferguson wsa ouoted bv the Associated Press at Salem as saying the general situation In Oregon was tho most encouraging In two weeks. Less than BO urea were burning 'now as compared with more than 300 last week, he said. MeAT-m.!. Julv 37. (API The Waahlngton Forest Fire association, n.nnrt.inff seven new. "definitely In cendiary" fires, redoubled Its efforts today to trace men-maae Diazes in the Pacific northweat. M.i. n. a. Cowan of the associa tion said many wardena were assigned to tracking down Incendlarlam, along with flre-flghtlng Ho said Incendiary fires were among new blares being fought today In Pierce, Lewis. Clal lam, Thurston ana euoquainuo coun ties. None waa of aerlous propor tions. WAAtnHnTON. Julv 37. (AP) The senate campaign expenditures committee dlamlssed today a recent statement by WPA Aaminisiraior TTnnkln. that DO Tr Cent Of WPA workers would vote for President Roosevelt. Tha committee Issued a statement In which It said such comments "are to be distinguished from those that are In the nature of political advice np that Indicate an Intention to exert political pressure upon workers paid from relief funds or rrom oene- flclarlea of relief funda." Hopkins' statement, the committee found, was "In no way coercion." Nab Murder Suspect, vakima Jul 27. (API Yaki ma deputy aherlffa today arrested Leland Bradley, alias Oeorge Wat son, said wanted In South Dakota for murder and reported omy un .nt.iirft member of a bank robbery gang which staged a 937,000 holdup I Sioux city last year. Pier Ablate vAvrnnvicn. Julv 27. (API The Canadian Pactflo railway company's ni- n on the Vancouver waterfront caught fire this afternoon and at 3:00 o'clock waa threatened, with aa stnictloaV .