The 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 .