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r The Weather Equally Well When articles accumulate around the home you no longer need, try telling through the Classified columns of this newspaper. Many people have splendid success and yoa should fare equally well. Medford Tribune Forecast: Fair tonight and Tuesday, little change In tem perature. Temperature Highest yesterday .. M SI Lowest this morning ........... 56 Full Associated Press Full United Preu Thirty-Third Year MEDVORD, OKEuON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1938. No. 112. la m Ml J r u 11 The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1J37, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. QUIRT ADMINISTRATION EXPECTED OF ANDREWS' WORK-HOUR CHIEF CALLED FIRST CLASS CIVIL SERVANT MODEST. METHODICAL, HE IS FANATIC ON ENFORCING LAW FINANCIAL SACRIFICE IN ACCEPTANCE OF .IOM WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Elmer Frank Andrews symbolizes an end to frenzy In the management of the new deal. The new wage-hour adminis trator, whose duties will soon call him to Washington, la as mild, un assuming and methodical as his first name sounds. Ho will be no brass mouthed boanerges, charging through his tasks in the Eckes manner, nor a pious crusader, curcifying heretics with a grisly relish. He will be mere ly a first class civil servant, American style. The chances are that, for all his desire to do his Job as efficiently and Inconspicuously as possible, Andrews will become one of the best known men In the government. Somewhere between ten and twelve million work ers will come under the wage-hour law. Thousands of employers will have to do Andrews' bidding. Scores of industries will be affected by An drews' decisions. In short, Andrews' post Is one of tho biggest recently created In Washington. The president gave ten times his habitual care to choosing Andrews. Instead of fixing .enthusiastically on one man, and then, finding his fav orite unavailable, snapping up any old name on his desk, he culled min utely over a long list of possibilities. 1 He calmly Ignored the recommends- tions of John L. Lewis and Sydney j Hlllman, and turned a deaf ear to the I extremists In the A. F. of L. In the end, In Andrews, he found one of the few qualified men who were whol ly acceptable to both Bides In the la bor war, as well as to sensible em ployers. Everything about Andrews Is as un dramatic as possible. He is middle- aged 48. He is of middle height and middle weight. He speaks slowly and carefully. He likes to live simply. When he moves to Washington, he will leave behind a small house on a 50 by 100-foot plot. In the suburban Flushing, and he will probably find something similar here. Typically enough, the circumstance of his appointment which really dis concerted him was a news photo grapher's angle shot of his garden. The picture made his little trellis seem the ornament of an opulent country place, and he was horrified when a Seattle flower lover addressed a letter to "The Gardner, Andrews Estate, Flushing," asking for a Job In the greenhouses. One of Andrews' (Continued on -'Page Pour) LADY HURLED 50 FEET BY CARNIVAL DEVICE LA GRANDE. Ore., Aug. 1. (AP) Thrown 60 feet from a whirling swing at a carnival here Saturday night, Mrs. Roy Thomas, 35, La Orande. suffered a leg fracture and possible internal Injuries. Her husband was riding In an other saddle of the swing at the time of the accident. SIDE GLANCES fay. TRIBUNE REPORTERS Elsie Butler being without butter at her Diamond lake retreat on ac count of a bear raid. Lucille Wymore waving fondly to old friends as she breezed around town. Richard Stusrt celebrating his 80th birthday by putting in longer day than his sons of R. I. Stuart & Sons. Charles Henry Ward wangling him self an Impromptu interview wit Oov. Charles Henry Martin, the lat ter quickly consenting when he heard the youth came from Medford Orln Schenck telling envious golf era how it feels to be the champ. Ken Parrett, under protest, bra clou : 7 treating a group of sports men to a thirst quencher and t:en getttng no thanks for It. Dorothy Johnson creating a aatlon with her white nail polish. NIPPONESE CLAIM FIVE SHOT DOWN AT Japanese Army Circles Char acterize Raid as 'Face Saving' Step After Loss of Disputed Territory HSINKING, Manchoukuo, Aug. 1 (AP) The Japanese army announced today 60 soviet warplanes Inflicted slight damage on railways In an afternoon raid on Changkufeng and vicinity in the disputed border re gion. It said four soviet aircraft were brou gh t down on Korea n te rrl tory while one was believed down in Manchoukuo after the raiders drop ped nearly 30 bombs. The zone reported bombarded Is near the Junction of the borders of Japanese Korea, Manchoukuo and Russian Siberia. In the vicinity of Yukl and Chlnghslng, In extreme northeastern Korea. Tho announcement said tne raid occurred between 13:30 and 3:30 p.m. (between 10:30 p.m. Sunday night and 1:30 a.m. Monday, EST.) race-Saving Step It added Japanese used only anti aircraft fire, as they were too near the border to use defensive planes. ( A Tokyo announcement of the same Incident said Japanese planes were used to repel the reported at tack.) Army circles said they took a se rious view of the attack, but charged the incident was only a "face-saving" step on the part of the Rus sians. They said the soviet forces were seeking to counter the loss of Chang kufeng hill and other positions in the area which Japanese reported they took yesterday... -. Japan and Manchoukuo claim the hill region is within Manchoukuo while Soviet Russia says It is her territory. , Army circles said that except for the bombing raid the border was quiet today. If the Russians really meant business," one official said , "they would have bombed the vital rail way bridge near Yuki. It was un touched in today's raid, which was concentrated on minor railway bridges and damage was slight." There was no Indication whether there were any Japanese casualties, TOKYO, Aug. 1. (AP) A Japan ese army communique said today Russian troops were withdrawing northward from Changkufeng, on the Manchoukuo - Siberian border, where a clash described as a "ter rible fight" took place yesterday. The report of the Russian with drawal followed a Japanese assertion Soviet' forces had been driven from the disputed frontier territory. The communique said only about 800 Russian -soldiers remained In the Changkufeng area. It was as sumed on the basis of the previous report they were outside the terri tory claimed by Japan. Both the war office and 'the for eign office declared Japan now was ready to assume the defensive and had no intention of advancing fur ther. t The announcement of yesterday's clash came with surprising sudden ness, because both Moscow and Tokyo had indicated only diplomatic means would be used to settle the frontier differences of many years standing, but of Increased Intensity since July 11. The war office said In a "ter rible fight.' 'begun Saturday night ana continued until dawn Monday, soviet troops were driven from a hill near Changkufeng and other points In the region. (A Moscow communique, dealing with the same area and presumably the same battle, asserted Japanese invaded soviet territory Sunday night and were "strongly rebuffed with heavy loss of men and equipment." The Moscow communique, however, did not mention the Changkufeng hill positions specifically.) The Russians left 50 dead on the field today, the Tokyo war office said. Korean army headquarters esti mated soviet casualties for Sunday to be 600. The Japanese listed cap ture of 13 tanks, four field pieces, and three machine guns and two automatic rifles. Bank Bandits Get $50,000 In Gotham NEW YORK, Aug. 1. (AP) Four gunmen held up a ' branch of the Banco EH N a poll Trust company at First avenue and Twelfth street early this afternoon. Police said they lied with $50,000 In cash. An armed guard, usually on duty in the bank. waa at lunch when the gunmen en tered. They cowed fourteen customers and nine employees. The cash they seized was to hare been transferred later In the day to tre bsnklng firm's main branch on lower Broadway. Oil Slick Hints Clipper Plunged in Sea f 61 ID KEEP W FUTILE J SACRAMENTO, Cal., Aug 1. p) The Sacramento attornoy ' for her two condemned sons appealed to au thorities today to stop Mrs. Margaret (Ma) Brltc from making a futile trip to Washington, D. C. Horace P. Frye, the attorney, said there Is "nothing" the 66-year old mother of John and Coke Brite, con victed Siskiyou county slayers of three men. can do in Washington. He reported she left Salt Lake City. Utah, over the week-end with the announced Intention of hitch hiking to the capital In an effort to gain presidential ' clemency. "The case Is strictly a state matter and out of the Jurisdiction of the federal government," Frye said. "Mrs. Brlte Is only wearing herself out for nothing." Governor Merrlam recently granted the Brlte brothers a reprieve until September 23 so tho advisory pardon board could consider their appeals for commutation of death sentences to life Imprisonment. They are In Polsom prison. BEAVER BOYS SET UP PRACTICE GOVERNMENT PORTLAND, Aug. 1. (AP) Five new Oregon communities and one county came Into existence yesterday In the Beaver boys' state camp at Hill military academy. Boys at the American Legion spon sored camp will administer municipal affatrs at Htllvlew. Snow Valley, Bea con City. Beaver City and Skunk Hol low. They selected the name of Dev lin for their county unit. Don Gibbons of Eugene was named mayor of Skunk Hollow. 4 ABERDEEN, Aug. 1. (AP) Crush ed beneath a tractor he was dem onstrating on a downtown lot, George Eshom, veteran Aberdeen automo bile salesman, died a few moments later here today. He was driving the tractor up a grade and when he opened the throttle wide It reared up and fell back, on him. 4" I d Li GABLE RETAINS HOPE OF BUILDING RAILWAY G: P. TO COAST PORT ORFOHD, Aug. l.fP) De nnis. nrlvftrRA Action bv the ICC. Oll- I bert E. Oable, president of the Gold Coast Railroad corporation, declared Saturday prospectB of constructing the rail line from the coast to Grants Pass were still good. He asserted that when the ICC dis missed the potentially competitive Crescent City route It "cleared the air" and expedited Ills prcject. GRANTS PASS. Aug. 1. iTP) Grants Pass Is now without an ac tively proposed railroad for te first time In years. However, hope still springs In spon sors breasts. Backers of the Crescent City-Oront Pass line point out that their project was dismissed "wiu.out prejudice" at the request of the sponsors who stated to the Interstate commerce commission that the generally unfa vorable railroad outlook ovr the na tion prompted i.em to withdraw un til a future time. Gilbert Gable or Port Orford., whose Gold Coast certificate was canceled because he was unable to carry out Its terms although gwen an exten sion of time, said the atmosphere was cleared by dismissal of his com petition. Hughes Welcomed On Return Home LOS ANGELES, Aug. l-(AP) Howard Hughes and his four record breaking companions flew home to day, returning to the air terminal where for months they prepared for their flight around the world. The 38-year old millionaire, arriv ing here ah tad of schedule from Phoenix. Ariz., where he spent the night, circled the city twice In his sliver monoplane before landing at Grand Central air terminal. After a greeting at the airport, Hughes and his crew were taken to the city hall, where Mayor Shaw tendered the city's official welcome. An oil slick n ho ut 1.500 feet In circumference, discovered by the army transport Meigs at the location from which the Hawaii Clipper (above) last reported on Its flight from Guam to Manila, hinted loss of the giant Hying hout with 15 on board. Mr. KII.Hbetli McCnrty Coop (lower), of Vinnllu, Calif., kept re peating: "I pray to God he's onfe," as she anxiously followed news re ports on the missing clipper. Her sun, Radio Officer W. McCnrty, was aboard. She Is shown in the news paper office. She lives with a wid owed daughter and told liow her son had never married "because he did not want to stint Ills mother." (A.P. Photos.) AERONAUTICAL EXPERTS HOLD HOPE CLIPPER IS STILL ON SEA SURFACE MANILA, Aug. 1. (Jp) A new note of optimism was sounded tonight in tf:e apparently hopeless search f'Jr the lost Hawaii clipper and its 10 pas sengers. As army and navy craft ended their fourth day of far-flung search with the terse, report, "found noth ing." aeronautical experts of the Philippine department of communi cations expressed .belief the 20-ton flying boat might still be afloat. In support of their theory they pointed to tr.o fact Intensive search of the area where the clipper last was heard from had failed to disclose a single bit of wreckage. They nddeo the clipper's radio might have failed after its last report and It might have left its course for some unknown reason end landed at a spot outside the present search zone. The only possible clue to Wie fate of the plane, which vanished Friday, was a huge oil slick ominously spreading across the ocean some 600 miles enst of. here and near where the clipper last reported herself. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. I) The navy estimated today the search for the lost Hawaii clipper had covered 35,000 square miles, or slightly less than tho area of Indiana, LOST M JAUNT GRANTS PASS, Ore.. Aug. I. (A Even a cavc-woman has the privilege of changing her mind or has she? Norn Benson, princess of the local skln-clad tribe, was to dress In furs and present a passport today to Mayor Frank Suthcrlln of Spokone. By mid-afternoon she had not ap peared at the mayor's office. Mrs. W. H. Fischer of Spokane, a friend of MLm Benson's fellow employee In a local law office, wired Irene J. Rlnguctte that the cave-woman had not arrived on the morning train from Portland as expected. Mrs. Rlnguette said the "disap pearance" puzzled her. 4 AiitnlH Injured GRANTS PASS, Aug. 1. (p Three sisters were seriously Injured In on automobile accident near Crescent City, Calif., according to a brief message received here. Thny wo Mrs. John Bcherz and Mrs. Maude Bur croff, be tii of Grants Pass, and Mrs Agnes Mensch of Portland. BASEBALL American Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 4 10 0 Detroit 0 9 1 Roes, Smith and Hares; lav. son, Co If man. El teas tat and Tebbctts. CHARGES OF 'FOUL' HIGHLIGHT W1NDUP IN SIX JURIES More Disclosures Hinted Be fore Voting Begins Gain or Loss for New Deal Shares National Interest WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (AP) A senate committee's Inquiry Into cries of "foul I" Is enlivening tho campaign wlndup for some of this week's six primary elections. The campaign expenditures com mittee already has denounced tactics In the Democratic senatorial race In Tennessee. Informed persons said it might disclose other facts about the contest as well as races In other states before the voting begins. The committee's investigations shared Interest for the moment with the basic question In soveral of the week's contests whether the Roose velt administration will gain or lose prestige through the outcome Kentucky Key Point The contest In whloh the president has the most at stake Is the Ken tucky democratic senatorial primary, which will be decided Saturday. Mr. Roosevelt appealed for renomlnatlon of his senate leader, Alben W. Bark ley, who Is opposed by Gov. A. B. Chandler. Senate committee agents are com pleting their Investigation in Ken tucky Into charges and counter charges of coercion of WPA workers and misuse of federal and state pat ronage. The excitement aroused by the Tennessee primary campaign ' was abated somewhat today by an an nouncement from Governor Qordon Browning . that he would not Whd troops for election day duty to Mom phis, -stronghold of the opposing Crump organization. Four On Mild Order Four state primaries tomorrow are expected to be mild compared to the Tennessee and Kentucky elections. The senate .campaign committee has taken cognizance of only one of the four. It studied press clippings about "politics In relief" In Missouri, but decided not to Investigate because direct charges had not been brought before It. Here Is a glance at the principal contests In tomorrow's primaries: Missouri: Senator Bennett Champ Clark, an anti-administration leader. Is expected by politicians In Wash ington to win democratic renomlna tlon because he has powerful state and city organization support. (Continued on Page Pour.) SOUTHERN CAL FRIES IN HEAT LOfl ANGELES, Aug.' 1, (AP) Southern California sizzled today In a heat wave that shot the thermom eter as high as 136' degrees at one spot. High humidity added to the dis comfiture. Mrs, Anna Wells of El Centra succumbed to the heat. Los Angeles recorded 94 degrees at noon, with humidity of 89 percent. It was the hottest day of the year, the previous high being 00 degrees April 18. Rice, desert spot In the metropo litan water district, reported the high mark, 126 degrees. Rice's all-time high, 137 degrees, was expected to fall today. At Parker dam, also on the desert, the reading was 115 degrees. Paris, east of Riverside, reported 117 degrees. Study National Problems For G. 0. P. Policy Draft CHICAOO. Aug. 1. (AP) The Re publican program committee began an unprecedented study of national problems today as the first move toward drafting a comprehensive statement of the party's policies. Chairman Olenn Frank, educator and editor assuming his first active major role In Republican affairs, out lined the tasks before the conferees at the Initial session of the six-day meeting. Frank explained the aim of the program committee was "to produce en Intelligent and workable program to take the place of parts of the new deal program which are unworkable." The conferees might Issue a state ment on the "direction In which the committee ta approaching Its pro gram, he added, but the final report would not be made until next year. Members from all sections of the country then turned to a aeries of Lithia Fountain Visited By 1632 In Sunday Hours Apparently the most popular beverage In Ashland, the Lith'a city, is you guessed It, Lithia water. A count conducted by the cham ber of commerce yesterday at the fountain on the Plaza re vealed 163a persons quenched their thirst with Lithia water between the hours of 10 a. m. and 10 p. m. Many persona couldu't drink enough at the time, there being 40 Jugs filled and carried home for more leisurely consumption. Heaviest draft was reported as being between 7 and 8 p.m. A pure water faucet alongside tho Lithia spout attracted only S48 persons, the check showed. RESTRICTIONS LIFTED SIGNING OF NEW PACT By the Associated Preu By a new agreement between Bul garia and the Balkan entente Tur key, Greece, Yugoslavia and Rumania post-war limitations on Bulgaria's army were cancelled. j The treaty, signed yesterday at Sa lonika, Greece, also Included a mili tary non-aggrc&alon clause. The new pact ended restrictions Imposed on Bulgaria by the post-war treaty of Neullly and brought rejoicing In all Balkan capitals. The agreement was seen as a fore runner of Bulgarian membership In the Balkan entente. Bulgaria had spurned former Invitations, contend ing the nation was disgraced by the Neullly terms. In the Spanish civil war, Insurgents struck at the weakest point In tha government's newly-won Una In Cata lonia. mi . Three" Japanese columns attempt ing to fight their way up the Yang tze river toward Hankow, China's pro visional capital, were held at a stand still by desperate Chinese resistance. JAPS MISTREAT SHANGHAI, ' Aug. 1(AP) Great Britain protested to Japanese author ities today against what was called the "Increasingly belligerent attitude" of sentries guarding bridges from the International settlement Into Japanese-controlled sections of Shanghai. The protest, delivered by Consul General Herbert Phillips, was the outgrowth of the alleged rough hous ing of Miss Dorothea Llntllhao when she crossed the garden bridge on the wrong side of the stree;. Miss Llntllhao and her mother later were arrested and detained four hours when, attempting to avoid repetition of the Incident, they used tho Chapoo bridge. They said they wero walking on the wrong side of tho bridges because ff barbed wire entanglements and dangerous traffic. 34 IN HOSPITALS AFTER LUXURY TRAINS COLLIDE TOLEDO, Aug. 1, P A crash of two New Tork Central luxury tralna tha Mercury and tha Commodore Vanderbllt, left 34 Injured persons In hospitals today and others with min or hurts. . Three passengers were In serious condition. Dr. aeorge A. Poe, aboard the Mercury, aald he treated about 60 persons at the scene. Seriously Injured were: Oeorge Morris, 48, New York; L, M. Osborne, 46, Evans'ton, 111.; Mrs. K, B. Hagger ty, Wlnnetka, 111, "round table discussions to hear opinions of two dozen economists, business men, agriculturists, labor leaders, industrialists, .nd soctaloglste selected to aid them In compiling a fresh declaration of the "economic and political philosophy with which the party faces the new circum stances of the new era." In advance of the closed forums. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., of Oyster Bay, N. Y a member of regional committee number two, asserted the nation needed a new "doctor. "If your wife was sick, you would take her to a diagnostician,1 he said. "When you found out what was wrong, you wouldn't ask the diagnos tician to prescribe. You would get the best authority on the disease to do the Job. What we've been doing In Washington for the past fire years Is to have a lot of diagnosticians pre scribe. Let's change the doctor, CAUSES MISTRIAL Case Involving 39 Individ uals and 16 Corporations Was Expected to Set Precedent in Labor Act LONDON, Ky., Aug. 1. (AP) A mistrial was ordered today In tha Harlan anti-labor conspiracy trial when the Jury reported It was hope lessly deadlocked. ' Counsel for the government had sought court action that would set a precedent In dealing with criminal1 violations under the Wagner labor act. The foreman reported to Federal Judge H. Church Ford after flva hours and 18 minutes of deliberation. Saturday the Jury waa unable to agree but the Judge ordered them to rest over Sunday and they resumed consideration of the case at 9 a. m.a today. The case Involved 39 Individual! and 16 corporations charged In In dictments with conspiring to prevent. the unionization of the Harlan coal fields under the Wagner act. Brlen McMahon. chief of the gov eminent counsel, made a motion for a new trial and Judge Ford set Sep tember 17 at Lexington for a hearing on the motion. McMahon said the government was ready to start a new trial tomorrow. The Jury had considered the case) for over 9 hours. It was announced the Jury stood T to 4 but no Information was available which number favored conviction or. acquittal, NEW YORK, Aug. l(AP) The TJ. 6. , circuit court . of appeals .today, unanimously held that the national labor board unjustifiably had held the Ballston-Stl 11 water Knitting com" pany. Inc., guilty of unfair labor! practices. The court upheld the corporation' in Its contention the board was not entitled to enforcement of Its order to the company to reinstate dis charged employes. NEW YORK, Aug. Ih-(AP) Rob ert Duncan, 35, professor of political science at Colgate university, Hamil ton, N. Y., disappeared at se from' the French liner Normandle last night, ship's officers reported today when the liner docked here. Hia wife, Alice, 36. was In the ship's hospital suffering cuts and bruises on her head and face. The normandle's chief purser, Henry VI 1 tar, said Mrs. Duncan, who was not a 11 owed to see v 1st tors on hen arrlvel, could not explain her hus band's disappearance. "Just before midnight," Vtllar said "Mr, and Mrs. Duncan were walking on the boat deck on the starboard side. At a point Just beneath the bridge they stopped and began an, argument. "Duncan grabbed his wife by the throat and hit her several times over the head,' the purser continued, "and attempted to throw her ove the aide." CITY CONSTRUCTION SHOWS JULY DECLINE Value of building permits for July of this year totaled 113,078, a sharp decrease under tiie corresponding period In 1837, according to figure released from the city building In spector's office today. Value of per mlts In July of last year waa a3,. 580, and for June of this year waa 132,740. ; Eighteen permits were Issued the' paat month, three being for the con structton of new residences with total TeJuatlon of I97SO. Remainder of tha permits were for remodeling, reshlngllng. new garages end other, construction work. Fires In Siskiyou f In Control Tonight ORANT8 PASS. Aug. J. V-WltU Hie Siskiyou national foreat fire fighting crews cut In half from their peak of 2.200 men, the Nome creek and Chetco fires were expected to be) corralled by tonight. Mopptng-up procedure Is under way on the two other major fires, near Oallce and .on Lobster creek In the Agneas territory. Roy Headley, national chief of fire fighting operations, Is here from Washington, D. C to Inspect she) forest.
