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Thirty-Third Year
MEDVORD, OKEuON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1938.
No. 112.
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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'
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.