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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday; little chants In tem perature. Temperature: Spend More Time Ins to remind yon that today to Friday. This mean It la tlmt to prepare that Classified Adv. for the Sunday morning edition. Practically everyone spends more time reading on Sunday. Medford Tribune Highest yesterday Lowest this morning . M Full Associated Press all United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1938. No. 116. Ml nflfnwn a mi I I I I I I I I I 1 I I f 1 I uuu BE 1 The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop . and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. ORGANIZATION BACKS MD. PUHCB CANDIDATE SUMNER WELLF.S BEHIND OBOUP FKIIITINO TYPINGS WOULD WIN BALTIMORE MAYOR TO LEWIS SIDE HEAD OF CITY MACHINE WILL RECEIVE AID BALTIMORE. Aug. 6. Hero In Maryland, they've been showing how to run a purge. Representative Davy Lewis, the White House candidate, has not been trotted out as a 100 per cent coat-tail rider. The voters have not been sternly Instructed In their duty by great men from out side tie state. But quietly, behind the scenes, a handsome noose bos been made ready for the neck of Benator Millard P. TJdings. To be sure, the noose may come unknotted. But, If the most authori tative sources are to be credited, Davy Lewis now has what no other White House candidate In a purge primary has yet enjoyed organization sup port. Perhaps Millard Tydlngs will be able to beat the WDlte House and the organization, but he will have a tough time of it. Strangely enough, the man who tied the noose for Tydlngs Is the un dersecretary of state -of the United States, tall, shrewd, glacial Sumner Welles. Welles, who has political am bitions himself, has long been tne president's private agent in Mary land politics. At least once this sum mer, before he departed on his fish ing and purging expedition, the pres ident slipped out to Welles' big Mary land place. Oxon Hill, for dinner and a long talk. In these last weeks, besides dealing daily with a desperate international situation, Welles has been feverishly preparing a combination in Maryland. Hie word now la that the combina tion was perfected a day or so ago, and that It will give Davy Lewis the support of Mayor Howard W. Jack son'a powerful Baltimore machine. Mayor Jackson is an ancient Tyd lngs ally, and an exceedingly luke warm new dealer. All might have (Continued on Page Ten.) BLAZE DESTROYS K. F. MEAT PACKING PLANT KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. B. (AP) Fire which was first discovered In the roof of an adjoining shed last night quickly razed the entire plant of the Miller Meat Packing company here, burned ddwn power llnea and. for a time, threatened the nearby residence of Ous Miller, company president. One estimate placed loss at $100,000. There Were no means of controlling the blaze. Volunteer firefighters lim ited their efforts to saving movable equipment and rescuing a small dog trapped within the building. MUIer la critically ill in a Port land sanatorium. Very little of the flra los is covered by Insurance, his son, Que Miller, Jr., said. SIDE GLANCES by . TRIBUNE REPORTERS Frances Bare making a quick trip over the mountains to get back to Medford from Klamath Falls. Mack Llllard arguing the superior ity of nutslln over baseball as an en tertaining sport, he being a rasslln promoter. Doreen Leverette breezing out to the airport to meet Harold Hunt, Journal drama editor, she being thrilled to see the Malnliner make a special stop Just to drop nlm off. Bob Smith busily engaged in con structing a rork wall to g-t in shape to help defeat Wooden Boxmen. he being not quite so adept at throwing rocks as soft balls. Reece O'Neil whipping up a tasty beverage in line of duty. Aubrey Norrls explaining in detail ow Old Faithful geyser went un faithful during hla sojourn at Yel lovstQM park. IS SCENE OF PISTOLBATTLE Former Sheriff Slain, Two' Others Wounded On Stair way to Barkley Headquar ters; New Deal Hot Issue LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 5. () Death In "bloody Breathitt county today marked primary eve in Ken tucky where President Roosevelt's party leadership faces a nationally- important test at the ballot box. Murder warrants were Issued for two persons in the fatal shooting of former Sheriff Lee Combs and wound- ' lng of Lewis Combs, nia brother, and Sheriff Walter Deaton. The shooting occurred last night on the stairway of the building lu which houses Breathitt headquarters for Gov. A. B. Chandler, opposing Barkley's re-nomination In tomor row's primary. Overfi:adowing all other issues and many were tossed In during the terrific heat of the campaign Is that of the new deal, made when the pres ident definitely placed his support with Senate Majority Leader Barkley as tlie man he wanted nominated. Both Senator Barkley and his smil ing, Jovial opponent. Governor Chandler expressed their beliefs In success at the polls. Tomorrow at 4 a. m. (PST) polling places open throughout the state. They close at 2 p. m. (PST). Most ol Kentucky has central standard time. Political observers-are treating the outcome of the primary as meaning a definite upswing for Roosevcltiau policies and theories or a serious set back to his Influence wltn the elec torate and a back lash at his prac tice of seeking to help his supporters In their home Btates. Estimates of the number of Dcm- I ocrata eligible to vote in the pri mary today ranged upward to 450, 000. In 1936 when Sen. M. M. Logan was no minuted 445.485 votes were cast by the Democrats of which Lo gan received 181,311.. He had two opponents. Louisville headquarters of Senator Barkley claims he will win by ap proximately 75,000 majority. The Chandler forces estimated a victory by more than 30,000 votes. CRUMP FACTION INS TENNESSEE'S PRIMARY NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. fl. fP) The J5emocratic faction headsd by National Committeeman E. H. Crump and Senior u. S. Sen. Kenneth D. McKellar won a smashing victory over Qov. Gordon Browning and Jun ior Sen. George L. Berry in Thurs day's statewide primary, incomplete returns show today. Prentice Cooper, 43-year-old Shel- byvllle attorney and former state commander of the American Legion was nominated for governor over Browning, who two years ego re- reived the greatest majority ever giv en a gubernatorial candidate In this state. In the 1936 primary the gov ernor had Crump's support. Senator Berry bowed to A. Tom Stewart of Winchester, a district at torney general who expressed 100 per cent Indorsement of President's poli cies. The new deal was not an lssu. however, although Berry was criti cized in some of the speechmaktng for his attitude toward the Tennessee valley authority and because he had voted against some, of the president's measure. Returns showed: For govern or 3 .054 prec I nets out of 3.257: Cooper 203.537; Browning 142,781. For senator 2.012 precincts: Stew art 148.401: Berry 82.276; Rep. J. Fldley Mitchell 62,355. For utilities commissioner 1.981 precincts: Hudson 166.809; Turner 67,213. SILENT AUTO HORNS AT CONCERT ASKED The public was reminded today to refrain from honking automobile horns at the Elks band concert in city park tonight. . Tooting of horns la Intended as applause for the hand but the noise has been found annoy try; by neigh rors and nearby hotel patrons. The concert starts at 8:15. GRANTS PASS. Aug. 5.-1. De spite a high wind preventing com plete control, the Cheteo fin lines In the Siskiyou national forest have been cut from 80 miles to less than ten. Supervisor O. E. Mitchell said today. Two thousand acrea more burned. .bringing the total to 30.000. The Nome creek fire, third of four great conflagrations in the f crest to be controlled, was being mopped up today.' Peace Hopes Are Shared by Japan and Irish Flier "Up in the Air" s rr fj -.v eicomers put uougias t:orrian, ,iujwiiYJMmim wJ ' 11111111 1 "I trans-Aimniic iiier, "lip in me air- i - t a. t i on their Khouldrrs as the llnm Man- t("fN s .jf ii I haltan docked at New York with Us l n i ' j fnmed passenger. Note7 Corrlgan Is ft jr ' M U'enrlnn the same leather Jacket that 4 4 g I L i0tr-fris tJ kept out the cold Atlantic winds on ) 4 , ' J his surprise flight to Ireland. Though -'M J f 1 ' II Corrlgan's friends i ashore said he .had t ' , " jL " , !t II little Interest In women, there seemed - if (it ' 3' J1 '4 ' JOK T-1' ' is -'l I to be a Might twinkle In his eve p. v I f f"v. ' If ' f as Anclrej' Cartledge of London whls- i fc' ' i 1 f ' 1 s yl pered to him while the liner bore P"" " 4"' 1 t J L- jf 1 them both to New York. Shipmates & JF r KnjT I Pa V' . . ' , . "01 2 1 J said the two were together frequently & r ' ' I rt JosW JF J on the boat, she's bound for Santa Ik T ) . j iiriL Barbara. Cal. (A. P. Photos.) I S tt.. el j 1 policeman wmrrr jypr rnn Tiinirv Tiiirr ip U UX .A ( run .uiwi micr 10 la - f g y uluulul uv unuMuu r -r x i ILIILILU Ul I nlUIILU 1 , 1 ALBANY. Aug. 6. (AP) State Po lice Patrolman Clarence Wordle, Salem, was shot and painfully wounded last night by John F. Rutherford, J5ffcrson, route No. 1 at the Rutherford farm when the former mistook him for a turkey thief. Rutherford, who was brought here for questioning last night said he had. been the victim of turkey thieves for the past three weeks. The thieves usually three In number, had been stampeding his turkeys and Ruther ford said he was unable to catch them. Calling upon state police for aid, the bird owner was set to halt the stealing last night. Patrolman Wordle.. accompanied by R. I. Wagner of Millersburg. arrived near the Rutherford place shortly after 10 o'clock and proceeded to garb himself In overalls. Patrolman Wordle started to walk toward the scene of the thefts when Rutherford opened fire with a shot gun. The shot entered the officer's left arm. chest and abdomen. He was brought by Wagner and Ruther ford to the Albany general hospital, where he waa reported dangerously wounded. HEAT CONTINUES OVER WIDE AREA Br the Associated Press Orest area of the United States continued to swelter today In the grip of a moisture-laden heat wave. Several deatha and numeroua pros trations were reported aa tempera tures resumed their relentless climb after a night cooled In some sections by rain. Seven deaths were attributed to the heat In New Jersey alone. Tiro oc curred In Washington. D. C, before a heavy rainstorm brought relief from oppressive temperatures. New York city, millions steamed In humidity of 98 per cent, two degrees before the saturation point, as the dsy s work started. Later the humid ity dropped but the temperature boiled up through the SO's. Scattered rainfall waa reported In Maryland. Minnesota, Idaho, and In diana. A downpour In Louisville sent the temperature tumbling from 81 to 74 degreea early last nl'nt. but continued warm weather waa forecast for today. .mats !?K!p;.rv! i "tarintfiiliii rtt'ai i , n f-ntfsVr - "-nf-in inmssssrisssSrtSssssssssSMiisssssssssssssssssssssss 1 i 1 ii (W Much of Country s Woe Held Due to Dry Repeal SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. (UP) Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the Women's Christian Temperance union, today blamed the five years of prohibition repeal for an unprecedented growth cf Immor ality, vice, venereal disease, drunken driving, lawlessness and gambling. Speaking before the opening sess lona of the 61th national W. C. T. U. convention, Mrs. Smith said "the record of the liquor traffic in the five years since repeal la already a matter of concern to millions of American citizens heretofore indif ferent to H e problem." "Today we see our social order again being undermined and sternly threatened by the liquor traffic and all the evils attendant upon It. Re peal was to end violation of law, you recall. The liquor traffic now standi at the bar of Judgment," Mrs. Smith said. "The 13 years of national prohibi tion showed objectively as did staf prohibition that beneficial result. LAVA BED BLAZE KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. 8. (&) Believed undr control late yeetT day. a grasa lift along the east boundary of the Modoc lava beds in northern California broke away again last night and today waa spreading along a mile-wide front. The crew on the fire lines waa Increased to 400 men, with orders to attempt to p'Jt the blare out completely. CMff la Is 'n forage on the mule deer winter feeding (round Once More personally, socially ad economically, always follow the abolition of. alco holic beverages. T.o re-legalllng of liquor waa the object lesson many needed." Mrs. Smith pointed to the billion dollar Investment In' the ilquor In dustry and the 437,508 places of salo in the United States." which have taken 813.250.000.000 from the people of the United States during the last 63 monti s an average of more than M27 fcr every family In the nation " "Hundreds of thousands of names are already being recorded on peti tions to ban all Interstate advertislnit of Intoxicants," said Mrs. - Smith. "Strong efforts will be made in the next congress to that end." Turning from her description, of conditions under repeal, Mrs. Smith spoke of the W. C. T. U.'s alcohol ed ucation work, through educational films, radio programs, educational ex hibits at world's fairs, magazine and, newspaper advertising, training of teachers In temperance , work . and roadside advverttMng. TOMATO BLIGHT TAKES BIG TOLL PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. S. (API Producers and handlers repotted blight amounting to mllllona of dol lars today In the P Iflc northwest tomato and cantaloupe Industries. Losses In the Oregon and Wash InsLon tomatn fields averaged abollt 1 74 per cent. The dctrucllon ranged from AO per cent In some areaa to 00 per cent In others. The Oregon output was valued at lvfiOO.000 In 1837 and the Washington crop at mora than 110.000,000. CORRIGAN GIVEN Sweltering Thousands Cheer ' Irish Airman On Ride Up Broadway Tons of Torn Paper Sprinkled By JOHN FERRIS NEW YORK, Aug. 5. OP) Cool and brash, young Douglas Corrlgan rode triumphantly up lower Broadway to day, grinning as the temperature roso and sweltering thousands cheered his progress, Indifferent to the oppressive heat. All the enthusiasm for his mad solo flight from New York to Dublin waa let loose In a continuous roar tnat dinned upon his ears fr.;i the Bat tery to city hall. Brokers and business men, bankers and stenographers, clerka and other office workers weren't slowed down a, bit by the humidity and the heat of the swarming sidewalks. Tons of Paper Sprinkled The tons of torn paper and ticker tape fell, the perspiring crowds yell ed and shoved and Corrlgan grinned, sitting on Hie back of an open oar with James M. McQurrln, chairman of Mayor La Guard la's reception committee and t'.V mayor's secretary, Stanley Howe. . In the second car rode Oorrlgan's brother, Harry, of Baltimore, and his wife, Anita, in the next oar were Walter and Steve Retch, friends who helped Corrlgan service his plane at Roosevelt field In the week Howard Hughes was making his round-the- world flight. The Imperturbable Corrlgan grin ned, Just aa ho had grinned earlier In his hotel suite when he insisted anew he had made an honest mistake In flying to Ireland Instead of to California. He grinned and tha crowds roared, trying to picture him alone, thinking thought in the dark mist the time his old crate was thundering through the clouds to soar above the shores where Vie galleys of the Lachlanns, prows a bloody red, beached In quest of prey. Tremendous Crowds From the moment he waa escorted from his hotel by police and detec tives who made themselves a flying wedge through the Jammed lobby and sidewalk the roars of the crowd were In Corrlgan' ears. Around the hotel McAlpIn in the Broadway mid town area, there were thousands. They packed the windows of the hotel and nearby buildings. They waved Irish flags, handker chiefs or anything else that was handy. Some of the men In the crowd waved their neckties and their coats The crowd was so dense Corrlgan wai virtually lifted by the police and placed In the automobile for the ride down the west side express highway to the Battery and the start of the parade. Such crowds, such boisterous en thusiasm had been unseen In New York for years, perhaps not since the frenzied tribute to Colonel Lindbergh And on lower Broadway It waa the same tremendous thing, a multi tude of shouting, screaming men and women, bent on expending the energy stored up through all of yesterday's (Continued on Page Five.) OAKIE MARRIAGE GOES ON ROCKS HOLLWOOD, Aug. 8. (UP) Jack Oakle and Venlta Varden, film .play ers, have separated after two years of married life. It was learned today. Oakle moved out of the couple's home a week ago, a studio represen tative said. The once-chubby comedian and Miss Varden were married March 23, 936, In an elopement to Yuma, AMe Oretna Green of movie oouplc-s The wedding waa performed tn something of a carnival spirit aboard an 'eaatbountf train which halted at Yuma whits a call was put In for Justice E. A. Freeman. The Justice was late In arriving and the train crew fretted for more than an hour while waiting to wltneaa the cere mony. NHther had been married before. CIRCUS GIANT'S BODY IS GIVEN TO SCIENCE UK I AH, Cat.. Aug. 8. m The body of John Aasen, circus giant who died here Monday, will be sent to Dr. Charles D. Humberd of Barnard, Mo for scientific research purpows- Mr. M. B. Benson, sister of Aasen. con sented to this deposition ol the bodj. I baseball American Washington at Chicago, postponed, rain. R. H. X. New York . . 6 4 0 Cleveland 18 0 Hadley, W. Brown and Glenn: Fel ler, MUnar and Hemsley, Pytlak. National. R. H. K. St. Louis . S 6 1 Philadelphia 0 6 2 Warueke and Owen; Mulcahy, 81- vess and V. Davis. R. H. E. Cincinnati 4 9 0 Brooklyn .... - 1 11 1 Derringer and Lombard 1; Presnell and Shea, Pittsburgh 8 7 1 New .York 8 9 0 KUnger and Todd; Mo It on and Mancuso, Berres. SLOWED TO WALK BY E SHANGHAI, Aug. 8 (AP) After 36S days' fighting In which Japan ese advanced up the Yangtze river at an average of a mile and a quar ter dally, the Invaders' offensive seems to have slowed to a yardage basis. Japanese warships concentrated their efforts today on trying to sweep mlnca from the river above Kluklang, Yangtze port only 135 miles below Hankow. ' They also shelled- Chinese defenses on the Yangtze's south bank, above Klu klang. The bombardments were preludes to Japanese Infantry attacks, which It was reported, were repulsed at the foot of Shamaoshan. or Summer Hat, mountain. The Chinese maintained they had thwarted an attempted Japanese landing at Wucheng, on Lake Poy ang, AO miles south of Kluklang. while Chinese troops counter-attack ed ten mites south of Kluklang along the railroad between that city and Nanchang, the Chinese air base. Japanese units on the north bank of the Yangtze were reported mired by Yangtze floods. BY NAP AT WHEEL When he fell aaleep at the wheel about 1:30 this morning, a Chevro let pickup driven by Leonard Hafhlll of Orchard Park farms left South Riverside avenue and crashed Into a telephone pole In the 800 block. In flicting a pa)nful scalp wound to the driver and badly damaging the vehicle. ' State Patrolman Clark Johnson, driving In a patrol oar shortly after the accident, rushed Hafhlll to Com munity hospital where hla head was sewed up and he waa released to re turn home. Hafhlll, traveling south on South Riverside avenue, told police he went to sleep. His head struck the top of the windshield frame when the car crashed Into the telephone pole. M1DDLET0N GIRL State police today said that Joreta Alice Mlddleton, 16-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mlddleton of Talent, who has been missing since last January, telegraphed her parents last night from Oakland. Cal., that she would arrive home either today or tomorrow. Appar ently she has been staying with friends In Oakland, state police said. The young girl became the object of a police sesrch yesterday when her parents, believing since January that she had gone to Kansas to visit relatives, learned that she hadn't and notified authorities. She was working In Medford at the time of her dt nap pea ranee, and had not written home In the six months she was gone. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (AP A communications commission exam iner recommended today denial of an application by R. C. At wood for permission to establish a new radio station at Port An go lea. Wash. Tht examiner said Atwood did not have the technical or financial qualifica tions to construct and operate the proposed station. Russia SOVIET PROPOSAL PUTS NEXT MOVE UP TOJPI PONESE Litvinoff Gives Tokyo Oppor tunity to Withdraw With out Loss of Face Fight ing Continues On Border MOSCOW, Aug. 5. (AP) Soviet Russia felt border friction diminish today because of a proposed settle ment she folt would enable japan to withdraw without humiliation. Nevertheless foreign military ob servers predicted the red. army would resume action on the Siberian-Man-choukuoan border If Japan delayed withdrawal of her troops, which, Russia aaserta are in the Changku- teng area. The feeling here was that In put ting the next move up to Japan the Soviet government had done what It could to make It easier for tha Japanese to withdraw from what waa called an extremely precarious situation. Prospects Bright, In his reply yesterday to Japan's proposals for mutual withdrawal of troops In the cone In dispute, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet commissar of for eign affairs, said a condition of fu ture negotiations was Japanese recog nition of the border as established by map. attaohed to the Russian, treaty with China on June 30, 1B86. ' (On receipt of the Soviet stand In Tokyo, a Japanese foreign offlc spokesman said -"prospect? are bright", for a peaceful settlement of the dis pute.) i It was considered here LltTlnoff gave Tokyo a chance to withdraw, without loss of face, the troops hs said were ocoupylng the Changku-', feng heights by referring to them aa "remnants of Japanese forces which . may still, be left" on Soviet terri tory - - i ' Mamoru flhlgemltsu presented the Japanese suggestions for a truce yes terday, and received the Russian reply to transmit to his govern ment today. The critical situation grew from the Japanese allegation that Rus sian troops fortified Changkufeng hill tn the disputed area on July 11. . Fighting Continues Japan protested the hill was Man- choukuo territory. The Soviet gov ernment replied brusquely the ter ritory was Russian, established by the 1880 treaty maps of which Japan professes Ignorance. After the dlplomatlo exchange. sharp fighting began and since Sun day it has been almost continuous. (Tokyo dispatches said Soviet artil lery was shelling Japanese positions about every half hour today, and that Japan had made a new protest to the Soviet charge d'affaires.) ' ' The present dispute Is one of many since Japan's conquest of Manchuria, and Litvinoff emphaalsed Russia did not regard that conquest at valid reason for altering the frontier. TOKYO, Aug. id (AP) A foreign of floe spokesman declared today "prospects are bright" for peaceful settlement of the Soviet-Japanese dispute over the Slberlan-Manehou- kuoan border. He made the statement following the government's receipt of a report from Mamoru Shlgemltau, Japanese) ambassador to Moscow, of his con versation yesterday with Maxim Lit vinoff. Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, proposing cessation of hos tilities and frontier demarcation. . W are very hopeful," the spokes man said. "Some progress hss been made. We believe prospects are bright for amicable arbitration, which laj what Japan haa sought from the beginning." Russians Shell Hill The Japanese army nevertheless reported heavy shelling by Russian artillery In the disputed Changku feng hill area began at 4 a.m. (t p.m., Thursday, EST.) Soviet soldiers began fortifying the hill July 11, which the Russian government claims Is In Its terri tory and Japan asserts belongs to Manchoukuo. A minor clash July 2 was fej. lowed Sunday morning by a heavy engagement In which the war office announced Japanese troops took the hill. Since then there has been spo radic fighting. Bhlgemltsu yesterday handed ta Utvlnoff a suggestion for ceesatlon of hostilities, withdrawal of troop, by both sides, and negotiations through diplomatic channels to set tle the boundary on the basis of documents and materials held by both nations. Some of the best hunting and fishing grounds In the United States are located la the Adirondack.
