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He May Be An you looking fur a buyer for your homer He may be Just around the corner, or he mar be at some distance. The quickest way to reach him It through the Classified Ads, In this newspaper. The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight ni1 Friday, cooler tonight, wann er Friday. Temperatnr. Highest yesterday .. IM Lowest thli morning 57 Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Full United Press Thirty-Third Year MEDF.ORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938. No. 127. FJrfio audi The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937. by The North American News paper Alliance, Ine. MANY CLIENTS FLEECED BY CAPITAL LOBBYISTS TRADES OK FRIENDSHIP LOBBYISTS MAIN PATH EX-OFFICIALS AND DOPE PEDDLERS IN GROUP FAKE TRADE ASSOCIATIONS FIGHT PHONEY LEGISLATION WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. In this apace, a week or so ago. business men were mocked for spending their hard earned dollars on the shabby aggre gation of fixers, chi sclera and false -Iron 5 known as Washington lobby ists. So many business men have written in to inquire, or protest, that It seems worthwhile to present a sort of "who's who" of the lobbying bus iness. Speaking generally. Washington lobbyists may be divided into two classes those who take your money, pocket It, and look-wise, and those who take your money and try to make some return. The first clasa i by far the mora numerous. Among the chtselers and false, fronts in class one, there are score of variations. Several well-defined types may, however, be distinguished. They are: The men who know somebody: The most commonly prosperous and fre quently fraudulent species of lobby ist. Tho somebodies they know rang from the president downward, since every man has a few unscrupulous friends. Almost without exception, they trade on their friendships be hind their highly placed friends' backs. The spavined political wheel horses: These moth-eaten, broken down ex-senators, ex-congressmen and ex-party officials, both Democrat and Republican, have no assets ex cept their empty titles and their few remaining shreds of patronage in the federal establishment. Boobs seem to love to hire them, however, for the pompous pleasure of being able to say, "former senator so-snd-so Is handling the matter for us." The bogus trade association opera ' tors: These are sharks living on tho fringes of business, In the shadows of the honest trade associations. The fake public relations counsels: About all a public relations counsel can tell a business man lh trouble In (Continued on Page Six.) WESTERN OREGON RAIN HALTS FIRE DANGERS PORTLAND. Aug. 18. (AP) A drizzling rain, giving way to a heavy but brief downpour wetted western Oregon's tinder-dry forests and farms yesterday, breaking a threatened heat wave. Precipitation hero amounted to .26 Inch between daylight and dark. It was the first drenching down pour since Juqe 16. and sent pedes trians scurrying over streaming pave ments. INCORPORATION FILED BY MEDFORD MEAT CO. SALEM. Ore., Aug 18. ( UP) Art teles of Incorporation filed today In cluded Medford M-ar Co.. Medford. Ralph and Bessie Smith and Allison Moulton. Capital stock 00.000. Plied by Moulton, attorney, Medford. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Gladys Hlxon being torn by con flicting emotion, regarding her bab? jon, Bruce Robert, she not knowing whether he should be a ranger or a newspaperman, her husband being a forester and she a Journalist. Two Shakespearean actors who had their hair cut looking for an obliging motorist who will give them a lift to San Francisco over the week-end. AH Banwell receiving a commission as rear-admiral In the Astoria Re stattt, he wondering when his ship would arrive. Bitty Vllm getting ready for a pleasant evening of bridge, she be ing, however, undecided about what system to use. Florence Scherrer finding a for eign body In her eye had suddenlv vanished when she was threatened with a trip to the doctor. I WILL NOT FIM OF SISTER STATE Foreign Policy Stated On Visit to Kingston Re: fuse to Accept Twists of Secret Diplomacy By WILLIAM B. ARDERY KINGSTON. Ont., Aug. 18. (fP) President Roosevelt said today citi zens of the United States "will not stand Idly by" If Canada Is threat ened by foreign aggression. The president made this frank foi elgn policy statement In an address In the stadium of Queens university here. Beside him were Premier Mac Kenzle King of Canada end Lieut -Gov. Albert Matthews of Ontario. Mr. Roosevelt repeatedly empha sized a strong- bond of friendship exists between Canada and the United States. Met by Premier. The president was met at the Kingston station by Premier King and other Canadian officials. Mr Rooseve!,t left his train between a double column -of red-coated Can adian Royal Mounted police. "We as good neighbors are .true friends," the president told his ap plauding audience, "because we re fuse to accept the twists of secret diplomacy, because we settle our dis putes by consultation and because we discuss our common problems In the spirit of the common good." The president stood on a canopy covered platform on the edge of the stadium playing field. , He was sur rounded by Canadian' officials at tired in formal morning clothes. When the president reached that section of his address asserting that Americans-would not stand Idly by If Canada were threatened, there wa prolonged applause. No Longer Isolated. He added. "We In the Americas are nn longer a far away continent, to which the eddies of controversies beyond the seas could bring no In terest or no harm." "Instead, we In the Americas have become a consideration to every prop aganda office and every general ataff beyond the seas. . "The Dominion of Canada la part of the sisterhood of the British em pire. I give you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand Idly by If domination of Can adian soil Is threatened byany othe emplre." The president, speaking only two days after Secretary Hull's call for a seven-point program to bring about world peace, spoke In vigorous terms about "wanton brutality" and "un democratic regimentation" by a gov ernment. He did not, however, name any foreign nation. Through Mr. Roosevelt's address ran the theme civilization and edu cation transcend international bor ders, and the Americas now are large ly responsible for maintaining the tradition of a free Interchange of ideas between nations. The occasion of the president's talk was his acceptance of an hon orary degree POM Queens university. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. IJP) State department officials interpret ed President Roosevelt's speech t Kingston. Canada, today as an exten sion of the Monroe doctrine to Can ada. Hitherto the famous doctrine has been Interpreted as applying solely to the Latin-American republics. It states the United States determina tion to oppose aggression by an out side power in the western hemi sphere. When the doctrine was originally stated by President Monroe Decem ber 3, 1633. Canada waa merely a col ony of Great Britain. The declare tlon excluded the colonies already established In the western heml sphere by European powers. Now, however, Canada has become an Independent dominion, with Its own foreign office and diplomatic representatives abroad. BAGLEY CANNERY NOW REM FOR TOMATOES ASHLAND, Aug. 18. (Spl.) The Bagley cannery here Is now ready to receive tomatoes, according to Ralph B, Koozer, manager. Orowera may de liver at any time and in any amount according to the manager's announce ment today. Newspaper Necessity. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 18. fjP) Abraham Llpson. summoned before Magistrate N. Edwin Llndell. ex plained he kept his car parked tr front of his home because he needed It to deliver newspaper. "Discharg ed." said the magistrate;. "News paper an a necessity." Gets President's Praise iV ' """" ' iuiiu j.ujmuu-mm A. few minutes after President Roosevelt ended his radio talk on soclnl security, during which he praised the work of Rep. David J, Lewis of Maryland, the latter went on the air to criticize the voting record of Senator Millard Tydlngs, his opponent1 In the Maryland Dem ocratic senatorial primary. Lewis Is shown during the broadcast. Hearings are expected to be held soon on a proposed marketing agree ment covering fall and winter pears grown In the Pacific coast states, It was announced today by Ralph O. Bard well, general manager of the Oregon -Washington - California Pear League. Inc. The contemplated hearings are to be held In the Medford and Hood River. San Jose and Placervllle, Cal., Yakima and Wenatchee, Wash., dis tricts, Mr. Bardwell said. Dates of the hearings are to be announced later and all growers and shippers will be Invited to participate, he added. At last Saturday's meeting of the Oregon - Washington - California Pear i Bureau In Portland application was j mode to the secretary or agriculture for the hearings on the proposed marketing agreement with the AAA. "The proposed marketing agree ment will eliminate the lower grades and undesirable sizes of fall and winter pears which flooded the east ern markets end caused a demoral ize maketlng condition last year." Mr. Bardwell said. "The entire Industry realizes that something must be done to Improve the net returns to the grower and It Is felt that the only way to elimi nate these lower grades and sizes is through a Triple A agreement,." G.0.PT0S1S0R WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. (AP) The Republican . national committee and the Young Republican National Federation announced today they would aponsor an cratorloal contest for persons between the ages of 18 and 34. Prizes totaling 815.000 will be awarded. First competition will be In county contests early In October. Winners will advance through district, state and regional matches to the final contest at Washington November 1. Contestants must be a member or an associate member of a Young Re publican club affiliated with the na tional federation. John Hamilton, Republican na tions) chairman, urged all party lead era to aupport the contest, so the country's youth may obtain "a clear understanding of the vital and fund amental Issues at stske In this year's campaign." 1 Pear Markets NEW YORK. Aug. 18. (AP-USDA) Pear aucuon: Seventeen cars ar rived, 35 California unloaded, seven on track. California Bartletts. 31.848 boxes. 1.303.30: average 81.79. CHICAOO. Aug. 18. (AP-USDAI Pear auction: Eighteen eara Cali fornia arrived. 17 on track. California Bartletts. 9090 boxes. II. 45 1 2 SO; average 81.73. LANCASTER, Pa, Aug. 18. (IP) Charlea Anderson, paying the hos pital bill Just before taking his wife and new son home, turned over 10. 000 pennies in severs! Jars. "I have been saving these pennies for 18 month," he said. BASEBALL Philadelphia Boston Thomas, E. Smith and Hayes; Bag by and Desautels. First game 11 Innings: R. H, E. New York .. 6 10 0 Washington ,' S 13 8 . : W. Ferrell and Dickey; Leonard and Giuliani, R. Ferrell. Chicago 1 8 Detroit ... 6 8 Whitehead, and Rensa; Gil) ano York. St. Loula . Cleveland Newsom and Sullivan; Feller, Jun gles, Hudlln and Hemsiey. National Boston at Philadelphia, postponed, wet grounds. Brooklyn ... M 0 8 0 New York - 8 11 0 Tamulls and Shea- Hubbell, Coff man, Wlttlg and Dunning. Score; R K. E. 18 0 7 0 Root, Cincinnati 0 Chicago ... 1 Derringer and lombardl; French, Russell ano O'Dea. Brooklyn 6 8 0 New York 3 11 0 Tamulls and Shea; Hubbell, Coff man, Wlttlg and Dannlng, E BOMBS SEVER RAILROAD HONGKONG. Aug. , 18. WV-Japan's persistent air bombing campaign against the Canton-Hankow railway today appeared for the first time to ' have put that vital line of supply I for china's armies out of commie- sion, at least temporarily. There has been no passenger service between Canton, China's southern metropolis, and Hankow, the provinc ial capital, for the past ten days and now, as far as can be learned, no military trains . are getting through. Fortv-two Japanese warolanes took part In the daily raid on the railroad today. The Canton-Kowloon railway linking Canton with this British col onial port, also was heavily bombed. Hitherto the Canton-Kowloon rail way, linking Canton with this Brit ish colonial port, also was heavily bombed. MOST USEFUL CHEN DIES OF HEART ATTACK 8ARAX.AC LAKE, N. T. Aug. IS (AP) Adolph Lewisohn, 88. multl mllllonslre Investment broker, phi lanthropist and music patron often described as "New York's most use ful citizen," died of a heart attack yesterday at his summer home here. Lewisohn. a Oerman-bom Immi grant, who amassed between 840. 000.000 and 8100.000.000 In copper mining end rmrltlng, was best known to the p-Jbllc by hia gift of the 1300.000 Lr-.o!.n e.a:um to the College ol tb city est New York. UPATRIOT REVEALS UP WITH COMMUNISTS Los Angeles Woman Identi fies Affidavit Declaring Labor Leader Attended Red Meetings Under Alias WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. (AP) Miss Margaret Kerr, patriotic society worker, Identified for a house com mittee today photostatic copies of an affidavit declaring Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, attended meetings of tho communist party as "Harry Dorgan!" The modlshly dressed witness, ob viously nervous, told the committee Investigating un-American activities she had been active In the work of the Better America Federation for 18 years and had closely investigated many phases of subversive activities In California, Questioned by Dies, Mlas Kerr Identified the federation as a pat riotic organization and said It In vestigated subversive and un-Amerl-can activities, especially on the Pa cific coast. Now executive secretary of the federation, her home Is Loa Angeles Life Threatened Miss Kerr Identified for the com mittee record a photostatic copy of an affidavit by Irving N. Markhelm stating he had Joined the communist party In Loa Angeles at her sug gestion and had met Brldgea on sev eral occasions. The affidavit said Markhelm's first contact with Brldgos occurred at a party session at Bel videre Gardens on Floral street. Los Angeles, in the spring of 1033. Eight or 10 persons wore present, the .af fidavit uald. i Later, Miss Kerr testified, Mark 3 : helm advised her threats had been 0 I made against his life Mlas Kerr, whoso Identify was kept secret by the committee until yes terday, took the witness stand after Thomas B. Schoemakcr, deputy com missioner of immigration, had deliv ered to the committee what he said was the labor departenfa complete file on deportation proceedings against Bridges. Secrecy Asked In presenting the voluminous rec ord, Schoemoker requested the com mittee keep secret the name of in formers becauso many of thoso per sons "fear the results" If their part In the case became known. His request for secrecy was pro tested by Representative Thomas (R., N. J.) who who said compliance might "hamper" the .committees work. Chairman Dlea (D.. Tex.) said the committee would exercise due cau tion and discretion in Its use of the file and Schoemaker said that was all he had In mind. In obtaining the '.abor department's Brldgea file, the committee hoped to learn whether any -particular Influ ence" had delayed deportation of the C.I.O. leader alien. communist and By the Associated Press Conflict In Czechoslovakia between the government and nazi-supported Sudeten Germsn minority came to a new crossroads today: In China. Japan gathered new power for her Yangtze river campaign and. in spam, govern, ment and Insurgent forces locked grips on two Important front. A foreign office official In Prsha dlsclcsed a meeting had been arrang ed between Viscount Runclman, un official British mediator In the Issue over the Sudeten Oermana demand for autonomy, and Konrad Hellclo, leader of the Sudeten party. It will be their' first direct contact and It was understood Lord Runcl man would plead the Sudeten Oer mana take a less uncompromising attitude thn that expressed yester day In a manifesto proclaiming dis satisfaction with present procedure which "lead nowhere." 44 COYOTES, 6 BOBCATS ELIMINATED BY HUNTERS Government hunters In Jackson county, during the month of July killed 44 coyotes, and all bobcats, ac cording to the monthly report of tie biological survey. This is an Increase over previous months, and does not take into account varmint that were poisoned. - The report shows Hunter Huxh Com best, slew one coyote and one bobcat; Ben Edmondson. ffe coy otes and a bo boat; Lester Lewis, 13 coyotes and two bobonts; Leo Ulman, nine coyotes and two bobcats, and W. B. Walch, 14 coyotes. DRAi ! STORY OF WL:1$ TOLD AT HIKES' -TRIAL Negro Testifies to Threats of Death Ride by Dutch Schultz Gang Unless Pol icy Racket Coin Divided NEW YORK, Aug. 18. (AP) A dramatlo story of "death ride" threats by members of the Dutch Schultz mob, In taking over control of the multl-mllllon dollar policy racket, was told In supreme court today by Wilfred Brunder, 43, a West Indies negro. Testifying In the racket conspiracy trial of James J. (Jimmy) Hlnca, Tammany district leader, Brunder told how hla partner In a Harlem policy "bank." Fred McLaughlin, was threatened with death by a carload of Schultz henchmep when he re fused to turn over his policy busi ness to the mob. Threats by Gnus "I was quitting the racket," Brun der said, "and I told the mob that what was left belonged to Fred Mc Laughlin. "We are coming out of a shop when a car rolls up with Abe Lan dau, who then told McLaughlin: "You've got to kick In that busi ness. You want to live don't you. You want to live to ride In that car, don't you?" Brunder quoted McLaughlin as re plying: "I am going to live to die In that car. I have lived through the World war and I am going to continue liv ing to ride In that car and I am not giving you any business." Brunder sold shortly afterwards ho "left town" and went to Detroit and then to Washington: D. O., to escape the mob's wrath. It was not brought out what happened to McLaughlin. Earlier. Brunder had testified that when he came out of prison In 1033, he learned the the Schultz mob was "moving In" on the game. Had Monopoly He said another Harlem policy "banker," Joe "Spasm" Ison, told htm Schultz had squeezed out small Individual operators. "Schulta has got a cold monopoly." Brunder quoted Ison as telling him. As Brunder began his testimony, Defense Atty. Lloyd Paul Stryker In terrupted with froquent objectlona. Leaping to his feet the tall de fense counsel called loudly: "I object to It as Incompetent, irrevelant and Immaterial . . . not germane to the Issue . . . hearsay , no foundation laid . . . not In the presence of the defendant , no foundation to establish that It was In furtherance of any matter which might In any wise render It admissible." When he had finished, out of breath, Justice Ferdinand Pecora said dryly: "Objection overruled." "Exception," scowled Stryker. And the testimony went on. 4- IA E SACRAMENTO. Cal., .Aug. 18. (VP) Co-operation of all peaoe officers In California has been asked In Investi gating the disappearance of John P. Taylor of Oakland, a district civil engineer of the California state de partment of public works. E. Raymond Cato, chief of -the state highway patrol, said Taylor waa laid seen August 3 when he left Sacra mento on a routine Inspection of projects In northern California. Ilia wife received a letter from him from North flan Juan. Neveda county dated August 4, Cato said. American Boy Communist Gets Eyes Open In Spain WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. (AP Abraham So be I, 33. of Boston, who saw service In the bpanlsh civil war. told the house comiVttee investigat ing un-American activities today be tween 1,000 and 1,700 American boys were "virtual prisoners" In armies In that country. "If those boys were allowed to re turn to the United states, would they come back?" Chairman Dies asked. "Every one of them," ftobel re. piled. "Are they prisoners over there?" "Virtually prisoners." Bo be I, a law student, told how com munists approved the list' of Amer icans who went to Spain to serve the loyalist cause. He also related how he had to salute the Spanish flaaj and demonstrated the commu nist laluta, ' Babs and Count Meet for Chat At Venice Bar VENICE. Italy, Aug. 18. (AP) Count Court Haugwltz-Revent-tow arrived at Venice today by airplane from Budapest for an hour's conference with his wife, the former Barbara Hutton, from whom he la separated. The count's sudden appearance caused Venice society to speculate on the possibility of a reconcilia tion, but It was believed the meet ing waa merely another conference to arrange the affairs of the couple. The countess waited In the lob by of her hotel for her husband's arrival. The two then went to i quiet corner of the hotel bar for their talk. SOVIET AIRMEN STAGE THRILLING SPECTACLE CELEBRATING AIR DAY MOSCOW. Aug. 18. AP)-AIrmen of Soviet Russia todny staged a thrill ing three-hour spectacle In celebra tion of the Soviet "aviation day," holding spellbound a huge gathering which Included Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. The American flying couple, who arrived yesterday from Warsaw, were seated with high Soviet officials at soma distance from other foreigners. diplomats and correspondents. The program began with the ascen sion of a gigantic portrait of Joseph Stalin lifted by a globe-shaped bal loon on which was painted a map of the world. Portraits of other Soviet leaders followed, towed by plain bal loons. Moat plotureaque feature of the show was the mass Jumping of several hundred parachutists. For a moment opening parachutes seemed, to till completely the sky In front of the spectators, Aftorward Colonel and Mrs Lind bergh were dinner guests of the Unit ed States charge d'affaires, Alexander C. Kirk, at Spauo house, the embassy residence. - MARTIN URGES PEOPLE RETURN TO 'FAITH OF FATHERS,' CEASE STRIFE TILLAMOOK, Aug. 18. flV-C)OT-ernor Charlea H. Martin, In speech at the annual Tillamook county fair yesterday, urged the American peo ple to "return to the faith of our fathers." Telling an anecdote ol President Harding, Governor Martin added: "He was so busy he had not had time to think of God. That is Just the way I feel at times. It la what we need now. When you see the futility and strife among people to day you realize the only thing that counts Is the spiritual life. "If people ever needed aplrttual life, they need It today. The em ployer and the employes must Da brought together In friendship, not torn apart In disorder. The em ployer should not feel that ha can not fire the man who Is not doing good work, because of the union. "We will never have prosperity until we bring our people together In a spiritual revival. It la not a question of politics. What we want la a great era of good feeling. T hare not lost my faith In the Amer ican people they will return to God. "God help them, that It may soon pass." One Inning i 83 Runs BARNS3VILLE, O. (UP) Thirty two runs were scored In one Inning of a girls' baseball game hen. He said he Joined up with the loy alists at the Ukrainians Workers' club on Causeway street. Boston, and ob tained hla passport after being In structed by the recruiting agent to tell officials ha woild not go to Spain. "My story was that I was going to Australia," he "id. Chairman Dlea (D., Tex.) read Into the record a letter the witness had written from Paris, telling hla fam ily of his experience. In which Sobel said ha had had soma very foolish ideas about communism" before ha left the United States. Asserting he had been robbed by his comrades. Sobers letter said he realized what ha had gone to flfct for was lust "a bauble a band of dirty, rotten crooks," S.F. CLOSED BY VISIT OF' Labor Differences Spread to Grocery Industry After Closing 25 Public Ware houses Oakland Next SAN PRANCISCO. Aug. 18. W A wandering box car, half-filled with ohlldrens school supplies, was tho symbol today of labor differences that spread to the grocery Industry after closing 20 public warehouses. Prom commitments on both aides, ttappeared likely the ' tleup would spread today to more warehouses, In cluding seven grocery establishments. In Oakland. CIO warehousemen refused to un load the car, contending he school supplies had been loaded by "strike breakers" at the picketed San Fran cisco depot of the T. W. Woolworth company, and thus Is "hot cargo.' Employers closed 35 San Francisco warehouses after shunting the car from one warehouse to another. The employers said warehousemen violat ed their contracts In refusing to touch the cargo. Yesterday It was shunted around. San Francisco bay to the MacMarr Safeway grocery chain warehouse In Oakland, which waa also promptly tied up. Ray Helde, business agent for tha union, said AO CIO warehousemen at the grocery chain's private depot were "locked out" when they refused to go through picket lines' and unload the car. Helde announced warehousemen at Oakland warehouses had been order ed to report for work today, but to refuse to violate the box car picket line. ' News that the box' oat had been, sent to the Oakland warehouse cama to an employer-union negotiations meeting In San Francisco as spokes men for each side were asked for sug-r gestions on ending the tleup. "Hide that oar and let's sit down and talk," said Sam Kagel, union spokesman. t , "Unload that oar and let's sit down and talk." retorted Marshal Madison, employers' attorney. OF CLEARS MYSTERY EUREKA, Calif., Aug. 18 (AP) The mysterious disappearance a year ago of W. B. Losch, retired Portland servloe station operator, waa be lieved settled yesterday, Sheriff Ar thur A, Ross said. The sheriff said the rematne of a body were found near the south, fork of the Trinity river. Loach's car. In which he left a Humboldt tourist csmp more than a year ago. was found almoat demolished and half burled 600 feet below the south fork road. The skeleton of a man with Loach's driver's license nearby, waa found a few feet from the car. The dis covery waa made by children swim ming In the river. ' The sheriff aald indications were, that Loach accidentally drove over a cliff while he waa on a fishing trip. He was last seen on August 7, 1037, and an Intensive search at that time failed to reveal hit fate. GOOSE LAKE BAD FOR WILD DUCKS KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 18. AP) A rescue truck left Tulelaka gam refuge today for Lake county, where the duck population Is threatened by an outbreak of botlulsm. Biologi cal survey officials said they -; pected to bring rescued birds to tha "hospital" at the Tulelake refuge If proper recovery facilities cannot b arranged at Lakevlew. A 78 per cent recovery Is expected among ducks taken from Ooos take and placed on dry feed and In clean water. Spread of Ooosa lak. water over land that has been dry trt many yeart Is believed to have caused th disease among the ducks In that area. 8'Jspect Firebug. FOREST OROV8, Aug. IS. W Authorities Investigated the possi bility today that a series of fin near here might be tha work of an Incendlarlst. Flra blaze on farms have occurred In eight days, burnliyt down outbuildings, prun dryer, hop dryer, a barn and a house. A thrlce-weekly air service Is now operating between 'Peking and Tost 3
