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The Weather Forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday! l'ctle change In temperature. Temperature: Highest yesterday - ! Lowest thla morning &) A Good Time Friday ((In. Rlfht nnw U th time to pre par that Want Ad for the Sunday morning edi tion. Moit folke read about everything In the paper Sun day and It ! a good time to adrertlie. No additional cost. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press ruu d Fresi Thirty-Third Year atEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1938. No. 134. Ml AUND WW IN MBOSEVELT. mm The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Kobert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by Tho North American News paper Alliance, Inc. TvTLl.KIE-LII.IF,NTHAL NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE UTILITIES IIEAII VALIES PROPERTY TOO HIGH TV A DIRECTOR SAYS FIGURE SHOULD BE CUT BREAK MAY BE ONLY STAGE IN IIAUttMNG WASHINGTON, Aug. 36. The Vital negotiations between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Common wealth and Southern company have broken down. After a long period of peaceable discussion, TVA's David Ullenthal and Commonwealth and Southern's Wendell L. Wlllkie are once more thumbing their noses at one another. As peace between the New Deal and the utilities directly depends on peace between the TV A and Common walth and ' Southern, the event Is a minor economic tragedy. The break Is not Irreparable. It may be repaired when the close of the TV A Investigation soothes the atmosphere. Or, when the elections art past, it may be easier to arrive at an agreement. For the present, however, each side refuses to listen to the arguments of the other. The question at issue, broadly , speaking, la the purchase by the TV A of Commonwealth and South ern's huge affiliate, the Tennessee Electric Power company, and some adjoining properties. Negotiations be gan when Wlllkie. as spokesman for the power industry, angrily proclaim ed that TV A competition had made It Impossible to do business In the TVA area, and offered to sell out to the TVA. After prolonged conferences with the President, Ullenthal took Win kle's offer up, and the two men began haggling over the prtqe. It Is a wide-open disagreement on price term which has caused the present break. One of Winkle's and Llllenthal's first steps was to agree on the hiring of a firm of Independent account ants to audit the properties involved in. the bargain. LUlenthal named four nationally known firms. Wlllkie stated that any of the four would b satisfactory and Ly brand , Ross (Continued on Page Ten.) Smith Reappointed As NLRB Member HYDE PARK, N. Y.. Aug. 26. (AP) President Roosevelt today reap pointed Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania as a member of the national labor relations board. Smith will serve a term of five vears. His present term expires Aug. 27. President William Green of the API recently discussed the expira tion of Smith's term with the presi dent, but aald he had lodged no rpeciflc objections against Smith. Safety pins were first devised by Walter Hunt In 1849. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Alln lALh.m WhtDDlnS dOVtl tO ttaa depot to meat her stater, she getting mixed up on train schedules and meeting a freight train Instead ol tha passenger one which net alster didn't take aftr all. BUI Caplea kicking up plenty ot action while trying to help out a floor ahow In their Apple Care dance revue. Joe Johnson absorbing an evening jf hotcha music from a crack colord dance band. Stan Smith all In a dither over the MT midget speeder derby of which he la a contestant, he having lot of trouble with hi speeder steering wheel at this crucial moment. The city superintendent's desk M vred Scheffel piled high with official jooklng papers, the owner trying vainly to complete some work in the face of constant Interruptions. Frank Perl bustling In and bustling right out again, almost tailing to speak to a couple of friends. In uch a hum- wns he. "Doc-' M. C. Wright jittery c k derby starting tiro draws near. REVELATION MADt BY F. R. FOLLOWING PARLEY! PURGE i Postmaster General Under stood to Have Urged Per sonal Campaign in Mary land tb - Defeat Tydings HYDE PARK. N. Y. Aug. 26. (&) President Roosevelt said today he and James A. Parley "were in complete agreement as usual" during a polit ical conference yesterday. The president made this direct statement in response to questions at his press conference. He and Farley were understood to have gone over the political situations in "every slate where the New Dil Is an issue. IVarley reportedly urged the presl. 1 dent to go personally Into Maryland ; In an effort to defeat Sen. Millard Tydings, an administration opponent -seeking re -nomination. The president did not comment on this, however, saying only he naci , no engagements besides two already announced for patriotic observance In Poughkeepsle, N. Y., and Chatii nooga, Tenn. Asked for comment on reports th? Workers' Alliance, an organization of WPA workers, la seeking to raise a i (50,000 campaign fund f or WPA em- ! ployes, the president gave reporter-; this reply: "I very much hope that people on relief will not contribute any money for the purpose of aiding any party." ; The president expressed approval of ; a statement by Harry Hopkins, the ; WPA administrator, regarding Hie ' raising of campaign funds from re- 1 lief workers. Hopkins vigorously con demned the practice. 1 The president and Farley were ported to have discussed many other subjects besides politics during their talk yesterday. There was no word as to what Fai ley may have reported to the pres ident regarding the political situa tions In Georgia, and South Carolina where administration opponents are seeking renomlnetton to the senate Pone Not Mentioned Nothing was said either about The Idaho situation, where Sen. James P. Pope, an administration supporter has been defeated for re nomination and now Is considering seeking re election as an Independent. Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether he had any comment on reports New York communists were supporting James H. Fay in the latter's race against Rep. John O'Connor, a new deal foe whom Mr, Roosevelt already has criticized. Mr. Roosevelt replied communists could not vote In the Democratic pri mary. A recent speech of Earl Browdcr. head of the communist party, war. called to the president's attention. Browder aald Mr. Roosevelt could not repudiate support by communists without repudiating democracy Itself. Silly Tnlk The president said the talk was in the same class as a charge Shimy Temple Is a communist. The Dies im'esttgatlng committee In Washington recently received tes timony Shirley Temple and other motion picture stars were unwitting ly giving aid to the communist cause JAPS AND CHINESE IN FURIOUS CLASH SHANGHAI, Aug. 26. (AP) In tense fighting raged on the west shore of Poyang lake today with both Chinese nd Japanese suffering heavy loose but nevertheless continuing to throw contingent after contingent of reinforcements Into battle. Against the furious Chinese oppo sition, the Japanese were reported to be combining infantry, air and naval forces in a determined thrust to break through to Nanchang. Chi nese air base and an Immediate ob jective In the Japanese drive toward Hankow, 226 miles away. Chinese reports said large Japanese landing parties met virtual "annihi lation" at the hands of the entrench ed Chinese fighters who estimated the Invaders tost 500 men at each of several sectors. Heavy losses were admitted by the Chinese. BUDGE AND MAK0 FACE AUSTRALIANS IN FINAL BROOKLINE. Mam.. Aug. 26. ( AP) Don Budge and Gene Mako today gained the final round of the nation al doubles tennis tournament cham pionship, along with Adrian Qulst and Jack Bromwlch, of Aust. lia, by beating Wllmer Allison and Johnny Van Ryn. former tltllst. 61. 6-2. 3-6. 10-8. and a thrilling mi-final round match at the Long wood cricket club. Dispute Former Speed Ace Killed I ... KSw ' Fill 1; vi W ft jl - Vy. inn 1 orMnp imrvinni HULL SENDS MEXICO CEASE TO E WASHINGTON. Aug. 26. ;p) A sharp note from Secretary Hull serv ed notice on the Mexican govern ment today It must stop seizing American -owned farm lands without proper compensation. The state department head de manded for a second time Mexico make prompt settlement of 910. ,000, 000 in claims for property already ex propriated. Persistence In a policy of "bald ; confiscation," he said, "will Jeopar dize the Interests of all peoples throughout the world. Hull's note, made public last night, asked Mexico to agree either to inter. American arbitration or to ' make monthly payment in escrow while two representatives one from each government determine the value, of the confiscated land. Mexico rejected Hudd's first arbi tration proposal three weeks ago. Dispatches from Mexico City, how ever, said a source close to the gov ernment Indicated possible accept ance of the alternative of a two-men commission. Hull's note was characterized by officials as one of the strongest thla government baa sent In recent years. EIGHT SUFFOCATED IN MOVIE STAIR PILEUP SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mex.. Aug. 16 (UP) Eight persons died of suf focation and many were Injured last night in an unusual accident at the Azteca picture theatre. At the conclusion of the program the crowd In the balcony started down the stairway. 8omeone stum bled, causing about 60 persons to fall In a heap. Those on the bottom were smothered to death before they could be extricated. Pear Markets NEW YORK. Aug, 38. (AP-USDAI Pear auction: 31 cars arrived, 18 California unloaded. 16 on tra'k. market stronger, California Bartletts lS.eoo. I1.3S-3.30. few S3.05, average a 1.80. CHICAOO, Aug. 3 (AP-USDAI Pear auction: 13 California cars ar rived. 33 en tra It. r:if Bar. 1-tl. 3,033 boxes, II 30-100, aversgn M.M Closes Thla was all that remained after fire swept the wreckage of a small Mifpcy plane In which Lieut. 'onimumlir Prank llauks -and Union I Campbell, a stork broker, were fatally Injured at East Aurora, N. Y. The accident occurred when the plane in which the two men were flying tripped across a group of electric wires and plunged Into a field. Below: Mils flre-scor chert photo of Hawk was recovered from his wrecked plane. (A.P. Photos) EMPHATIC OBJECTION iTHREE DE IN PATH OF SENT NIPPONESE FOR HUGE RUNAWAY TRUCK WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. HVPi The United States expressed to Japan to day Its "emphatic objection" to the attack of a. Japanese war plane on ft Chinese commercial airliner Wednes day, with the reported loss of K lives. In Instructions from Secretary Hull. American Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, Tokyo, presented the Japanese gov ernment with a not?, which declared: "My government desires to express its emphatic objection to tbe Jeopard izing In thla way of unarmed civilian planes engaged In clearly recognized and established commercial services over a regularly, scheduled air routs." Hull told the Japanese, "this it tack upon the plane has aroused public feeling in the United States." The pilot of the plane was an American, Hugh L. Wood of Win field. Kas.. who was one of the three sur vivors. no appEaltrowi trailer decision ' There will be no appeal from the decision of Federal Judge Claude Mccolloch, of Portland, who Thurs day ruled a trailer belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Jay R. Williams of Trail, was 'exempt as a homestead, under the bankruptcy act, Attorney Gus Newbury, representing the opposing side- said -today. The trailer first came into liti gation, according to Newbury, when it wai. fiied against Mrs. Emma Wahlera, for a Judgment against Wil liams for rentals on farm land lo cated In the Dry Creek district. Later the tmller was hauled to Cali fornia, under a bond. Newbury said part of the Judgment was collected under the bond, but the balance Is due. The attorney said he did not know whether or not the trailer had been brought from the aouth. PUT NEW SURFACE ON PEACH STREET With the old streetcar tracks on Eighth street between Onkdala av. nua and Holly street filled In and re surfaced, workmen of Warren-North west, Inc.. of Portland, contract.! reconditioning Medford streets, have moved to Peach street between Sec ond and Fourth atreeta. and are put ting on a new top and base. The old car tracks on Esse Mam street, between crater Lake avenue and Eastwood drive, have also been reaurfaced, and the Intersection at Eastwood and Kenwood drive has been paved. Queen Anne avenue has been reaurfseed between Crater lskc avenue and Oregon Terrace, and 8 lnch of topping will be put on later If the coming bond laue cur ries. City Ruperlntondcnt Fred W. Scheffel stated 'Frisco Wholesale In Crash I BAKERS FIELD, Calif., Aug. 36. (TP) Thundering out of control down the Ridge route grade at mile-a-min-ute speed, a big trailer truck killed three men before overturning In n mass of flaming wreckage, state high way patrol officers reported today. Driver C. R. Dawson, of Alameda, and his helper, Leroy Woofter, rode the length ot the death-dealing ride In the eruck, but escaped virtually unhurt. Two occupants of a light pick-up truck, H. E. Foster and James Mar shall, of Fellows, were crushed to death when, the runaway struck and demolished tlyir machine. As the runaway zlg-zaggcd wildly downward, It ran over and killed W. A. Miller, of Bakersfleld, who had parked his house trailer at the side of the road near Grapevine and was crossing to get a drink. Miller met death before the hor rified eyes of his wife. They report edly were former residents of Sum mit, Texas. A Bakersfleio Japanese, Norlo Xma mura, driving up the grade (n a truck loaded with potatoes, turned bis ve hicle over a 16-foot embankment nd leaped to safety. In averting a sol I is Ion, CAMPERS BLAMED FOR BRUSH FIRE NEAR C. P. A brush fire, caused probably by careless campers, according to the state forest department, burned over about five acres In tho foothill dli trlct southwest of Central Point and west of Beall lane yesterday -and was extinguished last night. The land Is owned by the United States de partment of tha Interior. District Fire Warden ' Dwlght Phlpps said a three-man crew was sent to the blaze yesterday morning. a four-man crew with a pumper truck was dispatched during the afternoon and 26 enrollees of CCC Camp Wlmer assisted In extinguish ing there wore also 26 Camp Wlmer Ing there was also 25 Camp Wlmer CCC hoys patrolling the area and mopping up, he stated. OAKLAND LUMBER PLANT DESTROYED BY FLAMES OAKLAND. Cal., Aug. 26. CUP) Fire last night destroyed the four acre yards and plant of the Sunset Lumber company In the Oakland estuary district. Firemen, summoned by six alarms brough the flames under control after a two-hour fight. No estimate of the damage wo available, but the plant and the lumber storage yard were ruined. PATTY BERG WINS WAY INTO WESTERN FINAL CHICAGO, Aug. 38. Pl PJtty Berg of Mli.-neapoils won her way to the finals of the western wom?nf golf chsmp:on.'hlp todsy by defeat ing Shirley Ann Johnson of Chicago. I and a MEDFORD TO FILE I PAVING AID PLEA PWA Will Be Asked to Grant $58,500 for Repair Pro ject Share City to Vote on $73,500 Bonds Med ford's application to the Pub lic Works Administration tor a grant of 158.600 to provide 4fi per cent of the total cost of the contemplated 9132,000 reconstruction of paved streets program, will be flld in the Portland regional office of the PWA next Monday by Fred W. Scheffel, city superintendent. Mr. Scheffel, with Mayor C. C. Fur nas, will leave Medford tomorrow morning for the metropolis, where they will attend a Joint meeting Sun day of the League of Oregon Cltlea gasoline tax and executive commit tees. Mayor Furnas Is a director of the league and City Superintendent Scheffel Is a member of the gasoline tax committee. Subject To Election The PWA application, drawn up toy the city superintendent, will be for warded from the Portland office to Washington for approval subject to the outcome of the bond election Wednesday, Aug. 31, when citizens will vote on the question of issuing bonds of the city of Medford in tho maximum amount of 673,600, which sum will provide the 66 per cent needed to finance the $132,000 pro ject. In case the bond election falls to pass, the application will be auto matically cancelled, Mr. Scheffel ex plained. According to the poll books, pre pared by the county clerks office for the special paving bond election. August 81, there are 6,867 voters in the city eligible to vote. The vote will be by wards, of which there arc four In the city. The polling places I will be designated by the city. I I0G Blocks Involved The entire project, as stated In the application to PWA, Involves the re conditioning of approximately 106 city blocks, with the streets varying In width from 30 to 40 feet from curb to curb. This is approximately six miles of paving, Mr, Scheffel said. The city now has 39 miles of paved streets, all of which are in good con dition with the exception of the six miles which will be reconditioned In case the PWA grant Is approved and the bond election carries. t Mr. Scheffel explained the purpOEO of the League of Oregon Cities meet ing would be to develop a definite program for the league's request for a gasoline tax allocation. PHYSICIANS-ELECT El TtM BERLINS, Mt. Hood, Aug. 26. (AP) The state medical society elected Charles E. Hunt, M. D of Eugene, president at Its convention here today. Other officers were Louis P. Gam bee, Portland, first vice-president; P. L. Ralston, La Orande, second vice-president; George E. Hen ton, Portland, third vice-president; W. P. Hollenbeck, Portland, treasurer; Mor ris L. Bridge man, Portland, secretary, land Earl H. Martzloff, Portland, com mitteeman . on publications. W. W, Baum of Salem. R. W. Hemingway, Bend, and O. H. Strick land, Oregon City, will serve three year terms as counsellors. Human Guinea Pigs Prove Fruit Spray Not Harmful WASHINGTON, Aug. 3D. (AP) The public health service gave a partial answer today to the long disputed question of how much lead arsenate, a poison used for keeping Insects off fruit, a man can consume without injury. Recause of the toxic effect of the residue' of the poisonous spray on apple skins, the food and drug ad ministration refuses to allow com merce In apples bearing more than a certain small amount of the aub stance. The growers' complaint that the administration waa too exacting in Its requirements prompted con gress a year ago to appropriate a fund for tha health service to study the mstter. In the first of a series of reports, the service relate that It fed 100 Liquor baseball American NEW YORK, Aug. 26. (AP) Joe DIMagglo drove in seven runs with his 26th home run, two doubles and i a single today to lead the cham- ' pion Yankees to a 16-9 triumph over tho Cleveland Indians in the open ing game of a doubleheader. Lou Gehrig also hit his 26th four-bagger of the year. First game: R. H. E. Cleveland 18 0 New York -IS IS 2 Feller, Jungles and Hemslej; Fer rell, .Murphy and Glynn. R. -12 - 2 H. K. 18 3 10 2 Baker. Chicago Boston . Lyons and Renaa; Bogby, McKsln and Desautels. R. H. I 8 3 17 3 Heath: St. Louts - 6 Philadelphia -.11 Tletlko, Links, Cox and Nelson, E. Smith, Potter and Wagner, Hayes. rouons Philadelphia 8 13 C Pittsburgh 4 7 3 Smith, Slvess and Atwood: Tonm, Brown and Todd. Brooklyn Chicago 1 U I Posedel. Presenell and Phelps; Bry ant and O'Dea. L TO PENITENTIARY Louis Pool. 30, wsa today sentenced to an Indeterminate term In state prison, not to exceed two years, upon a plea of guilty to contributing to the delinquency of minor girl. It waa the second prison sentence meted by circuit Judge H. D. Norton to Pool, the first time being on a forgery charge. On another appearance, tne defendant waa paroled as a tirst 01 fender. The defiant attitude ot Pool as he stood before the bar, caused the court to remark: "You still are not showing tha right spirit." 'You aeem to be going around looking for trouble," the court fur ther told Pool. "So It la necessary to give you another taste of the peni tentiary. Tha court hopea when you get out again, you will have learned a lesson, and have more judgment." Pool, according to the avldonca, in duced a 13-year-old Medford Junior high school girl to hitch-hike with him last Prlday to Roseburg where they were arrested last Saturday, In defense of his action, Attorney T. J. Enrlght informed the court. Pool and the girl "wanted to get married." Jeasa T. L. Nell. Jr., 18, transient Texss youth, charged with contribut ing to tha delinquency of a 13-year-old Ashland girl, entered a plea of guilty, and waa sentenced to six months In the county Jail, District Attorney Nowman advised the court, after sentence was passed, Nell and another prisoner, had advised the Jailer of an attempted Jail break. In this case, tha court declared, "we are dealing with Irresponsible elements, and there la a shade of extenuating clrcumstancea Justifying a county Jail sentence." Nell, according to hla statement, while hltch-hlklng through Ashland met the girl In the case, and after ward travelled with her to Los An geles, where they had posed as man and wife, and wert later brought to (Continued on Page Five.) milligrams ot lead arsenate to each of two men In ten days, and that they suffered no 111 effects. The service points out, however, Its findings apply only to the situa tion studied, and they do not con clude the chemical would not be toxic If taken In larger dosea or If smaller doses were taken over long periods ef time. The two men who were subjects to the experiment consumed -apples, milk and crackers with the poison. Each ate one kilo of applea day. this being one kilo for each 10 milli grams of lead arsenate. The food and drug admlnletratton does not permit commerce In apples which contain more thau 9.57 milli grams of lead and more than 1.4 milligrams of areenlo per kilo of food. Houses 2,000 LOSE JOBS E Trouble Spreads to Scores of Plants Settlement Hope Rests in New Peace' Offer From Union Heads SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 38. (AP) Virtually every wholesale liquor ware house In San Francisco closed today to boost the number of Idle planta In the five branches of the Industry to near the 100 mat. A spokesman for tha Wholesale Liquor Distributors' association of northern California aald the clos ing of liquor planta would be 100 per cent by noon. Approximately 3000 warehousemen were believed out of work because of the labor dispute, which apread from a alngla plant. the F. W. Wool worth, three week! Bgo. not Car Starta It A matter of principle and a wan dering freight car, loaded with school supplies from the strikebound Wool- worth warehouse, motivated what employers termed tha "strike" and what the CIO warehousemen's union called a "lockout," Hopea lor an early settlement of the controversy rested with s new peace offer submitted yesterday by the union, whtch contained what Eugene Paton. union president, aald were proposals considerably modified from prevloua demands- Listed aa closed were all of the city's 38 wholesale grocery ware houses, 38 public planta, four hard ware planta, the Woolworth and Hi ram Walker warehouses, and between 35 and 30 liquor planta. The liquor warehouses closed be cause they could not fill orders, thai association announced. Further complicating tha labor re lations picture In San Francisco, scene ot many of the nation's bit terest and longest strikes, waa tha threatened walkout of 7000 clerks In 37 major department stores because of a collapse In negotiations for a new contract. RAILROADS DEFER RATE HIKE EFFORT CHICAGO, Aug. 38. UP) The transcontinental freight bureau of railroads disclosed today the carrlera had agreed to defer this year an ef fort to Increase rates on shipments of fruits and vegetables from the Paclflo coast to the east. Poor returns to the growers on their frulU and vegetables thla year was given ae the bests for the decis ion. The transcontinental . lines bad proposed rate Increases of 15 cents a 100 pounds above tho March 37 rata on fruits and vegetables. The Inter state commerce commission, however, suspended the June 80 effective data of the lncreaaa and called a hearing for September 15 In San Francisco. The Increase waa eatlmated to amount from 8 to 10 per cent over the current rate, which was advanced slightly by the ICO on March 38. CYR FAWlEl IN PUBLIC LINKS FINAL CLEVELAND, Aug. 39 (AP) Loula Oyr, railroad worker from Portland. Ore., qualified for the finale of tha national public links golf tournament today by defeating a fellow towns man, Cddls Beck, one up over 38 holes. Al Leach, Cleveland WPA worker. staged a spectacular comeback te enter the finals also by defeating Bsrt Taro. Seattle, Wash, one up over 38 holes. Leach will meet Cyr In tomorrow' 88-hole final. Mrs. Tugwell Gets Divorce In Reno RENO, Nev Aug. 38. (UP) Mr. Florence Arnold Tugwell was granted divorce from Rexford Ouy Tugwell, former new deal adviser. In Tsrlr.g ton, Nsv yesterday on charge ot cruelty, which were described as mental only. The decree waa granted at a closed door hearing by Judge Clark J. Guild and all paper were sealed. The couple waa married In Buffalo, N, Y June 7, 1814 and hv twa daughters, on 14 yean old and its other of age.
