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If You Can Can you think of a cheaper, better, or more satisfactory way of reaching 92 of Med lord's homes than by using the Classified page of this news paperf Vou have something If you can. The Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight mid Thursday: shower, to night; moderate temperature. Temperature: Highest .yesterday . 15 Lowest this morning 84 Precipitation past 21 hra. M Tribune EDFORD Full Associated Press Pull Vv"'i Press M Thirty-Third Year 1,111 OEHS MT Wl "" r I . ' I The III Deranged Father Slays Wife, Son, Self WOMEN PICKETS Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and . Robert Kintner Copyright, 1937, by Tho North American News paper Alliance, Inc. INTERDEPARTMENTAL WAR BREWS IN ADMINISTRATION ECCLES, MOROENTHAU AND CROWLEY HEAD FOR CLASH BANK EXAMINATION CONCENTRATION AIM TREASURY AND KDIC HEADS OPPOSED TO PROPOSAL wAHHivnTTiN. SeDt 7. With war looming abroad, the president must soon take time off to make peace In his own official family Federal agen cies, no less than European notions, have their prides, their thirsts for power, their mutual hatreds. And at the moment, a furlouB conflict threatens among the fiscal powers of the government. Chairman Marrlner Ecclcs of the federal reserve board Is preparing a raid on hi competitors In the bank ing field. A big bee In the Eccles bonnet Is the theory that bank credit, carefully managed to make It ..-,. tn hnnm tlmeB and easy In depressions, can be used as a buslnesW stabilizer. For mis reatjuu. u uce., to concentrate virtually all control over bank examination In the hands of his board. Ecclea wastes no love on Chalrman Leo Crowley of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation, or on Secre tary of the Treasury Henry Morgen thau, Jr., to whom tho comptroller of the currency pays allegiance. Mor genthau's enthusiasm for Eccles Is distinctly pallid, and Crowley regards Bccles with mingled fear and distaste. The consequences of the Eccles raid on Crowley's agency and the comp troller of the currency's office may well be Imagined, therefore. Last spring. Eccles made his first aggression. Morgenthau and Crowley ... v,im head on. like angry but- falos. Eventually a compromise was reached, iy which the Eccles' easy credit policies were partially adopted by the competing agencies, without any transfers of power to the reserve board. Now Ecclcs Is understood to want the power too. In more detail, the Eccles theory la that the rules of the bank exam iners tie bank credit to the stock market, so that when the stock mar ket falls, contracting bank credit exaggerates the business decline. There is. actually, a good deal to the notion. When tecurltles lose value, bank loans lose liquidity. Busi ness la pressed for more collateral. The banks are reluctant to make more loans. Thus credit contract Orthodox bankers believe that tfs (Continued on Page Four.) Return Home Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Walker of 1120 Reddy avenue re ce'ntly returned to their home from a two months' sojourn spent In Helena. Mont,, where they were guests of Mr. Walker's mother. Mrs. John B Kaiser. The Walkers were former Montana resident and came here sev eral years ago to reside. SIDE GLANCES by TRIBUNE REPORTERS t.n.r .InmeA D. (JrlKSOn of the San Francisco police department, and Mrs. Oleason, being rudely awakened and questioned In their local hideout this morning by a raiding party of state and city police. It all being a gag manufactured by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Reter to "get even" with inspector orlgson for the grilling, fingerprinting and "mugging'' they went through on a recent trip to the bay city to visit the Orlgson'a. the score finally being settled and ar rangements made for the Retera and Orlgsons to have dinner together. Twin sisters ArVrlla Carblcner and Patricia O'Brien causing numerous mix-ups over their Identity, most people thinking the former the latter and the latter the former. Marie HI rich doing lot n' lots of kindly deeds for a friend who Is ap precutlve and hopes she will do lot! of more kindly deeds. Harriett Watson being a picture ot loveliness In a new fall chapeau that la not a doll hat, almost. Don York displaying his Royal Siamese est to admiring trlends. It hems t:ie oddest and m"'t glamorous looking anims! one could expect to set OiiLttoe a aoo. ns&m m rough workers f W'. -1 V jjii'tu "' m ' urn - nrv i n 1 f?.-vA. h. :MiF mil 1 Women Face Arrest in Wild BravI at Applegate Dance Warrants charging Evelyn Nichols and Jessie Nosier of the Talent dis trict with assault and battery were Issued late Tuesday upon a complaint signed by Mrs. Clara Smith of the upper Applegate. The warrants were placed In the hands ot tne snerm s office for service. The complaint was the outgrowth of a free-for-all fight at an upper Applegate dance last Saturday. Dis trict Attorney F. J. Newman saio. to day warrants charging riotous con duct during the same fracas would be served as soon as some of the participant could 'be located. Mra. Smith, as the alleged result of an altercation with the two ac cused women, sustained a badly mangled second finger which she claims was bitten by one of the de fendants, numerous scratches on trie face, Injuries to her nose, and the loss of two handfuls of hair, which left bald spots back of each ear. According to Sheriff Syd I. Brown, the two women, three men In U. S. navy Bailors' uniform, and a mim- OAK GROVE RESIDENTS BALLOT, 52 10 11. FOR MEDFORD WAFER PLAN By ft count of M toMl, votr of the Jacksonville water district yes terday In a special election approvM a 22,000 hond Issue to cover the. district's share of the estimated $39. 000 project to Install ft pipe system to bring Medford cltv water to the area. All otln was done In the Oak Grove school house. Otto Frohnmnyer. counsel for the district, stated today that he hid telegraphed C- C. Hockley. PWA re gional director In Portland, adTlsln htm of the outcome of the bond election, and that word was expected soon recardlnj? the district's appll cation for a PWA grant of approxi mately 17,000 to complete the coat of the project. The application, filed In July, ha been under consideration In Wash lnston. D. C, for some time. In ease the arant 1 approved, work will start almost tmmedlaMy on the pro ject. If the rant l not approved, there will be no bond issue. Mr. Prohnmayer said. He adnd. however, that several tifyiramn from Wah Itvtton PWA offlclala before the elec tlon indicated that the grant wai being favorably considered. tatl eM Father Kllleit. HEPPNER. Sept. 7.-0F A seven-vear-old lad raw a great log roll , from a load yesterday and crush his father. Chet.T R. Kesler. 40. to d"ath. j Th a-rtdrnt oerurred at the Held iuiill on Rock creek. ber of others, appeared at the dance and lmmcaiaieiy maae mviutwivcB obnoxious." Fights started, according to the sheriff, when the party was requested by the floor managers to leave, and refused to do so. During the battle, the Nosier and Nlchol women, are alleged to have entered the kitchen where Mrs. Smith was doing the cooking. She resisted their attempts to take the food, and an encounter got under way. During a lull, the Invaders de parted In their autos. but not until the license number of one of the cars had been obtained, the sheriff said. The Nosier and Nlchols,women were also identified by acquaintances of the upper Applegate district, It la stated by officers. Drink was given by Sheriff Brown as the cause of the disturbance. The official said he had stationed two special deputy sheriffs at the dance to maintain order. Close to 250 peo ple attended the dance, and the deputies were unable to calm the uprising, once It started. F IS TESTIMONY IN TRIAL NEW YORK. Sept. 7. (AP) Henry Sobel, campaign manager for former Dlst. Atty. William Copeland Dodge In the bitter 1933 election, today testified in the conspiracy trial of James J. Hlnes. the veteran tammany district leader contributed $11,000 to Dodge's campaign fund. Former Dutch Schultz mobsters have testified they gave Hlnes as political "front" for the pollry racket, a tota 1 of 430.000 m " n u m bers money' to promote Dodge's campaign, Sobel testified he was named Dodge's campaign manager by John F. Curry, a former Tammany Hall leader, who has already testified Hlnes sought his aid, In obtaining Dodge's nomination. The witness said Curry instructed him to sec Hlnes to bolster slow-flowing campaign contributions and In Hlnes" office on Broadway he was handed an envelope "by someone" he could not aay who It was con taining 12,500 In bills of large de nominationthree 500 bills and one (1,000 bill. Portland Hotel Strike Is Ended PORTLAND, Sept. 7. P A hotel strike timed for the peak of the an nual Rose Pestlval three months ago, ended here today. Gertrude Sweet, secretary of the Culinary Union council, mid pickets were withdrawn from 11 hotels. The (M-cretary declined to eiplain the withdrawal. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Three children were left orphan!. In Portland Tuesday when Raymond .1. Ilecraft, former Itluho university teacher, shot his wife, shown with him helow, mortally wounded his 17 yenr old son, Raymond. Jr., above ieft, ond killed himself at their home, above right. The parents are sur vived by two daughters of high school age and a four-year old girl. Friends said Becraft, employed by the forest service, was Injured In an accident a week ago. They could not. however, explain his sudden outburst, (A. P. Photo). RENO. Nev., Sept. 7. Senator Pat McCarran. who opposed President Roosevelt's supreme court and gov ernment reorganization proposals, ftp-, peered today to have recaptured the Democratic nomination by an over whelming majority from two avowed new deal, backers. With an estimated 60 per cent of the vote In yesterday's primary count ed when the tally was stopped until later In the day, 199 of Nevada's 362 precincts gave McCarran U',127 votes. Albert Hillard, Reno attorney, 3.303, and Dr. John Worden, state health board secretary. 681. Former Senator Tasker L. Oddle was unopposed for the Republican senatorial nomination. E. P. Carvllel of Reno, former United ( States district attorney. In creased his lead over Harley A. Har mon of Las Vegas, chairman of the public service, commission, for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Returns from 190 complete and incomplete precincts gave 'Jar vl lie 5,796; Harmon 4,776, And Charles I. Richards of Reno, former congress man, 1,183, For the Republcan gubernatorial nomination John A. Pulton held a lead over Samuel Durkee, the count in 190 precinct giving Fulton 2,764 and Durkeo 2,223. Because he waa hungry, out of a Job and tired of beln a fugitive from Justice, Eugene Carl Almon, 21. cooly walked Into city police station Monday night', Chief of Police Cls- tous McCredle said today, and admit ted passing a no-nccount check in the amount of $74.60 to Montgomery Ward and company In Corvallls last November. Authorities In that city have ben notified, and Almon is being held In county Jail pending word from offleera In Corvallls. Almon told police he had been picking pears In this vicinity since August 20, and that Sunday night his two partners, with whom he had lived In an apartment at 1005 West Main street, left town, taking with thm his blankets and shirts Almon said that his parent live1 In Monmouth Ore., and that he had not been home since allegedly passing the no-acoount check BODY OF YOUNG DODGE , RECOVERED FROM BAY LITTLE CURRENT, Ont.. Sept. 7 (Canadian Press.) The hody of Daniel C. Dodge, 31 -year-old hell- to the Dodge motor millions, waa re covered from the stormy atera of Oeorglan hay today by two searchers .ttracted to the spot by screaming seagulls. The body was found a half mile from the spot where young Dodge fell or Jumped from a speed-boat three weeks ago sfw he had us- Ulned grave Injuries In n accidental dynamlt .jploston. M'CARRAN GIVEN BIGlllTYIN NEVADA PRIMARY AT SPE. DOORS 27 Major Department Stores Picketed in Biggest Strike of Kind Seen in U. S. Police Calm Crowd SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. (AP) First violence In , the department store strike waa reported by police today when between 78 and 100 em ployees of Hale Brothers went through a picket line of more than 200 persona. Pour policemen calmed the disturbance. A patrol wagon was stationed at the store. As women employes walked In pair to the store entrance at Fifth and Market street, women pickets grabbed them, pulled at their hair and at tempted to drag them from the door. After this had occurred several times, police Interfered and told the pickets to cease "manhandling" em ployes wishing to go to work. Police later rushed to the Empor ium store a half block away on Mar ket street where a scene of wild con fusion prevailed. Pickets discovered employes wer being convoyed to work by a guard of two men serosa the street from the Emporium. A surge of pickets ir. defiance of traffic lights and signals 1 crossed the street and tied up street car and automobile traffic. Police rescued a buyer who wah belrt; threatened by a group of wo men pickets as he crossed the street between two guards. As a result of the disturbance, the Emporium was being picketed from both, sides of Market street,- . A erowd of several, hundred spec tators sdded to the confusion And police were having difficulty restor ing order, SAN PRANCISCO. Sept. 7. (API Massed picket lines of laughing, smartly dressed women paraded In unending lines In front of Ban Francisco's leading department stores today, signalizing opening of the strike of 6000 retail clerks. Twenty - seven major department stores, including San Francisco's smartest shops, were picketed In what labor leaden termed the biggest strike of Its kind ever called In America. Packed so closely together they al most stumbled over each other, strik ing clerks in front of the Emporium called cheerful greetings to their de- psrtment heads as they walked Into the store entrances. The line In the form of an elongated ovai, stretched the full length of the Emporium, biggest San Francisco department store, and touched a similar parade of pickets before the J. C, Penney store. Pickets Placed Early Off market street at the smart shops on fashionable a rant avenue, smaller groups of pickets gathered In front of entrances. Elsewhere In the shopping district lines or small clus ters of striking clerks picketed store customer and delivery entrances long before opening time. All police leaves and days off were cancelled when the strike wss voted at a mass meeting last night. News paper advertisements snnounced. "stores open as usual today." The strike followed a breakdown in negotiations between the APL re tall department , store clerks' union and employers over a union demand for a registered list from which em ployes could be chosen, and a store wide seniority plan. Employers de msnded the right to choose thel: own workers and held out for the present department, Instead of store wide, seniority plan. ROGUE RIVER GETS FUNDS FOR WATER Hie public works administration has approved an allotment of funds for the reconstruction of the water system In the city of Rogue River, Congressman James w. Mott formed The Mall Tribune today by telegram. The allotment comprise, an out. right grant of 111,048 and a loan of 18.600. The city recently voted a bond Issue of 118.000 maximum to finance the projected loan and bond. In the amount of the loan will now be Issued, It wss eiplslned by Mr. V. A. C. Ahlf of Grant. Pass, coun sel for th city. The present water .ystem, old nd worn out, will b. entirely replaced, new main. nd hydr.nu to be In stalled, .aid Paul Rynnlng. consult- I ing engineer for the city, me pres- nt reservoir ana water supmj m be used, lha sourc. of the w.ter 'upply bll 7, 1938. Assault on Halts Autonomy Negotiation FIVE HURT WHEN CRATER HAY Rogue River Woman Suffers Compound Fractures of Leg and Arm Passing of Hayrack Given Cause A head-on automobile collision on the Crater Lake highway aeven miles from Medford late yesterday after noon sent five persons to Commu nity hospital, one of them suffering from compound fractures of the leg and arm. three of them receiving treatment for minor cuts, bruises and shock, and a two-month-old child apparently escaping injury. Mrs. Oeorge Martin, about 46. of Rogue River sustained a compound fracture of .the left leg above the knee and a compound fracture of her right forearm. Hospital attend ants reported today she was resting comfortably, but that she would be forced to remain in bed for some time. Mrs. Martin's son, Oeorge Martin, Jr., sustained an injured knee, and was released from the hospital after 1 treatment. Baby Is Uninjured Mra. Victor E. Gardner of 903 West llth street, suffered cuts on her arms and legs, and was still In the hospital today, although she was not seriously injured and would be released, probably tomorrow, hospital attendants reported. Mr. Gardner's face was cut by flying glass, and fter - receiving treatment he was released. The Gardners' two-month-old baby was also taken to the hos pital, but no Injuries were, dis covered. State police said the accident oc curred when a Ford sedan driven by George Martin. Jr., traveling south, passed a hayrack on a slight hill and was met head-on by a Ponttac coupe, driven by Victor E. Gardner, which came over the crest of the knoll in the opposite direc tion. Cars Badly Pamuged Both machines were badly dam aged, reeding wreckers to remove them to Medford garages. Occupants of the Martin car were the driver, his mother and Ted Jones of Rogue River, who escaped injury. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner and their small child were passengers in the Pontlao coupe. When state police arrivea at tnc scene, all Injured persons had been rushed to Community hospital by passing motorists. 3 ARE SOLD BY CITY Sale of the following city-owned properties was approved by the coun cil at Its regular semi-monthly meet ing last night: A 60-foot lot on North Riverside avenue adjacent to Beck'a bakery, to Prank J. Runtz; 60-foot lot on North Riverside avenue north of the Coffee' Pot, to C. G. Ingram; ten-foot strip on North Riverside to Peter Bateman, the land adjoining Mr, Bateman's home at 1232 North Riverside. These last two parcels were part of the old Riverside park. During August, 160 airplanes utilis ed the municipal airport. It was shown In a report submitted by Thomas A. Culbertson, Jr., Airport superintendent, And read by O. H. Herman, chairman of the airport committee. Tho planes were classi fied as follows: 39 U. 8. army, 11 U. 8. navy, 3 national guard, 8 bu reau of air commerce, 30 private and 94 United Air Lines. A report submitted by Fred W Scheffel, city superintendent, and read by Thomas Roseberry, showed that 46 property owners had had defective sidewalks repaired since the previous council meeting. Councilman M. N. Hogan wss ab sent. Mayor O. C, Furnas presided. WORLD WAR VETERAN COUGHS UP BULLET PITTS FIELD, Mass., Sept. 7. (7PV Twenty year, ago Frank King. 40 wa. shot down during World war battle, a machine gun bullet piercing hi. cheat above the heart. Yesterday h. coughed up th bullet. Sudeten BASEBALL American Score : R. New York - 4 Boston 11 Ruffing. Andrews And Dickey; Hev ing and Peacock. (Called end 6th, rain). Philadelphia 8 18 1 Washington - a 8 0 Caster and Wagner; urakauskas, Kelley. and Ferrell. Cleveland 1 Detroit 0 a Harder and Pytlsk; Coffman, Wade Rnd York.. St. rain. touts at Chicago postponed; National Brooklyn - S 3 1 Philadelphia fl 16 J Presnell, L. Rogers and Campbell; Mulcahy and Davis. Boston - 3 9 Now York 10 MacPayden and Lopez; Wlttlg and Dannlng. Pittsburgh 7 14 2 Cincinnati - 16 1 KUnger and Todd; Derringer, Sohott, and Lombard I. WALTHER FUNERAL TO BE HELD HERE AT 3:30 THURSDAY Funeral services for Harry Wnlther. 89, well-known former Medford res ident who died In his ranch home At Mapleton, Ore., 70 miles west of Eugene, Monday evening of a heart attack and other complications, wilt be held from tho Perl funeral par lor at 3:30 Thursday afternoon, the Rov. P. W. Black of Sacred Heart Catholic church officiating. Burial will' be In Medford I.O.O.F. ceme tery. The body will oe shipped here tonight. , Mr. Walther, former division man ager of the California-Oregon Powei oompany here and prominent In civic affairs, moved to Portland in 1026, where for several year, he wa. active In organization of power utilities. The last four years of his life was spent on his beautiful ranch near Mapleton. Ho was born In Amador county, California. August 10. I860, and most of his early life waa spent In mining activities In California and Alaska. Later, he was employed by the Southern Pacific Railroad company on construction of tho line from Dunsmulr, Cal., to Ashland, and. re mained In their employ for many years. In 1900, he becamo manager of the Treka railroad, running from Vreka, Cal., to Montague, Cal., where It connects with tho Southern Pa cific. In 1010, he moved to. Medford, and for 18 years waa division manager of Copco. During his residence here he made hundred, of Mends who will be saddened by hi. death. He wss the first chairman of the Med ford water commission, wa. presi dent of tho Medford Chamber of Commerce and waa an extremely pop- ular member ot the Medford Blks lodge and the Masonic lodge. He was also a member of the American So ciety of Electrical Engineers, and was one of tho early presidents of the Jackson county Fair association. Mr. Walther la survived fy his wife, one daughter. Mrs. Floyd Hart of Central Point: one son, I.yle Walther, employe of the Crater lAke national park; one sister. Mrs w. F. Folger of piedmont, Cal., and half brother, James Rye ot San Jose. Cal. EX-CITTATlNEY OF SALEM, Sept. 7. (AP) Fred W. Mear., former city attorney of Med ford. and for the last five year. . resident of Salem, died .uddenly It hi. .partment here today. He wa. 83 year. old. Meara was active In politic, and Masonic circle.. He i. survived by two jn. in to. Angeie.. a sister In San Francisco and slater In Palo Alto, Cal, Ran Francisco Butter. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 7. Bdtterfat, S3 .core. 38 ',4. VP) - Scientists In food research have . new term for toughnee. or tender- am; It I "entwine re.lst.net. No. 144. Deputies 1 SUDDEN BREACH n COMES AS CZECH OFFERSJTUDIED Hitler Advises Followers in Czechoslovakia to 'Ask for More' Marseille Is Under Martial Law Ry the Associated Pres. . Negotiation, between the Sudeten German party and the CEechoslovalc government on the disputed auton omy question were broken oft tem porarily today after the Sudeten, received word three Sudeten depu ties were attacked by police whlla Investigating treatment of Sudeten. In the Marlsch Ostrau Jail near the Polish bottler. The deputies' names were given as Mai, Koller and Knor rer. In Pari, the French government announced mobilisation of all dock- workers at the port of Marseille, vital link in the republlc'a system of defense. This step placed about 8000 longshoremen under military control and came after a cabinet de cree placed the port under military Jurisdiction. Told to Ask More New concessions by which the Czechoslovak government hope. to end the minority problem were, hand ed to the Sudeten Germans earlier, but a high German official said at Nurnberg Adolf Hitler had told Sude ten Leader Konrad Henleln not to accept. "Ask for more and you will get It." the German chancellor was quoted as advising Henleln. These development, oame a. Franc, poured additional troop. Into the Maglnot line on the German border and as Hitler told Germany', con script labor1 army It was playing a vital part in the defense of the reich "especially In the west" next to France. Hitler', reference to "especially In the west" was Interpreted by many ot his listener, at the annu.l nazl congress as an Indirect reply to France's troop movement.. " The Praha government', new con cessions, the fourth list submitted to the Sudetens, were handed to Ernst Kundt, lieutenant of Henleln, who was at Nurnberg for talk, with Hitler. The detail, of the offer. wer not made public. Eye. on nurnDcrg Meanwhile, Europe watched Nurn berg for a possible meeting between Hitler and the British ambassador to Berlin. War or peace In Europe, London observer, believed, may hang on whother Sir Nevlle Henderson gt a chance to discuss the Czechoslovak situation with the German chan cellor at the reception for diplomat attending the nazl party congres.. These observers said Hitler had not been Informed fully concerning the chance, ot Britain', fighting .gainst the relch to defend Czechoslovakia, If she 1. attacked. The German for eign minister; Joachim von Rlbben trop. did not at once tell Hitler of hi. conversstlon. with Sir Neville. It wa. said, because he professed to believe Britain wa. bluffing. gee tvrelc'. Wan The general feeling In German official circle, waa Hitler would wait the remainder of thl. week for the) Czechoslovak government to present a peace plan acceptable to the Sude ten German.. The central European crl.la almost completely overshadowed th. war. la Spain and China. Chinese reports in onangnai aaia the Chinese had reversed the tldo of battle In the Yangtze valley by penetrating Japanese line, southeast of Julchang. south of th. river, and, forcing the Invader, to retreat. They also reported a victory northeast of Telan. on the Kluklang-Nsnchanf railway. In Spain, fire. In pin. ana onvo grove, on the elope, of th. D lot Caballoe range were reported to bo driving government troop, from th.tr strong position, on the Ebro river front. Th. fire. w. .tarted by In .urgent artillery. OLD PISTOL CAUSES ACCIDENTAL DEATH PORTLAND, Sept. 7. (AP) A old pistol In a friend', collection ac cidentally discharged last nlfht n4 killed Ddwerd Johnwn, 14. Tho youth wa. examining the weapon t tho horn, of Frederick Foot. 17. It fired as h placed It on a Ub1. The bullet .truck blm in tho ohert Detective, exonerated Foot but I confiscated th. col lection.
